March 31, 2007

* grocery shopping by myself
* cornbread cleaning up the kitchen before i got home
* walmart

March 30, 2007

* being released from micromanagement
* the look on Georgia's face when she knows she's being naughty
* "do the shaking one!!"

March 29, 2007

* the canoe club
* restaurant.com certificates
* LOST

March 28, 2007

* a very clean and neat front closet
* screens for my front doors
* the garbage guys took the big tree branch that I "hid" in my garbage can

March 27, 2007

* my appetite is back
* i have energy again
* cartoons

March 26, 2007

* cornbread hanging with the girls all day so i could sort through clothes and switch out closets
* nolan and nate's babysitter being willing to have nora and ryann play over there, too
* dykstra family teamwork in picking up toys

March 25, 2007

* Greg Snyder (happy birthday!)
* the dentist telling me that i've been doing a GREAT job cleaning my teeth
* finally getting my baby clothes listed on ebay
* an afternoon nap

March 24, 2007

* georgia playing with candles at the Fulmer's
* nora reading with nathan
* ryann pouting in "her room"

March 23, 2007

* basically being able to lay down all day while I had a fever
* cornbread bringing me some nyquil to help me sleep at night
* cornbread making dinner when he got home

March 21, 2007

* my new boss assuming the best of me rather than the worst
* ryann giving us directions to palos country club
* nora finding liv and feeling instantly more comfortable

March 21, 2007

* friends who are willing to cancel their lives for the day to care for nora and georgia
* italian ice (has to be pink)
* being home:)

March 20, 2007

* for a pediatrician that we trust
* for the ER triage nurse bumping us up in line and getting ryann in to see a doc right away
* a bed opening up in peds

March 19, 2007

* a really great visit with cornbread's family
* ryann finally being fever free as of sunday evening
* homemade chicago style hotdogs

March 18, 2007

* going to church with cornbread - and no kids
* seeing my neice for the first time in a year
* a very, very clean house

March 17, 2007

* ryann being old enough to tell us she's sick (getting to the bathroom is another story:)
* wash machines
* not having to worry about having houseguests anymore

March 16, 2007

* my dad (happy birthday)
* really, really spring cleaning the girls' rooms
* taking david to jazz band and him being funny

March 15, 2007

* cornbread coming home earlier than expected
* ryann: "member when we didn't have tricity?"
* nora and dingo

March 14, 2007

* the electricity coming back on in time for most of american idol to record
* nora's ideas on how to fix the electricity
* the "new" camry starting up right away after the battery died on sunday

March 13, 2007

* totally casual dinner with new friends
* nora's new friend crying when she had to leave because he "loooooves her!"
* the girls coloring quietly together and enjoying being together (i think - this may be me projecting my wishes on the situation, but i will choose to believe this)

March 12, 2007

* watching a movie by myself in the morning
* being able to take a nap in the afternoon
* a day of family playing

March 11, 2007

* doug fulmer
* friends who have unexpectedly grown up
* memories of before they did

March 10, 2007

* a quiet day while i was sick
* going to bed early
* ginger ale

March 9, 2007

* cornbread coming home and making me toast
* falling asleep
* my fever breaking during the night

March 8, 2007

* the girls dancing
* georgia sticking her hands in the bedroom door trying desperately to get in
* decluttering our bathroom

March 7, 2007

* i think a dingo ate your baby
* homemade chicken and rice soup with lots and lots of chicken
* nathan and david

March 6, 2007

* nora and ryann playing "georgia the cutie bug" while georgia was obliviously playing with her own toys
* ryann asking jesus to be with her fingers during bedtime prayers (there's nothing wrong with her fingers, they just happened to be in front of her face)
* nora loving her woof

March 5, 2007

* honesty
* shopping by myself
* a really, really good night of sleep

March 4, 2007

* a wine tasting party with awesome food to go with each wine
* the hosts insisting that i not bring dessert because they remember having little kids (3 girls like us) and wanted to take care of me:)
* fixing the bathroom door so georgia cannot get to the toilet

March 3, 2007

* doug and nathan not watching the departed so that we could
* cornbread making me dinner after coming home from the grocery store
* chatting with my sister

March 2, 2007

* Wehemeier Portraits
* lunch with cornbread
* "excuse me, this is PRIvate" (ryann to doug and jenny)

March 1, 2007

* getting some ironing done
* ryann being a completely different child than the day before (back to her normal self)
* watching american idol with my girls