I’ve got a secret ~ Wordless Wednesday
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I’m back, Happy Birthday and Crafty Tuesday all in one…
I have so much to tell you! I am sitting contentedly writing on my very happy laptop with a ton to do, but I don’t care – I’m soooo happy to be back up and running.
Thanks to my sweet husband, who tirelessly worked on my laptop in between all the visits to the Apple store this weekend and last night, we figured out that it was the memory we had installed last year that made ‘ol Mac here very unhappy.
So I just installed new memory in my laptop. Me. How much of a geek-nerd do I feel like telling you all that? But, I am so very proud. Thanks to the tutorial last night from J., and the Apple store wanting to charge me $40 to take the old memory out and pop in the new, I just decided to do it. Five minutes later…all done. Whew. Now we are zipping along and just so, so happy!
Did I mention I was happy?
J. is traveling tonight and tomorrow night so I’ll have time to reset my stuff up here and catch up on all of your blogs! Plus have time to update you on all of our chaos, too.
But first, please go on over to my sweet little godson, Will and wish him a happy 1st birthday! He is one already – man, that is insane. And I haven’t been over there yet, but I’m sure Kim has some fun Tuesday craftiness, too.
Here is my one and only layout from the week. I told you it was nuts around here. But I do love this one. The pics were from one day after Em’s 2nd birthday, which would make her the age Addie is now. It is so weird it seems like yesterday, yet so long ago, too. I was only halfway through my pregnancy with Addie when I took these. (Yeah, I took all the photos, so no pregnant belly photos there – but I’m working on that stupid meme, so maybe you’ll get some.)
Happy, Happy Tuesday!
I’m back, Happy Birthday and Crafty Tuesday all in one…
I have so much to tell you! I am sitting contentedly writing on my very happy laptop with a ton to do, but I don’t care – I’m soooo happy to be back up and running.
Thanks to my sweet husband, who tirelessly worked on my laptop in between all the visits to the Apple store this weekend and last night, we figured out that it was the memory we had installed last year that made ‘ol Mac here very unhappy.
So I just installed new memory in my laptop. Me. How much of a geek-nerd do I feel like telling you all that? But, I am so very proud. Thanks to the tutorial last night from J., and the Apple store wanting to charge me $40 to take the old memory out and pop in the new, I just decided to do it. Five minutes later…all done. Whew. Now we are zipping along and just so, so happy!
Did I mention I was happy?
J. is traveling tonight and tomorrow night so I’ll have time to reset my stuff up here and catch up on all of your blogs! Plus have time to update you on all of our chaos, too.
But first, please go on over to my sweet little godson, Will and wish him a happy 1st birthday! He is one already – man, that is insane. And I haven’t been over there yet, but I’m sure Kim has some fun Tuesday craftiness, too.
Here is my one and only layout from the week. I told you it was nuts around here. But I do love this one. The pics were from one day after Em’s 2nd birthday, which would make her the age Addie is now. It is so weird it seems like yesterday, yet so long ago, too. I was only halfway through my pregnancy with Addie when I took these. (Yeah, I took all the photos, so no pregnant belly photos there – but I’m working on that stupid meme, so maybe you’ll get some.)
Happy, Happy Tuesday!
Cuddle Me ~ Best Shot Monday
I swear I didn’t put them up to this shot. They were just cuddling on the sofa last week and I was lucky enough to sneak in and get this one.
Make sure to stop over at Tracey’s for more BSMs!
I’m Crippled.
My laptop is dead. Has been all weekend and is going into the doctor tomorrow, hopefully we’ll be up and running again soon. I’m borrowing J.’s right now so I can post my Best Shot Monday. I have one for Crafty Tuesday so far, too. So I’ll have try to update when I can.
I’m going through serious withdrawals right now. I won’t be able to read all of your blogs for a few days, but I’ll be back soon. Can you please say a little prayer for the quick recovery of my poor little Mac!
I’m Crippled.
My laptop is dead. Has been all weekend and is going into the doctor tomorrow, hopefully we’ll be up and running again soon. I’m borrowing J.’s right now so I can post my Best Shot Monday. I have one for Crafty Tuesday so far, too. So I’ll have try to update when I can.
