Even though I’m so sore I can barely walk from playing tennis the Saturday, we went and played again today. I am absolutely loving playing. Saturday we had to get a racquet because I didn’t have one. We found one at the Great Mall for $20!!! So with little investement we’ve taken up and activity where we will get alot of exercise and are having a good time. And MAN is it a work out.

When we were leaving the courts and walking to the monkey bars (Cassidy’s newest obsession) Cassidy said, ‘Mom, I can’t pull my tooth out.’ I told her, ‘Well, stop trying!!’ as I’m wondering to myself WHY she’d be trying to pull a tooth out because isn’t she WAY too young to be losing teeth??

Then as I tucked her into bed tonight I got to looking and she has FOUR loose teeth! FOUR! OMG! And to make it worse, you know what she told me? She told that the she was TRYING to pull her tooth out so she could get some money!!

Dammit, why did I have to go and blink?

So, awhile back I ordered some Mary Kay foundation from Eurcynia becuase Mary Kay is by far the BEST foundation ever and I was getting really low.

Well, it took awhile to get it because I told her that I’d come get it from her when I was in Bakersfield and that whole weekend turned into a HUGE disaster. So she gave it to my siste-in-law, who lived next door to her, who sent it to me without the apartement number on it.. but she has THREE (yes, the women is crazy ;)) kids and hey, when you have THREE kids, stuff happens!!

So I got it yesterday and with it I got a sample set of the Time Wise 3-in-1 cleanser, age fighting mousturizer, day solution (with SPF) and night solution. I was all excited because I’m a girl and that’s reason enough for me. I decided to start last night and use it morning and evening for a week to see if at the end of the week I could feel and see the difference. Last night I used cleanser, night solution and moisturizer.

This morning I got up and went in and repeated (obviously using the day solution this time). I have to say, after just ONE day, the change is apparent. Both the LOOK and the feel of my skin is already 1,000 times better. When I got my face wet I could still feel the mousturizer on my skin even thouhg it’s like REALLY light weight and you can’t feel it at all once it dries.

I can’t WAIT to see how my face feels in a WEEK if it feels so much better after ONE DAY!!

Thanks, Eu and Chris for getting it to me. Ben however, might not be as thankful when I start trying to explain to him that I MUST have a full set of this miracle!!!

[EDIT] I also need the Satin Lips collection because it’s the ONLY thing I’ve ever used that’s been able to keep my lips crack and dry skin free.[/EDIT]

Kids who are mentally challenged still ride the short bus to school. I mean, I’d figured that after all the jokes and stuff, they would have stopped doing that. Then after dropping Cassidy off this morning I realized that they still do, in fact, ride the short bus.

And I was reminded of all the times that I laughed at other people who were the butt of ’short bus’ jokes when one of the kids that Cassidy LOVES gets off the short bus and I feel like I’ve shrunk to the size of a grain of sand. A grain of sand that somebody should have kicked hard into the nearest puddle of mud and left me there to drown in murky hell.

I am very sensative to people calling other’s ‘retarted’ or making fun of people who are mentally or physically handicapped. Especially because of my awsome nephew Ethan who, despite having a slight case of CP, is one of the funniest, upbeat and smartest little dude’s I know. Why I assumed that these kids didn’t actually ride the short bus anymore is beyond me. I guess I just figured that it would be cruel to add more ammo to throw at a group of kids who already have a lot stacked up against them.

Ben assured me that God would forgive me. But if you include the second piece of chocolate cake I ate last night ON TOP of all this… I’m not so sure.

An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two, shiny silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again. The boy asked, “What is this, Father?”

The father (never having seen an elevator) responded, “Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life. I don’t know what it is.”

While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat old lady in a wheel chair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched the small circular numbers above the walls light up sequentially.

They continued to watch until it reached the last number and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order. Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous, voluptuous 24-year-old blonde woman stepped out.

The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his son….

“Go get your mother.”

Yesterday as Ben and I were dropping Cassidy off for school, her teacher asked if I could help them do some fish imprints this morning. I said ’sure’. I guess ‘The Treasurer’ has her claws in me already!!

I took Cassidy to school this morning and a few other moms were there to help too. Mrs. Anderson took some time to expalin to the kids what they were going to be doing. As you can see, they are REALLY paying attention!

Then we moms (who I think were really there for the ‘THE PTA IS DYING’ sales pitch) were taught by ‘The Treasurer’ the proper way to paint a rubber fish, lay a piece of paper on it and then lift it off successfully. You see, she has been doing this for 12 years now so she has it DOWN!

Under her watchful eye, we were QUITE successful at it!

It was a fun project and the kids really enjoyed it. AND, I got to meet a few more really nice moms who help out a lot so hopefully I’ll get to mingle with them next Wednesday at the Teacher’s Luncheon that ‘The Treasurer’ somehow managed to get me to agree to help at. Here are some of the masterpieces:

And then Cassidy went back to doing her school work like the diligent student that she is. (That’s her standing up talking to Samantha instead of doing her work.)

After school we came home and went swimming.

And then I mentioned to Cassidy that we should try to curl her hair now that it’s short. When it was longer we tried a few times and it would just never curl. It does now! I absolutely LOVE this haircut.