Taking a break

I have spent alot of time with you all. Talking about my life and what's going on. Sometimes it's more like I am observing my life rather than living it. So until something really major happens I am taking a break. Just some time to breathe. Focus on my newly expanded family and just dive into life. I plan on getting much more social in my new community.

Thanks to all my readers for being so supportive and always checking in with me each day to see what's new. I have grown to love you all, and will continue to read your blogs.

Check in periodically to see the occasional update.

See you all in the future!

XOXOXOX

Dinner with an oldie... via Facebook.

Lol.. that probably sounds bad given I am far from old and neither is the person I am talking about. I have begun to realize that while I am married with kids now, my high school days should not be a thing of the past. No.. I am not going to try to act like a teen again, I am however making it a point to get together with old friends from back in those days. It started a few weeks ago with a friend (Shalaine) who I haven't seen in probably 13 years. She stopped by for a visit to meet the new baby and Austin of course. So us, and our spouses and children hung out for a few hours. It was great! Tonight another friend from high school, Paul, and his wife Emma are coming over for drinks and munchies. Again Chris and I haven't seen him since high school so it will be really nice to catch up and learn about each others lives over the past decade+ (boy I feel old).

You might be wondering how after all this time it might even be possible to get reconnected.

FACEBOOK! Yup, that's correct. I love it.

So this gives me an idea! Just play along OK? I'll give you my answers and I'd love for you to give me yours! Just cut and post and fill over my answers!

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1.) Have you heard of Facebook? Why yes I have!

2.) Do you have a Facebook account? I sure do! For over 2 years now.

3.) What do you use it for? (posting note/pics etc, reuniting with old friends, talking with family?) I use it for all of the above.

4.) How many friends do you have? Around 130

5.) Who makes up your friends list? For me it's all people I know in some way personally. I may not have met them in fact a couple are blog buddies. But mostly family and friends. I am not what the kids call a "Friend Whore", I do not add random people no matter how hot they think my profile pic is. lol

6.) Do you add exes? Nope, never... They are exes for a reason and that's not a can o' worms I want to open.

7.) Do you think you are addicted to it? Ummm Hi my name is Coleen and I am a Facebook addict... ((hi coleen!!!))

8.) What is your favorite feature or application? I love the scratch n' win ap and I love sharing photos with friends and family.

9.) What is the oldest reconnection made on Facebook? 26 years. A neighbour of mine from when I was about 4. His sister used to babysit me. He added me and even had old pics of me that I had never seen before. So cool!


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Thanks to all who share their answers. Feel free to do so in my comments OR on your own blog and let me know you did. I can't wait to read! I'll pick the bet answers and post them on my blog in a couple of days!

Coleen
XOXOXOX

My Friday Fill-In #1

Here is something I will be doing every Friday. Have you seen this before? I hope many of you will join me in this as I do it. If you decide to follow suit leave me your link so I can read YOUR fill-ins. Go here each Friday for the new fill-ins!

1. Some relationships are meant to LAST FOREVER.
2. NEIL YOUNG is the last concert I saw; it was TERRIBLE, EVEN THOUGH I LOVE HIM.
3. Spring should be HERE ALREADY DAMN IT!.
4. Oh no! I forgot TO GET CHRIS TO PUT THE CAR SEAT BASE BACK INTO THE CAR!
5. I've recently started BLOGGING AGAIN.
6. MY CHILDREN never fail(s) to make me smile.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to A MOVIE, tomorrow my plans include SPRING CLEANING and Sunday, I want to GO FOR A WALK!

Every girl needs an "Easter Dress"....

So I have been the mother to a boy for 11 years. It has been truly wonderful. Made me adapt to the unique ways that boys behave. My son dresses for comfort. Sure, he went through a phase where he was dressing to impress the girls but that faded away very quickly. Though I am sure it will return at some point. He is very much a jeans and t-shirt kinda kid. A bit of a cross between skater and regular boy I guess.

Now we have a girl and I get to do the girlie/pink/frilly thing to her. I hope years from now she'll approve but lets face it. Do any of us look back at how our parents dressed us and say: "Gee om that outfit was really awesome". No.. no we don;t. In fact most of us look at old pictures in horror and say: Oh dear lord, HOW could you have done THAT to ME???"

With that being said I now present to you, the pictures that one day Ruari will look back on in shame!

Birthday Boy

So today was Austin's 11th birthday. I can hardly believe it! 11 Years ago I was giving birth to him and now all these years later he finally has a sibling to share the fun with. Granted the age gap means they won't really grow up together, but her sure loves her already. She "gave" him his card. He wanted so badly for her to have some cake. I told him next year she can! 11 years down and so many more to go. He hardly my baby boy anymore. Into girls and video games etc. Riding bikes with his friends etc.. Clothes that HE picks out not mom, and wants another mohawk so badly. Remember that one? My long time readers might. If not go have a look at my posts from Oct 2006.....

Happy birthday Aussie, Dad and I love you tons!

Since you may be wondering...

Ruari: The name is pronounced like Rory, but is the Gaelic version of the name. It is also traditionally a boys name. However it was one that went with family heritage and was something both Chris and I loved.

