Abby, Abby, Abby

Today has been a day of spring cleaning and laundry and car fixing! During this the kids and I got a bit of a nap. This means that the kids are awake for longer in the evening. This is okay since it's vacation. After dinner we have the rule of no video games or TV for the rest of the evening. While dad and i are cleaning the kids are usually playing with their blocks, cars, reading or inventing some kind of game in the living room. Tonight they had an old box and were decorating it with crayons and markers. I was in the dining room and Abby came up to me and asked,"Mom - can I have some glue so I can draw something on the box?" I said, "Nope!" She said her usual, "Uh." And she walked away. As she entered the living room she said to Ethan, "Ethan, mommy said no, I tried to trick her." I was like WHUUUT!!??!! "Abby what did you say?" "Nothing." I walked in there and called her over. I asked her again. "I said I tried to trick you." I couldn't believe it. I explained her that "tricking" was lying and it was not acceptable, blah blah blah. She was trying to trick me. She admitted she was trying to trick me. Give me a break! Too funny I tell ya!

June

Ive been crazy busy. I think. Or maybe too much has been going on inside my head that I could never really figure out what to let you all in on. Today I went to a new Psychiatrist for the first time in over a year. My Psych retired a few months back without telling me and of course Kaiser never let us know. My new guy is probably younger than me and I sort of feel good about it. He is definitely going to be a bit challenging. Well, let me rephrase that. We will be differing on some things. Ok, let me rephrase that...he is going to be telling me things that are going to be hard for me to hear. Like day 1..."do you know what co-dependant is"? Am I? I don't know. I did start to think harder about why I let people need me, want me, walk all over me and then invite them back only to let them do it all over again. It's attention and it gives my life a purpose. I like being there for people and place that at a higher importance level than my own self worth. Project #1 I assume.

Got so sick last week about 3 days before my big scrapbooking event. Freaked out because I was hurting so bad. Just aching and I had no control. Er finally stepped in after I told him exactly what I needed and took care of me. That was Tues, Wed and Thurs and after sleeping in on Friday, I was able to function for the next 2 days and you would have never know I was fighting for my life! Well not really but I can't give away all my drama. It was nice to work last weekend but it's nice that it's done.

Ethan is done with 1st grade and I now am the proud mama of a 2nd grader! AHH! You should see how tall he is getting. Seriously I think he may pass me up by 5th grade! He did so well this year. He is brilliant ya know. Speaking Spanish like no ones business. So stinkin' brilliant! And Abigail is dancing her little heart out every chance she gets. Today she unrolled a bunch of hair ribbons I had gotten her and put some in each hand then proceeded to dance around the living room as if she was in the Olympics. She didn't even know that was a sport until I told her. Then to hear her tell Er later that night that she was going to do "GINASSICS" was hilarious. That will be super fun to watch with her this summer. And she is now moving on to Primary Ballet at her dance school. She was in Pre-Primary which was a little tap and a little ballet and tumbling. Now just ballet. It was funny too, when I was registering her for the new class her teacher referred her to, there was this line by the classes that read "Average length of time in each dance level is 2-3 yrs". Yep, that was Abby's first time in a class. And now she is moving up. YAY!

That's all for tonite. Migraine today and need to eat something so I can take an Excedrin. NOW! Talk with ya soon!