Nov 27 Thanks

Thank GOD we already had Thanksgiving while Peaches were here, it dilutes the holiday for us. My Wednesday evening brings Mitch on his Thanksgiving morning, but only to find him at work eatting dry cereal, but in a laid back mood. I sent him hoops and yoyo cards and was actually on the phone when he opened them and got to hear him cracking up. He thanked me for the laugh-which was exactly what I wanted. I spent a lot of time with him, because they were at work but it was a slow day. He said there is "festive" food at the hall but that he would go later. We talked about what we were thankful for, we both said basically the same things, eachother, our kids and our life. I also said I was thankful for him being taken away from me for me to notice bad paths I've been going down and having the time to contemplate better ways to keep him forever. Then
I sent my family ecards and love-everything is all good.

nov 22

what a lazy day..oh well!
The first part of the day was sunny and just as Ari kept praising how nice it was, the sky got gray and started pouring rain. The girls spent the day playing and hanging out, and I spent the day hanging out in my office. I had burnt a cd for Mitch last night so I was having fun designing a little case for it and I worked on our Daisy scouts pictures board. For dinner we pigged out on turkey tacos, then I washed Lili's hair. whoohoo..exciting ;)

nov 21

Last night I missed my hubbie so much that I watched our wedding dvd, it helped. It was nice to feel all that happiness, to see his smile and lots of kissing. Funny that the kisses usually get on our nerves, but not this time.

Today I heard from him and am glad to hear that he will be back to his base Saturday. I told him that its such a tease when he calls it, going "home".

Today was so fun at Kindergarten! First I got to take 3 kids at a time to help them assemble some projects. Then I got to go to an assembly with her class. I got very contemplative when the kids said the pledge of allegence and remembered how little it means to a child, but how beautiful it sounds in their voices. Sad to think the last time I went to an assembly was probably 25 years ago...eesh.. Today Ari was able to pick up her Brownies sash afterschool, she didn't seem very impressed. It would've helped to gotten to be in the ceremony.

Best of all, its Friday. Nothing feels better then the day being done on Friday evening and having the whole weekend to look forward to-even if there's not a single thing going on.

nov 20

Today while the girls were at school I just took a long shower. Rotten huh?
Anyways, afterschool I took the girls to Tae Kwon Do, then we dropped Xai's birthday package off at the post office on the way home and we went home for dinner.
At about 7:30 Ariana suddenly remembered she was supposed to be a her vesting ceremony for Girl Scouts tonite...GREAT. I knew they had mentioned it yesterday at their meeting but I thought it was going to be at their next meeting. SO she totally missed it. I'm mad. Worst part about it is that I had written on the calendar and just hadn't looked at darn thing today.
Total Bummer

nov 19

Today both the girls had early release, but for my little one that's actually a longer day than usual. This usually gives me an opportunity to take care of things that take longer than her usual two and a half hours she's away. I had only finished breakfast when Mitch called and couldn't sleep. We talked for so long about so much. It was SO NICE. It sounded like his REAL voice, like his usual happy self. He told me about his friend he's worried about there, he talked about the cold, we talked about what we wanted for Christmas..at which I exclaimed I didn't want no stinkin' Christmas..or presents. I know I still have to have Christmas for the girls but that I would rather wait to have Christmas or exchange gifts until way after he's been home a while. It just wouldn't make me happy at all to have something but not my someone its from. I told him I wonder all the time what it will be like when everything is back to normal with both the girls being in school now, I'm anxious to just get back to a normal day in the life of our family. He also mentioned that if I were going to mail anything to do now before all the mail going there gets backed up. So when we eventually hung up, that was the only other thing I accomplished was sending off his 3 packages: a game, a care package, and the toys the girls wanted to send to the orphanage. Those should make him smile.

nov 18-Lili's 6th

I decided not to attempt an actual party for her, so I did my best to make her birthday special from start to finish. I even stayed in her classroom with her, I didn't want to miss a thing. Who says once they start school you miss things?! The day was a lot of fun and she loved it. I took pictures and video and made a really nice smilebox. Mitch even made time somehow to very much be a part of the day and even sang happy birthday to her from a helicopter. I was running on adrenaline all day and just when I thought it was over, I got an email from my dad that he was sending my mom and my Xai to visit us Dec 9-16th! Needless to say my excitement went thru the roof and it took a while for me to calm down enough to finally get to sleep. What a great day!

nov 16-Lili had a big day

The day was pretty laid back. I helped Ari learn to make eggs, the girls had fun adding to their toysrus wishlists and riding bikes because it was very nice out. BUT, when Lili was running too fast, she fell hard and ended up with three big scrapes..sheesh.

I was really impressed by something Lili did today. She made a paper ladybug and cut and glued wings to the top, then attached it to a paper cuff she made. She designed and put it together by herself and then came and showed it to me. I was SO impressed! She said that she had thought of making a puppet, but that she decided to make it fit on her wrist instead so that her fingers could be the feet. I told her that she was brilliant and genius and told her that she had invented something, which was a cool opportunity to explain her the meaning of the word. She was so proud and excited and went on and on about her favorite things about the ladybug "invented" by Lilibugg.

AND tonite her bottom loose tooth was really annoying her. I had tried last night to give it a little tug, but chickened out. But tonite, we wrapped a little floss around it again, gave it a little tug and OUT it flew! ....sigh...my buggy