Thankful kind of day.

I am happy to report that Addison has been sleeping better since her night terror episode. She's gone to bed more willingly and has not awoken as often or as early in the morning. The night after her episode she slept in her bed all night (well, if 6:30 AM counts as all night!)...and last night she slept in her bed until 1:30. Not great, but better than 11, which is what we had been dealing with.

I have had three awesome days at work. I haven't been cursed at or called any disgusting names at all! Believe it or not, that's a very good week for me. And for my kids...they've actually all been present & in class. That makes it all that much more amazing that I haven't been subjected to verbal lashings! Whoo hoo for good days at Pace! I just hope I haven't jinxed myself by writing this today...crossing my fingers that tomorrow is a good day, too. :-)

We got our mini-notebook computer yesterday. It's tiny. It's an Asus Eee PC. We got the plain black one. I didn't know they came in green and pink, too, otherwise we'd have one of those colors. It's awesome now that we have two computers...we can do all our computer stuff at the same time & have more time to have actual, real conversations with one another! What an idea!

In really, really big news for our family today: Addison got invited to her first friend "birfee" party! It's for her bestest friend at school, Madelyn, who is almost exactly one month younger than Adds. It's next Saturday & we are very excited. I'm going to the Florida Educational Technology Conference in Orlando on Wednesday. I'm supposed to stay until Saturday and drive back with my co-worker, Joanna, and my boss, Robin...but I'm thinking of driving down by myself so I can leave on Friday afternoon. That way I won't miss Madelyn's birthday party. I HAVE to be there for Addison's first friend birthday party!

Thank heaven the weekend is nearly upon us...

busy week

Our laptop is back, but it had to be scrubbed. There were tons of extra videos and pictures of Addison that were not uploaded online that are not lost forever. It's a very sad day for me. I have learned my lesson, though, and we will be buying an external hard drive this weekend. I will never again lose all my memories. Dumb computers.

In happier news, we didn't have to buy a new computer or hard drive.

VERY busy week. Monday was our only calm evening. Tuesday Uncle Patrick came over for an early birthday dinner. Since he was here, Addison has pointed to the chair where he sat at dinner & said, "Uncle Patrick's chair". No one else is allowed to sit there now. :-) Wednesday was Book Fair night at school, and I was supposed to visit my friend, Kendra, in the hospital, but got sick that day with a cold/sinus something, and never made it. (I still haven't been to visit her & I feel awful about that!). Thursday is our normal busy day after school, 'cause I always have a meeting. Friday was exciting. We had our picture proof preview at Long's Photography. We will have an online gallery available at: http://www.longsphotography.com/pickpic/gallery/jump.php
(password: Maclay) where you can see all the images from our photo shoot and order any, if you want. The images will be available online from tomorrow (12/6) until 12/12. Long's designed the most awesome Christmas cards ever for us. I can't wait to mail them out. Should be about two weeks, but it all depends on how long they take at the printers. We ordered a five photo "story board" for Addy's room. It has a variety of the photos on it. We hope she'll enjoy it for many years. It's going to be printed on wood, so it should endure time well.

After that, we rushed to pick up Adds & then ran to Macaroni Grill for Janie's 38th birthday dinner. Did you know that at Macaroni Grill, if it's your birthday, they will sing Happy Birthday to you in Italian? With an operatic voice? They hire voice majors from FSU specifically to sing Happy Birthday in Italian. That's crazy, right? It was really cool, but I still think it's crazy. While we were at dinner, we noticed that Adds had a fever. Her wonderful Daddy literally RAN to CVS to buy her some Tylenol. Don't know how high her fever was then, but when we got home (and after a dose of Tylenol) she was at 100.4. It's likely her 2 year molars combined with her cold that are causing it. It's been a long time since she's felt so bad. She moped all through dinner. Sat in my lap & whined. Then my dad came in (to tell Robert something about the family poker game tonight, since we didn't hear our phones ringing) and after he left, Adds cried, "Doodah! Doodah!" - over & over & over. She even tried to run toward the door after him. Too cute, but I think Robert's parents were a little insulted. She must be feeling better now, because she went right to sleep with no arguments, and she's been sound asleep for almost an hour.

Be on the lookout for Addison's birthday invitation in the mail, everyone! Party will be on 12/21. Evelyn designed an adorable card again this year, so prepare to be blown away!

I am so glad this week has come to an end. We are very much looking forward to the weekend - Winter Festival tomorrow, and Market Days on Saturday. Yeah!

broken laptops, sweet baby girl

Our laptop died. Grandpa Phillip is working on it, but it's questionable at the moment. I don't know when I'll be able to post again. Wish us luck.

In other news, Addison woke me up this morning by tapping my arm. When I opened my eyes, she waved and said, "I missed you, Mommy." I just melted. She said something similar to Robert last night after he got home from the football game. She's the most loving little girl ever. She's the best.

Also, I had a few minutes to change the background again. I got some feedback that the pale green "Merry Christmas tree" theme wasn't quite festive enough. :-)