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I made it to Elko in one piece, barely. Liam, of course, made things interesting. He always does. Today, however, I am at a Christmas craft all-day extravaganza with my mother in law, sisters in law and nieces for the day. Oh yeah, Evie is with us too. Should be a real fun day. Hope you’re all having a great Saturday too.

I mentioned in my earlier post that we got some pictures done at Sears on Sunday.  And, yeah, I gotta admit, the process there is a lot better than it was years ago when we would take Harry there.  For one thing, they have gone digital so I was able to see some of the best pictures the moment after they were taken.  Let’s hear it for digital photography!  Another nice side-benefit:  Getting to see your pictures online within hours of your session.  Hot damn!  So I’m here to share some of the best ones with you.  Say it with me: Aww!!

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That one of the three kids is my FAVORITE.  I want to stare at it all day long.  Luckily, when the pictures come in a couple weeks, I’ll be able to do just that!

So tell me about your own adventures in Family Portraits.  Nightmares?  Raves?

Yeah, yeah.  I haven’t posted yet today.  Three days in and I’m already doing horribly at my own un-written, self-imposed rule of “Posting by 10am”.  Whoops.  But Kile called in today and you know that it throws off my entire day whenever he’s home.  It’s not like the weekend, but it’s completely unproductive anyhow.

Yesterday was fun though.  We had an appointment to get our pictures taken at Sears Portait Studio yesterday morning.  You might recall a couple weeks ago I mentioned that we had an appointment there and the pictures DIDN’T get done and I left out a lot of details but left in disparaging comments about Sears Portrait Studio.  Well, I guess it pays to grouse because I was contacted by someone at Sears Portrait Studios and they wanted to “right the wrong”.  Without even asking for any details!  I’ll have to do a more in depth review in a couple weeks on my review blog (stay tuned!), but the long and short of it is: It went well.  VERY well, in fact.  Yes, Liam made me wish I’d kept a flask of Jack Daniel’s on me on more than one occasion.  But considering that he’s basically a Tasmanian Devil in human form, I think we did pretty well.  And the women we worked with were SUPER patient, which helped.

We got some GREAT pictures.  I mean, really GREAT.  I’m so happy that I have some nice pictures of my kids.  We even got a couple of US and they turned out pretty decent too.

We did some other shopping too and decided to get a leg up on our Christmas shopping.  We decided to go ahead with the homemade gift-basket idea, at least for our immediate families.  We picked up a bunch of stuff at Michael’s for a great price and we’re pretty excited to put everything together.  I’ll have to take pictures of it all when it’s all done.  Nothing is too hard to make, since I don’t possess much artistic talent and we don’t even have a sewing machine.  But I love what we’ve chosen to do.  And it feels good to be able to check that off our list, too.  One less thing to worry about!

Of course, life being what it is, when there is one less thing then about ten more pile in to fill it’s place.  Naturally.

So ends my obligatory NaBloPoMo post.  I hope you enjoy it.  I promise that there won’t be as much drivel in the weeks to come.  And expect a fabulously political post from me tomorrow wherein I urge you all to go VOOOOOTTTEEEE.  I bet you can’t wait for that.

Harry is home!!  My mother and sister in law brought him back to Reno last night and when he walked through the door, it was like looking at a tall, handsome stranger.  He was gone over two weeks.  And it was so good to see him again.  He was happy to be back home (I won’t even go into the filthy display that Pup made when she saw him).  Or, at least, he was happy until 9:30 when I told him it was time to go to bed.  Then I think he wanted to go back to Elko.  Apparently, bedtimes haven’t been enforced during his vacation.  But, he’s back at home now and I’ve got two weeks to whip him back into shape before he goes back to school.

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I’m going to get my blood drawn today.  Can you believe it?  I’ve put it off for so long that I wouldn’t believe it myself if I didn’tk now it to be true.  The next step will be getting in to see the doctor to go over the lab results, but hopefully that won’t be as big a production.  Who knew the labwork would be the most complicated?  The thing is, I know a lot of you said, “Just strap them in a stroller and get it done!”  I don’t know, easier said than done for me.  I have a thing with needles, they stress me out.  And to have to listen to Liam’s fussing and hollering and worry about Evie’s fussing and hollering all while trying to get blood drawn?  Would likely make my veins shrivel up.  Yes, it can be done.  But the prospect has made me keep putting it off and keep putting it off until we’re at the place we’re at.

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And, as I mentioned before, the motivation to get it done doesn’t seem as imperative as it was before.  See, I have never put a great priority behind my own health.  Shoot, I haven’t been in to see a dentist since the month before I got married (and that was because my parents essentially made me… I think they knew I wouldn’t be seeing another dentist again for a long time).  When it doesn’t somehow involve pregnancy, I just don’t feel a great motivation to get whatever issue I have taken care of.  Take my ankle, for instance.  The screws are backing out of the plates on the ankle I broke back in 2005 and I know I need to get in and see about getting them taken out.  But have I done it?  Nope.  It hasn’t been a priority.

My thyroid was a priority when I was trying to get pregnant and when I was pregnant because I was concerned with achieving and sustaining a pregnancy.  But I know now that those days are behind me.  So therefore the thyroid has slipped off the priority chart.  I’m not trying to sound like a martyr, but that’s just the way my mind works.  I’m not saying it’s not completely messed up.  Cuz it is.  But I am saying that I can’t really help the subconscious thoughts.  So when it’s a little difficult to manage amidst the chaos that is my life?  It’s very, very easy to drop the ball.  VERY easy.

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With all that said, let’s see some pictures, okay?