From my buddy David - Look out Phil!

JUST made the bus this morning! Good thing I drove down to the bus stop! Olivia and I went to K-Mart and then Pathmark. Woooohoo. Such a wild and crazy pair are we!

Please take note that Erin Aid is still operating and can be yours for the taking ::hehe::

Good morning ya'll! Moira just stumbled out of her room a few minutes ago. Poor kid - this coughing at night business is really taking a toll on her. She is on a lot of different medications now. She is finishing a course of Zithromax for the ear infection, which has hopefully cleared up. She normally takes 2 tsp Zyrtec daily, Flovent and Flonase for her asthma and allergies. The Zyrtec doesn't seem to be helping her so I took her off it (for now) and she gets Triaminic Cough and Cold. Zyrtec was once a day. Triaminic is every 4-6 hrs. She barely clears 4 hours before the next dose. Nighttime is the worst for her. That damn post-nasal drip. Between that and the cold air, I think I will have to pull out the nebulizer for her if she coughs herself into an asthma attack. She is still coughing - hope the Triaminic kicks in soon. Besides that, the night went pretty much as planned. I even made a chocolate cake. Olivia wants candles on it so she can blow them out. She must think that every cake is a birthday cake! Silly lil booger!

Oh my gosh - it's been over 24 hours since I have blogged!!!!!!!! Actually, I have been busy. Moira has been going through some serious mood swings ::sigh:: She's only 5 fer cryin' out loud! Hell - I have my OWN mood swings to worry about! She gets SO frustrated at times that she just starts crying and freaking out. I wish I could make it better for her sometimes.. I think she has such a long day with school that she is a mess by the time she gets home. She gets up at 715am... bus by 820am, lunch at 1045am, snack by 1pm, home by 330pm. Of course, she has all her classes and activities during school. Poor kid.. I have been working on a webpage (albeit on AOL Hometown) that is dedicated to food allergies. I would be providing links for information, places that support food allergies, and recipe sites for food allergic people. I have already gotten several emails and I am not even finished on the page. I guess there's a lot more people with food allergies! I will post the link up soon. Probably won't be blogging until later tonight - Dinner tonight will be chicken cacciatore, corn, and linguine. YUMMY! Ta ta for now!

:::Sigh::: Woke up late this morning since I stayed up too late watching "Castaway". I did miss the first 20-25 minutes though (I ALWAYS do that! LOL). I tuned in when he washes up on the island. WOW - what a great movie! I bawled like a baby at the end. I cry at Disney movies. Bambi is awful and don't EVEN get me started on Dumbo. I even cried at ET (all 4 times that I have seen it) when the damn muppet died. My father in law and Paul were looking at me like I was insane.. What can I say? I am an emotional person! I had to drive Moira to school because I overslept. I have so much stuff to take care of today... phone calls, filing, car rental for the wedding next month (I am driving up), registering for my class, plus the usual cleaning around here. Oh yeah - and I have to take care of Olivia too

I will be watching the games today.. I never really watch them until playoff time anyway. BUT - the 2007 SuperBowl will be played at the Meadowlands, NJ! Way cool! I would love to get tickets for that. I wouldn't even care who was in it.

Oooh - a bad Wesley Snipes movie on HBO! OK ok.. I am going to bed!

Why am I still awake?!?! I am going to bed....really.

I set up another page with pictures if anyone is interested. I put a few pics from the party today. I also put up a picture of my Nana when she graduated Jamesburg High School Class of 1941. I think I resemble her the most. She was the only one in the family who had hazel/green eyes. I look nothing like my Mom OR my Dad. If I didn't look like my Nana, I would swear I was adopted!

Crap - another TD for Oakland ::sigh:: Oh well - not really a huge Jets fan. I just like anyone who plays the Giants and ::ahem:: Pittsburgh.

HELLO! Thanks for all the nice comments about my kidlets. They are really a couple of sweeties! I have a couple more from today's party that I will add to the page. Olivia LOVED her cake and pie! I wasn't too thrilled with my pie - I think it was too sugary. I will have to fool around with the recipe and change a couple things. My inlaws were down as well as 2 of my sis in laws, Isobel (niece), my brother, and my Dad and Step-Mom. A surprisingly nice time. Woooooooo! Touchdown Jets! Now - only down by 7

Did I mention that I have updated pictures! Check out my monsters - they are beautiful!

The pie is done as well as the chocolate cake. My house smells so good.

Got this link off Salted Wound. It shows a collection of screen shots from over 200 news sites around the world taken on September 11 and 12. Check it out. Never forget 9-11-01. Congratulations to Lisa Beamer on the birth of her daughter Morgan Kay Beamer.

Oh - I also folded ALL that laundry. Now, I *really* should be cleaning my bathroom but I have talked myself out of doing it. Why, you may ask, would I do that? Well, I still need to TAKE my shower (don't ask - LOL) and I certainly don't want to wake up Olivia. She is napping right now. God only knows she will be grumpy enough when we are at the doctor's office. Lordy - I have to bake bake bake tonight as well as clean clean clean :::groan::: HEY - Paul can clean and I will bake! What a trade-off! I love it ::hehehe::

Doctor's appointmet today at 340pm for both girls. Tomorrow we are having a little party for Olivia's birthday. Cake, coffee, cookies, that type of stuff. Only about 10 people coming. I hope it's pretty low key!

FINALLY! Took forever to publish my damn blog!

I'm BAAAAAAAAACK! Did you miss me? Things have been a tad hectic around here within the past 24 hours! Yesterday morning, I got Moira off to school just fine. Olivia and I had to pick up a referral for the girls' allergist appointment today. Picked that up, no problem. We stopped at KMart in Wall Township, which is currently under reconstruction, and I found some GREAT deals on clothes for Olivia. They were cute too. Usually KMart clothes are pretty freakin gross. Me loves a bargain! Also picked up enough Christmas cards, at 75% off, for the next couple years. Such a bahhhhhhhhrgain. After my shopping frenzy, Olivia and I stopped at my Mom's house for a visit. It's chemo week for her. She seems to be doing well although a little tired. Mom had made a chocolate cake for Olivia and she had her birthday presents to give her. Olivia was THRILLED! Very impressed with the 2 balloons my Mom bought! Took some great pictures of her yesterday. PictureTrail is really a pain in the ass and very very slow! I will upload some new pics to my AOL page and link here later. We got back home in time to pick Moira up at the busstop. She seemed very blah.. tired. I thought since she was up at 1AM earlier that morning, hacking and coughing, that she was tired because of that. By 5PM, a lowgrade fever kicked in and she didn't want to eat dinner. By 6PM she was asleep on the couch! At that point, I KNEW she was sick. We hustled the night along for both girls and they were in bathed, medicated, read to, and asleep by 845PM. At that point, I was too tired to do much of anything except shove a few loads of laundry in and out of the washer and dryer. Of course, I haven't folded them yet ::sigh:: That's a job for today, sometime today when I have some spare time :::chortle:::giggle::: Right now, the girls are watching Sesame Street and are unnaturally quiet. So, I am taking big advantage of that right now by blogging and updating my AOL page. Will update more later when I can. Click here for updated pictures. I have a lot of pictures on it - it might take a few moments to load...

Whew! I finally have a few minutes to write and now I can't publish! Arrgghh! Well - considering how many blogs are out there in cyberland, I guess I can handle it. I have some new pictures of the monsters that I will attempt to upload (again) to my picture sites. PictureTrail doesn't seem to be behaving well tonight either