Good Laugh

Well we have snow down here but not as much as Crawford. We maybe have 2 inches. The high today is 11. As I am writing this I noticed it has started snowing again.
I had a real good laugh the other night. Mercedes was dancing around the living room just having a ball. I was sitting here watching her and singing the song, i got real puzzled for a minute. She keep watching something, it took me a minute to figure it out but i got it!!. She was watching her shadow. If was funny, and amazing at the same time. I was also surprised when later she came up to me and one by one counted the little ball animals she had, all the way to 11. the first time she said 5 6 5 8 , I corrected her 2 times and then she had it. She did it for my mom on the phone last night to. My how they grow!! On Thursday she will be 2. that means we have had her 17 months, wow how time flies.
This morning I was late for work. The first time in almost 5 years that I have been late. Well unscheduled late there have been a few times working another shift that I have called and told them I would be late. But opening you really shouldn't be late. I got up at the time I was to be at work, 5:15 a.m. I looked at the clock, ran to the bathroom, changed, wet my hair sprayed it a little, threw make-up in a bag and out the door I went. The lady at the donut shop was wondering what happened to me. I did manage to get everything made, registers open, and the sidewalk swept before 5:45 to open at 6. Not sure how I did it but I did.Well hope all have a blessed evening and enjoy the snow.

Start of another week. Our Internet wasn't working for a couple of days, amazing how you miss it when you can't use it. Not much going on here. Mercedes and i went to our friend Angie's house tonight. Things went good till Mercedes decided to color on her wall. Right in the middle of the front room. I felt so bad I will now be there painting one of these days. That's okay though cause we have a lot of fun.
Tomorrow Chip and I get to attend a class on guardianship. 3 hours long, wonder what all we are gonna learn? It is required by the courts, so we have to attend and pass.
The wind as been horrible down here. From what i read from Jody it has been up there to. I am SO SICK of it. Mercedes played outside for a while yesterday but the wind was driving her nuts. Well I better get Mercedes in the tub and try to get all the marker off her leg she just showed me.

A fun Weekend

Welcome a new week!!
This weekend was busy for us we went to Chips brother Cinch's for a late Christmas. Everyone was there and we had a wonderful time. Mercedes enjoyed playing with the kids and aunts, uncles, Grandma and Papa. She got a Pablo,(backyardigans) from Cinch's family that she just loves, a book from Latigo's family that has moving pictures she reads constantly, and a stroller from grandma and papa she has everything piled in. A wonderful lunch was served and good conversation was held.
Sunday we went to a hockey game in Kearney. Mercedes stayed with friends. It was a good game, Fargo won 4-2. Only 1 fight and not much of one. We were in a suite with pizza and popcorn provided we just had to buy drinks which was a bummer from last year, they provided pizza, popcorn, and drinks then. A bottle of pop was $2.75, thank god we didn't drink beer at $4.75 for small draft. But we had fun. We did a little shopping then came home. Mercedes had a fun time at Carlos and Angies.

Work

I hope everybodys day went good. Today I am dragging! I ended up working yesterday from 5 a.m. to 12:30 and 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 then turned around to be back at 5 a.m. today. I guess that is the joy of being assistant manager. My boss has been ready to smack me the last 2 days, I guess I have been a smarta**.If nothing else to relieves the stress of worrying about who is going to work.
Mercedes had fun over at our friends house she played hard with the 2 kids. She is so funny. She loves Carlos(he,s 7) typical boy running, slideing, falling over, and flips. Mercedes laughs so hard at him. Well i hope you all have a good day tomorrow.

Back to the old grind

So Chip has been off work for the holidays. He worked Monday and Tuesday before Christmas and finally went back to work today. The babysitter has also been off, needless to say Chip was ready for Mercedes to go to daycare and get back on her routine. So today I get a call Chips pickup won't start, he needes me to leave work to run her to the babysitter. We get to the babysitter and before Chip even opens the door "bye, see ya, later, bye , love you." comes from the back seat. I think Mercedes was more excited to go to daycare than Chip was toi take her there. She always stands at the window and waves bye, she was waving today, I belive our waves back went unnoticed though, as she was looking at the tv the whole time.
We are a little shirt of help at work so today I was at the counter for the entire shift. I also had to do the side work of cleaning floors and such. I realized just how long it has been sense I swept and mopped the floor, it gave me a work out that is for sure.
As I am writing this Go Diego Go is on, Mercedes is so into it. She dances and sings and has to stand in the middle of the livingroom to do it. She loves Backyardigans, Blues Clues and Dora but I think Diego is her most favorite now. We went to the grocery store the other day and could not leave without Diego fruit snacks. Who care about carebears, barbie, and princess's.

Here I go!!

I had been thinking about starting a blog for a while, and well over Christmas Jody told me to start one. So with her advice here I go. 2009 started off quitely, so quitely we stayed home watched t.v., played on the computer and were all in bed by 10:30. I worked the next morning so staying up late didn't appeal to me. We haven't done anything exciting yet, work, grocery shopping, cleaning, the normal daily routine. We did have our good friends Carol and Fidel over for supper last night. Nothing to big, conversation and laugh at Mercedes. She is such a ham. She loves to set the table so her and "Grandpa Carol" set the table.

We have finally got Mercedes to say Grandpa. Grandma doesn't come out yet so we have Gramdpas and Papas it works. Mercedes knows who shes talking to, if only we could get used to it.