Laughing "That pigeon doesn't care!"

Husband made me do it

With the help of both Husband and Papa, I've finished up my 'remade' book to use as a yearly planner using a tutorial that I found on Pinterest. I will try to add pictures later when I am able to as I am very proud and love showing it off.
I also updated my daily lists again. This time I asked Husband to make sure that I keep up with it, and he's doing a wonderful job *whine* now I can't just goof off after I get home from work, I actually have to do things (like update my blog for one.)
So hopefully there will start being more posts here. I think I would enjoy that as well.

As for now, I'm off. Got to get ready and open the bank this morning! (at least I get off really early, plus I have tomorrow off, although Friday will be twice as busy as normal then.)

Funny Quotes (because we're sleep deprived)

Husband (in regards to Odin not doing what he was 'told' to do) - "We may have to fire him, I can't get him to listen to me.

Pictures soon will follow for Odin's 10 month update!

Name: Odin

Age: 10 months 1 day

Height/ Weight: (as of 11/24/14) 28 1/2 inches and 18 lbs 8 oz

Teeth Status: 2 bottom 2 top and 2 more poking through on the top

Favorite Activities: crawling, sitting up and trying to stand

Foods I like: CHEERIOS!!!!! peaches, pears, sweet potatoes, squash, bananas, apples, baby rice

Foods I hope to never eat again: green beans & sweet carrots

Favorite toy:

Word List:

• hi
• mm ma
• da

In the last month I have improved upon:

• I can now almost sneak into the hallway before ma and da can catch me
• muh ha ha! ma is never going to sleep through the night again if I have my way.
• standing: there is just not much around her that I can climb in order to try and stand but I'm trying my best
• escaping to Loki's room to play with her
• CHEERIOS!!!!!!!!
• if I can pick it up, it can go in my mouth. If I can't pick it up I will bring my mouth to it to chew on it. 
• Everything is edible, trust me.
• I have the puny mortals under my spell! All I have to do is lift my arms up and they come rushing over to pick me up!

Odin is 9(months)! aha aha ah

Name: Odin

Age: 9 months 3 days

Height/ Weight: to be filled in tomorrow after the doctor visit. 

Teeth Status: 2 bottom 2 top and 2 more coming in on the top

Favorite Activities: crawling, sitting up and trying to climb

Foods I like: peaches, pears, sweet potatoes, squash, bananas, apples, baby rice

Foods I hope to never eat again: green beans & sweet carrots

Favorite toy:

Word List:

• hi
• mm ma
• da

In the last month I have improved upon:

• getting the whole 'crawling' thing down pat
• still working on sleeping all night by myself
• talking! Mm ma was said first! (haha I won this one!)
• climbing; everything is climbable, if only my limbs would work right.
• following: my big sister leads me all over the house
• playing with Loki (it's so cute to watch, he has no idea what's going on, and for that matter I'm not 100% sure Loki has any idea either) 

A Message to the Depressed.

This youtuber is known to me mostly because he plays League of Legends and makes videos about it. But shortly after Robin Williams passed he put out this video. Husband showed it tow me, and it is one of the only times I have ever heard someone put words to how depression feels, at least how it normally feels to me.

Why I haven't had much to say lately

I feel a little like I'm in a slump, trying to keep ahead is rather hard at the moment for me (mostly due to those fun little mental roadblocks) I am working full time, taking care of part of the house (Husband has been doing so much of the dishes and cleaning for me) corralling the kiddos. It seems like we are just moving from one thing to another with no rest and no way to catch up.
It's a struggle to keep ahead of everything, especially bills. Thankfully we're not falling behind on anything, but it is so hard to do anything other than play catch up. I've been tweaking my budget plans and talking with Husband and hopefully that will help with some of it. But that megar little scraps that is left over after bills is so difficult to live on sometimes.

I suppose the one really good thing about finally sitting down and writing this out is that I now realize one of the things that's weighing me down the most, I've started to feel the weight of depression again.
Now before anyone starts to freak out (that would be you Nana) I'm not at a stage to be worried about right now. I have -finally- realize what has been pulling me down and can now start planning the attack to battle it.

