Valentine Bakers

We've been cooking and baking a lot this week. Our neighbors, Tammy and Mark just had a beautiful baby girl, so we took them dinner Monday night. T helped me make the brownies for dessert. I was trying to get her to pose like I did in a picture when I was about this age and doing the very same thing. This evening, we prepared for the Valentines Day parties tomorrow. J looks very comfortable here with his rolling pin, helping me make heart cut outs for his party. (Oh, don't look at my horribly messy house in the background....it is my weekend 'project' while John is at the Daytona 500)

Here is my schedule tomorrow:

7:45am Drop off T at school

8:50 am Drop off J at school

9:15-? am Parents Day at J's school

10:15-11:40am J's Valentines Day party

12:30-2pm T's Valentines Day party

(Somewhere in here I am treating myself to some Starbucks-I'm gonna need it)

John asked me what my day looked like tomorrow since it is my last one before I go back to work (the kids are off next week, so he means last morning to myself...well you can see that theory is shot). I, however, will be enjoying every minute of it, partying! That is just fine with me, as all I'd be doing otherwise is going to the gym and maybe a little shopping. Partying is much more fun.

Went to a meeting at Coke today. The traffic was horrible getting there, but dare I say, it actually felt good to be at 'work'. It wasn't really work because it was just a meeting, but I really like the people in this group-not the stuffy accounting types at all. And, there is always a lot to drink at any Coke function-today I tried the 'new' Dasani Plus water. Also, Vitamin Water is in large supply as it appears this is a huge area of growth for the company. Since I love to drink (as I have said, the only thing better than a good Diet Coke is an alcoholic beverage of some sort), it is very fun to try all these new beverages--for free! Anyway, I still have a week and a half 'off' before I go back, but at least I've met a lot of the people and I like what I see so far. We'll see how it all goes. The kids are off next week, so we'll enjoy not setting the alarm clock and doing whatever we please the entire week. I'm really looking forward to it.