SHE'S TURNING 7!!!

Well, tomorrow we celebrate birthday number seven for Miss Crazy. It should be an interesting day.  The Hubs starts a new position at work that we are all excited about and his hours become more regular which will be great. So at 4:30 tomorrow we can start our celebration.

Miss Crazy picked a beef and broccoli ramen meal that Gwen makes as her birthday dinner and then after dinner will be presents and cake.  We bought her a book on kindle(No, she doesn't have her own), a present yet to be determined because I just realized we haven't bought gift number 3 yet (can you say oops)  And the present she has been looking forward to all year....A rapunzel wig.  This girl is OBSESSED with rapunzel.  We used to have Tangled on DVR and she would watch it everyday if we let her.


She takes my old large fabric pieces and walks around with them on her head pretending that she is Rapunzel....and she knocks everything in the house over.  So we had to make a decision, continue to have the house torn apart or buy her a wig that she will probably wear day and night for weeks/months/years.  Well, since we someday want to sell this house we figured we better not mess it up anymore than it already is.  We are expecting the mailman to bring it any minute. It won't be a surprise, but it will be the most popular gift.  She will be ignoring everything else.

We got her a princess cake because they didn't have Rapunzel, not that she cares as long as it is chocolate with buttercream icing.  Done

Probably the highlight of her day will be playing with her little friend two doors down. At this point, little miss almost seven year old prefers to be away from her siblings and parents in favor of her friends. Now the question is, is she acting like a teen because of her sister's influence, or is this a new norm for seven year olds in this day and age.  On second thought, I don't want to think about that. I REALLY DON'T WANT TO KNOW. I'm just going to enjoy my baby girl's birthday celebration and give her an extra snuggle or two.

Tomorrow is also Little Butt's 2.5 year mark.

Until Next Time...Time flies when you're having fun.  So make sure that you truly do have fun or time will slip through your hands and you will feel unfulfilled.

TIMES OF CELEBRATION

We have had a few reasons to celebrate lately.  On Sunday I turned 43 years old.  I don't much get bothered by the age thing. When I turned thirty I was a little antsy about it, but 40 was not a big deal at all.  And now 43 is pretty damn cool.  I'm thinking it might be because I have a newfound career I love and I have five pain in the ass wonderful kids to keep me young.

For my birthday we went out to breakfast because we found we had a bit of money and some coupons but then we realized we were out of food money so I couldn't get a cake.  That's okay though because it helped me get down to 15 pounds total lost!!! (And don't worry, it's okay that our food budget was gone because we already had all of our breakfasts/lunches/dinners bought for the month.  We are far from starving!)

We were supposed to grill for my birthday dinner but The Hubs and Gwen spent all day outside with the neighbor trying to fix a car lock.  So we didn't have time to make the potatoes and the pork chops didn't get thawed so we had one of my least favorite dinners but that's okay because again it contributed to my fifteen pound weight loss!!!

One of my favorite blog pictures I live it, my characters live it.

Overall it was a decent birthday.  There were a few moments when I wanted to throttle a few people, but overall, we did good.

The second thing we celebrated was me finishing my latest novel!  Book three in my five book romance series is done!!!  All I have left is a bit of typing (since I handwrite my novels instead of typing them) and then it will be time for editing.  This story is very personal to me and very intense so I am feeling super drained now.  I have to pull things together and get it done so I can release it next month.  I can't, I can't I can't I can I can I can. I will!

Gwen and The Hubs and I will first tear it apart and then my other two beta readers will get ahold of it and then it will be sent to final editing.  I can't wait until it is done and published.  I think I will cherish it forever.  It is a complete labor of love that reduced me to tears more than once.  I can't wait for all of you to read it. I will have a release date soon.

The third thing we are celebrating is 15,000 page views here on the blog.  It has slowed way down, but I can't complain for the amount of effort I have put into it lately.  Between the kids, my hips and the novel, it is hard to put this first, but I will try to continue to entertain you.  (This is a bit late, we are actually at almost 16,000 now!)

Until Next Time...CELEBRATE EVERYTHING IN LIFE.  Period. End. Of. Story.