our future roommate

for those of you who haven't heard from us in a while, we are living in pleasant view aka p-view or the "view that is pleasant." considering we have a basement apartment the view actually is pretty pleasant because we have several good sized windows and our kitchen window looks over our previous place of residence known as "o-town." we are really liking our new pad even though its pretty quirky, but thats part of the reason why we like it so much. we are feeling settled and are anxiously awaiting our new roommate.

dan and i have an interesting situation on our hands. some may say our future resident is a little impolite. all of her stuff has been moved in but she hasn't yet shown up. we also have to pay her deposit which will be approximately 5000 dollars plus. (talk about steep....sheesh!) we have also been informed that despite the fact that we have purchased a new vehicle, the seats in the car aren't quite to her liking so today we are going to buy her a special chair that will accommodate her more appropriately. some may ask why we are allowing such a tenant to move in with us. her reasoning is pretty good and dan and suzanne are more than willing to accomodate this new little addition to their apartment. you see, nova, (the future resident) is moving out of her old abode due to the 'lack of space at her old address.' her land lord has also admitted that she is 'out-growing' the place and needs to move out soon. suzanne is especially sympathetic to this news. suzanne went just yesterday to discuss the move-in with her friend darryl (also known as doctor woods) he said that she should be arriving before the 16th. so hopefully soon we will add one more little body in this quirky little place of ours and to our quirky little family.

ok, so all jokes aside, things are going well. i went to the doctor yesterday and i am dilated to a 1 and am 90% effaced. at first i freaked out because i thought he said i was dilated to a 1 and he could see 90% of nova's face and i almost had a cardiac arrest.........but i heard incorrectly, so i feel encouraged that i will not be eternally pregnant! hooray!

a blog's purpose

most people create a blog to write posts frequently. those of you who have checked our blog in the last week are probably wondering if i really get this whole blog concept since i have written a mere paragraph and posted a picture of dan and i that is over a year old. i have been recently been informed however that my next post needs to be before nova's 16th birthday party and before dan and my golden anniversary. so here it is in all its glory.

not to give excuses, but i have been gone for a week. the last week i have spent at my cousin kelsi's house just a mile down the road to tend her kids. kelsi's little sister bailee was also there and we hung out from the 17th to the 24th while kelsi and her husband kevin went to hawaii for a business trip. bailee, the 4 kids, and i completed arts and crafts, played in the kiddie pool, ran through sprinklers, played hide and seek, did puzzles, competed in obstacle courses, picked and ate strawberries, made paper airplanes and created masterpieces using side walk chalk. the kids were really good and i had a fun time hanging out with them and bailee.

i do, as of late, have a newfound respect for mothers and have realized why Heavenly Father sends 1 baby at time starting at the age of 0. let me explain. if i was to give birth to a 5, 4, 2, and a 1 year old all at the same time the following would be true.

a) the learning curve would be a lot steeper.

b) physically it would also be challenging--carrying a 6 lb child in the womb is enough to throw off your balance, equilibrium, mental stability and your rib cage.

c) the ability to move would be drastically decreased. one child inside is enough to make the simplest task of getting out of a chair as difficult as running up the face of table rock. adding at least another 40-50 lbs to your center of gravity would mean transporting yourself around like a wiener dog with no legs instead of waddling around like a duck.

d) you would need to dilate to much bigger than a 10, (not that i have had experience in labor, but from what i hear a 10 doesn't feel big enough for 1 small infant, let alone 4 children ranging from ages 5-1.)

e) and to top it off: a 10,000 plus page instruction manual from Heavenly Father would also need to be included in the delivery. this manual would need to include pictures, table of contents, index, bibliography, references, dictionary, recipes, practice questions, answer key in the back and a free bonus inspirational dvd entitled "how to be a mom without killing yourself and your 4 children." seeing that this would add another additional 50-60 lbs (at least) to the pregnancy culminating in a possible 100 pounds of weight to gain in 9 months (and this isn't even counting water retention) it just wouldn't work. i have heard many a mother say that they wished that children came with a manual. be grateful that they don't because it probably reduces the occurence of a whole lot of episiotomies. children are big enough without a book attached to them.

so to change the subject, i have been told several times that i need to get a picture of my pregnant stomach on the blog so people can see how cute nova is, or rather how spherical my middle is expanding--why haven't i? because it isn't on my list of things to do to post a picture on the world wide web of my STOMACH! especially a stomach that is not recognizable as my own. but because i give into peer pressure, by all means please enjoy the pictures. after you do, go and drop a pen on the floor and pick it up and say a prayer of thanks that you were able to complete such an easy task without strain, difficulty, grunting, falling or ripped pants!! :) after all, life is about being grateful for the little things right?

so i finally have done it. i have created a blog. i decided to join the "blog wagon," since everyone has jumped off the "band wagon". (I was getting so good at the tuba too........) now, however, feel free to browse around seeing that a blog allows all we know and care about to glimpse into our ordinary, insane, yet all-American lifestyle.