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Woo hoo - I feel like myself today!!! Nothing like waking up and feeling good - still coughing - but I feel good!
Although Sydney didn't spend the night last night, she called first thing this morning (at 7:15) to apologize to Avery again. While she was on the phone, I told Avery to go ahead and invite Sydney to still come to church with us. Sydney wanted to come with us since she hadn't been to our new church yet so her mom brought her over around 8:00 in time for us to be there for our 8:30 Sunday School class.
They both had a great time at church and hopefully Sydney will want to come back again. Maybe we can even convince her parents to come along with us too.
After church, we met Wes's dad (his mom wasn't feeling well and didn't make it to church) for lunch at Wing's - one of our favorite places. Aside from not seeing the Goldens at church, not going to lunch with them afterwards is one of the hardest things about being at a different church. Anyway, the food was yummy and the company was even better. Sydney came back over to play for a few hours after lunch before I took her home.
I had a few errands to run again today and arrived back home just in time to get a big pot of chili finished up just in time for The Super Bowl kick off! My prediction was for the Colts to win and of course Wes expected the Saints to win. I can admit that I was wrong and he was right - you better make a note of that, because it doesn't happen too often :) On a happier note, I made a homemade peach cobbler to finish off the evening and it sure was delish served hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top!
Oh, and how could I not mention the commercials?!? I think my FAVE commercials of the night had to be from Doritos. Especially the one with the dog and the anti-bark collar which made me totally laugh so freakin' loud!
OK, back to P365. This week, I'm gonna try and do a theme since it's Valentine's week :) Today's photo is of the mailbox that Avery made last weekend.
It sits on our kitchen counter and Avery leaves surprises in it for us on occasion. However, the main purpose of the mailbox is for us to leave surprises for Avery :) She checks to see if the flag is up every single time she walks by and is completely disappointed when it's not - pretty funny!
Ah, Saturday....Avery spent the night with her grandparents....I slept in until 9:00....can you say wonderful?!? Still not quite 100% well, but feeling a little better than yesterday. Maybe tomorrow...
It did me so much good to have a night out with Wes and time with my friends last night - it's amazing how much you miss that and how much it can re-energize your spirit!
After Wes woke me up this morning, we worked around the house and just cleaned up for a while. In the midst of cleaning up, I came across these in the dining room:
Yep, these would be the dead poinsettias left over from Christmas. Do you notice a trend? Things in the dining room tend to go unnoticed? Woops. I have meant to throw them out for a few weeks, but keep walking by saying I'll do it later. Well, later has finally arrived and I have no doubt that Wes is very excited!! It's stuff like this that drives him INSANE!
Anywho, back to our day :) Avery's friend Sydney called and invited her to come over and play so Wes picked her up from his parent's house and took her to Sydney's to play. I had a few errands to run and actually went by to pick up Avery and Sydney to come back and spend the night with us. The night didn't quite go as planned though. Sydney ended up missing her parents (her dad is out of town pretty much all week long every week) and went home around 8:30. This has happened once before with Sydney and it completely devastates Avery - she gets so upset and just cries. It totally breaks my heart for her :(
Ah, the miracle of a steriod shot! I woke up feeling 100% better, showered, and got ready for work. That's when the coughing started and the yucky feeling came back. However, I figured since I was up and ready , I might as well go to work. I manged to stick it out all day too!
It probably helped that I had something to look forward to tonight. We made the decision back at Christmas to try and get together with a group of our friends every few months for dinner. Tonight was the night and I wasn't going to miss it!
Avery was very excited to go spend the night with her NaNa and PaPa. I don't know that she was too gung ho about going to Jalapenos again (for her third trip this week), but I told her there were several different things she could get that we didn't have on our previous two visits. I think she also managed to convince her NaNa to take her to PetLand - have I mentioned she likes that place?!?
OK, back to our night out!! We met up with the Robbie and Beth, Jason and Tracy, Richard and Rachel, and Jeff and Beth at The Brew Pub. We hadn't been there in a LONG time and luckily it wasn't too crowded due to the two new restaurants that recently opened downtown. All the girls sat at one end of the table and the guys were at the other end and we had a wonderful time gabbing and just catching up with each other. The guys were definitely ready to leave before we were and had to pry us out the door!
We stopped right outside to grab a quick photo of the girls together. Those specks you see? That would be rain....
It's raining - a.g.a.i.n.
Avery is still in love with her new hair and I had to "fix it" again this morning - which also entails rolling about 5 little sections on the curling iron. That little step totally "makes" the hair though and it looks great. Too bad it rained all day and her hair was flat as a pancake when she got home :( At least she learned rainy days aren't good for fixing your hair!
I have been getting sicker all week. Started with a sore throat last Friday and it just progressed from there to a terrible cough, nasty nose, etc. After I had such a bad coughing spell that I lost my lunch today, I decided I probably should go to the doctor. I called my doctor and they didn't have a single appointment until next week - ack! So, off to Pri Med I went.
