I Could Write a Book

    Hello All,

    It’s been a while since I’ve written anything. May is just mayhem every year. Things are piling up, coming to an end or just beginning. I’ve had plenty of those this month. 

    I think I’ll start with T: T finished 4th grade with flying colors. All A’s and one B. He maintained A/B Honor Roll for the entire year and had A conduct for the entire year. He was voted best "book report presentor" which is just wonderful for me. He doesn’t mind talking in front of others and he knows his books when he reads them. T played basketball this year and finally got aggressive. Thank goodness considering he is going to be one tall kid. He’s currently playing baseball and it is what I call "bamboo shoot torture". I have no idea why he is doing this other than his dad is trying to live through his kids but that’s a whole ‘nother blog. Oh, T is going off this summer for his first ever "away camp". He’s excited and nervous and I am hoping that it helps mature him a bit.

    Then there’s G: G passed 1st grade with brillant colors. Straight A’s. A’s for the entire year and for conduct. He’s the little golden boy at school and the girls just love him. He is going to have no trouble getting dates one day. He played basketball for the first time ever and they stuck him on the wrong team. He never made a basket the entire season except for the "free throws" at half time. We were proud that he tried as hard as he did. He’s in baseball right now and absolutely hates it. I think that’s a lack of confidence and not really a dislike for the game. The last 2 games he has actually hit the ball and in the last game he scored a run. I cried. 

    Last but not least is J: J finished Kindergarden with a bang. She was the wildest dancer in her graduation performance and had everyone laughing. She is reading already. Shocked me like crazy the first time she read something to me. I had no idea she could even read. She did "Daisies" this year and has really enjoyed it. Can’t say that I made any close friends with the other moms. Maybe I should get involved more, eh ? J’s dance recital was this past weekend and she did the best she’s ever done. She had no fear on stage and was so excited. She truly knew the dance, too.  I was worried mid-year on how she was going to do academically, but I have no fears now. She blossomed these last couple of months.

    Me: I finally made it back to tennis and pilates. I’ve got a headache at this very moment from playing in the heat today. Yay for sunshine. I’ve got a new position on the board for Jr League. Sometimes, I really wonder why I continue to stay on. I’m doing a lot of reading right now. Spending a lot of time at the pool - one at the gym and in my backyard. It is so nice having a pool. Can’t say the house gets cleaned a lot because we seem to be staying outside all the time now. This is one of the reasons why I haven’t blogged lately.  I finally feel as if I’m to a point in my life where I can move forward and decide what I really want to do/be when I’m completely grown up. Life is real good right now. Other than my complaining about my body shape and weight everything is good.

   Here’s to a wonderful summer. I feel like the kids and I really started ours today out in the sun, sliding down the waterslides. Had a blast. I hope your summer is just as wonderful as mine.

    41 years old and I’m still experiencing "firsts" in my life. Go me. Today my "first" was pilates. My new exercise love. While you’re doing the class it doesn’t seem to be "too hard", but oh my goodness, a couple hours later and my thighs were screaming. I am so happy. I feel so much better mentally when I’m exercising. It makes me a better person all around not just healthier.

    Want to know how badly my thighs are screaming ? Bad enough that I went on a walk just to loosen my legs up. I’d say I got a pretty good workout. Have I mentioned how much happier I am when I’m exercising ? I feel like I lose a part of me when I’m not doing something to focus on me and dang, this summer "me" went completely out the window. Well, other than reading. Oh, and other than no meetings. I’m making up for that now, though.

    How wrong is it to take aleve on your first day of exercising ? Man, I’m getting old. I’m going to cardio tennis tomorrow morning and at this rate I’m not sure if I will be able to run after the balls. The tennis pro is going to have a field day with me tomorrow. I’m gearing up for the Aussie accent saying "what the helllllllllll was that ? " LOL.

    School starts Friday. God bless school. For the children I mean. I’m 90% sure I’m taking this semester off of school. It will give me the time I need to make those big decisions. ackk. ackk.

Peace out, all. Don’t forget to tell the one(s) you love ~I love you~. If this blog is never updated again you will know I had a heart attack during tennis tomorrow. I’m afraid my heart might go into shock from exercising two days in a row.  

