feeling much better

I'm almost feeling like I'm back to normal now! In the morning I still struggle a little getting going but once I do I feel pretty good. It's so good to feel good. My jaw has been bothering me more though the past day or two. I'm supposed to go Monday to get my nightguard. I hope this fixes the problem for me although I'm not very hopeful about it. It should fix it for the amount of money we're having to pay for it!

Yesterday was my bro-in-law's bday (Mike). So his parents took the whole family out to dinner at Smokey Bones. It definitely wasn't as good as I remembered it being. We hadn't been there in a long time. Lily had fun though with her cousin Aaron. She kept taking all the food off his plate (mac-n-cheese, french fries) since he wasn't eating it. Mike and Jen (his girlfriend) got engaged this past week too. So congratulations to the two of them!

Today has been another ho hum dreary day. I'm not looking forward to these next several days of nastiness outside. Lily and I went to Walmart and picked up some new stuff for our bathroom. Then this evening we're watching Aaron for awhile.

Lily just keeps getting cuter and cuter. She understands so much now. I think I wrote about this but in case I didn't... she gives high fives now! It's so cute cause she thinks it's hilarious and will run back and forth between us saying "five five." At lunch today she actually got some food on to her fork for several bites! One step closer to having to clean up messy hands! She's also finally conquered being able to get up on the couch by herself too. Some of her new words this week include: door, baby, foot, food, coat, fish, phone.

sick

As I'm sure most of my blog readers already know, our household has been sick... myself being the worst. I started with sinus stuff last week on Thursday and then Friday night started with the stomach virus stuff.... YUCK! So needless to say my birthday came and went on Saturday without much fanfare. That's okay though, just a year older now - 26. My hubby has been great though and has been taking really good care of me despite the fact that he hasn't been completely feeling well either. He's had cold/sinus stuff too.

Well... still don't feel like blogging and actually don't have that much to blog about anyways since I've been sick and literally doing nothing! I promise once I'm back to normal, hopefully in a few days, my normal regular blogging will resume! Today was the first day I actually wasn't nauseous. Still haven't felt like eating much though and still very worn out/tired. Hope everyone else is staying well!

tv console and a playdate

Thanks to a commenter from yesterday... I called the furniture store today to complain/inquire about the change in delivery date for our new tv console. Well... the lady said I can have it to you sooner and asked when I would like it. I told her I really wanted to have it this week and she said she could have it on Friday. Yay!! I was thinking, why didn't they just do that in the first place? Oh well, I'm a happy camper cause we'll have it in time for my birthday.

Today Liz and Brooklyn came over to hang out with me and Lily. Brooklyn is such a cutie - she's a few months older than Lily is. Liz and I went to the same youth group for awhile and were good friends back in high school. Both of our families just moved back to Virginia Beach so we've been able to reconnect. Brooklyn and Lily had a great time together of course. They're on the go so here's the best picture I could get of them!And here's just a few pics from hanging out in the playard in back of our house the other day.

new red wagon

Yesterday we ventured out in the "snow" (a dusting) to El Pollo Loco and Target. Pollo Loco is amazing! They have churros that just melt in your mouth. Anyways - it's headed out towards Sandbridge for those of you familiar with the area and we weren't quite sure where we were going. So we got a little lost but made it there.

Besides having a delicious dinner together, the other wonderful part of the day was Lily's new wagon. Lily has a great daddy - he bought her (and me) a new red Radio Flyer wagon!! I'm so excited to get to use it and take Lily on walks in nice weather. It's a really nice one - cupholders, seat backs that can fold down, etc. Yay!!!

In disappointing news.... the furniture store called yesterday and said that our new tv console won't be here tomorrow like it was supposed to be. The delivery date has been pushed back a week to next Wednesday.

Now I'm going to take it easy since I think I do have some sinus stuff and watch some American Idol. Only 4 days until my birthday! And the even greater part is that Vicky is coming to visit us too for the weekend!

a favorite website

I know some of the people who read my blog probably follow quite a few blogs like myself! About a month or so ago I discovered one of my new favorite websites to make blog following much easier. It's the Google Reader. The great thing about this is you enter your "subscriptions" (just enter the website of the blog you follow) and it adds it to your feed list. So you can have ALL the blogs you follow on one website! It use to annoy me to have to go through all the blogs in my favorites list to see if anyone had updated theirs. Now all I do is go to my google reader and in the column on the left it shows what blogs have any new entries. So simple and wonderful! Anyways, check it out if you haven't already!

By the way.... here are some of the new blogs that are more popular that I've been following. Check them out! A lot of them let you know about great freebies (food, magazines, etc.) too!

5 Minutes for Mom

5 Minutes for Faith

5 Minutes for Parenting

5 Minutes for Giveaways

BabyCheapskate (once a week this site publishes the cheapest place to buy different brands of diapers for the week!)

Money Saving Mom

Thrifty Northwest Mom