Luckily, there weren't crowded at all and I was only there for 1 1/2 hours - not too bad in my opinion. After x-rays and I good check-up, he said I had a sinus infection and bronchitis. I knew it was something along those lines just from the terrible cough. He gave me a shot that stung like $#!! but I knew it would do the job and I was glad to get it! Off I headed to the pharmacy with three prescriptions - cough syrup (woo hoo!!!), Biaxin (yucky to my tummy), and a nose spray.
After getting my medicine, I had a hair appointment that had been scheduled for a few weeks. As crummy as I felt, I couldn't cancel so I went out in the pouring rain, sick as a dog, to get my hair cut and colored. I must admit that it did feel pretty good to have my hair washed, head massaged, and be pampered for a little bit. Not to mention that I now look normal and not like a "skunk" or "Grandma" in the words of my sweet husband and daughter! That will be a photo for another day though :)
Wes got back in town today after an overnight trip to North Alabama. He decided to treat us to Mexican for dinner before church so we headed up to our favorite place - Jalapeno's. Yep, we eat there quite a bit. As a matter of fact, Avery and I ate there last night after her hair cut!! We do LOVE some Mexican food!
Oh, you can see the wave in Avery's hair a good bit more in this photo - don't know how well it will show up on the web though.
After dinner, I took Avery to church for Bible Study. Wes and I still haven't been assigned to a Small Group Bible Study, but I did receive a call from the coordinator tonight. She found a group for us and I should be receiving a phone call from the leader in the next few days. We are both anxious to get started and hoping we can continue to grow spiritually through this. We both feel that we need to be 100% involved in this church to know if it's the right place for us.
Avery was so excited to finally get her hair cut today. She hasn't had a cut since the fall and it was certainly time for a trim! She went in with plans to get it cut into a short bob again, but also wanted to ask Ms. Tammi about "getting it curly."
See, Wes thinks it would be a GREAT idea for her to just get a perm. I do understand where he's coming from, but growing up in the 80's I HAD these kinds of perms. And let me tell ya, they aren't pretty! If only I could dig up some old photos for proof....
Luckily Tammi was (un)fortunate enough to have the same aforementioned perms and recalls her damaged youth. She was quick to jump in and inform Avery how a perm would "actually" look in her hair and with a little bit of convincing, our work was complete :)
Tammi looked at Avery's hair and noticed how much body and natural wave she is starting to get. She finally convinced Avery to just get about an inch and a half cut off the ends with long layers so that we could play up her natural wave. Alot of the wave had fallen out by the time we got home, but you can kinda get the idea from this pic. I'll try to use a better one for a future day.
Avery is in love with her new hair style and has already made me promise to style it for her in the morning. Uh oh - I was NOT looking to add any extra duties to my morning routine! Here's hoping she can "scrunch" on her own after a little bit of training!
We even had to "picture mail" it to Wes. That would be a picture text for any of you not too up on the 8 year old tech lingo :)
Tammi said around 12-13, her hair will probably end up with a good amount of natural curl. It looks like there might be one more thing she gets from me - some curl in the hair!!! Cause, for those of you that don't know, she is 100% her daddy's child!!
Is it really February?!?!? Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday I was taking down Christmas decorations and here it is almost Valentine's day. {{sigh}}
Tonight was a fun evening at the Golden house. Let me recount an interesting little story from Sunday night to explain.
Remember our mad cleaning frenzy and the few little things we didn't get accomplished on Sunday? Well, one of those items was cleaning Avery's closet. Not so much her clothes, but the bottom of the closet. She had shoes, toys, and all kinds of junk just crammed and piled in there. The doors would barely close and stuff was just falling out. A big old mess that we had both managed to put off cleaning for several weeks.
While Avery was getting ready for bed Sunday night, I was vacuuming the den. She walks in, hops in the chair, and peers over at me.
I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I got - a big ole sassy voice of, "Mama, WHEN are we gonna clean out my closet?!??!!!!???"
I calmly turned off the vacuum cleaner and turned around to face her.
She quickly cowers down in the chair - obviously the fact that I am SO calm is a red flag - and immediately begins with, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have talked like that."
I continue to keep my cool and tell her that we will clean her closet when we get home from school tomorrow. There will be no TV tomorrow so that we can make sure we get her closet cleaned. I proceed to tell her that I appreciate her apology but I will not be spoken to like that.
So, we come home from school and immediately begin work on the closet. We make a lot of headway and although it's not perfect, it's certainly much more functional for her now.
End of story, right?
Wrong! You see, Avery thought "no TV" meant until she got her closet cleaned up. That is where she was wrong - it meant no TV all night as punishment for her behavior.
The funny part of the night came when we ate dinner (in the den) and Wes turned on the TV to the national news. Avery quickly piped up with the "I can't watch TV" to which I kindly responded with "I don't think the news really counts as TV for you." See, she didn't WANT to watch the news and that is why she was so quick to remind us.
Ahh, she really doesn't realize that we're smart yet does she?? Well, at least for the time being!
