books

Seen at Dawn's, but still everywhere:

Hardback or Paperback
Highlight or Underline
Lewis or Tolkien
E.B. White or A.A. Milne
T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings
Stephen King or Dean Koontz
Barnes & Noble or Borders
Waldenbooks or B. Dalton - blech - I agree with Dawn!
Fantasy or Science Fiction - I can't pick, I love both
Horror or Suspense
Bookmark or Dogear - This drives everyone I know crazy, except for Emma
Large Print or Fine Print
Hemingway or Faulkner
Fitzgerald or Steinbeck
Homer or Plato
Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser
Pen or Pencil
Looseleaf or Notepad
Alphabetize: By Author or By Title
Shelve: By Genre/Subject
Dustjacket: Leave it On or Take it Off
Novella or Epic - don't cre
John Grisham or Scott Turrow - not very familiar with either
J.K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket - although I'm kind of tired of Snicket by book 10.
John Irving or John Updike - I haven't read either.
Salman Rushdie or Don Delillo - Haven't read either
Fiction or Non-fiction - Can't choose!
Historical Biography or Historical Romance
Reading Pace: A Few Pages per Sitting or Finish at Least a Chapter - I don't read much these days because I like to read most of a book in one sitting
Short Story or Creative Non-fiction Essay - either, if they're good
Blah Blah Blah or Yada Yada Yada
“It was a dark and stormy night…” or “Once upon a time…”
Books: Buy or Borrow
Book Reviews or Word of Mouth

Notes to Sue

Note to Sue: My comments won't let ME post comments at all. Go figure ;).

1. Moosewood is way better than eating at home, because you don't have to clean up, and their desserts are amazing ;). If you ever come to NY, you can stay with me and I'll take you there!

2. Overdraft protection DOES rock, but I hate having to use it. LOL on filling vs. filing. I haven't started it yet and am probably not going to get to it, as I ended up having company (which was awesome not to work all by myself!) and I ended up doing some kitchen unpacking in addition to getting Soren's room done and both girls' rooms swept and mopped.

In other news, I talked to the girls last night and they are learning to boogie board, so Emma got a new and larger size and Soren has her old one. Their tent leaked, so they went to buy tarps (who doesn't take tarps camping??) and they got salt water taffy. They have not yet eaten any crabs yet, sadly. They also haven't bought their coveted hermit crabs (which are NOT for eating) yet either. They have to keep those at their dad's house though ;).

It was good to talk to them. I miss them so much. Although I sure spend a lot less time in the kitchen w/o them here ;).

More progress

I got Emma's room unpacked yesterday! Now I just have to hang up one dolphin wall hanging and her mirror above her dresser (and get her clean laundry put away, which is a neverending task, seeing as she wears more clothes in a week than the rest of us combined, what with gymnastics, changing several times a day, etc.) and it will be done!

I am soooo happy with the way it looks. I wish I had a digital camera to post pictures. It looks like *Emma's* room again! Her stuff is all out where she can get it, it's neat (well, that part doesn't look like Emma ) and it looks like it was just made for the person she is. All her little knick knacks are up on shelves; all her books are on shelves, her bunk beds are made and her nightstand is again overflowing with journals, music, and books on tape :). Finally, finally, I might feel at home here.

Now only if we weren't totally broke :::sigh::: Our checking acct. got overdrawn again this weekend. I have no idea how that happened really. Thank god we have overdraft protection, but it's been used way too often in the last 6 weeks for my comfort. I always pay it back right away, but this week it's going to be a wait - perhaps even until Monday. And I *have* to get groceries. I think I will go pick up my gym paycheck rather than have it mailed since the gym is closed this week. Why are we so broke all the time? I can't figure it out. I also have to come up with money for a dehumidifier somehow. We desperately need one in the basement. It's just so frustrating, because we really don't DO Much that costs money outside of bills and groceries. I rarely buy any toys or stuff for the kids. All the baby stuff has been handed down, etc. I would really like to pay rent on this house, but my faint dream of not going back to work is certainly just that. If I don't work again as soon as possible, we will sink quickly. Maybe Tom will get a good job at University of Rochester. OK, enough of that.