No longer will I battle depression on the defensive!

sorry, for some reason as I was typing about attacking depression I just saw 

in my head, so yeah, I think I'm okay :-)

all that being said, now that I know what is going on in my crazy head it can only get better. 

8 months and counting!

Name: Odin

Age: 8 months 2 days

Teeth Status: 3 in, 3 more starting to pop through

Favorite Activities: Chewing and drooling.

Favorite Food: Milk, sweet potatoes, bananas, squash, and peaches

Favorite toy: Loki's legos

In the last month I have improved upon

• learning how to crawl
• learning to sleep in my own room (but not all night yet, that would be too easy for mommy
• sitting up a lot more 
• saying 'hi' I won't say mama or dada yet, that would be too easy
• hiding as many of Loki's legos as possible for latter play when she's not looking.

Your brain on horror movies

I'm worn out after a long day, the kids are finally both asleep. It's my turn to crawl into bed and float off to dreamland. My blanket is spread out over my body, tucked under my feet. My head cushioned by the soft pillow. I'm all ready to fall asleep. 

*Brain* 'hey, remember that horror movie that you saw 5 years ago with -insert random scary movie scene here- wouldn't that be just crazy if it happened right now? 

That being said, I'm not about to stop reading/watching horror stuffs, I enjoy it. Let's just say I'm very glad to have a big red-head sleeping next to me to help defend me

7 month interview

Today we have an interview for you to read between a mother and her son. Now since we don't speak fluent baby, we got a translator. He said his name was Doctor, and he spoke baby (was quite indignant if anyone expressed doubt) 

Name: Odin

Age: 7 months

Favorite Activities: chewing, rolling over, giggling with daddy

Favorite Food: milk!

Favorite Sister: What's a sister?

Favorite toy: KEYS!

How have you been improving lately? 

• rolling over: got that down pat, 
• crawling: I haven't quite gotten the whole thing down, but I do move forward, mommy calls it 'inchworming' the things that hold me up don't move well yet. 
• talking: Daddy keeps trying to make me say 'dada' but I just smile and giggle at him.
• grabbing: I can grab and hold things now, all the better for me to get things in my mouth to chew on!
• teething: I have two teeth in, and my top two teeth are starting to come in now.

And now, the traditional pictures of a monthly interview.

The only rattle worth his time

his 'walker' his favorite place to sit aside from a lap

His favorite toy on the walker

This is from a few months ago, when we first got the walker, still his favorite toy. 

Although now he has figured out if he wants to chew he gets the sides, not trying to get a grip on the circular part. 

Long story short

As to why I haven't been posting very often: 

Last week I worked 49 hours, this week I'm scheduled for 47, next week for 48. So I probably won't be around much until my stay-cation in September. 

Loki vs Toddler Bed

So far the bed is losing the battle. But I have some funny and cute pictures from it of odd positions I've found my daughter asleep in. 

This was during nap time. Found her in front of the closet. 

 She's not allowed to leave her room, so she sleeps in the doorway a lot. 

 One of the few times she was near her bed to sleep. 

 I laughed at this one, reminds me of the witch from "Wizard of Oz"

Blanket from Mawma, it's one of her favorites. 

 She's a blanket horder

 This would have gotten her in trouble if she wasn't asleep. (too far out of her room.) I think she just moved in her sleep though. 

 This is last night, she fell asleep coloring. 

Big Girl Bed Day 2 * Updated *

So over the next week I'm going to catalog our progress through pictures and posts here on the MommyLogue about how our little Loki is doing with transitioning to her very own big girl bed.

Day 2 Nap time:
We started out like this:

And somehow ended up like this:

She didn't really try to escape, but she did get a warning with she got a little loud, only for me to find out she needed a diaper change, so she didn't really get in trouble for that.

Day 2 Bed time:
She kept wanting to be wrapped up cocoon like for bed, which is adorable. That blanket is actually Husband's made for him by Mawma when he was little.

