LarkExaltation

My Privileges (found on Joyful Chaos blog)
A very interesting meme.
From What Privileges Do You Have?, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.
Bold the true statements.

1. Father went to college

2. Father finished college

3. Mother went to college

4. Mother finished college

5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.

6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers.

7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.

8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.

9. Were read children’s books by a parent

10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18

11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18

12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively?????

13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18

14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs

15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs

16. Went to a private high school

17. Went to summer camp

18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18

19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels

20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18

21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them

22. There was original art in your house when you were a child [kid’s work is original!]

23. You and your family lived in a single-family house

24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home

25. You had your own room as a child

26. You had a phone in your room before you turned 18

27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course

28. Had your own TV in your room in high school

29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college

30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16

31. Went on a cruise with your family

32. Went on more than one cruise with your family

33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up

34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family

I couldn’t help but blog about this. It’s just one of those normal everyday things that no body cares about but I still feel the need to share.

I made a mediocre roast last night and boiled some potatoes…

It was a HUGE bag of potatoes and I knew that we would never eat them all plain, SO back into the pot they go with water, milk, butter, some lovely pea and carrot purée and so on…

Voilà!

a yum soup!

two meals in the time of one…

we ate the soup last night and it is my lunch today.

now to make the roast more to my liking…

After quite some time at home and a serious case of cabin fever, we decided to go out to lunch with the kids and some friends. It was a very enjoyable time and the kids were well behaved considering they’ve been cooped up for so long. Saturday the doctor said the baby was about the same as she saw her Thursday, but Thursday she had said that Evelyn sounded better than she had expected. We got instructions to stay out of daycare two more days and then she could return on Wednesday, with a re-check on the 31st. Today has been a clingy day for her though. The most she’s been since she’s been ill, though she has not had a temperature or coughed much. Perhaps she’s just hitting a growth spurt, or just getting back on schedule.

girl in the hood

quiet at last…

…or not so much

we love this thing

1:42am - wake to coughing two month old/change diaper/administer breathing treatment - approximately 10min
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2:40am - wake to hungry two month old/change diaper/nurse said child - approximately 20min but I really couldn’t tell you, I was asleep.
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3:30am - wake to fussy two month old/change diaper/rock
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5:30am - wake, in living room recliner, to alarm clock in bedroom
5:40am - change diaper/administer breathing treatment to infant
6:00am - arouse sleepy two year old, in my bed
6:10am - bathe said two year old
6:20am - bathe sleepy five year old
6:30am - shower/brush teeth/dress
6:40am - dry five year olds hair
6:50am - brush old* children’s teeth
7:05am - kiss 34/5/2 goodbye
8:00am - nurse infant/change diaper
8:15am - eat cereal
8:30am - load/run dishwasher
9:00am - start washing/putting away laundry
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11:00am - nurse hungry infant
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12:10pm - wake in recliner/change diaper/administer breathing treatment
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12:28pm - check email/bank account/document day on blog
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12:45pm - continue laundry
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1:30pm - change diaper/continue laundry
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2:30pm - nurse baby/dress beds/finish laundry
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3:45pm - 34/5/2 come home
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4:15pm - update blog post/start on dinner
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5:00pm - dinner/dishes/diaper/breathing treatment
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5:45pm - monopoly (with a 5yr old)
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6:30pm - nurse baby/continue monopoly
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7:20pm - Thing 2 to bed/still playing monopoly
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9:00pm - nurse baby/put monopoly on hold
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10:45pm - wake in recliner/diaper/breathing treatment/bed
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*LOL - okay, yeah I’m tired, that was suppose to be “older”

Not much, just a new profile picture at the moment. I figured the other one was four years old, it was about time I grew up a little more.

I’m also thinking about naming the blog… or committing to LarkExaltation as a name.

I’m at a loss and in need….

…Taking suggestions…

But sadly the little squirt came home with a cough Friday. It progressively got worse over the weekend until Monday, it was a horrible cough which sounded like she was drowning. Luckily that’s only when she is awake, and she pretty much slept all weekend. We went to the doctor Monday for her two month check up and as I had been thinking, she tested positive for RSV. They’re letting her stay home with us, rather than hospitalization. YAY! We’re doing breathing treatments every four hours. She’s eating well and is in really good spirits, so I hope we caught it soon enough and this will be short lived. Thanks to the breathing treatments she doesn’t cough as much and her chest sounds like it is clearing up. She does have a little bit of a wheeze, but that doesn’t usually start until it’s time for a treatment. We go back to the doctor for a follow-up tomorrow morning.

… make the best ice packs! I never noticed this before until I pulled the frozen broccoli out of the freezer and noticed how hard that must feel on her little forehead. So, I made an exchange for the peas. She screamed just as much, but I think it did a much better job. The knot went down quickly, and there’s hardly and bruising.

Now the story. There’s really not much to it. Saturday, I had gone grocery shopping and when I came home she was standing in the window waving at me. When I came in the door she spun around and started to run towards me, and landed head first into our piano. The poor baby. It was literally the size of an egg at first, I just knew it would bruise more, but it’s just the littlest bit yellow in color now and there’s the cut where she made impact.

It didn’t take long for her to feel herself again, but I did notice that she fell and smacked her head/face against more things … maybe I only noticed because she already had one head wound.

I love this painting…

I love the movie this subject was quoted from.

This was a post I’ve had titled but not written and saved since before I had Evelyn.

I’m not sure what was going on at the time or what I was thinking, but I decided to put the picture with the quote and share…

It’s a beautiful painting that I know nothing about, nor it’s artist Marc Chagall.

all that being said, I still love it!

today, i bought this…

It’s just so beautiful, and I’ve been thinking about how very difficult of a time I have getting the Bjorn on and adjusted. And my husband likes to wear it too, so it’s always having to be adjusted. So after reading a very convincing blog post from BAGM, how could I not? Don’t worry, I put just as much research into baby slings as I do all of my … well, anything. I think I’m really going to enjoy it, I hope I’m right.