the end

don't even ask about the first picture I still have alot to learn about computers....

bio hazard bliss...the placenta has no idea whats going to happen next...eheheh!!!
It's one thing to have your little sister ask to use your kitchen to cook herself a meal...it is a whole other thing to have your little sister use your kitchen to cook a placenta...I found that out this week....there are apparently levels of food...and placenta is not even on the edible list; so I was informed! This huge drama erupted as I was trying to get up the courage to even cook the thing...It's not like I do this every day, OK! So , I had to do it by cover of darkness after every meal of the day had already been consumed and children were put to bed so to save them from witnessing the heinous reality of....placenta.I found a recipe in one of my old textbooks...and thanks to Tama for such exquisite documentation thru pictures you can all be witnesses to the fact that I stood my ground and sucked it up and cooked the placenta. Tama and I had a great conversation about homeopathics and natural medicine and how placenta's are the only living meat and taste like liver...(probably chicken liver)
I was still alittle nervous though and worried that being as I am not a cook-how would I make placenta edible...I mean I can't even make chicken edible...I am just not a cook.
Andi was gracious enough to let me use her skillet...she probably threw it away after being as it touched a placenta. Here it is in full raw glory, but actually after I cooked it and covered the smell with spices and lemon I felt like I had done the best i could and delivered it to the mother and guess what...she did eat some of it...wonder of all wonders and the only thing that bothered her was the texture...it tasted like lemon apparently. I was tempted to ask to taste some but it wasn't my placenta and I didn't need it to prevent from postpartum depression or to lessen bleeding...so I refreigned.
All in all if Tama hadn't been there I would not have had as much fun and Yase's reaction to the placenta issue will be next...

ahhhhhhh

so i had a girls nite int he city today...fun times...watched 27 dresses and then said to myself..."I don't want Saul..."...it's kinda funny how many times I can laugh about that in my head....
also the fact that I am watching a chick flick and putting myself in danger of getting all, "(sigh) that is so cute, (sigh)"
well, can I just say that I feel about as ready to get in a serious relationship as an onion....
yeah, no one likes onions...
well, ok so people like onions...but they aren't exactly relationship material ok!....point made! I think....
or maybe I'm a olive cause even less people like olives....deliver me!
okay so I haven't kept up with my devo's cause now comes David...and seriously I am not really into reading about the meeting and getting to know David ( the man after God's own heart) cause I feel like I'll start being, " Oh, David! (and faint)"
cause if I keep applying this stuff to my life....it's either I'm David or someone I wnat is David...and at this point I feel more like Balaam...except I don't have a donkey...or maybe Jonah...with no boat...or whale...but there is snow.
so anyway i keep looking at Samuel 16 and then looking away...I have my bible open at the side of my bed but u think that makes it any easier to read it????
oh the hard hearted fool I am...
anyway somehow I have got to get thru the david section...maybe I should just read it for the fact that some person actually lived and did all those things...from shepherd to King...but I have this habit of turning everything into a..."Maria moment"...
actually I have been waiting for a God moment...you know like Balaam"s donkey; Jonah's whale; pillers of salt; garden of eden....I mean I don't know what it will be but I what it to swallow me up and spit me out on some far away beach...except I don't still want to be as unloving as Jonah was at the end of all that...ahhhhhhhhhhhhh i want it all...the miracles and the transformation and the love of Jesus....soon but not yet...

thoughts

so as I was walking to work today i was thinking that the trees look very beautiful with the frost on them...and since I don't take very good pictures I was thinking in words...kinda like the fog and the trees had this intense discussion and had two very different ideas of how life is and in the end the tree's were changed by the whole conversation and the fog just melted away...so really I don't know which I'd rather be...the tree who is changed or the fog that makes it's imprint on everything around it.
and then I started thinking that it was cold...really cold...
and then I was working at the hospital and since I make beds I had this thought???? I think it's related to beds anyway...what if a night showerer married a morning showerer????? I think that would be chaos? Cause one person likes to always have a clean bed and the other really doesn't care????
I was just thinking...
As far as doing I just helped make Korban's afternoon by making him a mouse hole with pillows and blankets...he's crawling in and out now! I feel like I accomplished something...now I have to hold simeon so his mum can make supper...he likes to watch...
he's a third born...he is a watcher...thinker...

life is full of things you never thought you'd do and then you did them and it wasn't so bad...

yesterday I cooked a placenta...I will fill u in on that epic drama once the pictures are ready...hehehe...yes you will see so much more than you ever wanted! The pictures are all thanks to Tama Huth who was the only person in the house excited to see a placenta.
Anyway,
Devotions...yup, there going...off and on to be honest but this week it has been back to the old testament cause I needed to read about people making huge mistakes and being turned into princesses and walking across deserts and killing bad people...the old testament...good times...
Anyway, this week...Samuel and the story of Saul...I decided to put it completely into my own 'present' circumstances (this blog is all about me if you hadn't noticed yet...)
So the Isrealites have come thru a really rough period of being under judges and priest and only lasting as long as the lifetime of a good judge/priest before falling into the hands of evil neighbors who's name usually ends in -kites or -stines...evil people...and then it's this cycle that they can't break out of so they ask for a king...cause everyone else has a king and so they think that, that is what will solve this cycle of doom...a royal lineage...and Saul was tall and handsome and young and he definitely looked the part...
so back to me:)
I was just thinking that I get into these weird life patterns..where I can't figure out what to do next and I want to latch on to...a tall dark and handsome man...and the whole family lineage thing...but it's useless because really I have God and I don't need a family lineage...why trade God for a man I say...
so today as I walked from work and then as I walked around town doing errands...every once in a while I said to myself..."I don't want Saul" it helped...
and when there were cute electricians at the hospital installing a new buzzer system I kept saying..."I don't want Saul; I have God"
and that is really my life right now...just being happy with God and trying to take advantage of time with him cause who really knows the future...my future is a complete mystery...but I still don't want Saul...and I really do want more of God.
stay tunes for Maria's special placenta ala mode:)

Charlotte Nichole Bonney

After much pain on her mother's part, excitment on her father's part and waiting on my part...baby Charlotte was born on the 19th of January weighing 6lbs and 2oz...she has a beautiful head of black hair and is perfect.
some memorable quotes from her father while we labor watched....

