The FLYbaby Diaries

I've started a new blog!  I promised I'd tell you about it!  Hop on over to The FLYbaby Diaries to learn more about it!

Basically, I "met" a beautiful woman who calls herself FLYlady a long time ago.  You can "meet" her too at www.flylady.net.  She gave me some useful tools for conquering my clutter and keeping my space tidy and I've done it halfheartedly for some time.  Now, I'm committed.  It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to get done.  This diary will follow my progress in this specific endeavor and hopefully encourage others in the process.

Enjoy!

I can't seem to get this updated!

I know, I know.  It's been forever.  Problem is, it's been one thing after another keeping me from posting.  Our computer was giving us fits for a while.  It likes to just turn itself off at random.  It really is quite a dinosaur and I guess I can't blame the poor thing for being tired and ready to join the great network in the sky.  It still does that some, but not as much (for now).  Oh how I wish we could afford a new one, but it will be a while yet before that happens.  Here's hoping this one holds out until we get another one!

Then, Hubby and I share said pitiful computer.  He uses it for job searching and projects that he's being paid for (and to play on) and I often feel like I can't commandeer it for my own purposes.

AND, lately when I've tried to pull up Blogger it won't pull up correctly so that I can actually post something.

Then there are babies and life and all the other things that keep me busy and unable to get on.

Anyway - I do not intend for this to be a pity party!  I just want to explain why it sometimes takes a while for me to update.  Now to let you in on what's been going on:

Baby Two's first birthday was on Monday.  We had his party on Sunday.  I will update with pictures soon if I can.  I try to save my pics for a Wordless Wednesday.

I'm still trying to get reading done in pursuit of becoming a doula.  I finally sat down with my doula and talked to her to get her advice/encouragement/etc.  It was a great meeting and I feel like I have a direction to go in now.  She's incredible!

We're currently having trouble with Baby One's Jack-in-the-box syndrome.  We put him to bed at night and he just keeps popping up.  Sometimes it happens several times in a minute.  Usually I try to be stone cold and put him back to bed as many times as it takes, but somewhere around 15 times I usually loose my cool, spat his leg and say, "You must stay in your bed now."  Sometimes, believe it or not, that works.  It always works for at least 10 minutes and then we have to repeat the process.  Next week I have an idea how I'm going to handle it.  I'll let you know how it goes.

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Wordless Wednesday

 A sleeping Baby Two...

And Baby One after finding a mud puddle that Mama didn't know about.

Wordless Wednesday - The camera phone is broken edition

Yes, you read that right.  The super-awesome camera phone is broken. It is being replaced but I am without it for a few days and all the pictures I wanted to post are still on it.  So today's (nearly) Wordless Wednesday is a blast from the past!

Circa December 2009:Well supervised in a box of packing peanuts.

 

Circa May 2009: First time feeding himself something other than cereal or crackers.

Circa June 2008: Baby One with jaundice being sat in the window.  

Self-sufficient

Some time ago I wrote about purchasing my domain name through www.GoDaddy.com. Well, for a few weeks now I've been receiving notice that my domain name was up for renewal.  I was worried...  "Hubby and I are both unemployed," I thought, "I can't afford to renew this now."  As it turns out dear readers, thanks to you visiting my blog, sometimes clicking on ads, being twitter followers and sometimes clicking on ads I've placed there, I actually had a little money saved up in my PayPal account!  I knew that there was hope!  Still, it wasn't quite enough.  For a while I wasn't sure what I was going to do. 

Finally I decided to try doing some online surveys, and you know what?  A couple of weeks later, I had enough money in my PayPal account to pay for my domain name renewal!  How exciting!  My online identity is becoming self-sufficient!

Thank you for your help!

And if you'd like to get your own domain name...

New Feature!

Today I will start a new feature on this blog!  I'm so excited!  It's a feature I've seen on many other blogs and longed to partake in myself.  Now that I have a pretty awesome camera phone, I can!  Yay!

It's Wordless Wednesday!  Enjoy!

 Baby One's second birthday was just about a week ago.  This first one is the cake I made for his party.  It's supposed to be orange and those are m&m's all over it.  Yes, Baby One's name is Riley.

 This one is Baby Two and our only boy cat, Littles, looking out of our sliding glass door.  I think it needs to be a greeting card.

And right after I snapped the first picture of Baby Two and Littles, Littles decided to give Baby Two a kiss.  I thought it was too cute!  It kinda looks like Littles is telling him a secret.