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I am done with blogger. It has been good to me for the time I have been here - but the time has come...

drum roll please

I have my own website!

Follow me over to:

http://www.aplaceofcandor.com

(the only change is .blogspot. - but the changes to the site are tremendous!)

Blurb

This may be a short blurb, but it is just as important:

I have restricted the settings on commenting on my blog posts. Maybe you do not often follow my blog and you would not have read the post: WTF!! Commenter - You're in trouble written just last month.

My family is very important to me and therefore, I take comments made about them very seriously. There was a comment on my last post that referred to my husband as a "slug" and I do not appreciate this, regardless of the intent behind it ... jokingly or not. It was inappropriate to post that on a post that was saying good things about him.

Yes, I do complain about some of the things he does, or does not do at times - but half the time, I think that you can ask any wife about those things and she will have the same complaint...men tend to fall in those categories of the things I blog about. (Just as I am sure that women fall into the categories my husband would blog about me) You know, men and women are different but men as a whole and women as a whole - well, there tend to be similarities among them.

That post was actually written for Evan, and for the rest of you to know that the Lord has blessed me with a wonderful husband and for someone to refer to him as a slug on such a post as they did, it made me really mad.

I realize I may no longer have comments as much as I use to...but if that is the sacrifice I make to limit the rudeness towards my family, then it is no sacrifice at all.

For the Hubby

Apparently, I only post about the bad things he does and not the good things - so this is for him :)

I have been sick all week. BLAH. He even took time off work so I could stay in bed and rest while he took care of Liliana. On the days that he did work, he came home and made dinner and took care of Liliana while I did NOT-A-THING.

So - to my Hubby, thank you!

I ended up going to the doctor on Wednesday and then on Thursday their office staff really ticked me off. I was so sick and the chickadee who was suppose to JUST take my message was trying to diagnose me and ask me why I thought I was right and she was wrong. Are you freaking kidding me? Take my message. So needless to say I never got an appropriate answer because she botched my message up. Grrrrr.

It was a long week, but it ended with Sweetest Day - and Evan got me a card! I do not ask for much, but a card I do ask for and he got me a very sweet card! And he remembered that it was 7 years ago that he proposed to me, on Sweetest Day. Awe, so sweet!

I am looking forward to a much better week!

If you want something done...

...do it yourself. Why is it that men can only see what is in the sink? I know I am not the only wife out there with a husband who has this problem......

(So I was only going to just post pictures tonight - but now I need to get this off my chest.)

This post is for the men out there, listen up:

When your wife wants the kitchen cleaned...take note of the word "kitchen" - look around and realize there is more to the kitchen than the dishes in the sink.

Yes, we appreciate you doing the dishes...don't get us wrong, but the kitchen is not in the sink.

Thank you.
Goodnight.

All Liliana

Just posting some pictures of Liliana today....

I was trying to get a picture of all her curls after her bath, but she was not having it.

I can stand, but almost fell over!

I like this picture because you can see in her cheeks she's got a big ole smile going on!

Showin' off my cute little slippers that come off my feet so they are not very useful....

I am a big girl now!

Tattoo

Yes, I got another tattoo. I strategically thought through this one. Well, I always do - they are never a quick decision.

Here is why I got a tattoo - if you do not know, in August of this year I had an ectopic miscarriage...this is what my friend and I have decided to call it after talking through the events. (you can read about it under the 'August' month tab and the post is called 'A Time for Everything) Well, let me go back - I miscarried in 2006 and I got a tattoo in remembrance of that baby lost. So when things happened this time around - I immediately wanted another tattoo. It is a part of the healing for me. It is like completing my family. Having those babies with me at all times, even though they are with the Lord. I never had an ultrasound picture to carry with me, nothing. So getting a tattoo (which I already had some before 2006) is a way to express myself, remember my children who are with the Lord, heal, and to me - it is the same as carrying a picture of Liliana with me...if that makes any sense.

This time I got a very simple tattoo and I did not get any date on it. I realize that since we are not done trying to have kids, there is always that possibility I may miscarry again and I do not want to get a tattoo for each loss - so this tattoo will be to remember any loss, loss I have had and loss in the future - should the Lord lead us down that path...I pray it will not be the case, but the future is always uncertain. Once we are done having kids, I can add a date(s) if I so choose. Currently, I do not see that happening. I am so pleased with this tattoo...it really is like a layer of my heart heals when I get the tattoo and it is like completing the space in our family where that baby would be.

So here is the tattoo - I just got it yesterday so it is not healed. It is on my left arm, on like the inside - close to my heart.

Weekend Videos

Alright - over the weekend I took some videos of Liliana. The first three were all in a row. She was eating and pooping - and it was SO funny. I had to pull out the camera and video tape her...yes, video tape her pooping. BUT, she was a little stinker. (in more ways than one.)

The first time I pulled out the camera, she did this:

The burp at the end is hilarious to me!

So then we move on...it seemed that every time I turned on the camera to record and the little orange light flashed - she would stop pooping and make her cheeser face for the camera. But she just thought I was taking a picture and when she did not see the flash and I kept holding the camera there - she would make the face again.

Next - she does this hands-to-face thing when you say "oh no" and as you heard in the previous video...I had started saying that -

We have a walker! Evan's phone was on the floor - as a bribe to get her to walk so I could get it on camera! This was taken just a few days ago - I need to get new video because she is doing much better at walking than this video as she is a little wobbly yet.

Liliana is just SO much fun! This morning I walked in her room and she was standing in her crib and she got so excited to see me she squealed and starting jumping in her crib. Hilarious!!! And she always makes her cheeser face for the camera. It is so fun to see her personality really start to show.





These pictures were taken the same day as the videos...she just kept cheesin it up!