I gave the girls stuffed crust pizza with bbq sauce for breakfast.

Yes. It is true. I gave the girls stuffed crust pizza with bbq sauce for breakfast. Don't Judge Me. It has dairy, fruits and vegetables (it was my fave--tomato, pinapple, and olive, altho I hate stuffed crust. but I have to compromise with the hubby) on it. It was a balanced meal. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so why settle for a bowl of cereal with milk? That doesn't have vegetables or fruit in it.

Yes. I can justify about anything I feed the girls for breakfast. I don't tell them No when Gracie says she wants PBJ for breakfast. Go for it, girl. At least she wants to eat breakfast. And I can bet other kids her age are either not eating breakfast, or eating candy for breakfast (which I would NEVER give my kids for breakfast....except maybe every now and then. haha). Whatever they want to eat, I will give them. We don't keep junk food in the house (outside goldfishies, which I don't consider junk food) so there choices are mostly healthy.

There down fall (and my husbands) is Juice. They LOVE Juice. Which is all good and dandy, but I buy the cheap huge koolaid jug to save money, instead of paying 3.00 for like 24 oz of 'real' fruit juice. That stuff is loaded with sugar. So I water it down. They don't need all that sugar. I do get them apple or cranberry (good for their Urinary Tract) juice often. But even that is loaded with sugar (even the light sugar is alot) so I still water it down. Unless I spring for the Apples and Eve. I get them the Apples and Eve juice boxes alot, because at least those have servings of fruits and vegetables. They love juice, and down it. Like Crazy. But I also make sure they have milk in their diet (but not to much for Madalyn, that will back her up like crazy.) Madalyn LOVES fruits and almost all veggies, but Madalyn will take corn over anything else. Gracie loves corn, as well, but prefers fruit over corn. They eat apples (madalyn eats the WHOLE apple, if I don't take the core away from her) like they are going out of style. But, they tend to forget to throw the core out, and i find half eaten apples everywhere. I try not to get frustrated. What am I going to do, tell them they can't eat apples anymore?

That is our downfall. We used to eat at the table. Every night. Together. But with Vin's crazy work hours, that has become obsolete. The girls eat (usually in front of the tv. except I try and have them sit at the kitchen table for dinner), and when Vin gets home we eat in front of the tv. Even when he is home early we eat in front of the tv, with the kids at the table. we have got to stop that. sigh. I do limit the girls tv watching, tho. Except lately their room is soooo hot, so I let them play out here with the tv on. which I hate, but I am certainly not going to let them roast in their room. They color and stuff alot, also.

Ok. Now you know the play habits and eating habits of my kids. haha.

Tomorrow is Vins friends wedding. I am the DD. and for being the DD his other friends are giving me a bottle of Red Cat (for at home, obviously), so that I can pick them up and drop them off, to. (they live on the way to the wedding, anyways). The dress is casual. but idc. I am going to wear my black halter dress. I never have an excuse to dress up, and I will take any I can get.

This is my last week day before school starts. I am getting so nervous. I feel like I may puke. This is the last semester. The hardest. Half the 280 class failed last year. sigh. monday it all begins. What if I don't know my skills? What if I screw them up, when validating on Thursday and have to redo them? How sucky would that be, to have to wait a week and then go thru the torcher of validating again? Gosh. and then they would think i am an idiot. altho quite a few ppl had to redo them last year, (I didn't tho) and it wasn't a big deal. I am just worried. This is our last semester, and I have gotten by with a b+ (and A in Mental Health) the first 3 semesters without practicing, studying or spending any quality time on my paperwork. This semester is going to be the hardest. They are going to want perfect paperwork (which I HATE. I HATE paperwork. it takes to damn long) and we all know I don't have patience. We don't even have to do that much paperwork as nurses. It is all on the computers (which we have to do ON TOP of the stuff that's required by our instructors), which I can deal with because when you have no patients that need anything, you can look busy and prop yourself against a wall with a COW (computer on wheels). And frankly, computer filing is just so much more convenient. and practical. When we have clinicals at upstate, they don't use COWS and it is all paper filing. Then we have to try to decipher the doctors hand writing. It is awful. Once I thought the doctor wrote that the pt. was in for DKA (Diabetes Ketoid Acidosis) and I go in to the room, and my patient is missing a leg. Turns out it wasn't DKA. it was AKA. My patients had an above knee amputation. Those are important things to know. geez.

goodness. ok. I am going to watch Nip/Tuck now. or ER. and finish my coffee. Coffee makes the world go round. The girls are playing some weird dress up cooking game. They dress like princess' and serve me food. hahaa.

oh!! I discovered that in order to 'left click' I don't have to push control and click. I can just put two fingers on the mouse pad thing, and click down my left finger. how cool is that? and I can scroll down by moving two fingers down the pad, but if I only move one, or more than 2, it does nothing. Dear Mac, I LOVE you.

au revoir