Marching Towards Spring Share Cafe

Tracy - Yay, Spring Break coming you way soon:) That's nice that your class doesn't meet. A break from higher ed. learning too:)

Stacy - Awesome job on the Zumbathon! Those are some impressive totals:)

Lauren - Yummy, cream puff! Hope it was delicious and got some stuff done:)

Liz - I'm sorry that folks aren't rallying around your team right now. If it helps, my husband leaves all the fundraising stuff to me and my parents don't walk at all. Our team is just the four of us. We might not make our goal this year and that's a bit disappointing, but again, it's okay. ANY funds raised are meaningful and helpful. Good luck at your event at the mall:) We're having a little garage sale next Saturday to hopefully bring in a few more bucks and get rid of some unwanted items.

Only nine more weeks of school in our parts . . . lovin that!

Donna glad the party was a hit...Happy Birthday E-man!!!! xoxo

Tracy that is so cool....I love getting to watch them in action with their friends and their enviroment. How cute. Glad you ladies had a blast.

Stacy...yeah!! Glad the zumbathon was a hit. We have ours this Friday....hoping for it to be our best one. Last years we raised a lot but it lost a little fun from the year before...but think it was just the place we had it in...little to strict. This year we have pretty much free range so keeping fingers crossed. Good for you girly!!

Happy Birthday Ethan!! Glad it was a super fun party!

Jessica- !!!!!!!!!!! If you don't know what that's about ladies... you haven't read her blog!

Lindsay- Wow, I can't believe school is winding down already!

Tracy- I'm joinin' ya next week for Spring Break... faculty are just as stoked as students! Though I foresee myself working through some of it.... booo.

Ok seriously, why bring your kids to the park if all you're going to do is yell at them "Stop running! You'll be on time out." Isn't the park where you WANT your kids to run?! It was the craziest request because of course the kids got put on time out like 4 times (at least she was consistent!)... because kids can't NOT run at park.. it's in their DNA. Rant over.

Love you Lauren!!!! THank you SOOO much for your kind words....cant really even believe it myself yet. Drs today...wish me luck!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY E!!!!! I'm glad that the super cool party went well!!!!

Donna~ Glad all went well with the party and hopefully you'll be able to get all Easter stuff together before the eyes of the kids are on you next week!!

Lauren~ I wish we were really spring breaking together!!! Like there or here!!! (notice I said there first! )

Lindsay~ Good luck with the yard sale!

Jessica~ How's the house closing coming??? Now I have to go read your blog!!

1st and foremost...Jessica! Holy!! YaY!!!

So you are probably wondering how I found my way here today....How you ask?

FINALLY....WestPennHospital here in Pitts put a link on their page to SYS!!

I'm very excited about this.

Why does my darling doll of a child insist on no diapers or underwears?

Jess - !!!!!!! And have fun at your Zumbathon! Great ideas!

Liz - That's wonderful that the hospital did that! You go girl! Um, maybe she's a nature girl:) Does she like to air dry?

One kiddo is off at school and the other is at daycare. I do love Mondays for that very reason. Gives me a break and a chance to miss them. Also I get to attack everything that didn't get done on the weekend.

Oh yay Jess!!!!

Liz - Super cool the hospital has a link to here now.

Is it a bad sign that I'm needing extra coffee at 12:45 in the afternoon? Still recovering from the birthday I guess.

Oh the joys of having a little girl.....she went to a friend's birthday party this weekend including spending the night.....fun was had by all, but today, I found lice!

Needless to say, I've been combing my little joy's hair forever! My house should be cleaner than clean, but right now it looks like a wreck because I've got plenty of washing to do.

Oh well.....

Check our part four of our five part series on grief over on the community blog!

Prematurity: Fairy Tale

Tracy-We just got over a case of lice here. I wanted to cry, I felt like such a failure!

Jess-Woohoo!!!!!

Liz-That's great about the hospital.

So unbelievably busy around here. Stopping by to say hi, on my way to the gym!

PS-Tracy-My "tan" looks fabulous!!!!!!!!!

Liz: I had considered approaching businesses, but I wouldn't even know where to start! I know my DH had issues with getting sponsorship for one of his big fundraisers over in Guam, everyone is having hard times! Cool! Whatcha doing at the mall for a fundraiser? Hugs!

Tracy: Well, now, he is a total stud now that he got a big boy haircut this weekend! Pickin' up all the ladies! Ewww.....the joys of sleepovers, I got those once after one, thank goodness my hair is thin and fine or it'd have taken forever to clean me up!

