Days off? Days on??

It is the Friday before a long weekend.  Well sort of.  I work on Monday and then have the rest of the week off.  Quite lucky since Sophia is having a birthday party, her first with actual non-family guests.  EKK not the party person but she asked and I aim to please.  With our finances being in the clinker I will be making or re purposing or creating what we need. This includes birthday gifts.  My plan is to make her a few lovely things with the fabric that was donated from a generous co-worker.  Of course we have a filthy house and my sewing room needs a quick clean before I can really dive in but that's what Saturday's are for right.

Of course there must be some of this happening too. I got the parenting book first but then my mom brought the next two that look awesome and the "Invention of Hugo Cabret" showed up at the library today and the pictures are lovely.  Well and "Hush Hush" was recommended by a friend this am as well soooo to make a long story short.  I am half way through two of them.  I have a lot of reading I want to do, A ton of cleaning I have to do and a mountain of sewing that I MUST do.  hmmm where should I start.  Well with a good book of course.

NaNoWriMo

I am questioning my ability to make the grade this year.  The year Sophia was born I took a pass on Nano.  She was born Nov 17th.  2006.  This year after 5 days so far of sickness and 2 sick kids and very few words written I am thinking maybe the goal of blogging daily and the addition of two short childrens stories could be a big enough goal for a woman of little sleep.  This would mean I took a pass the years the kids were born.  This seems to be realistic and fair to well me.  How dissappointed will I be in myself at the end of the month ... quite. 
Will I maybe be a bit healthier? Yes.
Will it be the end of the world? No.
Well I will ponder.  I do still have time to catch up.

Mommyhood

The eye of a 2 year old as taken by a two year old. The blue is true and the sparkle is there, if even out of focus. You need not to look far to see her first faithful friend. Yes there he is, Blue our wobbly dog with a big belly and a patient heart. Asleep as usual at our feet. However the second any scrap of food even considers falling to the ground he miraculously comes to life to rescue it from settling on anything not pristine. The finger and the dog are once again from the eye of the 2 year old.

No matter how sick. This one still seems to find a reason to giggle. Banging a pan in and out of the drawer luckily doesn't wake a sleeping Dad or rouse a sleeping dog. Beware if you turn away he may stand and launch himself into the drawer head first. This he decided was not as much fun. Screaming ensued.

Screaming didn't last long because climbing Momma's leg was just as fun as banging the pan. Thankfully for Momma much more quiet as well.

"Mommy come. Zoooom Zoooom the plane in you mouth Mommy." Ahh why not it is homemade and mighty tasty even if a bit drippy.

Halloween

Here is the blogger day I have been waiting for! Halloween! Well We had a garden gnome. This was the easiest costume ever. Red cone hat, white beard out of fleece (worked as a bib as well)black belt which you can't see but also made out of felt. Then of course what kind of gnome would he be without his mushroom. He was so cute a real trouper considering he wasn't feeling well. Phia was Jessie from Toy Story II. We looked all over for a costume and what we did find was this crappy fake material thing. Of course being me I said well I can make that. Bought the shirt at Target for $9.00 added the yellow and the stitching, She had the jeans added the chaps from a fleece shirt that was too small and some black felt. Her belt was awesome. Belt buckle from a belt of mine that was again too small (Theme?) Then a lovely friend found the perfect Jessie hat at a 2nd hand store for a buck! The first time she put it all on she said "Mommy I Jessie" It was wonderful. One of those mommy moments were you think. Yeah I might just be doing this alright.

Birthday Continued

I already have Jacob at home. Here is a pic of David in High School :0 ) Paws off he's mine.

Birthday

Well it happened. I turned... big sigh... 41. It was a day that started early. The youngest started the battle cry at 3:30 and the older one followed suit at 4:30. Can't really blame them the house is cold. Yes our heat has once again gone on the fritz and the dude that is fixing it is out of town for the next 12 days. Ahh this too we shall indure. Looking back though is is quite humorous. Two adults (both sick) two children (one sick) and a beagle with a bum back end all curled up snugly in a queen size bed.

At work I was greated with a cuppa joe and a pumpkin muffin that was ahhh delish and the icing on that cake was a button the size well of my breast, which being that I am breast feeding is rather large with a strapping top naked Jacob (yahoo twilight followers).

After a long day lunch, sweater and an awesome sewing book from my husband. I ended up with a fever. The house was a mess but was quickly cleaned crackers and cheese for dinner. Sitting on the floor talking to my husband watching the kids in the bath is dawned on me.

NaNoWriMo

I would prefer to talk about Halloween being that it is my favorite holiday, but of course I must begin and the beginning.

My purpose in bloggersville is NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month. The month where all things good and bad take a backseat to writing. Where dishes pile up and laundry overflows. My poor husband shoulders much of the household burden except for the cooking, well because he can only prepare food that is ordered, boiled or micro waved fro enriched, fortified and preservative filled chemical concoctions that only resemblance to food is in taste and texture.

My 5th year as a Nano novelist, quite impressive considering I have 2 children under the age of 2 and a rewarding career as a teacher/librarian. Unimpressive in that I have yet to edit a one. A shout out the the dead bunny club. The writing group that so kindly accepts me when I do occasionally attend during summer vacation and other miscellaneous holidays.

This year I am taking a stab at non-fiction. What would it take to become a blogger? With that said I am off and running- well seeing how it just took be 2 hours to get this written and posted more like stumbling start.

Join the Nano fun at nanowrimo.org.

As they say "SLEEP IN DECEMBER!"