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That was one of the line's in "The Devil Wears Prada" movie that I thought was funny. I liked the book more of course, a quick and funny read, perfect for a bad weather day when I was preganant a long while ago, hubby took the kids out for the day, and me being pukey, stayed in and read this book. It was funny, and I love to read about fashion, though I don't make a statement myself.

Well, today I'm a bit queasy, a touch of the bug that's going through my house and by extension the children's elementary school as well. Just made me think of that line.

I lost this past week, 1.4lbs, so maybe I'm through my plateau, Snickollet gave me some good advice about upping the water and herbal tea too, so I'm trying that this week to see if it helps keep me on track with this. Dear mother didn't have too much to share, I didn't stay for the meeting b/c I wanted to work out and if I didn't go then, wouldn't have been able to that day. It was a good work out too, so I was happy about that. Hubby joined me and we did free weights together after I ran, the kids had fun in the KidZone at the gym, a good evening all around, we had a late supper at Panera Bread, love that place I tell ya, yum.

I was able to attend a charity event dinner on Saturday, my firm sponsored a table, I got to go and my sister, Buddha Girl and our friend Lorna came up for it. It was a lot of fun.

It was for the Make a Wish Foundation, brought back memories for my husband and I. Remembering some of the kids we met during Emily's chemo, kids that took their wish. At the dinner, one of the nurses from the unit spoke, she said that there was this one little boy years ago who just refused to take his wish, they asked several times, asked his parents, to no avail, he didn't want any part of it. When she finally had the opportunity to ask him why, he told her this, "those wishes are for terminal kids, if you take the wish it means you're going to die, and I'm not going to die"...the nurse that spoke said the reason she was so happy about the event is that over the last couple of years, they've made enough funds by fundraising efforts that that fact is no longer true, lots of kids get wishes now, not just terminal children. Extending that has made a lot of difference to the children they serve she said. This made me happy too.

It was a wonderful night, but bittersweet too. Remembering the days of worry, the months of worry about my daughter is hard on my husband and I. It was such a difficult time in retrospect, when we were in it, it was just another day, it was what we did, "small potatos" we'd call it. When I think of it now though, I don't know what made the difference for us, we just stuck together and got through it. It's event's like this past weekend that help me keep my perspective on things.

On a more perky note, it's dreary and freezing rain here today, I think I'll be ducking out of work a bit early to miss the freaks in traffic during the normal commute hours. Maybe sneak in a gym visit if I can too!

By the way, I love my job, have I mentioned that lately, I really really do.

We're hoping to put our house on the market in the next month or so, hubby is diligently working through the "to do list" though not as rapidly as I would have hoped. I like our neighborhood, mostly. I like the children's school, for now. But I won't next year, when they move up to the next grade and closer to middle school *shudder at that thought*, so we're looking at homes closer to my work, and in a better school district, geesh it is scary out there! Wish us luck!

Hope all you bloggy friends are well:)

Lots of love,
lil'sis