Nan, I didn't know Kady was sick! I'm sorry I've had some things slip through the cracks.
Love & kisses for Kady.
From all of us NANCY PLEASE come to F&W if only for the weekend!!!! You could even bring the Princess!!!!!!!!!
I did not really say much, she had a GI thing that was on and off. Yesterday she really felt it
I'll give you a call!
Do you need us to pressure Buddy into letting you go to F&W???
I wish I could. I am so excited just to be there for the last couple of days of F&W and hopefully meet Lauren and her crew.
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Buddy is our money manager, I am no good at it. If I tell him I want to go somewhere that I don't pay for out of my personal money he moves Heaven and Earth so I can go, but I know that he is stressed this year. He works for a construction company and is the first guy on the seniority list yet he was laid off last year before Christmas. This year has been very slow so he is worried that winter will be tight. I hate to put more pressure on him now because I really want him to take a vacation for himself this winter or Spring.
Kat I so feel for you.
I just can't believe how our live mirror each other. My Matthew is having the same problems/drama with Ali. They have been together 4 1/2 years. Part of me is ok - they do need to know this is the right thing and find out now instead of later but a part is also really missing her. We love her dearly. Matthew is a total wreck and so far away. And I agree with you - these boys DO NOT need to deal with this now!! OH MY!!! I will keep everything I have crossed for the sale of the house.
What is it with these girls???????????????
I am very tired this morning! It took us 1.5 hours to get out of the parking lot last night, and another hour to get home, even though we only live 15-20 minutes from the stadium. Traffic is a nightmare around Gillete Stadium! The game was fun though, and very exciting at the end. However, I think I am going to watch the rest of the season at home on my TV.
My neighbors went yesterday and both took today off. Good thing, I saw he out late this morning and she looked like she got run over by a truck! They have a two hour ride home I think.
Nancy & Marisa, I'm sorry Kady isn't feeling well!
Prayers that she gets better!
Her gymnastics class sounds like a very serious school. If she likes gymnastics & this place is too "high pressure" you might want to look around for something else. I do know that dancing school tumbling & gymnastics are not the same thing. But if they are putting too much pressure on her right away, that might not be a good sign. Some of the gyms around here are over the top serious, as if every child is going to become a world class gymnasts. Just too much stress for little ones.
Nan, What's lightened sauerkraut?
Maria, Alexis has been eating at about 200%!
We stopped at the snowball stand which she calls the icecream stand because she ALWAYS gets vanilla softserve icecream with rainbow sprinkles. She ate about half of that, then asked for a brownie, ate that. Then she asked me to fix her "long noodles with sauce" and "oh please add some fresh herbs this time"! She ate two very large bowls of that. Then as she was walking out the door with Chris she asked her "Mom, What's for Dinner?"!
Yes I would say her appetite is back.
On the way home from school she said lots of teachers, assitants & the Principal were asking her how was the hospital. She said she couldn't tell them that "Some of it really hurt, but some the playroom & nurses were nice" then she told me "The worst thing ever was the 'pository they put in her butt!" I told her that"I thought that was a good idea, she didn't need to tell them about that!
I am dying over Alexis! Between that appetite, her 'pository and the Happy Schoolgirl I am tickled!
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Lightened sauerkraut is a lower fat version of my heart attack on a plate version that I make once in a blue moon. I always use bacon fat and bacon along with my sister IL's addition of a little butter. It is really good but I can feel my arteries hardening as it cooks adn the pounds creeping back just thinking about it. I have some turkey bacon and wil use a little olive oil and just add more seasoning. Buddy's Mom always served it with hot dogs instead of kielbasa and she also diced up onions with cider vinegar and lots of black pepper. He loves it!
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Kady was not pressured by the instructor yesterday. It was her first day and it was clear to her that she needed a lot more practice to get to where she wants to be. She was also worried that if she went to a different school she would need to learn everything yet again. Marisa made her understand that that was not the case. She was evluated and the instructor told Marisa that she would have put her in teh "pre team" which is their competitive team if she knew that she would "push past the pain". Right now her posture needs work and her hips are tight so she bends one leg to accomodate them. I think that she is better where she is, the instructor she has is the pre team instructor so she is going to be able to help her.
In the dance class they did not teach to the kids who were "on top" they taught to the ones who struggled so Kady paid the price. Kady loves this and will practice on her own, Marisa would not push her.
Funny thing, the instructor is Russian and has a strong accent. Kady had a hard time understanding her so Marisa told her that in no time she would learn to understand her, after all her Dr has an accent. She was dumbfounded, her Dr does nto have an accent! Marisa thought that was funny, he is Indian and has a very pronounced accent but Kady has never heard it
Today is our double activity day, skating and ballet, so we will eat out in between. We won't be going to the same place as last week though! The food was okay, but the people in there were a little weird.
Don't overdo and stay away from weirdos!
Kady's mats need to be thinner and longer adn that is all I know
Marisa is looking to find them so that she has one less thing to worry about, poor little OCD control freak kid
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Laura- I don't know if you saw this or not, but we now have a manatee in the area too. Great whites and manatees- I wonder what next week will bring.
Nancy- The kiddo stopped gymnastics a while ago, she wanted to do it just for fun, but that wasn't an option. I have no problem with competitive sports, but they should be fun.
I saw the poor lost manatee
, I hope he is okay
Marisa would never send her if it was not fun. That is why I will never have a little Ballerina or Irish Step Dancer......she hated it! I tried to convince her that it would be fun but after a few years she is not buying that story anymore
Maria - I'm so happy that you don't need a biopsy! That scares me!!! I really need to go for my smash and bash, but I'm terrified to do it. Prod me until I do, ok? I've had 2 aunts die of breast cancer, so I need to get on top of it!
I know that you are going to be fine this afternoon so I am going right to the other subject!
Schedule your mammogram!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Breast cancer does not follow a pattern so even if no one in your family had it you would be at risk simply becasue you are a woman. The fact that your Aunts died means that you are predisposed adn should have been having mammograms for years! My sister IL had a transflap mastectomy at 35 so Marisa has been screened since she was about 35 years old.
Now call! You need to be an example to your beautiful daughters, be in goodf health for all of your family and be alive for them.
If you are worried I will talk to you all the way to the imaging center and all the way home. Go to one where there is a Dr onsite who can read the films and reassure you before you leave.
Off my soapbox unless I find out you did not call!
That is wonderful news!! 
Wow, that must be some trip! Does he have to raise that much money every year? And my family complains about the kids' overpriced wrapping paper fundraiser! (Yes, Beck, it is that time again.)
