Lilly's First Trip to the Library!

Organization

So we had our Yard Sale last weekend. It went pretty well. It is great to know that all that extra stuff is out of our house!! There are about 4 boxes of stuff that is left over. Right now I have a post on craigslist to try and sell it all for $50. If it does not sell, we will either take it to the Goodwill, or save it for our next Yard Sale, which we intend on doing at the end of the summer.....possibly the first weekend of September.

With being busy all week/weekend getting ready for and having the sale, the inside of the house has been neglected!! It looks like a whirlwind came through it! My dining table is stacked with junk, our little table in the kitchen, and all the kitchen counters....all just stacked with junk!! The living room looks like half of Lilly's toys have made it out here from her bedroom! But, it is all good....even after having the sale, we are still pretty broke....so I will be forced to stay home for a week, and get stuff done around the house. I get so irritated when I can't find something in my house because of all the clutter.

WOW Its May!!!

Well, I have not been very successful about posting blogs on here. Oh well. I keep trying! A lot has gone on in my life lately. Most of it stressful. Some of it positive. Lets talk about a positive! For the past 9 years I have been having this strange lower abdominal pain, which I figured was just related to 'girl pain'. It started to get worse and worse, and nearly everyday. It was so bad all I could do was lay in bed, curled up in a ball until the pain went away. I had not gone to see a doctor about this because we did not have any medical insurance for a long time. Finally, back in December, we bout some insurance. I went and saw a OBGYN doctor. She was so nice!! She said from what I was describing, it sounded like a bowel or bladder problem. They did an ultrasound of my uterus/fallopian tubes just to make sure. A cyst was found, and on a 2nd ultralsound it had gone away. She suggesed that I have PBS....painful bladder syndrome....and told me to follow a specifice diet, and slowly introduce certain foods, and see if I felt any pain from eating them. So it did. And, finally, after all these years, I have learned that I cannot eat CHOCOLATE, coffee, tea, any kind of fruit juice or anything carbonated. Those foods have been causing my bladder it get irritated, and have 'flares' and cause me all that pain!!! There were a ton of foods on the list, but those were the ones that were causing any pain. I don't care about having to give up soda pop, or coffee or tea....but it is not so easy when it comes to choclate.....because it isn't just like, a candy bar that I cant eat....it is anything that has coccoa in the ingrediatns....No chocolate milkshakes, yougurt, cereal, cookies, brownines, pudding, fudge....not even like, chocolate flavored intanst breakfast or cereal bars or anything!! And of course, no ice cream with anything chocolate in it.

Of course, it is MORE than worth it to give this stuff up to not be in that terrible pain.....

Morning Girl

I've become a bit of a morning person lately...I've discovered that if I wake up even 30 minutes eariler than my usual time, I can have a bit of time to myself before waking up Lilly. So this morning, after cleaning up after the puppy, I've decided to spend some time updating my blog!

We have had such nice wheather for the past few days!! It actually reached 70 degrees 2 days in a row for the first time in 6 months!!! Today is nice and sunny too, and the news said tommorrow we would be back to rain for at least a week....so I want to make the most out of today!! Since Easter is next Sunday, I am going to put Lilly in her Easter dress and take her outside and take pictures!

Dawn had her baby boy, Brian, on March 30th, and Lilly was so excited to be the big cousin!!

We took Roxie for her first walk. We started out with having her on the leash, but she was squealing the whole time, so we just let her walk with out it. It was fun, and at the end of the road both Lilly and Roxie had fun playing in a mud puddle....

With it being warmer out, Lilly has been able to wear some of her new clothes that Grandma Connie has been buying her, and that is cool because her winter wardrobe was getting borning!! Also, Lilly always gets a *kick* out of putting my shoes on!!

Lilly and her Barbies

Lilly has 5 or 6 Barbie dolls, and like most kids I know (or myself as a kid) she always wants to take all of the clothes right away.

The other day she has 2 barbies, naked, 'hugging and kissing', with their arms around each other!! So, I told her Grandma Connie that she needs a Ken doll, so she has a boy barbie doll, too. Tonight I brought her Ken doll home, and her new Barbie doll, and within 5 minutes of getting them out of the package, and, well.....just look at the picture.....

