Kapachino

I discovered something awesome: putting Meredith in front of Photobooth. I had it on the chipmunk setting. I guess it has facial recognition, and it’s like it registered Meredith’s face, noted her already huge cheeks, and decided it didn’t need to alter them. Me: chipmunk. Her: skeptical, not a chipmunk. Oh look, one of her cheeks is a little bit puffed… She’s over it. This isn’t working. Oh wait. THERE we go. 0 Like

It’s national infertility awareness week, and before it passes by I felt like acknowledging it because although I am a mother now, I come from a place of infertility. I have PCOS, and although ours is not a particularly long story, we did undergo two years of waiting, an unknown future, one horrific miscarriage, many different tests and medications, and in the middle of it all my husband had both of his hips replaced. At the end of the two years I found myself in the therapist’s office struggling with depression that I didn’t want to let out of control. Once you deal with infertility, in any form, you are changed. In some ways it scarred me. I still carry…
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1. This post is going to be random so I figured the title could be too. I’m sitting on the floor with Meredith playing around me, and she put her hands on the keyboard and that weird smiley came up. I’m rolling with it. 2. I’m home sick today. It’s weird though. The past two nights I’ve had fever, and it makes me feel terrible – aches, chills, lethargy, etc. But it’s gone by morning so I go to work. Well last night it was worse so I figured I’d get checked out. The only other symptoms I can possibly think of is the mild congestion I’ve had for a month, and an intermittent headache that’s more like pressure. I’m…
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I keep a fairly extensive universal wish list on Amazon. Anything I see or think of that I want I add to the list, and then periodically I’ll go through it to see if my desires or needs have changed, and I’ll do some deleting. This process works really well to help me save money and buy less stuff that I don’t need. Plus it’s kind of fun – like online shopping without actually spending money. But…it’s not exactly like shopping, because I don’t get the stuff. And we’re on a tight budget these days, so lately my wish list has been growing. If we had the funds, here are some things I would be buying right away. 1. Adobe…
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She: >Went from zero to crawling in about three days, and now she’s all over the place. I’m fast figuring out what needs to be babyproofed: she will go directly for cords and electrical outlets, but so far hasn’t shown any interest in opening cabinets. >Enjoys pulling things out, like books off the shelves, chip bags out of the pantry, and toys out of a basket. It keeps her occupied for a good while until she’s surrounded by a mound of stuff and gets stuck. >Loves to be outside, and it will almost always calm her down or distract her. But we have to watch her closely because she has already had a choking incident involving a piece of grass….
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