Monday, March 28th

A great Monday, mostly!! While I was in the bathroom showering and getting ready to take the kiddos to daycare the boys were playing with my fingernail polish bottles in the jetted tub. The were first arranging them all different sorts of ways, and then I hear Lucas asking Zach what color of eyeshadow he wanted. They make me laugh!! I had to grab the camera and get a picture to capture the moment because they were having so much fun pretending to be putting makeup on each other! I dropped them off at daycare and headed over to the doc's office to get my allergy shot, but evidently it had expired in February, so they threw it away and ordered more, but the new vials weren't in yet. NOT COOL!!! So I decided to get rid of my frustration with a shopping excursion to Bed, Bath and Beyond. I got some new towels for the master bath, some pillows for the new couch, and new curtains for the dining room to cover the sliding glass door. They all look fabulous in their new location! After a nice lunch with the hubby it was off to work for me. And it was a pretty uneventful day at that!

Sunday, March 27th

The boys decided that the cat needed a bath this morning, so that was how the morning started! Our cat is hilarious when I give her a bath! She does this sad, mad, howling crap the entire time I'm bathing her....but she purrs the whole time too! Her coat looks so much better though!! I headed out for a run this morning....got to start getting serious about training for my half marathon. I ran 3.5 miles, and was down to almost a 12.5 minute mile! I wanted to go to zumba, but I had told Casey that it was fine to go see a movie with his friend. It was that stupid Suckerpunch movie...and I am the first to admit that I like it when hot girls are kicking ass, but not when it's a fantasy type/sci-fi type movie...I DON'T do those kinds of movies!!

Saturday, March 26th

Another big, busy, fun day in the life of the Coltrin's! We had to go get a present to take to Clark's birthday party, so a trip to Target was in order. I always stop at the dollar bins up at the front of the store, and today was a big find in the bins...butterfly nets! The boys went nuts, and of course had to have one!!!!! Casey was his usual self in selecting the present. Clark had picked out this obnoxious truck for Lucas' birthday last September, so Casey led the boys down the noisy, obnoxious toy path for Clark's gift! They found these little construction vehicles that make very OBNOXIOUS engine sounds, beeping, and talking! Casey was soooo proud of himself! : ) The birthday party was a dinner/pizza party at Bounce. The kids had a blast! I'm loving this age...they could run and play and have a grand ol' time with very little help from me... first time that I've been able to turn them loose at a play place like that, and just sit and watch them play their little hearts out! It was a huge success! After getting the boys tucked in, I decided to get caught up on my blog on the trusty laptop... the damn thing had other plans in store for me! The laptop totally, unrecoverably died! Huge bummer for me because I hate being trapped in the office to surf, or to update the blog or whatever, so no matter how fast it was replaced, it was a huge loss for me!!!! Luckily Casey's birthday was right around the corner, and he was dying for a new monitor. So I told him to order up the monitor and a new laptop for me! And thank goodness we'd just got our tax returns back!!!!

Behind, AGAIN...waaaay behind, AGAIN!

Friday, March 25th What a day it was! Lucas had another kindergarten readiness program, and Casey didn't want to stay home with Zach. So we got the boys up and Case took Zach to daycare on his way to work. Zach was NOT having any part of going to daycare by himself! He's so used to going with his brother, and he didn't understand why he was going by himself! I guess he threw a fit there as well, and was trying to prevent Casey from leaving. But of course he was fine 5 seconds after Casey left! They talked about math skills and preparation at the kindergarten class this morning. They got to do a project in the library using legos that they refer to as bricks. I have to brag for a moment. Tina held up the first brick and told the kids that they were going to count how many studs were on that brick. So they all count out loud to 4. Then she holds up another brick and asks how many studs it has, Lucas tells her 8 immediately. Stunned she asked how he knew that when he hadn't had time to count the studs yet. Lucas tells her, 'Easy, 4 + 4 is 8'. My little Mr Smarty Pants!! The lady that does all of the assessments also told them that next month is the PE and music awareness part of the program. And the best news of all for Lucas, her friends, a few of the BSU football players are coming to help with the PE part of it! Lucas is ecstatic, and can hardly wait!!!!! Dropped Lucas off at daycare, had some lunch with Casey, and then headed off to work as well. Grandpa had another biopsy today because that darn PSA keeps climbing. Fingers crossed that it's not bad news.

