tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49799101106233433472024-02-07T06:43:51.304-06:00In the Land of Tiger Lillies and Sugar Pixies“I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”--Marilyn MonroeKimmershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576506293080102953noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979910110623343347.post-55448341210500893382010-08-29T23:55:00.002-05:002010-08-30T00:41:36.440-05:00Weekend Cliff Notes<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just a strange way to eat a hot dog!</td></tr>
</tbody></table><ul style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><li> Kat Boo's 3rd Birthday Party</li>
<li>Always interesting watching the girls eat their food. </li>
<li>Clocked 10 mile route for Saturday's long run.</li>
<li>Hung out at home with the girls, watched Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory</li>
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</tbody></table><ul style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><li>10 mile run, best run I've had. Quite pleased with my time, nothing to brag about, but definitely have improved!</li>
<li>Trip to San Antonio, for Kathy's 60th birthday!</li>
<li>Parker rode a mechanical bull </li>
<li>Jancie (MIL) gave me a Foodsaver </li>
<li> Girls were impressed with some of the paintings on the side of buildings in SA.</li>
<li>Parker vomited in La Margarita, and then in the car on our way back to Austin! Always fun!!</li>
<li> Stopped in San Marcos at a Walmart to clean up vomit, buy towels and clothing for Parker. </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fixing my door!</td></tr>
</tbody></table><ul style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><li>Church</li>
<li>Cleaned out a vomit contaminated car; found living things in my car.You don't even want to know!</li>
<li>Brian fixed my driver's side back door. OMG! So nice to have a door that opens!</li>
<li>Target trip</li>
</ul>Kimmershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576506293080102953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4979910110623343347.post-51878757890252272562010-08-28T14:46:00.001-05:002010-08-28T15:13:52.750-05:00We S-U-R-V-I-V-E-D!!!!<div style="text-align: left;"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="color: cyan;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguHzLCgOVX-NGdVoueCww1fFvE9AOtLNZKNxkHJ0n-Vjw_9LeAFlHJHnp7CZRWwHy653M5B3e5c0RmaGZLrtW6TxMd_Wz2N97atYOOWD0EAL9a_1nVMFqlp-81AbCwoKVN64tzfPhKH63B/s1600/IMG_2674.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguHzLCgOVX-NGdVoueCww1fFvE9AOtLNZKNxkHJ0n-Vjw_9LeAFlHJHnp7CZRWwHy653M5B3e5c0RmaGZLrtW6TxMd_Wz2N97atYOOWD0EAL9a_1nVMFqlp-81AbCwoKVN64tzfPhKH63B/s320/IMG_2674.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like I said, We survived-the first week of school!!! No tears from either party, me or my Tiger Lily. For myself as a mother, it was a time of excitement, change, and growth. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">For my Tiger Lily, I can only assume, it was a time of great excitement, uncertainty, and independence! </span></div><br />
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<div style="color: magenta;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhcJhdKffEQ-C219BnBU459d9a7z6-iYW__BKjnpe7ppCE13jyiSS4elbLZAWMZW_L0T0JKDBVOkvXl-5meAw8xG1cT1wY6sjMFprQTGkuBz9JW57FxxJyYLjAJ_l38fbGhDBz6dusPn0/s1600/IMG_1429.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhcJhdKffEQ-C219BnBU459d9a7z6-iYW__BKjnpe7ppCE13jyiSS4elbLZAWMZW_L0T0JKDBVOkvXl-5meAw8xG1cT1wY6sjMFprQTGkuBz9JW57FxxJyYLjAJ_l38fbGhDBz6dusPn0/s320/IMG_1429.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Not only did my Tiger Lily have to adjust to new changes, but so did my Sugar Pixie. I believe that change was bittersweet for my Sugar Pixie. With no one to play with, or to torment, she was stuck only with me. She did though have free rein of the whole house, from my undivided attention to the sole use of the computer and television. </span></div><br />
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<div style="color: lime;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZBtN2WxscCLV3ovQ6HfZjwRdHRMFPXi9gBbhe5nk08jzymFdROW0xlG2qvEVsxQLnwMygwsLwloWkEvUgmyEvuLW7_lbqy-X6MDiB5LnFBPS1rr33rgJXO0DwdV9LyutUSxUtZqVa_Jv_/s1600/IMG_1427.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZBtN2WxscCLV3ovQ6HfZjwRdHRMFPXi9gBbhe5nk08jzymFdROW0xlG2qvEVsxQLnwMygwsLwloWkEvUgmyEvuLW7_lbqy-X6MDiB5LnFBPS1rr33rgJXO0DwdV9LyutUSxUtZqVa_Jv_/s320/IMG_1427.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhlKyKejnVDjlQxJQ2gAhWfRKn4IfTdmbVLv0sm6Il2ycvapris6s-8yMGfnQlJC9zdXI27yi-rIyRuvEclUtu2692bMcXVZN5WoDveirtTqXccxTfl0-yXMMksCKs2cKIFN_4adkRIdC/s1600/IMG_2706.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhlKyKejnVDjlQxJQ2gAhWfRKn4IfTdmbVLv0sm6Il2ycvapris6s-8yMGfnQlJC9zdXI27yi-rIyRuvEclUtu2692bMcXVZN5WoDveirtTqXccxTfl0-yXMMksCKs2cKIFN_4adkRIdC/s400/IMG_2706.JPG" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week was a week of going to bed with the sun still out, waking up early with the moon still up in the sky, finding the least congested route to school, trying to learn how to tie your shoes, walking quietly down the hall at school, searching for the gingerbread man, wanting to go to your sister's school, remembering to get a visitors pass, remembering mommy packed a snack and put in your backpack, meeting new friends, falling asleep in the car on the way home from school, learning to dress yourself in the wee hours of the morning, wondering when your sister is coming home from school, learning how to be a kindergartner, and giving your baby the freedom to be the big girl she wants to be, when deep down inside your not ready let her go and be that BIG girl! And for all of my friends this where I cry, in the comfort of my home, behind my lap top as I write my blog!!! Sniff,Sniff!!! :o) Should I say more?</span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">It was definitely a week of transitioning for all of us, I couldn't be more proud of my Tiger Lily and my Sugar Pixie! </span></span>Kimmershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576506293080102953noreply@blogger.com2