TGIF

What a roller coaster week this has been. I'm ready to get off the ride and spend a great weekend with my little family. It is Joshua's short week, so he will have tomorrow and Sunday off. After work today, I plan on picking up the kids, running a few errands, going to my house and watching the little ones play in the kiddie pool. I see Popsicles in our future. Asa and I can eat an entire bag of banana, root beer and lime Popsicles in one sitting. He eats the limes and we share the bananas and root beer. Works out perfectly. OK, I got a little sidetracked there with the Popsicles....

Saturday we have been invited to 2 different family birthday parties and thinking we may have to make an appearance at both...what's not good about 2 birthday cakes in one day??? Sunday we are going a kids birthday party with a pirate theme. Asa is excited about that. I'm not so much.

Since I know you are all wondering how my mammogram went, it went fine. Always uncomfortable, but very important. I hope all my fellow blogger buddies are current with yours...if not? Please schedule one today. I'm not sure if all of you know this, but I had breast cancer in 1992. I was only 22. All I knew about mammograms was that my grandma had them done. With hormone levels and toxins in our foods, breast cancer is threatening younger and younger women. Schedule them around your birthday so you will remember to do one once a year. My public service announcement is now over.

Grama watched the kids yesterday afternoon so Sissy could go with me to my appointment and do lunch. Not kidding when I say that Sissy spun out leaving Grama's. Sissy would be the best race car driver in the world...if only she didn't have a family 4 cylinder sedan. There is a button on the dashboard (I can't remember what it's really for) and she will push it and pretend that it's a nitro button....those times remind me that I'm the older sister.

We had a great relaxing lunch and went for ice cream afterwards. Sissy is, as she calls it, an ice cream aficionado. After spending the day with the kids, instead of needing a glass of wine or a beer to chill, she says "I really need an icre cream." I am not into ice cream, but I always tag along and don't want to be a fun wrecker. We stopped in at the corner country drive in to get her ice cream that she gets every time we go to Grama's. After buying our ice cream we walked outside to sit on the outdoor tables. As Sissy and I were visiting and eating, I could see something was wrong with her. Her eyebrows were furrowed and she was not focusing on my interesting chatter....She looks at me so disgusted and says "this is the worst (expletive) hot fudge sundae I have ever had. Look, this fudge isn't melted..how (expletive) hard is it to make a hot fudge sundae?" I was laughing so hard. She was so angry, NOT laughing. She then pulls her spoon out of the dish and it has a literal WAD of chocolate stuck to it. She looks at me deadpan serious and says "I paid $4.00 (expletive) dollars for this!!!" I guess I would have felt the same way if I would have gotten served a warm Bud Light.

Please visit my dear friend Julia's blog. She is an amazing woman and doing great things for the children of Guatemala. I want you to all know what a true hero she is and why I adore her and her passion. She is an inspiration and makes me want to be a better woman, wife, friend and mother. Love you JUJU!!!

I'm so excited, Asa got his new issue of Nick Jr. magazine and we will have activities to do this afternoon. It's pretty sad when I get more excited than Asa when we get his periodicals. I remember being that excited when I would get issue of Vogue before it his the news stands. How times change. I wouldn't change it for the world.

Shake N' Bake!