Blame it on Facebook

I think that's the reason I rarely post on here anymore. Facebook is too much fun and I only have so much computer-time in the evenings.

Also, I think I feel a little too exposed to say much on here. Too bad. I was really hoping to keep this kind of a secret place where I could vent and only a few chosen people could access my thoughts. The internet is just not a secret place. Kind of sucks.

Oh well.

Summer is over already. I feel like I missed it again this year by working too much. We bought a fantabulous trailer and we hardly used it. I wish I had the balls to find another job but I feel so damned responsible to stay where I am for awhile longer. I don't hate the job or the people, not at all, but I do feel like it's time to learn something new, hang out in different digs for awhile. 7 years at the same place is a long time for a wanderer like me.

Mr X is up north fishing right now with his brother at a good friend's fishing lodge. I'm celebrating by making cabbage rolls (well, lazy cabbage rolls to be honest) because I love them and he can't stand them. I'll eat them all weekend long and then hopefully be sick of them for awhile. I hope he has a wonderful time. He's been so stressed lately and I'm not sure if the chasm I feel between us some days is because of his stress or because....well I don't know what else. I don't want to think about it because it hurts my head. I just hope he's okay.

I'm also hoping to read lots this weekend. I'm reading The Plain Truth by Jodi Piccoult right now. It's about an Amish family and it reminds me of my early years and the uber-conservative Mennonite churches I attended. My uncle John was even mentioned in the acknowlegments at the beginning of the book. Kind of cool.

Poor Nyckee is off work until after the baby is born because her hip bones are out of place or something weird like that. Poor thing. How they manage to keep it together financially is beyond me but she's amazing. I wish I was a millionaire sometimes so I could make things easier for my kidlets, but they will get through this and they will be stronger for having done it on their own. I'm so proud of her and of Miles.

It's so hard to imagine that in 2 months there will be another person in our lives to love. Can't imagine loving the new little one half as much as we do Chaeli, but of course we will.

Chaeli has been SO much fun lately. I'd forgotten how clever 2 year olds can be. And so damned cute I can almost not believe it. Everything she says and does is beyond brilliant to us. We went to Edmonton last weekend, Nyk, Chaeli and I, because my mum was there for our old church's 50th anniversary. On the way to my brother's house, we told Chaeli that we were going to see Grandma (I am Ima, so she had no idea who Grandma might be). For some reason she thought my brother, Doug, was Grandma. When he went out to pick up dinner, she kept asking, "where's Grandma?" and I'd point her to my mum. Finally, Doug came back in and she put her hands up and said, "THERE's Grandma!" It was just hilarious. Fortunately, he was a good sport about the whole thing. The next day, my sister-in-law came into the room and Chaeli brightened up and said, "Hi Grandma!", so she was must have thought everyone at the house was Grandma. It was so funny. She was so good in the car and is so friendly to everyone. What a great kiddo.

Mitchie is off to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks to go to a seminar for work, lucky duckie. I love being able to see her every day since she moved back. I have no idea how I managed when she was so far away in Alberta. We talked every day, but it just isn't the same. This is SO much better! I hope we all stay here forever. Saskatch really is the best place to live, but don't tell -- we don't want everyone moving here. heh