Do you remember?

Last weekend I had my youngest cousin over to watch High School Musical 2, and take her to the Armada Fair with me so Morgan could ride the carnival rides. My youngest cousin is 11 and most people mistake her for my child because of her blond hair, brown eyes and boney knees. She looks alot like me when I was young, I would never want to re-live my youth once was enough for me. For a second though I had to remember just how old I really am and how my aunts must have felt watching me grow-up. In a conversation with my youngest cousin as she bounced around my living room arms raised and counting in a whisper trying to smile and practice her cheer for her new season of cheerleading sounded a little like this.....

me - "are you practicing a cheer?"
her - "uh-huh" "Do you remember that song it goes dun,dun,dunt,dun,dun,dunt..."
me - "yeha dun,dun, dunt, dun,dun,dunt...everybody dance now!"
her - "I can't remember the name of it but it is like an old song from the 80's"
me - "um-yeha, I think it was more like 1990's"
her - "you know what it is cause it was in your time"
me - "thanks for the reminder"xoxo

She is a sweetheart and I can't wait til Morgan says yeha I'm watching that old movie High School Musical 2 from 2007, the songs are so silly!!

I didn't sign up for this part

My baby girl came down with a case of Roseola in the past few days. It kind of came on last week in disguise she had a low grade fever last Wednesday and I chalked it up as teething. When the temperature did not drop after 3 days I knew it must have been something more serious. Friday was the worst day when she felt just really hot to the touch I gave her a dose of Tylenol and a semi-cool bath and cool jammies and she was very irritable and wanted to sleep. So she slept and I did not because I kept checking on her to make sure she was ok. By Sunday morning she seemed fine and playing and eating pretty good, and no fever so I took her out to the park to enjoy a family reunion (SD did not attend) but it was for his mothers side of the family. While we were there she started to break out in a rash, immediately I thought heat rash, then it was only on her stomach and back. Then I thought maybe she had an allergy so I gave her benadril. The rash did not go away on Monday, so off to the doctor I went. Come to find out all the symptoms point to Roseola! damn it!!

I don't particulary like the part of child raising that includes the sickness and teething and butt wiping massive amounts of poop up the back thank you very much.

Prep-Work

I have been preparing through out the week for "potential visitors" to walk through their "potential new home" (my current home). One night I mopped the kitchen floor and washed the windows of dog snot and baby finger prints. Wednesday morning I was vaccuming at 5:30am, but then again I am always vaccumming because the 90lb dog that has inhabited the house won't stop shedding!! The bathrooms won't be done until tomorrow because it is my least favorite thing to do. To bad K doesn't live closer she could totally love to rock out my bathrooms all three in her new latex gloves. **look at that a pic, she loves to clean and the gloves are HOT!** I am trying to think of what to do with all the baby toys that have been making out like bunnies and multiplied in my house in the past 10 months. Should I organize them in their content corner of the living room with fear that it may look cluttered or go out and purchased a toy box? If you were walking through a house what would detour you from purchasing the home?
I like to think everything in my house is spic and span clean but I am sure there is something someone else sees that I may not have thought about. The yard is not what it used to be and I would love to post an apology sign with pictures of years past and potential that it could be. I just don't have the time to get out with a new baby and pull weeds and plant flowers. So as the time draws near to open the house to stangers I am getting nervous and anxious that just one thing may not be right and be the deciding factor in buying the place or not. Who knows last time we opened the house no-one came by and I busted my ass for nothing, but the first time we had 5 couples. Damn the economy and the housing market it really is a great place for a family, just not a great place for a single mom with no time to keep it up. Wish me luck and send in the buyers!!!