So What Wednesday!

I participating in So What Wednesday over at Life After I "Dew"...join in!

So what if I have nothing to blog about, so I am blogging a so what post.

So what if a couple of the girls called me into work today for a little lunch and cake and I made sure to dress a little bit. I'm not loving my body right now, so a getting a little dressed up and putting on some makeup helps me feel a bit better.

So what if I am laying in bed blogging and putzing on the computer instead of cleaning up my project that is still half done from yesterday. I cleaned out the hall closet and the laundry room so a bunch of junk is lining the hall way and I'm in no rush to clean it up...so what!

So what if I picked up a couple of cute outfits at the local Goodwill today and I still have to clean out my closet. I promise I'll get it done, hopefully sooner rather than later.

So what if we have no food in the house, we'll eventually get some. I have to stock up for the hubby since I am going down south to see my parents in less than a week. I'm making him a double batch of chili, a batch of chicken enchiladas and a batch of lasagna. Hopefully that'll carry him.

So what if I feel like a bad wife lately. I haven't been cooking dinner or packing my hubby lunch, I haven't been cleaning much. I've been a pretty lame wife lately, so what. Hopefully I'll be better soon.

Have a good Wednesday everyone.

Little of this and a little of that!

Today is our 5th monthiversary, yay for us. We went and enjoyed dinner at another new restaurant in town, today we went to Limerock Road. It was a cool little bar/restaurant. Of course we took some pictures as usual. Here they are, we also had Nood with us tonight because I was headed to the boys house to babysit for a few nights after dinner. (Don't mind my rocking outfit, I came straight from work.)





We've also chosen a color for our bedroom (FINALLY!) It is a pretty green called Valley Mist, I can't wait until it is actually up on the wall. I painted the ceilings white last weekend so we are one more step in the right direction. Just keep swimming! :)



I'll just close with a little pic of the Noodle, we had just arrived at the dog park and this look is saying “Mommy, let me out of the car—all I want to do is play at the dog park, PRETTY PLEASE!”



I also played catch up on my daily pictures, here is the link to my Tumblr page.

A Calling

I'm not sure I've every really thought of having a calling before now. I was at work yesterday and had 7 patients and RN duties on another 2 patients--there were only 6 nurse on our entire floor (because 2 people called in...flakes!) but all that aside, I felt like this is what I'm supposed to be doing. I just reorganized my normal schedule and worked in a few more patients and took care of all my responsibilities.

I'm a nurse, it's in my blood.

I truly feel blessed to have found my calling. I feel like people go through their entire life never knowing what they are supposed to be doing.

The only other calling I feel like I have in life is being a wife and a mother. I love my hubby more than anything, and I love him even more when he says to me yesterday, "Just think honey, you'll get to celebrate Mother's day in 3 years with a baby in your arms." By him saying these things makes me think that he too is excited about starting a family. I love that he thinks about this stuff!

I feel like once I am a Mom I will have met my callings in life and I cannot wait!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Monday.

Rio

I went on a date to see Rio today. I loved it! It was so freaking cute! If you haven't seen it, run, don't walk to the nearest theater. :)

I got up this morning and I had a text message from Shelley (the mom of the family I nannied for before I was a nurse), it said that Jackson got hurt this morning and she finally got him calmed down and he excitedly said that he couldn't wait for me to pick him up today from school. She calmly said that she it wasn't today that I would be picking him up it would be next week (Shelley and her hubby will be in Costa Rica so I am watching the boys), well apparently he freaked ran to get the house phone and demanded that she call me at 6 AM this morning. Well lucky for me, she didn't call me, I just had this text when I woke up.

Clearly I couldn't let this little boy be so unhappy about his lack of Meg time, so I obliged the small child and picked him up from school today--he was my date to Rio. We both loved it. How freaking cute is he? I <3 him and I cannot wait to stay overnight with them from next Wednesday-Saturday!



I hope you all had a wonderful "hump" day.

Bling All Around!

A little bling here, a little bling there--here a bling, there a bling, everywhere a bling bling!!

We all got a bit of bling. Here is my beautiful Shine necklace from Ms. Ashley at The Shine Project!



I love it, I wore it proudly for the first time today and I'm excited about wearing it for the first time in the hospital tomorrow.

We also received in the mail today our new ID tags for the pooches.

Roman's tag:


Super's tag:


Lastly we also received today our Mother day presents for our Mamas.

Here is the one for my Mama:


Here is the one for Phillip's Mama (the pic quality is better than the one I took of my mom's gift):


We ordered all four of these beauties from the wonderful Angela over at AoDesigns who worked within my cramped time frame. I think she did a wonderful job.

Celebrating

Today I feel compelled to write about celebrating. I think celebrating is important, that is both the small and large things in life. Celebrating means living and being thankful for the daily accomplishments in your life. There are so many things to celebrate--the small things, such as today being hump day, the week is more than half over or the big things like birthdays and anniversaries.

These thoughts are stemming from work. I know I've talked before about my job and how it is constantly shaping my views on life, I know that I get too emotional attached to my patients and you know what? That's ok with me, I may get too close to them but I feel like I am better able to care for people when I'm too close. My past two teams all but one of my patients have been younger than my parents, all diagnosed with cancer. Boo hiss to the "C" word.