Now that we have that over with I will proceed with "The Story of Ruari":

Ruari Alexis Thompson is 1 month and 5 days old as of today. The time has flown by so quickly. SO many people are asking "what happened to her being born on Valentines Day as was planned?" Well here's what happened: Because of the vast complications during my pregnancy, we had a planned c-section booked for Feb 14th at 1:45pm. Valentines Day! On Sunday night (Feb 10th) I sat and made a list of things I needed to do in the next couple days before our c-section on Thursday afternoon. Since I was going to be out for my dr's appt on Monday I figured I would go grocery shopping and run errands right afterwards. That way I was only making one trip out and I would have all the groceries done and ready for when I would be in the hospital a few days. Making things easier for Chris. Monday morning was like any other that week, I just took it easy and then at 2pm I woke Chris up to go with me to my very last dr's appt as a pregnant woman. Austin actually decided to come with us too. My appt was for 3:45 but Dr. Wilkinson was running late so we didn't go in until after 4:00. We spoke about the c-section and she gave us a basic rundown of what was going to happen, then she had me lay down so she could listen to the baby's heart rate like she does at every appt. Only that day it was different. I knew it right away by the look on her face and the fact she was listening for a lot longer than normal. After she finished she confirmed my fears.. something wasn't quite right. The baby's heart beat was all over the place.. fast for a few beats then really slow and so on. The Dr. told me to head over to the labour and delivery ward at the hospital immediately so they could do a non stress test and have a better look at the heart. Austin said he knew we were going to have the baby that day, of course I told him not to be silly, that her b-day would still be valentines day. 4:45 we are in the hospital and I was all strapped to the machines, one after another all these nurses kept coming in to listen with funny comments on how it sounds like rap music... but they were all visibly worried. They had my other OB- Dr Hunter (who was at the hospital) come in to take a look. He arrived at my bedside at 5:05 and after listening for a bit told me he thought it was best to do an emergency c-section right away. Chris asked him if we had time to call people to get there, he said "no we're going now". Austin looked horrified when he was told he would have to go to the waiting room by himself, but said it would be ok. The nurses told Chris he had time to call my sister to get there to wait with Austin. He called and then had to head straight to get "scrubbed in". He wasn't even allowed to wait for her to get there. So we went into surgery thinking Austin was alone in the waiting room and that made me cry. Chris reminded me that he's almost 11 and perfectly fine in there for a short while. So we were waiting in a pre-surgery clean room, for a few minutes at 5:15-5:25. Then they took me to do the spinal and left Chris to wait... everything is an emotional blur after that point until Chris was brought in and my surgery was already under way. He wiped the tears from my eyes as I cried at how things were happening too fast... Then I heard them say those perfect words... "YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL" I couldn't believe it was over already. After all the bad things that happened to us during this pregnancy it was wonderful to see my baby girl. Chris went to her and they stitched me back up... Chris was able to take her to see her big brother and Auntie Shanny, and her Grandma who had arrived just as he was bringing her out.... As soon as Chris came back with her it was "skin time" where they lay her directly on my chest skin to skin for bonding... That was just shortly after 6pm.

That is the chaotic story of the birth of my duaghter.

A scrapin' I must go....

It's been a long time since I have scrap booked. I must say children make for excellent motivation. After perusing the net for some nice word art I found this site called Elegant Word Art. Bethany makes wonderful word art that can be used for so many projects. If you have a moment you really should go have a look. I know you'll love her hard work as much as I do.


Here are a few of my most recent layouts. They are all about my newest child. My sweet little girl Ruari...

Thanks for looking. Have a great day!

Love,

Coleen

XOXOXO

Gone too long...

As many of you know one of my last posts was way back at the beginning of my much prayed for pregnancy. My family and I endured some VERY difficult times. I will not drag you all down by posting what went on but I will say that, our move out west was short lived. It was a very difficult time for us and we decided to come back to our roots and be near family at a time when we needed them most. Despite my very difficult pregnancy I made it through hand have a beautiful month old baby girl name Ruari (Celtic name pronounced Rory). She is a wonderful addition to our family, and brings us the feeling of completion we were desperate for for so long.

I am going to ease back into blogging and things may really change on my blog. The look mostly. I will be designing a new header in the next couple of days. I will not be blogging on a daily basis, but I will blog often again, like I used to. Now that my pregnancy is over and life is getting back to some sort of normalcy I actually feel up to blogging rather than hiding from the world like I have been for a long while. My problem was in the fact that, despite being excited and thrilled about being pregnant and expecting our #2, too many bad things were going on some relating to my pregnancy some relating to our move, leaving me feeling like blogging would just depress my readers and turn them away. I didn't want to feel like a downer or like I had nothing nice to blog about.

Starting now I will close the chapter of my life that contained such sadness and reflect the bliss I now feel after getting past it all and giving birth to my sweet little girl.

I hope many of you will be back to read like you used to.

I promise to add her birth story and some pics from the day she was born.

Love,

Coleen
XOXOXO

Almost there.....

Need I say more?