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Archive for ◊ November, 2009 ◊

29 Nov 2009 Because Nothing Says Christmas Quite Like A…
Author: Birdie |  Category: Children, Holidays, Home-front, Weirdness  | One Comment

…Beautiful nativity?  Light display?  Inflatable snowman on your lawn?  Grandma’s fruitcake?  Well, apparently, this is yet another one of those many many things that makes my family different from nearly every other family.  When we were discussing what would really make our home seem more Christmas-y this year, my boys suggested a life-sized Yeti for our front porch.  Really!  

Of course, these are the same people who, when confronted with the ever popular “who ate all of the… (just fill in the blank)” question, concocted an elaborate story of Yehudi, the little man who lives in our refrigerator and turns on and off the lights and who also, apparently, gets into the cheese, hides the mayonnaise and eats all of our peanut butter when I am not looking.  Frankly, I like Mr. Y.  It’s good to have someone to blame when poor planning on my part leads to us running out of something too soon. ;)  

Still, I’m thinking that this whole Yeti thing is probably going to have to be where I draw the line.  And I WILL draw the line…. Just as soon as I finish researching Yetis and pricing faux fur…

29 Nov 2009 A Picture Of My Family
Author: Birdie |  Category: Family, Just For Fun  | One Comment

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26 Nov 2009 Happy Thanksgiving!
Author: Birdie |  Category: Beautiful Day, Gratitude, Holidays, Thanks!  | 2 Comments
I hope that you are your family have been richly blessed this year and that you will be even more so in the year to come.  In case I haven’t said so lately, I really am blessed by each and every one of you. :)
23 Nov 2009 Because I’m Pretty Sure I Left My Thoughts In There…
Author: Birdie |  Category: Just me, Quirkiness, Weirdness  | 2 Comments
You know that moment when you are in the kitchen with something wonderful simmering on the stove and you are at the refrigerator with the door open… just standing there looking for inspiration because you cannot for the life of you remember what on earth you were getting?  My whole life feels a bit like that lately.  So much has happened lately, so much frustration and sickness and life has gotten in the way of our normal routine.  With the routines that hold our life on course so badly disrupted, I feel as though I am standing at my mental and spiritual refrigerator door and waiting for something to prod my consciousness into gear, to prod me into taking some action.  Maybe it is the knowledge that when you have children, you may open the refrigerator to find something that doesn’t belong there and that throws your thoughts and plans completely out of the window while your brain tries and fails to decipher why on earth there are matchbox cars and a cat in the ‘fridge….  And WHO has been getting into the cheese again, anyway?  Maybe that is what happened to our routine and our plans.  All of this disruption of reality has just gotten in the way.  I’m not really sure at the moment.  I’m just getting reacquainted with the open refrigerator whether I like it or not.  All this to say that blogging may continue to be a bit sparse for just a bit longer as I try to collect my thoughts and get my brain and my heart out of that weird Twilight-zone area that they seem to wander into whenever I open the refrigerator door.
18 Nov 2009 Do You Like Free Patterns?
Author: Birdie |  Category: Free Patterns  | 3 Comments
Every year I tend to make a few handmade items for my children and for my home.  I seem to just keep making and collecting simple patterns for toys and crafts.  So, my question is: should I start sharing them?  Is anyone even interested?
12 Nov 2009 Family Insanity and the Power of Tuesday
Author: Birdie |  Category: Family, Quirkiness  | One Comment

It is no secret that the past few months have been filled with chaos here in the Nest.  This has left me pondering some of the things, often quite necessary things, that sometimes get set aside during those tough seasons in our lives.  I’m sure you are already thinking of a few, but the one that I am contemplating today is the word, “Tuesday”. 

Why Tuesday?  Honestly, I have no idea, but I am probably to blame.  Somehow or other, Flash and I had gotten into the habit of covering for each other in our ADHD ways by calling out “Tuesday” whenever one of us lost the thread of a conversation, didn’t know the correct answer, or just plain zoned out while the other was talking.  It is our way of saying, “Oops, I blew it.  Can we please reboot this conversation?”.   And, reboot we always do with no guilt or blame attached.  It is one of those silly little family things that I hope that we never lose… Unless, of course, we suddenly find ourselves becoming perfect paragons of focus and attention, that is! ;)

01 Nov 2009 Happy Birthday, Wildchild!
Author: Birdie |  Category: Bragging, Children, Family  | One Comment
Our Wildchild celebrated his second birthday on Halloween.  I can hardly believe just how fast he is growing up.