In other news, I am going to finish Soren's room today, finish sorting baby clothes, and start to tackle my filing since I can't do the playroom/homeschool area until we get the desks put together down there (tonight, I swear!). My filing is totally out of control, so it will be a good thing to sit down and get caught up on. And sitting is good. My feet have been really swollen the last two days, and it is quite uncomfortable. My hips hurt like hell this morning too. I think the baby *might* finally be engaged. He seems to have slowed down a bit in bopping around so much and when I pee, I feel like his head is Right There. Just hold off 3 more days, little one!

Weekend

Yikes! The police just came and arrested a young man from the house across the street! The guy that owns the house is a minister and seems like a sweet older guy, but I think his kids/family are not so moral as he would like ;).

Tom and I took the weekend off and drove around near Rochester to scout out some potential hiking/camping spots that we can hit later this fall or next spring/summer, depending on how ambitious I feel after the baby is born ;). We did NO work on the house at all, which was great, but also stressed me out a bit.

First we drove to Canandaigua (which incidentally, is also where we saw Norah Jones last week) to stop by my friend Jana's house, who had a wonderful treasure trove of baby stuff for us, so we crammed all that in the car. I also had put the baby seat in the car the other day to see if everyone would still fit in the back with a booster, a baby seat and a big kid. They seem to fit. Good thing Emma is teeny though!

When we stopped at The Outdoor Store on our way to Letchwork to get Tom some new work pants, some guy in a gold Jetta just like my old one asked if we had a baby in there. I climbed out so he could see my tummy and said "not yet!" He was amused ;).

Anyway, then we went to Letchworth, where we didn't end up hiking at all, because we both think it's criminal to pay $6 to get into a state park for an hour to look around. Geez, NY is so expensive! So we went to Mt. Morris Dam, which is on the other side of the state park and got all sorts of cool stuff about the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, and the woman at the visitor's center gave us a free book for the kids since we mentioned we were homeschooling. It's wonderful and the woman who wrote it just moved back to Rochester.

Then, it was pouring down rain, so we got lunch at this little diner. Then we went to visit Sugar Creek Glen, a private camp, which from the website, I thought would be pretty um...campy...to say the least ;)> It ended up being beautiful and we got to drive around and see the different sites, although we didn't see any of the falls or swimming areas. I think we would definitely try camping there though. Then we came back to Rochester and had dinner and went to bed.

Yesterday, we went to Ithaca and it rained a lot and it was SO Hot, so we just shopped in the Commons for a bit; had dinner at Moosewood and OMG the food was incredible! Came home and slept. So it was very relaxing and this week we'll tackle the house in earnest. Of course, tonight is a wash, because Tom has to take a couch to his friend's house and then we're having dinner at Danielle's. Wednesday he is on call so I am going to stay there and we are going to clean in preparation for David and his dad staying there with the girls next weekend.

Speaking of the girls, I miss them sooo much. It's almost unbearable. I hate having them so far away and miss cuddling with them every morning :(.

In My Life

Thanks for the comments! Yep, we're all thrilled, and even our chiro asked how it went today, remembered that I had gone to see Norah Jones on Tuesday night with Tom (it was great!) and was just generally wonderful. I wish she was my mom!

Emma is having neck adjustments - the downside to all this gymnastics is that she has some compression from landing on her head - she's *constantly* doing this ;).

My sciatica has gotten quite bad and I had some leg cramps the other night that are killing me. But I'm on the homestretch!

The girls are gone for a week and left tonight. I cried on and off all day and tried not to let them see. They each gave me one of their stuffed animals to keep me company. Emma wrote me a note that made me cry. They waved like mad and blew me a million kisses and David promised not to let them get eaten alive by mosquitoes or drown ;).

Brag, brag, brag

Emma has been working since April to try out for TOPS ,or Talent Opportunty Program (which I can't actually find on the TOPS website for some bizarre reason) which is separate from the Level 4 Team she will compete with this year. There don't seem to be any good websites that link to the testing, but basically, she has wanted to do this separate program that is based on strength and conditioning for some reason.

Based on the fact that I'm in the gym with her team most of the time, I was worried that she wouldn't make it. 16 kids were trying out and the team accommodates 8. 4 of them were on TOPS last year, which meant that they had an edge from doing all the conditioning for a whole year and were probably a shoo-in. Many of the other girls are bigger and seemingly stronger than Emma, who is admittedly strong, but lacks in consistent form. See, not only do they have to be strong, but they have to do the exercices with good form (tight body, pointed toes, etc.)

