http://therriault.blogdrive.com/ Working on a Full House Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:05:03 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2006. Family & Home Parenting http://therriault.blogdrive.com/archive/353.html Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:02:18 GMT We moved into our own place....so I decided it was time for the fmaily blog to move into it's own domain. Come on over to our new home @ Working On A Full House. Update your links and bookmarks since we will no longer be updating the blog here at blogdrive. http://therriault.blogdrive.com/comments?id=353 http://therriault.blogdrive.com/archive/352.html Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:48:16 GMT OK, I promise...this will be the last post for today. ;-) There's been many requests for pictures of the house but I've been wary to post any, since I'm still battling the sea of boxes. Wynter's room is the only room that's completely unpacked and "purdy" looking...well, when it's cleaned up, like today. I pick up her room and change the bed once a week...lucky, today was the day! Here are the pictures I took. Of course, Wynter and the cat had to be in on the show... Looking in from the door Looking from the door again The View from the Bed W's Bed You may be wondering... (more) http://therriault.blogdrive.com/comments?id=352 http://therriault.blogdrive.com/archive/351.html Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:19:48 GMT Fix one thing and something else breaks. When we moved in, we noticed that it seemed someone had backed into the water pipes outside the back door that services the outside spigots (and may even be the main feed into the house! OUCH!). We were hoping that the small leak would keep to a small leak for atleast another month. Just as the handyman was packing up his things this afternoon, I noticed a SPRAY of water coming out of there. Not a good sign. Chris The Handyman will be returning on Tuesday to fix it. We've re-juryrigged it with a bungie cord and a bucket (to catch any leaking... (more) http://therriault.blogdrive.com/comments?id=351 http://therriault.blogdrive.com/archive/350.html Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:35:15 GMT 25 minutes until the handyman arrives to beat up on my electrical system so I thought, while I sucked down a cup of java (or two), I'd blog. Be patient with me if I ramble...the caffiene hasn't hit yet. Had a good time last night at the A's game. Oakland A's vs the Chicago White Soxs. The A's cleaned house, just so you know how it ended. There was much screaming and yelling, though we still found ourselves laughing at the silly cap races that they do on the big screen TV to keep the drunken mob happy while the other team takes the field. I made it through the game just fine, thanks to... (more) http://therriault.blogdrive.com/comments?id=350 http://therriault.blogdrive.com/archive/349.html Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:02:08 GMT I'm somewhere between crawling into bed for sleep, finding food or tackling this pile of boxes in the office filled with misc stuff. Where to put it? Who knows. And with the quality of sleep I got last night, I couldn't care less. The new house is minus something very important: storage. There are no huge linen closets in each bathroom, as we had in the last rental, or any sort of "linen closet" to speak of in any part of this house. So, where do I put the sheets? Um...towel storage??? I swear, whoever designed this place was a man.... Had a hard night last night, cummulating in a 4... (more) http://therriault.blogdrive.com/comments?id=349 http://therriault.blogdrive.com/archive/347.html Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:04:20 GMT It looks like the Keller's "girl" curse*** has been broken. The ultrasound technician this morning firmly stated, "Boy." And we have pictures...though I'm not really big on posting in-utero porno so if you want to see, email me. ;-) Of course, no ultrasound session is easy for me. As she chased him around the womb, I had flashbacks of all of the ultrasound sessions I had when pregnant with Wynter. He's as wirey and picky as she was. The tech would almost get the shot perfect for the measurement she had to take and he'd squirm away. Halfway through, she said, "This is one of the more... (more) http://therriault.blogdrive.com/comments?id=347 http://therriault.blogdrive.com/archive/346.html Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:24:51 GMT TKv2 has been very active lately, turning, twisting and smacking the **** out of me. Usually, it's the rolling thump thump thump but periodically, there's a good smack that will make me jump. Once again, the favorite target: Cervix. All of my recent activity seems to lull this one to sleep. But when I stop, he/she thinks it's time for him/her to be active. Many a sleepless night have I spent, laying in bed, trying to go to sleep but am kept awake by the beating of little legs and arms. It goes on for about 15 minutes before he/she quiets back down again and I can find a comfy position... (more) http://therriault.blogdrive.com/comments?id=346 http://therriault.blogdrive.com/archive/345.html Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:35:55 GMT Wynter's started the "Terrible Two's" stage a bit early. The tantrums, the whining, the destroying of things....ah, what fun. I returned from running errands with her on Friday morning, cursing, "I will never again run errands with that girl alone." She started out happy at Lowes, all giggles and smiles, and slowly downgraded into growling, whining, tantruming she-devil within 1 hour. She threw an all out tantrum at the store after Lowes, making me pack it up early, take her home and put her down for a nap. We ended up running the rest of the errands that weekend. She was still... (more) http://therriault.blogdrive.com/comments?id=345 http://therriault.blogdrive.com/archive/344.html Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:13:49 GMT Yesterday, I turned the ripe old age of 29. I felt every year of those 29 years yesterday....or atleast the last 5 months of pregnancy. Even though it was my birthday, I ended up doing some light yard work (I couldn't stand how the side yard was looking with all of the leaves from the stupid orange trees all over), cleaned out the car, found the washer and dryer in the cluttered laundry room, ran a couple errands and sewed the curtains for the bedroom (which look pretty damn spiffy, if I must say so!). Yeah, it was a busy day and by 8 PM, I was feeling every bit of it. But we did go out... (more) http://therriault.blogdrive.com/comments?id=344 http://therriault.blogdrive.com/archive/343.html Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:37:22 GMT I'm doing some maintenance and such on the blog, getting it ready to be moved over to its new home. So, if you come here and everything looks weird...well, be patient! **Edited later: After much wrestling with Blogdrive (which decided to go down right in the middle of the extensive export process), everything should be back to normal. We'll see! http://therriault.blogdrive.com/comments?id=343