Beauty and the Beast

I got a new hair straightener in the mail today and gave it a whirl on Lux - tennis anyone? And snapped a classic middle finger pose from a little boy ready for beddy.

Also we got started on the floors of the new house. The guys we hired to do the job met Geoff early this am at the house and ripped up the carpet only to find the oak floors were in beautiful shape (yeah, that what we hoped for). Geoffrey was there tonight dropping off some boxes and had a look at the floors after their first coat and said that they looked really sharp. Glad we had them done, can't wait to see them when they are finished.

a few words about marriage...

today is my 8th wedding anniversary and I think the only one I have remembered! Geoffrey had completely forgotten when I had remembered and called him at 1 pm, but we've had a lot on our minds and we closed on our new house today.

I think lots about relationships and things, particularly since a few close to me have had marriages dissolve in the recent timeframe. And I had a long conversation with my young married Mormon nanny about forever and marriage and what it means and how you know you found the "right one" and I think I know enough to articulate it on my 8th anniversary.

The right one is when your husband and you part ways on your wedding anniversary and the night you're eating pizza on the floor of your new house so that he can go to a networking event and you can take your kids home and get them bathed and in bed, and you know you're a team with the same goals and dreams and you know that you have countless nights in front of you to celebrate your life, your life together. You make sacrifices together, you celebrate together, you plan together, you parent together, you grow together and you talk and dream together, and that nothing feels rushed or immediate because you have an entire future together. And some night in the future we'll have a moment to celebrate an anniversary, but eating pizza on the floor with our kids was sure a nice way to celebrate today, a special day for us all.

Thats all I got, but had another thought today about Lux, will share that tomorrow when I have more energy. But for now, my husband is home now and the kids are fast asleep (however hard to find Lux in her bed with all the toys, teddys, dollys, night night blankets that have crept into her beddy in the last few weeks (someone's coping with some change at the moment...).

xo

Went to the Puyallip Fair came home with the swine flu...

Or at least I think I did, whatever I have its extreme. Here are some snaps from the Puyallip fair and a copy and pasted email from an email I sent to my mom and dad...thanks for the newsy note and photos from mom, sorry to hear about phil and pete's woes, clearly sue has enough anger and hatred for pete to last a lifetime, and a terrible shame to involve the boys in her hate, pete should tell the lot of them to piss off, cam included. glad to hear that amelia is settling in and not a big cry baby about the whole thing like i was!!

we spent yesterday at the puyallip fair (sp??), i guess very similar to the PNE but probably worse. lux found it amusing and we found it hot, crowded and disappointing. i did take lux on a ride that once we got going realized wasn't kid or mom appropriate, she was very quiet until the end when she asked if "we can get off soon", brave kid i wanted off immediately. not one of my proudest parenting moments. but it had its revenge on me today, either i woke up with swine flu or the ride was like putting my entire body in a washing machine and dryer since every muscle and ounce of my skin today hurts, in fact i feel the pits. bill gates and family were there yesterday as well but we didn't see them or anyone nearly like them

our exciting news huxely ate pears today and yesterday and took a crap in the bathtub (thats a first for either kid) i should have known, he had a look on his face and was farting quite a bit and next thing i knew a little orangish loose turd appeared in the tub and he seemed quite satisfied. i bleached the entire house and him afterwards. i think its the most interesting thing i've told geoff in a long time, he was fascinated by my story.

what is this crap...

cheerful enough but i don't like food...yuck

A few snaps

Work is most definitely interfering with my blogging and photo taking (and of course spending time with the kids!), so I guess when I'm not working I'm just with them. I'm sitting here this am trying to get mr nibbles to eat some cereal and all he wants to do is suck on his hands.

First Sleepover

A weekend of firsts for Lux, confirming that she is growing up...terrible, terrible that Huxley will too someday be 4, I love having a baby in the house, in fact if it was my way we would ALWAYS have a baby in the house.

Weekend kicked off with taking Lux to buy her first pair of tap shoes and second pair of ballet shoes, black tap shoes and she decided on pink ballet shoes (although was torn over the black ones). We then drove her to Deb's for her first sleepover to celebrate her bestfriend Emma's 5th birthday. I sort of expected her to bail on the idea when we dropped her off, NOPE, she didn't bail. So off she went, and when I spoke to Deb last night her and Em were tucked into Em's bed after multiple "go to sleep" warnings they fell asleep (only to wake up in the middle of the night to chat and visit and again be warned to go to sleep! They were up at 6 am, roaring around the house.

She went off for her FIRST manicure and pedicure after breakfast (hot pink for her, purple for emma) and when we picked her up and she saw me standing at the glass doors she crumpled to her knees crying (and my dog barked and growled at me), what a welcome! Guess she was certainly ready for her FIRST sleep over.

Geoffrey and I sort of felt like happy empty nesters. Geoff went "tailgating" at the U's first footy game of the season and Huxley and I had a glass of wine with my friend Bryndis and her daughter Ella (also Lux's good friend) and we wandered down for some tailgating with kids in tow in strollers amid drunk, loud, crazy uni students and they noise made Huxley cry and a drunk uni student yelled "you made the baby fucking cry". Geoffrey enjoyed meeting more of our new Laurelhurst neighbors, what a small town feel the neighborhood has...

Both my kids are sleeping, Geoff is off to a Trivia night at the local pub (2 nights in a row, and he hasn't enjoyed a social night out maybe since we were married...).

One more day at home and then I'm back in the office, I'm ready. Will update my blog then - tomorrow Lux and I have a blackberry pie to make with blackberries we picked today!

nite nite.

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shack for sale, after a ball breaking few weeks and with the help of craig and trude and many more our house is on the market! within 30 min of it being listed a realtor came by and assured me "it will sell quick" and that the "place looked great", damn rights it looks great, we killed ourselves getting it to look this good! i still feel we're listing it for too low, even though the comps i've seen tell me we are not, regardless it is a nice house and looks spotless. i think though we will kill one another living here for the next 26 days, trying to keep the place tidy. crash is being shipped off to aunty debby on sat for the month, too bad i can't ship off geoffrey and lux too (my mess makers).

will keep you all posted, send us your best thoughts this month, its sure not to be our best with me back at work, our house on the market, coordinating a move (even if its a tiny distance), coordinating projects at the new shack, geoffrey working his requisite 60 hours + a week...it will all be worth it when we wake up in our new home!