Jessica: Boo on the strictness of it!! Sounds like this year might be better though! Our place was pretty cool......free, and they provided the stage for the instructors as well as a DJ and screen to show the video! Oh and, OMG OMG OMG!!!! Congrats!! Good luck at your doctor's appointment!

Ok, busy day, first gymboree for Elim then Mardel, Old Navy and the grocery store! Now getting caught up on Share and emails, I'm so behind after last week!

Tracy - Ew. Poor girl, and you.

Katie - Miss you!!!!

Stacy - That boy is a cute-patootie no matter what.

Starting to work on our poker tournament. It's on Cinco de Mayo this year, so of course, going with the theme. I'm panicking already though, and we have almost six weeks to pull it together. SCARED! The plan is to put together a new video, but since when Ryley was born, digital cameras were super new, most of his pictures are from 35mm and I have to individually scan them, or take the time to find the negatives and take those to the camera shop to have them put on a disc.

Donna: Sounds like it was great party! No, it's not wrong to need/want coffee in the afternoon. Sometimes a gal just needs a li'l caffeine:) Great idea to have poker on Cinco de Mayo. Yummy, I can already taste those margaritas.

Tracy: Sorry about those pesky unwanted guests. I would be freaking out! At least she had a good time.

Stacy: Oh, was it Elim's first haircut? How did he do?

April cafe names..... can't believe it's almost April!

Donna- It's gonna rock! I think next year I'd like to do some time of host thing... not sure what yet.

Stacy- That is awesome! I hope you post all about how you organized it all!

Tracy- Ewwwwy. That stinks! Reframe... everything in your house will be so freshly washed?

Still kinda windy... beach might be out today.

Morning...Afternoon ladies,

When I think April, I think, April showers bring May flowers!!

4 months in, can't back out now!!

Tori hasn't had a bottle in 22 days. She hasn't taken a nap in 22 days. Her hair looks like a dang cockatoo today. I've finally broken down to make her an appointment at CHP for Gastroenterology. Just another big FAIL in the book of motherhood, for me.

Tracy, Yikes!!! on the lice.

Lindsay, I wish I took advantage of the daycare at the Y more often.

Donna, I've definately had coffee in the afternoon before. Embrace the Poker Tournament, don't be scared!!

Stacy, how was the trip? How's Elim feeling? Haircut!? Such a big boy!!

Lauren, boo on the wind. I'm still jealous...it's 40 degree's out. How it goes from 85down to 40 in under a week amazes me.

bbl...

Michael and I were just commenting last night how a quarter of the year is almost gone already. Our "Winter" is about to start. Honestly, April, May and June are typically our ugliest, coldest, foggiest months.

Lauren - Boo hiss on no beach.

I now the poker tournament will come together. I don't know why I'm feeling so much pressure. This is our seventh year. You'd think I'd have it so don't I wouldn't stress at all. But we've had a rough few years with it, and I really want to come out swinging this year. Brain was going full force last night and I think I have a good idea for our new video. Fingers crossed!

fingers crossed

Thanks, Liz. That is quite the weather change for you guys. Brrrrrr

Katie~ Thanks for saying that about the lice.....I'm glad someone else felt the same way! The sad part is I know it's not any of our faults, but seriously I feel like EPIC FAIL!!

Hopefully they're gone now!!!! I've picked at that poor child's hair endlessly for 2 days now!

Lauren~ Great reframe!! The sheets and bedding smelled wonderful last night after such a long day!

Donna~ You'll do great with the video and poker preparations!! You always do! Remember...that poker tourny is what brought me to Share!!

Liz~ I laughed out loud (and I'm all by myself) at the cockatoo comment!! Only because my own hair looks like that in the mornings!!

One day down....3 more to go and then I'm going to enjoy my time off!!! (Be prepared....I'm sure it'll be rainy and cold the whole week off, but at least I don't have to get my tail outta bed!!!)

Oh yeah....April Cafe'........

SPRING BREAK CAFE'

HOPPY EASTER CAFE'

SHARE SOME MORE DURING "4"! (Get it? 4th month?? )

Liz- OMG she already has given up her nap? My condolences. You're sooo not parenting fail material... the parent today that I saw with their kid in the car with no seatbelt climbing everywhere while driving... that's fail.

Tracy- You too... no epic fail parenting there even though it might feel like it.

Donna- Ooooh can't wait to see it. I think we're gonna re-do our video next year. That'd be a great Share in the M4B folder...

Tooooootally procrastinating about 10 different things... and eating jelly beans right from the jar... grabbing handfuls each time I walked by just was not cutting it.

You girls have been chatty....