    I have just found the "blog of all blogs". I have found my newest, bestest friend. sighs. She doesn’t even know I exist, but omgoodness ! she has an entire blog on Spinning. Here it is : Unleash The Power of Group Fitness.  I’m reading and reading and writing down playlists and I’m in heaven. You know this feeds into my "ipod" love, too.

    I’ve actually looked at the calendar and figured out which days I can go to Spin class. I do not know why I am so in-love with it, but I am. Some people get this way with running, I’m this way with biking. I’ve always loved biking. Ever since highschool. I still can’t believe my father would let me just go off for long Saturday rides - by myself. No cell phone. No anything. He had no idea where I was. Sometimes I would ride over to the next city and buy a drink from the little store. Good grief. Amazing I wasn’t killed or kidnapped.

    I had some really special rides in college, too. Geaux Tigers. My boyfriend at the time was big into cycling. We would get up on Saturday mornings and ride from Baton Rouge to the ferry and catch it and ride all over the little crawfish towns. What fun days. We’d stop at the produce stands and buy fresh fruit from the local farmers. Oh, to go back in time. Okay - I’ve totally regressed here.  

    I have this dream of riding the RAGBRAI.  I’ve had that dream since 1992 when I first learned about it . Guess I might better get started on my training, eh ? I wonder if I could do that this year ? It would be the perfect year. I turned 40 and I really want to do something to remember this year by. If that makes any sense at all. That would probably be better than getting my nose pierced, eh ? Yes, I’ve actually considered that, too. I talked to my sister about it today. We both think the little nose studs are so pretty. Maybe when I get to my ideal weight I’ll do that.

    Yes, I attended Spin today. Yes, I was in heaven. Yes, my never-regions are killing me. Will I go back ? Probably on Friday morning.  

Peace out, Babycakes.  

    The kids and I had an absolutely wonderful day today. Wow. Tons of fun. Tons of water. Tons of climbing lots of stairs for the "scarey" waterslides. I got quite the workout today. I just loved this waterpark.  I also love that I am supporting an area that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

    On the way home, I saw the weirdest sight. Wow. Driving down the interstate. Doing just a tiny bit over the speed limit. I look at a car that has pulled onto the shoulder of the road. I look again. OMG. A woman has a boy 8 - 10 years old by his arm - spanking him with a leather belt. My mouth flew open. My brain registered shock. What in the heck do you do in that situation ? By the time it actually jived with me what has happening I was passed them. The traffic was crowded and everyone was cruising along. It wasn’t like you could just stop. Ugh. Such a weird thing. Guess I’ll have nightmares over that one tonigh. Blah.

    I had considered taking the kids to the pool tomorrow, but I think we’ll skip that. They need a day or so to get over all the sun they got today. I did line up a babysitter for a little while tomorrow. Woooohooooo. I’m going to have some me time.

    Oh yeah - all those letters( Jr League ) I had to get out - task accomplished. Whew !!! 

    You didn’t read that wrong. Today is really Friday. I’m just tired of Fridays. I’m starting a "Thank God It’s Monday" club. Even though it is summer my Fridays are still bringing on the craziness. Oh, but what fun craziness. hehe. Tonight is my sister’s babyshower. Tomorrow is my leadership day. (Jr League). Tomorrow afternoon and night is Cub Scouts crap with the Zephers. Of course, then there is Mass on Sunday morning and maybe on Sunday afternoon I might actually do some laundry and cleaning. Joy.

    This morning I went and worked out with my friend. If it hadn’t been for her, I would not have been at the gym. Lol. I’m trying to get back on the bandwagon. Aiming for 4 days at the gym next week. One day I’m in Baton Rouge. Woohoo. My favorite Louisiana city.

    Remember, TGIF stands for "Toes Goes In First" in my book.

Peace out. Have a great weekend.  

