Our department at work has a staff day every fall at the stampede grounds with guess speakers and development sessions - this last one I volunteered to remain at work to provide some coverage.  Because of my selfless act (hee hee) and that of other's who volunteered as well, I received a gift card for $25 to Tony Roma's.  Last night we went for ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a day of doctors for me ( Read more... )

• I had class on Saturday, and found out that we got 100% on our group presentation.
• We were supposed to go to Heather and Steve’s for a play date so Mike and Alex drove me to class and then were going to pick me up and we’d head to H & S. The university is about ½ way to their place so it didn’t make any sense for me to drive home.
• Our class let out ( Read more... )

big girl!!!  Quite a few changes in my young lady's life recently.  On Thursday we "threw away " all her diapers and started on the road to potty training.  Thursday was a nightmare, Friday and Saturday were progressively better and Sunday we had only one small accident.  And...we were up every night changing sheets at 2 am.  Monday was a ( Read more... )

So I finally figured out how to post a user pic - yay me ( Read more... )

Mike is headed to the Metallica concert tonight so Alex and I will be having some heavy one on one time - I can't wait.  What I can wait for is bedtime....it's a chore!  Oh how I hate bedtime.  It would be so much simpler to just let her play until she drops and then pick her up and put her to bed.

Every night I spend an hour in her room trying to ( Read more... )

I'm feeling rather indifferent lately.  Nothing has instigated the humdrums in me, well nothing that I can pin point anyway.  My guess, after writing this, is that I feel no sense of urgency.  My Christmas shopping is done with the exception of mailing  a few things.  However....I have no Christmassy type decorations hung in my abode, no mistletoe ( Read more... )

So I get a call from Mike at 7:30 this morning and he found my passport ( Read more... )

So it turns out that the cruise line that we're going on at Christmas does NOT have a kiddie pool so Alex and Nicholas will not be able to splash around for the two days that we're on the boat.  I, however, may not have to worry about that considering I've LOST MY PASSPORT!!!!!  It was in my wallet and while I was at work I said to my self, I ( Read more... )

So Alex turned to on the 28th of September.  We decided not to do a big family & friends birthday party because it's really just a lot of work, we can't fit that many people in our house, you don't really get to visit with anybody, and Alex goes into people overload and is cranky all day.   Do we didn't!

Now for the drama - people really, why is ( Read more... )