She really wanted me to come in and watch, which as an employee I could have done, but she was really nervous and I didn't want to make her worse, which I always do, because I'm either too hard on her or too sympathetic. I can't seem to strike a happy medium during practice.

So, I stayed in the lobby w/ the other moms and Soren, and crocheted and tried not to watch.

She got through the testing, which included timed leg lifts, pushups, pulls ups (while keeping the knees bent with a block on them which couldn't fall off), flexibility (splits and such), rope climb with no feet 12 feet above ground, cast handstand on the bar and roundoff + 4 backhandsprings on floor and I'm sure some other things I'm forgetting.

Wednesday night I went in and found the results in my box. Um, the kid came in ranked *2*. Yep, that's second place, tying one of the strongest kids in the gym, and beating out 2 other TOPS kids from last year by a long shot. the highest score was 34 and hers was 31. 18 would be impossible for most normal people to achieve.

The best part of the whole experience for me was that when we left the testing and got in the car she said, "Even if I don't make the team, I feel like *I* did well. I really tried my hardest." ::::heart melts::: I was so proud of her!

So, she made the TOPS team, which costs more and means another night at the gym but she worked her butt off for it, and it proved to the owner that she really DOES have what it takes to compete this year and when push came to shove, she showed them all :).

Soren is now on a mission to catch up btw :-O. She exhausted herself today at the gym while I was at work. She was so pale tonight I was worried! She's gotten used to being the young and cute one that everyone fusses over, and all the attention that Emma got yesterday has her on her toes, which isn't a bad thing probably, but they've never been very competitive.

Ramble, ramble. Must sleep. Have to pack the kids to go to the beach tomorrow w/ their dad and his dad. For a week. I am going to miss them despearately but am looking forward to uninterrupted unpacking and cleaning time before the baby makes his appearance.

Well, 2x is the charm

Darnit, it DID publish ;). So now, you all have two chances to invest in some lovely diaper clips and send me a pair ;)

Diaper Clips

Damn, I lost the post with all my clip sites for Lili! I'll try again.

Look here and here for Snappi's, which I haven't used myself, but seem cool, and here - these look like the ones I used with Emma.

Diaper Clips

For Lili :)

Diaper clips! Abd more - these are more what I used when Emma was a baby.

You can also try Snappi's but I haven't used them myself, so can't say how well they work. I've seen other moms use them successfully though.

Baby stuff

My friends are the best! I am fully stocked up with more newborn clothes than I could have hoped for, and Lynn gave me a whole farging bag of prefold heavy duty diapers and a bunch of rubber pants! Now I just have to find those snappy diaper things again someplace. They aren't the actual snappi's *tm*, but they are little metal clips that I love.

OK, found some, but am too lazy to link to them in Opera, sorry.

Jenny gave me a ton of newborn clothes, and she is going to trade me newborn diaper wraps and diapers for the $100 she owes me. Yay! I'd much rather have cute little diapers :).

I finally am feeling ready for this baby. I know where most things are, although I still need to find the diaper cream, get some Weleda calendula cream, and find a tray for the side of my changing table to store tubes and q-tips on. Must make a list and hit up Target and Weebees.com. I also forget how I used to wash my diapers, so want to look that up too.

The girls leave on Friday and I don't know how I will survive without them for a week. I will probably go insane but Patty is going to hang out with me. I don't have even have work as a consolation! The gym is closed that whole week.

Progress

I've made some progress today and yesterday with unpacking.

Yesterday I moved the rest of the non-Soren boxes out of her room and into the appropriate area of the house. I reorganized the attic somewhat, so all the stuff that needs to come downstairs is near the top of the steps; all of Danielle's stuff is basically where they can get to it; all of our camping gear and holiday ornaments are accessible and together; and all the future baby stuff (EGADS! What a lot of stuff!) is all piled together. I sorted some of the twins' clothes into sized boxes so I can grab stuff as I need it.

I cleaned the kitchen, dining room and living room floors in preparation for the blessingway last night. I swept and mopped the entryway floor by the driveway door and the girls were supposed to clean the bathroom but only got about halfway done with it before Krista showed up.

I cleaned the upstairs bathroom again, not that you can tell today.

