Posted by Becky @ 11:53 am | 2 Comments Friday
May 7, 2010 | Stuff
Cheers to Friday!
Journey
April 28, 2010 | Family, Stuff, Twins
It’s official. My daughters are ready for Kindergarten. I attended an “exiting special education services” conference last month. After almost six years of therapies and special education, this is a huge milestone. They don’t just meet the minimum requirements. They exceed them.
I don’t spend a lot of time going back over everything we’ve been through with preemie twins. I wrote a lot when they were in the NICU. I’ve tried a few times to read it, but I can’t. It was a scary, scary time, and I still can’t relive it. I do have to look back right now, though, to appreciate just how incredibly far they have come.
This is where they started: 2 pounds, 12 ounces each, born at 29 weeks, way before their July due date.
And this is where they are now, trying on their first dancing costumes.
This week, they turn 6. This fall, they start Kindergarten. After that, they’ll take over the world.
First
April 21, 2010 | Family, Stuff
Guess who’s coming to our house tonight? For the first time ever. Woo-hoo!
Miscellaneous
February 26, 2010 | Stuff
I don’t get Wanda Sykes.
I’m surprised at how much I enjoy The Deep End.
Who wouldn’t want an Italian villa?
Best thing about watching OL figure skating? Scott Hamilton.
My kids think I’m cool because I once sat next to a real princess on a plane.
Happy
February 24, 2010 | Blogland games, Stuff, Words
Magpie Musing makes me think. She also makes me happy. She’s inspired me (again), this time to think about what makes me happy. Here’s a list.
- Books
“Nothing is more human than a book.” ~ Marilynne Robinson, The Paris Review, Issue 186, Fall 2008.
- Laughter
- Hugs your body fits right into
- Lists — making them, crossing them off
- Brilliant summer greens
- Blooming azaleas
- Angel-food cake
- Making a good meal then sitting down to eat it with people I love (and some wine, of course)
- Coffee
- The orange sky that makes my kids say, “Mommy, that’s such a beautiful sunset! I bet you wish you had your camera.” (Yep.)
- Music, music, music ~ How can you listen to any of these songs and not at least smile? Say Hey (I Love You), Michael Franti; Love Serenade, The Waifs; Sweet Potato Pie, James Taylor; How I do math: Una mas cervesa + Billy Bacon & the Forbidden Pigs + the Zoo Bar = One Mighty Tasty Tex-Mex Bluesbilly Taco
I’ve got faith in us, and I believe in you and me
February 3, 2010 | Family, Music, Stuff
When everyone else lets me down, I’m so lucky to have someone to wrap my arms around. You know? We may not be perfect, but we’re perfect for each other. And there are some people I know who don’t believe I’m perfect for anybody. Good thing your opinion is the only one that matters.
(Thank you, Michael Bublé, for this amazing song.)
A decade: Are you reelin’ in the years?
January 29, 2010 | Family, Florida, Iowa, Norway, Stuff
2000
London calling, yes, I was there too
I love you, yes I do, well, it says
so in this Book of Love
Buona sera, signor, kiss me
goodnight
Oo la la la, c’est magnifique!
Oh yes, the world will always
welcome lovers
Your love’s put me at the top of the world
Skal vi gå på ski?
2001
Talk me out of Tampa (no, don’t!)
2002
Beautiful Boy
2003
10 years: Gonna take a ride across the
moon, you and me
Great-Grandma always takes the time
Oldemor & Bestemor: She’s got her special
ways to chase the clouds away
2004
Just a boy and his dog
Rock-a-bye my sweet baby girls
I’m dreamin’ tonight of a place I love
2005
Put them all together they spell Mother
Even more than I usually do
And although I know it’s a long road back
2006
It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to
13 years: I need you to love me
I’d be made in the shade
Everyone’s smiling just for me when I go home
These boots are made for walking, and that’s
just what they’ll do, one of these days these
boots are gonna walk all over you.
On top of the world again
Peekaboo!
I promise you
2007
They say it’s your birthday; it’s my birthday
too, yeah! We’re gonna have a good time!
Just keep swimming
I’m gone to Carolina in my mind
Bus stop, wet day, she’s there, I say, please
share my umbrella
W-a-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n, baby, D.C.!
It’s not because it is the grand old seat
Of precious freedom and democracy
It’s the bloggers, baby!
I’ll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light beams
2008
We are family, I got all my cousins with me
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter
bonnet
I get by with a little help from my friends
A word that means the world to me
Goodbye city life. Green Acres we are there!
2009
Because I’m still in love with you, I wanna see
you dance again
Rocking pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu
January 25, 2010 | Family, Getting sick, Iowa, Medical, Pharmaceuticals, Stuff, Weather, Winter
I just moved my mini-pharmacy from the kitchen back to the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. I hope I didn’t jinx anything.
Spinnin’ wheel got to go round
Family, Norway, Stuff
I have a confession to make. I can’t knit. Or crochet. Or anything like that. I have all this beautiful handiwork from Norway, and I don’t know how to fix it. Take, for example, my daughters’ blankets.
See?
Did you hear that? That was all the Norwegians who know how to knit (and even the other two who don’t) gasping in horror. At this rate, I’ll never get to be an honorary Norwegian. Heck, for this high crime, I’ll be banished to live in darkness with the trolls and never be allowed to touch a pretty thing again.
In the meantime, I’ll have to beg for help from real Norwegians who can do things like this.
And this. (Well, *I* made the babies.)
And this.
And this.
Help!
