Hello there

In two days it will be April. This year is passing us by so quickly!! There is only 2 months left until school is out for Mykenzie and even less for Kaylee. April isn't even here yet and it is shaping up to be quite a busy month for us. Starting Saturday we will be on the go. We are going to our first hockey game with girl scouts! Travis may be going up to Ohio this weekend to see a friend that needs him right now. Then my friend Amy is coming to visit us on Monday and staying till Saturday afternoon. Sunday is Easter (add that to my list of things to do/buy) I have my college course assessment test on the 18th that I need to study my butt off for. I am trying to work out, read, and get my house clean on top of everything else which is quite frankly making me forget all the things that I must do. Hence why I just now got my new stickers for the car today and they expire on Wednesday! I got my emissions test done weeks ago but forgot to go get the darn stickers. At least I managed to get that done today.

Both Kaylee's school and girl scouts will be over mid May, which will be here before I can even think about it and I have to plan the girl scouts bridging ceremony.... yep, I have no clue how to do that one, nor do I want to. One of these days I need to suck it up and do it. I also think I am in charge of planning Kaylee's school Easter party.... yikes! No clue what to do there either! I just have been bitten by the lazy bug and I don't want to do any of it or even think about it for that matter! Kaylee's school will be having a graduation ceremony soon too. I need to figure out when it will be so I can plan for it. We need to buy a new video camera before then so we can have it on tape. Crap! I have to find out when kindy testing is too!!!

We are planning a trip to Ohio. The day Mykenzie gets out of school we are leaving! The next day I am going out with just my girlfriends, NO KIDS ALLOWED! We very rarely get to hang out just us without having to deal with the kids. In fact I think we have only done it once. Once in all the years I have been moved away and we started having kids. And that one time was in 2006! CRAZY! So we are going out and we are doing it well! Starting off mid afternoon with a spa trip (undecided on the treatment, either facials or pedicures) followed with dinner, drinks and dancing and ending at a hotel room to hang out and chat till whenever we want! I can NOT wait!! I think every one of us NEEDS this! I am unsure what I will do the rest of the week but I do plan to get together with those same girls and let the kids play for a few hours one day and hopefully get a few hang out hours with Rachel one morning.

I need to call the community center and see about getting Mykenzie back in swim lessons again. If they would have had their stuff together the last time she took them she would know how to swim by now and be done with it. Freaking people. She is also thinking about giving tennis a try so I need to look into that. Apparently at some point I made a deal with Kaylee that I forgot about but she has not. I guess I told her when she was 5 she could take ballet? Well she is planning on holding me to it even though I totally forgot so I guess I have to look into that. She is a brute though so I can't really picture her being a dainty ballerina... I may try and talk her into soccer instead. I wish I could know right now what my class schedule will look like so I can start to figure stuff like that out.

It is FINALLY starting to look like Mykenzie may possibly learn how to ride a bike without training wheels after all. Travis worked on it some on Saturday before her friend showed up at our house and she got embarrassed. But she finally seemed interested in doing it when before she would scream and run into the house if you tried to get her on her bike.

The girls had their spring break last week already. We didn't go anywhere as generally the only place we would go is Ohio and I hate going there in the spring. We just hung out at home, played outside and at a friends house, met our playgroup at the park. On Friday we went to see Monsters vs Aliens (side note it is crazy they charge an extra $3 per ticket for a 3D movie but don't offer it in a theater where you don't have to see it in 3D. I was pretty mad when I heard I had to pay $30 for 3 people to see a matinee) the girls both really liked it though. Travis' birthday was on Tuesday so we decorated the kitchen with balloons and a birthday banner and the girls hid and jumped out to yell surprise when he got home. We made him a big cookie instead of a cake and we took him to Fuji (Japanese Hibachi Grill) for dinner and then we all watched Bolt. The girls had a great day! lol After a week of begging for her friend to spend the night chance happened and she was able to come over to play on Saturday which turned into her spending the night which turned into her staying here until 3pm Sunday afternoon. They had a great time and ended up having a pretty good spring break even though we didn't travel.

That was a long update/ list of things to do!!!

OUCH!

I am soooo sore! My arms, shoulders, and back are KILLING me! My legs are sore but the pain in a zero in comparison to my upper body. Wanna know why? YOGA. Yeah I said yoga. WTH? Never in my life would I think yoga would mess me up so bad. Ah, did I mention that this is from yoga I did yesterday! I have been in pain since yesterday around noon. It has gotten worse. So sore! I don't think I have ever been this sore in my life, certainly not from exercising! I am doing good though. I have worked out 3 times this week, including today through my serious pain. Monday I did a yoga core work out (boy that'll set your stomach muscles on fire in about 45 seconds) and a yoga end of the day wind down (it was 11 pm when I did this). Yesterday I did an 11 minute yoga workout that was I using as stretching basically, followed by a 22 minute yoga workout to target buns and thighs and then to top it off I did a 22 minute fat burn that consisted of cardio and some strength training. Know which one messed up my arms? The BUNS AND THIGHS work out, WTH? I promise though that's what did it. Today I was trying to not work the arms since they hurt so I did the yoga core work out again, followed buy a short cardio workout and some strange stripper dance thing that is supposed to work the booty. I was not a stripper in a former life and could never be one now. There was nothing sexy about me trying to do those moves! LOL It did make my thighs burn though, not the booty so much but since I probably wasn't doing the moves quite right that could explain that one ;) Now I am done, till Monday that is hopefully my poor achy body will feel better by then. I swear I am going to keep up with this but I damn well better see results if I am going to be in so much pain everytime I move my arms. Seriously all I could think about last night while I was whining about my pain is how in the heck do the people on the Biggest Loser do it? They clearly haven't been a friend to any type of exercise and they have these people in the gym for 6+ hours every day! How can they walk?!? I bet I won't be watching them while eating ice cream anymore. I feel really bad for them now! OUCH!

