Saturday, October 27, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
subscribe to Flickr photos
I upload all my photos to snapfish (e-mail me if you want those notification e-mails). You need to remember a password for those, some find that annoying. I also put a smaller subset of favorites on Flickr. You can subscribe in a reader, to the new photos, by pasting the following link into your reader. I use Google reader, because Vienna kept disappearing off my computer. It's web based too, which is nice. I can read it anywhere. In Google Reader, just past the rss feed from the link above, and presto, you reader collects every photos. I'm going to do it myself right now, so I can make sure what I'm putting out there.
You can also subscribe to my YouTube videos as well.
You can also subscribe to my YouTube videos as well.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Happy Birthday Ava & Christian
We had a lovely day celebrating Ava's 3rd birthday with her family. Unfortunately we missed Christian's 2nd birthday party. Too much for us. I'll have to send a note of apology to them. We didn't take the camera so I don't have a photo from today, of her. But she's cute and adorable, and it was a nice day. All kinds of activities and whatnot. Good stuff. Plus I snuck off and studied a little bit too. Natasia joined us too. Her mother stayed home to pack. They're closing Monday on their co-op a few blocks away from us. That should be nice. I'm tired from all the activity and driving to New Jersey. Tomorrow we go to the zoo. Busy weekend. William had a good gym class, and I took Andrew to the book store.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Andres' doctor appointment
Andres weighs 27.2 lbs, is 35 and 1/4 inches in height. He got a flu shot, had a TB test started, had urine and blood saved for testing. He's being referred to a pediatric opthamologist, he didn't pass the screening. Imagine if he needs glasses at this early age. He will be more sympathetic to my glasses, instead of mangling me and the glasses at times. I hope he doesn't need glasses yet, little boys need some freedom. This morning they both had snotty noses, William is getting over a cold, and Andres has a slight fever from his flu shot. They woke up at 6:30 this morning, instead of their average wake up time of 7. Wednesday we all slept to 7:45, and I had a huge rush to get William off.
There is a sad pall cast over our building because the little boy Stephen lost his father and Aminta lost her husband, due to a heart attack. It is very surprising. It reminds me of the fragility of life. How do you cope with that? The bow is in the air and it's going to fall. Where I work the clients have HIV. We have a memorial service fairly frequently, people feel sad and overwhelmed by the HIV/Aids crisis. Not to take anything away from them, but I'm going to die too, whether I have HIV or not. HIV may accelerate it, and lifestyle. But we all die. And for me the big question is how do we make sense of that. For me, it's simply that we need to live it up while we can, it's limited. When people get a terminal diagnosis, that clarifies things, helps to rid onself of the nonsense. But we all have a terminal diagnosis, it's just a matter of when. Stephen and Aminta's loss hits close to home for me, I worry about Stephen not having a father, Aminta not having a partner. I think about my family and if I was lost, what would happen to them. Life is so fragile. I must make the most of what I'm given.
There is a sad pall cast over our building because the little boy Stephen lost his father and Aminta lost her husband, due to a heart attack. It is very surprising. It reminds me of the fragility of life. How do you cope with that? The bow is in the air and it's going to fall. Where I work the clients have HIV. We have a memorial service fairly frequently, people feel sad and overwhelmed by the HIV/Aids crisis. Not to take anything away from them, but I'm going to die too, whether I have HIV or not. HIV may accelerate it, and lifestyle. But we all die. And for me the big question is how do we make sense of that. For me, it's simply that we need to live it up while we can, it's limited. When people get a terminal diagnosis, that clarifies things, helps to rid onself of the nonsense. But we all have a terminal diagnosis, it's just a matter of when. Stephen and Aminta's loss hits close to home for me, I worry about Stephen not having a father, Aminta not having a partner. I think about my family and if I was lost, what would happen to them. Life is so fragile. I must make the most of what I'm given.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
at work
When I'm at work, I look at photos of the boys, to relax and calm down from intense sessions, to center me and remind me of what's important to me. I look at old ones of William and the photos I have on Flickr. Today I focused on this one. Andres must have just been crying. I'm kind of smirking, and Diana is outright laughing. It's Xmas last year. Andres has such long hair. This morning I accidentally bumped his head and I was holding him, and frantically trying to get my breakfast. I felt so horrible. I feel so inept at times in controlling myself. I have such ideals, and I fall so short of them. But I keep on trying. I love my boys.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
"I want to wear underwear."
William just said he wanted to wear underwear.
I got hot and stripped down to my underwear. William said he wanted to be like daddy. So I said he'd have to wear underwear. He said no first, but then later, said he wanted underwear. It inspired Andres, he wanted underwear too. Now for the accident in the underwear...
Andres had an accident. Then William had a little one, and then he went to the potty, and he put some in the potty! Then they asked for diapers. He sits on the potty in school, but he's yet to do something in the potty there.
We've been a bit lax, we're a couple of overwhelmed parents. I should speak for myself. I'm very overwhelmed by parenting, work, all the many demands in my life. I've got to work to disentangle so I can focus more on my priorities, though I have to say I think I've done OK on this.
Miss Shari says she needs to set strong limits with William. He can be a bit of an instigator. He wants to run around when she asks the kids to sit for a book reading. So she has to put him briefly in timeout when won't listen, and follow directions. I've been working to be more forceful to make William comply at the occasional limit. I'm aware of my own needs for order and compliance, and I watch how effective my efforts are.
Andres likes to read a book, while I read a book. He says, "I want to read myself." I try to get him to tell a story. At some point, he wants me to read.
I got hot and stripped down to my underwear. William said he wanted to be like daddy. So I said he'd have to wear underwear. He said no first, but then later, said he wanted underwear. It inspired Andres, he wanted underwear too. Now for the accident in the underwear...
Andres had an accident. Then William had a little one, and then he went to the potty, and he put some in the potty! Then they asked for diapers. He sits on the potty in school, but he's yet to do something in the potty there.
We've been a bit lax, we're a couple of overwhelmed parents. I should speak for myself. I'm very overwhelmed by parenting, work, all the many demands in my life. I've got to work to disentangle so I can focus more on my priorities, though I have to say I think I've done OK on this.
Miss Shari says she needs to set strong limits with William. He can be a bit of an instigator. He wants to run around when she asks the kids to sit for a book reading. So she has to put him briefly in timeout when won't listen, and follow directions. I've been working to be more forceful to make William comply at the occasional limit. I'm aware of my own needs for order and compliance, and I watch how effective my efforts are.
Andres likes to read a book, while I read a book. He says, "I want to read myself." I try to get him to tell a story. At some point, he wants me to read.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Thank You
Thank you to everyone who helped out on the celebration of Andres' birthday party, especially Virginia and Tim who hosted the bash. Thank you to Zane for flying out from California to be there for it.
Friday, October 05, 2007
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