call me old fashioned...

this time of year i always start to suffer from technology overload.

black friday sales kind of kick it off advertising super "low" prices on flat screen tv's, computers, nooks and ipads and a zillion other technological devices.  then it runs throughout the whole holiday season.  everyone seems to want the "new" kindle or the "new" ipad or a bigger and "better" tv for christmas.  i just don't get it!  i come from a family of techies, many of whom work for big techy companies!  but i am just not one of them. 

don't get me wrong, i love my iphone.  but that's pretty much it.  i mostly use it for the camera.  we are a one tv family, and i am proud of that.  and more often than not, when the tv is on it's because it's playing one of the music channels (solid gold oldies, what what.)  i am a firm believer in no tv's in the bedroom (grown ups and kids alike), and i think computers belong in your home office. 

as for the new technological reading devices, those scare me the most.  first i should say that i am a big proponent of reading no matter how you do it.  i realize that reading on a kindle is kind of the writing equivalent of journaling on a blog. but i just can't do it.  isn't one of the best parts of reading a book the way the book smells?  and holding the pages between your fingers and feeling the sense of accomplishment that you get when you're over halfway through a book and there's a thick chunk of pages behind you and a small chunk waiting ahead?  that's the best feeling!  i could never give that up.  books, books, well loved, well read books.  with worn bindings and soft edges that tell a story all their own. 

in a fast paced technological world, i want to be one of the families that holds still.  i want to spend christmases around our piano singing... not taking turns on guitar hero.  i want to use our tv to watch old movies snuggled up in blankets on the couch together... not in bed falling asleep with infomercials on.  i want to glance over at billy reading the paper in the morning while i make coffee.  i want to take finn to the library.  i want him to grow up to be the kind of kid that wants a swingset for christmas and not an xbox.  call me old fashioned, but that's the way for me!

thankful.

thankful for one great, big, happy family.

thankful for a happy baby.

thankful for a husband with a great sense of humor.

 

thankful for a week of gorgeous, sunny weather.

thankful for cousins that made my job easy.

thankful to be our own little family amidst our amazing great big one.

thankful for a great thanksgiving!

we really enjoyed our time in virginia with the isaac family.  it is always a blessing to be able to meet with everyone each year and give thanks for everything God has blessed us with!  this year was filled with so many blessings throughout our whole family and we are so so grateful!

we are gearing up for the holiday season here at edges mill and couldn't be more excited about finn's first christmas.  hopefully there will be lots of blogs to come!

finn has been doing great the past week or so.  he is on amoxicillin which manages his repeat ear infections but doesn't upset his stomach the way the last round of augmentin did.  we are looking ahead to his tube surgery next week and praying it will be a good solution for him.  we don't want him to have to live on antibiotics and after lots of research and doctor visits we've decided having tubes put in his ears is the safest and most natural solution so that his little ears can drain fluid on their own.  if you think of him, please pray for his surgery next wednesday!

hoping everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving and is gearing up for a great holiday season! 
xo

gross.

one thing they don't tell you about motherhood is how many different varieties of bodily fluid you are guaranteed to have on your person at any given time.

it's uncanny. 
i'm constantly sporting at least three. minimum.

you know that baby shower game that everyone likes to play where they melt the chocolate candy bars in diapers and you have to guess which candy it is?  and everyone giggles and says "ew gross!"

well, they should change that game to a forensics type black-light CSI crime scene game where you have to positively identify the bodily fluids on your favorite jcrew cardigan. 
because let me tell you, there will never be a time when you open your babies diaper and cry "oooh a snickers bar!", but there most certainly will be a time when you're in the grocery store and you look down at yourself and think "what is that? no seriously, WHAT IS THAT? is it from me? from my baby? which end of my baby?"
and then you inevitably realize, oh shit, that's pee. 
or, oh shit, that's breastmilk. 
or the worst one, oh shit, that's shit.

there's also spit up, snot, and drool, just to name a few. 
i'm just saying, if they changed the baby shower game to a CSI game it would be much handier down the line.  if you can learn to positively identify, on your way out to the grocery store you could look down and say "ehhh, that's just snot, i'm not changing."  or, "that's definitely chunky puke, we're gonna need a wardrobe switch." 
it's an acquired skill.

hey there!

remember when i used to write blogs like all the time?  i kind of do! wow i wrote a lot of them.

the past couple of months have really been a whirlwind!  for more reasons than one.  actually, for two!

1) it's the busiest time of the year at the shop.  this makes work very awesome and fun, but it also leaves very little downtime, i.e. no lunchtime bloggy blogs.
and
2) finn was sick for a month and a half.  this was very not awesome and not fun, but it also left for very little downtime.

i missed you blog! i used to write blogs when i needed mommy advice or a laugh or just a word vomit outlet, but i had to swallow all of that word vomit in the past couple of months because i didn't have time to do normal things like brush my teeth, nevermind write about it. 

the good news is, finn is finally healthy.  the shop is still bonkers, which is also good news, but hopefully a healthy baby will leave me a little bit more free time. 

let me just say that there is officially nothing worse than when your baby feels bad.  for a long time. and your pediatrician acts completely incompetent. 
basically he had an ear infection for a month and a half that didn't go away with amoxicillin but proceeded to get more and more infected, and our doctor called it a "virus" until we ended up in the emergency room after a week of 104.5 fever. 
more on that later. 
oh believe me, there will be an angry mommy blog.

we have had lots of little happy moments amidst the struggles of the past few weeks, including halloween and fun fall festivities! say that three times fast!  i can't wait to post some pictures!  more on that too. less anger involved with that one.

we are also working on some house projects, like putting up storm windows and some fun little decorating things.  the holidays are fast approaching wheee my favorite time of year!

in other exciting news, my little sister, my only sister, is getting married in a few weeks in hawaii and we are throwing her a bridal shower this weekend that i am oh so excited about as well!  lots of happy things going on!

plus thanksgiving is coming, my favorite holiday and a finn first this year! whoopee!

i haven't synced my iphone in like 700 years, so instead of filling this blog with updated photos, i will simply leave you with this vintage classic:

thank you, and goodnight.