Meet my new "sister" Georgie - she is my mom's pup... arrived today - 8 weeks old! TOO cute for words - very rambunctious and playful. Mom will have her hands full with this one! Jury is still out on us getting her sister, but I am hoping we will!! 

The mind is a terrible thing to waste... or have waste away!

They tell you when you are expecting that your brain will likely not work as it did prior to getting pregnant. They tell you this with the tone of voice that leads you to believe that once said infant is born, all neuronal pathways will once again lead to Rome and you will return to your former, highly functioning self.

They lie.

And, it seems to only get worse and worse with each successive child. By the time this one heads off to Kindergarten, I may be reduced to a drooling lump in the corner. My own ineptitude is really beginning to piss me off! Parker's birthday party is coming up on July 8th. I have the invitations printed and ready to mail. I got the list from his Kindy teacher with all the names and addresses, including parents names and phone numbers. I can see the sheet of paper the teacher wrote all this valuable information on clear as I can see my hand, and yet - I cannot find it. I have searched high and low, in pockets, purses, drawers, cabinets, piles, garbage cans, etc and have come up with squat! I wanted to mail these invitations as I did not want to invite the ENTIRE class, as would be required by leaving them in the kid's cubbies, and seeing how Parker is not actually attending camp at his old school as are most of the kids from Kindy, getting said invitations to the students is that much more challenging. Crap.

I also cannot make up my mind lately. From the very simple, such as what do I want to eat for breakfast, to the more complex, such as timing the arrival of a new puppy into our midst, I find myself deferring to Steve, or taking the path of least resistance.

At the top of this blog rests my main quandry right now - these little balls of fluff. See, we plan to add a total of 6 feet to our family ths year - four furry ones and two that pitter pat. We could have one as soon as July 10th, or wait until October. I cannot decide what I want to do - if it makes more sense to bring one in now when I am home, before the baby, or wait until after. I go back to work in October, so that's a downer, but I cannot go up and down the stairs now, so that's another downer.

UGH. Crap... Someone else make the decisions for me... I'm clearly incapable!

33 weeks pregnant... only 7 weeks left We see the doc again tomorrow, so hopefully things will still be going well. I swear, I was not this big with Matthew at 40 weeks!! EGADS!

Matthew, who clearly enjoyed a summertime treat - my famous creation Banana Split Milkshakes!

General Ramblings...

Well, at least for now the wicked heat has "broken" and it was only about 104 yesterday. The fact that I can use "ONLY" followed by "104" should tell you that I've just about nearly lost what little mind I had left!

The latest in my quest to see how many places can empty my wallet in less than a nanosecond, I took my car in for service yesterday. This makes the 5th or 6th time the car has been in for service of one kind or another in the last 2 months! Here's the chronology...

May 4th, bust tire going to work. Buy new tire...
May 9th, take car in for service. Said brakes and battery would need attention soon.
May 16th, battery in car dies on way to work. Buy new battery (covered under last batteries warrenty, luckily!)
May 18th, Check Engine light begins to flash. Call Honda, find out that is supposed to come on at 50K miles, they forgot to turn it off.
May 25th, begin to notice car not shifting gears correctly. It feels like my first car did when I was learning how to drive a stick and would pop the clutch too soon... Also brakes are squealing loudly!!!
June 10th, Service Engine Soon light comes on.
June 25th, take car in for service, again! Diagnosis?? My poor car needs new front brakes, new engine block mounts (three of the four are cracked!) and a NEW TRANSMISSION!!

The good news in all of this is that Honda has an extended warrenty to 100K for transmissions, so mine is covered. However, I won't be able to get my car back until Wednesday!! In fact, Steve just called from my parents' house asking for me to bring this and that over to him. I had to remind him that HE had the car, and the boys and I are stranded...

On the upside, Dad is doing well lately. He is still confined to the wheel chair, and probably will not get out of it... but, he has had NO pain at all for about the last week! Its been I think 8 days since he has taken a pain pill at all - so for that we are all really grateful!