Monday, July 25, 2005
What a Weekend!!Sorry I haven't updated in a few days. I decided to take off early on Friday and spend the weekend relaxing! It was wonderful!
Happy Birthday Hooker
I went home Friday and baked Hooker a little birthday cake. It turned out pretty cute and tasted WONDERFUL! It was strawberry with cream cheese icing. Her birthday is tomorrow, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOOKER. I love you sweetie!
She's a little spoiled. Just after she came home from the hospital, it was discovered that she had bacterial meningitis (I think that was it) and she was in NICU for a long time recovering. After that, no one could visit her home except my grandmother and maybe my aunt Sarah. It seemed like she was so grown up when we all got to see her.
New Hair!
I got a new hair do this weekend. I got it cut and highlighted (I haven't done that in a while!). I was growing it out, but decided that short suited me better. Even LuckyHusband said that it did, which was surprising. I also got a manicure! I love being pampered!
Swimming and Lifesaving
Saturday night, we decided to take LittleMan swimming after it "cooled down". One of my neighbors has a pool and lets anyone drop by, so we went there. There were already people there when we got there, but it was only 3 kids and an adult sitting there watching, so we went ahead and stopped. The kids were so sweet and their aunt was there with them. They were in town visiting grandparents who were friends of my neighbor. The youngest was so proud that she had just finished swimming lessons and swam with me to the deep end (with her floaties). Anyway, after we had been there awhile, LuckyHusband was swimming in the deep end, and LittleMan and I were in the shallow. The little girl asked me to swim to the deep end with her, but I had LittleMan and told her maybe later. So, she took off her floaties to play in the shallow.
A little while later, I heard her aunt call her name, and then a second time in a panicked voice. I looked over and she had slid down the incline to the deep end and was struggling unsuccessfully to swim to the top. I had little man on my hip, so I reached for her arm and yanked her up to the shallow end, got her on my hip, and was beating her on the back while getting her to the steps. She was screaming and I was terrified. She later calmed down. I hope I didn't hurt her arm b/c I yanked it pretty hard, but I was unable to go down after her because LittleMan would have went under. Anyway, when we left, she was much better. Thank God!
Movie Date
At the suggestion of someone surprising, LuckyHusband and I had a movie date yesterday. We ate at Red Lobster (my favorite!) and watched Bad News Bears. It was awesome. Everyone should see it, but don't take your small kids. I was shocked at the number of kids in the movie. Hello, it's Billy Bob Thornton for Christ's sake!! No matter how family oriented the original was, GET A CLUE! These were 5, 6, and 7 year olds!
Garage Sale
I participated in a friend's garage sale this weekend and made almost $40! She shut it down early Saturday because it was too hot. Gotta love Louisiana. The heat index at 10 pm Saturday was 103!!
Get in shape!
I'm off to join the activity center at the college I graduated from today at lunch. I'm so excited!!!
I'll be by to visit everyone today!
Melissa |
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Melissa-Mom to LittleMan (4/04); wife to LuckyHusband; full-time toxicologist; full-time housekeeper; full-time domestic laundromat manager (washes all the clothes); full-time domestic finance manager (pays all the bills and yells at husband for spending too much money on fishing stuff); and Keeper of the Cheerios. Lives in a tiny town; spends tons of time with family; reads; enjoys crafts. Can change a diaper, fill a sippy cup, and put on a toddler's shoes in 15.4 seconds flat, all while calculating the impact of petroleum hydrocarbons to a nearby surface water body (watch for me in the Toddler Olympics on CBS this fall). Addicted to Dr. Pepper; Kit Kats; and pasta. To spot me in a crowd: I'm the one with frizzy messed-up hair, smeared graham crackers on my shirt; huge purse with a diaper peeking out, toddler on her hip, and camera in hand at all times.
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
Can You Keep a Secret?
Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Shopaholic and Sister
The Nanny Diaries
Nighttime is My Time - Mary Higgins Clark
Trace - Patricia Cornwell
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Saving Graces - Patricia Gaffney
Save Karyn - Karyn Boznack
Rosie Dunne - Cecelia Ahern
Little Earthquakes - Jennifer Weiner
The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner
One Tuesday Morning - Karen Kingsbury
The Pot Luck Club
P.S. I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
No Place Like Home- Mary Higgins Clark
The Covanent - Beverly Lewis
The Betrayal - Beverly Lewis
The Sacrifice - Beverly Lewis
The Prodigal - Beverly Lewis
Goodnight Nobody - Jennifer Weiner
The Preacher's Daughter - Beverly Lewis
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No Place Like Home- Mary Higgins ClarkRosie Dunne - Cecelia Ahern
The Last Juror - John Grisham