I did a couple loads of laundry and put away all the laundry today, which means I'm finally getting a handle on what baby stuff I have. Today I did a TON more laundry, mostly baby stuff, and had fun folding it and putting it away. My diapers have been through 2.5 kids, so they are pretty threadbare. I'll probably have to invest in some, but I have newborn disposables to get me through the first week or two at least. I found the baby monitor too, and the changing table, but it needs to be cleaned up and put together. It's still in the attic.

Today I unpacked most of the stuffed animals and sorted them into their owners' rooms. I found the screws to Soren's shelves and put them together, got their computer all put together, but still need an outlet adapter so I can plug the damn thing in. David is sending me a 50 foot cable so I can hook them up to the router and get them online in Soren's room. I keep telling Emma that if she continues being so mean to Soren about coming in her room, I'm not going to feel bad if Soren won't let her in her own bedroom to use the computer ;). Emma's a mess today. I'm not sure why - maybe a combination of moving, Tom being gone so much, me being hormonal and grumpy and a poor diet the last couple of days. I can't imagine why she'd be off, with all that going on . Poor kid :(.

They are hoping that the ice cream man will come tonight. Me too!

I got the rest of Soren's room put to rights for the most part, and I think I'll have enough shelf space in both their rooms to put toys in their rooms and leave more space for homeschooling stuff downstairs. They both have a desk in their room too.

I found my non-maternity clothes and sorted them into boxes for if I ever fit in them again. I really need to find all the extra hangers that I put in a suitcase and brought over so I can hang up my nursing clothes. Argh! I posted some stuff on Freecycle and got rid of some clothes. She hopefully will pick up early next week.

Now I just need to get the bin of baby stuff from Jana from my Nov98 list and I should be pretty well set for newborn clothes, if not cloth diapers. My friend with the twins is going to give me a few covers and is ebaying the rest, so maybe I'll just buy them off of her. Or maybe I'll trade her diapers for the $100 she owes me ;). That would be even better!

Well, if you read all that, kudos. I just needed to see that I've accomplished something.

Oh, I even made sausage and cinnamon rolls for breakfast this morning! Now for dinner...maybe I'll cook some more chicken on the grill :)

Blessingway

Most of this day was shit, for a variety of reasons, not least of which was another huge argument with Tom. I don't even know what we're arguing about anymore. I think I'm just 8.5 mo. pregnant and he doesn't farging get it.

However, despite all my tears and woe and exhaustion and solitude, except for my children, who alternately bring me joy and exasperation, my blessingway was truly wonderful. I am not very good at allowing myself to be pampered and am uncomfortable about the idea, but this was really a great experience, and a wonderful way to prepare for birth and to bless my new home with good friends and good food and wonderful thoughts.

I had 6 people show up, plus I wanted to include Emma and Soren. 4 friends were invited who couldn't make it, but Jane and Audrey sent beads and letters. They were definitely there in spirit!

The first thing we did was build a birth altar. Soren lent me her sun/moon tapestry, and the girls had made a design of candles on it. I got so many cool things, I'll have to write them down tomorrow and blog about them separately. One thing is that Alyce brought sage to cleanse the house with, and a really cool herbal egg thing to bless the house with afterwards. My favorite gift apparently has two parts, one of which I won't get until the baby is born, but it's a stature of a pregnant woman that I am sooo drawn to.

The highlights were getting beads for a birthing necklace and Krista had everyone bring beads for Emma and Soren for big sister bracelets too, which I thought was very cool. When the beads were presented, they decorated the girls and I with fun jewelry and scarves to make us feel more beautiful! I gave everyone a candle to light during my labor, and we did a matrilineal web weaving so that everyone has a yarn anklet/bracelet to wear until after the baby is born.

Krista gave me a scrapbook and everyone had a chance to write or paste something into it. I cried reading it tonight and will keep it by my bedside. I made a belly cast with Alyce and Krista earlier in the week and everyone helped to decorate it, and everyone contributed to putting a henna tatoo on my belly, complete with paste on jewels. There will be a few pictures to follow.

Jane sent great black and white pics of Tom and I that she took when we visited during Arts Festival that I need to paste into the scrapbook still.

We sang a birthing song and did a Native American ritual of jumping through the doorways downstairs to encourage the baby to make a quick entrance into the world when I go into labor.