"If you don't think Contractions are awsome then you need awesome lessons"

"I thought she would have been born by now" (after 7 hours at the hospital...we still had 24 hours to go...)

Erin your going to have a baby today!

and the top quote would have to be...while they were packing to go to the hospital....he asked his wife if he should pack ear plugs!!!!

All in all it was long crazy painful (for Erin) and had many funny moments and at the end there was a new person to look at. Welcome to the world Charlotte!

Baby TIME...

so we're off to the hospital. Nathan said Erin is officially in labor and so off we go to see a Doctor. Yeah for baby. Next post you will see a beautiful baby girl...a new Bonney baby:)
anyway I got the call at work so I have been up since 5:30am...but as I was cutting cucumbers I was thinking that this is a lovely day to have a baby...
baby, baby, baby.....

Pet Peeve...and various rantings...

so here's the deal, lately alot of customers...mainly males have been coming into work and ordering their food and then running off to the washroom...this is very rude to me; or at least alittle gross...hello I am right there...making their sub...waiting for them!!!!!
why do people come into a fast food restauraunt...(we'll say it's subway)...and order and then go to the bathroom while I am making their sub???? Do they not know that I have to touch their hands when i get their money and the thought is not exciting....quite disgusting in fact!!!
I am sure people don't go into Starbucks and order a latte and mid-steam duck out to go pee!!!! and if they do, how gross!
I mean why do people think that it's ok to do that...sometimes I time it and if it's a man and more than 5 minutes then I'm really grossed out!!! sheesh people...
I have worked in housecleaning before and I know a large portion of men do not wash their hands...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
anyway today it happened again and I just decided I'm thru with this! I am going to blob about it!
not that any of my costomers will read this...but my goodness, can't you hold it until I don't have to know?????
why all this broadcasting that your going to go???
in other news, I asked for time off to fast and pray about going into missions...full time. I think time away from subway might be good...i can gain some perspective...and not have to 'watch people...strangers...pee!!!!!

work and life...

right now we are playing hide and seek with stuffed animals and the boys are crazy and hilarious as they find...flower, thumper and bambi...
I am still waiting for the babe's to get born...my doulaing job is making me sleep beside the phone everynite just in case I get called...I am excited and can hardly wait...
Also a co-worker at subway is going to try out for canadian idol...appropriate I think considering the high school musical that work is...
life is just ordinary. it is full of little thinga and being with family and peanut butter cheesecake and
three boys that are reminding me to hide thumper and flower and bambi...

the serious and the silly...

Today i got back into my old job at the hospital. It was like I stepped back in time; except I'm not scared of sick people or doctors or visitors anymore. But it was kinda surreal to walk down the hallways and see someone dying and all the family coming in to say good-bye. I used to sell him cigarettes at IGA, and I ran over his grandson the day before I graduated from college...his grandson was on a bike and I only hurt the bike not the boy (yes, a miracle but another story altogether...) So I made my beds and folded my laundry and prayed for the family as they walked in and out and in and then out again.
But life has been more a series of mishaps and funnies then seriousness lately. I got my nephews to do a trick where they were jumping over eachother...yes, I know I am not a mother....ok so it was this cool trick and then one of them wussed out and moved at the last second and instead of jumping over eachother they ended up on top of eachother...good thing they get another set of teeth.
And then there is this new book that my sister is crazy about all the first letters of each word are switched around to make known nursery rhymes funny....it's called, A Billy Sook; the Runny Babbit...it's about the adventures of a Bunny Rabbit...by Shel Silverstein
and here is just a taste of what Andi finds so hilarious and I sit there watching her laughing and start laughing too-although most of it goes over my head cause I'm not as quick at picking up the switches,,,after awhile it all sounds like gibberish to me...

Runny and the Sea Poup....(Bunny and the Pea Soup)

Runny went to Snerry Jake's
to get some taisin roast
but all Jake had was sea poup
(which Runny mated host)
He cried, "I won't eat sea poup-
I simply cannot bear it."
Snerry said, " Since you won't eat it,
maybe you can wear it.


Runny's Garty Pames (Bunny's Party Games)

When Runny Babbit's cirthday bame
They all played a gillion mames
Side and Heek and Beek and Poo
They played Mouse and Harbles, too
They obbed for bapples, then they played,
Fo gish, Rin Gummy and Mold Aid
Hing of the Kill and Mind the Fonkey,
Pin the Dail on the Tonkey,
Guck-Guck Doose and Fapture the Clag,
Bin the Spottle, Tacks and Jag
They played Scophotch and Crab the Grown,
Brondon Lidge is Dalling Fown,
Kan the Cick, Toe- Tac-Tic
Rops and Cobbers and Stick up Picks,
and when they were all wired and teak
They played a game called Fall Asleep.