Happy B'day, Sis

Sis's birthday was last week. She's a teacher and this is the time of testing...so she was too exhausted for a real celebration. But...just wait until school is out. Then we will celebrate properly.

Sis and I are Irish Twins which means she was born before my first birthday.

Aren't we cute? That's me on the right in both pictures.

Just a Girl Stuff Post

I have sort of a confession. We really need to keep this between us girls. 

(Hubby...if you are reading you won't be interested in this one. Promise. Just girl talk.) 

Okay, I'm pretty sure he's not reading.

Confession: OMG I am hooked on shopping online. I may have to go into rehab. I'm especially in love with KOHL's. (No related sponsorship or anything... just love Kohl's.)

SPONTANEOUS

IS A TRIP TO THE BEACH!

The weather on Friday was beautiful! And the weatherman said we would have a "perfect" Saturday and an "ehh" Sunday.

Paint Like Matisse {HappyMess}

What have I done recently?

Not a lot. Mostly sleeping. Two separate trips to the Doctor in a Box. Major antibiotics. Two rounds of cough medicine. 

I thought it was allergies or a cold. Nope, when I went to the Dr. after 5 days (too long?) the doctor said my lower left lung sounded like crackling paper. It was either bronchitis OR pneumonia. But the treatment was the same...a major antibiotic. (And boy am I thankful for pharmaceuticals).

I missed 4 days of work!! I was in bed for 6 days!! Back to work last Tuesday. Too weak to drive. {Have I mentioned that I have an amazingly wonderful husband?}. 

Read 'Em If Ya Got 'Em

Goodreads is kind of cool. Feel free to connect to me.

Though....I don't go on there often...and sometimes I lie about what I'm actually reading. Not really. 

But anyway...it's cool. I joined the "Chick Lit Club" on Goodreads, thought, I haven't actually participated in the club portion...I do enjoy seeing what books they are planning on reading. This month I got an email that said they have chosen the Marian Keyes novel, Watermelon. You may not know this...but it is one of my all-time favorites. I was captured on the first page.

February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me. As he was present at the birth I can only assume the two events weren’t entirely unrelated.

I love that last sentence! So, if you haven't read this one you may want to check it out.

Thinking about some of my favorite books, you may remember my most recent favorite is: Where'd You Go, Bernadette? And one of my classic favs is Three Wishes. Plus, I love everything I've read by Jen Lancaster.

Going down memory lane I thought I'd share two other fun reads. The book, Heart Conditions made Sara Lewis one of my all-time favorites. It is Alice who finds out she's pregnant just after her boyfriend splits! (What is it about women having to do the whole pregnancy and birthing and maybe mothering thing alone that fascinates me?)

To make matters worse (or better?) Alice goes to help her grandmother and gets to do things like chauffeur her to the hair dressers during a blizzard. That's the kind of good granddaughter she is.

Here's a snippet:

"Shall I ask Mary Lou if she has any ideas about your hair?" Mary Lou was my grandmother's hairdresser."No," I said."I like my hair," I lied. Gram said, "That's unfortunate."  See? Priceless.

And finally, there's Katherine Center's, Get Lucky. Sarah Harper is a girl after my own heart! Here are the first lines:

First I got fired for emailing a website with hundreds of pictures of breasts to every single person in our company. Even the CEO and chairman of the board. Even the summer interns. 

Looking back, I may have been ready to leave my job. I'd like to give myself the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes the crazy things I do are actually very sensible. And sometimes, of course, they're just crazy.

Wicked funny! 

Let me know what you're reading this Spring. I hope it makes you laugh.