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Don’t you always feel like this is a special day?  I have nothing special planned for Leap Day for us, but it’s just a fun day.

Oooh, we’re going to have a good day today.  I’ve been telling Jordan to get up and take his medicine and get dressed and I’m just getting this – “I don’t waaaaannnnnnaaaaa.”  Fake tears.  Come on child.  He was all happy when he got up, took his shower, got out and now is a whiny butt.  Great.

Speaking of his medicine, besides the antibiotic for his strep, he’s got a new medicine to take.  His doctor called back and he wants him to start on adderal, 10 mgs, daily.  So, that’s a new thing for him this morning.  I’m hoping it helps him.  I hate giving him medication for it, but I hate to watch him struggle with school too.  We’ll see how this works out.  He’s not thrilled about having to take it.  He said, you told me I didn’t have to take it anymore. Well, no, I told you you didn’t have to take ritalin anymore.  This isn’t ritalin.  And Jordan, if it helps you concentrate, wouldn’t it be nice to not get in trouble for not getting your work done?  Not miss recesses?  Not miss art and music because you have class work to get caught up on.  He just sat there. 

Other than that we had a boring boring day yesterday.  Pato brought us home food from this awesome restaurant called Tacos de Mariana.  And they usually have the best Mexican food.  It’s a Mexican restaurant that caters to Mexicans.  Not a place like where Pato works that caters to we American’s that is more Tex than Mex.  LOL  Not that there is anything wrong with those restaurants.  I eat there way too much too.  But after visiting Mexico and eating the food there, loving it, and coming back home and having nothing half way close to real Mexican food, it’s nice that these restaurants are opening up. 

We started eating the food though, and blech.  I think Mariana has changed her recipes.  LOL  She just moved to a bigger location because she was getting way too crowded in her old restaurant as more Americans were finding out the secret that Mexicans here already knew.  Mariana ROCKS!  Pato said they were really busy.  And she might not have taken the time with her food that she normally does.  Well, that just stinks.  But, my sope was good at least.  Man, I’ll cry if that is how she is making her food now.  Really blah.  We’ll have to find another hole in the wall where we can get yummy pazoli.  )

Speaking of visiting Mexico.  You guys really should get a chance to eat Pato’s mom’s tamales.  Oh my gosh.  They are so good!  She makes a bunch of varieties, but my 2 favorites are her carne con salsa verde (it’s like shredded beef with green sauce.) and sugar tamales.  They are pink.  LOL  She puts pink sugar in them.  So good.  I keep telling Pato to get the recipe for me.  But he hasn’t yet.  He told her last time she was up here  that she needs to teach me how to do it, and we didn’t have time.  Maybe next time.

No plans today other than to get this kit I have out of my head and into a zip for you all.  LOL  Just need to get started.

Last day of the sale!

50% off of everything in the store over $1.00!  Personal and commercial use!  And today for the leap day I have a coupon for you.  Buy $5.80 worth of stuff and this coupon will take off $2.90.  Your bill will be $2.90.  See the theme here on the 29th of February.  )

Coupon Code – LeapDayBlog

Good only for today.  1 use per customer.

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I love Jordan’s teacher.  She really is such a sweet person.  And she’s so funny when she’s talking to Jordan.  We were talking about how he needs to work on his spacing between words, and she starts, ‘My friend, what can I do to help you with spacing.”  It’s just so cute.  My friend.  LOL

Last year Jordan was in something called the CARE program, which I believe stood for Caring and responsible educator.  He had an adult who volunteered once a week to come in and help him with getting any work caught up (we’ll go into that in a second), play games with him, talk, etc.  He really enjoyed it.  This year the school has switched to the Big Brother program.  And yesterday I got to meet Jordan’s big brother.  His name is Terry, he’s a minister.  And he just was really nice.  He showed me some papers that he had been redoing with Jordan.  Now Jordan’s handwriting is normally illegible.  Completely unreadable.  His teacher and I were both in shock when we saw the papers.  You could read every single word.  I’m not sure what Terry is doing, but please please keep doing it!  His teacher said, “Jordan, do you see it?  I’ve got tears, I’ve got tears!  This makes me so happy!”  LOL  Again, she’s so cute!