Tracy: Why you should chaperone 3rd and 5th graders ??? As I recall boys usually avoid girls at this age.... lice, I read it last night and I dreamt about it.... how awful..... hope you get rid of it.....

Lindsay: So you are preparing for the hot months..... great to have a pool..... Every night I wonder what to do for dinner, since I cook lunch and dinner..... I wish my family would just grab a sandwich but food is a real issue....

Stacy: Congratulations on your fundraising activity, seems like you are moving....

Donna: You never stop! Happy Belated Birthday to Ethan, hope he enjoyed it so much... Cinco de Mayo, mexican food, wooh that is wonderful idea, seems like CA is similar, May, June and July are rainy foggy months here......

Liz: don't give up..... I am sure you are going to do it this Sunday at the mall

KAtie: Go girl, seems like you are enjoying the gym, and great you have a great tan.... that tan room must be great!

Lauren: Hiking ??? in my mind is like climbing from ropes and pulling yourself up with the stones..... I laughed about your comment of the mother and the park..... probably the habit of telling the kids to stop running around, probably a thing I would do...... So what book you picked up at the garage sale??? and that new restaurant, I imagine it of Hawaian food???

Nothing here, just working with S HW, last Friday I had 6 kids at my home, I didn't know they were invited until a mom called me that Friday morning to thank me to "invite the kids over"..... I don't know these crazy parents, so eager to someone else take they kids, I would have never left S go to another house if the other mom did not call me first..... well they were here to work for a class project, and as usual I ended sitting the kids working with them, doing the posters and looking for information, but they had a great time (I did, listening to their talk and watching S with his peers) and I was exhausted. We had a very busy WE, social appointments (baby shower, lunch, a party at night big hotel) and Sunday I had some friends over for lunch and BBQ..... yesterday I was so tired I went to bed at 8 pm......

We finally moved out miss V crib, now she is a big girl in a big girl's bed and she totally loved it.... in fact these past few days she went alone to bed ..... and she repeats constantly how much she loves her new bed......I have to confess I dropped some tears, thinking there are no babies in my house, and there will not be, I feel my house like an empty nest......

Well, I go now, to prepare dinner......

Good night everyone

Lorena

Liz: I agree with Lauren, you are a great mother...... besides this is not a competition, some kids take longer than others to arrive to their milestones...... hugs

Oy vey Lorena- 6 kids?! Egads! That sounds like a zoo. Congrats to Miss V! I can't believe how fast she's growing up! The hiking was WAY more mild... just a lil' gander through a lil' forest. The book is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, it's about a woman whose cells were taken after she passed away without her consent and they were the first to regenerate and have been instrumental in almost all human science since, including the Polio Vaccine. It's ridiculously interesting. I can't wait to read more of it!

Bringing the jar of jelly beans with me... bad idea ladies. Bad idea.

Oooh and ladies... thought of all of you today... as if I don't every day but this was different.

In two weeks I have a dentist appt. at 9am and a cervical check at 10:15am.... oh yes I do.

Tracy-It has been about 2 months since we dealt with it and I still check her head every morning and spray it with hairspray!

Lauren-Ohh, both on the same day!!!!!!!!!!!

Lorena-Congrats on moving Miss V to a big girl bed!!!!

I am on Spring Break next week!!! Woohoo!! Alex is this week so I get a week to myself! I think I might catch up on my napping!!!!

Shannon if you check in today-I'm thinking of you and praying for complete stickiness!

It is so creepily stormy outside looks like a tornado can touch down at any given moment. Skeery!

bbl...

Lauren - I'm actually giggling that you have the dentist and cervical check on the same day. Double-whammy!!! Jelly beans - YUM! I have that book on my stack. Have heard such good things about it. Trying to forge my way through Les Miserables at the moment.

Liz - cockatoo hair - lol

Tracy - Rainy and cold is fine since you don't *have* to go anywhere. I like Hoppy Easter Cafe. Cute.

Lorena - How did you end up with all those kids at your house? Congratulations to Miss V on the move to the big girl bed.

Video is done. I think I need a couple of tweaks this morning. Is 9.5 minutes too long? Grrrrrrrrrr

Katie- Ooooh different spring breaks.... excellent!

Liz- Eeks that does sounds scary! Be safe out there.. better yet... stay inside!

Donna- Can't wait to see it! I put a spot to post videos in the M4B spot... thanks for posting the t-shirts too!

Not going to get too woo hoo until it actually happens, but talked to my "old" MFM yesterday... hopefully we'll get to have coffee later today! Made him promise not to eat anything given to him by anyone!