A letter to my children (1)

So in the Portfolio Challenges at Sweet Shoppe one of the challenge prompts was to go to Baby Love Letters and use one of the Friday Letters to create a scrap page. Now I know some of you might be thinking, "Wait a minute Trish, wrong blog here." No, I've got the right blog. See the letters are supposed to be to your children. And I liked it so much I'm thinking I might continue doing maybe one or so of these a month. I used Letter 93 as my prompt.

It took so much of myself to pull out what I wanted to tell my children. I really advise all of you to check out the Baby Love Letters and write some out to your children. Its more rewarding than the time it takes to pick one and write it.

Snow, snow go away. Don't come back another day.

So, it started snowing and sleeting Thursday night... and has been ever since. Welcome to global warming. I am utterly disgusted. I don't like cold or wet, and I'm getting both. Bleh. I packed up me and the kiddos Thursday morning so that in case the weatherman was right (which he rarely is mind you) we could be snowed in at my mom's and not at home. Its been miserable the whole time. Zach has been sick for a few days, and we were hoping it wasn't anything serious, but he's now got a runny nose, a hacking cough, fever, and is losing his voice. Well, Thursday night he started screaming and crying because he woke up and his ear was hurting so bad. Poor boy is miserably sick, and on top of that, unlike his brother (and mom...) he loves the snow. He's been asking since last winter when would it snow and its killing him that he can't go out in it. But he seems to be feeling worse, but its not like we can get him out to the doctor's, my van is buried under and around snow and ice on top of a steep steep driveway. To make matters worse Bella has started running a fever. Her nose is also running, with the same hacking cough and wheezy breathing. You can literally feel her chest rattling when she breathes. I'm afraid her bronchitis has returned and maybe that's what Zach has too, but again no way to get out. The weather is calling for the weather to stay the same through Saturday and then freezing temperatures Sunday. :::sigh::: Things ain't looking good, stupid freaking snow.
Ryan briefly enjoying the snow:



The views outside:

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My Little Scraps>Friday Fix Time

Go Bella!

My Bellarina has been pulling up in bed to stand for a while, but she has now discovered she can do it outside of bed too! Of course the downside is she doesn't know how to stop standing so she stands and screams until you get her, or she flings herself backwards, thus more screaming. She's also extremely mischeiviously mobile. We've taken to calling her Little Miss Chevious, or Max. (Gotta be a fan of Where the Wild Things Are to get it). Anywho... here are some standing pictures!

Bella's hat.

So I decided to try out knitting and made Bella a hat! The pattern, well it sucked. John says it could just be my fault the hat came out nothing like it said it would since it was my first try at knitting, but just in case its not my fault I'll keep the link to myself. Now this took me a MONTH to do, but then I worked on it in fits of starting and stopping and lots of frustration. Logic tells me I should have started smaller, but come on, when have I ever listened to logic?
So here's 1/2 way through:


And here's done knitting. You will notice its an almost completely flat circle. Its not supposed to look like that, it was supposed to be baby hat shaped.


I decided to improvise and thread two pieces of yarn around the part that was supposed to fold up to create a shape and brim to it.



And Bella, who LOVES hats, enjoying her pretty new hat!

My heart's breaking for my boy.

So, Zach came home from school totally heartbroken today. Apparently, during recess Zach's good friend since school last year told him that he's not only not Zach's friend anymore, nobody else is, and nobody likes him, and that he couldn't play with them. I've been trying to convince him that this isn't true, but Zach just doesn't believe me. Obviously, to him, since this mean little boy told him this, it must be true. I never knew kindergarteners could be so hateful to each other. Especially since he's been friends with this boy for almost two years now. Zach was so happy when this boy got transfered to his class because nobody else from his class last year was in his class this year. Now his heart is broken and he truly believes nobody likes him.

What a scary week and a half.

So the last two months were so incredibly hectic. And I know I got a period in December and that it was some time around Christmas, I just could not for the life of me when and silly me forgot to mark when it started. For the past two weeks I've known I was supposed to be starting soon, but was't sure when. By my calculations it should have come no later than Sunday. So yesterday I actually stood looking at pregnancy tests in the store wondering if I should buy one or live in denial. (Denial was looking most excellent to me.) I mean I've been literally freaking out here. I almost even mentioned it to John.
Thankfully, I finally started so all is right (well - not right since being on it sucks...) in my world again.