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Love in a time of exhaustion

October 11, 2010 Written by Lisa

(with all due apologies to Gabriel García Márquez)

Dear Snarkypeeps,

Well, Duty and I made it through the weekend and came out the other side alive. The boys made it through as well – also alive. Wanna know what I learned?

Lessons from a weekend full of love, spit up, and trains:

1. One smile from the Godson of Love can make up for hours of exhaustion. To see him get all excited about whatever food thing is about to enter his mouth is probably the cutest thing ever. (I love him.)

2. It’s entirely possible for a three year old to teach a fifty year old how to play. It warmed my heart to see Luke and Duty bond so well together. (Luke can’t yet pronounce “Uncle Bill” so it comes out as “O’Bill” and it’s beyond adorable.)

3. The Universe loves practical jokes so don’t go blabbing that you’ll have it much easier with a six month old than Duty will with a three year old. He got to sleep through the night, get online and take a nap. I did none of that.

4. How do people manage to do this whole parenting thing? I know it gets easier as they gain independence but I feel like I should go on a speaking tour touting teen abstinence. (Move over, Bristol Palin!) It’s hard, hard work. (Have I mentioned how hard it is?) Cats are clearly my speed. The Universe knew that and as always, I bow to its wisdom.

But you know what? I’d do it again in a heartbeat. They are the sweetest, most loving boys and Cousin O’Cool and husband have done a wonderful job with them. Luke is so thoughtful – I asked for a hug as he was heading to play trains. He said “I’m too busy now.” and ran off. Five minutes later, he came out and said “I’m not busy anymore, Aunt Weeha.” and gave me a HUGE hug. (Melt)

Wisely, I took off work today so now it’s back to sleep for me. Ah! Blissful sleep. (Must admit that I miss Pete’s round little eyes staring at me first thing in the morning, though. That, my friends, is bliss.)

Signed,
Happy to be home but so glad for the experience

Blah blah blah, Happy Stuff, Pretty Sure Ive gone insane
Godson of Love, I did stuff!, Universe

Fireman Pete

October 3, 2010 Written by Lisa

Do I love this kid or what? Can you believe he’s six months old already? Time sure flies, don’t it? Gosh, I so cannot wait to be barfed on next weekend! heheh (I actually am excited about 2 1/2 days of full time babyholding! The barf thing is just a bonus, of course!)

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I am so so so so happy to be home!! Oh my God. I am beyond ecstatic. My own bed. My own cats. My own coffee!! And rooms that separate me and Duty. Ah! Bliss! Mama needs her alone time, you know? I cannot be in anyone’s energy that much. No matter who they are or how much I love them. (Lauren really was the only exception to that rule. Loved being with her.)

Back to work tomorrow for just four days and then adventures in kiddie land on Friday. I am taking one day off after that adventure to recuperate. I think I’ll need it.

Blah blah blah, Happy Stuff
Goddaughter of Love, Godson of Love

Alive – mostly

July 6, 2010 Written by Lisa

Hello FOUR readers (waves to Niece of Artsy-Fartsy who informed me of her diligent readership),

Just in time to go back to work, I am kicking this cold (finally). It takes a lot of work for me to even remotely stay in my damn body and being sick doesn’t help at all. Last night, though, I had the best night’s sleep in almost a week so I think we are good to go now.

J4 was nice even though I took a powder in the middle of it. I went upstairs to pet the kitties (who stayed out of the way of a 3 year old running around the table saying “Meow, meow” at them) and totally dozed off on the bed. I didn’t sleep long -maybe 30 minutes – but missed Cousin O’Love and family’s exit from the party. I think they left in a stealth fashion, if you ask me. heh Everyone else seemed to have fun, from what I can tell. It KILLED me not to hold PB (or, as they call him P. Diddy) and I tried to stay somewhat away from him. (Sobs into pillow)

I have never, ever been one to be uber-patriotic, despite my interest in politics. Just not. I have a funky issue with the need to be “the best country ever ever ever” – why can’t we just be the best America and respect the contributions of other countries as well? Why must we be the “superpower”? Hell, we can’t even take care of our own citizens and our health care system is, what? 34th in the world? That’s sad, y’all. Just sad. Maybe it’s the non-competitor in me but that whole” MUST be the best” rubs me the wrong way. I don’t care about fireworks, flag waving or anything else like that.

