There is sickness in my house!

Wow - two posts in two days :-) Emma has some kind of stomach bug. She was up during the night vomitting her little guts up and she was still sick this morning. We can't get her to eat anything and the only thing she wants to drink is water. She usually begs for juice, but when I tried to give her some juice today, she just told me that she didn't want it - she wanted water. Does anyone have any remedies or suggestions on how to make my girl feel better. I feel so bad for her (and for me - I have discovered that I really don't handle vomit very well - YUCK!!!) Hope all you ladies have had a wonderful day.

Here and there

I finally am getting to post some pictures. I was ready to take my laptop to Starbucks to do this, but I figured it out :-)


This is my new do. Some of you have already seen it by now, but this was taken just a couple of hours after I had it done. My hair has never been this straight or flat and it hasn't since either. And after looking at this picture along with some other of me.... I don't think I like my glasses. I loved them when I got them, but the more I see them - not so much.

I was very fortunate to be able to go scrapbooking last Friday night. My sister-in-law kept Emma for the night. THANK YOU PATRICIA!!!
This is Lisa - the birthday girl - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!


I ended up scrapbooking until after 3:00a.m. at which point almost lost the ability to speak much less think so I stayed the night (what was left of it). It was great to just have an evening to myself with out having to worry about Emma or Steven :-) Only a few of us stayed all night, but a couple stayed until about 6:00 a.m. and then packed up and went home. I think I may do this for my birthday too.





Of course - I really paid for it the next day! I was exhausted!

There have been a couple of mornings this week that Emma has wanted me to take her picture. Of course when I actually start to take it - she turns away or moves over to the side or frowns at me. I finally figured out that if I start making silly sounds she may actually look at me and laugh. Good thing no body else was around to hear me!

Emma loves her raincoat - but she loves the hat that goes with the raincoat even more. The coat has a hood - but she still has to have her hat!

Emma picked out her outfit - she really wanted to wear her Tinkerbell tshirt, but it was in the laundry, so she picked up her new Valentines tshirt instead. And she HAD to wear her "dragon" pants along with her "dragon" shoes and we couldn't forget her "dragon" belt. Now, I am sure you are wondering what on earth I mean by "dragon". For some reason, anything that has a leopard print on it, she will refer to it as "dragon". Anyway, she is very proud of all her "dragon stuff and loves to show it off. BTW - this is Emma with her new hair cut. Yes, I know it looks exactly the same - but it is about 1 1/2 inches shorter in the back :-)

Nothing new

I really stink at this posting thing this month. I just can't seem to get it together.....and then I think I have it only to discover that I really don't. I would love give you some new cute pictures of Emma to look at or of me with my new do, but my new computer and my camera won't speak to each other - HA!

Anyway, nothing new is going on in my neck of the woods. I go to work, I go home, I play with Emma, I try not to have to cook, I do the laundry that never ends, yada, yada, yada...... I am sure you all know how it is.

Steven is out of town tonight, so if I can find someplace for Miss Emma to go, I am hoping to go a scrapbooking slumber party. I don't plan on staying all night, but I do plan on bringing my jammies! Hope it all works out and I get to go.

Have a great week-end ladies

The Learning Curve

I am trying something new! We are in the process of installing new computers at work which means new software. I am one of those that feel – if it isn't broke and is working just fine – why change it. But there are times when it just can't be helped. This is one of those times. My old computer is busy doing something to get my new computer ready. So I am on my new computer trying to figure my way around the new programs. It sure looks spiffy – but I haven't quite figured out why some things have changed and what they have done with other things! Anyway, apparently in Microsoft Word 2007, you can post directly to your blog. You can change fonts, point size, bold things, underline things. WOW! I can even put a picture or clipart directly on here. Guess I will go and explore some more and see what else I can discover! Have a great week-end everyone

Still Here.....I think!

Remember that Mac truck I mention last week? Well, I think it turned around and hit me again, then it went in reverse! Emma was sick and not feeling well, I was not feeling well and neither of us was sleeping well. Saturday we were up and 4:00 a.m. and I knew that I didn't feel right. After Steven got up, I went back to bed and tried to sleep, but he kept insisting that I would feel so much better if I just got up and took a hot shower. Well, I did want to feel better, so I took the hot shower, got dressed and out we went for the day. By the time we got home that night, I was positive that I wasn't just not feeling good, but was sick. Monday I even took myself off to the doctor (I never go to the doctor!). I was right!!!! I was sick. Still am sick. It isn't the flu but a viral flu. So he sent me home to bed with some good drugs and that is pretty much where I have been. I have had a fever for days now and am sick and tired of being sick and tired! Emma is feeling much better thank goodness! Unfortunately, Steven has been gone most of the week, so I have been a single mommy. Not fun while you are sick. Luckily she loves her movies, so she has watched them a lot in the evenings. And she is really into writing and drawing right now - so we write and draw a lot too. Thank the Lord the goes to school (daycare) during the day! I am at work today - but I am pretty sure that nobody wants me here. I certainly wouldn't want me here if I was them.

Anyway, I am alive, but barely :-)

The sweetest sound

Yesterday was one of those incredibly long days where nothing seems to work right and you really think it is Friday only to discover that it is only Wednesday. Ever have one of those????

Anyway, after work I went to pick Emma up from school and we went straight home. I set her up to watch Cinderella for the 112th time and I went to lie down......yes, lie down! I had been feeling like I was going to get sick for a few days and yesterday my body lost the fight and I now feel like a massive Mac truck has just run over me. So, I finally get myself up to fix Emma some dinner, Steven gets home, discovers that he has inadvertently thrown away the new auto insurance cards, has to leave to go switch vehicles with his Dad and go back to the office. I on the other hand really, really want to go back to bed. But Emma has to finish eating and she needs a bath. I do convince her that it would be great fun to just take a really quick shower and get her jammies on (I couldn't believe she fell for this - she LOVES taking a very long hot bubble bath). After she was all nice and squeaky clean and had her 'pink, princess jammie dress' on, I took her back into the bathroom to comb and dry her hair. She was sitting on the bathroom counter with her feet in the sink and putting on her lipstick (chapstick) while I was running the blow dryer through her hair as fast as I could. I could tell she was talking but with the blow dryer running, I really couldn't hear her all that well. I shut it off and discovered she wasn't talking, but was singing "Jesus loves ME, this I KNOW, for the Bible tells ME so...." She was very emphatic about it. It was so cute and I thought very sweet to hear my baby (ok, so she is not really a baby anymore) singing 'Jesus Loves Me'. So needless to say, since she once again stole my heart, I let her stay up an extra 30 minutes cuddling with me on the couch. I was very glad that I hadn't been able to go back to bed. I wouldn't have wanted to miss that moment for anything.

It's 2008!

HAPPY

NEW

YEAR!

Miss Emma was full of smiles for us this morning. I really think it had a lot to do with the fact that she was going to Grandma's house today and not going to school! And she was showing off her new outfit that Grandma had gotten her for Christmas.

I really have nothing so say right now except that we survived the holidays. Now I have to start preparing for my little girl to turn THREE!!! She has informed me she wants a princess party - so she is going to have a princess party. I think we are going to keep it small this year.....not that any of her parties have been big, but ..... well, I just want it small. I am trying to come up with ideas for her invitation, because I don't have enough to do, so I need to make her invitations instead of just buying premade ones and writing in them. Then I will also have to make the thank you cards. :-) But I love it and I wouldn't have it any other way. Plus, it will give me an excuse to use my new Cricut that Steven got me for Christmas!

Have a great week-end everyone!