I'm still here!

I realize the beauties have been missing for a whole week, but we have been busy. Maybe not so busy as sick! Miss Emily decided to throw mommy for a loop after the 5K. She decided a temperature of 102F needed to be tried out. So I had to hit a friend up for a favor to get a "drive by" doctor consultation. Great thing about working with pediatricians (and being slightly memorable) is that 5pm on Saturday you can get your child's ears out without the ER or urgent care or a copay. Woohoo! Her ears were fine, so Tylenol became our best friend. Grandma became an even better friend, when she was able to come spend the week with us. Allison didn't throw us a real fever, so she went to daycare all week. I felt like I had been hit by a bus. My sleeping princess did not sleep through the night most of the week. Mommy drank a lot of Mt.Dew and white chocolate mocha to make it through the work week.

When grandma left us Thursday morning, she was replaced by Auntie Mel. Auntie Mel joined me for Financial Peace on Thursday night. Her fine dog Riley got to hang out with us also for the extended weekend. Riley made life much more interesting here. He is about a year and a half old and is HIGH energy. He also doesn't know how to stay in a yard. So he and Bandit went for a tour of the neighborhood. Fun for them, stressful for Auntie Mel as she was watching the girls and dogs while I was finishing up with my neighbor Amy. Good news though, they were quickly returned when I went after them. The girls had no idea anything was amiss. Amy and I finished up quickly.

What might Amy and I have been doing on a Saturday morning? Weeellllll Amy is my hair stylist. Too cool that my newest neighbor happened to put in a salon in her basement AND she is really good! I am not as adventurous as Ms. Karianne, I let the pros do my color. I think I might have been scared by the orange hair I saw happen in high school or something..... But anywho, here is the new 'do.


It ended up a little shorter than I was going for.... But it's hair, it will grow...right? Now I'm trying to figure out what exactly I will do with the shortest hair I have had since I was 2 years old. But I think I can, I think I can. My family tells me it is good. So let me know what ya'll think! I wanna hear comments, good, bad and indifferent. And yes, that is natural curl. It has gone crazy since Emily came along. Who knew having a kid could make your hair do new things?

And last but not least, my mom and dad came back up Saturday. They came to see Melanie and so dad and I could go to the football game. Yeeeehaaaa! The Tigers played quite well and the Cornhuskers did not. My dad enjoyed the game greatly. I enjoyed the fact that I facilitated his joy. He and mom have done so much for me in my lifetime. (not just the giving life part) It is great that I can give something (other than grandchildren) to him. I did offer to take my mom, she kindly declined my offer. Something about preferring to stay home with the girls. Not a huge surprise there.

BTW the Tigers are now ranked just outside the top 10 in the BCS standings. Go Tigers!