So, then we sat down for the conference.  She feels that same way that I do, Jordan is completely and totally capable of doing the work WHEN he can concentrate.  She sees no signs of hyperactivity anymore.  But she sees big signs of serious ADD.  And I have at home too.  I’ve been struggling with having to put him back on something.  And if you’ve read my blog, I refuse to put him back on ritalin.  I won’t do it.  I just called his doctor and left a message with the nurse.  I told her the same thing.  And she’s going to talk to his doctor.  She said he might try adderol or concerta.  (Sp?)  Anyone have any experience with those?  I need to get out my handy dandy research hat and start looking up studies on those 2 medications.  I don’t want him to struggle, but I don’t want him to be on a dangerous medication either. 

She told me that Jordan has to miss recess and specials (art, music) a lot because he has to get caught up on his work.  And usually during work time she has to put him over by her desk so that he doesn’t have the distractions of the other students.  (  She tried putting him out in the hallway at the desk to do it, but there were too many distractions out there. 

Other than that, when he does do his work he works above his grade level.  He reads great, his math skills are wonderful.  It’s just being able to concentrate.  You should have seen him during his conference.  She’d be talking to him, and you could see him listening, then you could see him leave us while she was talking still, and then he’d say, oh, but – completely unrelated topic. 

Oh, she also told me that Jordan has a way of telling stories that she is worried is going to lose him friends.  Remember that kid in school who would come up with this humongous stories, you knew they were lying.  And as you get older you know they are doing it to try to impress people?  That’s my son.

This weekend we went deer hunting, and we shot a deer with a BB gun, and then we took it home and ate it that day.  Um, we don’t hunt Jordan.  I asked him why he tells those stories and he said because he never has anything fun to tell the class on Monday about the weekend.  So, his teacher and I came up with this.  On Sunday night I will talk to him about all the things he wished he could have done over the weekend.  And then he can go in and say, you know my mom didn’t take us to do anything this weekend, but I would have loved to do this.  Then he can go into his elaborate tale.  Hopefully that will help!

So, we’ll see what his doctor says.

Then we went to Pato’s work.  We haven’t done that in awhile.  I had pollo loco.  I love me some chicken in cheese sauce and rice.  LOL  It’s so yummy! 

There’s this really sweet lady who works there.  She’s one of the dishwashers’ wife.  And she just kept coming up to me telling me how beautiful the kids are.  And how much Jordan looks like his daddy.  We get that a lot and we just say, yes he does.  Jordan looks so much more like Pato than he does his dad.  Pato told me people say that to him at work all the time and he just says, yes he does.  He said, he’s my son, name or no name, he’s my son.

Today is our 6 year anniversary.  How crazy is that?  No plans.  He has to work.  (  But, I’m sure I’ll call and bug him all day.  LOL

Today and tomorrow are the last days of my sale!  Stock up now because I’m not sure when I’ll have another sale like this!  This is the first time in a year that I have put my entire store on sale for 50% off including commercial use stuff.  It’s gone well.  I hope you all are enjoying your goodies!  But, if there is anything your missing from your Heather collection, get it now!

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I so needed to step away from the computer.  LOL  My mom ended up picking me up at 11:30 and we went to drop her car off at Saturn for like the 15th time.  You can read the saga of her Vue on her blog.  Then we went to the casino.  Where we played and we lost, but that’s nothing new.  LOL

Then my mom dropped me off at the Olive Garden and I waited for Pato to get there with the kids.  And I’m giggling the whole time because he is running late.  Turns out he doesn’t like to get 3 kids ready on his own.   ROFL  Welcome to my world darling. 

While I was waiting for them I started on a hot artichoke and spinich dip and a chocolate martini.  I rarely drink, but it just seemed fitting yesterday.  It had been a long weekend and a long start to the week.  It was yummy!  He finally got there (after the dip was half gone ROFL), we ordered.  I barely started on my fettuccini.  I was full on the dip.  So, I am having fettuccini for breakfast today.  So good!  So are the girls.  They didn’t finish their dinners last night.  And Kat caught me getting out my fettuccini.  I want mine too mom!  Nothing like a load of rich carbohydrates to start off you day! 

Then we came home.  Pato went and got his hair cut.  Remember my post yesterday about being sick of women?  Well, he said she started on his hair at 8.  And it was 8:45 when he called.  Ok, remember I was just joking.  Kinda.  I said, it took 40 minutes for her to cut your hair?  He said, yes.  I said, YOUR hair?  Yes.  Why?  I don’t know. 

