The only thing that could have made yesterday better would have been for me to have opened my mail box and found my iTouch in it!

As it was, Bro and his chick and the baby came by like I had requested AND they were willing to let me play with my camera! I was really unsure if my brother would be willing to let me take a billion pictures, but he was a darn good sport about it – even when he got pee’d on!

I too 52 pictures and got about 20 that I liked, which is great, because going into it, I was just hoping to get one good picture. You have probably seen some of the photos on BPR, so here I will show you the photo that my Eldest son likes the best!

Woke up this morning absolutely freezing. It took me half an hour just to convince myself I would not die if I took off my blankets! I want to know how my husband does it? How does he crawl out of our warm bed at 6 in the morning, get dressed and got to work every morning?

It’s only five degrees out today, our expected high is 16, the low ten, and we will have rain off and on all day. – the good part of this is obvious – no wasps! The bad part? I am typing this from the couch wrapped up in two blankets, wearing sweat pants and two sweaters!

Who votes that it is time to turn the heater on?

Except, If I do turn it on, it will warm right up again outside and the wasps will be back in full force! (I’m such a good person! I’m willing to freeze almost to death for the sake of the others in my town)(accolades please)

I’ve been Google’ing WordPress themes – thanks Jen!- and still have not made a decision on which one I want. I wouldl ove to have a theme that I could put the header I have up now up. I worked hard on that header and I love how it turned out!

While I did not post to this blog yesterday I did spend a fair amount of time on it’s behalf. have decided that it is time for Mommy Maddness to grow up and move off Blogger and onto its own hosted server.

I have decide to go with the WordPress platform, since I am used to that platform already from Bluepaintred.

The hard part will be figuring out how to do the hosting part, although I have had a lot of help already from some great people on twitter, one in particular, Holly, who offered me an awesome coupon code to use to buy my first year!

So. I need to find some sites that offer wordpress themes, because the default ones suck, but I can’t afford to get a custom made one done yet!

It’s pretty exciting!

Sorry for the lack of updates , but something awesome has happened, and It had me a bit… preoccupied…

Yeah. I Know!

It was such a long day. I was up at seven on Wednesday and by Nine my SIL had called to say she was still contracting – she had started contracting the night before – so as the day progressed she would call me with updates – she is an hour away from me – by six PM she was six to five minutes apart and I was getting worried.

Eventually, they – my Step Mother (not the evil variety) my brother and his chick, headed into the city. By now it is 11 PM. We stopped at Timmy’s for some iced capps and 7-11 to talk to my BFF who was scheduled to work that night.

We got to the hospital and were in a room by 12:30 Thursday morning. At this time, her contractions started spacing out. She was dealing amazingly with the ones shw was having and we were up and walking from 1:30 AM till 4 Am. She went from 2 to five int hat time. At five,m the nurse requested she go to the delivery room, and so we did.

We all tried to catch a bit of sleep, but for the most part we were unable. J got a two hour nap in after her epidural, so thats great.

At 10 she was checked and had only made it to six, so the nurse decided to use a catheter and drain her bladder and break her bag of waters. The minute her bladder was empty, the water broke and the baby was THERE.

At 10:13, She was born.

It was awesome!

I ended up being awake for over 32 hours, and for me, a person who NEEDS sleep – 9-10 hours of it, this was bad, and it has taken me quite a while to get back on track!

But oh, is she ever worth it!

I often forget that not everyone who reads Mommy Maddness read my other blogs. Yesterdays post started in a forum – and Picking A Pup was just a way for me to update the people in the forum.

I’m not going to address your concerns about what is going on with the puppies, becuase frankly, you aren’t in the mood to listen. I Do regret not supplying the proper information when I wrote that post, but I can’t go back in time.

And even if I could, I would probably be more concerned with grabbing the winning lottery tickets than re-writing a post so that it met the internet’s approval.