IT IS HERE!! MY VACATION!!
Aug. 10th, 2011 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoney321I mean, I'm not going anywhere or anything, but my CHILDREN ARE. I love them dearly. And having space for three days will help me remember that. :D
Yesterday my sister and BiL came up to hang for the day, and they brought me maybe one of the most awesome gifts I've ever been given, a massive chunk of mineral/crystal that she found at that fantastic shop I mentioned a while back (with the crazy taxidermy and corals and old medical models, etc.) Also with it was a Dr. Dre sticker pack (various quotes from songs in Old Timey print) and a helpful guide from our friends at The Christian Life Commission:
What Liquor Is Doing To The Home! Hahahaha. Did you know that "the invasion of the American home by beverage alcohol is not a natural outgrowth of our American culture?" The most powerful weapon against alcohol is a belief in Christ (there's my problem!) and I guess the council wants people to forget about Jesus making wine so parties were more awesome? So funny.
Also, today is when the Glee recaps come back! The episode today is FUNK, and that wasn't the best. By far. In fact, it was pretty head-scratching in some places. But now I have a whole litany of awesome 70s music playing, so that's a good thing. Also a good thing? The Chaka Khan martini I made up. DAMN, it is tasty. (I did have a lot of fun with my recap, though. I wish Quinn Fabray did have a Mother Popcorn tat.)
And as soon as the kids are gone (T-minus 1:48 and counting) I am going to jump in the pool, make a margarita, and have BLISSFUL SILENCE. Ahhh!
Yesterday my sister and BiL came up to hang for the day, and they brought me maybe one of the most awesome gifts I've ever been given, a massive chunk of mineral/crystal that she found at that fantastic shop I mentioned a while back (with the crazy taxidermy and corals and old medical models, etc.) Also with it was a Dr. Dre sticker pack (various quotes from songs in Old Timey print) and a helpful guide from our friends at The Christian Life Commission:
What Liquor Is Doing To The Home! Hahahaha. Did you know that "the invasion of the American home by beverage alcohol is not a natural outgrowth of our American culture?" The most powerful weapon against alcohol is a belief in Christ (there's my problem!) and I guess the council wants people to forget about Jesus making wine so parties were more awesome? So funny.
Also, today is when the Glee recaps come back! The episode today is FUNK, and that wasn't the best. By far. In fact, it was pretty head-scratching in some places. But now I have a whole litany of awesome 70s music playing, so that's a good thing. Also a good thing? The Chaka Khan martini I made up. DAMN, it is tasty. (I did have a lot of fun with my recap, though. I wish Quinn Fabray did have a Mother Popcorn tat.)
And as soon as the kids are gone (T-minus 1:48 and counting) I am going to jump in the pool, make a margarita, and have BLISSFUL SILENCE. Ahhh!
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Date: 2011-08-10 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-10 06:58 pm (UTC)Mmmm, vodka coolers.
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Date: 2011-08-10 07:27 pm (UTC)Okay.
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Date: 2011-08-10 07:20 pm (UTC)Glad your vacation is starting! Your kids seem awesome, but they are kids and EVERY kid can induce a constant state of GAH! once in a while - LOL!
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Date: 2011-08-10 07:24 pm (UTC)37 minutes, not that I'm counting. ;)
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Date: 2011-08-10 07:29 pm (UTC)This.
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Date: 2011-08-10 07:38 pm (UTC)Ahahahaha!! Jesus was a total enabler!! And we must never forget and always be grateful for that! *kiss fingers raise to sky*
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Date: 2011-08-11 07:54 am (UTC)I also wanted to thank you again for the chocolate chip cookie recipe. The first time I made it it didn't turn out right, but the second time it came out divine. I brought some of the cookies to work and they were a hit. So thank you for sharing your amazing skills! :)
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Date: 2011-08-11 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-08-11 01:41 pm (UTC)Clever you for only needing one go around to tweak!
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Date: 2011-08-11 01:06 pm (UTC)Enjoy the vacation!
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Date: 2011-08-11 01:28 pm (UTC)Thank you!! <3
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Date: 2011-08-11 03:19 pm (UTC)And did you get any info about that mineral from the FIL?
And I just saw your last post about Hoarders and OMG SO AWESOME.
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Date: 2011-08-11 03:36 pm (UTC)I didn't, because he didn't come! (And man, when neither FiL or The Mr. are around, MiL is NOT interested in talking to me at all. Dude. O_O
I'll find out on Sat. when we go pick up the bambinos.
Also, thinking of lunch tomorrow? Email me if you can
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Date: 2011-08-12 04:22 am (UTC)You don't know me (except for maybe I commented on the Sparklepeen posts), but I found you through Sam, and I love reading your posts. You're such an intelligent, kind, diverse lady that I wanna be your friend and totally not in the way that involves me creeping on your through your Internet windows, while mouthbreathing in your Internet shrubs.
