Moving along nicely with the surrogacy plan. Had my IUD taken out last night - in my house by a midwife. Why doesn't every use a midwife? Home visits are just awesome! She was professional and nice and I felt comfortable around her. I will interview another midwife or two for who will see me during the pregnancy. I have plenty of time

Let's see.... this past weekend. I worked Saturday during the day. Kicked ass on the calls and got 19 interviews - high amount. They love me! .... but my paycheck shows they only love me $8/hr. bah.

Saturday night the boys and went to a friends house for dinner. She made an fabulous deep dish pizza - it rocked! Really. Wow. Had chocolate pecan pie for dessert. Can it get better than that? Oh yes... and her house it does. We played Nintendo's Wii and bowled right in her living room. Fun! Then played several rounds of Guitar Hero II. Henry is now asking for Wii for his 11 or 13th bday... something like that. m'kay Henry.

Sunday was the first day of combined Sunday school classes. We went from 5 kids to 13 or something. Kindergaten and first grade classes are now combined and second graders joined the third graders. We'll have 3 teachers in the class each week (instead of 2) with the 4th off.
After the 11am service we had a pot luck lunch at church - love those! Mom made our broccoli rice casserole but the spread was amazing. Everything was delicious! Afterwards we had a meeting about the future of the church. Several years ago they started a campain to expand the church - build on an addition. Last spring they started collection funds for the new building and such and it bombed big time. Total failure of a campain. People pledged a fraction of what they expected. I'm glad... the church isn't ready to grow. The sanctuary isn't full for either service, maybe 75% max. Plus they have 750k(!!!) in debt from their original building and just under 100k on the parking lot that is 2 years old. They were only paying the interest, not the principal. How does that make sense? Anyway, we are to focus on paying off the debt, 10% of what is given weekly. Good plan, I like that. I like my church.

Speaking of which, this Sunday is the Christmas program. It is mainly for the 4th-6th graders but all children are in it. Lincoln and Henry are both singing songs they've been learning in Sunday school.

Sunday after church we went to Celso's apartment and had lunch again (LOL). He and Arturo cooked steak for Mariela's birthday. She's only 20. I thought she'd be 26 or 27... she doesn't look 20. She has a 4 year old and a 2 year old... left the baby when she was just a few weeks old. Still breaks my heart.

Sunday night the older 2 spent the night and we had a good time. Didn't play games but did hang out and were just there.

I worked a teeny bit last night. 1.5 hours. Only 11 hours this week. WhoopDeeFuckingDoo. Sat around and visited most of last night too... got the low-down on the company and understood the background more. I enjoy that. Our company Christmas (Yes! the call it a Christmas party!) party is Sunday night. Church program from 4-5:30 and party at 6pm. Good thing both are on 151st Street.
Oh, in the teeny bit of working I did, I did manage to get 3 interviews done. :-D THAT is why they love me. I squeak that shit out some how.

Tonight. Cinzetti's! Yummy. Cooking club and Mom's night out.

Tomorrow I work at night.

Thursday Henry and I are going to his school for a Gingerbread-house-thing with the principal of the school.

Friday - I'm open. My calendar is empty! Oh what shall I ever find to occupy my time?!

Did I tell you all about my new phone?

The LG VX8500 aka Chocolate by Verizon. I have this "cherry" version. They also come in black, lime green and white.

It is SWEET! New phone with fun new gadgets to play with and it is a MP3 player. Holds a 1G memory card. I have my 'adult' songs in a category, regular musix, smooth songs and a 'kids' category for Henry and Lincoln - Lincoln mostly. I woke him up this morning using it and he work with a grand smile on his face.

I've downloaded Sonic from Sega and Henrique enjoys playing that.