I had a moment of clarity this weekend. It was Sunday and I was driving through tears on the 4 OH FREAKING 5 coming back from dropping Joker off. He is almost 19 and a series of events forced me to kick him out on January 1st. He slept around friends houses for a few days and finally convinced his grandmother to take him in. She lives a good ( Read more... )

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I sometimes find myself thinking of all the things I have given up to restart a family. I tend to dwell on it and I want to write a few things down to remind myself how lucky I am. I really dont want to be bitter about what I have given up, even though sometimes it is hard. I hope this helps ( Read more... )

I have finished the gate and with a little help from one of the big boys I reassembled it and this is what it looks like ( Read more... )

I finished the Tigger part and am moving on to the post. I was going to paint bugs and bees on it but decided to use the pattern of my nursery set instead ( Read more... )

Yes folks I said it... he used adobe and printed it section by section...

Look here!

http://www.poseidonguild.com/BabyGate/photos/photo9.html

TA DAA!! TTFN!

So I stained the wood... I went and bought all sorts of paint and graphite paper, even went to several different stores to find it all. I stopped on the way home to have the picture enlarged so I could trace tonight... and the guy at Kinkos wouldnt let me make the copy. It seems that the image of Tigger is copywrited and you can not, by law, make ( Read more... )

Nater is busy cutting his second tooth and is also trying very hard to crawl. I have begun to look around and get things a bit baby proofed. This weekend Miz Lara was not the only one building gates to keep little ones in ( Read more... )

Things around here have settled into a pretty good routine. Well sort of. Wake anywhere between 5 and 7 am, eat breakfast, play, then nap (well try) anywhere between 9 and 10:30 am. Then Lunch is between 11:30 and 12:30 then play again and nap (again try) between 2 and 3 pm. Dinner is usually around 5 pm, walk the dog, bath then bottle and bed ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago my inlaws invited us to go to the mountians. I think Grind said something to my husband like... "wanna go skiing with me?" That started a big ole snow ball rolling. We got reservations at their timeshare at June Lake for March 11th to go to the snow ( Read more... )