Not necessarily a full energy day - but more than I thought I'd have today so I'll take it! :)

oh jeez, yeah that does sound like a lot! and being sick on top of it! D: i'm just glad i was able to see you around at all. :> life definitely comes first, but i do love being able to participate in events, even if it's just a little.

did you take your prenatal vitamin today

Thankfully I have a lot of help from my hubby, his parents (I don't get along at all with mine - VERY long story there I don't have the energy to get into), and my brother and his wife. :) Plus we have the girls in daycare a few times a week - today being one of those days - so I have a bit of quiet downtime, which helps.
Definitely on the edges of a cold. Bleh!! D:

I haven't been around for the majority of the events over the last few years. Family Life has just taken over!
But they are fun to participate in, whenever I do get the chance!

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Hummy: Yep yep! That got taken first thing this morning. :)

yay, good moonie

Dan has been great with making sure I don't forget every day. :)

that's so good
it really helps you

Yeah. Although I'm not all that bad with remembering those things, but the daily reminder does help from time to time, and he means well. :)

oh nice! it's so good to have help. and i hear you on not having a good relationship with your parents... i don't even talk to my mom anymore.

yeah, i missed basically everything from 2013-2016, i think... i was on hiatus for a while.

he's so engaged, moonie

It hurts, and I miss them, but I don't want their negativity and constantly berating and putting me down to be something my children grow up around, so better to just cut them out all together. :(
At least my older brother stood up to them, and told them he wouldn't walk away from me too.

At least you came back! I take random hiatuses without meaning to.

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Hummy: He really is. And I love him for it.

yeah, it's definitely good to get rid of that toxicity from your life, especially for your kids' sakes. and good for your brother! it's good you've got him.

yeah, i was kind of in and out for a while there but at a certain point i just kinda stopped coming by. i don't know if i ever made a decision to leave.

do you guys have an ultrasound picture?

Yeah - but it was really their choice (they were the ones who turned on me, due to a few factors, but it was my choice to just cut them out completely. I did try, because I wanted my oldest to know her grandparents - my younger daughter has never met them - but I won't have them around that sort of atmosphere).
Yeah, he's pretty great! We didn't get along all that great as kids, he's quite a bit older than me - but we've grown closer as we get older. :) (I think his wife has something to do with that. She's a sweetheart. I love her.)

I totally get that not necessarily making a decision to leave. That's usually how it is for me too.

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We do - but no scanner to scan it onto the computer.

I bet he has one in his wallet =3

He does, as well as photos of all of us, as well as individuals of both girls.

I knew he would

No worries Ghostpastry. Take as much time as you need. I'm patient.

Kay is a patient person for sure

Moon- yeah, i hear that happens a lot with siblings! and aww, i'm glad she's a good influence on him.

thank you Kay!!

He's 8 1/2 years older than me, so he wasn't a fan of having a little sister when I was born - given the near decade between the two of us in age. Oh she really is! :)

awwh! that's a shame. my oldest step sister is 5 years younger than me and i met her when i was 16 and we always got along great. but i feel like that's rarely the case.

what is a good color to purchase from the event shoppe?

That's great that you and your step sister get along!

It took until my late teens until my brother and I started getting along. He got married when I was 13.
I just did my own thing in my childhood, I don't think he liked that mom picked me over him - so if he was being mean to me, he'd be the one to get in trouble, and he somewhat took that resentment out on me. (I never asked mom to choose me over him, but it's just what seemed to happen, at least from what he's told me. )

aw, that sucks. i hate when parents play favorites...