I Carry Your Heart With Me

I love the movie - In Her Shoes. While Devon has bigger feet than me, we've still shared lots of clothes, laughs and tears together over the past year living together. When I saw the movie for the first time (on HBO a few months ago) I boo hooed during that poem b/c it really hit me how much I love my sister. I am going to miss her so much. And her dog Scarlette who is part of our family and my dogs will be lost without her.

When my sister was born I was in 2nd grade, and while mom said I could stay out of school to welcome Devon home from the hospital I could not be bothered with that...it was the day of the science fair after all! Devon hated everyone but mom the first year of her existence so needless to say I wasn't too impressed with this little sister thing. In her toddler years she loved to torment me by 1) putting her feet on me all of the time and 2) going potty in her bed, getting up and getting in bed with me with her wet pjs, and then wetting my bed too. Oh the love I felt for this child...she'll tell you I got her back by never letting her touch my barbies or my sticker books.

During my high school years I didn't have much time for lil sis, and our family wasn't doing too great overall so she lived with my dad for a while. So we lost out on alot of time together...it really wasn't until Devon got to college that we started to talk often. She was (and is) someone that doesn't show alot of emotion and she also has alot of common sense. She doesn't judge people and she doesn't care much what other people think. Devon was there for me when I felt my whole crashing down 5 years ago - she listened to me cry and yell and would talk to me for hours on the phone when she could. I don't know if I would have made it through it all without her.

She was my first and only phone call from Vegas with my marriage news - I told her she could only tell if the plane crashed:) She knew right away she was going to be an aunt (she already is an Aunt - Marsh has called her Aunt Devon since we brought Munson home 3 years ago and even has it programmed into his cell phone). She is also the one that sets the time on my
Timex and figures out how to record on our DVR. I hope she can give me directions over the phone!!!

I know my sister will have a wonderful life in Dallas. This is her time - and I can't wait to be there for her wedding, her babies, everything. I carry her heart in my heart. Always.

It's not in my job description...

I am very happy to be posting as it means that I have a computer again. The piece of crap IBM T40 died last Wednesday which made working just slightly (more) stressful than usual. And my boss just didn't want to believe the computer was really dead so I was running around Atlanta talking to computer people, calling IT in Charlottesville, tearing my hair out, crying, cussing, you name it because I HATE COMPUTERS and I do not fix them. I promise you that nowhere in my offer letter does it say I am to try to diagnose and fix computer problems. I had issues when I moved last summer and I told my boss I would not go through this again but here I was, hysterical and frustrated and ready to quit. My new computer arrived Friday late afternoon, and we (Marsh, Devon and I) spent all evening getting it up and running...had a few more glitches...I threw one more temper tantrum...and finally the vpn, the network, the email, the internet, the shared files worked like they should. And I spent the rest of the weekend and today making up for lost time with my clients. I really really really needed a glass of wine...but alas a bowl of frozen yogurt did the trick. By the way, have you tried the Wendy's Frosty Float - not bad...

Other than that it's a busy week with Marsh gone to Chicago and me prepping myself for my sister's departure:( We head down to St. Simon's next Wednesday for a wedding and I am looking forward to it, although the blackberry works there.

Marsh finally told his co-workers today that we are expecting...we have been rather slow in spreading the news. We were holding out to tell two sets of friends until we saw them in person but they both told us within the past 2 days they are expecting! I am much further along than both so we looked kind of silly but not just calling them and telling them. Oops.

Guess I better get started on dinner and I have to do some training with Munson tonight. We've been going to a lady in Crabapple as we need the training probably more than Munson...he just has to learn we're the bosses. When we're giving him kisses and treating him like he is human he really isn't getting that message...not sure what that means for our parenting skills...sigh.

Quick update

Dr. and dentist appointments today - decided to get stuck in traffic just once instead of twice! Everything is going well as I enter my 17th week. Dr was happy that I gained 3 lbs and said my stomach measured fine and that is was pretty much it. Next month will be a little more exciting since we're going for the ultrasound.

Oh and my teeth are good too:)

Gotta go - will write more soon!