Gosh it stinks to lose your blogger password!!

It really stinks! But all is fixed now.


News and posts to come soon....if anyone is still reading that is.

Baby it's hot outside....

It's been humid and hot here this past week....blech. I did manage to get Boo to the Zoo on thursday last week, which resulted in momma forgetting to put sunscreen on her tummy. OUCHIE OUCH OUCH!

The Silent Auction and Trivia night went well! The event raised a total of over 10,000 for Parker and his family! Special thanks to Mel for donating ad space on her blog. Jen, of Two Knit Monkey fame bid on it! GO VISIT THEM!!

We got a bill from U of I today! Wierd since everything was to have been covered by the trial. Apparently the paperwork didn't get renewed since it went to a new year. I think I have it fixed now, we'll see.

This month we are still TTC. As usual...sigh.

I'm also part of a Biggest Loser group on a message board. I've lost a little over 5 pounds in 2 weeks. Not as much as I'd like to have, but ya know...I"d really like to snap my fingers and have 15 lbs gone, LMAO. I don't have that much to lose. I am working out a lot more though. I have a funny biking story, maybe I'll tell you all some day.

Summer time

It's been a busy summer so far and it's FLYING by! I know I've been a very bad blogger lately, but keeping up with Boo has been hard. This kid is too funny, very social and way to smart!

So quickly to get caught up....

I'm in the 2WW....both happy face and frown, if you know what I mean. I'm using progesterone cream, we'll see if that helps.

I'm going to Nashville next week for a school conference. I'm looking forward to it and dreading it at the same time. You know how those work thing are, right?

Mr turns 37 the day after I get back, so I have to get on the ball for his gifts! I'm planning some surprises for him, let's see if I can make them work.

We closed on the house tuesday! WOOOO HOOOO! We actually got more that we thought as we owed less than we had calculated on it. YAY! So we're paying things off and the moving forward to more treatment (IVF). We'll just have to see how things work out.

I'm also helping out a little with a benefit for a family we know. The Pruitts' son Parker was diagosed with histiocytosis in March. There will be a trivia night to help them out the with tremendous costs of treatment. I'm helping to get donations for a silent auction. If you would like to donate, please let me know. If you are local and would like to come out and have a fun night for a good cause, check the link and sign up!

More later....swim lessons, dinner and shopping for new shoes (not for me, darn it) calls!


****Edited to add***

Parker was diagnosed with Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis. It is a rare blood disorder that mimics cancer and produces too many white blood cells. It affects organs in the body. Parker's skin, lungs and other organs have been affected. He's currently undergoing a series of chemotherapy to treat the disease. If the histiocytosis gets under control, he has a 60% chance of recovery. It is anticipated that he'll undergo chemo for a year. He is now 6m old and nearing the end of the first 12 weeks of treatment. He is doing well, but the mounting hospital bills and insurance is taking a financial toll on the family. That is why a fundraiser has been set up.

Let's Catch Up, Shall We?

Let's see...

School is OVER! WOOOO! For the first time in a long time (over 4 years), I am neither taking a class or teaching this summer. Boo is pretty happy about this as is Mr. I am enjoying being home and being busy. Mr thinks this is great as the house is clean, lunch and dinner are ready when he gets here and the laundry is done. (Something unheard of in this house)

Boo asks me every morning, "It's just me and you today right?" *melt* We are keeping busy at Tot Lot, story time and the gym. Boo is crazy riding his bike all over. He asks me all the time "I'm a BMXer, right Mom?" He's getting there, that's for sure!

The weather here has finally cleared up. It's 75-80 and sunny! We are not affected directly by the flooding, but it's bad here. Thank Goodness the rain stopped. It was dicey last Thursday night. We had water in the basement because our sump couldn't keep up with the rain! Pretty nasty stuff, but it seems we are out of the woods for now.

As for TTC stuff....of course AF showed up promptly (booooo) so on to another month. Sigh....

BUT in other news!! WE SOLD THE OTHER HOUSE! Although it's not enought to go straight to IVF, we'll come out okay and not be paying that extra 750 a month! We close on it July 1st, whew~ good stuff....hopefully by the end of the summer we'll have financial stuff figured out to get going again. Yay for a bit of hope huh?

Well, enough for now...how about a pic or two? (arg...can anyone explain how to place pics where I want them???)

UGH I suck!

It's been an incredibly busy week....the end of school, trainings, entertaining a large group.

AND the blocked blogger from school last week! Can you imagine!!

Anyway, tomorrow and saturday are my days to get caught up with NaComLeavMo. I suck right now, so my apologies.

I promise a new post and LOTS of comments in the next few days.

Show and Tell

So my husband and I have had one of those weekends...you know, the kind where no matter what, you end up bickering and arguing even though you don't want to, over little stupid things even.

So in order to remind myself that Mr. is a good guy, I am choosing this as my "show and tell" this week.

This picture is from Valentine's day two years ago. I forgot to take a picture this year, but this is one of our traditions now. Those are M&M's in my favorite colors (of the time) surrounding my gift. This last year, he wrote out LOVE with dark chocolate peanut M&M's...the V being a heart filled with truffles. See, he does love me and can be romantic at times. One year for V day, he bought me a candle and then surrounded it with CD's of my favorite 80's tunes in the shape of a flower.

He's a good man, I need to remember that when we bicker!

Well, you can tell he's the youngest....

Yesterday was "graduation" from New Blues for Boo. It was cute and fun. The two classes performed several songs. After each one, Boo would ask loudly "did you see that Dad? Did you like it?" Everyone laughed.


As usual, he didn't sit very still. He was loud. He's three and a half.

His teachers though told us, five or six times. "Well, he's the youngest. You can tell." They also told us that he's kind, generous, funny and sweet. But what I heard over and over was "you can tell he's the youngest."

I'm a little upset over it. I KNOW he's the youngest. But get over it! The class was for 3 year olds. He turned 3 in September.

This of course caused a blow up for Mr. and I. It took it as proof that we should go with my plan....Pre-K next year at L.des and then Kdg prep the year after. With my plan, he'll be turning 6 when he starts Kdg. Mr is against it. His argument is that Boo is starting to read words now. I get that. I am a teacher dear.

Everyone (and I do ask everyone) that I won't regret not sending him but that I may regret sending him early. I do NOT want him to be "that kid." The one who isn't able to behave, who is constantly in trouble. The damage from that label (which has been applied already it seems) is much bigger in my eyes than having him be "too smart" for his class. I'm much rather having him in T.A.G than be in the office b.c of problems.

I can tell he's the youngest, but he's also bright and funny and he holds my heart.