It took a while for her to fall asleep this time, i caught her quite a few times almost outside her room in the blanket, but she never left, which made me quite proud. 

When she finally did fall asleep I found her like this:

I know it's hard to see, but she's curled up on her bed! Only the second night too! Lets see if it keeps up.

*** Update***
Well it did not keep up, Loki woke up around 4am, (after one of the many times Odin was up last night) and it took a while to get her to stay in her room and quiet before she would fall back asleep, and to be honest I expected to be woken up by little hands scaring the daylights out of me of her coming into our room. But thankfully that didn't happen. (kind of dreading that also, although I'm sure with how bad me waking up screaming scares her it won't happen too often) But right now Loki is asleep in her doorway, I'd take a picture but I"m afraid it would wake her up. 

Big Girl Bed Day 1

So now she has no choice, Loki only has the option of her toddler bed or the floor.

If you couldn't guess the floor won, and we had quite the fight to get her to stay. (Which I talked about last post)

When she finally really fell asleep she was in this position. 

Achievement Unlocked

Today Husband and Suv took Loki's crib out of her room, leaving only the toddler bed. 

So far we've had lots of tears, a few arguments and a few fits before we reached an agreement:

If she stays in her room and isn't too loud, her bedroom door will stay open. If she gets noisy or leaves, the door will be shut (still letting in light, but not as much as she likes) 

Since the agreement has been reached the crying is calmed and she has not come out of her room. 

Let us see how the rest of the night goes...

***UPDATE***

Loki is asleep, but refuses to use the bed.

Instead she's sleeping on the rug with the blanket MawMa made her

Changes

In case you hadn't noticed, we now have a new title, "MommyLogue" You can thank Husband for this one, he's the one who came up with the term while babbling to Odin about how he wasn't paying attention to mommy monologuing to herself. (He was supposed to be listening to me, and was doing a very poor job of it!)
The change comes mostly due to the cleverness of my husband, and also I think that I just need the change, especially since this is mostly about my kids at this point, so why not change things around to reflect that?

Also, on a little bit more of a serious subject:

Dear readers,

In the next few weeks (I hope) you will be seeing some new blog posts, about things I have wished to comment on in my life but haven't for fear of upsetting someone, or making people angry. I have come to the conclusion that I started this blog for myself, to get my ideas 'on paper' as it were. And for fear of upsetting people I have been censoring myself, well no more!
That being said I'm not going to be going out of my way to be abrasive, but I'm not going to shy away from topics like I have been lately. Which is a minor reason as to why I haven't been updating as much as I would like to, well that and not having a whole lot of time to myself.
So yeah, I'm not going to go out of my way to offend people, but I'm not going to be treading as lightly as I have been with my writing.



Hope you enjoy the new design (still working on changing colors and the background) and look for more posts soon!

Justified Reasons for Mariticide*

I love Husband very much, and I feel that fact is well known and easily seen by our friends, however I find myself contemplating (as I was washing the numerous bottles and breast pumping apparatus) his untimely demise. You may be asking yourself  'what in the world would bring a loving wife to want to kill her husband?' I'll tell you, in one word: books.

In many words: 

Husband has a habit of picking up whatever book I'm reading and either starting from the beginning (not normally a problem) or just turning to a random passage and starting to read. His latest transgression was picking up my book while I was doing the washing and starting to read. He -thankfully- started at the beginning, but this is the second book in the series! Even after I offered to get him the first book he kept reading! Now if nothing else he deserves punishment for that, but what he did next got my blood boiling. He put the book down, and said he was done, and he didn't even finish it!  Nor will he be reading the first in the series! 

And this is not his first transgression, nor the worst. That would be Husband's dealings with the Harry Potter Series. 

He watched:

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince

then he READ:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Then he watched:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 2

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 

I almost killed him. 

