November 8, 2008
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This poor blog was dealt a heavy blow when we went up to Santa Maria last week. It’s hard to blog when you have no internet, it’s also hard for me to survive without internet, but we’re home again, long enough to unpack and realize just how much we love being home, before we pack up again tomorrow and either head for the mountains, or L.A. …not sure which right now. Our current lifestyle is very nomadic with a trace of hippie (or am I thinking gypsy?). Since Jim’s been without work since last February we’ve sort of drifted wherever the odd jobs are. For two people who despise packing (and could win trophy’s for the worst packing ever), we sure do it quickly and efficiently now… we’ve also just learned to do without the many things we forget. Did you know you can skip packing a coat and just wearing all the clothes you brought?
We’ve (read: Jim) applied and looked for more jobs than I care to recall, but either the position has already been filled, they’re not hiring, or someone else gets the job. I’m not worried, just sort of weary. Right now having a steady job would be like the coolest Christmas present ever times a hundred. He has a possible lead working for Naasco, so I’m sending a shout out on here for prayers about that. The pay isn’t fantastic but the benefits are nice and it would be a heck of a lot more money than we’re making (or not making) currently. God please.I tried to get pictures of the kids in their halloween costumes but this was the best I could get of Jamie. He wanted to go as Buzz Lightyear but I didn’t have one on hand so we convinced him to go as Woody instead (cowboy costumes are much easier to come by). He was fine with it until we walked into a roomful of costumed kiddos and the first thing he saw was a kid his size decked out as Buzz Lightyear. Oh the tragedy of a dejected three year old, he spent half the evening trying to convince us the Buzz costume was rightfully his.
We never had a video camera growing up so we missed out on the whole home video thing, Jim however has hours and hours of his childhood recorded on vhs, something he doesn’t always appreciate but I most definitely relish. I enjoy watching videos of Jim so much that I am turning over a new leaf and trying desperately to remember our own video camera to record Jamie and Charlie’s lives on. I just now figured out how to separate clips and put them on the internet so here’s my first attempt. Charlie’s life: moment one. Don’t click on it if births, blood and gore bother you.
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Super cute pix of the kiddos! I am wanting to click on that video but a little too scared. I will try to bolster my courage with another glass of champagne…. I really really wish you lived next door. I am so serious. We will pray for Jim’s job situation… maybe he will get offered a wonderful job in LA… *fingers crossed*
I was reluctant to watch the video until I remembered you had a C-sec ( no offense, but I just didn’t want to see your hoo-ha!).
That said, I think I’m still traumatized. I didn’t realize they yank on the baby so much! Poor kid! Here’s hoping I never need to have a C myself.
Wow. What a beautiful video! Birth is such a stunning moment no matter how they came out. And after all that pulling (I was afraid his little head was going to pop off!!), please tell me you got that boy a chiropractic adjustment!!
Jamie is, as always, one of the cutest kids on the planet. Halloween pics were super cute!
Cute halloween pictures!
I should’ve read the disclaimer more closely, because I couldn’t handle the video. lol. It kind of freaked me out when they kept pulling on Charlie’s poor little head. :winky
i hope one day we can get together.
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the boys looked great! Jamie made a very cute cowboy no matter how bad he wanted be buzz
. Cracks me up that he tried to convince you that other kids costume was his. I guess he was ready for you to strip the other kid down lol! Love Charlie as a lil pumpkin. Adorable.
The yanking on charlie’s head in your video isn’t what got me, it was just seeing his head out and the rest of him in. Super weird. I am surprised it took him so long to cry.
Heh, my fam never had a video camera either, but Rob’s did. I’ve actually seen *him* being born via C-section too! Crazy and cool all at once. The first video of me is when I was about 15 and my brothers found the church video camera unattended…