Sunday morning, I found myself in pain, really bad pain.
After a trip to the ER it was confirmed, that yes,  I have a kidney stone.

This is my third.

It’s still hanging around causing problems. The other two attacks have not been as bad as the first one, so I’ve just managed the pain here at the house.

I hate kidney stones. It will not hurt my feelings if I never get another one.

Poor Sarah & Audrey cried seeing their momma in pain. Audrey almost passed out when I started throwing up in the hospital. It’s funny to hear her explain it. I think it scared her more than anything.

Emily was there too. She didn’t look up from the game she was playing on her ds. Not because it was taking her mind off of my pain, she was just that  into her game. Nothing phases that girl.

I’ve gone through 2 bags of Hershey Kisses since Sunday. They comfort me. And make it all better.

The following pictures were taken with Wayne’s lens. {I can’t remember which one it is} I couldn’t figure it out when I played around with it. While I was resting Monday David took a couple pictures with it.

I don’t know if he took this one with the lens or not. But someone was asking about the pink door awhile back and I never posted a picture. So, here ya go.

My computer is being stupid. In the middle of typing the cursor will move to another spot in the post, deleting what is already there and put the new stuff in. (sigh) Any idea why?

Hope to get around to visit with y’all today!

The past few weeks have told me otherwise.

We took a group of teens to Winter Jam a couple weeks ago and took Emily & Audrey along.  I wanted to sit with them, so we could enjoy their first concert together. We got all mixed up, David and I were in the first seats, the girls in the middle.

The whole time I’m thinking, I bet the girls wish we were sitting by them, I kept telling David I wanted to go sit with them, and at one point I did, and then I got the look. You know the look. They only talked to me when I asked them a question, then went back to talking with their friends. I took the hint and went back to my seat. HA!

As far as embarrassing them, I found out a couple years ago, I do that by just leaving the house, they started asking, are you wearing that? are you changing before we leave? or waving strangers down in Wal-Mart thinking I know them, only to find out, um, no I don’t.

As far as getting on their nerves, I always knew I did as a mom, reminding them to pick this up, brush their hair, or clean their room. I just didn’t realize I got on their nerves like, ya know, get on their nerves.

Until yesterday.

A couple months ago, Emily & Audrey got a texting app for their ipods so they could text their friends for free. And David put it on my ipod the other day so I could text my friends for free *haha*

Thing is, I didn’t know how to use it, and the girls had to show me how (I’m so 80’s) I wanted to know how to get it to ding when I received a message. I could not figure it out. So, I kept texting them, telling them text me back so I could see if I fixed it.

After a while, this is the text I got back from Audrey.

Child would rather fold towels than help her momma out! I think I might start texting them all day long if it will get housework out of them.

What makes it even more funny {to me} is last night I ran across a site called When Parents Text off a friends twitter feed. So funny.

As I was reading some of the text to David and the girls, the conversation turned to my texting from earlier in the day. The girls read the texts to David, then Emily went on to show us what Audrey would do when her ipod would ding.

Ya know the walk, when one sighs,and rolls their eyes, because something {or in this case someone} is getting on their nerves. *haha*

The teenage years are going to be SO much fun.

For me anyway.

My poor girls.

Wonder if we should start saving for therapy now?

Well, off to do a little texting.

What do you do to drive your kids crazy?

Just a note, I don’t know why, but I feel like I need to mention, the girls are in no way disrespectful to me or David. We have a good time in our house laughing {with or at one another} cutting up and just being plain silly. Some might find out sense of humor disrespectful, or think we are being mean to one another. That is far from the truth. I know when David calls me heifer, he means it with love. As do I when I call him what I call him. (someone actually got upset because of our little nicknames but he does also call me smokin’ hot wife ha!}

{little game of Hi-Ho-Cherry-O}

{Sarah’s turn}

{Natalie’s turn}

{silly girls, makin’ silly faces}

My younger sister is finally here! We were able to stop by and see her on our way home Saturday evening. She is here for a month. A MONTH! Can’t wait to get together with them again and I hope to get lots of pictures of Miss Lilly.

