I can’t believe in just seven short weeks I am going to be an aunt again.
Before my sister told me her news of being pregnant I thought the next chance I had of a new baby being a part of my life was going to be the day I become a (cough, choke, spit it out) a grandparent.
I am so happy to have been wrong on that. 
Every time I look at the calendar, I am amazed at how fast the time is going by. Only seven short weeks. I am so excited.

Next month will be eleven years since our first date.
I think it’s love.

Tip #1- Do not for any reason throw away your child’s old lunch box with out having a new one in your hand!
Tip#2- If you don’t follow tip #1, then you better make damn sure you do not forget to purchase the new lunchbox.

And let me just tell you, if you think running a mile across a full Wal-Mart parking lot and fighting the other dead beat moms in that area of the store is going to save you on your lunch break, one day before school starts, you are sadly mistaken!

Just a couple of tips from me (a.k.a. the dead beat mom that forgot her daughter needs a lunchbox) to you.

** Evening update: One very cute Garfield lunchbox bought on Ebay. Everyone is happy.

Gerry and I drove home late last night, about 2:00am. We couldn’t have asked for a better weekend. It was a blast!
There was a lot of good food, great people and as always ton of laughs! And my gawd, a lot of drinking. A great way to spend a weekend.

It was nice to see my parents having such a good time. My running joke over the weekend was “ I can’t keep up with my retired parents” maybe when I retire I’ll be able to handle all this partying? Honestly, I hope to be half as young and happy as they are, thirty years from now,when I am in my sixty’s.

Sorry, no pictures.

Gerry and I are about to head up north for the weekend. Just the two of us! It’s been a good five years since I have been there with out kids. I am really looking forward to it.
I’ll be back some time Sunday evening with pictures to post.

Allison said to me early this morning while in the car, if I could have any three wishes to come true I would wish to be a Super Hero! Then my number two wish would be that I could make any thing happen that I want to happen, that would be like my super power. Then number three, my biggest wish, is that I could have a real big cookie with sprinkles on it every morning when I wake up. Yep, that would be my wishes. 
I love the way kids think. But really, the big cookie thing, every morning, sounds pretty cool. I think that might make me happy.

Ten to seven this morning Allison and I get in to the car, headed for Latchkey. The first thing out of her mouth is “is Roxy going to have babies?” The rest of our seven minute drive felt much more like and hour. It went some thing like this;

Me: Nope, she is fixed.
Allison: I don’t get it, what did you have taken out of her?
Me: Some of her female parts.
Allison: Did they remove babies?
Me: No, Roxy never had or will have puppies.
Allison: I don’t get it, if they weren’t there already, how do they get there?
Me: You need a Daddy to help with that.
Allison: Why? What does the Daddy do?
Me: We’ll talk about this after work, okay.
Allison: Noo, just tell me!
Me: It has to do with your private parts and I don’t want to talk to you about it right now, in the car.
Allison: Yeah, thats what Riley told me.
Me: What? What did she tell you.
Allison: That boys and girls are different. But I still don’t get it.
Me: Different, how?
Allison: Well, she said her boy rabbit has something her girl rabbit doesn’t have.
Me: Oh look we are at latchkey, we’ll talk about this later.

There were a few more “ I don’t get it’s in there” But you get the jest of it.
Gawd, that is no way to start the day!

Well, Allison has made it through her first day with her expander in, it is similar to this one.  The application took about 90 minutes. I have to say she was a real trooper. A few times I squirmed in my seat and even started to cry. (Of course unknown to her)
Now we just have to get through turning it three times a day for the next five days. It’s a little harder to do then I expected, emotionally. Even though I know it is what is best for her. The look on her face as I turn it, knowing how bad it hurts just breaks my heart. 

Tomorrow Gerry, Allison and I are spending most of the day at a family reunion. Visiting with relatives I haven’t seen in years and who have never even met my husband and daughter. It’s about a three hour drive so we are car pooling with my parents. Just spending the day with them is something I am also really looking forward to. I hate it that life is so busy these days that we live in the same city and yet hardly find the time to spend together.

Allison and I just got home from her orthodontist appointment. I was told that it is very rare but once in a great while they have an expander they just can’t fit. I guess Allison was the lucky winner because they couldn’t get it in. So, they had to put her spacers back in for another week while they make another one and we will have to try again next Monday. Only this time in the evening so I don’t have to use any more vacation time.

Being just us girls until Sunday, Allison and I have big plans for tomorrow. A little gift card spending, lunch and an afternoon movie. Maybe at bedtime I’ll surprise her and bring out the sleeping bags and flash lights for a living room camp out? I am really looking forward to spending the day and night alone with her. Seven is such a fun age and it all goes by way too fast.

Of course you didn’t even know I was gone. I see that my post about leaving for up north for four days some how bit the dust.
Anyway, we had a great time the past few days. We did some fishing, sat by the camp fire at night, ate BBQ and spent a day sight seeing in the Upper Peninsula.
I have to say we sure live in a beautiful state, Michigan.  I posted a few photos in Flickr.