We had a great potluck afterwards. The girls got very tired; it was 10:30 by the time everyone left, but they were great the whole time. They were very involved and well behaved and just generally fun to have there. I'm so glad that I included them in it. Oh! Everyone had babies there too - Alyce with May (9 weeks), Patty with Julian (4.5 weeks), Jenny with Francesca and Zela (8 weeks) and Vicky didn't bring Quinn (4.5 mos) but he was there in spirit! All that baby magic has to bode good things!

I feel like the house is so much more a home now after having had all my close friends here and eating together with them and having such a wonderful ritual to celebrate the joy of birthing a new life.

I really should try to get some sleep I guess :).

Anemia and such

I was taking iron for a bit because my iron levels were low, but last weekend I stopped for a few days because I was ... well... really constipated. Then I became incredibly fatigued again, so I started taking it again yesterday. Unfortunately, it doesn't work right away, because I'm freaking exhausted.

Tonight is my Blessingway and I have so much to do still to unpack and get the house ready and Tom is on call until tomorrow morning (48 hours away does not help me to get our house unpacked and he told his brother that he would help him roof his new house tomorrow, so that's 72 hours w/ no help). Going back to single motherhood is just no damn fun, especially when my mobility and lifting power is limited and I have soooo much to do. I'm incredibly frustrated by it all.

I've been cleaning and cleaning and cleaning too. Everything is just so dirty, not to mention that unpacking is creating more dust and dirt. Then the damn laundry vent fell totally apart in 3 places today so I had damp lint blowing into the already filthy basement, which I'm already broom swept about 6 times this week just to get the worst of the caked on crap up off the floor.

Do I sound vaguely resentful? Well, I am ;). The girls have been wonderful at helping, but they're still little and I'm cranky and they want me to play with them and dammit, I just don't have enough hours or energy in the day to be supermom right now. I keep thinking that once the baby gets here at least I'll just have to sit and nurse. Somebody better hide my sling ;)>

OK, off to get a henna tatoo for my blessingway tonight, and some snackies of some sort and maybe even a quick stop in to visit Jenny and the babies.

Soren with her own bandana 

Emma & Catherine (of Karen) at David's house last weekend. David is growing his hair out (My mom insists this is because Tom has long hair) and he wears a bandana all the time because it's in that difficult in-between stage. The girls love to wear them, but Emma and I have kind of flat heads in the back so they don't stay on very well. 

Meme

Here's a birthday meme I stole from Harsh Betty who stole it from Lili.

PS, I did my belly cast today with two friends and the girls, and mowed 2/3 of the lawn. I have to leave for work soon and I'm whupped.

December - cross out anything that doesn't apply but of course I don't remember how to do that, so I'm going to use italics instead.

Loyal and generous (sometimes, but I admit to being self-centered pretty frequently, except with my children). Sexy.(not while pregnant, IMO) Patriotic. Active in games and interactions. Impatient and hasty. Ambitious. Influential in organizations. Fun to be with. Loves to socialize. Loves praises. Loves attention. Loves to be loved. Honest and trustworthy. Not pretending. Short tempered. Changing personality. Not egoistic. Take high pride in oneself. Hates restrictions. Loves to joke. Good sense of humor. Logical.

Mostly pretty on target.

I have my bedroom unpacked for the most part, the kitchen, although we have to finish putting linoleum in the pantry before I can actually finish that. The living room and dining room. The bathroom. Need to do girls' and baby's room. Homeschooling/playroom. Filing cabinet (has been a project for months now). Yard. Ugh, yard! My laundry is hooked up but my box of detergents is MISSING! Auuuughhhh!

Moving

I have been massively skimming and deleting for the last few days due to being offline and then moving to our new house. The move itself is mostly done, except for a few random things at the old house, and I've been working on putting the kitchen and our bedroom to rights.

The kitchen is looking good, other than that the dishwasher isn't hooked up yet (please, I hope today!) and our range oven doesn't arrive until Wednesday. The laundry isn't hooked up yet either, but I should definitely have that by the time I go to bed tonight.

The rest of the house is in shambles. We did manage to get room to put Soren's mattress down so she could sleep on it. Emma has been sleeping on blankets on the floor, but rather enjoying camping out. They've been so exhausted from helping that bedtime has been easier than in months!

Other than being really exhausted myself, I've been physically feeling well. I was very careful with my back and other than the actual day of the move, avoided sciatica. My quads are KILLING me from lifting and going up and down the stairs, but I'll be happy to have toned thighs again ;).