    Tonight at my eldest son’s baseball game (they won !) my princess daughter caught a toad. I tried to talk her into letting it go back to its family. I told her how sad it would be to be taken away from his home. Those excuses didn’t fly. All I got were HUGE tears and hiccuping sobs while she was proclaiming "but he is my pet, mommy" and then she proceeds to kiss the toad. Ewwwwwwwwwwww. Gag. Everyone around laughed. There was no way I could make her put the toad down. I dumped out my favorite Tervis Tumbler (sorry, L) and let her deposit her newfound prince-in-toad’s-skin pet. Yes, I will be scalding my favorite cup, but what else could a mommy do ? I have 2 sons who wouldn’t pick up a frog if you paid them and a daughter who won’t put one down. LOL. I really wanted a princess.   

    I got my presentation ready for tomorrow night( Jr League ). I learned that they are putting names in a hat and drawing out sleeping partners. That is such a NO GO with me. Not going to happen. Not enough money. Nope. I’m going to be sleeping on the floor and taking Aleve all weekend. Incase you’re wondering, yes, I think Aleve is a miracle drug.

    One more day of VBS. Woohoo. Next week is going to be a normal week for me. I can’t wait. Tennis, working out and possibly sushi - here I come.

Night, night all. (and La Quinta is Spanish for roaches).  

Vacation Bible School at church was fun. It was very nice to meet some new church members.  This VBS is just like the VBS at my old church. I was very surprised. Pleasantly surprised and the kids all had a great time. Both boys got to meet kids who are going into the same grade at their new school. That was very nice.

I did a RPM class tonight. Spin class on crack. Good grief. It was wonderful, but I’ve already taken 2 Aleve for my legs. lol. My legs are aching. This teacher is training for an Iron Man next month and tonight she made us do "resistance training". It obviously worked. I didn’t burn as many calories tonight (594 in one hour), but I’m thinking I built muscle. Whew boy howdie.

I even managed dinner and grocery shopping in tonight. Go Me. I didn’t get to the laundry, but hey, the clothes are clean.  I’ll fold them tomorrow. (Hopefully, lol).

I almost forgot to mention what made today so marvelous. I had a friend give me one of the sweetest surprises today. It wasn’t asked for at all. Just out of the blue.  Those kinds of surprises are the best kind.

Peace out.  

    Yesterday was a pretty low point in my marriage. I was completely frustrated, disappointed, hurt, angry, defeated, and on and on. Well, because of those emotions I pretty much ignored my husband the entire day. I didn’t lift a finger around the house. He obviously got the point about how upset I was.  With today being Father’s Day I had gone to a little effort and had him a few nice gifts. He loved everything. He was the last one to get out of bed this morning. He got to make the decision regarding what we did today and so forth. After our lunch at the club and me being pleasant to him, the guilt kicked in. On his side I should point out. He suggested that we start working on the room today and I asked "where do you want to start ?" He told me that today he was going to listen to his wife on that one. 8 hours later I am 75% done with rearranging the front 3 bedrooms. We started in J’s room and moved her bed to the other side of the room and then went to the boys room and began. He disassembled all the furniture and helped me moved the big pieces around. I’ve done everything, but he helped me where I needed it. I’m actually very thankful for his help today. It made up for how badly I felt towards him yesterday.

    I’m glad I was busy all day. It helped keep my mind off of my father. I miss him. I kept wanting to pick up the phone this morning and call him, but I’ve yet to find out the direct number to heaven.  I always think back to the last Father’s Day I spent with him. Ugh. I can’t even talk about the gift I got him. I think I must have been out of my mind. It was so sad that day knowing that that was the last Father’s Day I was going to be able to spend with him. I’m not sure if I even took pics that day. I am pretty sure I did. I think I know which ones they are. That was before digital pics for me. blah.

    Tomorrow starts Vacation Bible School. Yes, I’m teaching. LOL. Oh, if they only knew.  It’s going to be an interesting week. VBS all morning long. Exercise - when ? I promise I’m going to exercise at least 3 days this week. That is going to be a test. Cooking ought to be interesting, too. LOL. Santa still hasn’t delivered my maid or personal chef, yet. I’m guessing I was on the naughty list this year and no one had the heart to tell me.

    Sleep tight, all. I’m punch drunk.  Oh, I let the battery drain on my ipod and it unfroze and my computer recognized it. Hopefully, it will continue working.

