I knew it!

You Are 30% Normal

You sure do march to your own beat... But you're so weird, people wonder if it's a beat at all You think on a totally different wavelength And it's often a chore to get people to understand you

How Normal Are You?

God of All Comfort

Do you guys think God comforts the babies left to CIO? I really hope so. I think He does.

You Are a Smiley Face Cookie

You're happy go lucky. So happy, in fact, it's a little past the point of normal sanity. You usually make those around you smile ... when you're not creeping them out!

What Kind of Cookie Are You?

Well, that's pretty accurate. *huge maniacal grin* ;)

I'm feeling sad and lacking direction. I don't know. It's an odd, unsettling feeling, probably partly due to lack of sleep.

Katie and Granddad and playing in the living room. Grandma M. and Brian are out looking at the garden. Luke is asleep on my lap. And I'm just floating along.

Ugh...

My poor sweetie. He's working on his 8th tooth and possibly a molar or two. He's miserable. :( And Katie...I was was having a hard time controlling my anger last night. It's just so hard when she fights and fights sleep like she does. I see she's about to fall over yet she won't sleep, she throws things, she's loud when I'm trying to put Luke to sleep. Argh!!!! I have an anger problem, though, I know, and no matter what she does, I need to stay calm and gentle. I have the book When Anger Hurts Your Kids and I plan to read it sometime soon.

I need to go to sleep. I'm sore from sitting here in the this computer chair for so long. I want to get back on GCM! There's responses to my posts and everything. And the ILs are coming tomorrow and we have lots to do. I think we can get the place presentable enough by the time they get here. It's stressful, though. I so hope to someday soon get on some sort of a relaxed schedule (not TOO relaxed, though!) so I can actually maintain rather than just do emergency upkeep when it's absolutely essential and when it's gotten really bad. Ugh. Blah.

I'm a bit depressed. Not really sure why. Desire deep friendships, but don't seem to have the energy/motivation to actively seek or maintain them. I don't know why. :( And I haven't had the comfort of close companionship with the Lord since I haven't been spending any time with Him. I know He's still there, but my soul craves a more intimate relationship. I feel lonely. :(

And there was much rejoicing!

Thanks for your comments, guys! :D I'm thrilled that GCM is up and running again!! This will be a short post because I've really got to get some sleep and I think the sound of my typing is waking Luke. I'm so glad tomorrow is Friday! We don't have much time to get things straightened up before Brian's parents come, but it should be a fun weekend. We also really need to childproof because that will make things much easier for us when he starts walking. He needs a safe place to be able to explore and maneuver around. I guess getting the place cleaned up for this weekend should help us with the childproofing, too - getting little stuff up and away.

Hope you guys all have a good weekend!

Woe is me!

GCM is down. I think most of my fellow members understand what a truly difficult time this is for us, especially the frequent posters. I think we may need to form a support group, not only for this terrible period of waiting for GCM to be back online, but for dealing with the effects of the trauma that will certainly leave its mark. Let's all have a moment of silence for the deep loss we are all experiencing...

Now, go fill up my comments so my life isn't quite so empty.

New Blog Location

As of tonight, DH will be moving my blog to a new location, at my own domain:

http://blog.nurturinggentleness.net/

I appreciate you guys following me around, if anyone is. I know this has been a lot of changes, but this will hopefully be the last one for quite a while! Thanks bunches! :D

I should be sleeping.

We're waiting for the Sweetheart Playhouse to be delivered to Menard's so we can go pick it up. Katie doesn't know it's coming. I hope she loves it! It was one of the only play houses that looked tall enough for her to be able to stand up in! :-o Plus, it looks like Brian or I would be able to fit in there, too, bent over, of course.

It was pretty hot today, but there was a nice coolness to the breeze. Unfortunately, it's supposed to rain this weekend. That means, since there's supposed to be nice weather on Wednesday and Thursday, I should take the kids to the pool one of those days. I don't really like doing that by myself. It stresses me out and then I yell or speak very shortly. :( Ugh. I suppose the more I do it, the more used to it I will become and the less stressed I'll be, right? I hope so.

Brian's parents are coming to visit this coming Saturday and the day after that we'll be going to Brian's brother's house for a little family gathering. Should be fun! There's a really neat little natural foods store on the way there, so we're going to bring a cooler and stop there on the way home. They have natural all-beef pepperoni! *drool* That would be a really yummy addition to our dairy-free pizzas!

I better go to sleep so I'm not too tired tomorrow. 'Night, all - both of you. ;)

Well, I'm back at Blogger!

I was blogging here in 2003, I think it was. Wow, so much has happened since then! From that time until just recently, I was blogging at Xanga, but I decided it was time for a change, so I decided to come back and give Blogger another go.

I'm working on a website called "Nurturing Gentleness." I was originally going to have just pages of links about attachment parenting and gentle discipline and other stuff, but Brian (my husband) told me that when he sees that a page is all links, he immediately presses the "Back" button and keeps searching. So, I decided to include my thoughts about different topics, along with the links, to make it a little more interesting and personal. I need a lot of help working on the template, though. I'm having a rather hard time with that. Brian's going to help me use a program we got in the mail from the company from whom we purchased the domain to tweak the template until we've got something I like. Should be fun! :)

Going to play Sketchorama at http://www.spogg.com/ Fun!

If you think of it, somebody let me know if/when http://www.isketch.net/ is working again!