Friends Friday

Boys were off to school... Peanut went to test to see if she qualifies for any services or not... I have a feeling with all her gains she won't be in ECSE this fall... That is a good thing because she will be able to spend a whole year with Mommy before starting Kindergarten... She has shown an interest in knitting so that will be our fun 'girl' project we are going to do this year... Once the cool weather comes we are going to quilt together if she shows an interest and maturity for such an activity... She finished all her early childhood testing except for a few things... She will do those when she meets with the speech therapist next week.. The teacher who tested her and the speech therapist both worked with her all year last year and they also worked with Engineer his first year of ECSE... So, they know us well... Today is our 5th Anniversary for our marriage convalidation... We didn't do anything exciting to celebrate it... We watched half of Forever Young... We do more on our civil anniversary (10 years this year) which will arrive in a few months... I dropped the bars off at a friends to be taken to the parish bake sale... We rested and picked Monkey up from school... On Friday's respite staff picks Engineer up directly from school... We walked from school to home to drop off things then walked to our friend's garage sale... We were there 2 hours... I found 2 dresses for Peanut and if we can switch the handle from our wagon to theirs we will have a new wagon too!!! I had planned on heading over to MN for Play Date at the Park but the van was acting funny so we stayed close to home... We walked back home and did 'mail'... Thank you to my friend (and blog reader) for the wonderful card... It was special to read it... ::smile, tear:: Yes, I will try to be as prompt as I can be with updates so you and all my readers know what is going on here... Remember my some times cryptic messages are because this is a public forum... Always feel free to email me for the decoded version... ::smirk:: We had our first Sloppy Joe dinner... We also had Alfredo broccoli noodles and steamed broccoli... All the children went to sleep without much fuss... Woo hoo! I walked 16 blocks (1.6 miles) yesterday... Go me!!! I transferred my chicken scratch menu planning into a printed version... I design the layout... I also now have a complete respite schedule till move in day that I also designed (layout for that too) and printed copies for every one... My program I usually use I can't find the disc to install it on this computer... I didn't like any of the 'free' ones I could download so I just designed my own 'form' to fill in, that's printable, in the word processing program...

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I don't know what it is but I just don't feel like coming here and posting... I think all the activity of the holiday has worn me out... I am EXHAUSTED!!! Today, my friend Kristin and I finally made it out to the Asian Market... It was a neat place... We really enjoyed looking around... I bought some Hoisin Sauce and Milky Way... They have a $3 min to use cards... Hence the Candy Bar... I will remember to stop at the ATM next time... They give 5% discount for cash purchases... How cool is that? Otherwise I didn't do much today... I did finally give up and order my husband something bronze online... I feel awful I had nothing to give him yesterday... He said his card was enough (had a bronze colored ribbon on it)... We started working on placing the ornaments on the tree... We have about 1-2 dozen up so far... I'm off to try and write some more on the other days... The next 3 days will be shop till we drop... Also, the great race of if the relatives packages will make it on time or not... All 4 grandparents are sending a box or package of something... It will be interesting to see if they all make it before Tuesday or not... They are using Priority but that isn't always guaranteed! My friend in NY decided to bless us with a wonderful gift to our family... Thank you... I will be going out tomorrow to shop for our needs... She is truly wonderful lady!!!

Happy Anniversary!

Today is my 8th Wedding Anniversary... It was another long and tiring day... We cleaned the house... It was a disaster! We put the lights on the tree and garland... I gave my husband a card... He gave me a card and Bronze picture frame... We went out to eat at Olive Garden... It was my first time there... It was sooo delicious!!! Baby doesn't care much for pasta so I had the Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad which is Grilled chicken over romaine in a creamy Caesar dressing topped with imported parmesan cheese and croutons... Waitress was like is that all? I'm yes... I'm thinking she's going to bring me this monster sized salad... She did... LOL... My husband had Garlic-Herb Chicken con Broccoli which is Rosemary-seasoned chicken breasts sautéed with fresh broccoli in a garlic cream sauce over orecchiette pasta... He also had some kind of sausage and potato soup with a name he couldn't say so I don't know what it was called... We also had Bruschetta for an appetizer which is a traditional topping of roma tomatoes, fresh basil and extra-virgin olive oil. Served with toasted ciabatta bread... We chose the Alfredo sauce to have with our bread sticks... It was soo good... We went at 4 in the afternoon and had the whole place to ourselves... We rarely go out alone or to fancy places... So, it was really special and memoriable experience for us... One neither of us will ever forget... After dinner my husband took me home... Peanut's Godmother came buy and gave her a beautiful sweater... We visited a bit... She left and my husband headed out to return things we bought over the weekend that were wrong and pick up things we needed... That night we relaxed and watched a movie called Just Friends... A romantic comedy...

Christmas Shopping - Frustrated!

I stopped at the library and learned our 8th Anniversary Theme is Bronze... I'm trying to figure out what and where to buy items made out of Bronze for my husband... I found some little bronze turtles I think DH would like but only online or eBay... I don't have time to wait for something to be shipped... I goofed and didn't think about how I needed to know the theme so I could shop... DUH! I also need to shop for DH's birthday which is Sunday... Eeekk!!! Not to mention Christmas for him and spend any money family sends for myself and the children... Which leads me to my frustration! I have no clue what to tell people who are buying gifts... I'm also not really sure what to buy myself either for those who just send the spending power... I spent so many months running up CC bills for things I had to have at that moment and now I just don't want to shop... Even if it is 100% paid for and no bill will be coming... I have been on a Cash only system for a while now not using my CC for anything... If I could have anything it would be a debt free Christmas but I'm too far gone for that... I can only dream of a nearly debt free tax refund... We did shop for the children's "Santa" gifts yesterday... I ran in to pick up our daughter's first doll house... That was sooo very exciting!!! DH ran in for the boys... I need to go see what he bought so I know what to buy from relatives... It is sooo easy for me to buy the children or dh all kinds of wonderful things but struggle with what I want... ::sigh:: Praying for some peace...