Tidbits and teething

I have been a total slacker lately, as far as blogging is concerned! Usually the only chance I get is when the girls are in bed, and I often use that time to check email, pack diaper bags, work on a quilt, write in my journal, etc.

Journaling is a biggie for me, I have kept one (one and off) since I was about 6 years old. The 6-year-old one is pretty hysterical. The handwriting is horrendous and the big news items are things like , "Joy pinched me today." (sorry Joy, but you were a pincher!) The high school journals are more interesting, and not quite as light of a read because high school was not the highlight of my existence to put it mildly! But it's interesting to look back and realize how much your perceptions of life and love have changed. And boy have mine changed...

My girls are doing great. Abbigail is crawling all over the place. Her form isn't quite perfect yet, sometimes she gets up on all fours and other times she uses an army-crawl that would do the special forces pround. She gets! She's also working on teeth numbers three and four, which I think is why she's been getting up like clockwork at around midnight and 4a.m. for several nights. It's like having a newborn again.

Arabella is pretty entertaining. She's discovered a flair for entertaining so in the evenings she gets on her "stage" and I have to say "Now presenting Bella!" and daddy has to say ,"The star of the show!" Once we have said these exact words with the proper accompanying hand gestures, Bella sings. Sometimes she makes something up, sometimes she sings a strange song called "Imagination!" that consists of repeating that word over and over. Sometimes she sings Victory in Jesus. She calls it "O Victory!"

By the way, that song was an important lesson for me on just how much kids pay attention to what we say! I happen to be a compulsive singer (not to be confused with a good singer!) so I sing around the house a lot. I was singing Victory in Jesus as I gave her bath one evening, not realizing she was listening to the words I was saying. Suddenly she looked up at me and said, "Why did Jesus plunge me in the flood?" (He plunged me to victory beneath the cleansing flood) So we talked about Jesus washing our sins away to help us be nice.

As for me and the hubby, we're just working along! He is counting down the days until our trip to Orlando in September and driving me crazy talking about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. It's my fault, I got him hooked on the books!

I hate to admit it, but I am over this sweltering summer weather. I got my quilting things out a few nights ago to work on my Log Cabin quilt top. As I usually only quilt in the fall/winter, I was hoping to hint-hint mother nature into sending some cooler weather. Obviously she's ignoring me.

I did get a little Christmas in July, though. My sister recently got a Kindle. If you aren't familiar with these, they are wireless e-readers. The way it works is you go online via your computer or the Kindle itself, find a book you want, and it downloads to the Kindle and you can read it! The Kindle- depending on the version you get- stores over a thousand books. Anyway, once I saw hers I really really wanted one. However, I'm not the kind of person that goes out and drops $189 on electronics. Its thrifty, thank you very much! Anyway my dad said , "Maybe Santa will bring you one!"

But then I started thinking about those long drives we have coming up in September, because in addition to Orlando we are also going to Hilton Head Island. So I asked "Santa" (daddy!) if my Kindle could come early and what do you know, it did!

I love it! I loved it even more once I discovered that there are over 19,000 books that are available free! I think it has to do with a publication date before 1923 or something like that, so it's older books, but this includes Jane Austen (one of my favorites!), Alexandre Dumas, Lucy Maud Montgomery, etc. So I have five books already without paying a cent!

This concludes our advertisement for the Kindle e-reading device. For more information visit www.Amazon.com .

And now back to life. There is a pile of laundry to do, the beds need changing,.....and now I hear Abby crying so all that will have to wait!