The first has to do with snow. "Do you find it hard to live in a place that gets so little after living in ID? I don't know if I could stand moving back to AR for that reason--I'd really miss it. I'm glad you had a chance to experience it when you lived in the NW."
I do miss the snow!! I never lost the excitement of waking up to a fresh snowfall, and I always loved watching flakes fall past my big picture window. I didn't get to ski a whole lot when we lived there, because of pregnancies and finances, but I had a blast whenever we did. But in the summer time, I missed weather hot enough to swim without shivering, and I always got a little depressed having snow at Easter, and really hated the gray, wet, cold Springs that seemed to last forever. I love snow in December and January, but when Valentine's Day comes, I'm ready for Spring to start. I have yet to find a place where both of those happen!
The second question was about kids. "Do you find that your girls pair off and one of them gets left out? My three rarely all play together..." There are the rare, beautiful occassions when they all 3 play together amazingly well, and even for extended periods of time. But usually Jessica and Mikayla, who are almost exactly 2 years apart, play together and Rebecca, born 4 years after Mikayla, plays by herself. And she usually seems okay with that--she gets to be in charge and make decisions that way, as opposed to being bossed around by her older sisters. Mikayla has seemed to enjoy picking on Rebecca since the day she came home from the hospital and Mikayla walked by and kicked her car seat/carrier. It's been a major prayer of mine for quite a while that Mikayla would have a special love for her little sister. Well, very recently (since Christmas) there have been a few days when Mikayla and Rebecca played together, and since it was something Jessica felt too grown-up for at the time, she would go off by herself and read. While I'm never overly happy at seeing Jessica grow up, I am delighted at seeing the other two having fun together. This year Rebecca goes to school every day while the other 2 are home schooled; I'm interested in how things change next year when I home school all 3!
As long as I'm answering questions...Melissa, for Christmas Mike and I bought each other a comination VCR/DVD player/burner, which dubs video tapes straight to DVD, and it has little plug-in thingies that hook up to my old video camera, so making the DVDs from those little tapes was really pretty easy! I had directions to follow and everything. :)
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My Matthew is 14 mos older than Molly. He has never had a "special love" for her. Never. He is mean or indifferent to her about 80-85% of the time. They do have moments here and there of playing together, but usually they are fussing or arguing or downright fighting. It breaks my heart. Shortly after Molly was born, I noticed a pattern of Matthew waking up about 2:30am, just as I was putting Molly back down from nursing. He and I would wind up sitting on the couch, with his bottle (or was it sippy cup?) and watch Mickey Mouse til we'd both fall back asleep. Then I'd get back up, nurse Molly, and go to school. The pediatrician told me that to Matthew, that was the only time during the day he had me all to himself and not sharing me with a big brother or baby sister.
Made sense. He's still a mama's boy....but I still pray for his relationship with Molly.
Thanks for answering, Kecia. I tend to throw questions out there and then forget I've asked them but I loved reading your answers.
I think I feel the same way about snow!
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