Last night my feet started to really hurt and swell though and they feel bruised this morning still. My hands are too swollen to take off my rings, which is a first. I think I"ll have to take it a little easier today and drink a lot. I MUST go to the grocery store though, and the bank.

My last mw appt. was great. My bp was 90/60 or thereabouts, I had gained about another 1-2 lbs, no sugar in my urine and a trace of protein. No swelling at the time, baby's hb around 158. I have to call the mw asst today to get an appt for Friday as my mw is in Vermont (ack!). The baby is very active!

4 more weeks!

I forgot

David sent me a link to this wonderful song , click on "I'm Walking Back Home to Me"

I have Ted's other CDs, he's a friend of our family's, and Dawn Kinnard just came out with her solo CD last year, and I'm not a huge fan of hers, but this song is just so pretty!

And support Ted by buying his CDs at CDBaby! My kids know all his lyrics by heart, and sometimes I wonder if that will warp them forever, but we'll see ;).

Comments

Erin, I tried to reply to you in my comments, but they seem to be acting wonky, so I'll just say here, that I will be back in town after the baby is born, and I'm still reading your blog *you GO girl!* and I will call you to do lunch :).

I am finding that I really like using Opera except that in certain blogs, including my own, I can't read or write comments so I have to open IE anyway. And if I want to email someone from a link in IE, it of course opens up Outlook, which then tries to redownload all the mail that I have already downloaded in Opera. Argh! Also, none of the text or URL options will show up when I'm using Opera.

I ran out of boxes again, so have to go in search of some today. We're hopefully going swimming at a friend's house unless it rains and I have a bunch of phone calls to make too. I got the rest of the kitchen packed yesterday WOOHOO, and mostly have to finish our bedroom and the basement. The rest of it will kind of take care of itself except for my desks (yes, I have two) and my computer, which I have to take over myself tomorrow night and get hooked up in preparation for the cable guy or girl.

Progress is being made! We're going to get the banker's desk/credenza/bookshelf that we got off Freecycle tonight, and I want to put those in our bedroom and give the girls my other two desks, or possibly even leaven one of them here, since we have David's old school desk that Soren mostly uses, and is really cool and small and manageable for her.

OK, off to wake the girls so they can get back on some sort of normal sleep cycle. Emma was up past midnight last night and past 11 the night before. Soren stayed over at Danielle's with the boys on Monday night and apparently woke up crying for "her Tom" at 12:30am! Pretty cute. I've been replaced ;).

My cold is a bit better, although Tom got it. Now my allergies are on high alert from packing up the basement/toy room, which we never used since we moved in ;).

I'm SO glad I got most of it done this morning though. Tom did a ton while I was gone this weekend, so I'm feeling like there's some light at the end of the tunnel. I need to pack up my desk, clothes, random junk this week. I have to take my 'puter to the new house on Friday to meet the cable guys. Yay! I think I'll put it in the bedroom, and put the kids' computer in their playroom. We're getting a new office set this week, so I need to see if that will fit in the bedroom also.

I'd really like to get another single or queen mattress to put on the floor of our bedroom too, but I'll have to keep looking on freecycle for one.

I'm ready to go back to bed already!

sick

Yes, this always happens the last part of pregnancy. I have the flu, or something like it. I was up most of the night eating Rolaids with a massive stomach ache, and now I have a fever, sore throat, earache and just overall miserableness.

We did get to go to the AP playgroup this morning, albeit late, so that was great fun. My friend Krista is going to give us some boxes for moving, thank the heavens, so Tom will try to pick those up tonight.

I can't believe I'm going to drive to PA tonight, but I know I will feel worse tomorrow ::sigh::. Figures my last trip home will be sucky.

Yay!

My 3 hour GTT came back normal! No funky diet for me, woohoo! and I think the iron is helping already. I feel much more positive and have more energy the last two days than I have in weeks. Thank goodness!

I remembered...

...what it was Soren said. When we had our failed grocery trip, I wanted to buy cheese danish, and I asked her if she'd be really offended if I bought it.

She said, "Yes, mom, I will, but that's OK, you can buy it."

I said, "but I don't want to make you sad because you can't eat it!"

Soren said, "Mom, I'm offended by MOST of the things you eat, so go ahead and buy it."

Hah! I was verklempt. She is so funny!

I also didn't realize how much coffee sucks w/o some sugar in it. I have to go to the store again today and try to find some things that everyone can eat.