it's finally the weekend!

This week turned into a bad week as of Thursday. One of our fish (Penelope) croaked and I had to go to the "fish doctor" to pick her up (meaning, I had to go to PetCo to buy another Penelope). I came home and cleaned both fish tanks (which I had just done a few days ago). I noticed Woody (the other fish) wasn't lookin' very good so I decided to keep the new Penelope in her little fish store container for awhile. So now Woody has croaked too...have to go get another Woody tomorrow morning. I have no clue why they are dying. I'm not doing anything different then I have done in the past. I'm wondering if there's something wrong with our water. Hope not - since that's the water I cook with!

Back to Thursday - at the girls' dentist appointments. My worst fears came to fruition - they inherited my teeth! Poor things!! First of all - it kind of freaked me out that they don't let the parents go back to the room with the kids. Jess is 3!!! I really didn't feel right about not being there - but that is their policy. Lindsay decided to be the good sister for a few moments (instead of fighting over a toy or something) and put her arm around her and walked her back since they were both going to the same room. The whole time I'm in the waiting room, I keep reminding myself "everything will be fine - they brush their teeth"...


NOT!! It took the assistant about 25 minutes to type in all the codes. Linds ended up with (I think) 11 cavities and Jess had 7. FREAKING OUT!!! What is up with THAT?!! Now I'm asking myself "What kind of mother are you?!! Your kids' teeth are rotting before your eyes!" I tell ya - our portion of the cost to take care of this is rediculous! The lady checking us out said that there is a company they use that does loans. Hmmm - maybe they're in cahoots! Before I even got out of the parking lot I had a monster headache. Total stress headache. I'm just sick to my stomach even thinking about all this. The girls, however, are very happy with their nice, clean choppers!


(BIIIIG sigh...)
On a happy note - tonight I went to a crop at my favorite scrapbook store Ruban Rouge. Without a doubt, one of the very best scrapbook stores out there. The owner is fabulous and really takes care of us customers. And all the employees are equally fab! So I've been in this scrapbooking FUNK lately. Lost the mojo. Still haven't found it. I really don't know what's going on. This is the first time I've been in a funk for this long. I did one layout and it was hard for me to finish. I'm not sure I have the perfect journaling on it - but it's really the only thing that came to me after I had commented to someone "that's my little angel right there...the 3rd one from the left". So then I was in "angel mode" - and there you have it. :) I used some new BasicGrey paper (gorgeous!). I was able to buy a few pieces by the sheet and I was very anxious to use it.

And now....now I can't add any more pictures to this post and I am frustrated (tired) and wanna go to bed. Will upload my layout tomorrow morning - if it will let me!