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I’ve been up since 4:15 this morning. I am tired and feel like facing the rest of the day is a daunting task, despite having a (small) cozy cup of coffee by the roaring fire this morning – while both kids were still sleeping. So why have I been up so long? Well, as I posted yesterday, we lost our power for half the day. The power came back on without a problem, but DS woke up at 4-ish cold and wet. And I was cold, too. After getting him all nice and dry and snuggling up, he fell back asleep. I thought I would do the same, but when I came out to check our thermostat, I realized the furnace had been (unsuccessfully) trying to turn on since our power returned yesterday. And while you wouldn’t think one would need much heat at the end of May, it was only in the low-40’s last night and only about 60 inside our home. Plan B: turn on the gas fireplace (which is the whole reason we have it!). Only, the batteries for our remote starter were low. We only had one more battery in stock and hoped it would give the starter enough juice to turn on the fireplace. In the meantime, we tried to figure out how to manually start the fireplace (there’s a way to do that somehow…). Fortunately, changing one battery was enough and the place started to warm up a bit. An hour later, we called the furnace guy and he advised to check our breaker – problem solved! So, hooray, our house is warm again. But I’m still tired.
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We’ve got a 3-day weekend coming up! Yeah! So, what will we do with this extra gift of time? Probably nothing. The forecast is for gloom and rain (sheesh, it’s like being in Seattle again!), possibly even a skiff of snow tonight. Blah! We might take some time to work in the yard, though my contribution can only be very limited. You know, that whole “you can’t do any gardening while pregnant” thing. In a different venue, I might not take that so seriously. Unfortunately, our neighbor’s cat has decided our flower bed is a litter box. I was overjoyed yesterday when I saw that some of our Hostas were finally starting to sprout. This was immediately followed by utter disgust as I realized one of them had a nice “present” right next to it. Ugh. (And cat excrement is a major danger to pregnant mommas.) Look, I was always a cat person growing up, but seriously… KEEP YOUR CATS IN YOUR OWN HOUSE. Nothing drives me more bonkers than other people’s pets using our yard as a toilet (dogs, too, which happens a lot in our neighborhood).
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It’s high school graduation this weekend for three of our nieces and nephews. We’re proud of all of them, of course, and wish we could join in on the festivities. Alas, a downside to living far away from extended family. I thought about all the things I wish I had known when I graduated high school, and was going to do a post on that earlier this week. Then I realized that I am really not qualified to be handing out advice under the guise of “wisdom” because I am utterly clueless. But if I could pick one thing about venturing into college I wish I had known, it would be this: don’t fret about grades so much; they aren’t that important in the grand scheme of things. Just do your best! ;-)
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Speaking of high school graduation, I am now starting to fell old. Not physically, mind you, but definitely in an I’m-totally-out-of-touch-with-these-kids-today manner. I was recently visiting with a high school teacher and asking about the format of lectures nowadays. The answer is, of course, with PowerPoint. Hah! I’m pretty sure PowerPoint wasn’t even invented when I was in high school. We had classes where the teacher wrote notes on the blackboard with chalk or used one of those overhead projector thingies with the markers that needed water to wipe off clean. Anyone else remember that???
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Summer is fast approaching, which means that our life as we know it will be in absolute upheaval very soon. I’m pretty sure that summer will appear to end as soon as it starts because these next 3 months will be pretty busy. And then (*sniff, sniff*), my DD will be in school. All day. Every day. And about 6 weeks after that (just enough time for me to get my emotions together), our baby is due. And then it’ll be the holiday season. So, really, I figure that once July hits, I won’t really have any memory of the day-to-day stuff of family life until about New Year’s. Oh well. At least I should be able to enjoy a bit of wine by then…!
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In other news, I think we’ve finally decided where we’re going to put everyone once the baby arrives. For now (and this changes frequently), we’ve decided to simply keep the status quo. The older two will stay in their bedroom, though DS will (hopefully) move to a big boy bed this summer. We’ll have to move the dresser out (probably to our room, along with the crib) because it won’t fit with another bed in there. Then, we’ll keep the baby in the room with us for 6-8 months, depending on how everyone’s sleeping. After that – possibly to coincide with the end of the school year – we’ll move the older two downstairs, where they’ll share the biggest room, and put the baby in the upstairs bedroom. That should work, right? ….right???
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We have the big ultrasound in 11 days. I’m not seeing that there are too many people casting their votes for whether they think little one is a boy or a girl, so maybe no one wants to know? Maybe we’ll find out the sex of the baby keep it to ourselves. ;-) It just might be a bit of fun we can have to knowingly withhold that kind of information and see what happens. mmmWHAHAHAHAHAhahaha! Have a great weekend!
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