Family Reunion

We are headed to Atlanta for Kevin's Family Reunion. Exciting. I am actually genuinely excited for a number of reasons, one of which you can read here: www.redtopworkshop.wordpress.com. The other reason is because I love family. I love all families, yes even my own. I am sure there will be some funny stories to tell, but there will also be a lot of smiling coming from my husband's face. He loves talking about his family tree and the history behind his family. Plus, there will be 24 kids there for Sallie Rose to play with.

We had a great time with my Mom this last week and we are counting down the days until we arrive in Texas for 2 WEEKS!!! Yeah. Have a good weekend everyone.

Pre School Graduation

Sallie and Daddy at Graduation

Sallie Rose and the Easter Lillies

My little sunshine song. Sallie Rose is the flower on the bottom left. So cute.

We have had a really great week with her. She is now using the potty and wearing panties everyday. She wore panties to school 2 days in a row and did not have a single accident. This morning she had an accident while eating breakfast, but then she had a huge breakthrough and poo pooed on the potty. Then, she proceeded to do the poo poo dance. Yeah, what a relief. That was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. We are going to Target this afternoon to pick out her own big girl panties.

She is out of "school" until June 7th so I am looking forward to spending a lot of time with her and going to the beach and the pool. Honey (my Mom) is coming to town next week for a whole week so I am sure we will have a good time.

Ahhhhhh....

Sometimes I forget that I am only one person and shouldn't try so hard to do everything and give some responsibility to others. So, this past weekend, we went to Charlotte with Kevin and stayed downtown and did, well nothing really. Sallie and I just explored downtown while Kevin was in meetings. Oh wait, we did do something, we went to IKEA!! One of my favorite places. I really didn't get a lot though. I was super excited thinking I could drop Sallie off at their childcare, but the child has to be potty trained. I knew I should have potty trained her last weekend.

We had good weekend and I also got some me time for Mother's Day. Kevin got me a massage at the Ritz Carlton, it was as nice as it sounds, and I got to enjoy their steam room and I sat and read Dwell magazine afterwards in my robe, just because I could. Great Mother's Day gift.

I also saw one of my friends from Architecture School and that was nice (shout out Alexis, I know now that you DO read my blog). She is doing well and unlike many of us "Archi-people", she does have a paying Architecture job. Woo hoo Alexis, but I think she hates it. :)

Then, this week everything has gone back to crazy: termites in one of our rental properties, tenants doing major damage to one of the houses, Sallie Rose refusing to stay/leave/put on clothes/eat at dinner/bathe, ya know the usual. So, last night I told Kevin that he needed to take SR to school tomorrow and he asked why. I said, "because she is your daughter and you need to start doing more". He said ok and he did it very well. There is no reason for me to do everything for our child, except the occasional bath and bedtime that he does. I work too! I don't make any money, but I am doing a huge thing for him and he needs to step it up on the parent responsibility front. So, without complaining or fighting he did. All it takes is for me to ask him. He is a great Dad and will do pretty much anything I ask of him, I just have to ask and sometimes that is hard. My family says that I am mean to Kevin, but really that's what he wants. Ok, maybe not mean, but he just wants to know what I need him to do.

Me and my boo enjoying Mother's Day lunch. She is the ultimate Mother's Day gift.

This is SR showing me how to jump rope. She looks so sassy.

Red Top Workshop

Don't forget my dear friends and family to check out my new design blog at: www.redtopworkshop.wordpress.com.

I am trying to finally get back into doing design work while I study for my Architectural exams. Until I am an official Architect, you can follow how I am keeping busy.

Easter Festivities

Wow, we had a great weekend, except for the parts when Sallie Rose wouldn't walk and wanted to be carried everywhere because she skinned her knee. We ate with Grumps, Mayme, and Tara. And we swam and hunted Easter eggs. We had such a great time. Oddly enough, I feel better today than I have in weeks. I guess I just needed a good ole fashion dose of family time.

Here Sallie Rose is at lunch with a very large boat behind her on the Savannah River

Me, Sallie Rose, and Tara

Sallie Rose in her Easter finest

Mayme, Grumps, and Sallie Rose at the Easter Egg hunt

Sallie Rose in action hunting eggs

Sallie Rose and her friend, Wyatt (I Love that name), at school hunting eggs.

Sassy and Sallie Rose at school

I love Easter. I love the candy, the week at Church leading up to Easter, the beautiful flowers, the wonderful weather (we went swimming outside for goodness sakes), and of course the extended time spent with my family.

Therapy Session

I will be using my blog today as my therapy session. I have tried to be so positive lately but this is what has happened in the last week that I need to whine about: 1. Sallie Rose fell backwards down our stairs. Not fun to watch and not fun for her. She is fine however 2. Sallie Rose has not slept through the night in 10 days. This makes for a very cranky Mom and Dad, especially towards each other. 3. I have had 2 of our rentals broken into 4. I have had numerous calls from our tenants about prostitutes hanging out on our block every single night and conducting "business" on our block 5. I am waiting, waiting, waiting to get results back from a dr. about some health issues, nothing serious, but still waiting 6. I have been extremely tired, one because my child is not sleeping and probably due to my health issue that I can not get the doctor to move forward on 7. I have switched our Internet at the rentals and it has been an ongoing 3 week battle to get it up and running and then when it finally does get up and running, it is "too slow to do my homework" according to our tenants. All 45 of them have texted me every single day to let me know. You would think they were dying from lack of food and water, no just not getting good wi fi. 8. Sallie Rose has had a bloody nose 2 days in a row (probably from sticking her finger in it) and that teamed with the not sleeping has got me a little worried about what might be going on with her. 9. I haven't seen my family since Christmas (2 more weeks and I will see some of them, Yeah) I think that might be all. On a positive note, Sallie Rose was giving me "raspberries" on my stomach and she called them "Strawberry shortcake kisses". How cute is that? No pictures to post, my camera was dead this weekend.

Little mermaid and Cousins

The Litttle Mermaid. Look at all that hair.

Sallie Rose and cousin Blake dancing in City Market