One year ago today...

Many of us learned our Dear friend, Evie, lost her long, hard fought battle with cancer.

There's not a day that goes by that we don't miss her. She meant so much to so many of us.

For us today is also day of joy and celebration, as 7 years ago, after 4 years of trying we finally had the baby we longed for for so long. Evie was so happy for us, and happier still when Ava came along.

Today not only will we be celebrating a birthday, but we will also be celebrating Evie's life, for I know she'd not want us to mourn her passing, but remember what a joyous life she led. Even through her hardest times, her strong will shone through.

We miss you Evie, and I know you are up there somewhere, looking down on all of us today and reminding us to celebrate! :) Love ya!

I've been Tagged!

Heidi Tagged me several days ago, but between Ava being sick and it being the weekend and having to run errands yesterday, I'm just getting around to it now. I know, I know, I'm a slacker. :)


Here are the rules of the Tag:


1.Post the rules on your blog.
2.Write six random things about yourself.
3.Tag six people at the end of your post.
4. If you are tagged, JUST DO IT, and pass the tag along.


Well I'm not sure I HAVE 6 people to Tag, but I'll answer the questions, at least! :)


1.) I own and use a PedEgg and I LIKE it. There's nothing like being able to grate your old, tough feet like a block of cheddar. :)

2.) Since Heidi loves boobs, I'll talk about mine. They are HUGE HUUUUGE... they were always big, after two kids and almost non-stop nursing (there was about a 6 month break there when I was PG) for 7 years now, they are HUUUUUUUUUUGE! I am so not their biggest fan! They certainly have served thier purpose well, but when that's done they can go away. they can go all the way away for all I care, and I mean that. Being able to sit up straight will be an amazing experience for me. There are times I've wanted to just take an axe and whack them right off.

3.) I say "Bah" a lot. ;) Well I probably type it a lot more than I say it, but it's just a good word!

4.) I love Facebook. I love chatting with my friends there, I love finding all my friends I haven't seen or heard from in YEARS... even people from HS, who maybe weren't so friendly... we've all grown up and gotten over ourselves, and it's really fun to see what people look like now, and see pics of their adorable kids and just catch up with one another. There were only about 106 of us in my Senior class and half of them I wen to elem school with. In a way it's rather kool that there are people even 4 years older and younger than me, that I know from the other classes too. Not many people can say that. The hubster's class alone in his HS was over 700 kids. I just can't imagine that...

5.) I don't shower every day. well sometimes I do, but if I'm just hanging around the house, cleaning stuff and being domestic, why bother. LOL

6.) I drink soy milk, because I can. One day I just decided to try it. WHY am I drinking cows milk. I am NOT a baby cow, I don't need to put on weight. It took a little getting used to, but I like it. Now i'm going to work on replacing all my normal dairy items, with soy ones.

For Heidi...

Just for you, Homer! ;)

Are you Geekier then me?

My friend Bokjae had this up on his site. I thought it was a fun quiz. Hoe Geeky are YOU?

I am 78% Geeky!!

More Fun Quizzes at QuizPox.com

Dilbert

My friend, Jilley sent me an IM with yesterday's Dilbert cartoon. It cracked me up!





I always forget I can look at the funnies online. I never seem to manage to read them on the days I actually get a Sunday paper.

Sunday Ramblings....

Well we slept in until 7am again. Ava didn't go to sleep until we all went to bed last night. That was a lot of fun. She fussed a lot too. I ended up spending about half of the night with her sleeping with her head on my shoulder, and my sleeping without my head on the pillow. I was tired enough, I didn't really care. LOL

Eric went out and shovelled a bit. The snow blower needs to be looked at. For some reason it keeps cutting out on him, among other things.

I cleaned out the medicine cabinet. It was a wreck and there was a bunch of expired stuff in there, so it was good to get that cleared out. I do need to remember to buy come more children's Tylenol tho. Usually we just use children's Motrin, but I like to have the Tylenol on hand as well.

We had leftovers for lunch. I'm not sure what I'm fixing for supper yet.

Eric also started some laundry.

Ava had a big nap.

I heard from Jilley and Sindy today. Sounds like they had a fabulous time at the spa yesterday (insert jealous whining here)! Today they will be celebrating Marshall's birthday! It really seems like just yesterday when Sindy headed out there to watch the girls while Henry and Jilley went to the hospital to have him!!

I really need to pick up the living room so I can run the Roomba.

Ava's happily watching a Baby Einstein DVD and Johanna is wanting to play that Cinderella game that came packaged with the Cinderella 3 DVD, so maybe I should quit rambling here and get to it!

Sad

Yesterday, I learned that my friend & neighbors' Mother passed away the day before. She has been battling lung cancer for some time now. It was very aggressive and had spread to her brain.

It was a long haul for my friend. It was terrible to see her mother go through that.

I want to get her a little gift, to help her heal and to help her remember her mother. Something to bring her comfort. I think I know what I want, but if anyone has an ideas or suggestions, please feel free to leave me a comment, or email me.