Anyways, back to my little celebrating tangent. Talking with my patients, I have never heard any of them say "damn, I wish I didn't celebrate more." I really don't know much more to say other than I think we need to celebrate life.

Tim McGraw sang it right in his song:

Tail Wagging Tuesday

I'm linking up with little Ms. CMae and Aspen over at Live What You Love for her fabulous dog focused Tuesday. I always love a chance to put Roman Noodle in the spotlight, and yes, someone asked last week, I do have two dogs, but one is afraid of the camera so for the most part Super takes a backseat during Tail Wagging Tuesdays.

This weeks theme is where our dogs sleep--for Roman who spends a good 90% of his life sleeping that is an easy one and I decided it would be more fun for me to just illustrate this in pics. Enjoy. :)

The Nood always sleeps in the car, he doesn't discriminate as to where--as long as his Mama or Papa is in the car, he can sleep.






He has to make sure he can sniff any imposing danger!


He can sleep at the doggie park.


You can all see that he is such an excellent help with the laundry. ;)


Roman can occasionally be found sleeping perched up on a pillow.




He has to have a bed in the kitchen where he can keep a close eye on his mama cooking and he can also be found here praying to the food Gods for them to have our magical kitchen floors produce a crumb or two!


Especially if I am at work you can find Nood snuggled up next to his Papa watching a Gator game.


And for a little extra warmth Roman can be found snuggled up to a kitty sibling.




But more than likely, our sweet boy can be found sleeping under a blanket!


I hope you all enjoyed a tour of what a hard time Roman has finding a perfect place to take a little nappy poo.

Pure Sweetness

**Fab Friday**

It's that time again. I love linking up with little Ms. Laura over at Between the Lines. Join up.

{Diet Mountain Dew, loving it! It gives me just enough caffeine that I need to get kicked up. I hate coffee, I don't want to ingest things with calories and then enter my Diet Mountain Dew! Yummy.}



{Books, I am definitely a book worm and we banked at Borders last week! Borders is closing in our area, so we went--spent $29.72 and the receipt said we saved $155.91. Score! I bought The Mommy Diet by Alison Sweeney (for one day, like 3 years from now, don't judge, it was $4 and I love Ali!), How to Make a Pregnant Woman Happy (I plan on sending that to Alex--my bestie's hubby, they are going to start trying this summer), Notes Left Behind, Promise Me (this is the story of the Susan G. Komen foundation), 2 copies of The Emperor of All Maladies (this is the biography of Cancer--it is supposed to be excellent, I bought a copy to give to my boss when I leave next month), and the hubs got 3 books. I'd say we did pretty good. Needless to say, I don't need anymore books any time soon. Wouldn't it be rocking to have a library like this one day?!?}



{My new blog layout! Jenn at Munchkin Land Designs, so kindly made me an beautiful blog layout, do you all like it?}

{Our little home, I realize I constantly grumble about not having enough but I'm wrong. I need to step back and be thankful for all that I do have and one of the fab things I do have is my beautiful home. It may be small, there may be things that need to be redone, but it's my home and I love it and I'm grateful I have a beautiful safe place to lay down my head at night. Not everyone can say that.}



{My beautiful furbabies. I <3 them as always. Poor little Noody has been having seizures lately--3 in the last 2 weeks. I'm definitely not a fan. Here is the littlest man after his seizure today, he's on my side--not a fan either!}



{Last, but definitely not least--my wonderful hubby. We have had a lovely week together. Nothing too spectacular just a few games of Scrabble, some reading and trying to get caught up on Criminal Minds (we love that show). Here is one of my favorite pictures from back in the when we were just boyfriend and girlfriend, lol.}



I hope everyone has a rocking Friday!

Book Review

I just finished the latest book by Emily Griffin. I love all of her books, I read them when they came out, I actually got into a debate with a girl about one of her books because I recommended it and she thought it was just terrible that it was about cheating. I loved it and thought it was very realistic. I wanted to say wake up girl, the real world isn't a fairytale!

Anyways, back to the book review!



It was another story about love and loss and about getting too comfortable in your current relationship. It was about a family of 4, typical-mom, dad (surgeon), little girl and little boy--then a family of 2, single successful mom and little boy. I don't want to give away the book but single mom meets surgeon dad and the story unfolds. Definitely a good read though!


**Spoiler Alert Ahead**


The single mom sleeps with the sexy successful surgeon but then not only did they sleep together but they fall in love with one another. The man sucks this woman (who desperately needs love) into his vortex (yes I did just blame the man, duh!). Then the man feels guilty, tells his wife and wants to work things out with her--leaving the single mom to pick up the pieces of her shattered heart.

I mean the ending would have been sad regardless if he left his wife and family or left the woman who he sucked into his world. I just feel for the single mom, that's all I'm saying.

Anyways, the book was a very good read, I enjoy all of her books. They are easy reads, chick lit if you will, always nice to enjoy something fresh and easy. :)