Because my sister’s twelve year old daughter sure did!!!
Because her mama, my sister Lindy had herself a baby!
Meet Alexander Lee, born at NINE pounds, TWELVE ounces.
He’s super healthy, and beautiful, and all ours. Congratulations, Lindy, Jason, and Ashley!! This boy was wanted for a long time. We’re all so happy he’s here.
My sisters have both pregnant these past several months, Anne and Lindy. Yay!
Anne had her baby this week.
OH YES, SHE DID.
And he’s beautiful, welcome Miles Jacob :) Your parents are hilarious.
I never met her in person, but she would have got a hug whether she wanted one or not had I did meet her. As it was, I was lucky to email with her, talk to her on the phone, and get promised a painting that never got mailed. It was an honor to have her even think of me, she was a smart smart happy woman.
And she will be very missed.
Or more correctly, Auntie Anne has bargain!
Anne sent this to me this morning: apparently Nordstrom’s E.L.F line is being redesigned into Nordstrom branding. MOST THINGS ARE $1. Yes, A DOLLAH. And their more expensive Studio line things are like $3.
I just ordered a buttload of stuff! And the kicker, use the coupon code CAROLINA and you get $7.50 off if you spend $15 or more. For $14 with shipping, I bought 13 makeup items. Whoa.
Go getcha some!
Updated: So, it’s not a scam but not the same kind of deal as I thought. The lovely Isabel let me know that wellll, E.L.F is always a dollar. Always. However, she and a few others I’ve talked to actually like the line well enough and hey, this just means it will be this cheap in six months, or next year! Thanks, Isabel!
Sara has had surgery and is already back home. And doing very well it sounds:
“Sara has been sprung, and is at home, watching Harry Potter, making scones and trying to convince me that there was nothing with her in the first place…”
Some info:
Sara is having surgery tomorrow, her outlook is supposed to be very very good. Life, and hopefully her own personality along with function. She hopes for “thinking and reading.”
At the moment, she said steroids are helping her read but she is losing memories and words at times. Her doctors think she’s had this tumor for one to two years.
If you are emailing Sara, please for the love of god do not send her an ecard or other spammy-inducing thing.
She seems to feel awful for seemingly falling of the face of the internet, but she loves you. And she shouldn’t feel that way, of course.
I am, naturally, leaving out a hell of a lot but I really don’t want to put out more of their story than I feel comfortable with. It’s her story, I want her to tell it when she can.
I finally talked on the phone with her for the first time, ever. And lo, Sara is every bit as fabulous as I knew her to be. Please pray, wish on a star, send love…
I learned a few days ago that my friend, and your friend, Sara from Saraarts.com and Moving Right Along has a serious brain tumor.
I’m so sorry this is the news to share today. More info to come.
One of the things I adore about NB is that he has many long term women friends. Friends he is close to, whom he loves, and with whom he routinely spends his time. Kick ass, strong women friends I also happen to adore.
Sometimes when we go out, it’s the two of us. Sometimes it’s three or four or more of us.
Also relevant to this story is the fact that the two of us are slowly incorporating our children. We used to only go somewhere with kids if any of our friends were going to be there, so they didn’t feel weird with just us. So WE didn’t feel weird.
Normally it would be something like NB, his daughter, Friend K, and me. Or, NB, Friend J, and then my children and me. See, always with the friend buffer. If there was no buffer, one of us would back out.
But in the past few months, here and there we starting doing things without the buffer and sometimes with the buffer. And then over a month or so ago, we went out with all three kids, two partners, and no buffer. The five of us. It was, interesting. I mean it went beautifully, but I think we were both a little nervous. Okay, maybe I was nervous. I like to think and think about these things.
He’s a dude.
As the weeks progressed, there’s been a bit more life with the kids around. Be it him, daughter, and me or him, me, and my children, the kids know we’re dating, like us, and seem fine. So, we’re fine.
But you know, the buffers are our friends. So they aren’t gone, naturally. Last night, we went to see The Spiderwick Chronicles.
(I’d like to tell you we only went to this for the kids, but we’ve been known for going to kids movies without kids around. Also, this movie, is eh, fine. Your kids will love it, though.)
Okay, movies last night. It was NB, me, my children, and friend Julie. NB came to my house, hung out here for a bit, then the four of us headed to the theatre to meet Julie. Where my boyfriend then proceeded to get involved in a heated air hockey battle with Brett.
We meet up with Julie, get our snackies, and make way to our seats. When Brett decides he wants to sit next to Julie, our seating looks like this:
Brett~~Julie~~NB~~Me~~Daniel.
At some point, I kind of start giggling to myself. It looked like NB was the Man-King-Husband, Julie and I were his co-wives, and we were each sitting by our respective children.
Have you seen what Bossy wants to do?
I say, HOW COOL.
Of course I invited her to my house in the ‘burbs.
So, Bossy. Here is a little slice of my life:
I have kids.
Ha! Gotcha! These are not all my kids.
These are my kids.
I have cat.
Who have a baby loofah.
I have a sister.
She doesn’t live here, so I ply her with liquor to hang out.
I have a boyfriend.
He doesn’t live here, either. Thank god.
I know people who do fun things.
I didn’t go to this fun looking event.
I DID go to this one.
Where I tumbled down a hill on purpose. TANDEM STYLE.
See, there are two of us clutching for dear life.
See! Am super fun! Not at all scary and stalkery. Uh, come anyway!
(I could put some pink in your hair for ya. Bossy goes wild in the suburbs! Ohhhhh yeah.)