Easter 2010 and the Chicken Pox

Easter was laid back this year. We had a nice waffle and strawberries breakfast in the morning and took a nice walk through Garden of the Gods (I only got a little bit lost) in the afternoon.


Jack found his basket right away - I was pretty easy on him this year.


Lily finding her basket...




Lily came down with the Chicken Pox this week. We found these spots on her face on Easter Sunday. I first thought it might have been an allergy to either the candy or strawberries she had eaten that morning. She went to the doctor on Monday and the Doc confirmed chicken pox. She has been immunized and even had a booster at 2 years old. The Doc said some kids do get "breakthrough" chicken pox. This case was very mild and really, no complaining from Lily's end. She did have a fever the Thursday before Easter, but Lily said nothing was hurting her, she just wanted to rest and sleep a lot. I wish we had the vaccine when I was a kid.


Just some shots from this week. Jack can say "cheese" now when you take his picture.




Lily loves to play soccer in the house with our beach balls. I'm thinking I may have to sign her up for a soccer team!



Jack loves peanut butter sandwiches! I know, I know, I'm not supposed to give him peanut butter until age 21. But, we have no known food allergies in our family and Lily got peanut butter at age 15 months too and she is just fine. Hear hear to peanut butter!

April Fools

Been a bit of time since I have blogged. Life is moving along. I work 12 hours each week still and am really enjoying my job. I look forward to my work days. On the other days, I try really hard to have things to do with the kids. When the weather is nice, we tend to take walks and go to the park. On days like today, very windy, I took the kids to the drop-in daycare and did some Easter Bunny shopping. I'm focusing more on toys than candy this year. I got the kids one bigger toy and one smaller toy each. Not that they are in any need of toys - we have too many already - but I thought things other than food would be a good tradition. I also avoided the plastic eggs and grass this time. Maybe next year it will be more festive - I just don't want to deal with plastic grass all over the house.
Speaking of food...I am down 25 lbs now. These last 5 lbs have come off quite slowly, but they came off. I want to lose another 10 lbs. Hoping to achieve this by summer!



Jack can get up and down from the couch now. I find him up on the couch hanging out from time to time.


We had quite the snow storm last weekend!


Lily's been doing lots of stamping, painting and coloring....
She even wrote my name all by herself! I was quite excited about her writing out "Mom"!



Last weekend we colored eggs. I think Lily could have colored about a hundred - she really enjoyed it.

new blanket, fireplace

I have a friend who is expecting a baby later this year. I thought I'd make her a car seat blanket.


Her baby is due in the fall, so hopefully this will be useful.


We have a fireplace in our family room that is rarely used...until now...Many nights this week, David and I have enjoyed a fire.


Yes, still wearing the toasts I made. I'm addicted.

Credit Card Freedom

So, I cancelled my credit card today. Yippee! I have been meaning to do this for awhile. I was just scared. However, I feel I will use the "Bank of Jen" instead of Capital One if an emergency comes up. I have enough packed away in different places to make up the amount I had on my credit limit. So I looked up how to cancel my credit card and thought "So easy!" (see below). However, when I called that 800-number, I didn't have a choice to enter in the (*) button. I had to speak with a person and tell them "yes, I want to cancel" about 5 times. What liars those credit card companies are! Another reason I cancelled my card? I had an outstanding APR. I pay off my card every month and in return Capital One raised my APR by almost 10 percentage points. Oh, I'm sorry, are you not making enough billions of dollars in profit? jerks!


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Toast is tasty!

I'm done!!