I got tickets for the girls to see New Moon from the Twilight saga this evening.

w00t!

I know! I know! I am a kick ass mom according to my Facebook peeps.

What can I say – my girls love boys who sparkle and I love my girls.

I made them personalized buttons to show their team spirit.

I’ll report back monday on our evening and I might even give you my whole take on the Twilight/Bella thing.

Hint – I think Bella is a skank. I think Twilight was written for a very different audience than the one in the books. But that is a story for a different day.

Now, where was I? Oh, yeah!

I don’t buy into all the marketing crap thought of by these people to separate movie goers from their money. It is enough that I paid $8 a ticket to see the show. They don’t need nor deserve even more of our money.

We picked up a button kit that we can reuse over and over again at Michael’s. I hunted down some photos and added some graphics, printed them out, popped them into the plastic button holder thing and voila! My girls have custom buttons to wear. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy. It cost about $5 for all four instead of $5.99 for one.

I wish I had thought ahead and held on to some of the vampire teeth from Halloween. Doh! I forgot!

So, other than the fact that I rock my girls are going to have a fabulous evening. They are twittering and facebooking and excited much in the way the generation of females screamed and cried and passout when the Beatles came to America.

Have a great weekend!

BTW, I think my readers officially f’ing rock, too.

After being sick for over a year, being on 14 different rounds of antibitotics and then dealing with the issues that over medicating causes (rashes, yeast infections, etc) coming off all meds and getting better has been like living a different life. For a while the weight loss stopped. I can only say it was in relation to the meds as they sent my blood sugar wacko.

Five days after the ear infection cleared and I was off medications of every kind my energy level sky rocketed. I put it to good use.

I am ashamed to admit this but – after a year of being sick and not feeling like doing anything most days my house was a shambles. I managed to cook and keep up with laundry and not much else.

Eleven days ago I started in the attic and I have been working my way down. I have cleaned out every drawer, every closet, mopped, shampooed area rugs, washed bed linens, put winter sheets and electric blankets on the beds – if it needed to be done Colby and I did it. We unloaded so much junk and clutter – yet to look around you’d think we didn’t. I can’t even guess how many truck loads Steve took to the dump. We have hauled bags and bags to Good Will and the Clothes Closet Charity. I also have been posting things for sale on eBay and Craig’s List. My dining room is still piled high with things waiting to be picked up or sold. (If you have girls that wear nice dresses at Christmas between the sizes of 10 and 16 shoot me an email. I have some fabulous dresses I am selling for $10 each.)

As we deep clean I have started pulling out and organizing Christmas decorations. We start up stairs and work our way down with those too.

Five full trees upstairs. Four downstairs. Plus all the extras. It is a lot of work but so worth it when I see the excitement and joy of the holidays reflected in my children’s faces.

I have my Thanksgiving dinner planned out and everything is in order.

What have you all been doing?

I feel out of touch since all I seem to be doing the last two weeks is clean and work my fingers to the bone!

Who still makes your heart throb from your teenage years?

Yes, I was a surrogate. No, I did not donate my eggs. The child is a product of the sperm and egg of his parents being fertilized in laboratory and then the embryos frozen and waiting. I was a vessel by which a miracle occurred. He is a happy, healthy, well adjusted teen aged young man who knows the full truth. I see him usually most summers when they visit in Virginia.

The Bee – I would like to know your favorite mom moments for each of your kids and your best “wife” moment w/ Steve.

I don’t think I have one favorite moment. I have moments that stand out or flashes of the past that catch up with me sometimes and take my breath away. Things like Colby standing on my mommas coffee table singing or her first day at school or the way she cried when I was forced to work and leave her with a babysitter; Gracie climbing a tree and couldn’t get back down or how happy she was to start kindergarten or the fear of seeing the first respiratory attack raise its head; the way Steven wiggled to cuddle when he nursed or how he speaks so intently with his hands and holds your face and looks right into your eyes. I don’t know if I can isolate one thing so easily not even the moment they were each born. All three experiences where different and yet the same.

Wife moments are different and rest on a different plain. Most I can’t discuss openly. I can tell you this – when I look at him right now I still get that feeling deep in my stomach that is a tingle and butterflies and creates a rush of adrenaline that I feel to my toes. He takes my breath away. He gives me the greatest highs of my life and can equally drag me lower than any other person in the world. He is my everything. I don’t think he will ever truly understand how much I love him.

I went back to the ENT this week. The infection is finally cleared. The hole has to heal. In 30 days if it is not healed over then I may have to have surgery. On my eardrum. Eeek!!

I have to end this short. Absolutely no time this week. More later.