Sick day already...

Andrew has been back in school for 3 days and already we are out for a sick day. This morning he was running a temp of 102.1 so daddy got to take the day off to take care of him. His fever is down to 99.5 now so we will see what tomorrow brings, could be a day off for me.

What's for dinner?

Okay as usual my pictures did not post in the right order I really hate Blogger! Anyhoo it is ham, green beans and potatoes prepared by me and my lil chef! This little man did all the prep except for cutting the onion and the ham, he tells me he will be a chef when he grows up, I am sure he will be concocting all sorts of vegetarian delicacies!

Life

I was going to post about how frustrated I have been at my job lately and bitch about the mess around my house, etc.... but I think I will just say I am blessed! I am blessed to have a family who loves me, a job that pays the bills and that I enjoy most of the time, healthy children, a great marriage, and enough money to do what needs to be done and most of the time what I want to be done. Why in this society do we all feel the need to complain and whine about the things we want and don't have instead of being thankful for the things we do have. I think as a country we need to quit looking for someone or something else to make us happy and successful and do what my grandparents did and get off our butts and take care of ourselves! And quit the whining out there!

Seizure??

Okay so we have had a normal CT scan and a normal EEG now the trip to the Neurologist. I must say that I remember about half of what he said, he had this great French accent that I was just crazy about! Anyhoo this cute pediatric Neurologist did'nt believe that AJ had a seizure, he went back to the heat, dehydration, possible viral infection theory that we started with. Now we are to just watch the little stinker and if it happens again contact le french physician. The one amazing thing is that my 6 year old is 4' 3" tall, his brother was only 6" taller at age 11, scary. Love to all !

My favorite place

The picture above is of my favorite place in the world Beaver Lake. This is the only place from my childhood that I can still go home to. My sister recently lost a great friend way to early and it got me thinking where would I want to die if I had a choice in the matter, I know that it would be at this beautiful spot sitting on the front porch with people I love.
I am so lucky that this place was purchased by my mother and stepfather and that they let us enjoy it with them and with family and friends. Every year we join with our best friends and cousins to reconnect with ourselves and each other, I hope this tradition continues on for many years to come and that the group will continue to grow. To the girls of Beaver, see ya soon!

Cheetah Update

For anyone who cares I am still fighting the big bad cheetah. I have been working my debt snowball now for about a year and am not making the progress I would like. I have to date paid off 3 credit cards and am on my way to #4 which should be gone by the middle of July if not sooner. I have taken my big 3 cards and combined them with a fixed rate of 2.99% I am planning on putting a minimum of $1000 a month on these while I still will be working on the 3 smaller debts. I am so excited about being debt free but still lose focus some when I see a cute pair of shoes or a great shirt on sale. I still need to get the darn budget in line, if I could get that done I could move a lot faster at this, oh well maybe a project for the day. Hope you all are well out there and if you haven't already cut up those cards already!

Andrew