Oh oh oh- I so know, she just wanted to run her fingers through your hair.  That’s it.  You’re done.  You’re getting a male hair stylest.  ROFL  I’ve actually gone with Pato to get his hair cut many times and she’s nothing but appropriate, so really, I’m just kidding.  LOL

I’ve got a parent/teacher/student conference today.  Jordan’s been getting into a little trouble lately with not listening and not getting his work done at school, so I’m kind of dreading it.  Here’s hoping it all goes good. 

2 days left for my sale!  And I don’t know when I’ll have a big sale like this again, so stock up now!  50% off EVERYTHING over $1.00, including commercial use products.

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Ok, actually, it’s kind of cruddy outside. 

I’m supposed to go the casino with my mom this morning, we both just need to get out for a couple of hours.  When I called her to tell her I wanted to get some work done and then I’d get ready she said, um, have you watched the news?  My dad stayed home today.  I-80 is 100% ice covered.  Lovely.

She was just going to go turn on the news to see if it’s better out yet.  I said, they’ll get sand out, they’ll get the roads salted, GET ME OUT OF MY HOUSE!  ROFL  So, she’s watching the news again.  LOL

Jordan is home again today.  With strep throat there’s the 24 hours on medicine before returning to school policy.  He has been sick more often this winter than he has his entire life I think.  Poor kid.  And he told the doctor yesterday that he had felt yucky on his birthday and Sunday.  He didn’t want to tell us though because he didn’t want to cancel his birthday party on Saturday and he didn’t want to miss going to his dad’s on Sunday.  How sad is he?   I felt so bad for him. 

And if you read my post below about Alyce, we have a sample.  ROFL  The kids were cracking up while I was trying to do it.  I’ll refrain from getting graphic with you, but can I just say GROSS!  I’ve got to run that up to the lab today because the refrigerated one can only be out 24 hours.  Yes, it’s in my fridge – as far away from the food as I could get it.  Nasty gross disgusting ew!  LOL

So, if I can’t get out today, I think I’m just going to work.  Then I think I’ll do some deep cleaning.  It’s not spring yet, but I think we could use some serious dusting, cleaning of the kids rooms again, maybe go through my pan cupboard and rearrange them so they don’t fall out when you open the door.  Alyce likes to play in my pan cupboard.  LOL  After she gets them all out, I usually just throw them back in because I’m usually making supper and trying not to trip over whatever she gets out.

Speaking of Alyce, have I told you what that little poo has started doing????  She is so her siblings’ sister.  Jordan taught Kat, and now they both taught Alyce.  When you don’t get your way, what do you do to mommy?  Why you cross your little arms over your chest and go, “HMMMMPH!”.  Telling ya, I have attitude coming out the wazoo here.

That makes me laugh at Pato last night.  He was trying so hard to get out of the dog house still last night.  I don’t know if he’s out of it or not.  I told him he just needs to make himself ugly so that women at the restaurant don’t fall all over themselves when he’s around.  Seriously, it’s enough to make you sick.  What is it with us American women and Latino men???  I’ll give you the short version, his friend drunkenly left a message on Pato’s voice mail about some woman that has the hots for Pato.  I got the message.  I won’t say woman, I’ll say college girl that seems to have no morals.  And the way this guy left the message made me think that Pato was involved.  Not that this idiot was just trying to hook Pato up with this stupid girl.  Pato is swearing on the lives of his children that it is all on this guy.  That honey, I can’t stop women from hitting on me at work.  I can only let them know I have a family.  He said he’s going to put on a name tag that says, Ehyzar and under that married.  ROFL  That might make me feel a little better now.  Then he said, you want to hear about the women who hit on me, so I’m not “hiding” it from you.  I didn’t think you’d want to know this, as long as I’m turning them down.  GRRRR!  Then he went into examples of it.  Oh my G—–Seriously, makes me want to go sit up in the restaurant and glare at every woman up there.  Do you know how many women have invited him to their house after work?  And when he tells them he’s married with children, they don’t care???  I told him he just needs to make himself fat and ugly.  It’s ok that I think he’s hot, and I don’t mind if someone else thinks he’s cute, but when he tells he is married with little kids at home, apologize and back off man.  Can you tell I’m still hot about this?

And it’s not like switching restaurants is going to make it better.  It happens at every restaurant.  Lots of American women like to go to Mexican restaurants to ogle the eye candy.  And he’s not going to leave the restaurant business.  He wants to start his own, which is why he continues to work them, he wants to know as much as he can before he starts his.