*Now this being said, I am not condoning murder, that is quite a naughty thing to do. However, I am just telling my side of the story if Husband was to ever have an unfortunate accident. (He'd have it coming, especially if he was found with a book anywhere near him, as it probably was being read out of order) 

Small tidy update

Just a little going on in our lives


Odin

• Has both of his bottom front teeth poking through his gums
• Is over 16 lbs 10 oz at last weigh in. 
• Loves to be tickled
• Hates to sleep when his teeth are hurting him, which seems to be constant lately.

Loki

• Has started to 'help' take care of Odin.
• Is completely fascinated by brushing her teeth
• Has started to sit on the potty, but we haven't actually got her to use it yet.
• Is terrified of sleeping in her 'big girl bed'
• Loves singing, even if she has no idea what the words are. 

Husband

• Has been helping out incredibly at home, doing dishes every day.
• Husband and Loki have come up with 5 (I think) new games that only make sense to the two of them. 
• Knows Odin's moods better than I do, it's kind of funny to be on the opposite side of that, even though I'm the mom. 
• Is looking for a new creative outlet, right now it's Fire Emblem. Currently looking for a new outlet for after that's finished. 

Myself

• I have been still working full time.
• I am on the last book (one more in the "Heroes" series, but it's not out yet) from the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus Series.
• I have also been playing Neverwinter when I have spare time (which isn't much)

Picture Show!

We went out to see Mimi and Papa today, and since it was a roping day, Loki got to help put away the horses.

Ber and Mimi had found an awesome toddler bed and mattress at a garage sale for me, and with a newly cleaned mattress pad (also a garage sale find from Mimi) Ber and I finally set up the it up so we can start transitioning the kids to different beds. (Odin's big enough that I worry about him in the bassinet even though he's within the weight guidelines) 

Here's the view to the kids' room as you walk in 

The toy chest was a gift from a friend of a friend when they moved, and it has served us well. This kid has so many stuffed animals!

Loki's new bed, complete with stuffed animal (minus her pillow since it's still in the crib)

The bed all made up, and then Loki decided she needed more pictures taken. 

Next we have the kid's book nook, with shelves made by Papa and a good friend, and both rocking chairs made by Papa's parents. 

Here's the crib (kinda messy still) 

And lastly the new closet space, the bottom dresser belonged to Papa when he was young, and is going to hold Loki's clothes, where as the little blue cabinets will hold Odin's clothing.

Oh! I forgot some newer pictures of Odin!

This is about as far as we get rolling back to stomach, we've mastered stomach to back though.

Also, the first time I looked at his outfit this morning I thought it said 'Mommy's Major Hulk' and I kept wondering why it wasn't green until I re-read it a little later.

Well, that's all for now! I'm hoping to write up an update monday since I have the day off.

Happy 4th of July!

From Loki 

And Odin

Coming Soon!

For all those inquiring minds out there, here's what you can expect from me in the near future:

• New news on Odin and his most recent doctor check up (good lord is that boy gotten chunky)
• New tales of Loki & Odin
• News on the homefront 
• Fun budget things that I've learned recently and have been putting into play
• List updates
• Proof (from me) that meal planning not only saves you time and grief but also money.
• Books are awesome! 
• (yes that was refering to -hopefully- some new book reviews soon. I'm working on finishing the second book and then devouring the third before I write my actual review. But I keep distracting myself with different books.)
• Soulless (the manga version)
• The Zombies Series (Monster Island, Monster Nation, Monster Planet)
• The Heroes of Olympus (No I haven't read the Percy Jackson series yet, I'm going about it backwards for once in my life - yes you may be shocked) 
• And (if you're all very nice to me) some short stories that I've been working on when there is a lull at work - which isn't a very common occurrence- so there's not very much to them yet. 

Parkour!

Skin Game 
The Dresden Files #15


by
Jim Butcher

Published May 27, 2014
Read May 31,2014





Alright, here's what I want everyone reading this to do. Go to the library, borrow Storm Front by Jim Butcher, the first novel in the Dresden Files and also the author's first published novel. Now, read the book, fall in love with the characters and then proceed to devour The next 14 books, including his newest novel Skin Game. Revel in the awesome writing,  nerdy references and deep though provoking words written by Jim Butcher.

