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

Visited Mom last night and had a nice time. I helped Dan (her boyfriend) take Christmas stuff down to the basement. While down there, I found a really nice mirror they had picked up at a yard sale. Mom wasn't using it so she let me take it. I have the best place to hang it too! Woohoo! I was planning on buying one! Glad I didn't! She ended up giving me a check for the computer class I was planning to take at Ocean COunty College. The first class is Intro to HTML. A 6 week course that meets 2 days a week, 3.5 hours per class. UGH. 6pm-930pm. A nice way to spend my Wednesday and Friday nights! At least I will be learning something - I hope.

Olivia had a GREAT time at her Baby Power class. It was SO much fun - she didn't want to leave!

Also forgot to mention that today at 1015am is Olivia's first "Baby Power" day I am excited for her - I know she will have such a good time! AND - there's the added bonus that she will be napping by 1215pm! It is hard for her to meet other little ones her age (2) because of all her food allergies. There is no way I can take her to a Mommy and Me type of group - TONS of food that she is allergic too. Peanut butter, nuts, dairy, eggs.. all of these are in cookies, cakes, snacky type foods. There are certain brands that I buy because I KNOW Olivia can eat them without breaking out in eczema or hives ::sigh:: The poor kid. Heck - even my inlaws aren't that good with keeping stuff aside that can make her sick. They TRY.. but sometimes that's even worse. YOU take away a cookie from a 2 year old! They say "Well, maybe she can have a little bit, to help her tolerate it." Sure - ok.. how about rat poison in your coffee.. you know, just a little, so you can tolerate it!! ::eyeroll:: There are SO many products that contain dairy or some form of dairy (whey, casein, a dairy protein). LIke hot dogs, cold cuts, breadcrumbs, juices, chicken nuggest, pretzels, chips, cookies, cakes... etc.. I can go on and on. I am not looking forward to Olivia starting school if her allergic reactions are still so high. I suppose I will have to see what her allergies are like when she is 5. Perhaps she will be homeschooled until her allergies are manageable. Hopefully, the township will either have dealt with this problem before or is willing to deal with it. Paul and I already planned on really working with the school, helping to raise awareness. The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network has so much suppoort and will assist us, if needed. Yikes - that turned into one helluva rant! I will post more after we get back from Baby Power!

Didn't get a chance to blog much last night due to Blogger not allowing me to publish. Guess they must be overloaded. I want to thank everyone for their kind emails and comments regarding my Mom. They are appreciated so much and they do help! I will be going up to visit her tonight. But, on the flip side - 2 of my friends are pregnant. Both are due in August so it seems like November was a busy month for some people. My one friend, D, had planned this baby (her 2nd) with her hubby, T. In fact, HE was one one doing the ovulation charts and the predictions. Boy - I guess he nailed the dates and time correctly - pardon the pun. While I really like D, T is kind of a control freak. Ok - he REALLY is a control freak. They already have a son who turned one in October, the poor thing. He is so sweet and so unprepared for this. D&T are the kind of couple who plans for everything. It's kind of creepy. For example, they already have a bike for Aaron that they bought while D was PREGNANT with him. It was a bargain.. yeah ok.. whatever. Bargains are everywhere... J is also pregnant. She is getting married next month on Groundhog's Day. She and her hubby to be have been trying for a while to have this one. This will make baby #2 since J has a son (9yrs old) from a previous relationship. Babies can only mean 1 thing for non pregnant people - baby showers! While I love to buy all those little things, I HATE (and I stress HATE), going to showers, bridal or baby. I adore my friends but those type of things are SO boring!

I just read Susan's blog. I find I have a lot in common with her. My Mom also has cancer (NonHodgkins Lymphoma) and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. In fact, this week is her 4th course of treatment. Then she will be off 2 weeks and starts another course. Off for 2 more weeks and has her final course in February. My Mom is 53. It is so difficult to go through this with her. Sometimes I feel so helpless... I want to make it better and I can't. I don't want my kids to lose their Grammy. My grandmother passed away in May and I am still struggling with it. I miss her so damn much.

I did forget to mention this - as much as I adore my sister in law, she makes an AWFUL cup of coffee! Bleeech! As soon as I got home last night, I made a pot of coffee. Paul and I drank almost 2 pots of coffee last night! AND - I am on my 4th cup this morning... Maybe that's why I am feeling so adventurous about tweaking my code!

Hey faithful readers! Made it back from Malvern, Pennsylvania with no problems. In fact, on our way home, about 20 miles from our house, it started to rain. Phew! I was never so happy to see rain! I was afraid it would snow on our way back. Luckily, it wasn't cold enough! We had a nice time in Malvern.I don't think it's the total sticks - heck, I live in the sticks! Manahawkin NJ! Exit 63 off the Garden State Parkway. I have a 40 minute ride to Atlantic City. Long Beach Island is about 20 minutes and Barnegat Lighthouse is about 30 minutes from my home. Anyway, enough of that! I had such a nice time out visiting Barb and Tom. My nephew (14 year old resident with major attitude) was hardly around. Barb, Paul and I took the girls out to McDonalds for lunch on Saturday and then we all went to a really nice park for the girls to run around for a while. Olivia fell asleep in during the 10 minute ride from McD's and the park. Poor kid - she missed her regular nap and she was so tired! Paul stayed in the car with Olivia while Barb and I took Moira outside. It was SO cold out! I was glad I packed hat and mittens for the girls. We stayed for 25-30 minutes then left. Not too many kids outside as it was pretty damn windy. Headed back to Barb's place. I had brought a couple movies for the kids, Elmopalooza and A Bug's Life. The kids watched Elmopalooza and Animal Planet. The girls got to bed pretty late since we ate dinner VERY late. Normally, Paul and I eat dinner by 5-515. I hate eating that early but it's a lot easier on the lil monsters. Olivia crashed out by 9pm and Moira went to bed after we watched A Bug's Life. John, my nephew, crashed his system so Paul was trying to help Tom fix the computer. Turns out that John's computer had only 64mb RAM and was running Windows 2000 Professional along with Dazzle Video and some other programs. While cleaning out the hard drive, Paul found a TON of porn about 1.5 gigs worth of pics and some avi's as well! Barb was SO pissed! But, Tom and Paul wiped his hard drive and limited the Internet access. John was not a happy camper! We left on Sunday and made it home by 245pm! Woohoo! I will be tweaking my site a bit so bear with me if it seems a little weird! Bye for now!

Well - this will be my last post for the weekend. I am heading out to Malvern Pennsylvania tomorrow at 9AM. I am hoping there is NO snow! There is a slight chance of snow on Sunday, both here in NJ and in Malvern. We should be home before that happens!! Have a great weekend everyone and don't forget about Erin! Please donate!

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