– I function best on 9 hours sleep a night. I’m currently getting 7, and that’s not 7 straight hours. But in a few months, I hope to get more sleep.

– I had a nice visit with my mom. It’s been a year since I’ve seen her, and it’s very weird for me to think it may be another year before we see each other again.

– My brother called me this weekend. Things are going great for him & the family. They are moving into a bigger, better house in a few weeks. And he may be getting promoted to management. I’m so proud of him.

– Geoff and I went out for Coldstone on Sunday night. We had dark chocolate ice cream with fudge sauce and M&M’s. It was excellent!

– The boys are doing great. I feel blessed.

March birthday wishes going out to Elijah, Abbie, Alyssa, Melanie, and certainly not least, Lisa.

Have a wonderful year!

My life of late is pretty dull by blogging standards. I spend my day trying to amuse a toddler, and feed and change a baby. If I’m lucky, I can steal an hour long nap each day. I talk to either Lisa or Amy on any given day (plus Geoff), and that’s my adult interaction. I think I’m ready to head to the Trails and start exercising again. I just need to decide what to do. I’m planning on taking the wall climbing class, but I’m not sure when. It’s only a two week deal, then I’ll be able to go and climb whenever. I did a walk to the bank this week, which is about 4 miles roundtrip. Just wanted to ease back into exercising. I was a little pooped by the time I got back, but I don’t think I overdid it.

I got invited to two baby showers in the last 2 weeks, and haven’t been able to attend either. That makes me mad. The first one, I was given two days notice, and it fell on one of the days Lisa was here. The next one is next Saturday, when my mom arrives (I was given 6 days notice). So frustrating!

I finished watching House Season Two (courtesy of Amy), so now I’m wondering what I’ll watch in the late night hours of breastfeeding. I think it’ll be either Red Dwarf, or I’ll finally tackle Touching Evil (the British version). These are the times I wish I had Tivo. But then I might end up like this. (Warning: video clip not suited for children.)

I’ll close with a quote from House.

Dr. Gregory House: How awkward was that? What is he doing here, anyway? He’s got physio Tuesdays and Fridays.
Dr. Wilson: He’s in group therapy for people coping with disability. He thought about developing a drug addiction, but that would be stupid.

Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen

Front Seat

Back Seat (with car seats)

Geoff wanted a picture of the clean engine

What The Hell? I gotta wait another 3 weeks for a new House episode? This stinks!

You can see pictures from the upcoming episode here.

Lisa left this morning.

I miss her. I hate that she lives so far away. I’ve known her longer than anyone, and we had so much fun hanging out. It wasn’t a long enough visit. Elijah loved Auntie Lisa. We need to work on Chad so we can get the whole family here.

Today Geoff went back to work, so it’s just me and the boys. We went to Target after the airport, and I got my first taste of being out with a toddler and a baby. It wasn’t too bad, so it’s given me hope that I can actually go out alone with two kids.

So we’re all doing alright. I feel like I’m getting enough sleep, and Geoff is a huge help. All I have going on this week is Elijah’s birthday tomorrow and taking the kids to the pediatrician on Thursday. The weather is supposed to be great this week, so we’ll likely get out for some walks. It is almost like the worst of our winter is over. I probably just jinxed us by saying that.

I’m going to close with a quote from Quiz Show.

Mark Van Doren: Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.

With Studio 60 on hiatus until God knows when, and Psych having its season finale tomorrow, my tv watching time has totally freed up. I’m left with House, Lost & Scrubs. Now of the three, House is the only one turning out solid episodes, that is when Fox is airing them (stupid AI!). Scrubs this season has been 50/50, and I can almost say the same for Lost. This isn’t to say I don’t enjoy watching them, I do, but it’s not packing the punches I expect, or want.

The Oscars were pretty disappointing. It was dull, and there is only so much one person can take of people kissing Al Gore’s butt. Ellen DeGeneres did a fine enough job, she’s a funny person. But she couldn’t save the show for me. Unless I’m really into some of the movies this year, I don’t know if I’ll tune in next year. Geoff and I played our game of picking winners, and ended up tying with 10 categories each. He randomly guesses, I actually put a lot of thought into mine. So you can see, either method will work. I owe my tie to Kelly, if I didn’t read her reviews each week, I wouldn’t have heard of half of these movies.

Lisa is here tomorrow, I’m so excited!

Okay, I saved the best news for last… we bought a car! It’s a 2007 Vue, and it mostly looks like this:

Since it was snowing yesterday when we got it, they’re going to detail it for us next week. Then I’ll take a picture for you guys. Yes, he has a name… we call him Steve McQueen.

I’ve got to go feed the baby. I’ll close with a quote from Dumb & Dumber.

Lloyd: What the hell are we doing here, Harry? We gotta get out of this town!
Harry: Oh yeah, and go where? Where are we gonna go?
Lloyd: I’ll tell you where. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talking about a little place called Aspen.

It’s a little weird for me to think I’m the mother of two children. I’m working on blogging the birth story, trying to rest when I can, and email people who haven’t heard the news.

Everything is going alright thus far. My body hurts (understandably), and I’m working on trying to have extra grace and patience for the boys & man in my life. It’s an adjustment for everyone. Well maybe not Honey Cat, not yet anyways.

Today we walked a little at Southlands, mostly for the fresh air. Tomorrow we have to go to the pediatrician and possibly to AAA to test drive a Vue.

I’ll be watching the Oscars tonight, but it’s not a big deal to me. I may not stay awake for all of it, sleep is a precious thing you know.

I’ll close with a quote from 50 First Dates.

Lucy: [to Henry] I hardly know you.
Marlin: Actually sweetie, you’re kind of dating him.
[Lucy looks at Henry]
Henry: Sorry I’m not better looking.

Maybe you should head over to the Little Legume blog…

First off, this post isn’t directed at any one person. It’s the result of several tiny things that accumulated into me wanting to hide away and shut out the world.

Yes, I’m still pregnant. Yes, I was due last week. This is why we haven’t called people to tell them about the birth. There hasn’t been a birth to tell about. I don’t have the answers you want, and when you ask me why this or why that, it hurts me. Do you people really think we’d have a baby and not tell you?

I’m overly emotional. I’m pregnant. I want to have this baby, and I wanted to have had it by now. But I can’t control the timing of this delivery (at this point). I’m healthy (except for being stressed out), and the baby is healthy too.

All I ask is for you to keep us in your prayers, and join us in being patient. I don’t really want to talk much more about it other than that. Trust us, when he arrives, we’ll let you know.