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August 15, 2007
A book review
I have just finished re-reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end as much the 2nd time as the 1st. This is a dracula story. This is a mystery. This is historical and modern.
I don't like scary stuff. I don't get thrills from gore, scares, or suspense thriller type stuff. I could barely get through Dracula by Bram Stoker! But this book is just good. It plays out during more than one time period and goes back and forth between them. It is historical in flavor more than in content. Only a few of the characters actually existed. I am fascinated by history and I love research. I think that I could have been a historian or a researcher or an archivist or some other such boring geek. Instead I read lots of biographies and lots of historical fiction! That all has to do with this book because like Possession by A. S. Byatt, the main characters are historian/researchers who travel and explore the past, essentually sleuths of history. I think I like these kinds of historical fiction better even than stories that take place in an imagined and recreated history. Probably because I would love to live such a story. Alas, my life is not so romantic as all that, so I guess I will just keep reading! If you have read or heard of a great historical novel pass on the title. I am always looking for a good read. I definitely have my eye on this author if she ever publishes a sophmore attempt.
Posted by adrienne at 01:35 PM | Comments (0)
full blown boy
Wow. I'm not sure what else to say but wow. This morning I had one of those moments where I didn't know if I was going to laugh, cry, or yell. Here is what happened...
I am in the kitchen fixing a cup of coffee and visiting with my sister when Stephen comes running back down the hall (Stephen always runs. He only has one speed) and into the kitchen and says with an absolutely boyish grin of pure delight, "Mommy, when I was tee-teeing in your bathroom I was moving my wee-wee all around and I was tee-teeing on your wall."
My first inclination was to laugh with amused incredulity. But that would not have been good. I don't want him doing it again! I think he was pretty scared of the consequences by the look on my face as I asked him to go down the hall and show me what he was talking about. Sure enough there is tee-tee on the seat and a small trickle down the wall. Very sternly, I told him that was not funny or cool and he was most definitely not to ever do that again.
You just don't have to tell little girls not to go tee-teeing on the walls! I am finding myself saying all kinds of things I didn't imagine I would have to say. I am discovering that just like little girls don't have to be taught to flirt or pout or prance there are certain things that little boys don't have to be taught either. They are just inherently boy. There are so many things that he finds funny now and I am realizing he is not a toddler anymore, but a strange creature called a boy. It is fun to throw things, destroy things, hit things, anything. Fast is always better. There was another story that went with this post but now I can't remember it. (darn pregnant brain) Oh, well. If I think of it I will post it later. I sure do love my little boy.
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August 07, 2007
Fun times
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August 06, 2007
Nathan update
Well, we are definitely in the home stretch. The 2nd trimester has flown by so fast. (also read the summer has flown by so fast!) I had a check-up this past friday and things are going great. My blood pressure has been perfect this pregnancy, Praise the Lord. My glucose test came out fine and I haven't gained as much weight as I did with the other two by this point.
This baby boy is very active. I think he is practicing for keeping up with the other two before he even gets here. I really don't remember the other two being quite this active in utero. And this scares me just a little if I dwell on it.
Most days I feel great. Then I do too much (or so I am told) and spend a day or two doing not much of anything. I have moved Lexie out of the crib, so it stands empty waiting for it's newest occupant. It is driving me crazy that I can't pick what bumper pads/theme/direction I want to go in order to have the bed fully ready. It doesn't matter that he will probably sleep in the bassinet in our room until January. Don't try to reason with a pregnant woman. I have also been organizing toys, getting rid of toys, and separating out the baby toys from all of the other toys. These have been cleaned and refreshed and assembled in the top of the nursery closet waiting to be played with again.
Thank you so much to the Shipp's for the very welcome addition of some fall/winter newborn boy clothes, something we were lacking- both of our kids having been summer babies. I think I will get out the baby boy blankets/burp cloths box out of the shed this week and get those washed and in the dresser.
My brain swims with projects to do. How many will get done? I don't know. How many need to get done? I don't know. With the potential life-changing shake-up next summer I am wanting to empty and go through essentially everything we own. Getting rid of stuff, selling stuff on Ebay and organizing stuff to the point where it cannot be organized anymore. That cannot happen before this baby gets here. In fact, I'm not sure if it can be done at all. In order to take a half step in any direction with that plan I have to take a step back. Resulting in the which I don't have the foggiest where to start or step. And my all encompassing/organizing/cleaning machine is beginning to overheat with the stalled frustration. But suddenly this post is more about something other than Nathan. Can't wait for Nathan to get here. It would be easier to do all of this if he were in a sling rather than inside me. But he has a few more weeks to grow and get fat. I go back to the doctor on the 20th and will take care of registering at the hospital and with the anesthesiologist. That makes things feel very close indeed. But then when I think about school starting and the holidays things feel very far away...
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