Diary of An Irish Woman

Ugly sweater

2011-12-21T01:38:00.001-08:00

Here's my creation for fugly sweater contest at work for the holidays. I don't think Martha Stewart has anything to worry about ;)

photots

2011-06-26T12:20:00.000-07:00

So been a while since I blogged here - new job, new activities - and the quickness of facebook seem to chip away at longer blog posts. I still enjoy though writing and guess I'll get my chance when I start back school end of August. I start a MLIS - as well as the full time job and the two wonderful kiddies and my hubbie to all keep up on. However I do have advantage as I work EST hours for VA area - even though I'm on west coast - so I start at 6am and finish by 3 - so gives me two hours to do school work/exercise/laundry/cook dinner etc - all those errands before I get the kiddos - they are at a new daycare for the summer. We like her a lot but I know the boys will look forward to going back to seeing their Catherine again as shes like family. Me - I'm doing grand - I dont say a diet anymore as now its just a way of life - low calorie, low carb, low fat and higher protein - its working and I also feel so much more energetic. Heres the recent family shots - my wee pirates!

Race Day

2011-05-03T20:30:00.000-07:00

Heres my Dad and hubbie at the St Patricks Day Race - my Dad pushing the stroller with F1 and F2 walking came 2nd in his age group - to say hes a fast walker is an understatement. Hubbie ended up jogging beside him just trying to keep up

So far we have done a 5K every month since January and we do one next week! Yeah!

Queen Borg

2011-04-17T23:00:00.001-07:00

So you know that you're a geek when you tell your husband that QueenBorg is available.. I have the handle on Facebook and Twitter and he runs to get his laptop and goes and gets the domain for you. I've been slacking in posting here - facebook is a lot easier but I'll do a better job. Whats new? Well two kids now - age 3.5 and 15 months and both doing grand. I start a new job in May, I just got accepted to my MLIS program in fall and I'm now half the person I was after losing weight and also now doing a 5K every month this year. Exciting and the changes are really just bringing me back to me. I finally feel back to being myself and glad I have my hikingviking partner to share it all. Expect more QueenBorg ;-)

In response

2010-11-02T00:34:00.001-07:00

http://www.twf.org/Library/Violence.html
Interesting article on lines in Quran often touted as proof as a
reason to 'fear' all muslims. Easy to take any religious text out of
context/history.The old/new testament also manipulated to show just
cause for murdering innocents in WW2/crusades. Do terriorists exist?
Yes of course. Plenty evil done in name of a 'religion'. Should I fear
all from a religion for the sake of poisoned few? No, I would hope
that in time like other conflicts, the moderates win out.

Prayers

2010-10-04T21:44:00.001-07:00

Talking to F1 at bedtime about prayers. What's prayers he asked. It's
thanking God for all our blessings like our family, friends, being
well, roof over our heads and our meals and praying for people who
need our help and prayers. We thank God, he asked. Yes we do I said.
But I said thank you to you for the chocolate already Mammy.

Happenings

2010-07-16T10:18:00.000-07:00

Been ages since I blogged here. Well we are having a lovely summer and
I'm getting fitter and getting ready to go back to work and F2 is
doing great with his hereidtary spherecytosis. We don't have to see
specialists for a couple of months yeah! He's napping in pics below.
Both boys growing up so quickly!

Sunday morning play dough style

2010-05-23T21:44:00.001-07:00

Merry go round

2010-05-14T07:00:00.001-07:00

Went to happy hollow for walk with wee guy. He seemed to like the
merry go round

Sailing

2010-05-14T06:58:00.001-07:00

Have not posted here in a while. Had a lovely Mothers day weekend. We
sailed around S F bay and my eldest loved it as did I. Under Golden
Gate and around all the North Bay. Food and music on board. Great wee
trip

2010-04-17T23:31:00.001-07:00

So time for sleep. One baby is two and half and is a showman at heart. The other is 13 weeks and is a cuddly bunny who loves looking around the world. Adventures await

2010-04-17T23:27:00.001-07:00

So see which one this works on

Spring clean

2010-03-28T14:56:00.001-07:00

I'm getting ready to spring clean and freecycle the shite out of stuff
we have in the house and garage.