Today I was told that I express myself well, but I did so loquaciously. For those of you who need to know the definition of that word - it means that I use way too many words. lol. I must say that I am very aware of that. It is said that the average person uses 5000 words per day. Well, when you are talking to  8 , 5 and 4 1/2 year olds all day you have at least 4500 hundred words left over at the end of the day. I still haven’t decided if I was given a compliment or not.

Tob did it again tonight. He was up to bat, there were 2 on the bases and he knocks a home run in. Woohoo. They won by one run. His run. His team is going into the Championship Tournament in 1st place. He was so excited. I love seeing him smile when he is proud of himself. Also at Cub Scout camp, he built a little tool box. I think it is the first time that he has ever hammered anything in his life. It turned out very good and it will be one of those little things that as a parent you keep forever. He even signed his name on the bottom.

Poor G and J got to spend 3 hours and 15 minutes in the car with me today. That definitely wasn’t planned. Holy moly, Batman. The traffic sucketh around here. We had a squall come through and of course, the dummies can’t drive in the rain. I saw 3 wrecks and they had traffic backed up for miles. I actually went out of my way by about 10 miles just to go around a wreck. It was a million times quicker. I had no idea that we would be in the car that long. I said that already, huh ? Another example of my loquaciousness. I think I’m going to start using one big word a day.

And for all of you who love music and your ipods, I found out about LimeWire today.  I’m having a ton of fun on it. I’ve got it going to a shared folder that opens in iTunes, but have yet to figure out how to put the songs into an actual playlist on there. Any suggestions ?

And I just got a call from my sister. Woohoo ! She and her husband finished painting the baby’s room. That means I don’t have to go tomorrow. That means I can actually go exercise. Now if I could get my music on my ipod.

Peace out, Babycakes. 

    I’ve got to get my focus back. I think I’ve lost it and this seems to happen pretty much every summer. Ah, summertime. I love summer. I love the heat, the sun, the beach, the bbqs. I don’t love not having a routine. LOL. That’s what summer is all about. Not having to have a routine. Sleeping in late if you want to. Laying by the pool the whole day. Doing nothing. Know where that gets you, though ? It gets you fat and lazy. Maybe instead of naming this post "focus" I should have named it "routine".

    Anyone who really knows me knows that I am a "routine" girl. Let’s just say I would be easy prey for a stalker. I pretty much do the same thing at the same time on the same days every week. Until summer, that is. sighs. Right now in my head I keep telling myself "if I can make it 2 more weeks I’ll be back on a routine". Sighs. Why can’t I be one of those people who can just roll with the punches ? Instead of saying "I can’t workout tomorrow morning, guess I’ll have to workout the next day" I wish I could say "I can’t workout tomorrow morning, guess I’ll have to go workout in the afternoon". Lordy, I think my body would flip out. lol. My mind surely would. It wouldn’t know what to do.

    One of the reasons my focus has been off is because I’m not getting enough sleep. That also has to do with my routine. If I was going to bed at my normal "school routine" time I wouldn’t be so dang tired in the morning time. Phooey. Guess I just talked myself into going to bed a little earlier tonight. I’ve really got to get back with the program. I’ve got to do my workouts, my weights, my cardio and my tennis. I know that I’m a much happier person when I’m exercising.

   Time to go sit down and write out my summer routine. Lordy, I’m pathetic. lol.

Sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite.
 

I am blessed and I know I am blessed. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t times when I whine because I’d like to live in a fancier, bigger home or have white as lightning teeth. The next time I whine because I don’t want to go on vacation or some other really stupid thing, please remind me that there are people who would love to go on vacation.

 I’m trying to "bless" my home. I’m trying to get rid of the things that we do not use or need. I’m also trying to bless others by giving the things to people who do need them or can use them. It is such a wonderful feeling to me to be able to give someone something. For free. I don’t expect anything in return. I’m just happy that someone else can use it.

I hope I maybe met a new friend today. She was so very nice and sweet. I’m hoping that God let our paths cross today for a reason. That would be very nice.

I did spin class again today. I love it. I’m definitely getting addicted to it. I want to go again tomorrow. I feel like a little kid "please mommy, just one more turn". Lol.

Sweet, peaceful sleep to you, tonight.  

