today was a good day. baby cakes has asked me to continue "sneaking out" when i drop her off at school in the morning and that has been going really well (knock on wood). i am joining a local bni (business networking international) group, which i am very excited about. i encourage anyone who would like to grow their business to look into joining their local chapter. here is the link.

have you ever heard that donald trump gets no more than 5 hours of sleep a night? from what i've seen a large number of moguls get little sleep so it has always bothered me a little that i seem to require so much sleep! i tried yet again to go on a 5 hours of sleep a night streak... i don't think i'm built that way! this past saturday i was up until about 4:30 am blogging to wake up at 9 am. i did something similar the next night and now i have a bit of a cold. although it may not be related, i think it is. so, unfortunately, i think i am going have to limit my blogging to no more than 1 hour a night, maybe 2 on weekends.

baby cakes and i like going to cici's, which is an inexpensive pizza buffet place with a little game room inside. our new thing is when she earns 2 stars every day we go to cici's on thursday. so today we went and we had a ball as usual. we played air hockey and she did very well, getting 2 points.

anyhoo, that has been my fun and eventful week so far! hope you're doing great!

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Mama

we had a wonderful weekend! baby cakes is doing great. we went to the mall this weekend to look for a geode and got to catch a presentation for chinese new year's, visited friends, and went to see the medieval times show which was great! hope you all had a great weekend as well. our blog will now have weekly buzz topics. i am planning to have a topic of the week which i will add posts about throughout the week. if there is a topic you'd like some information about, my opinion, a poll on this blog about, or would like to see some other opinions send me your topic! thanks.

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i almost forgot to tell you! every morning when i drop off baby cakes to her daycare/preschool i say "see you later, love you" and give her a big hug & kiss. she responds by following me to the door and giving me a light hug, saying "no" in the ever so gentle tone that she... usually has. so mornings when i'm running a little behind, which is just about every morning, i remind her that we have to be mindful of the time when we say are goodbyes. so...on tuesday morning i told her this and she says "well, i think you have to sneak out. be quiet so i don't hear you then when i'm not looking go real fast." lol. i don't believe in sneaking out when dropping off young children so i was never in the practice of doing that. every morning since then she reminds me to sneak out and i let her know that i will sneak out and she has been doing great with that (knock on wood) although it breaks my heart to not give her a hug and kiss before we part.

we were on our way to school and work this morning and baby cakes started singing "delilah" by plain white t's and asked me if we could watch the video again...awwwe. so we spent some time this evening watching music videos. here are a couple posted the little girl and i enjoy, we hope you enjoy also.

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p.s. here's a remix for you!

delilah

just had a "battle of the wits" with the babygirl that left me feeling like i must be doing something or things wrong. i googled some child behavior information and came across quite a few sites that were very reassuring. as a parent, we all hear and talk about the terrible two's...prior to this search i don't recall anyone ever mentioning how the 4's is a "teen training" time or how this can also be a challenging age. i hope you find these articles reassuring as well

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it is 3:13 am EST time, fri feb. 8 or 9, i'm not sure right now and don't feel like looking for what date it is. anyway i have been waiting for an hour for the pediatrician on call to call me back. actually it is 3:17 am now and i just called the answering service again who said the doctor on call should call back within about 15 min. and if not to call again. she told me that in the future if i don't hear back within about 15 min. to call them right back. so now it is 3:24 and i just got off the phone with the pediatrician. the answering service lady did also mention she thought the page didn't go through correctly which makes me feel much better that they don't have concerned mothers waiting up at all hours of the night. the pediatrician actually did call right back.
... so here's the story...since tuesday i have been taking care of my sick 4 year old. her temperature had been progressively going down since i got the call from school with her having an under arm temperature of 101. i decided to go to work yesterday (thursday) afternoon because she seemed to be doing great to me with just that lingering fever that was going down. my mom's friend agreed to watch her for me so i could go to work for the afternoon. i went in at 11:30 and left at 5:30 by the time i was getting my daughter ready for bed at 8:30 pm she didn't look very good to me and her temperature was at 99 under the arm. 2 am she wakes up to use the bathroom and she felt like she was burning up: temp of 101.8 under the arm. i'm feeling a little guilty for going to work now. i feel like i needed to have encouraged her to rest and drink fluids more and not be in a rush to get back to work. i guess there's always more we can do... as long as we try to do our best on a day to day basis and everyone is alive and happy at the end of the day, what more can one ask for?

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-Mama