Grandparents

It's occasionally been said that grandkids don't really know their grandparents if they live far away from each other, and they never develop that close relationship that they would if they were together all the time. This is kinda true, but Caitlyn did something the other night that I just about cried when she did it. She doesn't get to see her Nana (my mom) as much as I'd like, but I had her up on her changing table putting her pajamas on, getting her ready for bed. And right above her head is some photo albums, books, lotion, etc. on a shelf. Well, she grabbed a really old photobook, those you get from Wal-mart when you get pictures developed. The picture showing through the top is a picture of me and mom when I's probably 12. She started getting really excited saying, "Nana, Nana, Nana..." She's been gradually recognizing family through pictures and such that we try to keep before her. And now it's paying off.

She's growing up so fast, and its just hard to watch her get bigger. She's officially not my baby anymore. She won't let me hold her in my arms like she used to. I have to fake a cry to get her to feel sorry for me and come hug/kiss me. Yeah...I do that quite often. But I think this is where moms start to get baby fever again cause they want that baby close in their arms. Don't worry, no baby fever here. But I mean, she's potty training; she'll soon be in cute little Dora underwear, walking around like a big girl, going to the potty by herself (well, almost). We gonna teach that "wiping" thing REAL quick...LOL...cause that's just gross : )

Potty Training and Jobs

So we keep attempting to start the whole potty training thing. We have come to the conclusion that it takes more dedication from the parent than it does the child. But Caitlyn is so smart; I think if we could just dedicate one week to it, she'd be trained. Because she already knows the concept of the potty, let's us know when she's already gone potty in her pants, go figure, and she doesn't like to be in a dirty or wet diaper. So maybe sometime soon, we'll be trained : )

I've gotten several calls in the last few weeks acquiring about some design work, one of which is a photography studio who needed a logo, in which I just completed. I met with the owner last night to find out she does all the photography for the county high school including boosters, sports, seniors, etc, amongst other schools as well, I believe. I'm also about to do several business cards for her as well as brochures and business forms. I also just got a call from a design studio in Hartwell wanting me to come on part-time doing some work there, that I can do from home. This is all very nice considering I want some extra money to go cruise shopping. Speaking of which, two and a half more weeks till we cruise off. Yay!!

This morning, a radio show I was listening to was talking about the swine flu, and this woman called in talking about how she was about to visit Disney World and the Bahamas and she was freaking out because of the swine flu thing. I was very confused as to how Mexico and the Bahamas was related...until she spoke up and said, "I'm not sure where the Bahamas is down there but I'm gonna get on google and figure out where it is in proximity to Mexico." That just gave me a little laugh; I figured she didn't know what she was talking about. Another woman called, guess she's a nurse or works in some kind of medical field; she agreed with the talk show host that people are making too much of a big deal about the swine flu. She said there's several confirmed cases, but if you look at "some m word" (some condition she mentioned), she said over 90,000 people have died from it, and no one made a big deal about that. So she said, the media is just making too big a deal out of this. I hope she's right. I got my hand sanitizer in my purse : P

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Getting ready for the Recording

So we're getting ready for our live recording April 24th. And Shawn and I spent last Saturday making practice cd's for the band in our basement studio, of the songs we're gonna do for the recording. There was one song that I wrote on the way to work about 2 weeks ago, that we're going to end the album with. It's gonna be rockin that whole night, but then we gonna bring it down to this last song; it's gonna be acoustic with a vocal duet with me and Emily.

Shawn doctored the practice version from the weekend that we did so we could put it up as a preview on our RPM myspace. The song is called, Faded Down. Feel free to visit our myspace to listen to it. It's just a real slow and worshipful song.

www.myspace.com/rpmworship

There is a God

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So I think I was gonna cry last night if Megan Joy didn't get voted off last night on American Idol. To think that show is such a big deal in the music world and some of our best singers come off that show, I was just so upset that she was even in the top 9. So I'm glad she's gone : ) I got to enjoy my new DVR last night. We got home around 10:30 and watched American Idol with no commercials, then LOST right after that, just zoomed through them. It was nice!

So everyone's liking the new RPM look. I really like the picture above. I just did some playing around with the pretty red background. We were originally outside in downtown Lavonia while it was raining when this pic was took, but ya wouldn't know it I don't guess. We're scheduled to get more pics done April 18th with the whole band. We're missing our guitarist in this photo. He's new to the group, and he is phenomenal. We are so siked!! I'm training to run sound, yeah...can you believe that one??...and I ran sound last night while Shawn led from the bass guitar, our new guitarist played lead, and then we had a drummer. It sounded crunk in the house...if I can say so myself...lol. I've always wanted to run sound, but Shawn would never let me. Finally, the drummer said something last night to Shawn about me running sound, and Shawn was like, okay, jump up there. So that was a really fun adventure!!

So I don't get it...

So really, what's the deal with Megan on American Idol? Like, I thought this was a singing competition. I don't understand why she's on there. I tried cleaning out my ears in the case that maybe I'm not hearing something right. She awful!! Why is she still on the show? How'd she even GET on the show?? I'm really confused. I could understand if she had some kind of challenge like the blind dude where everyone feels sorry for you so they continue to vote for you. But I mean, COME ON!! What's the deal?? Does anyone have any kind of explanation? Can anyone help me out here?