Oh back to the part that made me laugh.  He told me that he’s been wanting to talk to me about possibly getting pregnant before he leaves.  Cuz he really wants another boy.  And he wants one with his last name.  He adores Jordan, and Jordan is his son in every way but name.  But, Pato is the last male member of his family to carry on his last name.  And he wants a boy to keep it going.  Have you guys noticed the way Pato likes to have girls?  I don’t think he’s going to be guaranteed a boy next time.  LOL  And I will tell you this, I’m not going to keep trying til we get another boy.  I’m 33 now.  No. 

I said to him, Pato – I’m a little stretched thin right now.  If we got pregnant right now I would have a 9 year old, a 4 year old, a not even 2 year old, and a new born at the same time.  I don’t know if I could do it.  I really really don’t.  LOL  THEN he starts laughing and says, but it would be funny if we had twins.  Look, Jessica Alba is having them (is she really?  I hadn’t read that.), Jennifer Lopez is having them, Angelina Jolie is having them (another I don’t know if she is or not.)  I was like, um, I’m not Angeline, Jessica, or Jennifer.  ROFL  I think I would go nutty.

He also told me that the reason he hasn’t left for Mexico, he keeps changing the date, is because as much as he wants to see his dad, he can’t imagine leaving me and the kids for more than a couple of day.  He doesn’t know how he can do it.  Is that not the sweetest thing? 

I’ve got to take a moment to give thanks to the wives of, families of, and to our armed forces who aren’t with their families right now.  We’re just looking at a month.  And it scares me.  You guys are the backbone of our country and you deserve all of our thanks, love, and support.  It kind of makes me feel selfish worrying so much about our month we are looking at.

Back to being pregnant.  I haven’t lost the 30 pounds that I have to go still from the 70 I gained with Kat.  I lost of my weight from Alyce in the first 4 days.  And I want to lose that weight.  My OB told me at my 6 week check after I had Alyce that she can’t tell me what caused my preeclampsia.  And I said, if I lose weight will it help?  For next time?  And she said it might, but she couldn’t guarantee it.  But, I want to lose that weight before I get pregnant again.  Being on bed rest for 17 weeks was not my idea of a good time.  And than all the problems Alyce had being born just 3 weeks early.  I want to be in the best physical shape possible before we go for number 4.

I don’t know if I’ll let him talk me into it or not.  I know that I wouldn’t mind having another one eventually.  But I want a house, I want him to have his own restaurant going.  But he seems to want it so badly right now.  I know it has a lot to do with his dad.  I’ll have to think hard.  I don’t know.

Ok, so, how bout those sales?  LOL  If you didn’t get by my blog yesterday, I extended my sale!

You can check it out in my store.

Ok, well, I’ve babbled enough trying to get my thoughts straight on all of this.  I shall leave you now.

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If you read my post this morning, you know I took the kids to the doctor today.  And we have the verdict on the sickies at our house.

Jordan has strep throat.

Katiana is constipated.

Alyce has to give up the poop samples.  Blech.

Jordan has an antibiotic.  Katiana has Miralex.  And Alyce has 3 test tube looking things.  I really think Pato needs to get the samples out of the diaper.

I know, TMI – but, I had to share.  EW!

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So, Jordan LOVED his party.  He was so happy!  Our waitress seriously had an attitude problem and was treating us like we were a machine the whole time.  Seriously, her attitude stunk.  I don’t complain about service in a restaurant very often, I’ve probably done it 3 times in my life.  And this was number 4.  And the manager was horrified.  He refunded the whole ticket and gave me a coupon for a large pizza, 4 drinks, and a hundred tokens, cuz he wants us to come back.  Not so sure that’s going to happen.

Luckily, Jordan didn’t notice.

Told ya’all I was going to blind fold him.  LOL

Doing the birthday dance

My little nephew Carter.  He’s going to be 1 next month!  Can you believe it?

Do you notice someone missing?  I swear I told Jordan to get in the picture.  And I swear he was in it when I put the camera up to my face, but he disappeared somewhere between then and when I clicked.  LOL  From Left to right – Alyce on my neice Taylor’s lap, Carter on my niece Sydney’s lap, and Katiana, who felt the need to take off socks and shoes.

Alyce enjoying the birthday cake.  Guess who forgot the baby wipes?  Those beads on her?  She brought those from home.  she thinks they are her pretty and where’s them all the time.  LOL

before cake – can you tell she’s still not feeling good?  We’re going on 3 weeks or so of this.  But more on that in a few.

The SpiderMan 3 cake

Katiana all happy with her tokens

Getting ready to open his presents.

