Yesterday afternoon we had a few flakes of snow. I was outside with Damian during it and I have to say, I do not think he approved. His frown of concern was adorable when a few landed on him. With all the economic turmoil in the country (and world,) people seem to easily forget how much we have to be thankful for and how much beauty surrounds us. I do not know much about economics but I feel that a lot of what is out there is fear mongering. I am not trying to say times are not hard, they are, but I feel this has all been blown out of proportion. People are comparing the current situation to the Great Depression. I think that is an insult to the people who lived through those time. Michael has lost a 28% of his 401K since this “crisis” began, but you know what, we aren’t worried. I am certain that by the time we are near retirement and are ready to shift our earnings to more bonds then stocks the market will have rebounded (perhaps more then once!)

Anyhow, I am not economic expert so my opinions on that aside, I thought I would share some photos of my morning. I hope you see as much beauty in the world around you are I do. (I put one of this morning’s pictures in my photoblog, I hope someone can help me identify those unique seedpods.) I actually don’t know what a lot of these plants are so if you see something you recognize, let me know!

This weekend is the Canadian Thanksgiving, so I wanted to wish a wonderful one to all my relatives and friends up north!

Okay, I am officially afraid to smile again! Last year my front tooth chipped and I got it fixed, now the same tooth chipped again this morning! Big gapping redneck smile, argggg!

Why does it always happen before a trip?! Last time it happened just before we went to Seattle, now we are going camping next week and it is not cheap to fix this, though we have insurance that will cover a bit of it. It is not so much a beauty thing – though I do care about that – as a functionality thing. Do you know how hard it is to eat with a chipped tooth?

It is funny because I was just thinking the other day that I should go to the dentist for my cleaning and check up but then realized how much of a pain it would be since I am exclusively breastfeeding Damian. For me to go to the dentist I will have to get a pump and a bottle, yet another expense, then someone to take care of him while I am in there.

Oh my god I am way more stressed then I ought to be. Need to call Michael.

This is not fair.

So it still isn’t fair but I am not having a melt down anymore, many thanks to Michael and a well placed tofu joke on Twitter by Andrea. Deep breaths right? I feel so vain for overreacting. I still don’t know how this will work out, I have to get it fixed or at least filed down, it is so sharp! Can I breastfeed if they numb me? Stuff to look up.

I can figure this out though.

Among the newfound stress there is a lovely bit of poetic irony though, I am 90% sure it chipped while I was brushing my teeth!

I just got off the phone with Damian’s goddessmother, Michelle, and she will come to the dentist with me. As long as I get them to use novocaine, bupivacaine or lidocaine for numbing, I will not have to pump and dump breastmilk. So I can feed him right before I go in and right afterwards too, leaving a pumped bottle with her just in case. (I don’t even know if Damian would take a bottle, he won’t take pacifiers.) it should be okay.

Now to call and talk to the dentist.

So it is all worked out, dentist next Wednesday. Michelle will take me there and take care of Damian. They are just going to fix that tooth, using the appropriate numbing agent as not to impact my milk. I have some milk already hand expressed and saved too. Dr Sargent was really cool about it, love my dentist.