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oh, us, oh, lately!

so, we have been ooon the mend in our housey! and actually, on the mend, i think, is just a pretty little phrase for “we’ll get better eventually but probably not today or tomorrow or the next day,” because i feel like we’ve been on the mend in one way or another for basically a month now.
anyway, to be quite truthful, i don’t usually consider us to be those types of people that are just always a complete mess everywhere they go, you know? i mean, i wouldn’t claim to have it all together by any means, because, ha!! wouldn’t i like to know what it felt like to be able to say that! but, well, i don’t lose things very frequently [in the last 5 years i think i have lost an earring and most recently, some ray-bans, which was quite tragic, as i am not accustomed to such losses!], i keep my closet pretty decently organized by color, historically we aren’t too accident-prone, and we’re very rarely too far under the weather. granted, i do prefer leggings and unruly hair for my daily wear, but i’m just saying! walking disasters, we are typically not.
but us? lately?! haha! oh my. such a mess!
it was about a week ago now that we were driving in the car, pulled up to a stop sign, when i felt compelled to yell out quickly to steven, the driver, that we were possibly about to collide with another moving vehicle, because we were, and then we both actually shared a chuckle at our near-deathiness and as of that day, declared ourselves in a state of family-wide mess [due to that event and a few things pior]. and since then, i don’t think we’ve really come too far!
on christmas day [3 days after we’d already declared our state of messiness], steven went viral. and not at all in a fun, internetty way. he just acquired a virus within his person. he felt terrible, and i felt so so sad.
we then hibernated a bit in our house in the days after, which was actually kind of nice for me, because i was all sorts of tired… and nesting with all our new christmas things was fun! but then there was the sad sick husband and the mass amounts of lysolling. and the teething baby. more molars! hey hey!
also, we watched our mailman not deliver my long-awaited late christmas gift, a new coat from stevo! arriving from overseas… but instead, he simply left a notice in our mailbox saying that he missed us and to go pick up our parcel at the post office. but we were home! and this was on a saturday! which means i had to wait all the way until monday to get it. so today, i went. and well, i tattle-told on him. and now here i am, burdened with the guilt of not being christmas spirity forgiving enough. but really, our driveway is as short as it gets, and our mailman doesn’t even bother to close our mailbox properly on most days, so he’s no jolly christmas postman, himself… right?
and! at one point while washing endless amounts of laundry and sheets and things, my dryer decided to go all kooky on me and started flashing error codes instead of functioning properly, like i’d asked it to. so i’m like la la la, i can fix this, where’s the plug for this sucker? and short story tiny… that big white monster blew out huge electricity sparks at me and tried to kill me!! my heart stopped, i think. it was scary. and while steven’s moral of the story was “never touch anything behind the dryer!” mine was more, “why is our dryer so unsafely plugged in that it blasted electricity sparks at me?”

plus, we have now turned maddalena into someone who knows what a remote control does and now routinely demands her “ooh ooh ahh ahh” curious george show. well, shoot! i so did not mean for that to happen! but sickies get tv privileges around here, and i think that’s fair.

aaand so, just today, i took that sweetest princess of mine to her first ever not-just-a-regular-checkup actual concerned mother doctors appointment, which was obviously slathered in tears and mom guilt. ahhh. but that girl? bless her sweet amazing everything, she is just such a star. she really keeps us going around here! this past week of family mess and hibernation has been infinitely happier with her little spirit filling our house. she is our piece of heaven.

[sleeping in, cuddly frog style!]

[a very unrealistic game we play where she pretends to go “nigh nigh” in her crib!]

[loving on her new giant bear from santa claus // modeling daddy’s new boots]

[just a little gang of small beings]

[sporting our new christmas earrings + ring // breaking free of hibernation for a 4:30pm rainy day dinner!]

[and oh my goodness, could i get any meltier? my heart is a puddle of mush!]

sick or messy or not, i am so thankful for my people!!
there’s nobody i’d rather post-christmas hibernate with.
now, bring us 2014!!

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