congrats!

to my brother who recently got promoted to senior chief! He is currently on the USS Gettysburg & ships out pretty soon, which means it's time for me to start on those care packages..

countdown..

to birthday party 2007..I feel like I' m doing tactical maneuvers or something.
place booked-check
invites sent-check
cupcakes ordered-check
gift bags-not yet but started
chips/drinks-not yet
plates, napkins & such-check
Got 18 rsvp's-about 1/2 of what we sent out which shakes out to 14 kids including Connor with a possible 3 or more I guess who knows they haven't rsvp'd. Luckily this place does not charge by the kid but is a set price which is bad enough..They let you bring in some things but not others which is weird so I will have to buy the ice cream cups from them directly, they sent out a coupon for a free dozen balloons plus I found a $20 off coupon in a mailer last week, every little bit helps.
I am still working on putting together gift bags who started that goofy idea? I am already paying for these kids to run around, bounce & consume sugar why do I have to give them a gift too? Personally now that I am a mom I think you should give the mother a gift on the kids birthday- I did all the work incubating, labor, episiotomy, breast feeding, diaper changing, sleepless nights where's the love? So back to gift bags I try not to make them too junky but I also don't want to spend a whole lot of money so stickers, bubbles, pencils, tattoos always big hits & I need a few more things to fill in some more I guess I will troll the dollar store after work.

doesn't everyone have a TB story?

well maybe not everyone but we have an amusing one..A few years ago for a very brief time we were living in the same house as my in-laws. C a 3 year old at the time in daycare full time came down with a fever, sniffles nothing serious just generic sickness. We didn't want to expose my fil to whatever he had so D couldn't sit with him while my mil went out, I think I was working that day & my mil was very put out to have her plans kiboshed, she blamed me for for C's being sick because I took him to out in the morning with damp hair & well if we weren't careful he could come down with TB, it happened to some body's cousin. So the morale of the story kids is dry your hair or you too could get tuberculosis..

laziest weekend ever

didn't do much of anything this weekend it was nice! Did some laundry, D vacuumed I think but other than that we napped, watched bad t.v., listened to music, fed C several times that boy can eat! Didn't grocery shop, cook, run around to ball games, birthday parties or any other ferrying of the boy around town. Well we did attend C's baseball party at the local park which has the sprinkler/splash pad sort of thing which he always enjoys.