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I am quickly beginning to drown in all of my attempts to be “active”. I’m already a day behind on my bible study. I met with Stuart today about the training we’re doing next month. It’s A LOT of stuff to do. We need sign up sheets, bulletin inserts, powerpoint presentations, etc. etc. And then there’s VBS which I haven’t even opened up the packet for. And I’m supposed to have a supply list by Sunday. Wow.

Scott’s training is going well. I don’t think it’s nearly as physical as he thought except they nearly killed him by making him run two miles yesterday morning.

Em and Lexi are gone with MIL again. I picked the kids up from school and took them over to MawMaw’s house. Lexi was asleep so I just left them all there while I met with Stuart after lunch. MIL picked them up from there. Not sure when they are coming home. I really want to go to the gym at 5:20 for Rock Bottom so I need to see how long she was going to keep them.

OH! AI comments from last night. Everyone (excluding Kellie) was awesome last night. That was the best show in several weeks. I loved Chris’s slow song. It seemed heartfelt and not nearly so scratchy of a voice. Which is good sometimes but not for that type song. Paris was excellent. I remembered finally why I liked her at one point. Taylor was really good. Loved that ending. It finally felt like he was really feeling the music again. Elliott was good but I’m not a big Elliott fan so I have a hard time judging him for some reason. Kellie sucked. Big time. She should go home just for that. Ace needs to go home although I enjoyed his performance last night, not so much the greased hair though. And Katharine of course was classic. It was a beautiful song sung with a beautiful voice. She finally was not yelling the song. So I hope Ace goes home just because I think overall he has been the worst. I wouldn’t be too heartbroken if Kellie’s song sent her home, but I do hope it’s Ace…again.

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Geez, what a weekend. Thursday afternoon we went up to Concord Mills and shopped. Dropped a ridiculous amount of money on clothing for all of us. I’m taking some of it back. They should just go ahead and put a mailing package in your shopping bag so you can mail things back when buyer’s remorse sets in. Friday I took work off and we didn’t get started until about lunchtime. We ended up at KFC for lunch and took it to Cherry Park for a picnic. That was actually really nice. The weather here has been tremendously wonderful the past few days. After that, we headed to Hollywild Zoo about an hour away. They have all kinds of animals there, some you can pet. These animals are animals that have been used for acting purposes in Hollywood, hence the name Hollywild. They had elephants, zebras, buffalo, rhinoceros, camel, cougar, leopard, lions, monkeys, peacock, wolves, bears, you name it, it was probably there. You took a bus through the field and got to feed some of the animals. The kids loved it. So then we stopped in Gaffney on the way home to eat and shop a little more and that was it for Friday. Saturday morning we spent around the house while our family did some MORE shopping. Scott almost got the fence done and washed the cars. I had a friend over to re-do my pots and plant some plants in the front yard. Saturday afternoon we went to a egg hunt at our church and then had a cook-out at Mom’s. Our company left Sunday morning. Emma slept over at Mom’s the entire time they were there.

So Sunday we had our choir special. We had a few glitches but I think overall it went well. We went to Scott’s parents for lunch to eat a ham dinner and had another egg hunt for the kids. We came home for naps (of which I did not get) and then spent the evening at Mom’s. It was a great Easter weekend and I certainly am not in the mood to work again.

Today MIL is off so she is going to get the girls this afternoon. I have the first bible study with D tonight. I sort of forgot about it actually. I’m hoping MIL can just keep them a little later tonight. Which means, da-dadah-dahhh, I might get to go to the gym and go to bible study tonight. Yipee!

Scott is gone for the entire week this morning. He called about 9 this morning and said he was there and he was going to have to stay at the academy instead of with a friend in Columbia . That’s a bummer. I know he is not really looking forward to being gone for the week.

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Last night Lexi was doing both her hands in sort of a opening/closing wave type thing and chanting something. I realized she was saying Tickle, Tickle, Tickle and doing her hands. I did the same thing and tickled her and she just loved it. She kept doing it over and over. How cute! And she has started holding up her one finger and saying “Two!”. Emma and I show her our two fingers and say two but of course she can only do one of them now.

Family should be coming in today so I’m thinking the next few days will be really busy. I need to go buy Lexi some shoes for her dress on Sunday. At the moment the only sandals she has to wear is her Dora sandals.

Last night I ended up at a Mary Kay facial at CT’s house. Which means I missed the first part of AI. Thank goodness for TIVO. So the rundown:

Ace – oh boy, Ace. That was bad, you’re my pick to go home tonight
Paris – you have a great voice but please don’t do rock again
Elliott – not as great as the judges thought you were
Chris – i was a little disappointed, VERY obscure song
Taylor – lots of energy and good voice but i just don’t get the dancing
Katharine – loved it although everyone else says the song was too big for her
Kellie – although i also thought the whole concept “on paper” was horrendous i thought she really, really did good
who else is there…oh yes, Bucky – he did well but was obviously a little forgettable

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A guy at work who is G’s roommate showed up today at our office. I have never met him but it was pretty awkward when we met each other. Somehow without speaking he said I know who you really are and I said yes I know, you know what I did. Nothing was said but it was just one of those unspoken awkward moments. Speaking of that whole scenario, it seems to be a non-issue now. If it’s not for him, I haven’t heard about it.