Thursday, March 24th

Today was the last week of swim lessons for the winter session. So the boys wanted Dad to come watch them. They did awesome again this week!!!! They did the whole station, red light, green light thing again...the kids do really well with it! I got some of it on video, so that Grandpa and grandma can see it too. The boys can't wait to have them come watch! It was an absolutely terrible day at work...surprising isn't it? Yeah, NO, not at all! My good friend lost his job, and the whole situation is just absurd. At the most he should've been written up for it, possibly fined, but we have this person that is just out of control, getting off on firing pharmacists for any reason she can find...and two people above her that could control her but completely lack the balls to do it. We're all walking on eggshells, afraid that an innocent error could cost us our jobs...not a good feeling, and not good for business, especially when we're short staffed on pharmacists as it is, and they keep cutting our technician help as well. I'd jump ship and go elsewhere, and so many people wonder why I don't, but really it all comes down to my schedule and my kids. I work 2 regularly scheduled days a week, with no weekend shifts, unless I sign up for extra or agree to do it. A lot of places won't hire a part time Rph currently, and if they will, you are at the mercy of people taking vacation and floating around to cover the needs. So it's different days of the week, and different shifts all the time. And you know the saying, the grass is always greener on the other side.....maybe so, until you get to the other side!! We'll see what the future has in store...

Wednesday, March 23rd

As we sat in the parking lot at the preschool, waiting to drop Lucas off, I noticed that the check engine light had come on in the car. Took it down to the shop, and had Casey meet me there. It was due for an oil change too, but it's such an inconvenience to change your plans for the day in the middle of the morning!! Turned out not to be anything serious....he wants me to wait until the light comes on again to replace the sensor. And since they have to tear it apart to do that, they might as well do the super expensive 70,000 mile maintenance which includes replacing the timing belt and water pump, at the same time to save some money on labor. So of course, it increases my NEED/DESIRE for a new car! Home to do some research, but alas, I wasn't able to con the hubby into a new car yet...since I still owe a new Chevy Traverse worth of student loans! Too bad I insisted on partying and having so much fun in pharmacy school, that I'm still paying for it, 8 years after graduation!!!! Papa Ron and Grandma Mar came by for a quick visit on their way home from a doctor's appointment downtown. The boys were so happy to see them, even if only briefly! And Lucas fell in love with Papa's new car...a 1956 Chevy Nomad wagon. It's purple and black, and Lucas has decided it's not too loud, unlike the T bucket! He can't wait to go for a ride in it with Papa! They had found a couple of t-shirts for the boys, and they couldn't have been more fitting! Zach's says 'little stinker' and Lucas' shirt says, 'let's face it, I'm in charge'....nuf said!!

Better way late than never, right?!?

The laptop died, and I've been oh sooooo busy...and unfortunately, this is at the bottom of the priority list. So, I'll hit the highlights from the past couple of weeks! I've also activated a couple of new ways to do posts, so hopefully that will help increase the frequency of posting! I'll get as many posts done today as possible, but there are sooo, so many....

Tuesday, March 22nd The boys woke up ecstatic about the day. They knew that they were off to Grandma's house, and possibly the zoo if the weather held up! So I dropped them off at Grandma's. I came home and went for a nice little run. Rounded up all of the donation stuff for the Youth Ranch, had lunch with the hubby, dropped off 4 huge bags of clothes, 2 gigantic bags of bedding, and several grocery size bags of toys at the Youth Ranch, and headed back to Grandma's. The weather was still a bit brisk and windy, but we headed off to the zoo anyways! The boys conned Grandma into joining us as well. It turned out to be a most perfect day for a visit to the zoo. The sun was shining, but it wasn't so warm that the animals were seeking shelter from the sun. They were all up and about! The boys had a ball! Of course that is in part due to the ride on the carousel, the many trips down the giraffe slide and the tunnel slide, and the geese that let the boys chase them about! While we were over near the picnic tables, checking out the monkeys, there were a couple of geese coming close to beg for food. They picked the wrong boys to beg from, my two monkeys took off after the geese and gave them a run for their money! The boys thought it was hilarious!! And I teased them later when the geese were flying nosily overhead that they were looking for the boys to poop on their heads since they had been mean and chased the geese...that was hilarious too!! Normally the lions are laying down sunbathing, but not today! I finally got to see the male strut his stuff, and man can he roar! He was even scratching one of the wood posts at the back of his enclosure, right up close to us, cool beans!! I now know that the lions are not fake! It was a really fun trip to the zoo!! To finish off the perfect day, I headed out to zumba! It is truly amazing how good I feel after that class! Burn a bunch of calories, dance my butt off, and have a ton of fun in the process! And people wonder why I'm so addicted?!?