Now that F2 is doing better for now and holding his own I'm trying to
get more organized at home and set up the house so we know where
everything is. We have the bedrooms pretty done and kitchen but the
garage and some closets are just scary!

I make lists so I can feel better about getting it all cleaned. Works
for my brain anyway.

F2 is now in 3-6 month clothes or just about. It's amazing how quick
they grow. With all the hospital stuff it's been hard to get into a
routine and with his doctors visits and mine for the SPD been twice as
hard but we will get there!

So back to cleaning and laundry I go. Now just to finish taxes and we
can all celebrate a working weekend

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2010-03-26T11:16:00.001-07:00

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Gossiping

2010-03-21T13:32:00.002-07:00

Hello video

2010-03-21T13:32:00.001-07:00

Brothers

2010-03-21T13:31:00.001-07:00

Hello

2010-03-21T13:30:00.003-07:00

Much better

2010-03-21T13:30:00.001-07:00

Hanging out

2010-03-21T13:29:00.001-07:00

Happy Paddys Day

2010-03-21T13:28:00.001-07:00

Sunday

2010-03-21T13:27:00.001-07:00

Finally catching up to some sleep. Having a newborn is always tiring but more so when back in hospital for another blood transfusion. Threes a charm right! It's the hereidtary spherecytosis again kicking his red blood cell level into anemia. Poor we guy was so so tired and not feeding well. We were at hospital till 2am while I held him as this small bag of blood went into him over 4 hours. He's doing much better and I was surprised to hear that the hospital that we had him in had another case of HS. Now the nurses know about it thanks to our education and stay so hopefully they can help these parents out and get them to Stanford for the right followup

Sunday morning my hubbie took the baby out and got breakfast and I slept in a bit. It was so good wish we could do that every day hah

Wishing you and yours a lovely week

Steps

2010-03-15T14:41:00.001-07:00

Finally getting into a routine during week of doc and appointments. I
rejoined weight watchers. I figured that this way I can try and keep
the sugar down while I nurse. The hunger that you feel while nursing
is pretty ravenous. I normally lose more than 2 pounds first week
which is water weight but this time I didn't as I'm drinking the 8
glasses already a day. I think it's good though to account for
everything we eat in a day. The great thing is also having it on the
iPhone as well.

Rant on breast pumps

2010-03-04T14:30:00.001-08:00

Ok, it might seem weird for a blog post but for the LOVE of all that's holy can't they come out with a breast pump with following features

1- how about an off/on switch that I can turn on and off without performing yoga expert poses with my nose, elbow, knee ?

Sewing machines have a foot pump since the 1920's why can't we have a foot pump to turn it on and off?

I don't know how many girlfriends have told me about them trying to turn on and off with knees and elbows and spilling that precious milk doing so. And we all know how upsetting dropping the liquid white gold is!

2- If I have both pumps on each breast, what third arm do you think I'm using to power this puppy on and off Mr BreastPump inventor?
Never mind 4th arm to turn the strength up ? I won't even mention the let down button.

It has now become the job of my two year old son to hit the button when it goes to the let down aka slower flow button. He hears the noise change and dashes in to 'help Mammy hit button to go back to let down quicker mode'

I'm sure the therapy he needs later on in helping Mammy pump, will be offset by the rest of the issues he gets from us ;) again foot pump people. Or even voice control? Maybe an iPhone App hah?

3 - would it hurt to have soft flexible cups instead of hard plastic. They have soft cups only on one model In 24 - the smallest size and none other. I'm not a small size. I'm not 24. Neither are most women. I'm the kind of size cup size wise where it's at least half way down the alphabet. :)

So hands free bras don't work for me for pumping and the hard cups on pumps are SO far away from an infants mouth it's hard to think who designed this but a man with serious issues re actually checking out what breast feeding actually entails and what modern materials have come into use in last say 50 years!

Right now I'm pumping with full strength on from start while I try and position my breats in middle and not get my toes yanked through my head. Never mind at night. There's another idea - night lights built in the pump.

So medela, avent, evenflo listen up. Time to rework your version of the pumps. Or maybe we just need the Dyson guy to rework breast pumps.

Playing with our etsy gift

2010-03-03T19:42:00.003-08:00