I just sewed my stupid fabric to the sewing machine ( Read more... )

My husband was flown down to Maryland yesterday for a job interview. The interview was this morning, and he will be home tonight at midnight. We really, really want this job. It would replace my salary as well as his own, so I could continue homeschooling, which would be just amazing. It's a sales job for a curriculum that we use, and are really ( Read more... )

My mum gave the boys some kindergarten-level activity books ( Read more... )

We are trying to rent out our house in Oshawa. And thought we had tenants. They had provided a job reference for her, and a landlord reference for the both of them, which both checked out fine. (He's self-employed.) The only thing we were still waiting on was the credit check and ID, which they told us they had ready for us. So we drove two hours ( Read more... )

Big Brother is hosting his first sleepover tonight. My cousin's daughter K is here overnight. It's her first sleepover, too. She's 5, and he just turned 4 ( Read more... )

Wednesday at 4pm Little Brother suddenly started vomiting and just did not stop. He had been at daycare all day, and had seemed fine. They had just been playing in the gym, where he was playing and acting normally, and had come up for snacktime. Snack was from his own lunch, and was the same food that he has everyday, nothing unusual. He suddenly ( Read more... )

Showed up at hospital at 2am on Thurs night/Fri morning, contractions 3 minutes apart.But still only 1cm! Sent Brian and I out on a walk for a couple of hours, checked again. Just 2cm. They didn't send us home, though. To my surprise, they kept me overnight just in case. Contractions were only moderately uncomfortable, so didn't keep me from ( Read more... )

When is this baby coming?

2cm, still posterior, head at -2 (so not engaged). Very little effacement.

And a very, very impatient mother. I went early with both of the boys, so I thought I'd have had the baby by now.

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My stepfather died this afternoon. Alone, in an ambulance. (Well, with a paramedic, but alone without family.) My mother was on her way back to Belleville but was too late. She was in Ottawa taking care of my sister's kids for the week (because Stacy is in the hospital and Matt has to work), so she left Chuck in the care of his son Joel, who lives ( Read more... )