(Rewriting post - it was lost)

My birthday was 2 weeks ago - we had a nice day.   Bob took me to lunch at my favorite restaurant, J. Alexander’s.

Came home for some tasty cake:

The girls and grandma helped the boys make stepping stones for me:

They also gave me another stepping stone kit to make a stone for Jordan Riley, since her birthday was the Saturday before Mother’s Day.

For my birthday (May 1st, May Day), I got a few pounds of green, shade grown, fair-trade coffee beans and a roaster. I roasted some tonight, to ready my coffee pot for breakfast. The roasted beans smell so good. I’m going to go ground them now..

A Caramel Frappuccino is sounding pretty tasty too.

I can’t help but to be super excited; I’m getting my first ever, brand new vehicle. I’ve never owned a really nice car before, so I’m just about bursting.

We went to test drive it the other night… The guy selling it was showing us all the features… ::drool:drool:drool:: Practically has automatic everything… windows, doors, the new VSA; I love that the second row windows roll down too. And, it even has an 8th seat… ::: sigh :::

We get to pick it up next week. Ha! I thought 9 months of pregnancy seemed like a long time!

Honda Odyssey

Is it possible to get sick from a bra? A couple months ago, I had a “lump” in one breast. Less in the breast, but to the side. It turned out to be nothing, other than a little inflammation of my rib bone. I chalked it up to the bra I had been wearing (underwire) thinking maybe it was just rubbing the wrong way.

Having forgot about that and the bra correlation, I wore the bra yesterday and today (other women do that right? Wear a bra more than one day in a row? ). Last night, I went to bed with the breast bone on the other breast super sore. Almost like pregnancy sore (but that’s not it).. it hurt. I made sure to have Ry nurse on that side plenty, though I wasn’t engorged, nothing seemed swollen. Just really sore and still sore today.

At our home school outing today, I started feeling feverish, achy, so tired. So we left, only a little early. I slept for a couple hours with Ry, laid on the couch and then finally mustered the strength to take a couple advil. I feel much better, not achy, but my breast bone still hurts.

I’ve decided to ditch the bra. This is the second fever/body aches I have in a month, which I thought was odd too.