We spent last evening with a bunch of people over at the house last night. Scott had two friends over to help dig the holes for the fence and their wives and kids all showed up too for pizza. We had 6 adults and 7 kids, 6 of which were 3 and younger. It was a zoo but it was nice outside so we mostly stayed outside on the new deck and at the swingset. It was GREAT, actually.

So another Lexi moment happened last night. She was playing with something and coughed and acted like something was stuck in her throat. She went to get a drink and still coughed every couple seconds acting like she was getting something out of her throat. So I took her up the road to the urgent care center. By the time we got there, anything that was stuck wasn’t stuck anymore and I got nothing out of the visit except for a speech by the dr and nurse that I shouldn’t have small objects around her. Thanks. I didn’t know that.

So I’m supposed to help organize a training at our church in May. I’ve never done anything of the sort. I told Stuart I wanted to help do something and that’s one of the many things he suggested. I guess I’m just in charge of the publicity. Which I’m not sure what that entails really. I do hope people come though. I think it would be good. It’s basically a training to find out about your personality and spiritual gifts which I do think a lot of people are on overload on personality tests but probably not spiritual gifts. And I firmly believe we all have them but I don’t think many people have gone looking for them.

Another Emma moment I was supposed to write down the other day…Lexi was babbling about something at the tv and Emma says, “Is she speaking Spaanish?”

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So my pain increased to almost intolerable levels Saturday night. I had gotten down on the floor to play with Lexi and something…snapped. I started hurting so bad. I took some Vicoden and aleve. Then took another Vicoden 3 hours later. I finally was feeling ok. It has been very tolerable since then. I got the kids to church myself with the girls yesterday, went out to eat eat, slept and then we had our Easter musical last night at church. And then, I actually got to clean last night. There was something that was smelling bad on our kitchen table. I couldn’t figure it out. And the carpet was messy and the kitchen floor was messy. I couldn’t stand it, so I ended up doing my entire cleaning ritual during DH and GA. Thank goodness they were not new episodes last night.

So today Scott & co is digging the post holes for the fence. Hopefully by the end of the week we’ll have a complete fence up in the back yard. Yay! He might have even had it done tomorrow but I’m going into work tomorrow. My aunt and uncle, kids and grandmother are all coming into town Wednesday or I would wait until Friday to go in so the fence would have been done. But, it’s a no go. And next week is the week that Scott will be in Columbia the entire week. I may go crazy next week or do ok and feel like Supermom.

Scott has tossed around the idea of applying for ATF. He would be gone for 10 weeks straight. Only home on the weekends. And then home for like 2 weeks and then gone another 10 weeks. Ugh! I do hope he gets it only because I really think he would love it. But wow, that would be a hard couple months.

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Somehow this has been quite a busy day yet it’s the least I’ve done on a Saturday in quite some time. I woke at 7:30, before Lexi even got up to get ready. I did part of my testing at 8 and had Lexi out the door by 8:30 to get Emma from Mom’s. From there I dropped off the girls at SIL and then headed to choir practice where I stayed for 2 1/2 hrs. I picked the girls back up and came home. Scott got up and I had him stay with the girls and put them down for a nap while I went to the dr. I ended up having coctosinactos or something about a virus in the cartlige (sp?) in my chest. He says he only sees about 20 cases a year. He gave me Vicoden for the pain although that doesn’t work out too well since I’m with the kids by myself all evening and I can’t drive for 6 hours after I take it. And I’ve never had it so who knows how loopy I’ll get. So I’m just kind of managing the feeling of a knife stuck in my chest. Which is probably the reason I have not done my major cleaning this weekend.

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Emma went on an egg hunt today at school. She was being SO shy when we first got there. After the egg hunt, she was talking with all her friends and having a great time. She didn’t want to leave. Emma is sneaking candy now in her room. She was being quiet and I kept asking her if she was ok and she was. I went to check on her and she was taking a bite of candy when I walked in. I suppose I can let her get by with it since it’s Easter.

Our church has been going through some really good changes lately. I think everyone is really getting fired up to actually do something. I know at least in our sunday school class that is the case. I emailed my ss teacher/youth group leader in the church about getting some ideas of things I could actually do. He is supposed to call me so we’ll see what he says.

Ever since Monday night I have been trying really hard to get the house clean in the evenings. Trying to keep the kitchen spotless and cleaning all the toys out of the living room and sometimes even cleaning back up the playroom completely. I feel so much more accomplished. I’ve even had dinner here all week. The only time we ate out is we grabbed some take out yesterday for lunch and ate it here.

