Tagged!

Thanks Jennie! This will be fun!

Getting to know me, A-Z

A- Attached or single: Attached

B- Best Friends: John and Amberlee

C- Cake or Pie: Pie

D- Day of choice: Sunday. John is home and sometimes there is football!

E- Essential item: I'm with you Jennie! Cell phone

F- Favorite color: right now I am liking anything SPRINGY

G- Gummy bears or worms: bears

H- Hometown: Riverside, CA - The Happy side is Riverside! Ha-ha

I- Indulgences: Getting my hair done

J- January or July: July

K- Kids: 2 stepsons - C.D. (22), Parker (19) and 2 girls Lauren (almost 10) and Emily (8)

L- Life is incomplete without: My Family

M- Marriage Date: October 25, 1997

N- Number of Siblings: 1 younger brother

O- Oranges or apples: Oranges

P- Phobias or fears: That something will happen to my family

Q- Quotes: "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

R- Reason to smile: my family, our health, my friends, my life

S- Season: Fall

T- Tag three friends: Annie, Amberlee, Lisa

U- Unknown fact about me: I constantly worry that I am not a good mom and I am screwing up my girls!

V- Very favorite store: I have a few favorites, J. Crew, Ann Taylor and the old standby Nordstrom

W- Worst habit: eating when I am bored or stressed.

X- X-ray or Ultrasound: X-ray! There is no happy reason for me to have any more ultrasounds

Y- Your favorite food: I love food, especially anything my husband makes! I am so spoiled!

Z- Zodiac: Pisces

The highlight of my weekend was on Saturday. We had our electrician come out and install recessed lighting in our kitchen and livingroom and hang some pendants over our island. We can actually see now. It is amazing how much of a difference it has made. I love our guy and I think we got a great deal. If anyone has a need for an electrician I recommend Copper Valley Electric. We have some drywall to repair but because of the way our room is vaulted in the living room, I was amazed they were able to give me what I wanted. As we live with all the new light, I want the pendants on a dimmer too but I love everything else. The only issue...yes I am O.C.D. is that the pendants I picked out can not be hung level because of the style of the fixture and the pitch of my roof. This may make me insane.

So, Amber is going to Hawaii! (jealous! yes, Jennie, of you too brat!) :-) and I realized as I started going through my capris and shorts that I had better take off all of this winter weight or I will be in serious trouble when we finally thaw out. Nothing is going to fit if I don't start now. I'm so proud of Amber for starting her walking. With the kids no less!!! So somehow if I publish my committment I will be accountable to someone other than myself. Even if it is only Amber since you are the only one who reads this! Ha-ha! So this Friday I will go back to Weight Watchers and next Friday I will post my loss! How's that for positive thinking? We'll see how it goes.

Emily is toughing it out like a trooper. She is keeping down fluids mostly but not much else. I'm not sure how much of her meds she's actually getting. Ooh well, we are doing all we can hopefully we will all be a normal family this weekend. Pray that no one else in my family comes down with this!

Wow! What a long weekend! So it's Tuesday Morning and I finally feel like a human. I still have a cough and no voice but I feel much better. Yesterday Emily spent all day in bed throwing up and so I took her to Urgent Care last night and sure enough, she has Influenza B also. The only good news is that she can take the Tamaflu! She seems better already. Well, she hasn't thrown up yet. Keep your fingers crossed!

I did get my Valentines dinner finally. It was delicious! Brie and crackers, Smoked salmon and fresh mozzarella, basil, tomatoes as an appetizer. Steak and Lobster and Au gratin potatoes (O.K. Funeral Potatoes..they are my absolute favorite). I have the best husband ever. He did a great job of holding down the fort and taking care of me. Thanks Baby! Lets hope you don't get it!

On Thursday afternoon the girls and I were running around doing our last minute Valentines errands and I started to feel horrible. My husband was cooking us a steak and lobster dinner and if you've ever eaten my husbands cooking, you know there isn't a better restaurant then Chez Henderson. On the phone we decided to postpone our dinner untill I felt better. It was too late to start another meal so we ordered pizza! We opened our gifts ( John gave me some beautiful diamond earrings!) and I went to bed for the next three days! John finally convinced me on Saturday evening that I should go to Urgent Care. I went relunctantly. I tested positive for Influenza B and the really great news was that had I gone to the Doctor a few hours earlier, I could have gotten an Rx for Tamaflu, which would cut the sick time in half and after 24 hours I wouldn't be contagious. But, no, I just missed the cut off. I do feel better but this is the sickest I have been for a long time. I think tonight will be our make-up Valentine's Dinner. I can't wait! I may be deathly ill but hey I still have my appetite!!!

Happy Valentines Day!

I am so greatful for the wonderful friends and family I have been blessed with in my life. It's really sad that we set aside one day a year to cherish those we love. That said...I am going to be so hopped up on candy today I could hurt myself! I am not sure who invented all of these holidays that center around sugar and chocolate but I LOVE HER!!! So, if you are reading this you are probably lucky (or unlucky enough) to be in my inner sanctum. I love you and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Je deteste etudier francais! C'est tres dificil. Je dois etudier tout le temps. Mais si je veux aller a Paris, je veux apprendre le francais. If I hear from anyone that I have said any of that incorrectly my head will pop off! JK-sort of

I really thought it would be fun to learn French! WOW was I wrong! I haven't worked so hard in a long time. I wonder if what I have learned will help me at all in France? I guess we will only be able to travel to Spanish-speaking countries since John is only fluent in Spanish.

O.K. Finally...My first posting. If Amber can do this everyday with her schedule and three kids, I should be able to handle it too. Right? We'll see. So today we were supposed to go snowboarding with the kids. I made arrangements with their teachers and everything and we were all really excited about it. But, as with most plans at our house, this one went aray. Yesterday Lauren came home complaining of a sore throat with a slight fever. I put her to bed with some Tylenol and crossed my fingers. Yeah, so today, we went to the doctor instead of snowboarding. Maybe this weekend we will try again. That's what happens when you try to encourage your kids to ditch school!