if you’re reading this blog, you are probably aware that we just spent a nice relaxing week in cancun.  the sky was blue, the sun was shining, the birds were singing…and my hair was making it’s tropical debut.  i reminded myself of the FRIENDS episode, “the one in barbados” where monica’s hair just keeps getting bigger and bigger.  here…have a look:

and now me:

you know it’s bad when strangers off the street come up to you and ask if they can braid your hair….multiple times….every day.

tennille sent me some pictures from her recent trip to san diego.  i thought i’d post a few so everyone could see the fun you had.  p.s. you’re curly hair rocks!!

i know - enough already with my birthday posts!  but i had to mention that i share a birthday with

avril lavigne

and google (happy 9th!!)

who do you share your birthday with?

nate had it easy this year.  not only did i pick out my own birthday present, but i had a friend go to the store to buy it, gift wrap it, deliver it to me at work; then i took it home, gave it to nate, he gave it back to me, i opened it, acted suprised and just like that, he’s husband of the year.  now, because he did such a great job of giving me exactly what i wanted this year, i was willing to overlook the fact that he forgot to wish me a happy birthday this morning.  it was only when he was writing the date on his patient’s chart that he realized his little mistake.  by that time, i had already received many well wishes at work.  even BIL sam beat him to the punch…he actually called me 20 days ago to get an early jump on things and be the first to wish me happy birthday this year!  i’m looking forward to a relaxing birthday evening full of MY NAME IS EARL and THE OFFICE, afterwich nate will have to study, and i’ll probably go to bed.  tomorrow we’ll have friends over for the real pary - complete with kit-kat cheese cake, which i ordered from ALADDIN’S yesterday.  yummmm…..

nate and i decided that magei is getting too much of a free ride and that it is time to get her use to a better work ethic.  now, don’t get me wrong.  she has plenty of chores.  but it’s stuff like make her bed, clean up her toys, put her books away.  it’s time she started contributing to the actuall running of the household.  i’m trying to come up with a few things that she can do that don’t actually in turn create MORE work for me and nate.  it’s obviously a work in progress.  to go along with this, we (mostly me) thought this would be a good time to maybe start the whole allowance/teaching the law of tithing thing.  now, what is a reasonable allowance for a 3 year old?  i made the mistake of engaging magei in this discussion.  she’s no dummy and starts out high; 20 quarters.  now $5 is a lot of money for a 29 year old, let alone a 3 year old.  i counter that with $2.  nate is listening to this from the living room and comes walking down the hall yelling “when i was a kid…” and “.30 cents!”  yeah, right.  like magei is really going to go for .30 cents.  she continues the negotiations and somehow convinces us that she deserves $3 a week because she is 3 years old.  how did she do that?  she is now saving up for a jasmine doll. 

We have joined the rest of the world and have added a blog to our site.  We rushed to get it up, so we still need to make adjustments here and there…especially to the layout.  keep checking back for new posts and the eventual redesign.