Misc Ramblings – Page 72 – a hippie with a minivan

Lost tooth…

I had a volunteer meeting tonight… I got back and DH had a worried look on his face and said in a weird voice that something happened… both kids were running around when I walked in so I didn’t know at all what to expect and Simon just said that I had to go see something…. I walked into the bathroom where he was and he put Xavier on the counter… Xavier smiled showing a big gap… Just after I had left he was playing and fell and had knocked his tooth out… … Dh called the CLSC (nurses line) and we have to make an appt at the Dentist tommorow.. Simon said that he didn’t bleed much andhe did a great job at making him feel OK about the loss… (really proud of the way that he handled things)

I am wondering a bit what to expect… His gum is pretty knocked up and bruised and the space was already pretty small and his other tooth is a bit wobboly (both front teeth have been wobboly for a while) I know that thus is a bit petty… but I am really mourning his smile …

A cool little coincidence…

For the last few years I have been lurking on the Quebec homeschooling Association page and about two months ago I had responded to a message from a mom looking for homeschoolers in the area, I got a PM from one mom, sent her a PM and then didn’t hear back right away and then went on the site a few times after that to see if there had been more responses hadn’t been one yet…

With the vaccation time and summer I had just not went back to the site for a while… So when I went back last week there was two month old PM’s waiting for me, one from the mom that had pm’d me before asking to get together in the near future…one from a mom telling me where she lived (about 2-3 min away from me by car) and asking me how old my kids where …. I answered both of them…

A day or two after I got an e-mail from the second mom… she said she realized soon after my message that we already knew eachother… and then went on to explain that she is a breastfeeding volunteer also (we saw each other once though) and that we had met at the grocery store when she asked me if I was the one that sold wrap and slings…. and then while talking to someone and talking about babywearing stuff she clicked on my user name…

I had found her really cool when I had seen her at the grocery store but had forgotten that she was just starting out as a volunteer…

What is really cool is that she said that homeschooling is already a big part of her life even though her daughter is only 4 1/2… So now I will have someone local that I will be able to talk to about homeschooling and has an interest in babywearing and breastfeeding and has a child about Xavier’s age…

Now, if only her # wasn’t busy each time I tried to call her 🙂

Sat night…

Well, it was Isabelle’s wedding last Saturday and we decided to go without the kids… making it our first evening out together since Xavier was born more then 4 years ago…

My mom was the one that stayed with them and though I was a bit worried about it it turned out well… The boys had no problem with us leaving and gave us hugs and kisses and warm goodbyes and that was it… no crying, no whining, no asking us to go with us… it made it a lot easier to leave…

The wedding was beautiful, the bride was beautiful, the groom was handsome and the flowergirls were just the cutest in their dresses made by their grandmother with matching doll dresses too…

The weather was a bit iffy but stayed clear until it was time to head indoors and eat and then it started to pour… we were outside in a large tent and there was a bit of a leak at someplaces but it didn’t do anything to the mood at all… After eating a great 5 course meal the tables were moved and it was dancing time… I tried, I really did… but my legs wouldn’t leave the ground… I was really tired…

So, we sat for a while and watched and then decided to head back home… I felt a bit bad leaving so early but it was still raining pretty hard, I was still awake and alert and I had some unknown country roads to head down.. so it was the best decision…

We got home and my mom was laying on the Sofa watching a movie and the kids were sleeping well… It really felt good to have a few hours with Simon alone but I missed the kids like crazy…

A little peace of mind…

Last week I had a response to a message that I had left on the UC board at MDCâ€¦ It was from mom of soon to be 8 kids that has had a few UCâ€™s already under her belt and who lives just north of Montreal (about 2 hours drive from me). We sent a few PMâ€™s and then we exchanged #â€™s and she gave me call on thursday nightâ€¦ Though her kids are older we have a lot in commonâ€¦ she is a Homeschooler, UCer, ECer, breastfeeder (she even triandem nursed!) and we just hit it offâ€¦ IMO anywaysâ€¦We talked for at least a hour and if it wasnâ€™t so late I think we would have talked more..

Anywaysâ€¦ I was still a bit worried about what to do about registering the birth as even on the group that I had gotten info from many moms had trouble getting things done without the proof of pregnancy etc even though legally they didnâ€™t need itâ€¦ it wasnâ€™t that they didnâ€™t succeed in the end, it was that it was a lot of energy and arguingâ€¦

So, L. told me that before she had had her first UC she had an â€œillegalâ€ homebirth with a Lay midwife and that she had kept in contact with her and that she is the one that had provided her with the papers and that though she was no longer able to do such she had knew of someone else that could probably help. So the next day I called the midwife that she had told me about. She is one of the most prominant midwifes in Quebec and is on the south shore about 40 min away from me. She answered the phone in an amazingly warm voice and I didnâ€™t even have to finish explaining when she said that she would be glad to help me get the papers after the birth and that she would provide a letter with the proof of the birth and that it would be her pleasure to do so, and then she added that I could call her at anytime with questions or concerns and that she would even leave me her pager number so that I or Simon could give her a call if we have concerns during or after the birth.

It has taken such a load of my back knowing that not only will she helps us out but that she supports our decision to birth unassisted. She had not one negative word to say and was completely encouragingâ€¦