Nervous

I am soooo nervous about my meeting tommorrow. In order to get my greenbelt certification for work I have to lead a Kaizen which is a meeting that goes over the tools we learned. So I have to present my topic to 19 engineers/business project leaders including my boss. I HATE public speaking, that's why I went into the field of accounting. I thought we sit behind our desks and don't have to do these kinds of things! Hopefully I don't faint. I usually just talk too fast and forget half of the things I planned on saying.

On the home front we aren't doing much better than we were on Friday. Kids are still sick and my throat is aching so bad from all the coughing. We did bring them to Sesame street live yesterday because the tickets were already paid for & they seemed to be doing better. Kenzie was scared of the characters but Micah loved all the music, he was entranced and danced right along. I can't believe the price of souvenirs $15 for an elmo hat that Kenzie wanted because the girl sitting in front of us had one but she hates wearing hats.

Spoke too soon

I'm no longer grateful...I'm off work today, sick parent and sick child. At least I managed to finish a page while both kids slept.


This was based off an Ad Challenge that Maribel started at TSR.


A sketch designed by Kim at TSR.


A complete lift from someone on-line I found while browsing but forgot to write down the name to give credit.

Whoohoo!

I rec'd an email from the Canon repair store in Cali yesterday that was wonderful news! They are able to fix my broken lens and it's gonna be FREE of no charge! Yeah!!! Totally made my day. Actually two other good things topped it off, I received a $10 gift certificate to Pizza Hut just for participating in a group discussion at work and I weigh 2 lbs less than I thought I did when I had to take my wellness exam for work, simple pleasures huh? Now if I could get my kids to sleep earlier at night, that would be wonderful!

I ordered Kenzie's birthday decorations and party favors from Oriental Trading and was quite surprised at how much stuff came in the box! I usually just buy it at party city or Target the last few years but spent half the amount for twice as much ordering it on-line. She is getting so excited for her party but we're going to postpone it until Easter Sunday when Aunt Kim and Uncle Ryan can come home to celebrate.

Our Butler

I'm thankful for

Good health and the kids not being sick lately. Everyone at work and their dogs have been sick for the last few weeks and surprisingly, our family is bug free. That's just amazing considering the weeks and weeks of downtime we did have in the past few months.

Last night Micah gave another hollering in the car ride home. Do all kids go thru phases of hating to sit in their car seats or is it just mine? He will literally cry the entire 15 minute ride home, tears streaming down his face and body flung to the side as far as his seatbelt will allow.

His favortie things these days:
- playing with playdoh
- still loves the vacuum cleaner
- dum dums
- watching wiggles (where's jeff) and cailou
- love the wiggles DVD song "hot potato"
- running outdoors & throwing pebbles
- bubble baths & showers
- he loves to play with Kenzie, calls sister, sister all the time
- favorite color is actually pink
- they were fighting for the backyardigan's Tasha doll the other day
- loves his milk

Makenzie's favorites:
- playing hide & seek (count to 3 she tells me)
- loves eating her veggies
- loves to wear her sweaters with hoodies and front pockets
- thinks she's a big girl & wants to sit shotgun
- still needs her blankie
- talking more & more Laos
- loves sushi seaweed wraps

A Fun COLD Day!

I've never been sledding before, ever. This was my first experience. It was very cold today but the wind chill wasn't bad so we took the kids outside in our slopey backyard. The darn thing is a pain to mow in the summer but it works perfect for a little anthole of a hill to slide down. The kids had a blast! Yes that is a swimming pool floatie... we improvised.

And good news, my camera flash all of a sudden started to work when I tried to take these pictures! Let's see if it continues. :)

No scrapbooking for me again, I filed taxes and did more accounting work in the little spare time I had.

Not my week

This just has NOT been my week.

1.) I'm in a prima essentials flower swap & my order did not arrive until the date they were due to the hostess so I was frantic about that all week

2.) My 50mm 1.8 camera lens broke. I think Kenzie may have stepped on it in the car the other day so I had to send it in, it's still under warranty but I have no high hopes of them fixing it for me & it was my favorite lens to use.

3.) Then I find out my camera flash is not working. I get the Error 5 which means something obstructed the built-in flash's automatic pop-up operation. I called Canon's support & they couldn't help me either. Good thing I purchased the 5 year warranty but I am so scared to ship my camera off to have it fixed. What am I going to do with no backup camera? I still have my old point & shoot but haven't used that in 4 years.

4.) I haven't slept good in days. Micah thinks it's funny to wake up at 1am and not go back to bed until 4am for the last two nights.

5.) After considering where to cut costs, we have to let the cleaning lady go. We hired her only a few months ago and it's been such a blessing for me. Working FT and taking care of two kids on my own on the weekends, I could never fit in time to clean the tubs and floors but now I'll really have to make time. (Maybe I could do it from 12 to 1am in the morning)

Well, that's it. Let's pray for a better week.