Resurrection

I've decided to resurrect this blog, after a three year absence.  I'm sure my non-existent fans missed me!  Over the past few years, I have wondered if someone had accidentally stumbled on my very small, neglected corner of the Internet and wondered if I died in a plane crash.  I didn't - I've just been very busy and have had other things to do, and stuff.

In the intervening three years, I've had another child, switched the entire family to Paleo eating and now I'm trying to teach myself how to crochet.  (In my "spare" time.)  I'm hopeful that I will be more diligent with keeping this up to date this time around!  (*fingers crossed*)  Here's a snapshot of where I'm at after my three year absence...

1.  Emma, my oldest is 6 years old and is in Year 1 (same as "Grade 1", but with a different label) at a Montessori school.  Well, she is usually in school - she has been out for the last two weeks with first a cold and then an ear infection so bad it actually perforated her eardrum.  The antibiotics are taking hold and, for the love of all that is good in this world, I hope she'll be back at school next week.  So there is no misunderstanding, I love spending time with my kids and I am very much looking forward to spending the summer with them.  This is not the same thing as enjoying spending two weeks cooped up in the house with sick children and a teething baby.  Emma has her green-belt in Tae Kwon Do and she generally kicks ass - both literally and figuratively. Hi Yah!

2.  Xander, my oldest son is 3 years old and his attending preschool at the same school as his sister, when he is also not home sick.  (This two week forcible confinement at home may be the reason behind my blog rising up from the grave - I'm desperate for human interaction with adults, even if it's a one-sided, somewhat imaginary conversation.)  He is a quixotic mix of being extremely attached to Mommy and striving for independence in all things.  He is, like all my children, extremely funny and attractive.

3. Jax, my baby is 9 1/2 months old at present.  He is currently working on breaking through his 8th tooth.  He's been getting them early and often, presumably to test my commitment to breastfeeding.  He's not quite crawling, but he can move all over a room if left on a floor and I'm not sure if he's seconds away from figuring out crawling or deciding to skip it altogether and just walk out of the joint.  He's the child featured in my current profile picture - riding the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" ride in Disneyland this past March.  It was the only ride where they made me have him sit on the seat, so I could not resist snapping the picture of him driving the car like a big boy!

4.  Last fall, I decided to give up dairy for a few weeks to see if I could get rid of this lingering cold/allergies I had been experiencing for 15 years or so.  It worked.  Having solved that question, I stumbled upon "Paleo" or "ancestral eating", while searching for dairy-free recipes.  Emboldened my new nutritional realizations vis-a-vis dairy, I decided to give it a try for 30 days.  Less than a week in and I made the switch permanent and have not looked back.  The whole family was brought along for the ride - some enthusiastically (Emma), some very reluctantly (Xander), and some completely unknowingly (Jax).  I will be writing more about this in the future.

5.  I crocheted a mushroom amigurmi toy last week and it mostly looks like what it is supposed to be.  This week I'm working on a ninja.  (Also, I have no idea how to pronounce amigurmi.)

6.  I'm on Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/mostlymommy/.  Twitter is still being as neglected as this blog was - I'm not sure whether I'm ready to get back on that time suck quite yet.  (Although I find it amazing that the place where narcissists share with the world that they had a bagel for breakfast has actually proven to be a useful tool against oppression!)

That's all for now... I'll either write again within the week or before the decade's out, but it will probably happen!