It is Saturday.....

and I sincerely hope that while you are reading this (or at least when this gets posted), I am fast asleep. I need sleep....we all do.

I recently recieved a newsletter from one of my pracitioners offices about sleep and all it does to revive our bodies. Here are some highlights of what happens to us while we sleep:

- Sleep is a restorative time for our internal organs

10PM - the heart

1-3 AM - the liver

4-5 AM - kidneys, lungs and large intestines

All night long, adrenal glands rest while we sleep.

- A good night's sleep is uninterrupted for 7-8 hours and we should fall asleep within 15 minutes of lying down.

- Lack of quality sleep has been associated with autoimmune disorders, frequent infections, heart disease, diabetes, anxiety and digestive disorders.

- When we reduce our hours of sleep, we reduce the hours of REM sleep which is a balancing stage of sleep.

And that is all about sleep for now.....I need a nap. Go have some good sleep!

Stability

As parents, this is the best thing we can provide for our kids. As spouses, this is the best thing we can provide for each other. As humans, this is an important quality we can bring to those around us. We have been surrounded by kids this week whose lives lack stability...maybe that is why we have some many visitors.

My stability includes my family, my friends and my faith. What brings stability to your life?

I love my stability and sharing it with others.

Girls Weekend Adventures

So part two of girls weekend includes some adventures and lots of good food.
The weather was interesting...sunny, cloudy, warm, cool...mostly depended on the moment of the day and the plans we had made. If we wanted to sit in the sun, the clouds would come. If we changed our minds and decided to be inside, the sun would come out. Oh well...... So instead of waiting it out, we forged ahead seeking excitement and wild times :)

Here we are enjoying the fleeting sun and the brisk breezes (a good hair day was had by all).

First stop, Assateague Island and the famous wild ponies. The beach was amazing, the park was beautiful and the ponies?! We saw lots of evidence of the ponies and not so much of the actual beast.

Lunch was in the sleepy town of Berlin, MD (where the movie Runaway Bride was filmed). Wish I had remembered to take a photo of dessert....a creation from God called Lemon Lust. It left me lusting for more (we shared one so that the sin was not as great). We ate on the porch of the Atlantic Hotel and shopped in some very cute gift/antique stores.

Dinner Saturday night was crab cakes....what else. And good they were...I won't go into lunch since Ellen already shared our sins.

As we always do, we shopped for the souvenier of the weekend - a Christmas ornament and our starfish charms. What great fun and what a gret friend I have in Ellen! Cannot wait until next year........

Deer Strike!

No I did not hit a deer with my car....thank goodness for that.

During the morning yesterday, one of our "frequent flyer" kindergarten students came for her daily (sometimes two or three times a day) visit. This was our encounter......

Student: "During choice time, one of the deer struck my leg and cut it......the skin is about to fly off and I sense it is is going to bleed at any moment."

My findings....she had a small scrape on her leg that did not even break the skin! Safe to say her skin was not ready to fall off or bleed.

You just cannot make this stuff up!

Happy Nurses Day to all my nurse friends out there!

Girls Weekend Revisited......

And what a great time we had.....from the moment we arrived until we parted company we never lacked for laughs and conversation. So I will try to chronicle the events of the weekend in pictures and comments and you can live vicariously through me....and Ellen.

Destination -

Hotel - The Days Inn on the Boardwalk. Right on the boardwalk. Here is a picture of the hotel from the boardwalk.

Our room - The first thought we had upon entering was that Hawaii flew in, threw up all over the room and left! The second observation we made, most other hotels along the boardwalk had the same set up....Ellen's comment was there must have been a great Buy 1 Get 4,999 free!

The Boardwalk - 2 1/4 miles in length. We walked the length each morning and I thought that was a good start to my training efforts. Great coffee shop next door.....have never (and I mean never) had a better latte in my life! And some fun people watching. Here are some interesting shots of our Saturday morning coffee clatch...who would have expected two marching bands to come by :)

Later in the week, will share stories of our side trips and souvenier of the weekend.

Swine Flu Update

CDC Warning: ***DO NOT DO THIS!!!***


More on girl's weekend later.......I am trying to decide how much money the photos are worth to Ellen if I don't publish them :)

Off to the Beach....again

This time without my family. It is time for girls weekend. We are late in our adventure this year. Sometimes life gets in the way.....more often than we want. I look so forward to this weekend every year. Lots of drinking, dancing and all around wild girl behavior....NOT. Ocean City, MD here we come. I hope the other tourists can handle the excitement we bring.

See you Monday!