Rain, Rain.

I, like everyone else, feel like it has been raining FOREVER.

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Today is a great day. There is so much rain, I am staying in the house. I do have to go out eventually to pick up Emma's birthday cake. She is turning six (!) on Tuesday. I need to go to Sam's club. I am going to try to wait as long as possible to do that.

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Today I am cleaning the house, I need to study Geology. My life is such a whirlwind (or tornado, at times) that I am thankful to be able to stay at home, even for a few hours. Besides working all week, I have to find time to go with the kids and do "school stuff."

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I am off work next Friday so I can go with Emma to the Pumpkin Patch.

Fall break is right around the corner.

Emma's birthday party is tomorrow.

quiet saturday.

first - tripp is fine. we went to Vanderbilt childrens hospital yesterday morning. they did the test for CF about 9 am, and my super special regular doctor called me on my cell phone around noon.

what a relief.

such a relief, in fact, that I fell asleep early last night. and i slept to 7:10 this morning.

emma played softball at ten, and tripp played soccer at ten. I ran back and forth and was fortunate enough to see tripp score a goal (or two) and emma bat twice. she told me she was glad i was there. i was super glad to get to see her play.

as for the afternoon, well, there is lots to do. i have paid bills, done housework and broken up many, many fights between mallie, emma and tripp. they are currently jumping on the trampoline. i am thankful to live in an area where they can go outside to play and i know they are OK. everyone else has other things to do, so i am here doing my weekly saturday/sunday cleaning. by monday afternoon, it will all have disappeared. :)

speaking of small towns - I was driving thru town a few days ago and I spotted a girl walking... she was wearing a white "wife beater" shirt... an on the back, she had taken a sharpie and written "mike's wife." Isn't that awesome? and then, just this morning, I realised that only here can a woman ride thru town in the back of a pick up truck, with the tailgate down, and smoke a cigarette. all by herself.

I am going to start carrying my camera. I need to document these things where people will believe me. cause I don't believe some of it myself.

So many pictures.. no way to post.

The kids slammed the computer door on the cord that connects my camera to the outside world.

I can't put my new pictures on here..

I guess I will have to buy a new cord.

It is recital time! Instead of the usual joy I feel in watching my girls perform, I suffered with everyone else last night thru a 3 hour recital.. yes, you read right. The recital this year is 3 hours! We left at 2 hours and 15 minutes... what was once a group of cute kids showing off what they have learned over the past year turned into a wannabe Broadway theatre production. The same large adults were profiled in piece after piece.. I got tired of seeing the same hand gestures, flailing, and gyrating. It was really absurd.

Can you tell I am not happy with it? I complained all night - so much, in fact, that I made myself sick. I can only imagine how those around me felt.

Smashing Saturday.

Lazy. Lazy, day.
Soccer was cancelled due to rain. Yey! This means that this is my last weekend of freedom.

After this, my weekends will be filled with soccer, baseball, softball and kid stuff. Ahh! Spring has officially arrived!

I went and ran again this morning. It just feels so good- yet, bad at the same time.
It is going easier than what I thought.

Tonight, Emma and Dave are going to the father/daughter dance-date night (Officially called The Cinderella Ball).

I asked her awhile ago if she had a boyfriend - and she said yes - her daddy. They were going on a date.

I have a date also. I am taking Tripp to Chik-fila so "we" can play in the indoor playground. Then, maybe a quick stop at Old Navy. Eli will likely be somewhere else with other people besides his momma. :)


I will post pictures later.