My poor neglected blog

I have effectively neglected all my cyberspace duties lately. I get posts from friends on Facebook asking where I am and emails from friends that I forget to respond to. I’m going to blame it on the pregnancy. Yes I am tired but that would not be the reason. I have been overwhelming myself with the plethora of baby gadgets and gear. Apparently baby products have come a long way since I was in the market eight years ago. I have been online doing research, reading reviews and now my eyes are about to fall out of my head. Sure it is fascinating and you have to wonder what in the world a $900 stroller can do. However, I never found any evidence that it actually sprouted wings and flew so nothing was resolved. Instead I am now more confused than when I began.

Officially I am throwing in the towel and joining back with my blog and peeps on Facebook. There is no sense in wasting anymore brain cells!

The Birds and the Bees

It seems that my 7 year old almost got schooled today on the facts of life. I unwittingly observed the whole thing. There were these two 4th graders from the neighborhood school talking about some huge thing that had happened. One had played a prank on a third neighborhood girl and wrote a nasty note. The note said how this third girl was in bed with so and so boy and had sex. I’m not a hundred percent sure but I don’t think such things were on my mind when I was 9! My daughter wasn’t included in this conversation at first because she wasn’t old enough to hear it. Well duh. I’m not sure I am old enough to hear this conversation. So anyway when they decided to divulge some information to my daughter there was a teenage “supervisor” and when she realized that Ashlyn thought sex meant sexy she immediately halted the conversation. I didn’t know what was being said but I saw all the little pow wows happening and the exclusivity. I knew there was drama but had no idea the extent.

However, now I am left with the aftermath of trying to explain. Thankfully she doesn’t want to know about a lot of it. She doesn’t feel ready and so I take my cues from her. Who says homeschoolers don’t get socialization? This example shows they get plenty and drives home how I want all the children's “education” to come from me, not from the older/experienced kids. Yikes.

The Tooth Fairy is broke!

So on my blogging vacation my two girls lost a combined 3 teeth! Not sure why they must do things in pairs. For goodness sakes they aren’t even twins but since having both, everything must be done in simultaneously. At least now it is teeth and not poop. But this causes me to ponder what it will be down the line when they are teenagers or even grown. What will happen so that one doesn’t upend the other? Puberty in tandem? Marriage within hours? Pregnancy timed with synchronous cycles? Hmmmph. I am now petitioning for this to stop at teeth for heaven’s sake! I don’t mind tiptoeing around in the middle of the night replacing gross teeth with cash. However, please I don’t think I have a strong enough heart for this craziness to continue!