In other words HI.
One of the things I love the most about your journal is getting the perspective of a mom about her kids. It's a fantastically complicated relationship, even in the best of families, and even though I'm 24 and am old enough to have my own babies, it helps me understand how my Mom acts towards me.
Also I like your balance and sense of humor. Why yes I have been indeed internet stalking you for a while, please don't be alarmed while I polish the fog from my breath off your window pane no wait don't call the cops
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Date: 2011-08-12 04:34 am (UTC)Also? That is the nicest thing ever, and I want to cross stitch that paragraph about moms onto a pillow, and I'm kinda not joking.
Any friend of Sam's is an internet friend of mine. HELLO.
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Date: 2011-08-12 04:42 am (UTC):D! I'm glad I inspire cross-stitchery.
Actually, can I ask you a question about motherhood? At 24, did you feel ready to have kids? I mean, not like one of those WELP NOW IT IS TIME TO FULFILL MY BIOLOGICAL DUTY *ovulates* kind of way, but like, you feel ready to welcome a whole new little person into your life you're responsible for for the next, uh, 20-something years?
Wow, sorry for jumping straight into the deep waters. IT'S HOW I ROLL. How's the weather WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT EXISTENTIALISM. sorry D:
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Date: 2011-08-12 04:57 am (UTC)Did someone order a teal deer?
Date: 2011-08-12 01:22 pm (UTC)Let's see. At 24 I was having my second, and I've actually thought about this A LOT. I grew up in a culture that expected me to be a mother, expected me to be a YOUNG mother. I never thought that I could *NOT* be one, if that makes sense. Also, they were surprises, we hadn't planned them, I'm just apparently ridiculously fertile. (UGH, I'VE PUSHED THINGS TOO FAST TOO SOON, TMI? Here, look at my pap smear.)
So... I don't know that I thought "Yeah, I got this: BIRTH'D" but to be honest, I don't know ANYONE that feels like "this is happening, I'm at peace with it, I shall OM my way through the next X years." Even when they're super together and thoughtful, because having a baby is KUH-RAY-ZEE.
I will be honest, though, because I have a legit crazy mom that isn't in my life, I've been feeling my way in the dark for 15 years. I didn't have anyone that was really in the trenches with multiple kids (or one with differentiation like Aspergers) to ask. Motherhood - if you're going to really do the little things (be calm when possible, pay attention to their needs before your own, make sure they have what they need physically/mentally/emotionally, be prepared for the HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY children cost) then know this: motherhood is 80% shit work, and 20% bliss.
It is hard, frustrating, heart-breaking, aggravating, dirty, and unthanked the vast majority of the time. But when it's good? And I mean it, when it's good it makes you forget that 80%.
In short, board of doctors for my dissertation on motherhood (lol), I'd say there's never a "right" time to be a mom, but there sure as hell is a "wrong" time.
NOW ALLOW ME TO EXPOUND ON GOD, ART, AND RELIGION.
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Date: 2011-08-12 02:48 pm (UTC)I love hearing your thoughts on this. You sound a lot like my mother, and even while she's got something like 16 years on you, there's so much I hear echoed between what you've said here and what she's said before.
I totally feel you on the part with kids who have special needs. For a while there, me and my twin sister were sort of that way, and even though my Mom handled up LIKE A CHAMP, I still feel really bad for her having to go through raising us with problems like that. I mean, the lady isn't even my biological mother; she's my aunt who adopted me. But I was raised as her daughter, and have always been referred to as such, and thought of her as Mom, so I think she's an incredible woman to take us on like that. IT'S A LONG, SORDID HILLBILLY STORY THAT YOU PROLLY DON'T WANNA HEAR so anyway :D
Also the bit with the crazy mom- hooboy. That was definitely my mom's mother. My mom, like you, turned out fucking awesome. Grandma was also legit crazy, so my Mom and Dad raised all four of their kids kind of groping in the dark too. You guys are all awesome for doing what you've done. I mean, parents make mistakes and hurt their kids, but I love and recognize you all for pushing aside that 80% and being good parents.
Lol wrong time. See about 90% of my highschool classmates. D: Mostly unmarried, lonely girls who got banged up shortly after high school, and the baby daddy ran away. HENCE WHY I AM IN KOREA TEACHING INSTEAD OF SCHMOOING ON THE BOYS BACK HOME
When you see girls/women now at the same age when you had babies, do you think of them as kids/being too young to have babies? Like, "Aw, she's only 22 wait that was when I first had a kid." On that note, do you see becoming a mother/getting a spouse/getting a house as like the things that make you an adult?
Anyway, thanks so much for indulging my too-deep intro questions in our budding friendship. HEARTS IN MY EYES <3