Quality Time...

Well, here I am, in Hawaii. Yup, even though I didn't think I would be able to get on the plane I actually rode it all the way here. Now as I sit and wait through the delays of Erik being home I have the chance to catch up with my friends and family I left behind. I also get to stay at Annie's house...so that's a big fat PLUS!!! Last night we went out to Cholo's and we sipped on some yummy margaritas, which Nina called Mui margaritas, and chowed down on super delish mexican delicacies!!! For the past few days Annie and I have been jibber jabbing as we run errands all over the island and shop, even when the items we are lookin for can't be found. There's something to be said for a real friendship. No matter how long I have been gone Penina, Shannah, and Annie and I picked up right where I left each of our friendships as though there was never a distance between us. There is such a thing as a lifetime friend, how lucky am I to have found the ones I have. I cannot explain how much fun I am having just staying in Annie and Porter's house, they are amazing and they are all mine...what's so great is that my Nooner would stay up till the wee hours of the night just to make sure Erik gets her super dee duper oatmeal cookies. Then she is ready and willing to wake up at the crack of dawn to run around with me doing my last minute preparations before my Love is holding me tight!!!

I also got to see my family today. I hung out with my dad for the better part of the day...which was much needed and very comforting. Then I headed west to see my uncle Phil and his family...I missed them so much!!! After that my dad and went to see my auntie Lovi and cousin, Cari-Ann, a wonderful end to a very filled day. My entire family is amazing and I get so very sad when I think that I have to leave them again. If only I could leave and take them with me so I won't have to feel the pain of missing them. I love being able to spend these moments with such an awesome family and then cherish the memories for a long time to come.

And now...all I need to do is look forward to tomorrow night when Erik should be released for 3 days to me!!! I miss my chitlins so much I actually feel my heart crush each time I have to say bye-bye on the phone, but I know time will fly by and sooner than I probably really want I will be on a plane heading away from this crazy spectacular dream.

Look what I did!!!

I reupholstered my dining room chairs!!! No really, I did...and by hand!!! I know, I know, those that really know me know that I don't like to to do any strenuous work, okay any work. Good thing I have pictures to prove it or you really wouldn't believe me huh!!!But really, look at how cute they look now!!! I've transformed them (with Annie's help for 2 of them)from a dreary brown to a more modern classy vibrance. I love them, and now that I know how to do it I am ready to tackle another project!!!
Thanks Annie for helping to broaden my horizons, maybe one day I'll have something spectacular to offer to you. ;-)

So stay tuned all, I will have more miraculous projects emerging soon enough!!! Step 1 to accomplish that feat is to buy a sewing machine!!! Who knew I would ever say that and actually be excited about it...

What is it with these kids???

Time is waning down and soon I'll be heading to the pineapple state to welcome home my one and only...but that also means that I'm going to have to be leaving my two little poopies. It's amazing that in all the 7 years Erik and I have been married we've never been away from the kids at the same time for more than a night or two. This is a scary venture and yet I'm so excited to be having time without the kids to spend getting to know my husband all over again. I almost feel guilty about being happy to be away from them despite what everyone around me is telling me. It's been a hard couple of months trying to convince myself that I am actually going to be okay without them. What's even scarier to think about is that I won't be just away, I'll be an ocean away. I know that my mother-in-law, Angie, is more than capable of taking care of them and keeping them safe, still I worry with every ounce of me that it's the wrong thing to do.

When are children okay to stay without their parents for an extended amount of time? When are parents okay to survive more than two or three nights away from their kids? Should I really be excited about them watching me walk onto an airplane to meet their daddy while they have to be patient and wait just awhile longer to be with both of us again?I'm torn and I'm going out of my mind with "what if's". All I want is for my little posterities to be happy and to know that I really do love them. Will I be scarring them for all time by leaving them? Is this normal for me to keep thinking and rethinking all that's right in front of us? What's wrong with me?

Maybe I should just take them with me and shorten my time in Hawaii...Here are reasons why:

Today Nikelis and I were laying on the couch and I told him that whoever is the last to fall asleep has to wait up till its time to pick up Kaylah. For the next 15 minutes until Erik called Nikelis kissed and rubbed my face so that I would be the one that had to wait up! In the end we had a conversation about why the other should have to be the one to stay up. Mikaylah is devasted because Chris Brown, whose cuteness is now a waste, is no longer worthy of her affection. Her words were, "I can't like any boy who thinks it's okay to hit their girlfriends, that's just wrong". How and when did she become a little genius? I love them, with everything and more...How will I endure waking up without their morning moans and groans that its too early???

Never satisfied!!!

All my life I've had straight, I mean super straight, hair. Well I've also been sooo jealous of my older sister who has gorgeously long curly hair. So what did I do about it you ask. I got all crazy like yesterday and sat through an extremely potent 3 hours of perming solution!!! Talk about a smell you don't want to get used to!!! And now my once beautiful, long, straight hair is now a frizzed out poof ball. Okay, so not really, but it has a nice wave to it, which is just what I wanted. I love it and will probably love it even more once I can get to washing and nourishing it. In three weeks I get to highlight it and hopefully it'll be exactly what I want and I don't freak my questioning husband too much. He has no idea that I am doing this and he is really on pins and needles in anticipation knowing that I'm changing my hair. It is a major change, but I'm quite pleased with the results. I know though that in a few months time I will be straightening it and making sure it's back to the normal Daisy hair I've always had!!! What is it with women and never being completely satisfied??? ;-)

P.S. HAPPY 1st DAY OF FEBRUARY!!! That's it, just the 1st day of February...and 22 days till my booteh is in Hawaii awaiting the arms of my Love!!!