Monday, March 29, 2010

Dear Mali Sue


I loved your gift! I really love the Color Wonder set and the stuffed pigeon to go with the book! I'm sure I'll like the cupcake set as soon as W gives it back to me. He swiped them right out from under me and hasn't stopped baking since. He's kinda obsessed with food;0)

My Mom LOVES your card, she thinks I should start calling her 'Wonderful' as well, but I'm in no mood for it. I'm working real hard to get my way with her, but apparently, she's on to my tricks and she's not making life real fun for me. She keeps telling me that she's smart like that and I should just give up now, but I'm working real hard to fake her out.

I can't wait for you to come over again and play with me, maybe we can crawl together again real soon!

xox, eme






















Sunday, March 28, 2010

Island Time





It was a perfectly wonderful sunshiney day in paradise yesterday!
And it felt great to get back out to our favorite island with our favorite friends...and by the number of boats out on the water, it appears we weren't the only ones anxious for summer.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Eme 2 year pic and video


Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Today's the day: *updated*

* annual elections in our neighborhood behind these gates of hell. Lots of hard work went into this election. Lots of knocking on doors, meeting neighbors, talking...gawd, LOTS of talking. Lots & lots of good ol' fashion drama which included, but was not limited to: smearing ones personal name, going above & beyond the 1st amendment of 'freedom of speech', involving 3 lawyers that mailed out 4 individual cease & desist orders and 318 letters to every single homeowner about the legality of what has transpired, spreading vicious lies about ones personal life, using slurs to reference ones name and making up a big ol' pile of BS to gain advances. Yeah, it's been fun.

** My Kita girl has not been walking correctly. She has a really bad limp. So today she went to the vet and received an A+ on her health. She's just an old lady that has a limp. She does have a benign tumor under her arm, but all is well and she is in remarkable health for her age. The doc was quite impressed with her. She's also lost 18lbs and that had us worried, but nope, he said she's just no longer a fat pig;0)

*** Results are not so good for my Eme girl though. She was up all night with that same painful cry that we heard a month ago. I took her in and she has 'suspicious' urine, which would indicate another UTI. They are growing her culture and won't know for 2 more days for sure. She is back on the antibiotic and we will continue that for 20 days and after that they will decide what to check for next. The kidney reflux test was fine, but now they'd like to check for a blockage in the 'pee line' that might be causing the enlarged kidney and these UTI's.

I was pretty certain she might have another UTI during the night when her cry was that same painful cry as before, but after she woke up, she started holding her privates every time she went potty. My poor girl.
**** I swear, Eme Grace has sprouted in the last week. I looked at her Friday and declared she was quickly leaving toddlerhood and becoming a little girl. She just looked so grown up. I even snapped a photo on my phone and sent it to her Daddy. Her legs look longer, her tummy is fuller, she's more stalky and she's talking so much more. When Kris commented on it in the last post, I chuckled, because it's exactly what I've been seeing up close and personal.

**** Annual Elections: 5 hours and counting....GAWWWWW the DRAMA!
Got drama?
UPDATED: We pulled off another victory for the 3rd year in a row. I know this means very little to the outside world looking in, but for those of us living behind these gates, it means another year of peaceful living with NO harassment. For those that have been with me for over 4 years, you know what this means. 3 1/2 years ago, I vowed to make sure the ego ridden BOD that held such great power over our personal lives would never hold that kind of power again, we prevailed. This election was extremely important to us for more than one reason and I couldn't be happier. 2 months ago I wrote the date of March 23 on our calendar for the BOD meeting and I also wrote 'Celebrate BOD Victory' for March 24 on the calendar. My son asked me about a week ago when he saw it, "Mom, did we win again?" I told him 'the results weren't in, but I don't play this game to lose, count on it.' All I could think to say, as I walked past my nasty EX BOD neighbor who spent years harassing my family for our laid back boating lifestyle is, CHECKMATE.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

mopping

What I find to be rather interesting is the fact that girlfriend has never seen me mop like this..
I use the H00ver M0p Mate. I really love the fact she decided her new beach pail could double as a cleaning device.
She's smart like that=0)


& then got a little crazy with the mop...





Thursday, March 18, 2010

Pics & Suits

It's that time of year again! YEEEHAWWW! This has been the coldest Florida winter that I can ever remember in all my 16 years in SWFL and boating has not been on the list of things to do. However, with the temps back in the 80's this weekend, we are planning some much needed, long overdue island time. So in my personal quest to organize and purge, I decided to tackle the bathing suit basket....ugh...
(sorry the photo is so dark, my computer with my editing software is getting a makeover)I have a really hard time getting rid of bathing suits, even though some just look down right pathetic on me. You never know when you might have guests that forget their suit and we just need to polish the night off swimming or chillin' in the hot tub, so I keep a bunch in a variety of sizes, considering I've been a variety of sizes;0). I do actually go through a lot in the summer. They lose their elasticity from the sun & salt and I usually have a suit on every day in the summer. My newest one is the Flintstones looking one in the corner from VS, pretty Barney Rubble looking isn't it?
So I have fat suits, skinny suits, tankini's, bikini's, board shorts, 1 skirt one that I bought for a luau party and to many cover ups.
The grand total being:
14 cover ups
20 bikini's
10 tankini's
4 *extra* bottoms... which leaves me wondering where I left the matching tops???
& 2 bikini tops that do not match any of the *extra* bottoms. That must have been some night.
I've decided to purge 8 bikini's and 1 cover up.
So what's in your swim suit drawer?
Is this obnoxious or normal?

& few pics (right of the camera) of Eme getting her groove on with W's old scooter.


Her St. Patty's Day tee that we've had hanging in the closet for 3 years, it says...
"I'd rather be LUCKY than good"
Funny how it ended up matching her personality so well=0)

Friday, March 12, 2010

Rolling Along

I wanted to update Eme's status as A+ OK, at least the reflux issue is.
It was a test I was dreading and I'm thankful it's over. It wasn't necessarily the results, but the actual process. It seems so wrong for me to have to help console my girl while strangers poke things up in her that hurt. Not nice.
Again, it's a trust issue and though she was a bit pissed with Daddy & me, she seems to be feeling like her groovy self again.
I'm trying to keep the blog flowing, but every time I sit down to type something, I realize I really don't want to. Maybe it's all the stuff going on right now that is just to big to write. To big, to much, to muddy. I know the old blog had a whole lot of BOD drama, but I don't think those are the same readers and the history is just to deep to start explaining now. 3 lawyers are now in play and though it's all extremely positive for us, it still doesn't wipe the child like behavior away & I still have to see those same people causing all this bullshit in our life.
It's exhausting & I'm tired.