I am not Suzi-Homemaker. Though my house has always been clean, and well organized [for the most part], you won’t find me cooking, or baking very often. Mostly due to the fact that my best laid out plans very seldom result in a picture perfect ending.

For Matthews birthday I had this great idea to make him a Barney birthday cake. I even started making plans of birthday cake designs for the other two. So, I found a Barney cake pan on ebay…and then reality hit me that I am not a cake decorator and should not have taken on this project…

I asked Keith to help create Barney’s face…another bad move…

Matthew of course thought it was ‘awesome’ just the way it was. I have decided from here on in I will hire someone to create future birthday cakes.

And finally…

Like many, 9/11 has been in my thoughts today. My heart still aches, and I will always remember…

This past week was another rough one. The combination of another round of a fibro flare, horrible insomnia, and the return of my depression–while having to punch in for work was rough. I am angry, and tired that this disease has such a hold on my body, and no matter how hard I try to not allow it to control my life, in the end it does. But! I slept pretty good last night, and woke up this morning at 7am feeling refreshed and able to begin on housework.

Week 1 of class is complete. Another group project has begun [insert the vision of a grown woman having a temper tantrum here]. These group projects are just absolutely grueling, and frustrating!

Chili is in the crockpot, a netflix movie is on, and I am going to find myself getting comfortable and begin my reading for this weeks assignment. Here’s to a beautiful week ahead of each of us…

-Jenny