Unfiltered

A friend and I were chatting this morning and somehow we ended up discussing the fact that I have no filters. It's so true.  And I think I've gotten worse since I've become a stay-at-home-mom.  I no longer recall how to properly function in normal, adult mode. So we joked that I'm "unfiltered" and I thought that could have been a good alternate name for this blog.  "Unfiltered"...maybe we could even work a little photo-related tagline...let's see..."Unfiltered...except for the UV one on my lens."  Hmm...better work on that.  Perhaps someday I'll actually learn to edit my writing and stop with the stream of consciousness posts.  But then I don't think we could call this blog "Unfiltered" anymore. 

In the meantime, back to my mommy duties.  The kitchen counters are atrocious and there's scads of laundry to be done.  Plus I need to comb my little girl's hair before driving her to school.

Holiday Photos

My lack of activity on here is a symptom of my increase of activity in real life.  One fun thing is that I've taken holiday photos for several of my friends.  I don't want to share them now because I want to let them unveil them on their own.  But after the holidays maybe I can share a few of my favorite shots from these various sessions.

Meanwhile, holiday photos of my own family have been a disaster.  It's very frustrating.  I know the shot I want to get, but it's very hard to take it and be in it at the same time.  *sigh*

Pretty One

Today the girls were describing themselves at breakfast.  A Girl said, "I'm the silly one."  Little K said she was the cute one and K Girl piped up, "I'm the pretty one."  I nearly choked on my tea. What have I done these girls?!  I wanted to make sure they had healthy self esteems.  Oh...they have healthy self esteems alright. They're downright arrogant, in fact.  I'm trying to back pedal but I think the damage is done.  Anyway, I said, "you're all pretty girls".  So then K Girl wanted to know "what" she was?!  I said, "You're the sweet one".  Of course I added the caveat that they're all sweet but I told K Girl she was especially sweet.  The girls then wanted to know what O Boy was.  I thought about it and said, "He's the obedient one".

But back to the pretty one...she may not be the only pretty one but she definitely IS a pretty one...of course I might be biased.

Yum

A friend sent this edible arrangement after my lithotripsy next week.  Chocolate dipped apples...delicious.

Made with Love

Made with ♥ by Annika, Kiersten and Kardynn

Netflix

I'm looking at the rental activity on my Netflix account. My first Netflix rental was in 2000. Whoa! That means I've shelled out like $1500 for Netflix so far. I should figure out how much I've paid per movie.  Never mind. I'm way too lazy to count all the movies on that list.

Neglect

My poor blog has been neglected.  It's not that I've forgotten about it. I take photos with the intention of posting them, I think of little snippets that I want to share, I work thoughts around in my head...but somehow I never manage to sit down and make any of it happen. Ever since school started back up I've been busier than ever. I had big hopes that things would be a little less frenetic this year but alas, no, it's as crazy as ever.  And I just enrolled Kardynn in preschool which I'm sure will make things even crazier.  Of course that makes me question why I've signed her up but I'm doing this for her.  When I first signed Oskar up for preschool it was totally about me. I needed a little break.  Two kids in preschool was even more of a break.  Last year was a disaster. I had one in afternoon Kindergarten and two in morning preschool...and not even on the same days.  I had hoped this year would be better but now I have four kids going to school at four different times.  So...once again I've pinned my hopes on next year...next year things will calm down, next year I'll finally get organized, next year I'll get a set workout routine, next year.

In the meantime Kardynn is getting to be such a big girl. She's bull-headed and difficult but she's also delightful. She uses such grown up words. I'm frequently amazed by the things she knows. And of course in order to start preschool she needed to be potty trained. At this very moment she's upstairs sleeping in her big girl bed - with no rails - in big girl underwear.  It's hard to imagine that this day has arrived.  Of course I'll be real and tell you that this is still a risk. I may be washing sheets tomorrow.  But she's getting there...we're getting there.  I'm almost done with diapers. And it feels as wonderful as I always imagined it might feel.

Other current news is that I've been on a bit of a health roller coaster. Honestly, this is perhaps the biggest reason I've not been blogging.  I've spent so much of my "free" time going to doctors appointments the last few months.  I'm not sure this will be the final chapter in this book but it turns out I had kidney stones...four kidney stones, to be exact.  So on Thursday I had lithotripsy.  Fun, fun.  Hopefully now life can get back to normal.