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This is Cookie hiding in our Christmas tree! 

Cookie is Back!

Well as of last week the elf we all know and love in this house is back! His name is cookie & he was sent directly from Santa to keep tabs on Tyler & Joycie! If they are good he moves around the house all day (which is a full time job for me, but well worth the results!) If there isn't an elf at your house I highly recommend ordering (I mean requesting one!) from Santa today! (www.elfontheshelf.com) I will post a picture of cookie later tonight!

 

 

 

Twelve Big Ones!

Yesterday my favorite boy ever born turned 12! We had a bowling party at Dave & Busters (an adult Chucke Cheese, if you will), and we also had Aunt Dottie & Uncle Steve ( our second parents!) come into town for a quick visit since they now reside in good ol' Knoxville, TN! We began this week long celebration last Sat., when Poppy, Grammy, Aunt Amy, Mema, and Chuck came in town for Tylers Birthday, Trick or Treating, Racing tours, and of course Shopping!! I think Tyler had a good birthday week, even though he would rather have had his birthday in OH, I kind of promised that his next birthday would be in OH, so I really hope the house sells by this time next year! Anyways Happy birthday Tyler my favorite boy ever!!!

Thirty Two Big Ones!

Anyone who knows me already knows I love my Birthday! I waited 20 years to be 30 and now tomorrow I will be 32! Today is birthday eve, and I have to drop Tyler off at church for a weekend retreat. I hope he knows the sacrifice on my behalf for letting him miss my birthday!! (just kidding) This is also my first birthday without a big family party, only because I live out of state is this allowed to happen! I have had several phone calls to wish me a happy birthday eve! (Thanks you know who who are!) I even received a gift in the mail from my friend Sarah who I will be donning the birthday tiarra and sash she gave me for my 3oth! A gift that keeps on giving! If you haven't figured out yet how much I love birthdays just keep reading! I am also looking forward to getting back to the sister traditon of the birthday box!!!! On this one, (actually 2) days a year I enjoy being prideful and selfish in admitting that my birthday is a grand occasion that calls for much celebration, and I will be eating cake until I'm ready to puke, and ripping open presents (Paul you better hurry up and get to the mall!) and I don't feel one bit guilty!!! Happy Birthday to me I have to go the celebrating is about to begin (or at least that's what I'm told by my wonderful mom who says I should be getting something in the mail today! Oh, and to my super cool dad who sent me so many e-cards he used up all the birthday section, Happy US Navy Day! (I looked it up it's for real!)

Many irons in the fire!

I haven't posted in quite sometime, but I have a lot going on these days! First of all I joined a tennis team. Second I am launching my coupon teaching business full force ( Thank you Amy) and last, but certainly not least I still have a house to sell, and kids to take care of! Whew! I hope I can keep up, if not the first two things will definitely be the first to go! I'll write more later as things progress, or I have a good story!

Wow, they do love each other!

Friday started out with sending Joycie to school, and having Tyler stay home because he threw up Thurs. night, and still had a slight fever, and a belly ache! It was the "it feels like someone is stabbing me with a knife" comment that had us show up at the doctors office at 10:00 am! Well some bloodwork, a CT scan, and 2 appointments later Tyler ended up having his appendix removed at 5:30 pm Friday evening. When we initially met with the surgeon and they told us that Tyler would need surgery he started crying, the poor boy was so scared. Then right in front of our very eyes Joycie starts crying and hugging Tyler. She actually felt sorry for him, and was giving him love we didn't know she had! The very girl who got caught yelling at him to stop hitting her when he was not even around, was showing a very strong love for the brother we have to make her be nice to! Yes, somewhere along the road we must be doing something right, and this event was just a glimmer of hope that when they are all grown up they just might still be the best of friends! Now 3 days later Tyler is not so helpless, and the bickering is back, but no worries here!!

Girls, can't live with em' can't live without em'!

Ok my a good friend of mine has 3 boys (you know who you are!) she only wanted boys, and if she could choose she would probably have ten more! I had a boy first and since my kids are almost 5 years apart I considered myself to be a "boy mom." I love going to his sporting events, playing "car show" with matchbox cars, and fortunately for him I love reptiles and bugs! When I became pregnant for the second time I kind of assumed it would be a boy, and I even kind of hoped it would be, but it was a girl! I then instantly became excited about pink clothes, dolls, doll houses, barbies, and fixing hair! I figured she would be sweet, soft spoken, angelic if you will. Boy was I ever wrong she cried for an hour and a half straight after she was born, and she's been a loud kid ever since! Now she is 7 1/2 and she doesn't want to wear anything but jeans, she wants blue clothes, and she hates to have her hair fixed:( She started crying the other day because she didn't remember her hip hop dance she learned in dance class, and we were merely driving down the road! Today she came home from school quite proud that she forged my initials in her assignment notebook, and the teacher in her words "fell for it." She is down right crazy, but I don't know how I could live without her! She says we're pals and best friends! I now see that I would have been fine to be just a boy mom, but I have had the priveldge of being both a boy mom, and a girl mom ,and I wouldn't want it any other way!!