This day 5 years ago...

A mother's treasure is her daughter.  ~Catherine Pulsifer

January 18th 2006

My baby girl is 5 years old!  Where has the time gone?  It seems like just yesterday I held her in my arms before she was taken to the NICU where she fought to breath for several days.  I'll never forget the feeling on being discharged from the hospital without my beautiful baby!  10 days later she was able to come home where she struggled with RSV that put us in and out of the hospital for the first two months of her life.  You'd never guess today by looking at my beautiful, healthy, smart, loving child.  There is nothing in this life that I'm more proud of then being her mommy.  I tell her all the time that God picked her out just for me.  I couldn't think of one thing I'd change.  I'm truly blessed.

Her birthday "party" is of course Tinkerbell themed.  She got new bedding, a scooter and big pink bean bag chair for her birthday.  I'm going to try to pick her up something else today before she gets home.  Having a birthday so close to Christmas sucks, she just got everything for Christmas so figuring out what to get her for her birthday was time consuming.  We also got her a Tinkerbell Ice Cream cake from Baskin Robbins.  Our favorite cake!  For dinner we'll make wings and fries (her favorite) and probably go to the gym.

Today was my status conference for child custody.  I was told to call "this number" at 9 a.m. & they'd give me the number to call the court room for my appearance at 9:15.  I called from 9 a.m. until 9:50 a.m. over and over again until I FINALLY got an answer.  The clerk informed me that Brandon didn't show up, so there was no status conference.  I was so pissed that I spent an hour calling over and over again, using cell phone minutes, and all of a sudden just because he didn't show up, I couldn't speak to the judge.  Believe it or not I was REALLY hoping to speak to the judge today.  I wanted to try to get a feel for him.  So now I must fill everything I want brought up in final orders through the courts before our final orders court date.  So looks like 2/24/11 at 1:30 p.m. is officially my final orders date.  I hope he doesn't show up!  That'd be a perfect world for me.  Either way I'm not worried about it.  I know he'll get some visitation but I also know my baby girl isn't going anywhere.  I just want custody and child support ON PAPER so we don't have to deal with this shit anymore.  It's not like Bella even has a clue who Brandon is anyway.  So this week (probably Thursday) Adam & I will go to the Mesa airport and get my flight booked to Colorado Springs from the 24th until the 27th.  Many exciting things are going on that weekend.  I get to meet my nephew Trenton, my mom is going to be there, I'll get to see my friends.  It'll be good times for sure.

Schools starts tomorrow and I am sooo anxious to see what it's all about.  It's been 11 years since I was in school lol I hope I can get the hang of it quickly.  From 1/19 til 2/28 I have 3 classes (Creating college success *required*, Math & English) on Monday's and Wednesday's from 11:15 until 3:45 p.m.  Sine the creating college success class is only like 6 weeks long, on the 28th of February I'll only have class from 12:40 til 3:45 p.m. Monday and Wednesday.  I plan on taking a class or two throughout the summer and then starting full time in the fall.  I hope I can maintain a good GPA but I'm terrified.  I have always sucked at school lol

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day! 

Four Day Body Detox!

We had a wonderful weekend together.  Friday we went to the gym then made wings and fries for dinner (a family favorite dinner) in the fryer. 

Saturday I had new student orientation.  It was from 930-1130 a.m.  It wasn't bad, very informative.  After orientation Adam & Bella met me there and we purchased my books and got my student ID / parking pass.  I then went home and cleaned the house.  You know Cinderella has to get her chores done before she can have any fun.  Later that night we met up with Brendon and Sam at Chili's.  A few of Adam's old friends were there as well.  Everyone was very friendly.  I had 2 drinks and we went home.  We're too old for that shit ;) lol

Sunday we got up and made a yummy breakfast, then loaded up the new AR-15 and an old microwave, then headed into the desert.  It was about 30 minutes from here, neat spot that you can tell a lot of other people go there to shoot shit up!  Adam loves his new toy and I see many more trips to the desert foothills to fire it.

We took Bella, her first time.  She loved it but mostly played with rocks and dirt!

After shooting we went to the gym for family swim day.  Bella had a blast and wore off some of her damn energy.

Monday!!!  We spent 140 buck on all organic veggie's and fruits or our detox.  Today is day one and my weigh in after peeing was 142.8 and I'm totally excited to see what I weigh on Saturday morning when our fast ends.  We're making smoothies for breakfast and just doing raw fruits and veggies other than that.  Lots of water (2 + quarters per day) and green tea every morning and night.  I hope this works lol cause ya'll know me, I'd rather be eating Mc Donalds or Taco Bell!

I'll post our results on Saturday.

New Year, New Me, New Us!

I meant to write sooner... but things have been nuts!

Julie got here Wednesday the 27th and left Sunday the 1st.  Thursday we spent ALL day shopping.  I spent a ton of money but it was much needed and it felt good!  I got new shoe's for the gym and a ton of clothes, oh and some perfume!!  Later that evening went to downtown Tempe (totally neat little downtown by the way) and had sushi for dinner, minus Bella who had 2 bowls of "Chinese soup".  She took a bite of a California roll though.  She didn't spit it out and said she liked it, but she didn't want another bit either so you know how that goes.  Friday we did more shopping then spent our evening drinking wine.  It was nice to be with my best friend and have some one on one time.  It was very refreshing & just what the doctor ordered.  She went home late Saturday, we spent most of the day chillin'!

Since Julie left a ton has been going on.  I finally got an iron clad answer from the El Paso courts, I will be able to appear by phone for our status conference on the 18th.  I only had to call them 12 times to get them to give me an answer.  I mailed the damn request on October 26th.  I guess 2 months isn't enough time to get a yes or no from these people.  Anyway, after this appearance, once I know 100% that final orders will be February 24th, I'll purchase my plane ticket to Colorado Springs.  My cousin's wonderful boyfriend George has offered me his truck while I'm in town so I don't have to rent a car or depend on others for a ride (yay)!  He's a life saver!

Tuesday Bella & I went to our first mommy's group activity.  I'm the youngest mom there by 10 years!  I felt really out of place but Bella had fun non the less.

Wednesday I toured La Petite Academy and KinderCare Learning Center to determine which would work best for Bella.  Let me tell you, KinderCare won by a landslide!  It's over $200 a week (full time) but extremely worth it.  Bella went for a "test day" today and have a blast.  She'll start full time on Monday.

I've got new student orientation on Saturday from 9:30 - 11:30.  I'm totally stocked to tour my campus and see what it's all about.  Adam is meeting me there at 11:30 so we can go to the book store and purchase my school books.  Thank God a friend of my from Cowboy's (yes in Colorado) is working at the exact same book store that day.  She's been an amazing help answering any questions I've had.  Looking forward to starting school in the 19th!

Today, they finally came with the part of our refrigerator that was broken when we moved it and installed it.  He also painted our living room (much needed) and fixed a few other things.  He was here ALL day.  I was bored to death.  Chatty old guy though, and very nice!

All in all, a great but very busy week.  Tomorrow (Friday) will be spent de-weeding our front yard.  The lady that lived here before us didn't do shit but sit on her sloppy ass.  At least that's how it looked when we moved it!

Have a great up coming weekend!