Wordless Wednesday

Oh Dear...

• Dear health insurance: Why d'ya have to be so complicated?....just because you'll eventually pay the bills doesn't mean I don't hate you.
• Dear Seraph's Impending Surgeries: there's a thin line between preparing fully and worrying oneself into depression
• Dear Seraph's Heart: Please let go of the creativity and try it the cardiologist's way. kk thx.
• Dear Sexy Haqon: YES!
• Dear Mom: I love you
• Dear Safire: take good care of our Flower :) and send her home happy
• Dear iPad: Sorry your screen is so dirty.  The kids love you
• Dear Bed: I miss you!
• Dear God: Thanks!
• Dear Ani: *hugs*
• Dear Rabbit: you are NOT a teenager.  No need to practice early.
• Dear Grandma V: you still trying to pull my hair??
• Dear html: the H stands for 'headache", right?
• Dear SITS: I wanna play...but the time keeps slipping by...
• Dear "the Glades": thanks for being around when Castle wasn't
• Dear "Psych": you're late!
• Dear headache: please stop coming back
• Dear Food: ok so on video games...I just have to have food in my pouch and then I don't go hungry.  Could we try it like that? so...if there's food in my kitchen that's the same as eating, thx.
• Dear John Sandford and Stephen Moffat: More, please.  (no...like right now!!)
• Dear Internet: they're updating our router so you'll be faster.  <3.  Don't ever stop!
• Dear my-kids'-Cousins: come on over!
• Dear Heart-illustration-I-can't-figure-out-how-to-draw: um...what???
• Dear my-neice's-chemistry: I just don't get you.
• Dear books-that-make-me-cry: I don't care if you're good.  Get lost.
• Dear Moms-that-were-inpatient-w/-me: I can't believe it's been 3 years...
• Dear fellow-heart-moms: I'm sorry
• Dear siblings: come visit!
• Dear money: ....why are you always just smaller than my eyes..
• Dear Kelly and Pippa: Why do people sip wine while they're making dinner?
• Dear Angel: sorry I lost your binky. (I found it again, but DAD says you don't need it.)
• Dear Tylenol: Can we work out some sort autoship/payment plan?
• Dear Bathroom: Clean thyself more regularly.
• Dear Family: thinking about having a naked day once a week so we can cut back on laundry.  Any prefs on which day I pick:
• Dear MsBabyPlan: what's up, girL?? You in Canada now? Miss your cute posts...hope you're knocked up.
• Dear kitchen floor: I *just* swept you...what are all these crumbs....
• Dear Me: *ahem* ...aren't you supposed to be doing something productive right now?...

There must be something going on up there....

I asked my SIL, Safire, to do this with me...and I just noticed she's already posted it.  So, I'm gonna sneak it in. The deal is you just sit down and write for 5 minutes and then you're done - no editing or planning things out.  So, forgive me if it comes out a huge mess.  and here we go!

Cousin H is leaving tomorrow.  She's flying back to visit Safire and her cute family.  We'll miss Cousin H.  She's been coming over more and more.  She takes Beautiful Rabbit swimming.  Seraph LOVES playing with her keys --carries them around the house jangling them like they're some priceless treasure. Strong Bear was brought to tears one time when Cousin H left before he had a chance to say goodbye (he was upstairs and supposed to be in bed asleep.)We haven't seen Cousin C for a while.I guess my thoughts inevitably turn towards August and Seraph's looming surgeries. I give her extra kisses every day.  She's so warm.  So happy. So alive.  Really, really full of life.  Tonight Sexy Haqon threw a rubber ducky over and over and she'd fetch it like a puppy dog.  She'd bring it back in her mouth and clink to it tightly with her teeth as Haqon tried to break it free.  She thought it was the funniest game ever.Yesterday the funniest game ever was me spinning a frisbie on its side (like a quarter).  Fascinating!We took Seraph swimming a few days ago and she loved it!I've been practicing comforting her.  She sings the ABC's while she's crying to self comfort.Time passes so quickly!

Have you done your 20 minutes of reading yet?

 My girlie was bit by the reading faerie at a very young age...

It's not so much have you done your reading....

as hey, turn off your light you're supposed to be in bed SLEEPING!

Her backpack is crazy heavy because of all the library books and personal books she hauls around just in case she has spare time to read.  Now if I could just get her to remember to get her reading minutes signed each night....ya know, so she gets credit for all this reading.

Honk, Honk

I Change the Words...

The first time I sang "You are my Sunshine" to Seraph:

"You are my sunshine,

my only sunshine,

you make me happy,

when skies are gray.

you'll never know dear,

how much I love you...."

[I couldn't bring myself to say the words...so I sang:]

"each and every day!"

It didn't start with Seraph, though....the first night I was a mother, I took took a very tiny Beautiful Rabbit in my arms and rocked her to sleep.  While I rocked her, I sang:

"Rock-a-bye baby in the tree top,

when the wind blows the cradle will rock.

When the bough breaks,

the cradle will fall,

and mommy will catch you,

cradle and all."

My kids still think those are the real words....

Accidental Souls...

I can't find my camera!! I've missed a few days of the twins-pictures....but it started seeming like a LOT of pictures.  But now I'm sad that I don't have the days I missed.  OK, I *will* find my camera tomorrow.

Sitting in church today,...
it's hard to keep all 5 kids reverent for that long.  Haqon and I usually sit with the kids between us to keep them boxed in.  Today we sat together, which was heavenly.... :)  But, when we were singing, he accidentally sang "souls" when he should've sang a totally different word.  It completely changed the meaning and I may have elbowed him a bit.  Then I got distracted towards the end (by one of the twins) and *I* sang "souls" in the same line of the chorus because he totally infected me! So not my fault!!