Chloe Abuse

Chloe was slightly abused at the crop Last weekend and I'll be the first to admit it was me who caught her swinging from the chandlier. But it was Rachel who Bearnapped her and gave her candy, caffeine and champagne and Ri who almost stabbed her withe scissors because she was being so obnoxious and screaming at me " Take My picture! Take My picture!"

I'm thinking the Zoloft might not be working so well if I keep hearing Chloe talking.

Bad Little Blog Watcher

I've been very, very bad. I've been reading Stacy Julian's blog and she posted a picture of a new cabinet she had gotten from Pottery Barn. It was soo cute!
I found one on line and bought it
It was my evil scrapbook fairy that forced me to get it. But I'm sure I'm going to love it so that makes it okay right?

Croppin' with Chloe

So there we were about 35 women from 4 pm Friday to midnight Saturday night. Chatting, snacking and scrappin'. What fun! What a much needed Break for me! I played. Chloe got her picture taken with everyone there at least once. She had 4 different outfits to sort of mix it up. Her Pink Fun day shorts, Her nightie and robe after 11 pm, her cute bikini with wrap the next day and then at 7pm her last change into her TinkerBelle outfit that came in the mail with instructions that she wear it to the Anniversary Crop. Still no one claimed to have sent it.

She and Tracy won raffle prizes of stickers, Blane won some paper. Caralee and I nothin'. But I did get the items I really wanted at the Auction and betwen that and the raffle we raised almost $1600.00 for Jenny and her family while she goes thru Chemo and Radiation to try and help with meals and cleaning and stuff.

It was so awesome to see the variety of things that were donated to help raise the funds. So pretty and so much work....booties and baby stuff, page kits and hotel passes. fun time and I got stuff done! Chloe made alot of new friends and I put faces to names on the computer screen.

Adventures in Parking

We went to the Gateway for Lunch after the Frog's clinic visit the other day and when we got back to the van there was a Camry parked right up next to us in a clearly marked No Parking Wheelchair Access spot next to a Fire Hydrant. I was soo mad.

We had gone the rounds inside the Parking garage and couldn't find a spot. Finally lucked out on the one on the street and then that happens. I had to completely pull out of my spot, flip on the hazard lights and load S all while blocking traffic on a one way road!! I was so mad I wrote a snarky PO'd note and slipped it through the window of their car. It did have a handicap tag on the rearview but it had expired in January. How hard is it too look and see a van with a lift parked in the Van HCA stall next to you? Since I was blocking everyone else a security guard came to see what the honking and crap was about. I pointed out my problem and the fact that not only was the tag expired it was a normal car without hand controls and was not used to transport a passenger since the back seat was covered in junk and trash & so was the front passenger seat. Evil aren't I?

He was really sweet, explained what was going on to the other vehicles waiting. Then called the parking PD guy who not only wrote out 3 tickets, illegally parked, expired tag and blocking Hydrant access he also Booted the car! I heard him tell the Security guy that since it had probalby taken me about 15 minutes of hassle to load the Frog in & secure the wheelchair to count that into the hour and if the car was still parked there in 45 minutes have it towed!! I felt sooo vindicated. I should have slid open the door and just deployed the ramp down on their roof then blamed it on the remote and the fact we didn't see their car til we heard the crash cuz the van's so big and we were coming from the wrong direction. LOL

Chloe's Closet

I've been so busy no time to post but I'm so excited. I get to go play today and tommorrow with my SIU gals for a Scrapbook weekend. This will most likely be the only break I get this summer so I've been looking forward to it for months! We had such a fun time yesterday that the Frog better not complain at all about me leaving either.

Went to Mc Grath's for lunch after his clinic visit where he ended up eating most of my lunch too. (note to self...never go to the restroom B4 ordering again) Apparently he told the waitress what he wanted, then proceeded to tell her I like everything! I do. She suggested the Seafood combo which he said sounded good and that's what I got. Unfortunatly everything was battered and fried. I ate the stuff with cornmeal but gave him everything else and since it was all on the same plate got a little cross contamination thing going there. Not too fun a night for me! but he did do the red potatoes instead of fries and coleslaw which was the best I've had dining out.

Then we walked along the Gateway to Build a Bear to get a swimming suit for Chloe. He is worse than I am! It was so funny to see him looking hard at everything then choosing between stuff by saying, " Chloe will like this one better" One of the guys that worked there told him that if Chloe didn't like stuff she could exchange it, thinking we were buying for a "real little girl!" S laughed and told him "Chloe is my wife's bear!" by the time we left Chloe had gotten new shoes, swimsuit, PJ's with a robe, another outfit for summer, beach chair, beach tote, new hair ribbons and pantywears! She's not Spoiled a bit!

It was another really special glimpse into what a great Father he would have been to our kids if only things had worked out a bit differently. What a guy! When he asked me what I wanted for my Birthday next month I just told him I was preety sure I already had my present.......but I'm soo putting down a new Friend for Chloe on my Santa letter to see what he comes up with!! LOL