It's Here!

Low grade fever, coughing. I can't send BLM to school tomorrow and I have an important planning session tomorrow. I'm going to try out the sick child care center tomorrow. It is around $20 and the only kids are kid that are running low grade fever but not well enough to go to school. Sick sickies won't be there. They have RN's and LPN's watching the kids.

I think I can handle that.

We had a nice Grammy Grandpa visit today.

13 more days and I have clothes in bags, but not packed.

I'm ready to drag out suitcases so I can pack and unpack and repack!

Most of the girls outfits are matchingish. OK, matching. DDL does not dig the matchy girls, but that's the whole reason I had 2 girls. Here are a few samples. It's been so much fun for me!

I let the words WDW escape my mouth yesterday. BLM heard it, was excited, and was wanting to know when. We played it off like it would take a year to save up. She said, "Kinda like the Great Wolf Lodge?" Uh, yeah. Kinda like that sugar!

Friday, I've Waited Too Long

^That says 2 weeks and 1 Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The count down is on.

Please to tell me more about shipping stuff. I'd like to ship our costumes for MMNSHP! Do I ship it to the hotel? Do I need to contact the hotel or my awesome travel agent?

Gotta get ready for work. I'm a rock star today- there will be pictures!

Can I Go to Bed Now?

No. I cannot. DDL has a client that is opening a wine and dessert bar. Date night! I can't believe I've been awake since 2. It is surreal. I'm going to be wiped out.



Had a catastrophic start to the morning. BLM has a responsibility egg. They were to take care of their eggs and write stories about the activities they did with their egg. Wednesday was great.



This morning, not so much. Mini Me slept in BLM's room in a "sleeping bag" aka sock. Beverly darted into BLM's room this morning and ate Mini Me. There was a meltdown of astronomical proportions. It was super sad.



I thank you for the WDW suggestions. I put all of the Magic Hours on my blackberry, plus dining reservations, locations, and confirmation numbers.

I am a complete insomniac and have been for years. I didn't take my Ambien last night. I took a Unisom instead (same ingredient as Tylenol PM). Does nada for me. Tonight will be an Ambien night. I will love it. It will be delish and I can't wait for bath and bed time.

What Not To Do

When you wake up at 2am, don't make a mental list of the things not to forget to do before you leave town the next day.

Just pretend you didn't wake up and go back to sleep.

If you don't, you'll start packing for Disney World in your head. I have packed our carry on's in my head. I can't forget to pack the bags with sleep attire and fresh undies. We won't arrive in Orlando until 9pm. We're taking the Magical Express, so we won't get our luggage until who knows when.

Do I need to pack next day clothing, too?

What if I forget which dining reservations are where and what time?

What if I forget to pack the MMNSCHP tickets? My costume! What if it isn't ironed? How will I pack BLM's Snow White hoop skirt?

Ok, I can't forget now that I've typed it out. But, it is 4am. Been awake since 2. Not looking like anymore sleep will happen tonight. LLM has been following me around since about 2:45. I got in bed with her. I patted her down, I rocked her. I couldn't sleep. I patted more. I got up. The dogs got up. LLM got back up. Dogs are snoring, LLM is on the couch. I'm annoyed with myself. I made a CD. I downloaded music. I got on facebook.

This sucks.

They Got Mail

The LM's got mail today!

Each received a large manila envelope with a letter:

Princess LM

Your royal behavior
Will earn you a treat
Keep being good
Keep being sweet!

This special gift
is a reminder for you
that princesses bow
and they curtsy, too!

Be a good girl
Always do your chores
the Princess Treat
is soon to be yours!

The envelope also contained a felt jewelry box shaped like a crown and inside was a necklace in the shape of a crown. They are to wear those to remind them to be good girls.

They have NO clue what this means. They just know they got mail. At this point, I'm more excited than they are. I think I forgot my Lexapro today, because when I started thinking about reading the actual letter that they will open on the day of the trip I almost started crying. I will probably cry.

This is the kind of childhood that I had- magical, memorable, special, and fun. Mimi and Papa always made me feel Numero Uno (they are still good at this.) I think I have every right to be over the top in order to pay it forward!