It’s Marvelous Monday time again and it was a "marvelous Monday". Started off with a lazy, slow-starting morning followed by working out with the personal trainer and then it was "Memorial Day" time. The pool, waterslides, tons of sun, dj playing beach music and hamburgers grilling. Oh, what a yummy smell. I do love to smell grilled food.

The kids and I had a blast today. We all got a little too much sun, but it was a great first day. I can’t believe that we still have school this week. I had almost forgotten about it. ugh.

Remember all the soldiers, troops, military people, whatever you want to call them in your thoughts and / or prayers today. It is Memorial Day and the price of freedom definitely isn’t free.  

    Today we decided to forgo baseball practice and just spend the day in the French Quarter. Wow, it was busy. Today was the busiest I’ve seen it since Katrina.  We had a blast. The weather was perfect and the kids didn’t whine too incredibly much. We had sushi for lunch, ate at Cafe Maspero’s for dinner and then we hit Cafe DuMonde for beignets and cafe au lait.

    While in the Quarter we wondered over to the Aquarium. They’ve really been working on it and have almost the entire thing reopened. There were a lot more fish, too. Oh, oh, oh. I touched my first stingray today. They are so soft. Like really, really soft. I could have stood there for an hour touching them but they had this "barking" attendant man who kept saying "if you’ve touched the stingrays, please move on".

    I had to leave poor little Winkie in his kennel all day. I just knew there would be a mess for me to clean up when we got back home, but nope - not a thing. Woohoo for Winkie.

    Tomorrow is going to be another "marvelous Monday". There is no school and I don’t have to be at the club to workout till 10am. Yippee yeah. I have a late morning. I’m taking the kids to the pool and waterslide after I finish working out. We’re going to have a nice Memorial Day and I hope that you all have a nice one as well. Enjoy your holiday.

Yes, my day has felt like it was 48 hours long instead of 24. Oh, my goodness. I can’t believe that I’m still on the same day. This morning started off with my lazing in bed till all of 7:30(gasp). Then it was rush hour time taking showers, getting dressed and fed and to Mass on time to get a seat semi-up front. I was totally confused in Mass today. Why did they do the "May 17th" Mass instead of the "May 20th" Mass ? I think I fixated on that so much during Mass that I pretty much missed most of Mass. LOL. We also had "board voting" today during (yes, during) Mass and that was very interesting. I got to learn some about some of the members at church.

After church, we hit Chili’s and then Barnes & Nobles. I pray that my children have the same love of reading that I do. I always let them buy one book everytime we go to the bookstore. I tell T that he must read his book or I will not allow him to buy one the next time. As we were pulling into the driveway today he says, "mom, I just finished my book." My goodness. I’ve got to start pushing him towards longer books. I do have a proud  mommy monent regarding T. It took him almost a month to read a 5th grade level book. He took the test on it at school on Friday and made 100%. He was proud of himself and so was I.

Since I didn’t clean enough yesterday I thought I’d be insane and clean again today. I got 2 out of 3 full bathrooms scrubbed. Mine took over an hour. I got all of the vaccuming done, half of the mopping, all of the dusting, made up J’s bed (again), did 2 more loads of laundry, scrubbed the kitchen down, took a hour-long bath, and started reading another book. All while trying to potty train a dog and doing dinner ! Just call me "Super Mom" and pass on over the Prozac.

Ugh, Prozac, how I am going to need thee. Fwiw - I’m non-medicated, but at this rate, I may be real soon. Remember the mom who hurt my feelings so badly ? Well, I spoke with her today regarding our son’s last week of school. Their schedule is absolutely retarded and I have no idea why they are even going to bother with school that week. She happened to mention that the students must go to school on the last day because that is when they are given their summer reading. Oh, wahhhhhhhhhhhh. (insert multiple curse words there). I had totally forgotten about that. I was not going to tell T that we switched his school until later in the summer. What is he going to think when he doesn’t get the summer reading packet ? Oh, phooey. If you have any good ideas on how I am supposed to break this news to my son, please just spill them right on out. I’m afraid I’m going to break his heart initially and I don’t want him to worry all summer long. sighs.

Thank the good Lord that tomorrow is Monday. That means tennis (love, love,love) and working out (got to burn off some calories). Woohoo. 

