party

just got home from a birthday party (happy birthday melynda!) and realized 2 things....

1. 2 beers + not drinking for 9 months = sleepy rebecca

2. i hate pumping breast milk just to throw it away.

now off to bottle feed the baby who just woke up since i have "beer flavored breasts" (thanks for the great quote goes out to my husband)

hp remembered

when i first heard of harry potter i was in high school working as a nanny. the little girl i took care of got to read one chapter every night before bed. i didn't really get into then because it was hard to keep track of a story you only heard once every 7 chapters... later when i was visiting nyc looking for a place to live friends of mine reprimanded me that i hadn't read the books yet.i thought- aren't these childrens books? but d had never let me down on book choices before (or since) so i started reading them sitting on a couch in jamaica, queens. later that year when my (then) fiance and i had moved to nyc we went to see the big friday night release. i instantly fell in love with the story all over again. it was, for lack of a better term, magical.
many things have changed in my life since the first reading and viewing of hp&tss.. i left nyc and my fiance. i moved to austin and fell in love all over again with my high school sweetheart. we are now married and have to 2 beautiful sons. we've watched the cast of hp grow up within these films and within the "real world" and now we must bid the series a sort of farewell. there will be no more book or movie releases for us to look forward too but as a fellow blogger ( http://chocolateandcreamcake.blogspot.com/2011/07/haiku-revieu-harry-potter-and-deathly.html) stated- we can always revisit the world of harry potter that we've come to love- the books and movies will always be there to recapture our imagination... and bring a little magic into our lives.

middle of the night

i was too tired to post last night (330am) when i thought of it so here it is now in all of its irrational glory:

why can't my gray/silver hair be growing in all in the front (ala rouge) instead of almost all on the right side and even then in the back right... if i've got to be showing my age why can't it be in a cool way... stupid growing older

sicky pants

....no pun intended


my littlest man micah is sadly very... stopped up. we've been told that this could happen because we're also formula feeding along with breast milk. but its been since saturday and my poor little guy is very uncomfortable. if something doesn't....move.. for him soon we're going to have to take him to the doctor.
ricky stopped by cvs tonight to see if they have anything for this issue (since they carry drops for infants with the opposite problem) and a pharmacist there recommended i eat chocolate before breast feeding to help... move things along..
best. advice.ever.

ealry morning present

getting up to soothe your child and having them vomit up formula all over your chest at 630am is a horrible way to start the day... just saying.

10 favorite things

so along the lines of my last post, i was thinking how much i love air conditioning. so here in no particular order are my 10 favorite inventions: (note that i did not list electricity because i thought it was too broad a term at this point so i picked things that might run on electricity)

1. air conditioning- i live in texas and i don't see how anyone in this state lives without it... even in the panhandle.
2. indoor heating- cause i'm a giant baby about being comfortable and every 3 years it gets cold here.
3. the modern combustion engine- because, while i'd love to have a horse to ride around every so often, you can not install air conditioning in a horse. and think how long it would take us to get places without cars
4. indoor plumbing (shower/baths)- cause not having to dig wells and bucket off with cold well water is awesome
5. indoor plumbing (toilets)- cause not having to use an outhouse or bushes is one of lifes joys. especially in the extreme heat/cold... another nod to my pals ac/heat.
6. netflix- i miss you x-files, but with a flip of the old xbox 360 remote i can watch mulder and scully in all their glory. (also good for childrens programing to keep elijah amused while i make food, feed the baby, do laundry, etc.)
7. social media- its so nice to be able to reconnect with so many people that mean so much to me but live elsewhere. being able to show the grandparents photos of the grandkids so often is a blessing.. in a lot of ways :)
8. breast pumps- because no one told me before i had kids how much engorged breasts hurt. you do not wake a sleeping baby to fix this problem- so enters the breast pump... even if one does look like a total jackass while using it.
9. surge protectors- keep a lot of things on this list running  when the thunder storms hit.
10. washers/dryers- because its hard to dry clothes when its raining outside... and the idea of using a washboard for something other than zydeco music... unthinkable!

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