Pato (who is in the dog house with me for reasons which will remained unmentioned) and Alyce

How excited can you be over a Toys R Us gift card?  Thank you Uncle Josh and Aunt Shelley!

The start of deal or no deal where he opened up the money.  See that bottom box?  That’s where the jack pot is.  LOL

Yeah, he turned in the rest of that stuff for the computer.  LOL  He was so excited when he got it.  And now I have a problem.  It came loaded with Fire Fox because it runs Linux.  When you log in to webkinz, it pops up with a box that has no scroll bars.  He can’t scroll down to get to his room.  (7 inch screen).  So, as of right now, he can’t play webkinz.  If you guys want to know what I’m talking about go to Webkinz, click on log in.  That box that pops up is the same box that you play in.   No scroll bars.  Can I fix that?

well, there’s picture overload.  He was happy. 

Yesterday he went to his dad’s.  And he came back crying because his throat and head hurt so bad.  He was up off and on all night, literally crying, not whining, crying.  Same this morning.  So, I gave him some triaminic and both him and Alyce have a doctor’s appointment at 11:30 this morning.  Alyce’s is because she is still having diarrhea.  3 weeks now.  She drinks A LOT, so we haven’t had a problem with dehydration, and this child loves crushed ice.  I get a baggie, throw some ice in it, whack it with my rolling pin til it’s little, put it in a bowl and she’s happy til it melts.  Then she throws the bowl at me cuz she wants more.

And that eye of hers.  In the picture it’s the left one, how swollen it’s getting underneath.  It’s been like that since a few days after I took her to the doctor.  But, I held off cuz he told me this cold/virus thing she has hits babies hard and that it would take awhile to go away.  You’re telling me!  I figured if I’m taking Jordan to the doctor, I’m taking Alyce too.

On to more fun stuff – the ADSR started yesterday!  And I got my first layout done!  Woohoo!

We had to scrap a layout using a template they gave us.  Use 3 pictures of your favorite person/animal, scrap it mostly in your favorite color, and use your favorite element 3 times.  I could so not choose a favorite between my children.  ROFL  So, I picked my little sister.

My favorite element was my Old Edges Frames – I use those so much!  The majority of the page is made with Micheline Martin’s Purple People Eater kit.  The rest of the Credits are here.

Now, on to my own news –

I extended the sale in my store until the 29th!  Might as well jump leap year in style.  )

And my challenge –

I will have my CT vote on entries starting tomorrow, so get those entries in today!  Post your link in this thread at DST.

1st place gets a $15 GC to my store
2nd gets a $7.00 GC to my store!

And if you missed my Trash To Treasure goodie I was giving out, it’s now in the store.  It’s $1.50 with the 50% sale!

It’s A Bloomin’ Mini Kit

Alrighty, going to hit a few on the blog train, then get the kiddies to the dr.

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*sniff sniff*  Yes, that’s right, my first born is 9 years old today.  Does that make me old?? 

Here is the birthday boy!

Jordan likes to decorate with stickers.  LOL  And his toy box is overflowing behind me.

I didn’t want to pull down the box with all of our photo albums in it so I could scan pictures of him, so I took a picture of the pictures on his wall.  LOL

They are crooked.  LOL  And Jordan’s decorating.  The pictures of him that are sepia were from when he had just turned 4.  And the caricature is from when he was 3 months and we were at sea world.  Uncanny likeness.  LOL

And the sister who had to get a picture taken too.  LOL

Alyce is still sleeping.

So, this is just a quick post.  I have to get ready to leave here now.

So, a little recap of what is going on this weekend –

The HUNT IS ON!  Trash to Treasure has started!  Start in this thread at DST.

Use your booty and scrap me a page showing something that you treasure that someone else might find kind of well, unique! We all have it! That one thing that we would never throw away!

Times are the same. Post your links to your layouts in this thread! My CT will pick their top 2 favorite layouts.

1st place gets a $15 GC to my store
2nd gets a $7.00 GC to my store!

AND everything in my store is 50% off!

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Have a wonderful weekend and I’ll be back on Monday with pictures!

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The HUNT IS ON!  Trash to Treasure has started!  Start in this thread at DST.

Use your booty and scrap me a page showing something that you treasure that someone else might find kind of well, unique! We all have it! That one thing that we would never throw away!

Times are the same. Post your links to your layouts in this thread! My CT will pick their top 2 favorite layouts.

1st place gets a $15 GC to my store
2nd gets a $7.00 GC to my store!

Have fun hunting for treasure and scrapping!

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