Sunday Summary

Dorothy wearing doggy hat Nori made at daycare. They are studying pets in October

How did get to be Sunday night already? I will make the best of it and hang with my husbo tonight getting caught up on all our DVR's shoes from last week after Norelle goes to bed.

Gramsie Hol giving GI Nori a sip from her canteen.

Winona was fun, I was happy to get there and spend some quality time with my Papa & Grandma. Our favorite time was having coffee at the Blue Heron Coffehouse which has come a long way and is really cool now housing the Book Shelf (owned by our pal Johns Nolan's sis Mari & BIL Chris). I like to see cute fun things happening in Winona. My mom also had fun having us there and I loved being able to sleep in!

Yesterday we drove back admiring the awesome fall colors and arrived just in time to go to Jill & Shawn's baby shower at the Chatterbox. Laura hosted a sweet baby shower and we are all so excited for Jill to have a baby girl in Dec/Jan. Liz & Steve were here last night for Ellen's 19th birthday and although we were all beat, we went to the Blue Door Pub to celebrate. That is place is doing great business, they were packed again. And today after naptime, Jake & I took Nori to the Pine Tree Apple Orchard where we toured the pumpkin patches, bought some apples and had cider too. Jake wondered what the Rolloff's are doing right now in Oregon and both agreed that Zach & Jeremy could make a better corn maze.

Lovely porta-potty in the background, no?

We are standing in an apple tree. Neat!

1st apple

By the by (I say this now instead of BTW), Nori is learning so much! She knows how to crawl down the step in our kitchen feet first. She shakes her head "NO", usually just for fun, points to noses, LOVE dogs and says "WHOA" all the time so she sounds like Joey Russo. Life is wonderful and I am so lucky and blessed!

Winona weekend

Happy 19th Birthday Fluffy!

Happy 19th Birthday Ellen!

My blog is aliiiive with the sound of muuuuusiiiic!!!

All the possibilities in the world and I write that? I'm not even sure what it means. Sorry I have been MIA but I have been so busy helping the Senator prepare for the debate. I was bummed none of my questions came up. I thought for sure people would want to know his favorite color!

Dear Diary,

So lately (as in the past 8 1/2 months ) I have become a sentimental fool! Prior to Nori's birth, I rarely cried. I would even go so far as to say I couldn't cry. But becoming a mom has turned me into a sappy Hallmark mess. Every night when I read to her before I tuck her into crib, I burst into tears when we get to the line: "it's time for bed little deer, little dear...the very last kiss is almost here". It reminds that another precious, irretrievable day of her babyhood has passed and soon she will leave for college and forget I ever existed. It's killing me, I think I need therapy! Time is flying by and while I am enjoying it to the maximum, I am so sad too. I LOVE being her mom! I have finally found something I love to do, yay! Sadly, they don't pay you for it so other obligations get in the way. And given all the economic crises we face, I worry "what if we never have another kid and this is my only baby EVER and she grows up and disowns me for being too clingy and smothering and I am all alone?". When I act like that, Jake calls me Holly (Hi Mom!). Don't worry, I'm not going off the deep end entirely it's just that I never anticipated how emotionally intense motherhood would be and how deeply and unconditionally you can love and adore a little baby girl named Tootie McBootie! Beer me some empathy.

yours,
Momma Megan

Baby's first marathon?

Forget it, too cold & rainy to cheer this year. Sorry runners! Jake is only about 6 hours in to baby gate installation so we are busy enough handing him orange slices and cups of water to help him keep his energy up. It's harder than it looks.

No subject too mundane for SoS?

1773 Laurel has been plagued with plumbing problems as of late. Ray Keller, the old, sweaty, overpriced plumber was already out once last week to remove an actual dreadlock from the shower drain so when last night's toilet clog arose, Jake had to tackle it alone. Apparently he worked on it for 45 minutes while I was out (oh, what I did I do last night? I'll let Sabro fill you in and save the extra keystrokes but I would say the food was not spicy enough, unlike the ladies). Anyway, once I got home I had to give him the Holly Palbicki tutorial on how to plunge: vigorously and with lots of splashing. Alas, the pipes are working again. Also, T.McB has another cold so I have been hard at work with the blue nose "plunger" clearing her airways.

In other news, it's a week of visitors!! Auntie Ellen biked over last night to visit before her Vegetarian-For-One-Week Dinner ( she is getting way involved in college, Big Brothers/Big Sisters and a new job working as an usher at sporting events at the U), Papa Bill is coming over tonight and Grandma Liz & Gramps Steve this weekend. One other update, Gramsie Holly is a lunch lady! She is working at my old school, St. Stan's, serving up Sloppy Joe's with a smile.