Princesses Don't Wear Pants

Kyla's new favorite saying while putting her pants on.... "Princesses don't wear pants". Well little miss, Princesses don't live in Ohio where it is 11 degrees and the wind chill makes it feel below zero! I know this girl doesn't want to wear pants but I also don't want child services called on me for my daughter running around without pants on in a foot of snow ;) I did convince her princess Jasmine wears pants so she's a little more okay with it!
While we're on the topic of princesses.... Dan took Kyla to Disney on Ice on Monday. (Thanks for the tickets Jackie!) She LOVED it. She wore her princess Aurora dress and everything, haha! She looked so cute leaving the house with him and her pink dress, winter boots and big winter jacket. They had a blast. He took her to Red Robin for dinner after :) Landon and I had a date that night too. One night Dan and I went out and told the kids we were going on a date so Landon has been begging for a date ever since. I think he thought a date was a material object but by the end of the night he got the idea! I took him to Paragon for a burger, which he requested! He devoured half of a very large burger, and then some fries. Papa (my dad) joined us for a bit at Paragon since his coffee house (the Lakeshore Coffee House) is a few doors down. Then Landon and I went to see "Frankenweenie"...where he devoured a bag a popcorn and some pop. Hungry dude! The movie was quite odd. Kind of cute, Landon LOVED it! So that's all that matters :) Landon was a wonderful, cute date that night. He held my hand everywhere we went and was very polite :) I hope we have date nights more often!
I survived the second week of school! I have decided I should get a Biology tutor. I just am SO bad a retaining the stuff. I study for hours, make flashcards, re read the chapters, do ALL of the exercises, questions, take notes in class, do all of the extra lab work, etc and there are just still things I. CAN. NOT. GET. It sucks to admit defeat, especially two weeks into school, but I am happy to admit it because it was a mistake I made in high school and at Akron.... I thought for sure it was the teacher, or something else, and I just did NOT care. Now that I care about my grades and the outcome and the long term goals I know what I need to do to make this right and have the best possible outcome. I guess I was like...embarrassed? maybe? lazy?! before to ever need or want a tutor but now I don't care. I know I need the help. I just can't understand some of the stuff. And I think I'm getting it, then I get to class and just get more confused, Haha! I want good grades, I want to succeed!!!! BTW if anyone wants to tell Dan all of my studying will pay off one day I wont be mad at you ;) haha. Goal is in mind, I just want him to be 100% on board. I know the day will come one day!! Or I will just throw my diploma at him one day, and then money. I'll make it rain. Just kidding. HAHA! I just will feel good contributing to this family in a different way. I LOVE the way I contribute now though, these kiddos are so awesome to be able to hang around with all the time, I am very blessed to be able to be with them and raise them :)
Another thing that happened over the last week was my sister in law had a surgery on her arm to implant a fistula in her arm. She had the surgery already and it was simple, with a small scar, but it didn't work. So this time they had to make an incision from her wrist to her elbow to make sure it worked this time. It left a huge scar, obviously. She needed this more permanent "port" put in her arm for dialysis because she still has an A line hanging out of her chest/ collar bone area. The longer that's in the worse it can get. So now the one in her arm has to heal again, then they have to test it, then they surgically remove the one in her collarbone as long as the arm one works. She is also very close to getting on the donor list. Please just say some prayers for her that her new dialysis port will work and that she gets on the list/ finds a match asap! This dialysis/kidney failure stuff is no fun for her at all. Or my mother in law who has to deal with it all too. Positive thoughts for this please!
Hope everyone has a great weekend! I will be studying for my first Medical Terminology test, which is on Monday! Wish me luck! :)
Xo Em