I know how to post pictures!

So, I finally got the memory chip out of the camera and I'm posting some pictures! Yea!

Here is a picture of Matt and Emmaline at the zoo a little while ago. Ignore the weird guy in the background, I don't know him.

Okay, now here is a picture of Emmaline devouring her Spaghetti. Its funny, I realized that I would prefer taking a half an hour to clean her up than I would prefer just feed her so she doesn't get messy. It gives us some really cute pictures!

This picture is of me and Emmaline. I think my hair is rather cute in this picture so I want to show it off. It was one of those days where everything just worked.

And this last picture is just adorable anyway. It was the first time I put a hat and mittens on her. I think she was saying 'ut-oh!' in this picture.

So that is a whole slew of pictures of my family. I have the cutest daughter and the hottest husband and I don't think it can be contested now.

I think I'm going to take a stab at figuring out videos and post the bubble video in a previous post. So if you see it, I've succeeded!

It never ends, does it?

I put Emmaline's hair up in a pony tail today. Generally I put two little ones on the top of her head but today I wanted to be adventurous and put only one towards the back of her head. Most of her hair isn't long enough so its sticking straight up. Its pretty amusing. I have a ginormous paper due in a week and two days (its 15 pages long) and I'm at a road block. Which is pretty pathetic since I've only written a page and a half. My biggest problem is that I can't find the particular data that I need. I went to the library but rather than pointing me to helpful books, the librarian tried to show me how to use the internet. So, a waste of a few hours. I did find one book but honestly, I could have written it. And its not helping. Maybe I don't know my topic well enough (I really don't ) but I don't understand how the US can let in 200,000 refugees a year during and after WWII but over a 7 year period, only 400,000 people enter the US. As you can tell, I'm writing about refugees. So basically, either I'm pretty stupid and I can't understand the literature (highly unlikely) or the writer of this book doesn't even understand what he's writing. But that's pretty unlikely too. Other than writing this horrible paper, I've been babysitting, selling books, planning Christmas parties and trying to keep my house clean. You would think my life would be interesting but I'm so caught up in getting things done that it isn't. I'm so looking forward to a year from now when school is over and I can focus on some more important things- like my family. Goal until next time: stop and enjoy what is going on as it happens. Its not going to rewind so I can watch again.

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So in the mean time, I've written several papers, edited several more, cried over my endless history homework, freaked out about my house being dirty, babysat, gone to the zoo and park, worked on my business (several more sales...good for me!), and tried to spend a few minutes of time with my family. School is out for winter break in 6 weeks. My school. I don't yet care about the public schools. I am looking forward to that but yet again, not. I have a growing list of things to get done. 1. I need to make a cloak for my brother. Its sort of a tradition I guess- since I've made cloaks for 2 of them already. I have the fabric but I have to find a pattern and make it. 2. I have to make some freezer meals. I made some before this semester started and they've been good to have. I realized that I don't like Shepherd's pie though. I think we've had that once in the last 2 months and I made 9. 3. I need to organize the storage room and Emmaline's closet. Ugh. 4. I really want to get my independent study class significantly worked on. (I realized I don't even need it to graduate and that made me mad. Not only is it a time inconvenience, it cost me 500$. And to find out I don't need it? Didn't make for a pleasant morning.) 5. We are going on vacation to visit Matt's family. So there is packing. And cleaning before we go- I hate coming home from vacation to a dirty house. And then of course, the week we are gone. So lots to do. I doubt I'll actually get a break. Just wait until I have more kids. Then I won't remember what break means! And then, its the first Christmas that Emmaline will be able to participate in so as mom, I feel like I need to start making some 'family traditions'. I keep thinking about caroling, the 12 days of Christmas and other little service things that we should do with her- teach her the 'reason for the season'. What am I supposed to do about our Christmas tree? I know Emmaline is going to love it. And play with it. And pull off all the little green plastic things that are supposed to be the needles. And she'll want to cart around the decorations. Someone suggested that we buy a small tree to put on a table... where's the fun in that? I want to put the tree up the Sunday after Thanksgiving but then I'll have the tree up for three plus weeks and have that daily battle keeping her from pulling the tree down on top of her. Whats the point of this post? I don't know. I guess I felt like I needed to update...well, since no one reads this yet...update the blog for updating's sake. I'm still working on the pictures. Our other laptop now works and Matt just needs to transfer pictures from the old computer onto this one. That'll be fun. We did play with bubbles for the first time this morning. Emmaline kept popping them but looked overwhelmed when there were a lot of bubbles and she'd run away. I'll have to see if I can post that picture here. Until next time I find a chance to write: I must remember, its not the quantity of experiences we have with our children, its the quality.