Easter Slideshow Experiment

Okay, I found this cool slideshow site and just had to try it. Here goes:

Side Effects of Pregnancy and other random thoughts

Hello everyone,

Cathy and Alyssa, i wish I would have known about the car. I am sure your car will run forever with the new transmission though.

Aunt Janis...Mason would LOVE that rock. He loves to collect rocks, play with rocks, climb rocks. We are going to paint some rocks for "pet rocks" as soon as it gets warm again outside. He thinks that is pretty funny. I would love to have a large rock like that in our yard. i would plant all sorts of flowers (especially ones that attract hummingbirds and butterflys) around it and find a way to attach a small pan for a bird feeder or bird bath and then set up a bench next to it.

My mom is a saint!! She called and asked if Mason could come over today because she had Vinnie, Nic and Nanni over as well. She is keeping him until supper time. What a blessing!!! I have the entire house to myself!!! After this post, I am taking a nap.

The pregnancy is going well. I am starting to feel somewhat better in the evenings now. The other day I felt "normal" for 2 hours straight ! I had forgotten what it felt like to be healthy!!
I am craving Dill pickles like crazy!!! If I could, I would eat them all day and drink the brine. I will NOT drink the brine, but it sounds so good!!

I am also swearing quite a bit. I lead a small Bible Study in our home one night a week and the "f" word almost came out of my mouth. Thankfully, I stopped it at the "f" sound...but everyone heard it. I was mortified. i remember this happening when I was pregnant with Mason.

We are going to tell Mason on Tuesday May 8th!! We can't wait! The other night he crawled up to snuggle with me in bed and I asked him if he had a baby sister or brother, could they snuggle too? His response: "OF COURSE they could!!!!" We'll see if that holds true this Nov.

He and Gianni were talking about fire ants the other day and where they lived. I mentioned you could find them in Florida.
Mason: "I'm NEVER going to live in Florida"
Me: "Well, it is a wonderful place to visit. The plants and flowers grow really big because it doesn't snow there and it is always warm"
Mason: How big do the flowers get?
Me: This big..stretching out my arms.
Mason: "Bigger than Uncle Terry?!?!?" in an incredulous voice!! (Uncle Terry is Derek)

It is so funny how children think!!

The slacker mom continues to be my new title. Yesterday Mason had to pull a shirt out of the dirty clothes pile...but he had a few shirts in his drawer..he "just doesn't like to wear them mom". So there you go. He was a bit insulted, especially because there was a hair on the shirt, so I pulled it off and shook it out. Good as new!!! (I did do laundry this am, so we all have clothes again)

Well, i am almost ready for my nap...and I may need another pickle.

Not much going on here...

.....we're trying to find a new car since Randy is giving my car to Justin. Jolee, too bad we didn't know about your car sooner.....we had to put a new tran$mi$$ion and $tarter $en$or into Alyssa's car a few weeks ago. It probably would have been worth a look. But not now....her car had better run FOREVER, and I have to wait a year for my patio!

Things are greening up, but without much rain, it's slow going. It still gets pretty cold at night, so I am reluctant to uncover things.....and there's lots to uncover. Randy made me some windowboxes last weekend, but we have to seal them and install the brackets. He's in Montreal today and tomorrow. Lucky him. I've got some tomatillos, tomatoes, oregano, basil, parsley, and garlic chives that I started from seed. They really need to be transplanted into bigger containers and hardened-off before they go outside on a permanent basis. I was thinking of doing this: http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/tomato2.html with my tomatoes. That way the critters won't get them.

Okay, time for knitting and shameless television-watching!!

Help is needed

Here is my new rock.--(Wouldn't Mason love this one?)--

When they cut the big tree down the man with the machinery moved this big boulder to the edge of the lawn for me. Now what should I do with it? Any ideas out there???

Spring in Tomahawk

Spring is finally coming to Tomahawk. These are some daffodils that Grandma Nelson threw back in the woods and every spring they come up. Even some narcissis(sp?). The woods is pretty now. We can even take a walk and enjoy the birds. I don't go alone because Mr. Bear has been to our feeder and I'm not interested in meeting him--or her.
I'm glad you figured out how to arrange the pictures, Jolee, because they don't go where I want them to go. Oh well, Cathy will straighten things out. Right, Cathy?
Happy spring everyone.

Somebody Stop Me

Ok there,

I don't know why the last post posted 2 times. Could somebody help?? I obviously should not start my own blog :) Oh, i found this picture on the computer too. Just practicing moving it around. I think I'm getting the hang of this.

Ohhh, my child is stretching right on top of me and whining in my ear. Thankfully Daddy will be home soon!

Hey look at this, I'm writing next to the picture. Pretty sure my posts won't be on the "noteworthy blog"list.

Is Anyone Out There?...Anyone?

Hi all,

I thought the Haugens were going to keep in touch through the blog? Where are all the entries? Steve? Alyssa? Justin? Randy? Derek? Junal? Dominic? Cathy and Aunt Janis..it has been a while.

Ok, here's an update on the bulbs: 10 are coming up!! 10 out of 90! Gotta like that percentage!! Rabbits or deer have gotten to about 5 of them...but they are still growing. I think I need to re-apply the Deer Off stuff.

We are going to tell Mason about the baby on May 8th!! We can't wait!! Alicia will be coming up on the 9th (Craig's mom), so Mason can tell her when she gets here.

I have become a "Slacker" mom. It is official. Hopefully Mason will survive the pregnancy. The days are getting better, but the nights are still awful. Hopefully just a couple more weeks of this! (I'm 10 weeks now)

Mason announced he would like to be a "Rock Hunter" when he grows up. He loves looking for agates. We went to Flood Bay beach last Sat. and he found some agates there.

We have many plants ready to go in the ground..Limelights, Cosmos, Morning Glory, Sweet Pea, and 5 different varieties of Sunflowers. We are ready, but I don't know if the weather is. We tried tomatoes, but the wind blew down our greenhouse and everything fell out. We'll probably just need to buy a plant. Oh yeah, we also started some pumpkins and watermelons that are coming up. Hopefully these plants will do better than the bulbs.

We are looking for a new home for Sophie. She snapped at Mason for no reason. I hope we find one soon, but it's hard to write a good bio on a dog who is going blind, is arthritic, doesn't play well with children and sometimes plays well with dogs. So far, no takers. Hard to imagine why.

I am trying to place an image on here. It is of our old car the Lumina. It is the only picture we have on our computer. We are trying to sell it. Do you like what you see? This is taking a lot longer than I thought it would. OK now...the picture is at the top of the blog. I do not know why. someday I will figure this out.

signing off...jolee