SERIOUSLY?

Sorry to be gone for so long, but y’all are going to love this: I have/had strep throat AGAIN! And yes, it’s totally my fault. About halfway through my course of antibiotics I forgot to take them for about two days (I don’t know why, perhaps I have other things occupying my mind;) and when I remembered I thought…ah, it’s no big deal. But apparently it IS a big deal because I came down with it a second time in 2 weeks. Pretty amazing even for me.

(The doctor thinks perhaps the strain I have is penicillin resistant and has put me on a new course of antibiotics. He is also still amazed that I am the only one in the family to have it.)

And in other news, Jenny of The Bloggess and Min of MamaDrama have joined forces in a new blog called Good Mom/Bad Mom - which is just as funny as you would expect, so check it out!

(and Jenny has these "magic" technorati powers and knows whenever anyone talks about her, so say only good things otherwise she will sic her cat killing vet on you:).

Graffiti, an art form?

Here Amy's sending people to me to see how my walking is going and I was out for a week with strep and birthday:). But I have gone 123.45 miles since February 4th.

I have come to appreciate graffiti as an art form. And a kick ass art form at that.

Here in Warsaw there is one really L O N G wall on Puławska that the graffiti artists use to showcase their work. I don't know the process of getting the wall, but I know since the last time I was here (2004), all of the panels have changed except the one with the horses. Unfortunately, the vandals, who just enjoy painting their names and nonsensical things, come along and "ruin" the graffiti artists' art as well.

Today I went shopping for socks. I have always owned cotton socks. Plain, white, cotton socks. This was a throwback from my childhood, because my parents only ever bought me the plain, white, cotton socks so I continued with that tradition. Recently I read that cotton socks can contribute to blisters and was like, "DUH!" that's why I get blisters when I walk/run (I pretty much ALWAYS have blisters). So I had to go buy some non cotton socks. Not a real big problem because I'm not sure you can find pure cotton socks here. But can someone please explain to me the colors?

Cutesy...

Unfortunately, I have for you a cutesy story today.

Pamela played Easter Bunny yesterday while the rest of us were at church. In so doing, she also, knowing her brothers would LOVE it - made them a treasure map of where the eggs were. How adorable is that?

And, in another semi funny story: Pamela served at the Easter Vigil on Saturday, so I went along - she'd need a ride home:). There were approximately 50 people there, which is quite low for our church which is packed on Sundays. At the end of mass, Father

Wiesław said thank you to the altar servers, the readers, the choir, the people who did the flowers, and "those who came without their spouses because their spouses had to stay home and watch the children". I looked around and was like "Hmm, that's me." I mean how much more specific could he be? "I'd like to thank Kylie for coming."

Afterwards, I was all like, "Hey, father! Thanks for the shout out! Peace out!"

Happy Easter!

Fun searching for eggs.

The Easter Bunny:). (She and I went to the Easter Vigil, so she played Easter bunny during church this morning.)

Blaise's first egg.

Hope you all have a happy Easter, if you celebrate. If you don't, have a fabulous Sunday:).

No such thing

So last night we went to Le Cedre (which is my favorite restaurant) for dinner for my birthday.

Here's Blaise and I:Yes, I'm wearing the scarf I painted as a headband. I don't wear scarves normally, so this is what I chose to do with it, especially since I trimmed my own bangs too short:). And yes, that is red wine, which I gave up for Lent (along with Diet Coke, which has been KILLING me) but it WAS my birthday! It kind of sucks when your birthday always falls during Lent.

But my crafty stuff recently has been these:

I've been listening to CraftyPod and she mentioned paper beads, so I just had to find out how to do that. Not that I'm that into beads (I do have a few from my time in Ghana, but I don't do anything with them - they sit in my stash waiting to find their purpose), but I thought that it would be something interesting to do while I watch 3 boys play in the bathtub (so that they don't kill themselves). I am totally into paper though, so this works for me! And, they're very cool ('cause they're super lightweight) on layouts and cards, so win-win!

Go shorty, it's my birthday!

And this:THIS IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT EVAH! (I don't have it yet, because it didn't arrive in time...but soon:).

I'm feeling much better (antibiotics are a miracle drug), thanks for all the well wishes! Oh, and strep throat is the best diet EVAH! I lost 8 pounds in 3 days - guess that's what happens when swallowing feels like it's ripping your throat apart.

That's all I have time for today, but stay posted 'cause I have a couple funny stories to share and some crafty stuff to share too;).

It's Freaking Snowing!

Sorry that I've been missing, I have strep throat (which is in itself a funny story, but will have to wait until I feel better). I'll go back to laying on the couch and watching bad TV in a few minutes, but I just wanted to let everyone know that I haven't forgotten you.

A picture for you today.
March 8th is International Women's Day and Toby's teacher had us all paint silk scarves for ourselves. The above is my painted scarf. The letters are my children's initials and a poor attempt at covering up my mistakes (in hindsight I should have just left the mistakes).

I'm on antibiotics and I hope to be back up to blogging and blog hopping tomorrow.