I haven't posted one of these in a while... But this one was fun:

lordandrei: Leaving campus
shimmeringjemmy:LwwlllllwmnpaA0pa00
shimmeringjemmy:E
shimmeringjemmy:e
lordandrei: Hi Aiden
shimmeringjemmy:A©
shimmeringjemmy:Q©
lordandrei: Does mommy know you're typing to me?
(pause)
shimmeringjemmy:she does now
lordandrei: heh

Tags: family, im, toddlerhaving
Current Location: Bus ride home
Current Mood: amused

Heavenly Sleep Coming to bed, this is what I found. I consider myself very fortunate and very, very blessed.

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Tags: family, toddlerhaving
Current Location: Bed
Current Mood: happy

http://pics.livejournal.com/lordandrei/pic/0001pchs/g21

Tags: family
Current Mood: happy

I hear him breathe. I wonder if it is normal breathing. I lay next to him wondering if I am doing enough...wondering if I'm not missing something obvious and important.

Was that grumble to hoarse? Should I be checking him for fever? Are we over/underfeeding him? is that a bister, a rash, allergy? Will I always be strong when she needs me?

I find myself impatiently waiting for the time where I'm searching for the answers to everyone of his questions. But now... I just hope I make it day to day being there when and as needed for them.

As I lay down... I see myself wantimg to be 6 again. I lay in my fiberglass, racing car bed. I see my room growing up...my desk, my windows...

But the safety of that time is gone... I am a little boy grown up...

I hope I am doing this right.

Tags: aiden, baby having, family, growing up
Current Location: bedroom
Current Mood: scared

Please understand.. I love my shimmeringjemmy more dearly than I can ever express. And the fact that she is 20 weeks along is a wondrous thing.

That being said, she is a territorial sleeper. The bed becomes the board for a game of risk that she slowly annexes through the night. About 10 minutes before she awoke, I realized that she'd rolled herself to cordon off about 70% of the bed.

Her first general is a big, black, ball of fur that often walks into the center of the remaining space and sits in there holding the contents immobile while her leader rolls to annex more space.

This is usually the clue that it's time for me to abandon my loosing battle for bed-space and go downstairs to perform my task at private, last-class and give refill the food bowl for the aforementioned "Big, black, ball of fur."

And yet.. it's more amusing than anything else.

Tags: family, humour, sleep, territory
Current Mood: distressed
Current Music: Lovecats, The Cure

In engineering as in many other jobs you are sometimes given a project you really love to work on. It's the thing you like doing and this unto itself is a good thing (tm). However, this project usually is delivered with 2-5 other projects that you hate. Furthermore, these projects are far more important and (of course) need to be finished by last week.

My happiness is that I've just finished all but one of the 'icky' projects and may now go back to working on my baby. I can't really talk about it in this open forum....yet. But I'll reserve bragging rights for later :)

All in all, life has been okay. I'm still happy with my cleaning efforts. A friend came by the house and gave me the requisite, "Am I in the right place?" This was sufficient to make me happy. I'm also finally getting a chance to tear into old packed boxes from my first Calif move. I found all my old genealogy stuff and am hoping to get in touch with my local relative before she gets too old.

Things are still a mess with my natural family. At latest count my maternal side of the family is positive that my father died in August, my paternal side is positive that he is doing fine. Personally, I don't have the energy to even bother with it anymore.

So this was just a quick breather while I prepare to dive into my pet project for the rest of today. Wish me luck I'm on a tight time frame :)

-me

Tags: cleaning, family, genealogy, work
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Brother of Mine (ABWH)