April 19, 2004

• Good morning.   Its been an extremely busy weekend.   And I gave myself permission to stay off-line.   I managed to read everyone's sir's.   And check e-mail.   But other then that pretty much stayed off.

  
  

  Today is Rainee Grace's birthday.   She's officially 2 years old (well at 11:19 tonight LOL).  

  
  

  We celebrated it this weekend.   And of course I have pictures.  *grin*  I

  
  

  The firstly one is her in her birthday outfit that mommy and daddy got her.   She picked where to "pose" for the picture.   And was all quite grown-up about it.  ROFL

  
  

  

  
  

  On Friday we woke up and realized it was gonna be nice so we decided to go to the Game Farm.   The energy required for this was lacking (in me)   But it ended up being a lot of fun.   Rainee LOVED the animals.   Although I must say she fed more seagulls then anything.  *snicker*   The seagulls apparently were very exciting.

  
  

  This has also been a weekend (for me)  of evaluation.   As most of you know RAinee's birth/and many health adventures have been a long emotional drain on me.   So I did some serious reflecting.   And of course have no "real" answers.    But it was good.   And for the first time since I found out I was pregnant with this one in my tummy I allowed myself to daydream about him/her. 

  
  

  I hadn't realized that I wouldn't.    Its all part and parcel of the things Rainee broke when she was born.   Tomorrow I will be 10 weeks along.   And will probably call sometime this week to set up my first mid-wife appointment.   I hate the phone LOL    But I also like the assurance of knowing their there to answer my many twisted questions.  *giggles*

  
  

  This is Rainee watching a bear.   The bear was quite happy with the doughnut we gave him.   And then the half a loaf of bread.  LOL

  
  

                 

  
  

  Growls.   I can't seem to get online and stay.   Now I'm doing this blog offline.   And may or may not ever get to finish it.   I don't seem to be able to convince people to quit calling.   Of course it would help if my mom would remember it takes me 30 seconds to get offline.   So I get offline and she calls someone else and starts talking for a half hour.   So much for what she wanting being so-called urgent.  *whine*

  
  

  Last year when Rainee turned one I was desperately hoping to have a victory party.   Instead 2 weeks before her first birthday we added sleep apnea to her list of diagnosis.   And our life changed drastically once again.   A year later we still deal with the pulse ox, and oxygen.   And apnea events almost nightly that the oxygen doesn't help.     Several people in church hoped that she'd outgrow it...with their lack of expert knowledge to guide them.  She hasn't. 

  
  

  

  
  

  Friday night we'd been invited out for dinner.   (just Rob and I)   So we did that for date night.  And Saturday we  hung around the house and let Rainee open the rest of her birthday pressies.    She liked that.  *grin*   And Saturday evening we did birthday cake.

  
  

  Was gonna buy one, but couldn't find anything.   So bought a mix which I asked DH to do up.  He did....and decorated it.   And did a awesome job.    That was ummmmm suprising.  ROFL  Man of many hidden talents

  
  

  

  
  

  Oh and each kid got their OWN pop.   Twas a MAJOR treat.  

  
  

  Sunday was church.   And my sister Tina was home for the weekend as our younger sisters were doing a homeschool drama.    My mom invited just us over for lunch to visit with her as she is sibling to 3 of my kids.   And she wanted a picture of all 9 of them.   Poor Kaylin she was just broken hearted when she realized she wasn't invited to be in the picture.   See Zeria, Sam and Mari are her siblings, so aren't the others?  Oy and you think the r/p'ers have family tree headaches.

  
  

  

  
  

  So their they all are.  One huge family.   And no the boys wouldn't smile.   They didn't want their pictures taken.   And yes we  told them when they were whining about how the picture turned out that it twas their own fault.   bwahahahaha

  
  

  It was very hard on my kids to only Tina for such a short time.   Especially Jamari.   Jamari bonded with Tina before he did us.     She looks just like their birthmom.   And Jamari lived with his birthmom for five months.   He had to go all through the grieving process again yesterday.   It wasn't fun.     Fortunately today he seems to have moved on again.   Poor guy.    HE just sobbed when we went to the play last night and realized Tina wasn't their.   And clung to me for dear life.

  
  

  3 year olds should not have to deal with that much abandonment.

  
  

  Rainee got clothes from Grandma and Grandpa S as well.   So she wore them on Sunday.   And of course had to take another picture.  *grin*

  
  

  She likes to pose.  ROFL

  
  

  

  
  

  And that was our weekend.   Phew!  it was busy.  LOL   But I don't feel nearly as tired today as I did after the lots-of-Easter we did last week.   So maybe I took enough rests this time.  

  
  

  I have a blog lurking in my head about Rainee and the two years we've conquered.   But I'll save it for later.   This ones big enough as it is. 

  
  

   

  
  

   

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