**Sigh**

Kori is much better today! Hooray!!!! So thankful for that! She informed me she is ready to go back to school tomorrow. Great! Daddy is going to eat lunch with her so she is super excited about that. I think daddy is nervous about it...very sweet. I'm waiting for him to say "gosh, I hope they like me". It really is cute. I will go in a few weeks and eat with her too, I thought he could get first crack at it since I've been at school a few times for PTA things and what not. So at 10:50 tomorrow morning that's where he will be, eating lunch with his eldest daughter. Oh I wish I could sneak there and take pictures. I am so proud of him. While I joke with him (okay, sometimes it's not much of a joke) about he's a so-so husband, he is a great father! His girls loves him. It makes me teary to watch him interact with them. That is what being a parent is about.

My parents were up close to us eating dinner tonight so I nagged her (didn't take too much) into stopping by (they were just here yesterday delivering the girls Halloween costumes that Aunt Judy made for them) because I forgot to give her some dishes that are hers and I'm tired of them taking up space at my house. (Whew that was a lot of info huh?) My girls were so excited to see them. You would have thought they hadn't seem them in a month! My girls love my parents, heck their the only grandparents they know. Anyhow, Morgan goes walking up to my dad (who is like a big ol' teddy bear by the way) and holds her arms up to him. He picks her up and she snuggles up on his chest with her arms around him and just laid there hugging him for the longest time. Then she looked up at him gave her greatest smile and snuggled in for some more hugs. Oh man, I had to look away because my eyes were sweating big time! My dad is a unique man. He is my step-dad, but really the only dad I have ever known, and the only dad I acknowledge. My mom and him were married when I was five and he is the most incredible man on the planet! He "inherited" five kids when he married my mom. My two older and very stubborn brother, and my sisters and I. All this for someone who had never even really been around kids before. He's cleaned up our puke, after we've puked on him and all over everywhere else, held our hands when we were sad or scared, fixed up our "boo boos", rejoiced with us when we've been happy or had accomplishments that warranted it, he's just incredible. He's a man of few words. The strong silent type, but never in my life have I ever doubted the depth of his love for all of us! He is my girls "Pop-A" and they couldn't love him more. When my niece Mallory is around, it's a free for all with all the girls on who can get to him first. It's not uncommon to find him with more than one child draped across him. It's awesome! My parents are incredible people and I surely couldn't have survived this last 15-months without them. It just warms my heart to see my kids love my parents, as much as I do. I'm glad to be able to share my kids with them and I know they cherish those moments too!

Jason is playing poker tonight. No big money, just some male bonding. Probably lots of scratching, burping and, well you get the idea. So after the girlies went to bed, it was just me. Seems to be the case most of the time but usually he's working. Oh well, he's going to be playing nursemaid to me later this week after my surgery so he could probably use a little "guy time".

Tomorrow is Monday. So many things to do before the big day Friday. I managed to not do laundry this weekend so I have lots waiting for me tomorrow. Oh well, thanfully I don't mind doing it.