Quincy Update

All is well, thank the Lord. Vet called blood work is normal and we will just wait and see. Hopefully it will be another 7 months before he has another one. If he does, I am armed with Valium and syringe to shoot up anally no less ( yes, for my word challenged friends, up the bum!). If no more seizures Soulmate and I could partayyyyy with the Valium...or I could just knock him out when he snores....hmmmmmmmmmmm

Gas...what is it?

Gas is one of three classical states of matter...it is the fuel we use in our vehicle it is a pharmaceutical anaesthesia....it is British for chatting...it is meaningless empty talk....it is Flatulence!

Which one am I referring to? My Soulmate just bought me Beano......

Weight gains and loss

I have struggled with my weight since reaching my late 20's. I am not overly obese, contrary to what Wii Fit claims I am, I need to loose 20 to 30 pounds to be ideal. Who doesn't?

I am a yo yo dieter. I do well lose 10 gain 5 lose more etc, etc etc.

So 16 weeks ago I joined Weight Watchers. I have done this before and with success so let's try again. This blog is not going to be about my weight watchers journey and how I regained my life back or any of that crap. I just wanted you to know that occasionally I will be posting some good recipes I have found and share some of my successes and failures.

PS. 11.8 pounds down and counting!

Decorating or is that what we call it!

Soulmate is extremely gifted in the creative art arena. He graduated from the Art Institute and is so talented it makes you vomit! Well, he has decided to take on a new project. Decorating baby's room. When I became pregnant with baby, Soulmate decorated a fabulous nursery with a farm scene. We had cows, we had sheep, we had tractors and apple trees and would have had a heck of a lot more if I didn't put my swollen ankled foot down and politely reminded him that we really do not need a bushel of fake apples, just finish the f*&^%$#!!! nursery before I go into labor!

Baby now wants to have a Jungle/Rain Forest room. So do we paint a few animals on the wall and buy a new jungle print comforter? Nooooooooo! we are creating a fake wall, with a waterfall, trees, greenery, parrots and other animals.

Today it is time for paper mache. The chicken wire is in place. First to the Internet (God bless Bill Gates) to search for paste instructions. Then to the pantry. What? we only have whole wheat flour. Are we healthy or something? No problems it is much better for you!

Tear strips of newspaper and soak in the paste, attach to chicken wire, simple right? Wrong! I hear cries of despair and many a howl coming from the bedroom (and it's not the kind I usually enjoy!). Soulmate is standing with flour paste dripping from his hands, with wet soggy newspaper slowly sliding down the chicken wire. There is nothing like the look of despair on a man who is dripping paper mache paste from his hands accompanied by asucking noise as the wet newspaper hits the tarp covering the carpet with a slow "Slurp"Back to Google and I will keep you posted!

Gfted and Talented

I have been asked by baby's first grade teacher to have him tested as a gifted learner. First thoughts?..how proud I am of him, must get this gift from my side of the family and wow, that little sh*#t is gifted????.

No, Joking aside, we are very proud of baby. I was provided with a list of characteristics of a gifted learner compared to a bright learner. Boy, that is an eye opener! Apart from the obvious gifted learners have Strong feelings and emotions, check!...is intense, check!..manipulates information, check!....has wild and silly ides, check! check! check!. We shall see what the tests reveal but either way, good job baby! and now come here and help me fill out this parent information form that allows you to be tested!

Things I love....

There are many things as my days go by that make me stop and take a minute to breathe, sigh and smile. These moments nourish the soul and give us the strength and motivation to carry on. It can be the sound of your child laughing, it could be the smell of freshly cut lawn, it could be a Bright yellow sunflower bobbing it's head in a warm summer breeze. You know those moments, we all feel those moments. Right?

I just had one of those. baby is in the game room playing with Hotwheels, Firstborn is watching her personal DVD, Q is fast asleep. Soulmate and I made a sneaky tiptoe to the bedroom, flopped down on the bed and shared 15 minutes of pure Peace and bliss, wrapped in each other's arms, my head on his chest.........sigh.

A New Year, A New Commitment.........maybe

OK, yes it has been approximately 4 months since my last entry, yes, I am a slacker, yes, I am a procrastinator, yes , I am all the above and more...now, slap on the wrists over, I am going to try to do this again. For how long? who knows but here I go......

What started me blogging again? you may ask. Well, mainly I watched the movie Julie & Julia last night . Have you seen it? in brief, it is about Julia Child and a modern day average girl, Julie who writes a blog as she attempts to complete the whole French Cooking book recipes in 1 year and decides to document her journey thru a blog. So, here I am...pathetic....maybe.. but who cares, I'm not sure anyone reads this anyway.

I could go back on the last months and having had my parents stay with us for 6 weeks, have an immense plethora of subjects and content to keep us entertained until the Apocalypse but I shall focus on the future (mum and dad are breathing a sigh of relief as I type!)

Today, I woke up grumpy. Why?...it may have been the inconsiderate bottom feeder of a neighbour that was partying in his backyard to 2am turning the air blue with his colorful language, it may have been the snoring soulmate laying next to me, who although I love with to the utter most core, I often think of covering with a pillow and dealing with the consequences in the morning, but I think it was thinking of my dear 'ol Q-Tip.

Those who know me, know Q is my third child. He is a 6 year old Cock-a-Poo (who soulmate when inroducing, always preface with, his more cock then poo!). Q has been with us since baby was 2 years old. He is a gentle soul with alot of puppy energy. He can drive you to the brink of madness with his incessant barking and lack of obedience but then he opens your heart when he plops his head on your lap and stares at you with those big brown eyes.
Anyway, On Saturday night Q-Tip had a seizure. Looking back this was probably his third although the others were very mild therefore I had not identified them. Q was fast asleep, when he suddenly jumped up from the floor and landed quivering in soulmates lap. We put him down on the floor and he started stumbling sideways, bumping into the furniture. We carried him into the kitchen where he promptly fell to the floor, cracking his white fluffy jaw on the tile, and then proceeded to go into a full blown seizure. Sad....yes, scary..extremely. I had soulmate getting redder and redder in the face thinking we were going to lose him, baby was crying and thank the lord that firstborn was at a Mavericks game because then we would have had to deal with the drama of a screaming tempest. Being a nurse, I , of course, was the cool and collected one, stroking Q-tip until he was done and holding his head while he vomited. (Soulmate claened that one up, bless him!)

Needless to say, Q-Tip came out of this and is fine today. Tomorrow we will take him to the vets and hopefully with the right meds he will not have to suffer like that again. Of course, being a nurse there are a hundred other causes for the seizure that my mind wanders to but seizure disorders are treatable...and we must stay positive....right?