This is Lispeth's Daughter, Rachel Speaking

Oh dear, it's been quite a while since this blog has been updated? And I am sorry to tell you that this post won't quench the thirst of your curiousity. This will not be very long as Mother just wanted everyone to be updated on how she was doing. For some of you in the know, you will remember that mother was taking some new sort of morning sickness medication that she claimed worked miraculously. Unfortunately, at her last doctor's appointment, we found out that the medication was reacting badly and causing a few complications with the pregnancy. Fortunately, it seems to have been caught in time and no lasting damage was done however Mother is still in the hospital waiting for Doctor Humbug to give her the a-ok to leave. Belinda, Elizabeth and I have been taking turns looking after the children and visiting the hospital with Father as he refuses to leave Mother's side. She is allowed visitors so if anyone is in the area she is in room 327. We should all be full of hope that the next update on this blog is written by Mother so she can tell you all herself that she is doing alright.

Dinner Party Madness

First off, I have to say that the dinner party went much better than anticipated though the supply of alcohol for the adults was rather depleted. The bartender that we hired for the evening was not very happy about that... then again, neither was I.

The place looked absolutely beautiful at the beginning of the night. There were ice sculptures of all the houses that were lit up from underneath. Aurora and Ariel worked on those for a week. They even went out to buy new tables so that they would light up properly.

Jezebelle, Jasmine, Sarah and Melanie picked wildflowers to make bouquets which they placed on all the tables... all over the house. It wouldn't have been so bad if the bouquets weren't so large but half the tables have disappeared under them.

There were a lot of chocolates as Esmerelda is still on the chocolatier course. Chocolate flowers, chocolate covered fruits, chocolate placeholders, there was even a chocolate fountain. Now, the chocolate fountain was very interesting and there were more than a few people trying to drink straight from the chocolate fountain but we managed to keep it people free, for the most part.

Of course we also had the normal, every year things such as the fireworks, live music, a lot of food and everyone from the area that could show up.

There was a bit of awkwardness around some of the people though, I'm not 100% sure what was the reason for all of the awkwardness. Well, I know why it was awkward with a few of the people, but that is best left unsaid.

Anyway, I had best be going as at my last check up the doctor told me that I will need as much rest and relaxation as possible. With this household, in this neighborhood, that may be a bit of a problem.

Brenda and FML

Well, to start this off, the flu has finally finished its way through my household. Thank goodness. Those poor maids were kept way too busy with all the laundry that needed to be done and redone.

Now onto the interesting stuff. Apparently, my one normal daughter isn't normal anymore. Bertha wants to be called Brenda now. Though, I'm not too worried about that just yet because I heard rumors that there is a person selling children drugs. Can you believe it? I certainly can't but just in case, I had the talk with Bertha. I know that my other daughters wouldn't take drugs because they all aspire to become cheerleaders and cheerleaders don't do drugs. Bertha, on the other hand, doesn't want to be a cheerleader.

So I sat Bertha down and I talked to her about drugs. I said, "Bertha, if anyone is ever talking to you about FML, just say no. FML is not something that you want." I think that I really got through to her. But, just in case, I think that I'll get Michael to keep an eye on her for me.

Speaking of Michael, he is going to be looking after Bertha while I go away on my yearly Spa weekend. Normally I would get Rachel, Belinda and Elisabeth to look after the household while I'm away, but I figured that this year, we should all go together. Just the four of us. It hasn't been just the four of us since Elizabeth was three and Aurora and Ariel were born. I am very much looking forward to this trip.

Something else I'm looking forward to is Founders Day. I've already sent out the invitations to my annual dinner party. This year they're edible. Esmerelda is taking a chocolatier course and wanted to make the invitations. Needless to say, we all got to eat her rejects.

Anyway, I think that I've taken up enough of your time and I have a dinner party to finish planning.

Flu Season and Games

I am terribly sorry about the last post being so short. Melanie decided that she needed to throw up and as she is only three, there is no rushing to the bathroom or to a bucket. Poor Mary-Beth, she is one of our maids (we have one for each wing). She has had to do laundry seven times today.

Now, onto the reason for this post. I have recently heard of a new game called Dan the Hunter. I've been trying to find out what it's about, but all I can gather is that the person who plays the game becomes Dan and hunts wildlife. Now, Bertha is very interested in hunting and trapping (her grandfather got her into it) and so I was thinking that if Michael really wants to teach Bertha how to play, it couldn't really harm her.

Oh, there she goes again. Hopefully in a few days, the flu will have worked its way through the entire family.

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It has recently come to my attention that I do not post nearly enough... oops.

Christmas at Gertie's House =)

I just had to comment on Gertie's Christmas Party. Well, from my end, I thought it went very well. Especially considering what happened last year with the fire and the tree.

W. couldn't go because of theme park openings but I went with all of our daughters. Though I am pretty sure that most of my daughters only came because Ruth and her boys came. Apparently Ruth's boys are little princes and little princesses need little princes. Though, I'm not going to tell Ruth that because she already thinks my girls are boy-crazy as it is. Which, they are when you think about it but then again, most girls their ages are. Even Bertha is slightly boy-crazy with the way she idolizes Michael and Jason.

The poor girl, you should have seen her after the party. She was devastated with the fact that Michael and Jason weren't talking. She didn't know who to follow around the neighborhood. Not that either of them were to be found around the neighborhood when they were fighting.

But I'm getting off track here because I'm suppose to be telling you all about Gertie's fabulous Christmas party. First of all the Christmas tree was absolutely stunning. Gertie, you and the boys outdid yourself this year. It shedded a bit much but it looked gorgeous.

And poor, poor Sella Bwan. She seemed tramautized by the end of the night. Now, I didn't witness it myself, but I heard that she was trying to impress a young boy only for him to start chasing after another young boy. But I heard this from my daughters. I also heard that she witnessed Samara and Sadako playing together and that was what traumatized her. All I know is that at some point during the evening, Sella curled up into the fetal position and started rocking back and forth in the corner. I'm use to Jason doing this (after all he has a very debilitating fear of water) but I had never thought Sella would do something like that. She just seems so obedient and we all know that Stephanie wouldn't want her to do anything like that.

Now, the food was delicious. There was plenty of turkey and stuffing. Gertie thought of everything, she even had some bologna sandwiches because she had heard of my cravings for the things. Bless her heart. And of course there was lots of eggnog.

Anyway, I've prattled on about Gertie's wonderful party long enough. I should be going now. Merry Christmas. =)

Eggnog, Bologna and Jason Voorhees

Well, it is a very good thing that it is Christmas time because I have been craving eggnog (the non-alcoholic type of course) and bologna sandwiches. That is all that I have been wanting to eat for the last three days which is very strange considering that I am usually very much against bologna. However, lately, I have been eating bologna sandwiches with all of my younger daughters who just think that I've finally figured out the wonders of bologna. My older daughters have figured out that I am pregnant again and they just roll their eyes at the younger ones.

Now, I have recently just found out that Jason Voorhees has been let out of the hospital after he had been very severely injured. I cannot even begin to tell you how relieved I am at that news as he is the best friend of Michael who I usually get to babysit Bertha. Now, Bertha adores both Michael and Jason, so when we found out that Jason was injured she was a mess and started completely acting out. It took me days to calm her down and none of the other girls dared to go near her for fear. Normally, for any of the other girls, I would have gotten W. to help, however he is convinced that Bertha is not his child so it was all up to me.

Right now though, I am waiting for Bertha to finish getting ready so that we can visit Jason as that is the only way she will believe me that he is alright.