Well, it’s back to work for me. I got the written report of my chat with Kelly & Dave so there’s lots of meaty stuff to dig into over at PI plus must do drawing for the winner of the reading for joining my newsletter. Speaking of which, I best get on that, yo. OY! So much to do. I love it. heh

Happy Tuesday – it’s gonna be near 100 degrees today and tomorrow with no rain in sight. Summer is well and truly here.

Much love and cookies,
Snarkela

Blah blah blah
Down with the sickness, entertaining sucks, Godson of Love, sekrit boyfriend, work

Saturday List time

June 19, 2010 Written by Lisa

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Oh, hello kids! I think I’ve been a neglectful blogger of late and so we must remedy that posthaste! I know you’re waiting on a list of just what’s been the haps around here and I shan’t let you down.

Here we go:

1. Today, after getting my bi-weekly manicure, I will be heading to the world of the “boz-man” aka Peterbella to play and hold and do all manner of fun stuff with Cousin O’gives me babies I can adore. hehe

2. Well pump is fixed and only (!) cost $700 instead of the $5000 we thought we’d have to shell out for a new well pump. That’s a big ass win in my books. Plus, water! We haz it.

3. Dude who’s been ignoring me at work? Still at it. However, *I* have completely stepped into my power and it no longer bothers me. I do wonder what’s up but since I’ve yet to find out, clearly it’s not mine to know. So, I released it.

4, Practically Intuitive is taking off splendidly and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve spent my days at work surfing sites and leaving comments on like-minded blogs and that’s been a wonderful way to meet new people. I spend the other part of the day learning all about “Search Engine Optimization” and how to get your blog out and noticed. There’s a wealth of information on that and lots of people to help so I’m taking what’s there and running with it. Kelly Diels and her partner have a cool service where they review your blog and give you tons and tons of ways to make it better, get it out there, etc. (Called League of Extraordinary Bloggers) They are raising their rates but I got in there under the wire for the old fee which was half of what their new fee is now. I’m excited to learn and grow and get better with this project. (Latest entry: Adventures of an Intuitive)

5. I added E-coaching as a service and already have one sign-up for it and one more who wants to think of what she will focus on and then commit. Wheee! I’m excited by that and the idea came after sifting through blogs and looking at what others are offering. It was a Mommy-blog that had the E-Coaching and I took that and came up with a version for my site. We’ll see how it plays out. I need to sit with my Guides and plot out a process as a basic structure. It just feels like this whole thing burst wide open and that tickles me. Also, I’m learning how to write in a less stream-of-consciousness way than I do here because, you know, people visit the site to learn something and I doubt they’ll care about my sekrit boyfriends or why my cousin hates me. heheh But that’s great because it stretches me as a writer. And you know me: all about the learning and growing.

So, PI has been the big focus this week. It’s been a productive one, that’s for sure. YEY me!

Blah blah blah, Happy Stuff
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Introducing the Godson of Love

April 4, 2010 Written by Lisa

Born yesterday (April 3) and officially named Peter(bella) and weighing in at a healthy 8lbs 11oz – same as his big brother Luke. In fact, he’s the spitting image of Luke when he was born. Is he not the most precious thing?

Mom, Dad, Luke and baby Peter are doing just fine and I got a lot of baby-holding in today. As the Godmother, I get all kinds of privileges and stealing the baby away is one of them. (For a limited time, anyway.) Those of us not involved with baby-having met for Easter buffet this morning and then we all went over to greet our newest family member. Hope he knows what he got himself into!

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