I Am Drowning

end of semester maddness with projects–very very very big projects. pictures to proof and get to clients yesterday. EOR work to finish (love you ladies and sorry I’m not keeping up).  I am trying hard to keep my head above water.  it should all be better come monday at 7:30 after I have presented my final project that is going to kill me.  no time for capitalization or spell check.  getting PhD might just kill me.  two kids who go non-stop with out the ability to sit still or allow mommy to do anything.  i use to be able to work while Zo napped or while Noah napped but those days are at an end.  i am non-stop playing and entertaining children from 7:30 am until 9:00pm when they are both finally in bed and asleep.  doesn’t leave a lot of time to get anything done.  sorry to all of those who are waiting for me to get stuff finished. it’s coming.

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Tag…I’m It!

Stacie tagged me a few days ago and I haven’t had the time to devot to really pondering what ten things I am really thankful for.  It’s hard to pick out ten.  So here they are in no particular order….

  1. I am thankful for my husband’s complete and total love and acceptance of who I am.  We both come from divorced parents and to have him and know that our marriage is as good as we choose to make it comforts me. He makes me laugh and is one of the best dad’s around.  He is so great with our kids and the love that radiates from him fills our house with warmth and comfort.  I love you baby…in all of your total goofiness. 
  2. I am very thankful for adoption and the family it has provided for us.  I often tell Noah and Zoë that they are what make us a family and it is true.  Without them we are just a couple.  I am very thankful for my family.  Noah and Zoë are so very different and so amazing.  They wow me each day with their personalities and actions.  I could go on and on about Noah and Zoë but really I think you all know, how I feel about them and their monthly newsletters are coming up in a few days–I’ll gush independently about them then.
  3. I am thankful for TIVO.  I don’t know what I did before TIVO. I am so inlove with being able to watch what I want when I want.  It rocks.  If you don’t have it and watch TV, what are you waiting for?–Get it.
  4. I am thankful for my fellow wanna mom’s whom I had the pleasure of meeting IRL at our first Wannafest–ladies we need to start planing our next one?  How’s Colorado sound?  These women–Anne, Steph, Ginger, and Blaine are wonderful women and their kids are great too.  It’s nice that our kids share a common bond and even though they aren’t blood relatives, we call them cousins.  You ladies rock.
  5. I am thankful for diet soda and good diet soda.  I remember when TAB and Shasta were the only diet soda’s on the market and they tasted like ass–or at least what I imagine ass tastes like.  I am a diet soda junkie.  I don’t know what I would do with it. 
  6. I am thankful to have the tremendous opportunity and responsibility to be part of EOR and to get to work with the dedicated and amazing women who do so much and work so hard–I am humbled by them and long to be able to dedicate more time to our efforts. 
  7. I am thankful for my health and the health of my family and those that I love.  I have been lucky so far in my life that all of those whom I love have lived long and happy lives and that I still have two grandmothers and my kids have all of their grandparents–I hope this continues.
  8. I am thankful for my doggies and cat and again for my hubby letting me bring home two dogs that picked me at a golf course–only a week after we closed and moved into our house.  Is that fate or what?  I love my doggies and cat.  The dogs–chip and putt–are the best dogs ever.  They are so well-behaved and good with our kids.  It is awesome. 
  9. I am thankful for technology–I know weak, but I am. HD– I love…L.O.V.E tv and it is awesome in HD.  I would have a 72″ tv if I lived in a house where it wouldn’t be too big and HD just makes it so much better.  My iPhone–really do I have to even explain that.  My computer–again no words needed.
  10. I am thankful to Noah and Zoë’s birth mothers.  They are amazing, courageous, strong women who did what they felt they had to.  I am sorry they felt they had too, but am also very grateful because these two children fit into our lives seamlessly and truly were meant to be our children. 

I am now suppose to tag 5 people–but if you have been around here long enough you now that I don’t tag people.  I just don’t.  So please feel free to consider yourself tagged and leave a comment telling me you did it.

A Time For Thanks

It has been a very busy week here thus far at Chez Finley.  The kids, especially Noah, has kept Granny Sue very very busy.  It has been great and I am so thankful that she is willing and able to come and stay with us for a week to really get to bond and further develop relationships with her grandchildren. 

Granny Sue is the first peron Noah asked about every day.  It’s awesome.  On our way to family dinner then to visit family in Champaign.  Back later–I’ll be giving more in-depth thanks on Saturday.