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The imminent 1st Birthday Party is upon me. As my heart races faster I am suddenly overwhelmed with a "theme" and invitations and cake and an outfit and food and oh my God how many people will be at my house and now I am wondering how long is to long to leave a child unattended in a play saucer while I meticulously clean the house to prepare for such a HUGE event!!! I push it aside in my brain for a moment to read my horoscope;

If you've been contemplating undertaking a major creative project, dear Capricorn, this is the day to do it. Sudden inspiration and revelations could come from within your brain, almost like fireworks, which could have your intellect and imagination working overtime. This is also a great time to work on bringing any creative projects you have in mind into the public eye. Enlist the aid of friends and acquaintances; they're there to help you. Go for it!

AHHH Breathe count to ten, so y'all may not know this but I am using you as my aid. Come on I know you want to play. No? Well try and humor me just like I humor you every time you visit my blog o'K? First and fore most I have ordered my baby dolls dress yesterday, so if you like to take a peak you can here and imagine a blond fuzzy haired blue eyed beauty giggling underneath it. My "firework of imagination" has given me this for the invitations that I will be creating myself over the next few days, so how does this sound;

Cake and icing in her hair, presents and balloons fill the air.
This celebration we want to share!
Come for the fun, Morgan is ONE!!

Please feel free to add or delete, or just give me a thumbs up. Super.

Next up the "theme" at first I was going with the Hello Kitty because she has a few things Hello Kitty at home and can say kitty, even Sam's Club has a themed cake. Then after web-trolling I came across some cutier items that are just girlly and match her dress. So which "theme" is cutier(not even a word spell check is telling me so ;P) to you??

I think that is enough for now. After all, I am sure not ALL of you are Capricorns and feel the "inspiration and revelations coming from your brain" if you did then you would probably be reading a highly more intelligent blog than this one right now!!

Where are we going?

This post started off as a re-cap of my weekend. As I was typing I realized it didn't make any sense at all and it was plain out boring!!! So to save you all the lack luster details I will just emphasis on the eight or more grueling hours I spent in the car this weekend. Do you have any idea just how much cabin pressure build-up all that driving does to ones brain in a 48 hour period. Let me just say I have a ringing sensation in my ears and not sure why my eye keeps twitching!
As much time as I spend driving during the week, the last thing I want to do on the weekend is drive all around kingdom come. But for the entertainment of others, me and my baby entourage went to visit family on Saturday on the west side. Then on Sunday we went condo searching after church, not that the house has sold (sorry didn't mean to get you excited there) just exploring our options.
There may be a breaking point in here were the driving finally wins and I give up and just live in the hotel near work just for the simple fact that I don't want to drive anymore!! If I were wealthy I could hire a personal driver to take me to work, but then I wouldn't go to work because I was wealthy enough to not go and stay home with my baby, where I really want to be in the first place, because daycare is draining the very life out of my bank account as we speak, and I hope I have enough pop bottles to take back for baby formula tonight, and a little left over to top off the gas tank in the car until Friday. Sorry for the run-on sentence but my brain just now had on over-load and I couldn't stop. whew!!!!!!!!!!! I feel some what better, but my eye is still twitching.
In a closing note my sister is watching Morgan for me today, and she called to tell me how much fun Morgan is having in her car. Huh what car? I ask. The blow up one you had sitting un-opened on the chair in the living room. Oh the one I intended to give as a gift to SOMEONE else? It would be this one;Have a great week!!

Letter from the Dog

It has been almost 11 months since You small human like creature have entered my space. I used to run the show around here, the bigger humans lavished me with non-stop attention, gave me treats and took me places(oh I miss the DQ with the vanilla sundaes). In the past 11 months I have been yelled at to stop hovering over you, stop sniffing you, stop licking you, and most of all to get away from your high chair. Before the only time I ever got yelled at was when someone came to visit because I get so excited all 90lbs of me had to lung at the human entering, I guess I still get yelled at for that too. Now this new technique you have perfected the one where you stand on two legs and try to squeeze my face with your tiny little paws is not so much fun either. Not to mention the yelling into my face DAAAAHHH. If I ever so bark in the house I get thrown outside. I am not so sure this turn of events was in the contract when I came home from the pound. I do know that I like this spot on the couch it gives me a good view of what is going on in the kitchen and a good view of the TV. I can understand why you would want to climb up on this end of the couch. However I am not sure I like you so much(attention hog) not that I would do anything to you, but will give you warning I am sensitive to the pulling of the tail. I will continue to sit here until the bigger human finds some excuse to put me in my room or make me go outside. Probably because your fingers still smell like cheerios and I lick them. Can't you just go play with the toys they give you? Love, Cujo

