connolly day!

my top moments of the week

• some solid time with elias and glory on sunday morning.  
• hilarious house meeting on sunday night with all three girls.  lots of pregnancy questions, talk about 7-eleven, and promises from the girls to "be really, really good this week". 
• watching the bachelor with jess.  
• monday, we were able to get one of our girls into a really great doctor's office, which is awesome.  it was really sweet to see her treated well, and really come out of her shell some during the appointment, and generally in the house.
• our newest girl.  i never really know what is okay to share, and what's not.  but oh, do we have stories.  let's just say, she is an endless source of good stories.  AND she has never been to wendy's, taco bell, or subway.  
• tuesday, i had a doctor's appointment.  the lady i saw is one of the midwives that has worked with a few of our girls.  during the appointment the following was said, "well, you need to go ahead and find mr. right, and start having babies, because you only have about 10 more really fertile years".  listen, lady, i am surrounded by 'fertility' almost as much as you are, don't play, i get it.
• the pure excitement of postpartum roller skating, and trampoline jumping.  
• dentist visit in little vietnam.  really strange, and for some reason there were about 11 or 12 hole-in-the-wall dentist's offices within one block.  very strange, and i watched mr. rogers (in vietnamese), and he sang this song (for some reason he switched to english for this part): 

Some are fancy on the outside. 

Some are fancy on the inside. 

Everybody's fancy. 

Everybody's fine. 

Your body's fancy and so is mine. 

Boys are boys from the beginning. 

Girls are girls right from the start. 

Everybody's fancy. 

Everybody's fine. 

Your body's fancy and so is mine. 

Girls grow up to be the mommies. 

Boys grow up be the daddies.

Everybody's fancy. 

Everybody's fine. 

Your body's fancy and so is mine. 

I think you're a special person 

And I like your ins and outsides. 

Everbody's fancy. 

Everybody's fine. 

Your body's fancy and so is mine. 

• my first ever trip to pf changs with jess and kal.  it was exactly what i needed, and just really fun.  love them.  shout out to leigh and gray for the gift card!
• today, sitting here listening to our somali girl watching maury povich.  
• catching up on lost, and hopefully the office and 30 rock sometime today!
• and it's valentine's day, and i'm not even a little bitter about it.

 

a good way to spend a sunday

sorry to be so vague on the last post.  after a pretty hard week, yesterday, one of our former 'tenants' and her boyfriend showed up at our house high on drugs, and i answered the door.  after a really bizarre few minutes, and nick coming out to help her, she left, but said she'd be back.  

it was very disconcerting, considering she had just been released from her third stay in the mental hospital, and she met her boyfriend while in the hospital.  i was sufficiently freaked out, and my teeth were chattering for like an hour after she left.  

we spent a good portion of our afternoon with our eyes on the window, waiting for her to show up, so we could call the cops.  long story short, everyone sort of went about their evenings after she didn't show up for a while, and i came back down and set up camp at the dining room table, just in case she showed up.  pretty much as soon as i sat down, i saw her headlights, and ran upstairs to let nick and jess know, so we could go ahead and call the police.  

her second visit was relatively uneventful, and she just packed up some stuff and left.  we never went outside.  

i'm at the point where i can laugh about it, as long as she doesn't show back up anytime soon.  

this is what i'm doing right now:

wall-e with this man.

"small as a wish in a well"

it's a quiet saturday around our house.  the air outside has turned a little colder.  nick and jess have gone to a conference in bellevue.  elias is quietly reading in his crib, and glory is napping.  beulah is down the street running in a field with her best friend, tucker.  more and more, the smell of burning wood is filling up our little world.  every time i walk down our street and around the corner, i take a deep breath and think about the appalachians, and how i can't wait to drive up that last hill to our little cabin.  

last night, i popped some popcorn, and threw a bunch of pillows on the floor, and for every kernel i ate, i threw one over to beulah.  and watched this movie.  

oh you know

just some quality time with my favorite girl

and my favorite boy.  

yay for date night:)

big chair, rainy morning

going in for some granola bar and some love

it's wet here, and my feet are damp from sinking into deep grass. i have been perched in our leather chair for over an hour. elias came and went, we snuggled and he hit the spacebar on my computer and a movie popped on, so we watched it for a while.

i can hear jess and e upstairs, and nick just got back from a run. girls come and go. and i can see leaves falling outside. glory sleeps through it.

i tried to write for about half an hour, and nothing came. another week beginning, another gray morning needing coffee, it's october 20th, and i am 24 years old, and i am readying myself for another day.