Feven Fosts

I know that you guys know my friend, Chelsea. If you can, please head over to her blog today and send her some love. She lost a very good friend of hers yesterday and I know her heart is just crushed. I cannot imagine what she is going through and I hope I never have to. But I do know that we can all let her know how many people are thinking of and loving her through her heartache.

1. Did I tell you I saw Raphaelle when she was in town for Christmas? No? Well that was dumb of me. Because I did. Just like in High School, she's way classier than I will ever be....but she still was nice to the "geek girl" and let me hang out with her and pretend like I was in with the cool kids. If you don't read her blog, you really should. She's snarky...so I automatically like her.

Jack and Olivier giving each other the look little boys give one another,

“Yo, you wanna practice some MMA moves later?”

2. When Raphaelle was here, we went to COCO Lounge. Okay, have any of you San Antonio-ites been here? Seriously, I went with her and was already back the next week for Happy Hour with my coworkers. And I tried to go again last night but it was closed for renovations—they are making some tweaks to their menu…which is already amazing and I can’t imagine it being any better. The Happy Hour menu is fantastic! And the food/drinks are all smashing. Get there if you haven't already--I always figured it was a bunch of fruity drinks since its "COCO Chocolate Lounge and Bistro". Nope, they make a mean dirty gin martini. And while they have plenty of froo-froo stuff too, they have a solid menu and plenty of old man drinks. Because if you know me at all, you know I like 3 things straight up old man: my dad, my kid's clothing, and my alcoholic beverages.

3. Jack has started saying "Wuv You." On a completely related note, I melt about 10 times a day now.

4. This and last week have just been the longest weeks ever. Last week, NOBODY was in the office. It was nice to have a low stress week but it was so hard to focus when I knew that everyone else was sleeping in and enjoying time with their family. This week, most everyone is back but it is still just hard to focus. Call it the first week back from break loonies? I cannot imagine how I'll be climbing the walls next week in my first 5-day work week. Sheesh!

5. Did you see the video of Jack with his mouse yesterday? It's his little lovey--he has a fit if he doesn't have his mouse and his agua at night time. Well, bad news, friends: the mouse is nowhere to be found. Last week during our "wash all of his stuff every.single.day" germophobe craziness, the mouse was misplaced. We can't find it anywhere and hearing Jack say, "Where are you, Mouse?" without being able to provide his little rodent pal is a bit much on the ol' heart strings. We are either going to have to make the 2 hour drive to Round Rock this weekend to pick up a few more of these $.99 little white mice from IKEA or I'll end up begging my Houston readers to help a sister (and a sweet little boy) out. Had I known that he'd love that mouse so much, I'd have bought 12 when we bought the one a couple months ago. Dangit!

6. Do any of you guys read Bower Power? If not, please just head over and read her post yesterday. She’s this adorably cute and thin girl who went and posted a picture of herself, belly hanging out (and pushed out to the max while wearing super tight jeans) all for the sake of a good laugh. That woman should be cheered by all womankind.

7. We’ve knocked a few things off our home to-do list recently. Notably, we now have a frame wall and a sprinkler system. Oh, we also got a new duvet cover. So now we only have one thing left on our to do list: clean up the backyard/extend the patio. Yay for progress! Add to the list the fact that John needs to finish painting the side of the house that his dad started. Believe it or not, it’s been rainy nearly every weekend since Bob left so the possibility of John doing it has been slim to none. So there ya go: PROGRESS on our home list. Only two more things: 1) Paint House, 2) Patio extension.

8. Oh, but I’ve started planning Jack’s Big Boy room. It’s still like a year away but I’m so excited to do it when he’s ready to move up to a big boy bed (we are not in ANY hurry to get him out of his baby jail…er…I mean, his crib).

9. Happy Epiphany!!!