I am sitting here, feeling like I could throw up any minute, tired as anything, and needing to (1) write a grocery list, (2) go grocery shopping, (3) clean up the disaster that is my house and (4) finish a LOT of work on ConnectedMoms.com that I wanted (actually NEED) to release tomorrow.  I worked from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm standing all day, and do NOT feel like doing anything other than sleep.  My head hurts, my throat hurts, my back and feet hurt, I am congested and very nauseous.

Skip was home all day with Ace and Nate and part of the day with Calista (I had arranged for her to be out of the house for part of the day, since Skip is quite sick himself).  He will have no car tomorrow since I lent our car to K while her car is out of commission, and he and the kids need food for tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry »

In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that Calista’s fish, Fishy, died.  There was a really touching moment during the whole ordeal that I wanted to share.

A little background, first, though.  Fishy was a pink and red Betta fish.  He did great for a while, then one day, Skip said he though Fishy was dead.  Fishy wasn’t dead, but he certainly wasn’t healthy, either.  He was just hanging out at the bottom of the tank.

I did a lot of reading online and decided he either was too cold, constipated (!), or he had Tuberculosis.  Knowing the way things happen in my life, it was Tuberculosis, but without an autopsy, we will never know. Read the rest of this entry »

I think that the world had it in for me today.

First, it snowed yesterday. Not a big deal, except in this town, 2″ of snow means cancellations and delays. That meant Calista didn’t have to be at school until 12:15 pm. Skip said he had too much to do at work to go in late, so it was up to me to either keep Calista home or get her to school.

It’s Thursday, and the mom of one of Calista’s friends at school once said that Calista was welcome to go to her house on a Thursday after school if we wanted. I thought it would work out great — K could feed the kids lunch then run into town with them to take Calista to school, then Calista go go to P’s house after school and Skip could get her on his way home. Excellent. Read the rest of this entry »

Last night I posted that I was going to update the design of my blog because I’ve been too lazy to create and post the little pictures with each entry. Well, duh… all I had to do was remove the place in the template where it puts a picture and problem solved. I can resume being lazy and not have to change the style of my blog.

Yay!

Hello, and Happy Valentine’s Day! Sorry it’s been a while again…

I went to Chicago the first week of February for some training and took Calista with me. My mom met us there and hung out with Calista while I worked, and we got to meet up with a friend, H, and her family at the Cheesecake Factory (my first time — very good!!). We also took Calista to the American Girl store where she got a “just like me” doll (which my mom made fun of since the doll had blue eyes and freckles, but it does (otherwise) look like Calista and it’s the one she wanted!). It was a short, but great trip. Read the rest of this entry »