Some Semblance of Order

By -
Another week is over! After an EXHAUSTING Saturday spent putting finishing touches on some recent home improvement projects, and then cleaning the house from top to bottom, I can finally say that my house (and my life, by association) does have some semblance of order. It feels good. However, I'm sure I only have a moment to bask in my satisfaction. Lily can take a perfectly clean/orderly space and transform it into chaos in about five seconds flat. She's typically very cute about it, babbling and tottering around the house. However, this doesn't change the fact that she leaves a swathe of destruction wherever she goes. Sometimes I marvel at how different she and Amanda are. Amanda is more thoughtful, more verbal and more concerned about giving the right answers. She's quite often content to be by herself, and she likes things done in a certain way and order. Lily is loud about everything -- whether she has the right answer or not, she's going to let you know about it. She never wants to be alone; if you try to shut her in our out of a room, she immediately dissolves into tears. And they're not I'm-really-mad-that-you're-excluding-me tears. They're I'm-genuinely-hurt-by-the-fact-that-you-don't-want-to-be-with-me tears. She is fiercely independent (i.e. she refuses to let anyone feed her something, even if it's something she really wants to eat. She will throw a red-faced, screaming, crying fit until you hand the spoon over to her and let her do it herself -- which usually results in a huge mess and an immediate bath). To look at the two of them side by side, you'd never guess that they're related. They're just complete opposites in every way. It makes me wonder what this next baby will be like. Speaking of which, I realized today that the day I had planned to go in for my C-section is President's Day (Feb. 18), and I'm doubting that my doctor will be working that day. This is depressing to me! He only does surgeries once a week, so that puts me back on Feb. 25th -- and I'm already the size of a Winnebago. I've got to figure out a way to convince him to do the surgery on President's Day. Or I need to go into early labor. Vacuuming seems to bring on some pretty uncomfortable contractions. Maybe I'll just get up to 37 weeks or so and then go on a vacuuming binge.

Well, this has been utterly random. However, this blog is for me and not really for anybody else's enjoyment (I'm sure that's a consolation to anyone who might, by some miracle, still be reading this). Maybe a little later I'll post some pictures of the finished house projects. Intriguing, I know...

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Longest Update Ever...

By -
Image
It occurs to me that every single one of my blog posts begins with some sort of statement about how long it's been since my last post. Let's all just pretend that it hasn't been nine months since I put anything on here, hmmm? Here's the real deal. For the last six months or so, I've been keeping up a weekly e-mail correspondence with a group of girls I've been friends with forever (the Ward Girls!). In a way, it's sort of taken the place of my blog updates. I save all the e-mails, and it's formed the most consistent journal I've ever kept. Anyway, here's a quick -- make that real quick -- rundown of the last nine months: Amanda's kindergarten graduation. There was a little program before the kids got their "diplomas." It was amusing to watch Amanda during the program; she took it so seriously! I felt like screaming from the audience, "It's okay to smile, sweetie!" Well, she smiled when it was over, anyway......
Read more

Summer is here!

By -
Image
Looks like my blogging has dwindled to one post each quarter. But they're marathon posts, right? So when we left off, I was about to go on a FABULOUS sister trip to Philadelphia, New York and Washington D.C. I made a photo book documenting the trip; I posted it as a separate entry after this one. Take a look and see what you think! If you can't tell from the photos...it was awesome! My sisters and I have decided that we need to meet up in a major city every few years. Next on the list? New Orleans! So that brings us to Easter! The annual Easter party with Logan's family is a big deal: A pinata for Easter? Why not?! The kids thought it was great! Deviled eggs + bacon + chives = YUM. (Isn't everything better with bacon?) Later, we headed to Grammy and Papa's for the traditional egg coloring. This is serious business... For Max, a pinecone is as good as an egg... Sorry for the excessive photos of food, but food is important. And if it's very good food, then...
Read more

How It All Began

By -
Image
Life has been busy around here lately! We've been completely preoccupied with yard projects and the like. I'll post some pictures later (we're not quite done; Logan needs to finish wiring the landscape lights). Anyway, I was talking with some people the other day about courtship stories, etc. I thought I'd share ours for posterity's sake... Logan was born in San Diego but has lived pretty much his whole life in Utah. His very early years were spent in Provo while his dad finished a master's degree at BYU. After that, the family built a house in West Jordan. He enjoyed a pretty typical upbringing (paper routes, bike-riding and scouting -- as you can see). When Logan was 12, his family built a house in Centerville. The stars began to align... Little could Logan have known that only a mile or so away, little Kara Baker was ekeing out her existence. I was born in Vernal but moved to a condo in Centerville at the age of three. Not long after that, my family moved to...
Read more