Good Citizen

Every grading period 3 kids from each class are chosen to be good citizen for that grading period. The kids have to be well behaved, turn in homework and get good grades. Each teacher choses who will get it in different ways. Mykenzie's teacher this year has the students in the class vote out of those elligible. This grading period Mykenzie was chosen as one of them. Yesterday they had a good citizen breakfast that Kaylee and I went to and it was followed by a ceremony. This is the third time Mykenzie has been good citizen over the years but the first time I didn't have my camera :( Travis Someone took it out of my purse and didn't put it back so I don't have any pics of the award ceremony. I am a bit bummed but I don't know how I would have taken any with Kaylee with me. I did take one of her holding it when she got home from school though so I have something. We are proud of her for getting it :)

Tonight was my parent teacher confrence with her teacher. She said she was a good kid who has really grown since the beginning of the year accidemically. Not that she wasn't where she needed to be before, because she was, it is just she seems to have a real interest in what she is being taught now and that is coming out in her work. She said the only thing that will hold her back in class is that she doesn't take constructive critisim well and becomes very defensive (wonder where she gets that from- HA! you thought me but it is Travis, ok both of us) She said she likes to base things on facts and asks questions until she understands. If she is found wrong on something, she doesn't believe that she is wrong until it is proven to her and explained to her why. These are both good and bad things I suppose. She told me to make sure she doesn't have a teacher that is combative and she should be ok. It may be a long 10 years. Lord help me.

ey yi yi

I went to pick Mykenzie up from school today and as she is getting in the car she says "Mom, why didn't you pick me up today?" I was totally confused because I was in the process of picking her up in that moment. Then she reminds me that I was supposed to pick her up early from school because she had an orthodontist appointment! DUH! At this point we are already 20 minutes late. So I rush across town to at least show up and hope they could still see her. About halfway there I remember that we came home after I picked Kaylee up from school and I say "Kaylee, you don't have shoes on do you?" That would be a big fat NOPE! So not only are we going to stroll into this orthodontist appointment 40 minutes late, but Kaylee is also barefoot!!! Geeze.

We get there and they are all super nice about us being so late and were totally understanding about me just plain forgetting (even though they called yesterday to remind me) They ended up telling me that we only have to turn the palate expander for another week!! Yay! She still has to keep it in till her next appointment (in 5 weeks) but she wont have to have it turned anymore :) She is sooooo happy! He put 2 more brackets on 2 of her baby teeth to try and get the teeth to space out for the permanent tooth that is trying (and has been for a year) to come in. I just have to say if you ever need to take your kiddos (and live in my area) to an orthodontist this is the guy to go to. We have NEVER had to wait (and they are BUSY) they get them in and out quickly and they are SUPER nice!

Just a bitch bitchin'

So I finally went to the doctor and spoke to her about meds for my pms moods. She agrees with me that it sounds like I probably need some and tells me I have PMDD and wrote me a script. So I call my insurance company because getting the meds through them is cheaper for us so for a long term thing it makes more sense. I had to talk to several people because the name of what they had to send me was different than what the doctor prescribed. After a while we finally got it figured out that it is the generic for what she gave me (she told me the generic was something else) great fine, whatever. They tell me it will get to me in 7-10 days.

Fast Forward to yesterday and there it was in my mail. Now I am PMSing and now is the time I need those magic little pills, perfect time to put them to the test, right? I open the package and it is a totally different prescription that what we discussed!!! So I call and it turns out that my insurance company wanted the prescription changed because it would cost them less money! They contacted my doctor for the ok and went with it. Never was I the patient and policy holder notified! The meds they sent are an ANTI-DEPRESSANT, I DON'T NEED AN ANTI-DEPRESSANT! Not only do I not need it but I don't want it in my medical history that I was on one. Not there is anything wrong with it if you actually need it but since I DO NOT I don't want it on there.

So I in my PMS pissy-ness told the man on the phone that I didn't give a shit what the insurance company wanted and I had damn well better be consulted before my medication gets changed again ever! Ridiculous! So they are going to fix it and send me the right stuff but it is going to take another 7-10 business days. Bastards. I have to go in to the doctor in May for a 3 month follow up. Um yeah I won't have been on it for 3 months thanks to these jack offs. When I asked if they would express ship it because of this, I swear they were trying not to laugh and told me I would have to pay $17 for that! I told them I wasn't paying for anything since they are the ones who fucked it up. Really? Do you think it is smart to mess with a hormonal woman who has been prescribed medication to deal with PMS symptoms? Fucking men.

I just want to lock myself in my bedroom and come out in a few days when this is over.

I do have another story with a good ending but I am gonna leave that one for another day

Hey there Nancy!

Mykenzie had to dress up like her favorite story book character today for school as they are doing alot of reading oriented things this week including the book fair. After much thought of what the cheapest and easiest perfect costume would be, we decided on Nancy Drew. Has Mykenzie ever read a Nancy Drew book....no. But luckily there isn't a book report involved so she just has to look the part. I picked up a cute Nancy Drewish cardigan sweater (that she will never wear again) and a trench coat at Target and paired it with some things she already had and poof she was Nancy Drew. Well after her notebook for her clues that is ;)

And a silly picture of Kaylee in pj's cause apparently I can't just take pics of Mykenzie these days.

Snow day!

We woke up this morning to see the ground covered by a beautiful blanket of snow!! We got ready immediately since you never know how long it will last around here and went outside to play!! This is the first time we have had enough of the right kind of snow to make an actual snowman since Kaylee has been around. So she was pretty excited about making a big snowman. Here are the pics of some of our fun...