sniffles, smelly dogs, and success!

A smattering of things to chat about tonight! :o)

I'll start with the success, always a great place to start ... my fabulous and phenominally talented neice (one of the 3, fab and phenom sisters that is ...) the oldest, K, was accepted, and qualified for an incredibly elite dance Summer Intensive Program at none other than The Julliard School in New York City. She will be living there, in a college dorm at 15 mind you, for three weeks this coming summer. She is one of 44 selected out of 500 dancers that tried out. Pretty fa-reakin' awesome, yes? I am so proud, and so excited for her! She is so going far with this dance thing ... she already has, and this is just the beginning of the next chapter. She just found out last night, and she is on the MOON for sure! I cannot wait to talk to her more about it, and begin the countdown. Oh, the fun she'll have, and the experience is once in a lifetime! YAY, K! CONGRATS!!!! :O)

Okay, next .... the sniffles ... my wee one, my K gal, has had one heck of a rock-em sock-em cold for three days. It is the strangest little thing too, at night she is just wiped, exhausted, sneezing, warm with a low fever, and in the AM she is fever-less, rejenerated from sleeping the 12 hours she sleeps (can you imagine?!), and just slightly sniffly. Each day I have totally assumed (as I am again for tomorrow) that she will not be able to go to school, and been wrong each day. She says " no, mommy, I feel okay to go ... I can go, I shouldn't miss." (uhm, K, you're in Kindergarten .... what are you 'missing' exactly? ;o) So, off she heads on the bus, and when she gets home at noon she is tired, but okay , and the downward spiral begins .... although she was a bit better tonight. Not so spent, so perhaps that is a good sign .... I just hate to see them, well, not "be" them, you know? I want to hug the ickies away ... and blow the nose for them, and take the medicine, and sleep it away for them. Poor baby .... I'm wishing for the well baby to be back! :O)

And the smelly dog ... yep, the little rascal got a bath tonight. A MUCH overdue, and MUCH needed scrub-adub-dub. I was shocked to actually find a tick on her (eeeeeeeeewwwww!!!!!) that S (my swashbucklin' bug killin' hero! {~swoon~}) prompty removed. Shocked to find it there because we have literally been at 20 degrees for a week, and prior to that only in the 30's & low 40's. It was a small one, so I am pretty sure not on her long. Ick, though, they gross me the heck out! Bleck. Geeeroosss.

K gal, my extra helping hand, helped me with the scrubbing, and the rinsing - THAT was fun! - and giggled when the wet, clean rascal shook all over her. It was the cutest thing! Then the rascally slippery thing just ran happily about the house showing her new clean-ness off to anyone and any thing that would listen. She was smiling from ear to ear, too. I swear she *knew* she smelled better. She's so pretty ..... and her "big brother", the chocolate lab that I love with all my heart, was so lonely while she bathing, and then when he saw her he was just smiling along with her. He probably thought she was smelly too! heh. I can't bathe him in the tub, he goes to the beauty salon, erm, barber shop, I mean.

So, that's the good stuff for now .... off to cacth some zzzzz's and get ready to shovel out tomorrow - 6-8 inches of the white purty stuff fell and is still falling as we speak .... ah, March snow is always nice - falls, and melts quickly! ;o)

see you soon ....