My Precious

I feel like Smeagal right now stroking my computer saying My Preeeeecious. We put the computer in the shop. It was slow as molasses. Things in quarantine kept replicating into different places. I thought quarantine meant they couldn't do that, but apparently they can. So I've been internet-less for a whole week. Pure torture.

Darwin got me a laptop for Christmas, but it doesn't have a hickey for dialup and that's all we can get out here in the sticks. It's useless. Used to I would go sit at the library and relish in fast page loads, but now I've got a 2 year old and a 2 month old and neither are library-friendly. Woe is me, right? LOL

The Daughter came out of surgery with a swollen black eye, but within a few hours was able to see out of it again. The next day she was very dizzy and weak so I kept her home from school even though she didn't have a doctor's excuse. That night she began vomiting. Just hours before she got sick, I said to Childhood Frienemy that The Daughter was the only person in our household that hadn't caught the stomach virus "knock on wood". Guess I should've knocked harder. She was down for the count the rest of the week. Missed more school.

I had some foster parent stuff that was fun and interesting. There are some people from the foster/adoptive parenting blogosphere that I have met and some I will soon be meeting. It is weird to meet people and know more about them than they realize, but I don't feel I can say "I read your blog" because then they'll ask if I blog and I can't have my two worlds colliding.

BirthParent drama out the wazoo. It will get its own post soon.

BabyGirl's adoption is finalized!

BabyBoy's new birth certificate came in the mail recently. Very odd to see our names listed as the birth parents. The OBGYN listed is BirthMom's, not mine. Just seems so wrong. I think there should be a "birth certificate" and then an "adoption certificate".

We got another call for a placement but I asked to be removed from the list until Darwin leaves. He is already working overtime and the kids need to spend time with him. A year apart is a long time for little kids. Then, everything changes.

My parents both got the stomach virus, one week apart.

I put up the heart motif for Valentine's Day / February but will be changing it back soon. Love, love, LOVE Lena Toews designs but installing the template erased everything, links and all, and I hate having to go back and redo everything. Mainly because I can't remember how to take the black lines from around the pictures. I can't remember how to widen the middle area where you write. And with dial up it takes forever and a day to find the info online and then hunt and peck on the keyboard until I fix it all. Doesn't help that I'm computer stupid. I think I'll try ShabbyBlogs backgrounds next and then probably just bite the bullet and have someone design what I really want. I have it all figured out in my head but can't draw for shit and even if I could, I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to make that into a blog design. But anyway, changes coming soon.

45 day menstrual cycles suck.

It snowed again.

And that ends my rambling. For now.