PS

This should have been a post script to the last entry. I have morning sickness with each pregnancy, for some reason this time I thought I wasn't getting it because I went 9 days after the BFP (Big Fat Positive) without feeling it at all. Well, those nine days were a nice blessing. It's here and in full force so the blog may be quiet for a bit. I'm hoping to distract myself some with online activity but I'm finding if I spend more than 20 minutes or so on the computer I start to feel really off. Soo, I have not abandoned you my faithful readers, I'm just enduring the first trimester and trying not to count the weeks. (we'll be at 7 on Friday) I never thought five weeks would seem like such a long time. :(

Party of Five

Well, it's official we're expecting baby #3! I'm not sure if blogging makes it official or not but we got the BFP from a home test last Tuesday and then a confirmation from our doctor on Wednesday. So, the newest addition to our brood is set to arrive earthside this fall, most likely late September/Early October. We are completely surprised (I looked exactly like that cat up there when I saw the test) but we're very happy and feeling extremely blessed. It sort of figures that as soon as we decided we were all set with two and I had really accepted it and started to enjoy seeing us as a family of four we find out we're having another. I think it's the best example of Murphy's Law in action - certainly the kindest and most enjoyable example anyway. :)

Cabin Fever

Well, it's winter and we live in Maine so it's pretty damn cold out and there is plenty of snow on the ground. Sounds kind of pretty right? It is, but it's getting old for me and I fear that I'm the only one. The boys seem content to hang out at home. Ben's playing Legos almost eight hours each day and building bigger and better things than the day before. Nate is riding his rocking horse plenty (training for a career as a jokey?), playing with his new train table and stirring up mischief with his brother.

They're both also watching plenty of tv and this makes me a little bit sad and relieved. I had always wanted to be the mom who didn't let her kids watch tv at all and they would be wildly creative and inspired constantly and never crave the tv. We would spend our days making elaborate craft projects, home science experiments and reading huge stacks of books from the library. Well, that sounds wonderful and I know there are families out there (many of my friends' families) who enjoy this lifestyle - we just aren't there yet and I'm not sure that I care to be. Yes, there is a ton of crap tv on, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that my kids are watching just PBS or Discovery Channel. They watch Spongebob, Nate is obsessed with Dora, these are simple facts of our life. But there's actually some decent stuff out there and you know what? TV hasn't ruined my kids. Plugging my kids into the tv and ignoring them for the day, yeah that would ruin them. Letting them make choices about what they want to watch and roughly how much they watch...I think that's letting them express some free will and that's a good thing.

So, for now we're just doing the best we can to get through each day here. We are getting our snow tires put on tomorrow so there is hope that we'll be a bit more mobile in the remaining winter months (there are at least two full ones ahead of us) and that should help to shake off the cabin fever. But, if we are to remain stuck inside until the spring thaw there are worse people to share the days with and worse ways to spend the days than curled up on the couch watching a movie under a comfy blanket.

Parody's Are Funny - (and they get stuck in your head)

These make me laugh, in a good way. I'm attaching the links to the original song from the Beyonce one because I think they did a good job sticking close to the rythym of the lyrics and all.
Also, this guy does a great impression voice-wise.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrnNC5toyeo - Original. Embedding has been disabled but if you follow the link you can get to it.

Tuesday's Tunes - Inauguration Edition

Ok, so I don't dare to say anything about what an incredible day this is for fear of not doing it justice and not adequately expressing what I feel, think and hope for our country now that this day has come. SO, I'm going to stick to the music theme for Tuesday's and share some clips from the performance piece of the inauguration this afternoon. Not surprisingly, U2's performance is my favorite, but not simply because it's U2 but because of what they performed (and because they didn't play their new single). Look for President Obmama's reaction to Bono's dedication right before City of Blinding Lights....ahh, it's priceless!

Next up is The Boss singing The Rising - if you haven't listened to the album you should get it, buy it, borrow it, whatever you need to do. It's an incredible piece of art. It was written after 9/11 and it's clear to hear those overtones when you watch the lyrics. Yet, I found it bitterwsweet that it still had such validity today. It's been a long, rough eight years hasn't it? Well, it's over now and things are going to change. I'm not one to think that we can expect or even hope for a change to occur quickly, it's taken us a while to get into the situation we're in now as a country and it will take time, patience, money, resources and hope to get us out. But at least now we have a President who is in touch with the majority of the country and who listens to advice from a variety of trained, experienced peers. There's hope now, and that counts for a lot.
Anyway, enjoy and congratulations President Obama, congratulations America!!!!

Tuesday's Tunes

Trying another new theme with a day of the week. Really, I just borrowed a DVD from the library this weekend and am on another Neil Young kick (yes mom, you read that right, Neil Young) and I feel like sharing. But I also think I can muster up enough sense and time to make a quick post like this once a week to share a song that I'm enjoying.

The DVD is called Heart of Gold and it features songs from his Prairie Wind CD which was written as he was dealing with a brain aneurysm. This video is for Far From Home and yes that is the amazingly talented and gorgeous Emmylou Harris singing backup. Enjoy!!!

Sorry for the two videos, not sure how/why it did that...


PS
Only 7 more days!!!!!!!!!

Snow It Goes

We got hit by another snow storm this weekend, as you can see.