Last week, this week and then some...

Phew... okay so I am thinking I better get on this thing, but with all the house cleaning, school prepping, choreographing (yes, I will get to that one), baby growing, toddler chasing I beginning to think I fit this character a little more and more, but doesn't Cinderella get a maid when she marries the prince? hmmm, I will have to talk to him about this.

Well girls, Little Miss starts school this week!!!! yay - 3 hours, 2x/wk just for me, I am thinking a nice nap will do, nah, more like cleaning/sorting/scrapbooking time. She is so excited and has her new backpack(thank you Sleeping Beauty) and we are doing last minute clothes/uniform shopping today... I will post pictures where you can all find them for sure!

Prince Charming has been off doing work and loving it which means we are all happy because he is not crabby :) We actually get to steal away to downtown D this weekend for a parent's ONLY night at the W hotel .... thank goodness we were in desperate need of some 'us' time... no details on that one, sorry girls

I am teaching hip hop. pause for reaction. yes, hip hop to 6-14 year olds for 4 hrs on Tuesday nights.... I never knew i would LOVE *wink*wink* Disney music so much. My 6-8 yr old class is going to officially age me. I thought 2/3 was rough, um no, I am scared to have a 6 year old girl. they are crazy! cute, but crazy. Thank goodness they aren't real ghetto dancers, so my jazzy-hip hop is perfect and apparently they all like me enough to not quit yet. Nevertheless, it is a little odd with my belly but lots of fun.

Speaking of dance Miss F is hilarious and if you all are anywhere near these parts for her recital I may strongly suggest you watch, she thinks she owns the place!

Speaking of belly's, #2 is doing well and we will be back around the 25th for another ultrasound, the one where we could find out if it is a he or a she ,but we won't unless God wants baby2 to spread eagle for us :) and make it obvious.

I MISS YOU ALL A LOT and wish we could all be closer, just for the occasional drink or laugh. I can't wait to keep up and see you all, Belle, get on it girl, crazy Beasts are no excuse! lots of love

Sleeping Beauty

I am fixed...now everyone should know who I am .... I had to also think for a minute who Aurora was! Hahaha...It was funny because I just spent the last week in Aurora, Illinois.

Too many names...

I changed my name from "Ariel" to "Little Mermaid" - I can't keep all these first names straight. Can everyone just be their princess name? I had to do research to figure out who Aurora was (though all the golf comments did give me a clue!)

My 5 Things

Whew... after I got over my blonde moment I was able to finally figure this out! So let's see....

1. I'll start with the sad news... I talked to my mom and my grandmother is failing even faster. Apparently they thought she was going to go this past weekend, but she made it through, so now it is just a matter of time. I'm not a fan of growing old or breast cancer from all of this!

2. I spent the last 10 days in Chicago at the PING Junior Solheim Cup and PING Solheim Cup - 2 really big golf events. The Solheim Cup happens every two years and rotates back and forth between the US and Europe. It is a match-play competition between 12 girls from the US and Europe. The AJGA hosts it's own version of it for the juniors during the same week the big Solheim Cup is going on. Even though you girls aren't big golfers...I got to see some legends including spending all 10 days with Nancy Lopez! It was a great week and the US won both competitions.

3. My work life is super busy this week as I leave to go help at an event at Furman next week for Labor Day. All my information for recruiting interns for 2010 starts officially on the 1st, so it just makes for a lot of work this week! Stay tuned in feature blogs and you can see where my recruiting travels take me throughout the month of September....

4. I joined a kickball league with some people I work with which will start hopefully soon!

5. I love my church and my little kids in Sunday school! This week's lesson was on Jonah and it is so funny to talk to kids about the "big fish"!

LOVE YOU ALL!

My First 5 Things

1. I finally set up this blog! It took a ridiculously long time to create our "secret email addresses" and set this thing up, so we better use it for at least a month.

2. I almost quit my job - really, like, almost quit - not just I considered it. You know, "the seaweed is always greener..." [sorry, couldn't resist]. I was going to become a children's birthday party coordinator, but I realized I'd have to host 15 parties a month and charge at least $1000 a party for that to really work.

3. I have decided, now, not to even consider quitting until July. When I took this job, I accepted it with the understanding that I could see myself working here for at least two years, and I think I need to stick to it, even if my boss is a crazy man (which he is). I love the other people I work with, and I actually really enjoy the tasks I get to do and my job, if I remove my boss from the equation. So I'm just not going to worry about him. We had a long meeting today with our supervisor (who is over my boss) and we worked out some of the issues, and now I think there is hope at least for learning to cope with bossman, so that's a positive development.

4. No developments in the love life department. But in work and life in general, I am surrounded by people over the age of 45, and I think my future and hypothetical marriage is everyone's new project. So far, this week, one lady at work has tried to set me up with the man who fixes the copy machine; one has tried to set me up with a guy I dated in high school; and my trainer tried to set me up with another client's son-in-law's brother (yes, that is about 6 degrees of separation). Oh, and it's MONDAY! Being single is entertaining if nothing else!

5. I'm taking golf lessons.

we're really not crazy

I don't really fully understand blogging, but I feel like if I'm going to create a blog and contribute to it under the code name "Little Mermaid," I owe some kind of an explanation. I don't really know to whom I owe the explanation, but I'm just gonna put this out there:

We're really not crazy! We don't actually think we are princesses or that Disney is going to pick us up and make a special documentary. We just needed a way to keep in touch, so we thought - a blog! That's kind of trendy, right? And rather than make our blog private, we thought, why not expose ourselves to the world with code names?! Because clearly that is more fun!

So that's what this is. It's just a way to keep in touch. We are four friends from college no living four very different lives in two different states. But we are friends [sisters really if you're into the whole Greek thing, which we are], and we want to share those separate lives with each other. And, I guess, with the unsuspecting blog-searcher (is there a word for you?) that stumbles across our ramblings...