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To help the Mid-Ohio food Bank, they partnered with the Columbus Zoo.  For every 6 cans of food brought in, you were given one free admission.  With additional an two cans of food, parking was free.  We walked our legs off and had a really good time all for a good cause. 

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One of my dear friends that I went to Middle school with has a baby that is one month older than Baby M.  We celebrated her birthday last weekend.  It was so much fun.  My friend had this beautiful party and fairy princess theme.  She made little ballerina tutu's for all the little ones and had little butterfly wings for all the girls to play dress up with. 

Here are some of the pictures: 

My 8 year old G is developing at a rapid speed.  Recently we went bra shopping for her.  She doesn't have a lot, but she has enough.  I think she was excited about the idea of buying a bra but the excitement wore off and the bra is often folded and in her drawer.  Yesterday was gym class and when I helped her lay out her clothes, I laid out the bra.  She looked at it and said, "Are you trying to tell me I should wear my bra?"  I explained that it might be a good idea to wear it, especially for gym class so her boobs didn't jiggle.  When she got home from school she yelled down from her bedroom.  "Can I take this darn bra off, it's itching me to death".  I told her now that she was home it would be fine.  My husband asked what all the comotion was about and I explained I had made G wear her bra for gym class today.  She then confirmed to him.  "Yeah, Mom said I had to wear it so my boobs wouldn't JANGLE".  My husband got to laughing and said that maybe he should wear a bra because when he's jumping all around, his boobs sound like cowbells "JANGLE-ING"

Based on the results of G's nuclear testing and the result of some permanent scarring that actually showed on the more in depth test, we have proceeded to schedule her for Laproscopy surgery to re-connect her ureters and end this Kidney problem once and for all.  I'm both scared and relieved all at the same time.  G will have to have blood work and basic urine test the week before her surgery.  It is scheduled for July 11th.  (Happy Summer Break).  She will be in the hospital approximately 2+days.  I am not mentioning this to her until probably the day before, if not the day of. Otherwise she will fret to death over it.  I can't help but think of Baby M and the hopes that I don't have to go down this path again with her.  G had hoped she would outgrow this Kidney Reflux but she is 8 years old and no such signs of outgrowing it. 

The pros of having this surgery done is that it is 99.9% effective in fixing the problem.  It will eliminate the Kidney Reflux condition.  It will prevent any future damage or scarring to her kidneys and she will never have to have the VCUG test ever again. 

The cons are surgery itself and all the woes and worries that go with it.  A small abdominal scar.  Having a kid in the hospital for a couple days.  Anesthesia, etc.

I am a "glass is half full" kind of person but in the back of my head, I'm terribly nervous about this.   

                J                                 Me                            Hubby                        G                            Baby M

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I'm so excited for spring.  I love to see all the buds on the trees and the little flowers popping up.  I was so excited to see all the flower beds at our home sprout little leaves.  I'm curious to see everything the former owner had planted.  Are they Lilys?  Are they Tulips?  Are they Daffodils?  I spy some purple crocus.  When I lost my home due to a job lay off about 5years ago.  I left a Ginko Tree and thousands of very expensive bulbs.  I'm a flower nut.  I love nature and plants and trees.  So I can't tell you how thrilled I am that the former owner of our Home was really into planting flowers and ground covers.   

Last Friday evening my daughter G had a friend over to spend the night, J had a middle school dance, and the Dog and I had Hair appointments.  Hubby took care of Baby M.  When I came home from getting my hair done, G and her little friend had my good kitchen scissors, and a roll of tape on the front porch.  When I got a closer look at what they had concocted, they had chopped all of the sprouting flowers leaves from the entire front yard.  They had taped all of the leaves to sticks to make palm trees. I gasped and tried not to cry.  Inside I was horrified... (OOOOhhh My God, my flowers).  I said,  "G, what are you up to"?  She explained they were making palm trees.  I explained that I had been patiently waiting to see what kind of flowers the pretty green leaves would turn out to be and that I was a little upset that now I won't have that opportunity.   

Her response had me flabbergasted.  She said, "Gosh Mom, I didn't know you wanted these flowers, I thought they were left overs that belonged to the lady that lived here before us."

Out of the mouths of babes... 

Prayer:  Dear God, Thank you for my very creative Daughter.  Please heal my chopped up flowers so that I might see what they could have been.  Amen.

HEMA is a Dutch department store.  The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam.  Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands.  HEMA also has stores in Belgium, Luxemburg, and Germany.  In June of this year, HEMA was sold to British investment company Lion Capital.

Take a look at HEMA's product page.  You can't order anything and it's in Dutch, but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens. http://producten.hema.nl/

My husband is by definition, Mr. Beef.  This man would have potroast as dessert if he could.  I on the other hand really don't care for Beef.  Last night for dinner I made this wonderful Tilapia.  I was really surprised that it turned out so good.  I improvised the whole way through.  I took frozen Tilapia that was to be thawed first and put it in my deep dish baker.  I coated each one with Rice Wine Vinegar, I took 2 tablespoons of Dijon Mustard and brushed it on each filet.  I drizzled honey over each filet and then sprinkled Honey Crunch Wheat Germ over the top.  I added a couple of pats of butter and I baked them at 450 for 20 minutes.  They came out fabulous.  I served them with a side of brown rice and a side of Asian Style Green Beans from Robin Miller's Quick Fix Meals.  I altered the recipe slightly as I was out of sesame oil so I used Vegetable oil and stirred in a tablespoon of Sesame Tahini.  For the Green beans, I heated the vegetable oil, with 2 cloves of garlic, and one tablespoon of Sesame Tahini, add sesame seeds, green beans and add 1/4 cup of soy sauce.  The turned out really good.  For dessert I served pears with vanilla pudding with the almond extract.  Yumm!  Mr. Beef ate every bite...  :)

Extreme Makeover says we clean up pretty good!

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From Langerado to Easter...

My Hubby's Family wanted to know who my new Handsome boyfriend was at Easter.  LOL!