After 4 failed attempts at nabbing a Cannon S2 camera on e-bay, several late nights trying to get in that final last bid, a slow a$$ Internet connection, I am TOTALLY frustrated! I am beginning to wonder if maybe getting a new camera at a great price is not in the works right now.
I am feeling even MORE desperate because we leave in 7 days for our vacation, and I really wanted a camera to take with us. Finally tonight, after another failed attempt, I typed in our old camera model number and there are 2 of them out there that are going really cheap, so now do I go with the really nice one and just keep plugging along and hope for a break or do I put in a high bid on the old style camera, which I really like, that ends in 22 hours. Oh the pain and agony!
I will let you all know tomorrow night what transpires.
However through all this, I am getting a little better feel for The Youngest sleeping habit, which as an adult seem to be HORRIBLE. Does the typical 3 year old wake up multiple times a night with nightmares? This is all new to me and I just don't know what to make of it. Because of the Prednisone for my pneumonia & the new obsession with eBay, I have been staying up until 2ish in the morning and hear every little sound Lexi makes. For the last week she has consistently cried around 10 pm (about 2 hours after bed time) and then between 11 and midnight. Then around 2 a.m. on 3 nights, she actually got up out of bed and came out of her room. With the earlier times, I have been comforting her while she is still in that sleepy, bad dream state and as long as I don't kiss her, which normally she loves to get pecks on her forehead and cheek, she will go back to sleep. The 2 am one is a bit tougher because she is a wake and coherent. I have been walking her back to bed and rubbing her hair until she falls back to sleep - about 10 min. later.
I know she has been through a lot of transitions lately and even early in her life she had a lot of neglect for her basic needs - but I just want someone to say, do this or do that or you are doing okay.
And then, what happens when I finally start being able to sleep at my normal time? Half of me thinks it would be better to at least wait up until 11ish now, instead of my normal 9 pm.
This was not in MAPPS class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh the Agony!
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Outside Photos Only
Well, with the flash non-repairable, we have been limited to outdoor pictures only so far, and in January those are few and far between. But here is what we have been up to in Jan. I can't believe it is gone though. We have been plagued by everything imaginable I think. The latest count has been an ear infection for our oldest, which she is happily over now, bronchitis for the youngest, which she just finished up her antibiotics, and pneumonia for Christine, which is finally starting to clear up after two rounds on antibiotics and prednisone. I typically LOVE winter; however, I will be all too happy to usher this one out.
Oh, we also had an interesting surprise in Jan. when one sunny afternoon I ventured out to mess with the horses, only to discover Black Beauty was making a bag. Sometime between now and the middle of March, we will be adding an addition to the farm, which the girls are quite excited about. However, with all this baby/pregnant talk the girls have taken to role playing with their baby dolls. They walk around the house with the babies up under their shirt and then, at any given moment the babies fall out and they are mommies. Cheyenne and Lexi both keeping asking when they can be a mommy. For now they are quite satisfied with, "When you are responsible enough to take good care of a baby, like feed it, have a house for it, and a job". And it has led to good conversations about how to take good care of a baby and what a mommy should be like. And for now, we are feeling overjoyed that they haven't asked, "How do babies get in to a mommies tummy"?
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