Easter Decorations

This morning Lilly and I pulled out and few Easter decorations that we have and put them up. Then when it was time to put Lilly down for her nap, as I was walking down the hall to her room, she said 'Goodnight decorations'...!! Talk about cute!

Last Christmas Eric bought Lilly some Play Doh. We don't bring it out very often, even though Lilly LOVES playing with it. Her newest thing is to smell the Play Doh....which I find funny because everyone knows what it smells like, and the smell always reminds you of your childhood!

Also, she got a new baby doll from her Grandma Connie. We brought in her cradle that was out in her play house (since it has been raining here everyday forever!). She put blankets and a pillow in the cradle, and was feeding the baby...it was too cute!

A week or so ago I made a comment to Eric that I wanted to get Lilly one of those metal TV trays for kids. Yesterday morning Reagan and I went to the Goodwill down the street to look around, and they had one!!! I was so excited!! She loves sitting on the floor and eating her meals on her TV tray....that has Spongebob on it, too!

Lucky Charms

Growing up I always wanted to buy a box of Lucky Charms cereal and just eat all the marshmellows out of it, but of course I was never allowed to do that. Today, as an adult, I am doing just that! Sitting on the couch, digging through the box of cereal to find just the marshmellows.......and it is wonderful!!! I guess there are some things about being older that are totally kick ass!!! Eric doesn't approve.....but too bad on this one!!

Un-Lazy

I actually went and cleared off all the pictures on the camera and put them on the computer. Here are a few pictures from the past week. There is Rosie and Roxie playing outside; Lilly covered in Wonder Pets stickers; Lilly sewing with Grandma; Lilly and her princess pillow from Grandma; and of course, Lilly and her beloved dinosaurs in her back pack!

Babies!

Last night my sister-in-law Dawn started having contractions that were only 5 minutes apart. After one hour, she decided it was time to go to the hospital. We all met down at the hospital around 9pm. They got her hooked up and checked out, and then made her go walk the hospital for 45 minutes. She went back to her bed, and was having BIG contractions every 30-45 seconds for 20 minutes......however, she had not dialated anymore (she was a 3) so they sent her home!!!!! What a bummer....

Tonight is Bingo night at the Eagle's Club. I might bring Lilly with me for the first time. Bingo lasts for about 2-3 hours, and Lilly can't even sit still for 2-3 minutes, so I have avoided bringing her for the past few months. However, Eric is not feeling well today, so I don't think he will want to watch her. We will see how the rest of the day goes.

Oh, and last night when I went to the hospital I forgot my camera!!! I was so irritated that I forgot it....but luckily for me, she will be back in there in the next few days anyway!! I won't be forgetting it this time!! In fact, I am going to go and charge it up right now....

Sunday Dinner

Today has been fairly productive. Except Lilly's nap. She is currently in her crib, slamming her feet on the walls.....aparently she isn't going to go to sleep!

The puppy is driving me crazy. I love animals, but I'm not so sure about this puppy stuff. Argh.

Tonight we are going to Eric's mom's house for dinner.....chicken fried steak. I have only had that once in my life, so I am looking forward to going and eating.

I would write more but I need to go get Lilly before she busts the wall down!!

So We Have A Puppy Now

Yesterday we went over to Eric's mom's house to pick up Lilly's puppy. She is totally in love with her! I am not quite as in love with her, but thats okay. I would have rather gotten an adult dog, and skipped the puppy stage....but it is worth it to see how Lilly plays with the puppy. We are still working on thinking of a good name for her. I think we are going to go with Roxie. We will have to run that by Lilly when she gets up from her nap!

Moving On

For the past two weeks the flu has been running through our house. It started with Lilly. Most of her throwing up was during the night, and she would seem normal during the day. After a week her symptoms faded, and I thought all was back to normal. Then last Wednessday night I got home from BINGO with the 'ladies' and my tummy was feeling a little upset. Less than an hour laster I was bent over the toilet....and like two hours after that so was Eric. Today is the first morning that I am feeling back to myself!!

Because of feeling so bad for the past week many things have been neglected around here....mainly the house work. So, today I am feeling ambitious in getting a bunch of stuff done, and having fun with Lilly. Speaking of which, it is time for me to go and wake her up for the morning!