Sarah woke up Saturday morning with a little dry cough. It got a little worse throughout the day, she kept holding the cough in, saying her throat was “stopped up” Other than the cough, she felt fine, no fever or stuffiness.

Sunday morning was an entirely different story. Whatever she has hit fast, and the poor girl sounds awful! She had a hard time sleeping last night with all the coughing. We may be making a trip to the doctor tomorrow. She is complaining with her chest hurting {right above her belly}, but I think that is just from all the coughing she did in the night.

We were up and dressed yesterday morning for church but decided to keep her home.

I pulled the camera out to get a picture of Emily & Audrey in all their cuteness.

{We put Emily’s hair in “knots” Saturday night for a little curl}
{love her little headband}

{this is one of my favorite dresses of the girls}

{Audrey rockin’ her boots}

Audrey is counting the hours down ‘til tomorrow. Justin Bieber. Never Say Never. She is beyond excited. We are going with her little girlfriend from church & her mom. I hope for our sakes (us older girls) there are not too many girlies there, I don’t know if I could take all the squealing!

Okay, I may squeal a time or two as well since he is starting to grow on me {although he is no Edward ha!}  My sister was telling me they had a life size thingy of him, I’m planning to take my camera so I’m sure we’ll have pictures to share.

I remember being this age and all the “famous” crushes I had, buying the magazines so I could cover my walls with all the little posters. The two Coreys , New Kids on the Block and Bon Jovi. There were many more but those were my favorites.

So, do tell, who was your Hollywood crush?

I’m trying to get things deleted, added, organized & so on.

And I need your help.

Pretty Please.

* I’m taking the Raising Little Women blog feed off my personal facebook page and will now be using the Facebook Like thingamabob. I’ve added the button to the sidebar. Just hop on down and like me.

* If your blog is on facebook can you please let me know so I can follow you. I find that it is SO much easier to follow blogs on facebook since the posts show up in your facebook feed.

* I am deleting all the blogs that I have bookmarked on my computer (taking up too much space and I can’t find a thing) I’m thinking about deleting most of my feeds too. I’ve got a list of blogs going that you can find in my menu (up top) I have been going through my list of Google Friend Connect list and some of you do not have your blogs listed. If you have a blog, will you let me know the url.

Also, if you do not see yours listed, please let me know. I have links and bookmarks everywhere and I know I’m gonna miss one, two or a hundred. I’ve still need to go through my google reader, but it would really help me out if you’d list it below.

*Do you have a flickr account? Please share.

Okay, that is all. I think.

And to thank y’all helping a girl out, I’m gonna give away a little goodie.

The Morgan in Paprika (this color is now retired)

To be entered all you need to do is “like” my blog on facebook.
Then just leave me a comment letting me know.

That’s it.

Oh, I almost forgot. The blog is now mobile! Finally! Now I don’t have to squint when I look up recipes, links or blog addresses. Go check it out.

If you have a wordpress blog you can use the WPtouch plugin. It is SUPER easy. You can do it right from your dashboard.

I found a tutorial on how to mobilize your blogger.com blog here. It looks pretty simple too.

Let me know when you go mobile so I can check you out on the itouch.

And don’t forget to leave your links in the comments.

Thanks y’all!

Sarah was getting pretty bored, which tends to get her in trouble, so I took her to her room to play a bit. Silly girl. She couldn’t decide what she wanted to play, so she had me choose, and then she turned down every thing I suggested.

We finally decided on a game of Cootie. Do you remember that game? I loved Cootie as a kid. Audrey decided she wanted to join us.  And she pretty much beat Sarah and me.

The game didn’t last long, at all!  Audrey was ahead, then Sarah, and it took me forever to finally roll a one. We gave up, and decided to do something else. [Cootie, is not as much fun when your an adult. ha! ]

Don’t let the air popcorn popper fool you into thinking we eat a healthy bowl of popcorn around here!  Lots of melted butter. Lots of salt. Yum!

Sarah wanted to have her picture made while we waited.

That pretty much sums up our night. Did you do anything fun last night? I know many parts were under tornado warnings or bad weather, were you stuck in the house last night too?