Silence!

It's Friday again so it must be time to navigate on over to www.feelingbeachie.com for the Friday Fill-In! Check it out. Send in suggestions and be a cohost!

This week's statements:

1. Saying ____ is ___ for me.

2. I am ____ by nature.

3. If I stay in a hotel it must have _____.

4. If someone gave me ____ I would ____. 

My answers:

1. Saying nothing is easy for me.

2. I am quiet by nature.

3. If I stay in a hotel it must have free wi-fi? (I can't remember the last time I stayed in a hotel...)

4. If someone gave me a book I would read it- eventually. My to be read stack is huge!

Adventures in Parenting

At two, Punky is firmly in the toddler years. It was tricky, at first, parenting a toddler. The toddling is a game changer. But you adapt, move all the breakable a to an even higher location, block off the stairs, put the child thingies (yes, that IS the technical name) on the doorknobs and so on. The toddler gets steadier and less toddly. Life is good. Life is fun. Life is an adventure.

Then you do something crazy. Like have another baby. Or in my case, adopt a puppy. And life as you know it is over. A puppy is like having an infant. Getting up in the middle of the night (to let the dog out instead of feeding a baby. But let's face it, getting up in the middle of the night for any reason isn't fun). Having a puppy is like a toddler- most of the time you can't reason with them. Puppies chew a lot- like teething babies. They sleep a lot too, just not when you want them to!

But it's fun too. Watching your pup follow around your kid. Hearing the kid ask about the puppy. Knowing they'll be best buds if only you survive the next year.

You never know what you are going to come home to find. Like the picture below of a naked Princess baby and a play spoon hanging with the pot holders... 

Friday Fill-in full of Puppy Love

It is time once again to scoot on over to www.feelingbeachie.com and join in her fill in the blank blog hop!

This week's statements:

1. This week I had to _______.

2. Honestly do you think ____ or _____?

3. Only the _____.

4. If I had _____ I would ____.

My answers:

1. This week I had to learn how to parent a puppy.

2. Honestly do you think I am crazy or what for getting a puppy when I have a toddler?

3. Only the cat dislikes the puppy.

4. If I had the day off I would be playing with my puppy.

Stoned

I recently got stoned. Kidney stoned that is.  It was the third time in my life and by far the worst of the three times. Horrible pain that is unrelenting. Worse than labor. "If you had to rate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10..." "10. It's a 10. Now please, please, for the love, give me some drugs" pain. Knocked me down, kept me drugged in bed for days pain. The kind of pain that takes away all the scariness of the word "surgery" away. The I don't care what it costs just do it kind of pain. 

Thankfully, I got some relief from the pain and a reprieve from needing surgery. Sure, I'm still a little sore and know the possibility of more pain is out there. Sure, I wonder if I will make it until my follow up appointment next week without collapsing in pain again. But for now, I feel almost normal again. For now, I will thank my lucky stars that I do not need surgery. I will thank all those prayer warriors out there. Because surgery is scary. And expensive. 

Of course I am no closer to understanding why my body has declared war on me. I try to be good to it. I really do. And I am no closer to being able to predict when the next battle will take place. So I march onward hoping one day to have answers and predictability when it comes to my body. Taking things one day at a time. And sometimes only one hour at a time, because that is all that is manageable.

Fill it in Friday

It's Friday again and you know what that means. Time to join Feeling Beachie for her Friday Fill-In. Each week four statements with blanks are at www.feelingbeachie.com for you to use on your blog. Co-hosting this week are from Gilligan & MaryAnn's Desert Island and Making your Mark.

Statements:

1) Valentine's is a _____day of the year for ____

2) Since Valentine's is a sign of ______  I ______

3) _____ with ____ is a great way to _____

4) Sometimes I ____ when I _____

Answers:

1) Valentine's is a normal day of the year for me.

2) Since Valentine's is a sign of something Catholic I really don't know much about it.

3) Snuggling with Punky and the Huz is a great way to spend a day (even if we are all sick!)

4) Sometimes I sing when I drive. 

Co co co-hosting

Yep! It's time for Feeling Beachie's Friday Fill-In again and I'm co-hosting this week! Be sure to check her out and email Hilary if you want to be a co-host!

This week's statements:

Don’t you love when you get to spend _____

I wish there was a ____ but I would settle for ____.

When I hear the word ____ I always think of ____

 My dream ___ is ____

My answers:

• Don't you love when you get to spend an afternoon reading?
• I wish there was a long weekend every week but I would settle for once a month.
• When I hear the word Stottlemeyer I always think of dissolving into giggles.
• My dream house is in Hawaii.

why being a mom is enough.

Yes. A million times yes. Go here. Read this. why being a mom is enough.

Hooks and books

I am making a real effort in this new year to spend more time engaging in my hobbies. I just put a bunch of ebooks on hold at the library. Of course I am certain they will all come available at the same time and I will not be able to get through them all... And when they become available I will (again) abandon the books I currently have in progress. No, I will read them this year, I mean it, I will! I will! Novels are just so much more fun than my stack of educational books that I know I NEED to read. Sigh. How did I ever make myself read textbooks? Oh, that's right, I stopped reading for pleasure altogether.

And crochet. My new hobby. I vow to set aside time for this, to learn more and try new things. It's kinda fun and relaxing. If only the kid and the cat would leave the yarn alone while I'm hooking...

Carnivores for Spring

It is time once again to join feelingbeachie.com for the Friday Fill In. Each week Hilary posts four statements with a blank to fill in on your own blog. This week Donetta at My Constant Thought co-hosted! 

Statements:

1. Is it really ______?

2. I am the opposite of ______.

3. Saying ____ is hard for me.

4. My favorite past time is ______ because it allows me to ______.

Answers:

1. Is it really only 9 degrees outside?

2. I am the opposite if a carnivore.

3. Saying curse words is hard for me?

4. My favorite past time is reading because it allows me to escape, for a lite while.

Uh oh

I think my resolution to get through the books I've already started before starting any new ones is in jeopardy...

I preordered this and forgot it would be arriving at my fingertips through the magic of cyberspace in January! Maybe I will revise my resolution and finishe ONE of the books I already started and then read this one...that's not cheating, right?