babies, dragon boats and water heaters

how can so much happen in such a short period of time?

well for us that is. we are homebodies at heart and although we are productive we are not the jet set types. (i love to call our new neighbors the jet setters- they are wonderful busy over acheiver types that make me feel like i am moving in slow motion).

the second time mom i was waiting on had her baby friday night it was a quick birth which balanced out the long birth from last week. i had a strong feeling that this would be a quick one. all went beautiful with a 10lb 12oz bouncing baby boy in the end. she was amazing to watch. and her partner was wonderful too. it happened smack dab in the middle of the night. first call at 12:30am, called out at 1:30am baby born by 3:30 am home by 6:30 am and making pancakes for the kids by 8:30 am.

big daddy had school that day so i trucked the kids to a2 for the red tent event which was fun. the kids entertained themselves with crafts, food, and puppet shows. i talked to some great ladies and got invited to a retreat at the beginning of november to scope out an organization i have been asked to be on the board of. i am planning on joining the board but i love retreats with ropes courses and fun as hell women to boot.

after that we went to the fallapalooza in depot town. it was fun. we stopped by the five and dime to get a magnet claendar so the monkey can start learning the months and days. i have wanted one for a few years but have been to cheap to buy one. i splurged. it helps that i found out i will be getting paid to teach this fall. i was not counting on that. yay! we are still waiting on the retro pell grant check but that is another post.

saturday night i took big daddy on a date to see the movie "birth as business"- yes that was a date ;) i wrote about it in the last post so i will not detail about it. but it did open some really nice conversation between big daddy and i about our birth experiences. it was good.

sunday i had a massage at 9am that i forgot to cancel. i was really tired at that point. the day after effect. the kids and i went to serviec at 11:30am there is a new guy who i love. very inspirational talked about anti religous/spiritual extremeism. very fitting for where my head was. talking about inclucivity and the like. the bean loved it. her first time in the preschool room.

then we went to the dragon boat festival . the bean was tired. it was interesting but they started closing down about two hours before advertised. we waited in line for face paining for 1/2 hour for them to tell us they were shutting down. so we stopped off at the haloween store to get face paints that we did today.

AND last but not least late last night the water heater pooped out. and tomorrow and $700 later we will have hot water again. yay! ha.

off to eat.... good day.