I took a little testy test drive today of my new-to-be car. She looks like this:

I think I deserve this princess treat! It just needs blingy OU plate on the front and a vanity plate on the back. I'm not seriously car shopping until April. I have to have something to look forward to.

Today I Was...

That lady.

The one that walks out of the restroom with her dress hiked up into her girdle. I went to the ladies room at work, did my thing, scrubbed my hands with boiling hot water (I'm 'fraid of the germs), brushed my teeth (good dental hygiene is important), boiled my hands again and sashayed into the office. With my dress hiked up my backside into my suck-em-ins.

I was talking to my girl Tanna in the office, showing her my shoes... probably did a spin move. She said, "uh, Holly. Your dress is tucked up in your underwear." We laughed. Our Asses. Off.

Thankfully for me, the bathroom is right across the hall. Thankfully for me, no one saw me.

I don't embarrass easy. Maybe if toilet paper was trailing out or a :::gag to even say it::: feminine hygiene product was showing.... but underwear/girdle.... nah! Too funny fo sho.

Number three, I hate dress clothing. Number four, I hate wearing business casual. I hate wearing jeans. I'd rather wear a suit. This sounds weird, but I much prefer my size 12 petite pants (no girding required because they don't need sucking in), knee high hose, and a comfortable dress shirt with cute shoes.

Where am I going with this? I have a biz-cas event at work on Friday. I'm required to wear jeans. I don't DO JEANS.

Furthermore, I don't have a shirt to wear with jeans. I loathe buying work clothes I won't ever wear again.

Tooty Ta

Have you done the Tooty Ta with your kids? I promise you will LAUGH!

I started feeling better, way over did it.... and now I need my bed. I have a horrible headache and feel like I have been run over. BUT my floors are clean and my laundry is done and clean sheets grace my bed. I just have to talk DDL into unloading/loading the dishwasher. I think he'll be game for that.

We had a little par-tay up in here this afternoon.

Pretty Nails!

Neighbor BFF

BFF from Church

BLM



BLM is not a nail polish girl and had to be coaxed into this whole thing. Thankfully, for her, the Red Raven fingernail polish came right off in the bath tub. I saw it, didn't realize it was the peels of Red Raven and hurried her right out of there thinking it was some kind of SOMETHING that needed scrubbing with bleach.

Imma Let You Finish

Did you catch Survivor? If you didn't- don't read anymore.

That short guy (from Houston) sure is a douche. I can't believe he did all of that. I have decided he is a hemorrhoid. I hope Foa Foa gets that guy figured out. I was all mad when he was talking about making a dumb girl alliance.

Speaking of douche bag- let's talk about Kanye. I love his music. I didn't get to watch him on the VMA's but he really, well, there are really no words.



So0o, my creativity for blogging is so stale I'm stealing Imma Kanye's off of the web. That's lame.

I have a terrible sore throat, but made good chili and cornbread. Off to bed sooner than later.

Aye Can't WAIT!

And I can't believe that I have kept my mouth shut for this long about the trip to WDW! I'm getting super excited about it.

I changed our room type on Monday. I found our that our hotel has Pirate Themed rooms.

The girls won't sleep at all! These beds look like pirate ships, and the furniture looks like old barrels. The carpet looks like planks of wood. Our parents room will adjoin ours, which will be fun for the girls. They can roam from room to room, spending the night with whoever.

We were there in October 07. I was at a work conference, so I didn't get to participate in full days of Disney. I feel like a little kid, I'm so excited. At the time I went, I was off of my Lexapro. I cried while I was at the conference thinking about missing out on the faces of my girls as they saw the things that I loved so much.

When we were there we bought the Disney Soundtrack. We listen to the Haunted Mansion song over and over again. Little little calls it "Paunted House" and we talk about how she fell asleep during it and the next time she wasn't afraid of it at all.

My TMJ is doing a lot better. I have been able to eat. I have not had many flair ups at all. I did have one today (and now) but it hasn't been nearly as bad as it was. I think my head gear is working!

And I have not had one significant headache so far this week and it is Thursday!