Peace out, Babycakes.  

I’m tired of the stress I have during the week because I’m worried about the laundry, the unmopped floors, the bathrooms that need scrubbing, etc. so I am going to do my absolute best to do the majority of that during the weekend. I want to have a week where I do not feel guilty for the days I don’t do anything other than workout. Somebody needs to remind me of this tomorrow when I don’t feel like doing anything.

Now, I know the above paragraph sounds good, but do you have any idea what my weekends are actually like ? LOL. This weekend we have one t-ball game, one baseball game, one hour of baseball photos, one hour long swim lesson, one Mass, one Cub Scout meeting and one birthday party. Add to the baseball games 45 minutes travel time each way, 30 minutes to the swim lesson, 20 to the birthday party each way, and on and on and on. Don’t forget how long it takes me to get myself and 3 kids dressed and ready to go to Mass on Sundays. No wonder I am so tired all the time. lol. I’m sorta busy. However, I am going to get things done this weekend. I am ! I’m actually doing laundry at the moment. That stuff is worse than bunnies when it comes to multiplying and Santa still hasn’t sent me a maid yet.

Tonight we had a family night. Tob has been begging to go eat sushi this week (that’s my boy) so we did. It is cute that the children actually have their favorite sushi restaurant. As Tob says, "the food is good there". cute. After dinner we went to see Shrek 3. Cute, cute movie. Not exactly what I was expecting, I honestly have no idea what I was expecting, but the kids had a blast. I can’t believe how much popcorn my children can eat. Amazes me.

I hope you all have a productive weekend. Enjoy some of it, too.

Adios amigo.  

Well, I must say that Americal Idol ended up like I figured it would. Do I think the best singer got into the finale ? No, not at all. Melinda is definitely the best singer however, I knew all along that she wasn’t the "American Idol". She wasn’t as cute as Jordin, nor did she have all the little teenager girls infatuated with her like Blake. I will admit to watching his "Time of the Season" song over and over and over again. "Who’s your daddy ?" just made me melt. Hubba hubba.

I need help. (in many ways) lol. I’m directing this plea to my puppy. I still haven’t got him sleeping all the way through the night. Wth am I doing wrong ? I feel like I have a newborn in my house. I’m definitely too old for that.

We are considering moving into a new home. That is so scarey to me. I would love to have a "fancier, bigger" house, but this is my home. The house where I brought all 3 babies home to. Where I took care of my father as he was dying. Where the nursery still has the mural that G’s Godmother painted as a babygift to me. sighs. How do you leave things like that ?

Since I’m talking about leaving, all it is going to take is one more bad hurricane and I’m out of here. With or without a husband. lol. I’ve been watching the news with the reruns of the crap that went on with Katrina. ugh. All I can say is "no, thanks".

I saw one of the sweetest pictures ever today. It was of a dolphin. Very crisp. Great photo. Made me want to go swim with one. I’ve got to get my camera reset. Argh. I want to take crips photos. blah, blah, blah.

It was very nice today to get a phone call from my workout partner asking me if I could walk. lol. It was nice to hear someone else whining about the workouts we’ve been doing. I was fine today. Yesterday, I felt like I could barely walk or sit down.  

Peace Out, Babybabybabycakes !
 

    I have no idea what has happened to my eating today. It has sucked about as royally as it possibly could. I’m chalking it up to stress and the fact that I wasn’t completely satisfied with cardio tennis today. I ate fried chicken and M & Ms today. I don’t think it could get much worse than that. However, I’ve gotten some answers to some things that were strssing me out - I think I’ll have my eating under control tomorrow. I hope.

    Speaking of food, now I’m craving a scrambled egg sandwich with pickles and mayo. Oh, good grief. I’ve got to get a grip. What has happened ?  

    My youngest two get out of school this week. That is so going to mess up my working out. Wahh. For a solid week I might add. My health club doesn’t open up it’s "hang out" for a whole week. That means I’ve got to become creative or I can’t work out at all. That SUCKS. Makes me want to cry.  You want to volunteer to come babysit so I can workout ? Also, is your maid available for me yet ? I know mentally that I would feel tons better if I could get my house all clean at the same dang time. It’s a losing battle and I’m about to give up.

