tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51265690362327883492024-10-24T12:07:43.077-07:00Tales of a Nerdy Sailor Mom, her Foodie Hubby, and their unique children.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16189214169591207681noreply@blogger.comBlogger295125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126569036232788349.post-5894707058228504022013-03-26T20:06:00.002-07:002013-12-04T07:35:37.295-08:00

The Invisible War is an Acadamy Award nominated feature length documentary.  I first heard about it about a year and a half ago while in therapy trying to begin peeling the layers of my own experience.  I read in the Navy Times last spring that the secratary of defense had a private screening of the film and within two days instituted a change in who would oversee whether an alleged

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Apparently I've used up my free amount of picture storage for my blog.  Not sure what to do next.  Fellow bloggers, what do you do? Little Miss and Pumpkin each came home with colds from school last week.  Hubby & I both came down with it soon after and as much as we tried to avoid it, so did Champ.  Needless to say, this week has been pretty rough.  Poor baby still

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My Fourth Baby 1. Were you married at the time? Yes 2. What was your reaction when you found out you were pregnant? freaked out, major concerns about concurrent medical conditions 3. How old were you? 30 4. How did you find out you were pregnant? HPT 5. Who did you tell first? Hubby 6. Did you want to find out the sex? no 7. Due Date?  13 or 11 December 2012 8. Did you deliver

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Our little one has arrived! 04 December 2012 0315 PST [3:15 AM] It's a boy! 8lb 0.2oz 20 3/4in Nickname "Champ" [Yes, I am still working on the birth story.]

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Before: 03 December 2012 0740 PST [I have pregnancy induced carpal tunnel, hence the wrist braces.] After: 04 December 2012 0356 PST One last pic before transferring to my postpartum room. Welcome little one! My birth story to follow soon. [Hint: Labor didn't start until 04 Dec.]

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We're having a simple meal here at our house.  We'll also be feeding the elders (church missionaries).  We are expecting to feed seven people, with maybe a few surpise guests. If the baby wasn't so close to coming we would have traveled to WY, where Hubby's brother lives.  We went there two years ago.  This would have included 15+ people. Last year we

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Update from this post.   11/12 So far the data recovery program has found some 200K+ images, but they're mostly temp internet icons. Some family pics in the mix, but we won't know how much was saved until the program is finished and we restore the files. Then we have the long hard job of sorting through the renamed, mixed up files. At least there's a small light at the end of the

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Hubby reset one of our computers this last week. He "cleared the drive" and installed a new OS. In the process he deleted nearly 10 years of digital photos. He had assumed they were on our other computer, but they were not. I asked several times this week if he could help me find the files, and he kept saying they were on the computers. Finally, he investigated, and they are gone.

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I saw this posted on facebook the other day and wanted to share. Me: God, can I ask You a question? God: Sure Me: Promise You won't get mad ... God: I promise... ... Me: Why did You let so much stuff happen to me today? God: What do u mean? Me: Well, I woke up late God: Yes Me: My car took forever to start God: Okay Me: at lunch they made my sandwich wrong & I had to wait God: Huummm Me: On

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I just finished fifteen days of leave. Hubby went to WY for some job training.  Hooray for more hours, and that he can still do it all from home. We went to AZ for a week.  It was incredibly hot, but it was a nice break for everyone.  No appointments.  No having to be somewhere.  No real work.  Just time to hang out and relax.  And help some on the in-laws

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I wasn't sure how to share some news.  In April I had spent a week in the hospital, during that time I found out I was pregnant.  While in the hospital I started spotting and we thought I was having another miscarriage, I've had three.  This pregnancy was unplanned and rather unexpected.  With learning of a close friend's pregnancy loss I felt terrible guilt.  I

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After Pumpkin showed delays at his two year appointment, he was referred and tested for speech, developmental delays, and autism traits.  He was delayed in several areas, and for the time being, the doctors felt that PDD-NOS best described Pumpkin.  He began ABA therapy after the children's winter break. With this new information I pursued testing for Little Miss.  She had

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My sewing room is expanding this year. I replaced my sewing machine with a Janome 3160QDC earlier this month.  After selling my motorcycle and paying some bills, I purchased a Babylock Lauren serger and a Brother PE-780D embroidery machine.  I suppose if I can't have one fun hobby I should focus on another. I decided to sell my motorcycle as I have been unable to ride it for

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It has been a year since my life has been turned upside down and inside out.  A year since the walls of my existence crumbled around me and left me feeling raw, exposed, helpless, utterly vulnerable, and alone. I have learned a lot in this past year.  Built skills on coping, self care, mindfulness, and self preservation.  I am no longer standing on the brink of oblivion, but I am

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Someone asked for pictures of me after I gave birth.  To see my triumphant new mom glow.  The I did it! As you can see, I was more worn out with my first child's labor than my subsequent deliveries.  No sleep and no food for two days does that to a person.  Add on thirty-six hours of labor and you have a recipe for one worn out momma.  Oh, and I couldn't sleep after

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I can't really call it our Christmas Breakfast this year (2011), as we didn't eat until 4PM.  You can see that our traditional family meal for Christmas is breakfast related, it was merely delayed due to attending church services in the morning. As mentioned in previous Christmas posts [here, here, and here], we have a large breakfast/brunch on Christmas morning.  This year was only

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I am eagerly awaiting the final set of pictures from my sister-in-law, for now I wanted to share this.    My in-laws with 18 of their grandchildren [Hubby's older daughter was the only biological one missing].  Eighteen of twenty-two, blended families included, grandchildren from my mother-in-law.  My father-in-law has five grandchildren.  Thus making the total

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Here are the vests all together.  All. Twelve. I used Burda patterns 9812, 9781, 9990, and 9732. I'm not sure why I didn't have this idea with the dress and skirts, or just take the pics of them after the vests, but here are the vest in sets by family. A's boys - blue, silver, black w/red, and red w/black D's boys - black w/brownish gold, green B's boys - blue, bronze R's

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We're down to the final three. Here we have our red vest.  For this vest I used Burda 9781.  Then, we have the two black with red detail vests.  I used Burda 9812 to make them.   All three together-  Whew!  Tomorrow we leave for Arizona!

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One of the twelve year olds, nine year olds, and five year olds each love blue.  Here are their vests. For these two larger sized vests, I used Burda 9812.  For the smallest blue vest I used Burda 9990.   All three blue vests together -

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I had the patchwork side all finished and pinned to the fleece side in time for Pumpkin's birthday.  Here is my previous post about the quilt. With all my other sewing I had hoped Hubby would finish his yarn knots to attach the two sides so I could finally put the binding around the edges. After running out of thread for my first vests we headed back to JoAnn's and let Pumpkin choose his

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I really enjoy having church on Christmas. Growing up my family went to either the 7pm family service or the 1145pm late night Christmas Eve service, and again for the 10am Christmas Day service.  Well, at least one of those but the intention was to go to both Christmas Eve and Day service. On Christmas morning we all got up and showered and went to church, actually Sacrament Meeting.&

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This year we invited our missionaries over for Christmas Eve dinner, a newer tradition our family started after moving to San Diego.  Before bed we kept with our tradition of reading from the scriptures about Christ's birth.  The only pictures of Hubby on Christmas Eve were this one, one you could see up his nose, and a third with is leg and foot.  As you can see we are all

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We only have one silver vest for the group.   I used Burda 9812 to make this vest.

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