I have caught up with a few other people from school on myspace. It seems with the reunion this year everyone is coming out of the woodwork. Some people I would have never even recognized. I hope a lot of people come because I would love to catch up with everyone. I have a friend that was my “wild” friend in school and she has done a 180. She’s a SAHM to three kids and is homeschooling one of them. She’s really trying to live a Christian life now. She does not want to go to the reunion in the least bit way since she is so different. But I think everyone is different. I know I am since high school. I think it will be an interesting dynamic when everyone gets back together.

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It’s 9:42 and I’m just sitting down at the computer. I had another umph to be “the perfect wife and housekeeper” and decided to not sit down this evening until I had cleaned the house back up after a day of work and having a 1, 2 and 3 year old running around for most of the day. I have to say it feels really good. I even did our checkbook and bills which I haven’t done in almost a month. I’m not sure I could find something to clean without digging into closets and drawers. Which I do need to do. And Scott is off work and the kids are in bed and its fairly early and I’m tempted to do just that. My bathroom drawer seriously needs some attention. But I think I’m better served this evening with a break. I haven’t set down I don’t think since 3:00 this afternoon when I quit working. I worked through lunch today since my stomach was “messed up” this morning and I couldn’t eat. So I got off at 3:00. Today I even was able to cook dinner. I think cutting out of work a little early helped us all today. We were able to go outside and play a little and then I got them settled into a Dora video while I finished up cooking. I think that could be a great routine. Nothing like a well-scheduled video to help a mom out. I feel this evening like I do on Friday/Saturdays when I have finished cleaning. There’s a sense of accomplishment that almost nothing else gives me. I just feel like all’s right in the house. Scott complains less and I feel crappy less and the kids love watching me run around the house instead of staring at a computer on the couch. I SO want to quit work. Like in a big way. If I knew we could afford it, I might do it. But we have insurance through me and I do make decent money. I should be happy with part-time work at home and so I’m trying to be. Days like today, I think I could do it. And I do really enjoy what I do. At least when I get to do it. It has been so slow at work for development and I guess that’s part of the reason why I want to quit. I get really bummed when I don’t feel like I’m accomplishing anything at work. Hopefully a really big project will be beginning the end of this week so I’m trying to hold out.

So Emma did two things recently that were “big girl” things to me. One was she actually was able to keep herself swinging on the swing by pumping her legs like we’ve been trying to teach her. Yay! And today we were all the in back yard waiting for SIL to come pick up my niece and she was really late and I needed to know if she had tried to call. I told Emma to go in and get me the phone. The back door was locked so she had to go around the house into the garage and through that door, go find the phone and then come back. And she did it! In very short order. She came back running with a huge grin on herface. I guess me clapping and saying yay, Emma probably encouraged her. I was so proud of her!

Lexi has been on a Beauty and the Beast stint. Emma went through a phase where she wanted to watch it like 3 times a day. Lexi is going through that now. She goes up to the TIVO, pushes the DVD button, runs to the recliner yelling Belle and then gets up on a back support and sits on that in the recliner. And she is so insistent. If you try to stop it, she will go back and put it back on.

Lexi actually started saying Dor-ah. She doesn’t just say Door for Dora. I think besides Momma and bye that’s the first word she has said completely clearly. Is that really sad?

Lovin Grey’s Anatomy last night. I felt like it was back to it’s “old self” last night. Loved the scene with George and Thatcher. Loved Denny and Izzie’s “just one boob.” Still didn’t like Callie and George. Liked the fact that the make out scene wasn’t as awkward as Mer and George but I just don’t like the girl. She’s got a room in the hospital and against her will, I think she’s a freak. What else? I actually liked Alex last night. I agreed with him. And Christina was hilarious. Loved that.

I bought Pride & Prejudice this weekend. I LOVE IT. I think I’ve watched it 3 times now. Mrs. Darcy…Mrs. Darcy…Mrs. Darcy. It melts me every time.

Is anyone else really surprised that it looks like Florida is going to win the NCAA Championship? I wonder if anyone called that.

We were outside the other day and Lexi fell in our little pond in our front yard. I was like two feet from her with Emma on the porch and heard the splash. Her entire head didn’t go under but she did get a gulp of the water and she was soaked otherwise. I grabbed her out and poor Emma started shaking and asking if she was ok. Emma is such a mother hen to her. So I stripped her down while she wailed and took her straight to the bathtub. She was fine as soon as she got in there. Poor Emma ran in her room and put her head down on her footboard and cried. Just for a minute though and then she was fine. Did I mention only ten minutes before that Lexi ate dog poop? Yeah. I was on the back deck putting Emma’s shoes on and looked up to find Lexi picking up whatever Mattie had just sniffed. I realized in slow motion that she was eating poop. So yeah. I don’t get Mom of the Day award for that day.

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