    Winkie actually went into his crate tonight without throwing his little body against the door. That’s a huge improvement. I’m trying to make him feel like a "loved pup". I look deep into his little dark eyes and I speak very calmly to him. It works. Makes him submissive to me. Yeehaw. About time.

    I need some new workout music for my ipod. Feel free to leave me a good song suggestion or two.

    Tomorrow is "hump" day. I used to look forward to that day. LOL. Now, I’m OLDDDDDDDDDDDDDD and that just means the weekend is nearer. hehe. Time to re-read my magnet. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were ? 

Peace out, Babycakes.  

Tonight was my daugther’s 1st dance recital. She was in preschool ballet and they danced to "Ballerina Girl". I completely surprised myself when I started crying once she started dancing. At first she stood there ,but after 30 seconds or so she joined right in. I was so proud of her. Her teacher told me afterwards that she was most afraid for Juliana. She thought that Juliana would not go out onto the stage. Before they went on, supposedly, Juliana was clutching her hand telling her that she was scared. You never knew any of that on stage.

There were some beautiful dances tonight, some funky ones, and some girls that really knew what they were doing. It was inspiring to watch. I truly hope that J keeps up her "passion" for dance.

This morning was filled with my eldest’s son’s "athletic awards banquet". He was so proud of himself. I got the cutest picture of him with two of his buddies. Incidences like that really make it difficult for me to switch him from that school. wahh. Parenting is difficult.

I skipped working out today. There were not enough hours in the day to get it in. I also ate a piece of German chocolate cake tonight. Oh, ellipitical, oh elliptical. How I love thee, elliptical. (yeah right). I’ll be on that sucker tomorrow. lol. I must remember to take my ipod. I can not do cardio without music.

Oh, want to know something that I thought about tonight ? On this date exactly 3 years ago I first saw a picture of my daughter. Isn’t that something ? I remember opening up that email and seeing her face and thinking "that is my daughter" and tonight when she was out on that stage I was sitting there thinking "that is my daughter". You know I was crying.

Sleep well. Send some sandman sprinkles to my puppy. I need to sleep.
 

Awwww, my son just did the sweetest thing. He "blessed" Winkie so that he would be safe and be able to sleep through the night. My son has the sweetest spirit. Makes my heart melt.

Well, from the above paragraph, you can tell that I got my puppy today. I’m in love. Totally. I have absolutely loved watching my children play with him. I think my eldest son just melted when he saw Winkie for the first time.

It’s been a long day, again. I haven’t stopped so far. Tennis was good this morning. Dance went great for my daughter. However, she experienced a bad "first" today. While we were out playing with the puppy, she picked up a tennis ball to play with and there was a bumble bee on it. It stung the crap out of her. I’m sure the entire neighborhood heard her screams.

Tomorrow I do not have tennis and that is totally the weirdest feeling right now. It is going to be nice to have some extra time in the day. More time to play with my new puppy.

I hope that the puppy sleeps some tonight. I have a feeling it’s going to be a fun night for me.

Peace out.  

    I’ve got the most intense craving for a little puppy right now. I really shouldn’t say "right now". I had found the one I really wanted almost 2 years ago. "Louie". The ugliest little dog on earth. lol. We(some girlfriends and myself) even sang a song one night in honor of him. Long story. I’m thinking that I’ve always dreamed of wanting a Yorkie. I could possibly go with a Yorkie-poo. Have you priced these little dogs lately ? Good grief. When did dogs become so expensive. I’ve also been looking at Shitzus. I think that is how you spell it. They are so cute, but they are not a Yorkie. sighs. I don’t know what to do.

    I did not go workout today. My body was just beat. Too tired. Too yucky feeling. If anyone has lost their emphesema I know exactly where you can find it. I hate having coughs. Makes nighttime just miserable. It’s doubtful that I go workout tomorrow, either.

    Can you believe it’s Friday again ? I can’t. The weeks just fly by. Due to the stormy weather we had one function cancelled today. YES ! I actually had friends praying that it would continue to rain so I didn’t have to go. Lol. At least some of my prayers get answered.

    Tomorrow is a crazy packed day again. Happy Weekend to you.