Six stitches!

Me: Hey, do you mind if I take a picture of this?

Doctor: Umm, sure, I get a lot of pictures taken, with, like, newborns… this is sorta similar… there’s blood, and some stitching, a little crying…

Me: Ha, yeah, it’s just like that! Except, you know, not as miraculous, or cute…

Here it is, up close and personal! He was very brave throughout the whole thing – even when he managed to cut himself while, of course, fighting with this brother, I came into their room to see his brother crying, while he looked slightly excited at the prospect of a hospital visit.

I think he’s proud of his stitches, so you may want to congratulate him. Don’t worry, he’s fine… at least so the doctor tells me.

Motherhood: never a win-win situation

I’m not going to talk about Sarah Palin, or Sarah Palin, or, umm, Sarah Palin, or, wait, even, Sarah Palin, because, honestly 1) I don’t know enough to have an opinion on the woman and 2) I am waaay too exhausted to make myself care to know enough to have an opinion on the woman. Sad, I know.

When I started working again a few months ago, my mom and the kids’ dad would get them dressed for school, and I would pick them up and take care of them in the evenings, and it went well except that I always felt like I missed the mornings with them and I never got to make them breakfast or lunch which meant that I couldn’t be sure they were eating enough. It also meant that my mom had to wake up early, drive to my house and help out, and I do not like the idea of burdening anyone with my responsibilities.

Since school started again though, I’ve switched my schedule so that I can be there in the mornings… I get dressed early, wake up my littlest before 7am, drop him to my moms house, come back home, get the other 2 up and fed and dressed, then drop them off to school, then get to the train station before 9am. Then, in the evenings, I go pick them up from my mom’s house and take them home for dinner and everything else… it’s exhausting, to say the least.

I hate that I have to take my, usually sleeping, baby and drop him off without being able to spend any time with him, I hate that it’s always a bit of a rush for me in the mornings, I hate that it’s a HUGE rush in the evenings because I don’t want to leave them too long without me since I know everyone is usually tired. And I’ve realized that no matter what we do, as mothers, it will never be enough, it will never be win/win, we will never feel like we’re doing everything right, but I feel like the most we can do is try, and I really want to believe that the best that we can do will be ok. Right?

Welcome to 9rules!

If you know of 9rules and their submission rounds – I’ve been accepted! Yey!! Nuff said.

Now, for those of you that don’t know, 9rules is a blogging community, with the tagline that says “The best content from the independent web.” They accept submissions of sites in rounds, there are 3 rounds this year, I submitted this blog, and it was accepted... at least I hope so, because I keep checking back to make sure that is actually my url on the list!!

I am so honored, I feel like I should make a speech or something, you know, thanking those key people in my life who made this all possible, my millions thousands ahem, tens of fans, my kids, my parents, my dog, oh wait, I don’t have a dog!

Seriously though, thanks to the 9rules team for the acceptance and for actually reading through the thousands of submissions that they probably receive, and thanks to all of my readers and wonderful friends for always being there for me! You guys rock!

On school bags

Who got their kids new school bags? For like the first day of school? Especially since it’s grade 1 and everything?

Umm, NOT me!

Almost 6 year old: Mommy, will you get me a school bag today?

Me: Well, it’s a holiday and everywhere is closed, BUT I will get it tomorrow! For sure! I’ll go to the mall and get you one after work.

Almost 6 year old: OK, because I don’t like using this small bag – look, my notebook can’t even fit in it!

Me: Hmmm, yes, I see that. OK, well use it just for tomorrow, only 1 day. OK?

Almost 6 year old: OK mommy, what kind of bag will you get me? I know you love to get bags with letters on them!!

Me: Hahah, yes babe, I like bags with letters on them!

Almost 6 year old: What is your favorite letter? I know! You like the ones with G most! Right?

My life in points #1101

1. It’s the month of Ramadan, which is good because I am desperately in need of some extra blessings!! Ramadan greetings to all!

2. I had really good filet mignon today, it was so good that I had to mention it! However, since I didn’t expect it to taste that good, I didn’t take any photos and so, sadly, I can’t share the recipe with you – next time I make it though, I will!

3. There was a wasp in my room today… oh.the.drama! After much screaming and fighting and swatting, we finally turned on the powerful vacuum and sucked it up!

4. School starts tomorrow – grade 1, ooooh! And so I thought that I would “big boy-ify” the kids bedroom.

Behold!

They are tremendously excited! Thank you IKEA! If you need a “how-to” on the kids desk, lemme know!

5. We’ve been going to the same place for breakfast for YEARS, literally. The kids, because of the pancakes with mini m&ms, and me, because they have the best Eggs Benedict! This weekend they called the kids over and presented them with these huge thingies… we named them “spotty” and “stripey”!

So, how was your weekend?