Missy's Birthday - February 21, 2003

Friday - February 21, 2003

Today is my sister Missy's birthday.  I called to wish her a happy birthday.  She is very depressed.  It makes me so sad to see her struggling and going through these hard times.  She feels like she messed her life up so bad and there is no way to fix it.  I hope that I can be a good sister and help her in anyway possible.  I just don't know what I can do for her besides being an example, talking to her, and giving her hope.  I love her so much and it hurts me so bad that she has to go through this.  I cry almost every time that I talk to her.  I'm so glad that I have roger that I can talk to about this and he can help me decide how to handle it and think of what we can do for her.  Roger is amazing and he helps me in so many ways.  I'm very blessed to have him.

Alissa is so cute!  She took a late nap today, so she wasn't tired at her regular bed time.  I just love watching Alissa learn and grow.

So here's what we did today:  We woke up at 4:00 am this morning and could not get back to sleep until 6:00 am, then we slept until 9:00 am.  I cleaned the house, put Alissa down for a nap, went jogging, ate, went shopping, came home and relaxed for a little bit, I called Missy, I cried, we went for a walk to cheer me up, the piano tuner guy called to say he will come on Monday, I made granola (I accidentally burned it), ate, Alissa napped then woke up and I fed her, then we all played and Alissa fell back asleep.  That was my day.

The piano tuner guy coming to tune the piano was my Valentine's Day gift from Roger.  I'm very excited about having the piano be tuned.  It will be so nice.  I'm so happy Roger is so thoughtful and did that for me.

Bad Day - February 19, 2003

Wednesday - February 19, 2003

I had a bad day today.  Alissa didn't sleep well last night, so I was up most of the night.  This morning I hit my face with the car door, so now I have a black eye.  It hurts!  All week I thought and hoped that I was pregnant, because a pregnancy test that I took was positive,  I went to the doctor today and found out that I'm not pregnant.  I was really upset about that.  I've been able to calm down and make myself feel better about it now, but it was extremely upsetting at first.  Then I had to go to the bathroom really bad, when we were in the car on our way to some place, and we got stuck waiting for a train.  It was the longest, slowest train ever.  It was moving so slow that I could have got out of the car and run along side it and go much faster than it was going.  It was just kind of a bummer day.

Our Little Pianist - February 12, 2003

Wednesday - February 12th

I took a short video of my cute little Alissa trying to play the piano.  I pushed her high chair up next to the piano, so I could keep an eye on her while I played the piano for a little while.  Here is the video.

We didn't get to Go on Our St. George Trip - February 11, 2003

Tuesday - February 11, 2003

We were going to leave on a trip to St. George today, but I woke up feeling really sick this morning.  I have a bad cold and I feel extremely tired.  We figured that it would be better if we waited a week or two until we go.  It was supposed to rain down there this week anyway.  I'm disappointed because I was really looking forward to seeing my parents.  My parents seemed pretty disappointed also.

Alissa was so cute today (but she is always cute).  She sat up by herself for a really long time.  I was so excited.  I have so much fun playing with her.  She has been sucking on her lips a lot lately and it looks really funny.  She also started making a funny grunting sound when she gets mad.  It is so funny when she does it.  She did it tonight because she didn't want to fall asleep.  I had such a hard time not laughing.

I sent some pictures to Grandma Mathison today.  Then Alissa and I went for a walk.  She got fussy so we didn't take a very long walk.  After that, I unpacked our bags, that I was up late last night packing for our St. George trip.  I made dinner, cleaned up, then put Alissa to bed.  She fought sleep really hard tonight.  It took an hour and a half to get her to sleep.  I took a short video of sitting by herself.