wiped out

Bushed wacked, exhausted, hung out to dry, . . . pregnancy and a cold and new inventory to contend with does not mix. Add to that3 noisy children , and a colapsed shelfing unit. Any questions?

5 pounds

in one day my family gobbled down somthing over 5 pounds of fruit. For lunch (yesterday)I bought a 3 lb bag of oranges. There is now 1 left. Then for dinner I bought a 3 lb bag of apples. There are 3 left. Add in a few bananas and a can of peaches, and no lack of applesauce, and you can see that my family eats more than the average family for fruit consumption on a daily basis. I am sure that if my budget could handle it, they would gobble down about 5 pounds of fruit every day. And if you count veggies you can add in the tomato, letus and carrots. Veggies do not get consummed quite as fast per pound as fruit does, but it does add up to a lot of produce :)

Then of course, they also gobbled down a double batch of whole wheat biscuits, one loaf of fresh bread, a loaf of french bread, and a dozen rolls, one dozen eggs, 1 pound of lunch meat, 1/2 pound of cheeze and a whole chicken, adn a pizza. All in 24 hours. And this does not count the peanut butter and other things I don't watch as closely. . . Mike better get a good job.

As for Squiggly, she's trying to move up my backbone. My ribs have expanded so the waist band of things have started leaving thier marks, and then she put her self in position to push against my stomach. Then her movements have started to come from underneith instead of on the surface. Most of her ability to go where she wants to is because Galen did such a great job stretching my uterus and making more womb for his other siblings. In fact there was so much room for Ewan that at his 20 week ultrasound, he was laid out with his elbows behind his head and his feet stretched out and crosses, it looked like he was laying in a hamock.

Well That All I have to say right now :)

Have a good day

The Life With In

At 19 weeks the life with in has finally gotten a nickname of her own: Squiggely. She squiggles after meals, and at bed time, tv time and nap time. She also enjoyed squiggling during class yesterday- that reminds me mom, call me about class interesting spirtitual gifts breakthrough. She even moved strong enough that Mike could feel it last night.

I have had to increase my calorie consumption. I have added a touch of sugar. Mostly because sugar makes her squiggle, and I like that. But also because I just plaininly need more carolries to grow this kid. Being that weight gain hasn't happened yet, I figure an ocassional mug of hot cocoa will not hurt, and it has calcium.

Next topic: one of life's little ironies.

Today is PJ day at aGalen's school. So last night he fell asleep in his clothes and we still had to get him dressed (in his pj) this morning to go to school :)

My problem is I got a man who has a passion for anything dealing with computer animation, true, I did help him discover this passion and am very happy he has a passion he can make work for him. But I still have to question the wisdom of a man who plays his computer game all day then has to stay up all night to do this 3-d modeling homework.

You see, when we were married his only passion was me. Now he is over thirty and his brain can occasionally think about something besides sex, so at least a passion for his career is not all bad. But I am still trying to get over the fact that he's not desperate for my attentions all the time. :)

That and the fact that he doesn't find an ornery women attractive. I think he believes that if I bark at the children, then I'd be likely to bark at him too.

Oh well, he is easiest to love when he's at school, at least then I'm in complete controll of the house and then I see him as I want to see him, and not as someone addicted to his computer, who takes 5 minutes to come when dinner time is called.

Is it

Is it biologically impossible to get a man with wisdom and sex drive?
And what do you do when they are switching between the two (you hope) and have neither?

Long Week

Itis wensday and I am just now getting to my blog. That means I have had a busy week.

I have been busy with kids, business and just everything else that is part of life in this modren day and age. But I haven't wasted time watching TV, or anythign silly like that. Last night, I stayed up until 1am doing numbers for business, and then went to Galen's school today, taught math, took 2 kids in for thier yearly checkup, and did the shipping. And I already haev m ore to ship, 3 orders more to ship.

Ian has been a pumpkin, who every other second is being so cute that I say "Mike, get the camerea." Maby we should just keep the video camera rolling all the time on him.

Sunday

A mostly quiet day, excepeting kiddlet noises. We had the missionaries over for dinner. And they happiliy helped us shovel a wider driveway before eating.

So besides getting the roast and homemade bread, I made them desert. A berry pudding. Somebody asked what kinds of berries are were in there. "Blueberries, raspberries and some another berry, that I don't remember."

Galen piped in "liberry."