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Lunar Discoveries July 7, 2007

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I am in North Carolina, on the edge of the Smokey Mountains. We are visiting my parents in their "rustic" mountain home ( apparently, in North Carolina, rustic means "the contractor can skimp on straight pieces of wood and say But it is rustic!")

 This is a Luna and Mommy trip. I did this trip with Soleil when she was 3. It went a bit differently. Mostly because Luna is a daddy girl and Soleil is a mommy girl. A 5 am flight (yes, we left our house a 3:30) and away we went.

I am starting to discover more about my little girl once I get her away from her sister. She is very expressive. We found a lollipop at Cracker Barrel yesterday (side note: do the people in the south eat anywhere else?) and she took a deep breath and said "Oh this is a wonderful lollipop!" She has had a few moments where she needs Daddy. She has asked to fly home to daddy a few times, but right now she is making Monkey bread with Grandma and having a ball.

We watched Poppa feed the local cows some carrots. She was beyond amazed. Today, we are going to take her to the Smokeys. I can’t wait.

I can’t describe all of the little nuances I am discovering about Luna, but despite the separation she is making huge strides in finding herself as a person instead of just being Soleil’s little sister. 

Lauren Update June 19, 2007

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If you remember, our cousin Lauren is undergoing chemo for a cancer. Unfortunately, she is in day 3 of a 2 day stay at the hospital for a fever and low white blood cell count. Please keep her in your thoughts.

Thanks 

Protected: Family: Can’t live with them… June 6, 2007

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Half Full? May 24, 2007

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If you remember this post, we got some news today. It is not all bad. The cup is half full.

There is no cancer in Lauren’s lymph system. However, the tumor they removed has rough edges. We were told (and I say it this way because it is second hand news) that she will need 4 rounds of chemo. She will need to stay in the hospital 5 days, go home for 9, back in the hospital 5, etc.

She’s only 19. Life sometimes sucks…

A short series of thoughts May 11, 2007

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In Bullet form?

Some good thoughts? May 10, 2007

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In accordance to when it rains it pours,  something truely terrible has happened.

Jay’s cousin, age 19 has been complaining of pain. She had surgery yesterday. They removed one ovary. The uterus is untouched (TG), but the diagnosis is dysgerminoma. Please keep our cousin Lauren in your thoughts. She is so young. And to have this….

We are heart broken, but we know that the cure rate is good…..

Well, That was a mess! April 10, 2007

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It is nice to be back at work. My office needs to be cleaned, I need to finish a memo, but hell, I just got through half of my email, and I think a break is in order!

Travel with an almost 3 year old is hard. Luna was, well, a fricken lunatic on this trip. Sorry, must be blunt to save my sanity. We went to the Cleveland Zoo on the 80 degree day. She LOST it leaving because we didn’t see the tigers. When I say lost it, she bit me twice, leaving bruises (although that is not that hard to do, I bruise if you look at me the wrong way), she cried so hard that she threw up three times, twice on me, once on Jay. We were leaving the zoo with a screamer and all of the parents are watching us (yeah, that does wonders for your psyche!). I kept telling her the animals were tired and needed to eat dinner, and go to bed. She kept screaming "No, the sun is up. The animals are NOT sleeping" Oy! For the record, once we got her in the car seat, she was asleep in 30 seconds. No joke!

The trip back to Boston was just as fun! The first three hours were Luna screaming that she wanted Grandma and Grandpa. Lovely. Again she screamed until she puked. Thank you for vomiting 1 mile from a parking area! That way we could clean up. A pleasant bit of luck is that Luna just trained herself for potty. Worried that we might not make it, I put a waterproof crib pad under her in her car seat. That absorbed most of the vomit…

I suppose the trip was good. We had fun, and for 3 days Jay and I got to sleep until 9am! Bliss! But the girls are still young enough to want Mommy all of the time and I ended up being the primary caregiver. Then when we got home, I was able to send them to daycare 1 day, and then the 3 day weekend (I don’t work Mondays).

Luna is going through changes. She just moved from toddler to preschool at daycare. In our state, at 2y9m, a child can enter preschool, which has a higher student-teacher ratio. She had been told for 3 months that she was going to move up and she knew preschoolers go potty. So the girl put incredible pressure on herself to train herself.
One day in March, she decided to wear panties. That was it. We had 2-4 accidents a day the first week. Then 1 or less a day (mostly poop). Now she will go to the bathroom on her own to poop and come out with her pants between her ankles and proudly announce that she pooped! She is trying her hardest to be a "big kid" and this is causing multiple meltdowns as she is still not 3.

I find this stage of parenting to be very difficult. The changes between 2-3 are large as are the changes between 3-4. However, the independence and the need to feel like a larger kid is there more in the 2-3 stage.

For myself, this is an exercise in restraint. It is hard and I am looking forward to the 1 hour massage that my ILs bought me for my birthday present .

(I was planning on a massage on the day before the trip BUT Soleil got cereal in her eye(DON’T ASK) and I ended up dragging her halfway across the state to see an eye doctor as the ped thought she had scratched the cornea. She didn’t, but it threw all of my plans into a blender!)

I  hope to recover in relative calm and relaxation the next week. Work will be fun as our instrument had a major anomaly on Saturday during a Target of Opportunity, and my bosses (both of them) are away at a meeting starting today. But at least work isn’t going to strip off all of its clothes and piss on the floor like Luna did Sunday when she got mad at me….

From a distance April 1, 2007

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I am currently haning out in north east Ohio… Far far away from home…
We had swimming for the girls on Saturday, so after that, we drove to Rochester, NY and then visited our family in Buffalo this morning. After that, a nice ride into Ohio where I promptly took a nice nap…

Posting will be sporatic, but I wish everyone a great Pesach!

Which came first? March 23, 2007

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We were driving to our hellhole sucky greasy Favorite family restaurant last night while discussing the birth of a new family member (more on that below). Soleil sudden said "I have a question!" We wait.

"Who birthed the first person if the first person was first?"

Ah- wise question, grasshopper! I discussed the biblical creation theory. Jay mentioned evolution and Soleil said, "no, people are birthed"

So Jay put it this way…."which came first,Soleil, the chicken or the egg?"
Soleil: "The chicken! She laid the egg!"
Jay "Ah, but did that chicken come from an egg?"
Soleil:"Yes!"
Jay"So who laid that egg?"
Soleil: "A chicken!"
(ad nauseum for 5 minutes)
Jay "You see, it is all a circle…the circle of life "(<sarcasm>THANKS Disney</sarcasm>).

But it was a very perceptive question for her to ask….

Freebie was born yesterday. Our cousins did uncountable rounds of IVF for each of their boys. Then about 8.5 months ago, Freebie started. My cousin put it this way, it was the buy 2 IVFs, get one kid free deal. An immaculate conception, shall we say… So, after years of frustration and trying, they now have three children, each 2 years apart. Welcome to the world, Freebie.

Last night, I popped over to J0Ann Fabrics to pick up a rotary cutting guide. Who knew that you could buy these clear plastic guides to help you CUT THE FABRIC STRAIGHT when using a mat and rotary cutter? Apparently not me. However, I was able to cut two rectangles of cloth (one is technically a square, but then I would have to type one square and one rectangle, oh hell, I just typed it anyway) and I overcast them with the Kitty machine before calling it a night. I was able to set up the machine, thread it, get the bobbin in and sew pretty much without looking at the manual! The one thing I learned? You cannot sew while watching an overtime shootout in hockey. You MUST stop the machine and watch the shoot out and THEN start again. Trust me on this….OK?