Northern Needles

This one covers 5 words. “I said no more pictures”.

Our first school photo session did not go well. The first time the camera flashed Jen had blinked. Trying to pry another photo out of her was the photographer’s nightmare. Finally on the verge of tears this one came. Note to camera guy…don’t embarass her or try to get her to say silly things. It invariably backfires. She’s already decided that she is NEVER getting another school photo done.

I joined a cross stitch meme a while back and I have yet to finish one of the topics LOL. Well this time I did it. Not in time but I did get one of the meme’s done. This is my Nocturnal Meme. It’s my own design. Hope you like it.

Copyright 2004 Vivian Bales

I swear I’ve lost days. Weeks. Now that my firstborn is in kindergarten I have been severely sick 3 times! I’m not talking sniffles. I’m talking about 2-3 weeks of bed-rest (ok it was the couch), sneezing, coughing, choking, sinus pain, headaches, just wanting to walk into the nearest snowbank and give up.

But I’m better again and life is much rosier. I am still seriously considering home schooling still…lol…I don’t like GERMS!

See what happens when you are a SAHM who lives in the boonies and never gets to go anywhere? You are no longer immune to anything. Just breathe on me. I’ll be in bed within the hour.

But back to life. The girlies are growing fast and soon they’ll have families of their own! And the things they come up with just amaze me. The other night Jennifer needed the full hour and a half cuddle in bed to discuss life. She’s in kindergarten and life has changed so much for her. Plus her birthday is coming up soon. She can’t handle the pressure and has decided she wants to stay a kid forever. What a great idea! Lets all do that. The poor thing. She’s such a deep thinker and she told me she’s scared that when she’s a teenager she’ll forget that she loves me and that we’re friends. Apparently she’s been around one too many teenagers that act like their parents are the enemy.

After we got the important stuff sorted out she wanted to talk about how the world began. Have I mentioned she’s a thinker? Well not so much the world, but the “humans”. Thats how her and her little sister refer to themselves…as humans. Which I think is awesome! After all, that is what we are…it makes us all equal. Anyway, back to the origins of humans. She matter of factly informed me that…”babies didn’t just poof and were there mommy, they had to come from somewhere”. So wanting to see how far she’d take this I asked where the first babies came from. Her response? “Aliens”. Apparently they came from distant worlds (”because there are a lot of stars out there don’t you know mommy”) and the aliens left their babies here to start the humans. “There were even China aliens mommy”. Thats her explanation. Now obviously we are not instilling a religious upbringing. Our choice, our reasons. However, we do discuss other cultures, and their beliefs with her so she knows people believe different things and it’s up to her to decide what she wants to believe. Personally I’m amazed that a 5 y.o. is coming up with the alien baby theory.

This isn’t her first time talking about aliens. She’s mentioned them before and when I asked her point blank if she thought there were people that lived on other planets she responded of course. “There are lots of stars with lots of planets mommy. So there are lots and lots of people out there.” I asked her then what she thought these other people looked like. I got a look of pure disbelief at my innocence. “Mommy….(big pause and a sigh)…we don’t have cameras or pictures from other worlds so how do we know what they look like?”

I have so much to learn.