Long story short....READ THIS SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not only am I a complete fan girl at this point, but I have been so impressed by this author, not only for his words but also the little bit he says about himself, mostly that "Jim Butcher turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane." also "resume includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago" That is such a good indicator to me that I'm going to love the books. (Yes I do realize that I'm a fan girl, I have known and accepted this fact a long time ago)

I did love this book, not only the fun little jokes that are inserted throughout (Parkour!) but there were two specific parts of the book that really stuck with me. Not the awesome fight scenes, or Harry once again trying to outsmart the bad guys, or just trying to stay alive.
Stay with me, this one is a little long

"There's power in the touch of another person's hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There's a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands.
It comes from our very earliest memories, when we all come into the world blinded by light and color, deafened by riotous sound, flailing in a suddenly cavernous space without any way of orienting ourselves, shuddering with cold, emptied with hunger, and justifiably frightened and confused. And what changes that first horror, that original state of terror?
The touch of another person's hands.
Hands that wrap us in warmth, that hold us close. Hands that guide us to shelter, to comfort, to food. Hands that hold and touch and reassure us through our very first crisis, and guide us into our very first shelter from pain. The first thing we ever learn is that the touch of someone else's hand can ease pain and make things better.
That's power. That's power so fundamental that most people never realize it exists."

That didn't really hit me until later when I was nursing Odin, the words just spoke with such truth, and stayed with me so much. There is so much comfort in being touched by another human being, and we never really even think about it.

There is just so much from this book that I was so excited to read about, and I can't talk about it because of spoilers and it's killing me a little inside. But I will tell you this, I cannot WAIT for the next book to come out!

Falling, with style

Most people know by now I try to follow the FlyLady principles, lists, quick cleanings, shining my sink and loving myself being some of the ones I work the hardest at

Well lately I haven't been keeping up like I should, just being lazy and feeling like I have no time for anything. So instead of flying, I feel more like I've been falling. But I won't let that bring me down! Tomorrow is a new day and (I can do anything in 15 minutes)

Excuses....

Some of the 'reasons' (read excuses) for me not posting lately:

• I'm busy with work and the kids
• people are irritating 
• Facebook pisses me off
• I'm tired
• I have nothing to talk about
• I don't wanna type a blog, I wanna read a book or play wow *whine*
• Social media in general pisses me off
• I'm tired of dealing with people so I just don't open any of my 'social' sites.

Yeah, real solid reasons right?

Hopefully I get back to posting sooner rather than later.

I know it's been a while....

I just had so much going on in my head that I haven't really been able to post any of it, because doing so would probably be a bad thing for certain relationships that are on the rocks already.

Anywho, this is mostly just to let everyone know that I'm not dead, and hopefully will be posting again soon.

A post in pictures and sarcasm

This is what you think of with the phrase "sleep like a baby"

Or this:

This one is also adorable:

But....

This is the correct definition of 'sleep like a baby:

and one last little piece of funny

(Husband actually helps out a lot, but still this picture makes me giggle)

Also, none of the above pictures are of my actual kids, like I could get them to sleep or sit still long enough to get a picture like this....

Yeah, my kids are pretty cute when sleeping. (Both pictures taken by my sister Ber, evidently they prefer to sleep for someone other than mama.)

The Adventures of Bug and Bean

I'm going to try and post more often, but a lot of times I cannot think of anything to say, so I'm planning on posting what I'm going to call 'the adventures of Bug and Bean' Bug is Loki's nickname within the family, and when Odin was born Ber declaired his name to be Bean.

Tonight we were planning on Husband giving Bug her bath while I fed Bean. Evidently Bug had other plans because when she heard the bath start running she grabbed the baby tub and took it into the bathroom so Bean could take a bath as well. 

