Laura had a really good idea of posting a massive amount of pictures to get out of a non posting rut. I haven't posted for ages and so much has gone on. Lets see if I can do this.
I'm not sure if I am taking pictures of the tree here or Luke doing a jig.
If Emma keeps this phase up, her laundry bill will be nil. This kid will not keep clothes on for nothin' and If I do make her wear something, just just yanks on it and says "rabbit?" over and over (I say skin the rabbit when I take off the kid's clothes-my mother said it to me when I was little too)
Anyway, I woke up one morning only to find Emma in her usual naked state watching TV on the bear skin.
Okay. I'd do it too if I could get away with it.
This is one of the plates I made all the family groups for Christmas. All I did was buy plain glass plates from the dollar store, lay contact paper over, draw what I wanted on the plate, cut it all out with an exacto knife and apply etching cream. I made one for each family and loaded them up with bread and cookies for Christmas.
My best Christmas present from my mom. He sits above my computer while I work and does his pissy snowball impression. He's just a baby, so he's just learning how to make his noise, but I play YouTube dove videos for him to use as a reference.
This was Sammy, Yaya's original Christmas present from mom and dad. Something went wrong and he died only a couple of days after he came :(
So, we went back to the pet store and there was one dove left. Smoky.
He is a lot friendlier than Sammy in that he loves to be held and since Flynn and him were cage mates in the pet store, they get along well.
Living room
pigtails AND clothes.
I think she can think clearer naked. I know I can.
This was another Christmas project. I appliqué these squares of material.
after buying these do-it-yourself-insulated mug kits
then put them all together.
owl
The turkey mug
And, I don't think I gave a tour of my house yet, so these are presnowfall. The backyard of infinite possibilities.
The bathroom and my awesome giant bathtub.
Emma in the park, her favorite swing.
the kitchen before we were done moving in.
My only gripe is the stairs. they are so steep and at different heights with odd tread.
Just dangerous in general. Emma has taken her share of tumbles, I went down once and Yaya. These stairs suck.
the old house was all gas and this house is electric, so I scored a new washer dryer and stove.
Since I was still using my mom's washer dryer that she got new when I was 7 years old, this is quite a treat.
Yaya and her best friend Shaylen who happens to live only 3 blocks away now.
There.
So thats that. Happy new year.
My resolutions are:
*To lose 100 pounds this year.
*To make a point to be more active. (I have a friend I met in group that only lives a few miles away. We are going to work out together).
*To spend time with friends and be social.
*to focus on the good relationships in my life and stop focusing on the ones that hurt.
That last one is for my in laws. For those of you that have followed my old blog you know all about my in laws and what kind of struggle we have had with them. For the last 2 years we have done our best to distance ourselves from them just for sanity's sake. We would be together when it was necessary and were civil, but we did not make a point to put ourselves in a position to get hurt by them. I did not tell them every aspect of my life, including our 6-year struggle with the legalities of the house(which they GLOATED about when they did find out-and then they wonder why we don't tell them things). If they called and asked how we were, I would answer that we were fine, talked about the kids, the weather etc. They had taken to calling us every month or so and just chewing us out because we were secretive, we ignored them, we didn't answer our phone when they called (how would they know?) we didn't let them see our kids (huh?), we treated Nathan unfairly etc...While we were moving in, we had just gotten our phone going here and were still knee deep in unpacking. Curt's real mom had a heart attack. I had just gotten an email when My mom called and told us we needed to call the in laws immediately. So we did. As soon as we did, we were lectured for 15 minutes about how we did not give them our phone number and they had to travel around their elbow to get to their asshole to get hold of us to tell us anything. All this was said before the delivered the news about Curt's mom, which I had already received via email. Suddenly my email is obsolete after 10 years, my facebook is never open, gtalk is closed, MSN never happened and by the time they finally took a breath to tell us Curt's mom was dying of a heart attack, she could have been dead. It was the last straw and a replay of when Emma was born and they kept calling and hanging up on us in the hospital for the same thing, even though they were the first assholes we called. So we let it all go. Everything. Nathan, Epp's rudeness, perversion, Sandy's overall bitching and juvenile tantrums, we laid it all out there thinking once and for all that if they can say whatever the hell they want to us and we should be fine with it, we can do the same.
Well folks, they were taken aback. They denied everything and we had a "meeting" scheduled to discuss all this. My rules were simple. We would NOT be meeting around their table. If they wanted to talk, we would go somewhere neutral. It was a couple of days later that they called us again and called off the meeting. They said we were being unfair and that they did not want anything to do with any of us until-get this-Curtis straightened ME out. They told Curtis that he was written out of their will (Damn, I was so looking forward to that lawn mower), and he was taken off as their medical power of attorney (it was a good thing, I would have no problems pulling the plug-I'm sure curt feels the same).
So, their other son robs them and ransacks their house, lies constantly, is a pedophile and he was invited for Christmas (after we were told they would be working). We, after 15 years of being put down, picked on, called names and questioned and probed about things that we had no obligation to share, we stand up for ourselves, state nothing but the facts and we are disowned. Our children are disowned. Generations of people are removed from a family unit because we basically said, "oh, would you shut the hell up."
Can I just say that this was the most peaceful and enjoyable stress-free holiday season I have had in YEARS? I hope it lasts!
As for Curt, we have talked about this a lot and his dad only just came into his life a year or 2 before I did. Before then, Curt had no contact since he was 5. So what I saw in his father was the same as what he saw. The step mom was just added fuel. As far as he's concerned, he is happy having 1 mom and his father can crawl back into the woodwork that he was hiding in 20 years prior. Should we meet in the future, we will be civil, but as far as we are concerned, we have nothing to apologize for. It's their turn and calling of the meeting just proves to me that they are too stubborn to say they are sorry. I really feel sorry for them. Their grandchildren are adorable and are growing fast.
I really have to start work. this post took longer than I thought. But, at least now my no-post funk is over and i can start again.
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