Flip Flop Tan Lines

I mean really... seriously... I know I am a very pale person in the winter time, but was pleased with how my base tan was coming along. I have already burnt my knees TWICE to the point my leg/knees actually peeled some.. .gross! All of this, and two hours at the ball field today at NOON and guess what.. I have flip flop tan lines now. Well, they are actually flip flop red lines right now... but really .... at what point in the summer, do I quit getting these lovely farmers tan lines?????

Work from Home Fridays

Are the BEST!!! To make today even better, its payday.. and we all know how wonderful of a day that is!!!
Fridays are good days and with both boys here, it just makes it that much better. Its the beginning of the weekend and the boys are wide open and playing well together. We have already been to the pool and the two of them played on the trampoline while we grilled out some chicken and made home made french fries... add a little steamed broccolli in that mix and that's a perfect summer time dinner....
Its a good weekend in that we don't have too terribly much planned other than tball and our next door neighbors 40th birthday party... It gives the kids a good chance to all play together and have fun. After all.. thats what its all about!!

All is well with the world....

Tough Week ~

It has been a fun but tough week ~ from my last post a GRAND day was spent at the lake with Greg and Missy and along with that came some boat riding and tubing... Its Wednesday now and my arms are just now recovering....
Tuesday brought back to work and Wednesday was just all together a BUSY day ~ vendor onsite tomorrow ~ some up and down emotions about various things have just made for a strange week all together....
I just can't seem to sum it all up, but its hard when Chris and I both are having tiring, busy, over-load sort of weeks ~

Ladies Night Last Night ~

Was a BLAST!!!! But I paid the price for it today ~ 12 ladies, out for a good time ~ jewelry party at my house, with appetizers and wine and such and then on down to Tony's for some live music, dancing and more drinking!!!!
Definitely a night to remember for all of us ~

Thoughts ~

Lots of thoughts and prayers have been going to Stef and Derek and their family - they are friends of Nora's who have had an extremely emotional and trying couple of weeks. With Stef's body shutting down basically due to infection, the twin girls she was carrying had to be delivered very early. Sarah lived for 14 minutes and Tessa lived for for a good two weeks I believe. Tessa has now gone to join her sister and my heart breaks for this family. I believe I have met Stef before, but through her posts on her blog, you can tell what an amazing woman, mother and believer she is.... I will continue to pray for her, that she has all the physical and emotional healing that she needs and that she and her family have peace knowing that the girls they loved are watching over them now.....

Things like this hit so very close to home and remind me why we hold our children so close to us.. even when they are 12 years old.... :)

Ugh ~

Major headache and my day is going down hill ~ ugh

Mid May Updates

Well, as luck would have it, Chris made it home from Hong Kong and we were able to spend some nice time together. My son of course was late coming home on Mother's Day which sort of bummed me out and got me rather emotional... let to some interesting conversations... haha!

The week is going okay... I found out that I am getting promoted and the announcement went out today. This is a very big thing for me and I feel very proud of my accomplishment. I have reached one of my major goals in life. I always sort of knew that one day, I might change my focus and try to do half technical, half supervisor type stuff... I think I would be good in a role like that. So to make at least a SE II position is a BIG stepping stone in the right direction for me.

I gave Chris a hard time though.. he didn't get me flowers for my promotion... hmmm .. I think I need to work on that man some.... ;-)

Hmmmm

Rumor has it Chris might have to stay in Hong Kong even longer ~ that means he misses Mother's Day. Which shouldn't be bad, because after all its a 'me and Trenton day', but I have mixed feelings about him missing something that is important to me ~
Still processing all of this......

What's Normal?

So as it turned out, normal life was normal for all of 3 days and Sunday afternoon we did our ritual again of dropping him off at the airport... I was especially sad this time. It was hard the first time, but apparently I was strong, but this time it showed on my face more... its just that the three days home was just enough to get us back to us....
But as Chris keeps telling me, look at the big picture.. lots of Marriott points, lots of Airline miles and he comes home Saturday this week! So its Wednesday evening here... so technically only 3 more days and I will be picking him up at the airport!

Work has been crazy this week - we lost power in one of hte 6513 switches... that was fun. Oh and then a change unrelated to my world caused my system to go down... at 3:30am.. nice huh? So thanks to an early wake up call, Tuesday was a l-o-n-g day! Today brought about a secure email issue and at this rate - every system we support will have had issues by Friday.. weird thing is that our stuff is usually so stable....hmmmm