Stuff;

I first want to say how deeply saddened by the news of my best friends brother Arthur who passed away this week. He had such a battle with cancer. RIP Arthur, and my deepest Sympathy goes out to the entire family!

Robert and I usually do our date nights on Wednesdays but we decided to change to every other Saturday. Wednesdays are becoming way to hard with my schedule. AND the every other Wed I am off, is my long week and I don't want to be away from the kids again that week. So, starting soon we will do every other Saturday. One Sat it will be dinner club and the other Sat will be a night out. That way I would have been with the kids all day on Saturday and won't feel like I haven't seen them as much so leaving for a few hours with Robert will be so much more relaxed and not as rushed as Wed usually is. So, that just makes more sense.

I was home with my babies Wed and Thursday night and it was just heaven! AND I was able to do pick ups and even worked in Emily's class Thursday morning. Here I am at work now, it's 3:15 a.m. and I have to work all weekend. It will be a hard one being Mother's Day and all, but instead of my usual dinner out that day, the family is taking me to breakfast when I get home Sunday morning. It will be super nice. Reservations are made, Mimi's Cafe here we come!

I do have these moments where I think "what am i doing working"? Tonight when Emily called me to say good night, we were chatting and she started saying how much she misses me. She asked "why do you need to work"? And I explain that it is for mommy to do something she likes and to help the family with money and to buy a new house. She says back to me "mommy, we just need you here, we don't need money", "I would rather you be here with me then to have more money". It just makes my heart melt. But, the money is nice and it is enabling us to save for a house (our lease is up this month), but it is also for me. I was ready to do something for me, to work my brain and have my thing. For 8 years I was utterly and completely about my family and now I deserve to have something of my own. She does understand that, we've talked about it alot. She does have the hardest time when it is at night when she's sleepy, that is when she really starts missing me. She sleeps with a picture of her and I on her pillow next to her, I tell her that if she does that, I will always be right next to her.

Other than that, let's see, I ran a ton of errands the last few days which felt nice. I finally went and bought Tyler some summer shorts/shirts. And was happy to get that done. Gymboree finally got their cotton shorts/shirt line in and that is what we love. Not bad for $7.99 each piece and they last forever! I think the kids are set for summer as far as clothes, bathing suits etc. And I just can't believe there is only like 3 weeks left of the school year.

We got Emily all signed up for her summer camps. She is excited, one of her school friends is doing one of them with her. AND, for summer you can opt to get transportation service for just like $35 bucks, and she is so super excited to be riding the bus. She always asks us why she can't ride the bus to school like Tyler. So, this will be fun for her. Tyler is all set with his summer camp as well, so we are all good! Now, I just need to find some time to sleep and we are good. We are still doing summer movies with Cindy and Sean, so that will be super fun as well.

Work is going good, I am feeling more and more confident every day. AND, I am about 95% confident I will be taking an online medical terminology class this summer. It will help so much with me deciphering the admit diagnosis and cause of death parts of the referrals. What? I'm going to school? Get out of town! LOL! Just call me Superwoman! Yeah right.

My mom had to go in for a procedure Friday afternoon. She had gotten what they call a fistula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fistula) in her arm a few months ago. This thing is surgically inserted into one of her veins. This is suppose to help with dialysis, then she can get the catheter in her neck removed. Anyhoo, the last few times they went to insert the needle into the fistula, they haven't been able to get it to work properly. They took her in today to find out what is going on and found there is a blockage and it has also caused alot of damage to many little veins around the fistula. UGH, so the Dr. said that it couldn't be repaired and they will have to go in and remove it all together. Not sure what the next step is going to be, she can't keep that catheter in her neck much longer, it has already gone beyond the time limit it was suppose to. Man, if it's not one thing it's another.

Ok, that's it for now, I am going to go read my book for awhile. Been a slow couple of hours.

Loves and Hugs XOXOXO

Terri & Co.