tough talker???


so....
here is where we find out whether or not
mommy really means it when she says
that he will wear the glasses
and he will wear the patch
whether he wants to or not
because its for the good of his eyes
or whether mommy is actually more a
softie
then she would normally like to admit...

he hates the glasses.

not because of the glasses,
but because he can't see with them on
which i wasn't expecting...he says my two fingers
look like four
and four looks like eight...
he can't see the tv no matter where he is at...
i expected this when we put the patch on,
but this is without the patch...
i am thinking about waiting until monday
and then calling to make sure this is the reaction
we should be seeing just in case something is not right
with the prescription....

i am also having second thoughts.

what if we put him through this
only to find out its not only not going to work
but it causes his bad eye to turn inwards
which the doctor said it might...

i love being a parent, but
i hate these kinds of life-changing decisions.

by the way, he is laughing at my hair in both
these pictures. he said he couldn't see it clearly
but even blurrily seen, it was fairly funny.

i. hate. being. sick.

ow.
my throat hurts
which it has for the past two weeks
but in a minimal way...
now suddenly it has amplified itself as
much as to say "look-at-me-look-at-me
WILLYOUEFFINGPAYATTENTIONTOME"

and i had a headache and was nauseaus all day
yesterday with the 4 kids under 3 here allll day...
went to bed at 5 pm, got up at 12, ate some crackers
and back to bed...

one of the "4-under-3" gang
threw up all over the floor
5 minutes before his parents came.

i am sure headache and queasiness was caused
by oncoming period...how did this happen that
as i got older, i lost the horrible cramping part
but i gained a headache from hell and a penchant
for pepto-bismol that lasts for about a week
BEFORE my period...WTH????

oh. and my back just spoke up.
it has decided to kill me today.

ow.

aaaawww...shucks.

i just wanted to say thank you
to everyone who commented so sweetly
last week when i was kind of
"sorting through my stuff"
it meant so much to me to come on here
and read what you all had to say...

i'm not a gushy person by nature

but thanks from the bottom of my heart.

progress...

so we did some decorating over the weekend...


this is one of my favorites...a stretchy santa with a reindeer
that makes me think of the decorations i had as a kid...


if you look closely, you can see a gargoyle who is suffering
from the extreme humilation that only a christmas bow-tie
and hat can bestow...

this is a close up of the knitting that i have been (cough,
cough) attempting...attempting for the past six weeks
that is, and this is what i have yet accomplished, hee hee.

again with the knitting...

a close up of my "studio"/"home office"/"santuary" heehee
if you look closely at the blue and brown card and the sark
card, you will see what i happily recieved in the mail last week
from michelle
i was soooooooo excited about getting not one but TWO
cards in the mail ON THE SAME DAY EVEN....


this is my new sorta studio, sorta sanctuary...the only bad
thing about it is that its so accessible to the kids...haha....
don't get me wrong i love them to pieces, but i need
some quiet time at some point of the day :)

i'm hoping maybe after this christmas to add both a computer
and a sewing machine to this area...oh...and some much needed
storage...heehee