So when I was in Vegas 5 months ago, I bet $20 with a sport book that the Cleveland Indians would win the world series. They are my husband's favorite team. It is somewhat of a tradition in our family that whoever goes to Vegas bets on the other's favorite football or baseball team to win the superbowl/world series. This was a bet of love since ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was home with my older daughter who had a bit of a bug. She ran a tiny fever all day, but by the end of the day her energy was back and she looked ready to go to school. We actually had a nice day; we just watched movies, did some dia de los muertos art projects, played catch with a balloon and did a bit of tidying around the house. ( Read more... )

So this is my first real journal post in almost two years. Its hard to believe. The last two years have been such a roller coaster from raising my younger daughter from a wee babe to a raucous toddler to having my best friend move 2500 miles away to my father passing away a year and half ago from cancer . . . these bits and pieces are my life ( Read more... )

Sorry I've been so terrible about posting.  Over the holidays I try to "unplug" as much as possible I shall update on all of it tomorrow ( Read more... )

So we officially got the new car!  Its so cute and zippy; I love it!  Rusty drove me into work in it today.  I gotta relearn a manual before I drive it, but I'm totally in love with the cuteness.  He wanted to surprise me and put a big bow on it.  However, he got trapped on the interstate because there was this big huge dust storm and accident ( Read more... )

Finally broke down and put in an order to Sock Dreams. There was so much cuteness I could barely handle it and I ended up buying 6 pairs. Thanks for the tip ellettra You always have such cute socks up! I am finally getting cute socks after spending too many years borrowing my husbands and stealing socks from my dad; I just got into socks last year. ( Read more... )

I am considering becoming a mentor for another nursing mom and wanted to post my own nursing story with Sadie for informational purposes. Sadie is a little over 19 months old and I've been nursed her on demand since birth and despite having to go back to work when she was six weeks old, we've had very few issues and I continue to enjoy our ( Read more... )

30. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire - This is the second book in the "Wicked Years" series, which starts with Wicked. I liked this book and although I didn't like it as much as the first, he has quite the talent for entirely transporting the reader into his world. Another interesting thing I noticed is that his main characters are often ( Read more... )

Man, am I tired today. I am just getting over my illness. I had a cold from hell which I talked about and that turned into bronchitis and that turned into pneumonia -- also may have had a dash of flu on top. Oooh joy. I got to spend the whole morning Thursday in Urgent Care at which point they told me I was really bad and needed to go to the ( Read more... )

Am eating lovely lunch.  Leftover fried okra and miso soup!

Had a really nice weekend and so much fun stuff to report. I'll bullet as there's just too much!

• Got a pedicure with cute black polish.  So vampy and goth!
• Pulled 10 watermelon out of my garden and am trying to give them away as I've frozen it, pulped it for use with lemonade and mixed ( Read more... )