First, I’ve been promising to share these and hadn’t gotten around to it yet.  I took a pic of Shelby’s new skates the other day before I took her for the first time.  When I ordered them after having her fitted I knew they would be cute.  After all, they are the smallest size they come.   But after picking them up, seriously, I wasn’t prepared for this cute!  I took this pic of them next to one of mine just so you could get the idea of how seriously small we are talking!!

Friday I had an awful day.  I can’t even express how bad it was.  No one died, although by the end of the day I think I was near homicidal.  It was just one of those days where everything that can go wrong will go wrong.  I spent the first full half of my day on the phone in an altercation with BCBS who apparently had LOST the automatic payment they took out of our account for our health insurance premium.  How did I find this out?  Oh, well I went to get a script filled for Denny at 7pm Thursday only to be told we didn’t have any insurance, so I had to pay out of pocket for all of it.  Nice.  Of course BCBS only open M-F from 8:45am to 5pm.  Anyway, after jumping though ever hoop possible I think they have it all fixed.  And I got most of the money back we had to pay out for the script.  So there was that, and a false alarm about Dilly getting into a fight at school.  (Turns out that didn’t happen thankfully.)  Anyway, after all of it, I just wanted to hide under a rock and never come out.

I went to a crop on Saturday and I was in a pretty poopy mood after the events of Friday.  Michelle and Andrea were supposed to come along, and well both of them had something come up.  The crop ran from 8-6:30.  I left about 3.  I got some stuff done, most of what I took actually, but I wasn’t in the mood and I could feel a headache coming on.  I left, enjoyed the nice weather, went out to eat, came back just for the raffle, (no I didn’t win anything), then back home and sat around here.

Sunday… I said I wasn’t going to leave the house, and I didn’t!!  I did get dressed, but that was it.  I spent the day doing small stuff around the house and enjoying the fact that it was fairly warm out and the snow that had been around forever, was finally melting.  I don’t know that I’ve ever been so happy to see my grass.

That brings us to today… again, I’m not leaving.  If Shelby decides she is going to go to dance, Denny is taking her.  She hasn’t been all that happy about going lately, so we’ll see.  I won’t force her to go, cuz if she isn’t having fun, then whats the point.  I have already put the deposit on her recital costume, but oh well, it is what it is, and not worth freaking out about.  So my only plan for today is Chop Suey for dinner and cleaning up.  I need to fiddle with my scanner and get some layouts posted, so that’s on the list too.  We’ll see how far I get.

I think I’ve spent half my morning researching the iTouch because I think I want one.  Then I find out that some of the iPhones can be err “modified” to work on t-mobile, (my carrier).  After hearing that, maybe i want one of those instead.  I have some questions yet about it so I’m on the fence.  Anyone ever use the iPhone on t-mobile?  Basically I’m wondering if I can use WIFI like on the iTouch and not use my t-mobile service for internet stuff?  So if I’m in my house and have WIFI in the house… would I be using that connection to check my email, or t-mobile?  I’m not sure how it works and I’m not sure who I could call.  So if anyone knows, help a girl out, lol.

Happy Monday… if there is such a thing!

~j

Ethan is 9 years old today.  Frankly I think the Mom should be the one that gets to celebrate.  I did do all the work after all.  Anyway, what would a birthday be without a baby picture?  So here he is…  who knew 9 years later he would weigh about the same, just be a little taller.  LOL.  I’m taking a birthday snack up to school for him to share with him class and then after school we are taking him out to dinner.  After dinner, we make a stop at MiMi and PaPas for his gift.  Big night.

Shelby and I went skating yesterday.  She did great!  She was certainly a basket case at first, but after the, “Mommy won’t let anything happen to you speech,” she did just fine.  After we got off the ice she said, “That was cool.  I did a good job!”  LOL.  I need to share a picture of her skates.  They are just so stinkin’ cute.

Skating must have totally worn her out.  She was supposed to help with the cupcakes for today but she fell asleep in the car wash on the way home.  I was able to get her out of the car, get off all her winter gear and get her in bed and she didn’t wake up through the entire process.  Needless to say, I did the cupcakes by myself. :p

Today we need to go get some juice to take to school with the cupcakes. Unless I decide I’m not taking juice.  LOL.  Dpends what kind of mood I’m in later.  Right now… well, I’m on the fence.  Mostly because that’s a lot of cupcakes to transport, and adding two big jugs of juice, along with cups doesn’t appeal to me much.  We’ll see.

Happy Birthday Ethan!!

~j