Friday in Fotos....

It's 21 degrees and snowing here today. Friday - my busiest day of the week because on Friday, Cameron and Avery both arrive at 7 a.m. And we're off and running! On Fridays, I make sure I'm wide awake, dressed and ready to go by 7 a.m.


I don't normally cook breakfast during the week around here. But it's so snowy and cold out, this morning I thought Rob would appreciate it. Here's what you need for the easiest breakfast in the world, sausage gravy and biscuits.

I'm not a breakfast sausage person (I prefer bacon :-) but Rob loves it. Cameron started his day with two of these biscuits with his Smucker's sugar-free strawberry preserves on them. He's a happy camper. (So's Rob.)


Avery will practice her sippy cup skills today. She's getting quite good at this actually. Poor little thing has to use Cameron's old Cars sippy cups until Nana get some cute girlie ones for her, but she's so proud of herself, I don't think she's noticed that. By the way, one of those painful top teeth is completely through now. So she's halfway there. I've always thought the two top teeth were the most painful for babies to cut.


Cameron and I will get creative with these as soon as he wakes up from his nap this afternoon. I absolutely love how excited he gets over warm chocolate chip-pecan cookies coming right out of the oven. Half of this batch will go home with him of course.


You know, I'll admit this is a cute movie. But oh my word, I'll be SO glad when Cameron gets tired of it. It's already playing for the second time today and I'm guessing we have four more showings in store. I'm completely sick of it. But he's not. And Fridays at Nana's house are for fun, so six showings it is. Sigh.


This occupies him a lot on Fridays too. This kid loves playing Fisher Price toddler games on my computer. He's sitting in Papa's lap in this photo. Papa is a huge help to me on Fridays, before he leaves at 2 p.m. to go to work.


It's hard to get much done when both the kids are here, but I've found I can usually get at least one monkey made. I've decided my new motto is, "A monkey a day...."


Of course this is a big part of every Friday. Cameron showed up this morning with a blood glucose reading of 52 (pretty low) and two hours later, the monitor said, "High." So he's had two units of insulin so far today and will certainly have more throughout the day. His blood glucose is all over the place but his pediatric diabetes specialist told us to expect this. We're happy with anything between 100 and 200. I check Cameron's blood sugar every two hours, all day long, and give him insulin or orange juice, depending on whether he's high or low. Just keeping track of the time, when I'm so busy, is a challenge. :-)


Fridays are something else around my house. I love Fridays, but boy, I'm busy! As long as the fridge is full of this, I'm good to go. I'm pretty sure I burn off the 140 calories in each can of my fuel.

Attitude is everything. I've decided Fridays don't wear me out. They keep me young. LOL