I’m going through serious withdrawals right now. I won’t be able to read all of your blogs for a few days, but I’ll be back soon. Can you please say a little prayer for the quick recovery of my poor little Mac!
No tears this time around…
…for either Em or Mommy.
J., Addie and I just dropped Em off for her first official day of preschool.
She and I went to meet her teachers on Tuesday evening and to see her room. Em got very anxious and worried because there is another Emma in her classroom. I told her that there would probably always be another Emma in her class from now until she graduates, it, alas, is a very popular name. I think she was a little tired, and a little overwhelmed, and a little shy (I know?!), but when one of her teachers asked Em if she was excited she just looked very, very distressed. So I suggested maybe the class could call our Em, “Emma Grace” and the other little girl just “Emma.”
Em’s teacher thought that would work and it seemed to pacify Em, too.
Then today when we got to class, her teacher said, “Now are we going to call you Emma or Emma Grace?” (I was very impressed that she even remembered our exchange amidst all of the chaos and other parents and students from the other night.) Em said, “I think Emma Grace.”
And that was it. She went tearing around the room, exploring and was completely happy to say goodbye and start her school career.
I have such a good feeling about both of her teachers. I think she is in for a fantastic year and I’m so excited for her.
When I asked her at lunch if she was excited to go to school, she said, “Yes! Mama, remember when we met my teacher Miss Marie Rose? And she asked if I could give her a hug? I liked that hug. I liked the way she felt.”
And I liked the way I felt when I walked out of the school, a Mommy of an official “preschooler.”
It is so on…
Conversation from yesterday that never made it into a post. Proof that my daughters are in fact sisters and not sweet and loving all of the time.
E: Stop! Stop it, Addie. No you have to do it like…
(Interrupted by Addie, shrieking, and then full on screaming.)
M: What happened?
(Addie is holding her head and crying. I try to tell her to take a breath and tell me what happened. That clearly isn’t going to happen, she shrieks louder and and eardrum-shatteringly louder…)
M: Em what did you do to Addie?
E: Nothing. Well…I don’t want to tell you.
M: Well, go sit on the stair until you feel like telling me.
E: I DON’T WANT TO SIT ON THE STAIR! NOOOOOoooooo.
(Stomp. Stomp. Stomp…in the general direction of the stairs. And Addie begins to quiet down.)
A: *sniff, sniff* I ok, Mama. Uh oh…Mama? Emma not on stairs.
E: Addie! I. AM. TOO! (She wasn’t.) Mama, you need to tell Addie that she is tattling, and that is NOT nice.
*sigh.*
How does a 2-year old know how to “tattle?” And how does a 4-year old know how to call out tattling?
Gonna be a long 14 years.
Three ~ Theme Thursday
I went through my photos quickly to find one that would fit today’s theme of Three and found this of Three of the cousins snuggling on the sofa at my parents’ house earlier this summer. I love how Ella is staring at her big sister and cousin, and how both of the big girls are looking down. Those eyelashes!!
After I uploaded it I realized that I have my own little theme going this week.
Sweet, sweet Emma.
Note her hand on Ella’s chin here, just as it was on Addie’s chin in the Best Shot Monday… I’m not sure where she got that from (do I do that to her?), but she really is cavity-inducingly sweet sometimes.
Grumpy Grumblings…
I had a few fun stories to share from today, but they are just going to have to wait. I need to put myself in a time-out because I am so very frustrated after a really rotten day.
The quick synopsis of the day: pissed-off J. (beautiful way to start the day, let me tell you); dealt with a whiny, WHINY, very ill-mannered 4-year old who just wouldn’t “for the love of God, STOP WHINING;” wrestled a 2-year old who seemingly doesn’t believe she needs to nap anymore, yet cannot stop crying over every little thing after being allowed out of her baby jail; fought about 100 believed to be “winged termites” that infested my kitchen while I was trying to make dinner and bake bread; and have spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out why my laptop keeps telling me that it needs to restart.
I think I am just going to write this whole day off. Go to bed. Hope tomorrow is better. It has to be better, right?