And now she is 11….

 

Random silliness…

1. Our Garmin GPS took me on some odd side trips this last week in Chicago – no way is a gas station in the middle of a residential neighborhood, and Walmart is not in a condo!  I am seriously considering a new one, maybe moving away from Garmin and Doris (what the Glitter Glue Princess calls the voice on the GPS – named after the secretary on the Charlie and Chocolate Factory movie).  If anyone truly loves their GPS, please tell me about it below – I am all ears…
2. My 18th anniversary is on Monday.  Wow – we MUST have a good thing going, right?
3. My birthday (the big 4-0) is the second saturday after that, and I have to fly out for work on it.  Fortunately, I have to go to Anaheim for a food science convention, and I am bound determined to spend part of my birthday doing something at disneyland that I never get to do at disney world – ride roller coasters!  For free!  With two roller coaster averse people in my house, I NEVER get to ride them.  Ever.  Sure the Princess is mad at me for going, but she wouldn’t want to do what I plan to do anyway.  Regardless, she has a list of things that must be purchased to compensate her for not being able to go.  I just need to figure out where all the pressed penny machines are and make a ton of them….!
4. Once I get back from CA, I’m having a reunion with my old room-mates from college.  Apparently we all live in Michigan now, so we are going to the Botanical Garden for a little “get to know you again” time.

So this is what it’s like to be 10…

This past week was the Glitter Glue Princess’ birthday.

She requested Shepherd’s Pie and green beans for dinner:

She wanted an ice cream cake this year – this was filled with strawberries:

On to the presents:

She got a renewal to her Club Penguin membership, and these little guys:

And lastly, what she wanted the most – a Kit doll:

Nope, not going there…

No election opinions here….  Move along….

Many more people can say it so much better than I can.  I’m staying out of it.

In the meantime, Glitter Glue Princess’s birthday is coming up.  I’m working on getting stuff ready for that.  I’m taking her and one of her best friends to a water park/hotel this weekend in leiu of going to the American Girl Place Store this year (but of course, she still wants American Girl stuff).  More on that later.

A belated birthday to my big guy…

Yesterday was S’s birthday, but he was sick, so we spent most of the evening helping him out.  We’ve all had a bout of colds going around – it happens nearly every year when school starts.  His cold just had really bad timing.

For those of you who got here from his coney blog (you know who you are – you clicked on his links), please…  Go back and leave him a comment for a happy birthday.

Thanks…..

To Grandma Julie:

A Birthday Post…