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I'm not sure there's a more hectic time than the first week of school with 5 school age kids. I'm really looking forward to the weekend. But that's partly for selfish reasons.
Like THIS! The Purple Cow Bookstore is having their second annual Children's Book Festival Saturday, August 28th. I'm totally excited. Click the link to see the authors and illustrators who will be there.
And Isa at the store told me each booth will have giveaways for the kids.
Check it out!
Just around the Corner School is about to start. The kids went to orientation today. Tuesday the madness of picking up and dropping off begins, but with one exception.
I don't have a kindergartner! Yay!!
You know what that means. I don't have to shlep back and forth to the school 4 times a day, 5 days a week. I'm down to one trip out there and one trip back. Hooray!
I think I'm going to love having my kids gone during the day. I've heard lots of moms say they'll miss their kids and it will be so sad to have them back in school. I guess I'm just not that sentimental. But then those moms don't also babysit other kids during the day. Maybe that has something to do with it...:)
So we're at our last summer weekend. Make it a great one!
Wrapping it Up On to child #5, daughter #2--it's all good. It's the same kid. Rianne Michele (yes, one "l") was born on her older brothers' 5th birthday. Did you know some nut asked me if I did that on purpose? Seriously? Oh, yes, I so wanted to have 3 of my kids have the same birthday.
Here's what really happened: Rianne was actually due April 26th, but I woke up the 21st feeling not so great. I just felt "off" so we went to the hospital around 11am or so to check things out. I didn't have any high hopes that I'd end up delivering early. My two natural births had gone well past my due date (sob--I'm still not completely over that), and of course the previous C-section had been scheduled.
At the hospital, the nurse hooked me up to the monitors and left me and Bryan alone for a while. We talked while the machine recorded my puny contractions and the baby's responses. While my contractions were not regular at all, during one of them Rianne's heart rate dropped significantly. So the nurse called the doctor.
Have I mentioned I love that doctor? Seriously. He said, "Prep her. Let's go ahead and deliver the baby." Or something to that effect.
About 45 min later, we were in the delivery room and the doctor was performing the C-section. Bryan, of course, had a better vantage point than I did--not that he was looking since he hates blood so much, but it was kind of like a train wreck--and saw the cord wrapped around Rianne's neck.
Yep, the cord was around her neck. What would have happened to her had the doctor decided to wait a day? Two days? Until my scheduled date? I shudder to consider the possibilities.
Today, I look at my adorable, adoring 6 yr old and wonder at her supreme intelligence and her ability to discern exactly when someone needs a hug. She's amazing. She's remarkable. And I came within days of missing it all. I could have lost her.
I thank God for that doctor. And for all my children.
I Know I'm late, but I have a good excuse! For those who read the blog, you know I usually post on Fridays. Well, Friday was bad for me. But first I want to tell you about Thursday.
Thursday night, my publisher wanted me to attend the LDS Booksellers mingle at the Sandy Expo Center. It's a new thing they're trying this year to give authors, vendors and booksellers the chance to mix and mingle in a relaxed environment--with food. Not the kind of thing a first time author can afford to pass up. And I had a great time. I came home at 9pm, parked my van, and slept like a baby.
Then, Friday morning came. My son wanted to go outside and look at bugs. Boys. :) I said sure. After a minute or two, he ran back in to tell me I had to come look at the back window of the minivan because it was all cracked and had a hole in it.
So I looked.
Someone, whether accidentally or on purpose, had shattered the back window of our minivan during the night. Shattered. Destroyed. Utterly.
I spent Friday on the phone with police, the insurance company, and the glass people because it had to be fixed. My kids have a fascination with glass, among other reasons, and I could not just leave it as is.
And all this while working also. Let's just say by Friday night I was emotionally frazzled. And if you doubt me, you can ask my kids. It was NOT a good night.
This kind of random act of vandalism is hurtful and senseless. But I don't need to tell any of you that. I'm sure the people who would even consider something so thoughtless don't read this blog.
But it brought back feelings I'd long since pushed away. The feeling of being violated. Of my sense of security and safety being shattered right along with that window.
Several years ago, newly married and on the last two weeks at my old job, I was robbed at gunpoint by a random stranger. And even thought I was unharmed, though shaken, by the event--it set off a chain reaction in my life that took me months to fully restore. We all operate within a bubble of presumed safety. When someone unexpectedly (because how can you ever anticipate such a thing?) violates that safety, we lose the secure feeling it brought us. That loss triggers the grief process. I know I don't have them in order but there's denial, anger, acceptance and a couple of other steps. I'm really good at the anger part. And the denial part; particularly the "I'm okay" line. And some of that never goes away completely. All it takes is a shattered window to bring it all rushing back.
Next week I'll be on time. And I'll be talking about my youngest daughter. Much happier topic, I promise. :)
On to the Girls I got a little side tracked from doing the profiles of my kids, didn't I?
Meet daughter #1. Kylie Rose was born in American Fork, and was named after my husband's grandma Rose. Rose was actually Grandma's last name, but it makes a beautiful middle name. So much so, in fact, that my daughter likes some of her friends to call her Rose.
Kylie just turned 9. She loves horses, the colors blue and pink, and fairies.
And she's the most stubborn child I have ever met in my life.
I think she's the most like me. Sigh.
This is the child who had her first grade teacher convinced she could do Algebra and Geometry, but couldn't master simple addition and subtraction.
I love my girl, more than she can even imagine. She was my long awaited daughter. I had three sons, and love them to bits, but I wanted a daughter to share girl things with. Since my stepdaughter never lived with us, and her mother guarded her role jealously, there wasn't a lot of room for me to even take her to the movies without some repercussions. (Sad, but true. Maybe I'll tell you about it sometime.)
Of course, after I had my beautiful Rose, I worried about her growing up as the only girl in a house full of boys. I did that. And I wanted her to have a sister to share her life with.
