California McMillans

For the latter half of the second week of October break, we went to Southern California.  I worked Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and we woke up Thursday at three and left at four.  We had planned on doing two days at Disneyland and one at the beach.  We weren't sure whether to do the beach first or Disneyland, so we decided that when we arrived in LA, we'd see how we feel.   The ride was pretty smooth.  In fact, we were making great time until after the grapevine and then all of the LA traffic started piling up, even in the carpool lane.  But we still made good time and decided to go to Dizzyland first.  We unloaded the kids, packed lunches, and entered the happiest place on earth.   I like Disneyland because of its cleanliness, friendly staff, and impressive engineering.  The kids like it for the cool rides.  Heidi had stocked up on junk food and I was excited for that, because we usually do boring sandwiches and the kids talk us into a four dollar churro.  This tim

Baby McMillan is Due March 20th. Kira's birthday is March 20th and Blake's March 21st.   I am finally started to feel normal.  I realized I didn't feel sick at all at Disneyland and it made me so happy!  My thyroid of course went crazy at the same time as my pregnancy which made me want to sleep all day long.  I feel like it is better, but labs showed it was still off, so I might have to take meds. We shall see.  With every pregnancy my body is falling apart. This fall, I really decided to simplify life.  I didn't sign up Kira for preschool and haven't done sports (except for occasional swim) and it has been so nice!  I feel like I am finally ready to get back into things so I will look for preschool for Kira, which I am sure she will love and maybe gymnastics for dance for her.  I used to think that more was better and I have realized in life that having some down time and months to just relax are needed and wonderful for the entire family. Other than that, t

Kira, to me as I was getting ready for work:  "When I'm a mom, can I shave?" "Yes." "When I'm a mom, can I buy whatever I want?" "Yes." "So I can buy toys, candy, doughnuts and ham?" "Yes." "And I'm gonna buy twenty million of pizza, twenty million doughnuts, right Daddy?" "Yes." That made her happy.