Reminising

For those of you still wanting to check out pics from the Girls Gone Wild weekend here is your chance. The following is not a paid advertisment and can be used for entertainment purposes. Me and the cougars are up in age and have learned to refrain from popping our tops for the camera but are still vindictive enough to snap a friend peeing in the woods (but those you will have to pay) you can e-mail me or leave a comment with your information to get those precious pics. So here are some of the events that took place; K was celebrating her coming out party and has made it known she loves to clean dishes but most of all clean bathrooms so we got her a little something to help keep her happy. (You can also view a different pic here at an earlier post) She is a little vain but had every right she looked hot that day, and it was her birthday!

We took a 3 hour cruise on a lovely pontoon boat down the AuSable River, but not until KT took us down a long and dusty trail. There were no signs but warnings should have been posted to keep arms & hands in the vehicle at all times if that was the case we would have all stuck our hands out the window.



Speed limits are enforced.









We all arrived at the waters edge and loaded up the boat and had a wonderful time.










Our fearless driver and pontoon boat gas filler upper extrodinare......








She is quite the model when she fills up...








The perfect ending for a beer injested day............................

S M I L E

S.tart M.aking I.t L.ivable for E.veryone

Last night I attended my SMILE class that is required in the county for which I have decided to follow through with my divorce. The class is to make people aware of the added stress and unwanted guilt that children feel they are burdened with when their parents get divorced. A judge was one of the speakers who could not stress enough how important it is for the parents to get along for the sake of the child or children involved. The judge was quick to add that he has been through divorce and his ex is still his best friend and they treat each other with respect and their son has grown into a happy healthy prosperous young man who will be finishing law school this year. This class is to encourage the 1200 new cases of divorce in last 6 months the way it has treated 55,000 divorce cases in the past, since the program started 10 years ago. Here are just a few things I learned in the 2 hour presentation that will hopefully help me to grow out of this disaster they call marriage;

- Divorce is a grieving process just like death it requires time to heal
- Waving sharp objects at the ex is not a good idea if the child is in the room
- Name calling is not tolerated nor should it be spoke around the children
- Hen pecking the children for information on the ex-spouses new girl/boyfriend is prohibited
- Maintaining a respectful relationship and offering parenting time is encouraged
- Happy Happy Joy Joy should be repeated while hands are clapping when the child is going to spend time with the other parent and not discouraged
- If while child is with other parent before you use judgement think of how you would feel if your best friend did that same thing with the child would you be just as upset (for example ice cream before dinner)
- Think of how you would feel in the childs place before regimenting pick up and delivery times, be flexible, respect each others time (saying your going to be there and never show is cause for jail time---oh can't wait to use that one)!

I am sure there is more that I will remember when the time arises and when I finish the booklet of required reading. As I sat in the room of 200 plus people in failed marriages I felt like another statistic, but in another sense not so alone. Don't get me wrong I am not proud of my marriage falling apart and hate that I am challenged to raise a beautiful daugther in such a manner. I don't want her to fall victim to low self-esteem or guilt for coming into this world it is up to me to raise her higher than that. If that means I have to maintain a relationship of decency with my ex-spouse I am going to bite the bullet and do it. There was a reason at one time that I made a choice to procreate with this man which are not for the actions of late but because at one time he was a good person. I know he will treat our daughter the best he knows how. It will be a learning experience for all of us for sure. I think time will heal the wound that has been ripped out of my chest. I also think that because my baby is so young she will not know any different when she gets older and by that time I hope to be on the healing end of this tragedy called divorce.

side note : SD was also suppose to attend the class but had other priorities like playing 3 games of softball, but he did find time to stop at the house to kiss his daugther and cut the grass. He is off to a great start in parenting don't you think?? Just thinking positively SMILE!