Blog Backlog

It's hard to blog when there's little piglets clamoring around my ankles all day long.  The older ones are especially difficult to distract with a little Sesame Street, my go-to, get-it-done hour of freedom.  Thus is life.  It's Day #3 of summer and we've already made the trek to Grandma's house 3 times.  Today we're picking up our summer reading books from library, so that should aid in the boredom fighting.  Factor into all of this a sick Honey.  He got the cold.  Did I mention how?  After days of keeping the children away from him, Miss A was playing with him after getting the green light on playing and the red light on kissing.  But she thought letting Honey suck on her snotty nose was an okay thing.  He was sick 3 days later.  Poor little guy.  He gets colds like a man.

To get over this backlog blogging hump I'm going to employ the list:

:: Made the most delicious ice cream: Toasted Almond Caramel Ice Cream.  Took the Caramel Ice Cream recipe from here and tweaked it a bit.  Next time I'm going to just make Toasted Almond, my current fav.  Adding in the caramel taste was a bit much.  But still bowl-lickin' good.

:: Sent off some v. cute burp cloths (if I do say so myself) to 2 new nephews (one in, one out).   Funny thing.  I've made plenty of lovely cloths for other people, but Honey never got his own set.  I guess that's what happens when your #4.

 

:: After a very rough, rough month in the PICU, DH and I literally danced for joy Sunday night that he was done, done, DONE!  No more PICU, ever.  Then he got a call at 9:30.  He needed to  be in the PICU Monday to cover for another resident.  Bu-mmer.  Life fraught with irony, isn't it? 

:: Honey is not nursing well lately.  It's so frustrating.  He'll nurse for 1 minute, then stop and use all of his energy to twist away and stare at the door of the nursery.  These are uncharted waters for me.  Do I just go with the flow and let him starve?

:: 25 days until we move.  I don't even know where to begin.

:: Miss A doing her homework this morning: "Mom, what's an Encloyclopedia?"  Me: "It's like Google.  It has all the answers in it."  That made perfect sense to her.

:: I spent one glorious afternoon in the company of some old friends.  They were in town for their yearly get together and I was invited to come say hi.  It was wonderful.  After years of not seeing these ladies, I was nervous like a first date.  I was a complete clown.  But it was easy to catch up and pick up like old times.  Thanks for inviting me along girls!

:: We're set to go camping this weekend in Yosemite.  I am TERRIFIED.  Not of bears.  Or bugs.  Or dirt.  But of Baby Honey.  This could be bad.  V. bad.  Hopefully I'm overreacting.