Sep 23
Everyone,
I typically don’t have anything (or any time) to post in the mornings. But today Juice took Butterfly to school for me (yay!) and so I have a few extra moments. I thought I’d share them with you! And in list form! Because that’s how I’m thinking lately.
1. Soot the puppy has become quite the dangerous animal to small rodents! She now has killed 2 rats, 2 mice, and one baby rabbit. On rat and baby rabbit in the past week. The baby rabbit was last night. She spent hours digging on our deck and barking. Juice came home (late) and pulled up the deck boards to see what was under there. We thought it was another rat. Soot pounced, killed and backed away. Juice picked it up to throw it out and discovered it was a baby bunny. And then we were sad! Interesting how happy we were when we thought it was a rat but sad when it was a bunny. She went right to the other side of the deck and has been out there all evening and morning barking and digging. Also, slobbering all over the deck. This time, we’re not pulling the boards up though!
2. Interested in winning a cool prize? Amy over at The Finer Things of Life has a really awesome cutter/crafter thing on sale. I REALLY want to win this…not sure why though. Maybe because I can use it to make vinyl letters and I want to put something on my wall. Also, it would be nice for scrap booking! So go and enter. If you win, I need to borrow it for at least…a year. Thanks!
3. Juice picked Butterfly up from school on Monday (while I was taking my parents to the airport) and she told him a story about school. I guess they were lining up to go inside from recess. She heard a boy tell another boy that she looked really pretty that day. Wow was she happy about that! And oh boy…
4. The winner of the Mastermind Tower game is: varunner7 from
Congrats! Email me your information by Saturday at safirecat at gmail dot com so I can send you the game!
Safire
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Sep 20
Everyone,
Shopping: This morning, after Butterfly said good bye to her grandparents and was shipped off to school, the rest of us went shopping! We also went out to breakfast. And the toy store (just to browse…all I bought was a new child lock to replace the one that broke.) And to the mall. Did you know that Christmas is less than 100 days away? Consider this a reminder.
Shrieking: Coming home from the shopping, we discovered vermin in our house. Again! Except this time it wasn’t a little field mouse like that last two times we’ve had mice. This was a rat. A RAT. In MY house. It was a young rat. And still fairly small. But A RAT! In MY house!
Lucky for us, Soot the doggie thinks that taking care of this for me is her ultimate job in life. I don’t argue with it. EVER. She made short work of the rat. Lucky for me, Grandpa was still here and took it outside to the garbage can. Ugh, a RAT!
(Side note, I know our neighborhood has rats. People just don’t clean up well here and leave piles of stuff all over. That brings rats, and rats breed more rats, etc. I’ve seen them walking around the neighborhood a lot bigger than the one Soot just killed. [This is her second rat.] I was hoping we vermin proofed our house a ton last time. Obviously not.)
Because of this rat, Juice actually cleaned out under our stairs. Talk about a pile of stuff! We found droppings all around the water heater so that’s where it got in. Now how to seal it off…
Sending: My parents went home today. I miss having them around. They make good company. Also, they can be quite handy. (See above.)
Suceess: We have a winner of my birthday giveaway! Congrats to my friend Valinda who was VERY enthusiastic of her promotion of my picture. And even though I didn’t win (boo hoo), Valinda won $45 to spend at CSN for her, and her alone. Happy spending Valinda! Check your email!
Safire
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Apr 12
Everyone,
Hey, remember when I started writing all these entries about a company called SEED? I was hoping to win a sponsorship for them for my trip to NYC in August.
Not only did I write the entries about SEED, I did a cool picture story with my Mom’s help and fun old pictures of my family. (Hi Nana!)
And then I did that funny video (a vlog) with Lolli in her shower. We laughed SO hard during the making of it. Totally worth it just to get together with a friend and be silly.
Guess what?! It WON! Both Lolli and I each got a sponsorship which is totally amazing. This company is taking good care of us and I am really grateful.
Other winning entries:
Emily from Wish Wait Hope Pray for her Whrrl Story
Cathy from Let’s Be Green Together for her Blog Entry
Honorable Mention: awarded to Andrea of LilKidThings for her Whrrl Stories
I am super excited to go to NYC in August and have a girls weekend with Lolli. This weekend is my 30th birthday present from Juice. He is (warily) taking care of the kids (with Flower’s help, since she should be here!) and letting me go be a person for 4 whole days. I’ll get to meet all these amazing bloggers and this amazing company.
I am SOO excited!
Safire
PS- Do you know what else I won?! A year’s worth of web hosting from Twenty 70 Hosting. I must be lucky!
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Aug 15
Everyone,
Out of 9 entries for my lovely little giveaway, #4 popped up in random.org. And who is #4? My friend the Flower Maiden! Congrats! Do I have your correct address? I think I do. Have fun picking out your birdhouse and let me know what you pick!
I hope to have some time to update my blog with our big last week with Flower. I can’t believe a whole month has gone by and she is flying home on Tuesday. Sigh…we are all going to miss her when she goes home. School-smool…who needs school right?! (Just kidding Flower’s Mom…I know you are excited to see her and she is excited to see you. But seriously, we love her and hope she had a great time with us.)
I’ve got over 100 pictures to go through so I’m off! Congrats again!
Safire
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Feb 14
Everyone,
Today was my regular visit with my perinatologist. Dr. SA was out of town today so I saw another doctor in the practice. Dr. Other we’ll call him. He was nice, but I missed Dr. SA. I sat for almost an hour in the waiting room waiting for my appointment. I don’t like that. I think that if I’m going to do my best to be on time, they should as well. Maybe they had an emergency or something. Either way, by the time I got back in the exam room, I was tired and ready to go home.
But, first things first. They checked my cervix and all is well. No signs of preterm labor there! Yay! It’s always my biggest fear that things are changing and I don’t know it. Not to worry, I’m doing “exceptionally well”.
Baby A is breech with his little feet tucked under his cute tushie. It’s called complete breech. No wonder I feel his kicks all over my lower abdomen. He is on my left side, facing his brother today. Baby B is also breech. But he is in position called frank breech because he is folded in half. It’s really interesting to see the ultrasound of his head, and then his feet like rabbit ears on top of his skull.
Dr. Other said at this point, if I were to go into labor it would be a c-section. However, I still have time and I guess babies tend to turn on their own (or so I’ve been reading while trying to find pictures of breech positions. You can google it as well as I can.) and sometimes turn as late as 36 weeks. Now, it’s a little different with twins, but we shall see.
The heart arrhythmia is gone, so that is good. Baby A is 2 lbs, 7 oz and Baby B is 2 lbs 12 oz. That’s a big difference. An 18% difference. Now, he’s not too worried about it, but it’s worth watching. He said that typically he does see Baby B being bigger because there is more room at the top of the uterus than there is below. Baby A is growing fine. The only time they would be worried about it is if Baby A stops growing or there’s a bigger than 25% difference. He said he really only sees Baby B being smaller if Baby B is a girl. And since we are having boys, Baby B gets to be a tank (his word, not mine).
Fluid looks good, hearts are steady and healthy, and Baby A had the hiccups again. They both kept putting their hands in front of their faces when we tried to look at them. But they were hard to see anyway since they are facing each other. I can just see them plotting to do something mischievous.
Having boys is going to be so much fun! Right? Right?!
Safire
PS- I won a print from Illustrator Mommy! It’s an 8×10 of the Mayflower. And since we are doing the boys’ nursery in sail boats, this will be perfect!! I’m so excited!
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