I've given the kids a bath together a couple times, Bean just sits in his little tub and smiles at Bug the whole time, while she enjoys sharing her bath toys and attempting to assist me with washing him. I like it because Bean is to busy smiling and laughing at Bug to get upset when I wash his back or head. 

Husband helped me get Bean out and dried off, leaving Bug to play for a few moments, or so we thought. We turn around after putting a diaper on Bean to see Bug walk into the living room all wrapped up in her towel. 

Just another example of how fast my little LoveBug is growing up and how quickly she's learning how it interact with the world around her. 

Actively Passing

I know:
that she's suffering
she's in constant pain
she wants to let go

I want to tell her to fight
I wish to give her strength
To tell her to hold on
You can make it through this

But I know she can't.

I know:
she'll be in a better place.
she'll no longer be in pain
she'll be with the love of her life again

I know these things to be true
but it doesn't make it easier to know

she's going to die

I promise

I'll be posting a new update soon, it's just been rather hectic lately. (Which probably will be a continuing trend) But everything aside I am hoping to post a new update soon just to get everyone up to date and also to get some writing done.
All I've really had time to do is post a few things in my 'drafts' file from my phone as to things that I'm wanting to talk about.

Also, fun note, I think the word 'soon' just looks very odd. The word just looks like it's spelled wrong to me. I literally looked it up on Google to make sure I had the spelling right. (yes I know that's a little ridiculous, especially considering I could spell that correctly and wasn't sure about soon) 

A week of firsts

Big firsts going on this past week:

Odin smiled for the first time in response to Husband or I (twice in a row even) on Monday night

Loki used her potty chair for the first time Thursday night

Husband had his first few days as a stay-at-home dad (and did awesome)

I got the new experience of pumping at work (not the highlight of new experiences but it was interesting) 

In more domestic news:

Husband has been doing a good job keeping the chaos under control at home while I've been out. Plus I help by having a menu up for dinner so Husband doesn't have to guess what to make. I was also able to make up 4 manicotti  freezer meals, 2 as the recipe says and 2 I made with ground beef included in the mix. So hopefully those will taste good (that's dinner tonight) I also had success with a first in our house, homemade enchiladas they are delicious! It'll even work as a freezer meal so long as I get some freezer pans in the right size. (Now I really want enchiladas, they are just delicious! Even good reheated) 

One Whole Month! (well a little bit extra)

Odin is over a month old! It's quite amazing actually, Husband says it seems like it's been longer than that, but I actually disagree, it feels like no time has gone by at all. Poor tiny boy still fit into his newborn things until a few days ago. Although mostly he wore the newborn zip up pajamas, a) because they're a little easier to get him into than a onesie and pants b) they keep him warm well c) most of the onesies that fit him are short sleeved and if I'm getting cold in a sweater I'd be worried about him being cold in the little short sleeves. Although to be honest, I'm cold when I shouldn't be lately, everyone says it's just my body adjusting to not being pregnant anymore, I think I'm just losing my love for the cold, which I find sad.
It feels good to see he's finally gaining some heft to himself so he's able to wear more than just his newborn jammies. He looks like he's growing up so much in his little onesie pants combo outfits! Oh how fast the time goes.
Odin's also started (mostly) sleeping through most of the night. He will normally go to bed a little before Loki's bath, then sleep till around midnight or 1, and then he wakes up for a feeding, and normally wants to stay away until 2:30 or 3, depending on how awake he's feeling. But all in all, I'm doing okay with this, it just takes me a few minutes to actualy feel human in the mornings when I'm expected to do the whole 'walking talking taking care of a two-year-old thing.' But hey, at least he's sleeping for extended periods of time instead of just like 2 hours at a time!
We're currently looking for a new family doctor, partly because I feel as if we're taking advantage of the system of GraceMed because we have insurance now and also because I grew up going to the same doctor until after I was 21, I would like that for my kids as well. Consistency has always been my friend. Going to make more calls around tomorrow and see if anything looks good. We've gotten lots of suggestions from friends that I need to check out, so hurrah for friends helping me out.

