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This is one of my favorite breastfeeding pictures. I get so much other stuff done while breastfeeding - out of necessity of course! Here I am putting on some make up for a dinner out.

I’ve been breastfeeding for 6 plus years. 2 years for boy2001, 18 months for girl2004, going strong for girl2006!!

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We’ve been sitting by the pool all day, I’m really trying to tan my legs, they are so pale next to my tan arms, I cannot stand that! The pool was a lot of fun, this is what summer memories are made of!

I also went to Walmart real quick to do some grocery shopping. I just got some basics but also made a little splurge. Here’s what I got…

star shaped foil cupcake forms
blue crystals
decorative colorful gumdrops
multi-colored sprinkles
chocolate and vanilla icing

We baked up the cupcakes and the kids set to work “decorating” to their hearts content! I’ve been promising them we would do this, I’ve been worrying that they would get sick with all those dyes and sugars but when I let them have one, boy2001 took all that stuff off - whew!!

I’m so glad to be home, everything went amazingly well… the hardest part was getting there, but I was only 2 hours late and the trip back was flawless, although the 25 minute layover seemed tight - it worked!! don’t you love when that happens?

Many bloghers are probably on their way home right now, the time was perfect for my husband and kids that were just starting to wonder how much longer I would be gone. The one I thought would have the most trouble with me gone, girl2006, did fine! I started breast feeding again and seem to still have a lot of milk - whew… I was a little scared I’d dry up… ok, I’ll admit I was secretly hoping, it’s been 6+ years of nearly constant breastfeeding. I know I’m going to miss having a baby to feed but it’s time to take my body back soon… I’m shooting for January time but we will see what girl2006 thinks about that.

ok, this is mommy specific and in particular breastfeeding mommy interest… it’s been 18 hours since I breast fed and I just started spotting after almost 7 years without a period. I’m guessing that’s a healthy thing to excrete all that but it’s not exactly good timing while I’m at this blogher conference… I still fell my milk coming in so I know I’m still producing… does anyone have any experience with this? TIA

isn’t it annoying to have someone yawn and make you feel all tired? normally I’m on the receiving end of this annoying behavior with my husband. He is up by 5 most mornings and goes to bed late watching movies with me. I have to admit that now I really know yawning is totally involuntary. After all the sessions today I am exhausted and couldn’t hold back this yawn just now… I think I really p.o’d the lady next to me off but oh well, c’est la vie ** it you don’t know that means “that’s life” she’ll get over hopefully some day. maybe she can start a twelve step program about getting over a yawning incident. maybe not, maybe she can look over and see that I’m blogging about her and go crazy or something, or maybe not, maybe she could care less that *I’m* blogging about her, I dunno, just one of those things I guess.

I cannot stand it! The conference is chock full of great information but I am DYING to get home to my kids!! I guess it’s all too much for me… I thought I needed to get away but three days is a big leap!! why didn’t someone stop me!

The thing to concentrate on now is enjoying the time remaining. by tomorrow night I will be in full swing packing all the freebies for the kiddies _ note pads and those huge pens from pay per post are going to be the highlight gifts for my kids - thanks pay per post.

There was a really good session today about the blogosphere and particularly about mommies. Even though I’ll always be a mommy there seems to be a limited time frame for blogging about kids. I’m really interested in blogs written by children, I’m not sure there are any out there, but boy2001 was asking me about starting something for him to express himself. He really enjoys it, maybe a podcast? hmmm… I’ve seen podcast things for children by adults, but not kid generated content. Maybe it’s the next big thing.

…and NO I’m not pregnant!! I am having such bad cravings for eclairs… really the cravings are for strawberry tarts, but since I can’t get that here, I will have to settle for Walmart’s bakery selection. Their eclairs are not bad there, so I will hope that my dear husband actually brings me some.

Why do I have such a big appetite? I don’t know, I never used to eat this much, actually I really did eat a lot but I lived in NYC and walked everywhere! I would cross over the bridge on foot and walk all over Manhattan probably 3 times a week in the spring and summer. In the winter I enjoyed walking from one of our homes in Ditmars all the way to 36th avenue. Many of you know that is a good 1 hour walk, speed walking was my specialty, I didn’t realize all the calories I was burning. I would walk all day and not think anything of it. I wish I had the time to walk like that again, where I live now they don’t even have sidewalks which is really ashame. It would be so nice to go for a walk but without sidewalks it doesn’t feel inviting.

There’s always talk of adding sidewalks, hopefully it will really happen.

These are just some pictures I have sitting on my computer, this first one features baby bear who you’ll meet in our video for weddingwebsites.com

This is just boy2001 riding his bike around, his favorite past time.


just a pretty flower…

I’m not really a morning person, but I’m not a grumpy morning person either. My husband on the other hand is a VERY grumpy morning person. It takes him 2-3 hours to get his moody, day attitude going. If you catch him in the morning he is very disagreable! I feel sorry for the people he works with some times… he says he’s always been like that so I wonder…

My 3 children are usually nice when they wake up in the morning, they want to cuddle and get hugs and happy, laughing/talking. Come in with pencil and paper or a book. I’m thinking most kids are optimists and are happy in the morning, they want to know where they’re going, what they’re going to be doing… right?

I wonder at what point they’ll lose their enthusiasm to sieze the day. Is it a learned behavior or just because they will no longer enjoy the things they’ll have to do? I hope they continue to be morning people and wake up ready to face the day so I guess I need to do some research on this topic.

whatever happenned to the runaway bride? remember that whole fiasco with her not wanting to get married and running away? then the bizarre scene of her with the police escorts?! whatever happenned to her, she just slinked back into her life I guess… I wonder if they ever got married?