Right now I'm getting all set to go back to work tomorrow, and so I've been pumping more often, not only in preparation to do it more often, but to let Husband have some experience bottle feeding Odin while I'm at home to help if need be. But they are both doing so well I haven't really been needed other than to keep Loki in line.
I am a little anxious as to how pumping at work is going to go. If not for my plans to pump tomorrow before I go in I would already have everything packed up in my little bag and ready to go, as is I've got most of it packed up and ready, or at least all the parts are gathered together for easier packing.

Small Update, more of a medium update actually.

I will be going back to work on Wednesday, although I'm going to try to attend our weekly staff meeting as well. But it has been further re-enforced that I have no idea how to ask people for help when I am feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. (So much so that when I mentioned my inability to ask for help Ber literally started laughing) Husband had to give me a little bit of a lecture about asking people for help because he was starting to worry about my health, especially since I was sick for 6 days straight.

Mom has started not only using essential oils but is now someone who you can purchase them from. (She also makes these awesome little clay pendants for you to put the oils on that you can smell all day long) When she heard how stressed and sick I had been she not only came over to help watch Loki so I could go to the doctor, (and try to get a nap) but she brought some oils with her to try and help me out. Now I'm not sure if it's me believing the oils will work and so therefore being calmer, which helps Odin be calmer and less fussy (he was not a happy baby when I was sick and stressed out) Or if the oils actually work which make me calmer and therefore calm down Odin as well. Either way, it's working and I'm happy about it.
And when Mom starts selling the clay pendants she's been making I'll be putting up information here, because they're pretty cool little necklaces and Mom's been putting a lot of work into them.

Went out to see Mom and Dad today, which Loki always loves, she got to run around outside before the rain started and also got to watch part of "The Incredibles" with her Papa. Us girls played some cards and also made some pendants, which I discovered I am not meant to play with clay, it doesn't like me very much. But it was one of the first days I haven't felt horrible and sick and not wanting to do anything other than sleep, so I quite enjoyed it.

Bad blogger

I don't have much of a post today, I've been feeling sick since Friday and am still getting over it unfortunatly. So I just don't have the energy for a good post right now. Hopefully on Wednesday we'll be back to our regularly scheduled postings.

Doctor Who

So I'm re-watching Doctor Who while I have my month free of streaming Netflix and I have realized something, not only do I miss the 9th Doctor, but the episode 'Dalek' really shows us who the Doctor was for so long.

The first time he sees the dalek he's terrified, and with good reason. It's only after he knows it can't kill him that the Doctor shows his rage and anger at the creature that he bases the death of his entire race on. To me (especially on a second watching) it really shows just how damaged he still is from the war. Trying to get over what he had to just do to save the worlds, destroying everything he had grown up with. It's rather a little heart breaking. 

Ah, the thoughts that come while up at 5am feeling nauseous and nursing an infant. 

Hair fun

So a week ago (probably more) Ber gave me some foam curlers that she didn't use anymore because I had mentioned wanting to find some.
Last night was the first time I actually had time after a shower to put them in. It only took about 20 minutes (which is about 45 min less than it would be to curl my hair plus I don't have to put any hair spray in it this way) I separated my hair into about 4 layers, and put around 4 curlers in each layer working my way from the bottom up. I think the top layer is going to need a few more curlers to keep up with the rest since those are the biggest curlers out of the bunch. I have so much hair that I had to use three different sizes of curlers to get all my hair up.

But here is the results of it being in the curlers all night before I took them out (not the best pictures today, but we had a rough night) 

This is right after all the curlers had come out, before I tried combing through it with my fingers. 

After combing out with my fingers (I think next time I'm going to just leave it alone after taking it out, although using more curlers on the top layer may fix the problem anyways, I guess I'll just have to experiment with it) 

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I didn't add any hairspray to my hair and around 6 this is how much curl I had left

My hair has never been known to hold it's curl well, but this works just fine for me. It stayed well enough for me to style my hair for work and not have to put sticky gunk in my hair (I hate hairspray) 

I would say overall the foam curlers were a big success.