Danielle and Jonathan 9-6-08

[Danielle9608]

I suppose it is about time that I started an after wedding journal. We are still winding down from the wedding getting back to real life.
Unfortunately right after we got back from the honeymoon I hurt my back really really bad. I have been dealing with back issues for the past year and going back and forth to the doctors without any resolution. I had xrays and an MRI last week and found out that I have a herniated disc that is pinching a nerve. I am now waiting for a appointment with a pain management clinic for cortisone injections, and then I will be starting physical therapy. This has put a real damper on married life, since I can hardly do anything. I still have been going to work, since I have an office job that doesn't require much activity, but just that takes my everything, once I get home I am in pain and tired. So sex life has been non existent since we got back (no ones fault except my back). I am hoping to find out today when I can go in for my first appointment.

Also we planned on remodeling our kitchen once we got back. The kitchen cabinets are on order and should be delivered in a couple of weeks. Next weekend Jon and my dad are taking down the old cabinets. I really wish I was well enough to help since I like doing stuff around the house.

I will post once I find out my appointment and take photos on the kitchen process. :)

[TeacherSonja]

I'm really sorry that you hurt your back. I can only imagine the pain you are going through. My mom has a herniated disk and the only thing that really helped her was physical therapy. After the therapy, the doctor also suggested moderate exercise to prevent pain in the future (she also has an office job and sitting most of the day is what causes her problems). Anyhow, I hope you'll feel better soon!

Can't wait to see pics of your remodeled kitchen! I'm sure it'll look great!

[Danielle9608]

I'm really sorry that you hurt your back. I can only imagine the pain you are going through. My mom has a herniated disk and the only thing that really helped her was physical therapy. After the therapy, the doctor also suggested moderate exercise to prevent pain in the future (she also has an office job and sitting most of the day is what causes her problems). Anyhow, I hope you'll feel better soon!

Can't wait to see pics of your remodeled kitchen! I'm sure it'll look great!

Thank you for the well wishes! I did finally hear back from the pain clinic. I have an appointment this Friday for the cortisone injections. The only bad part is I can't take any pain medication 48 hours before. So Wednesday and Thursday are going to be really uncomfortable days for me.

[brendalin]

Thank you for the well wishes! I did finally hear back from the pain clinic. I have an appointment this Friday for the cortisone injections. The only bad part is I can't take any pain medication 48 hours before. So Wednesday and Thursday are going to be really uncomfortable days for me.

OMG hun! I am so sorry to hear that you are not doing well! Hopefully your appointment goes well on Friday!

You are lucky that this did not happen before your wedding! Hope you feel better! :hug:

[Danielle9608]

OMG hun! I am so sorry to hear that you are not doing well! Hopefully your appointment goes well on Friday!

You are lucky that this did not happen before your wedding! Hope you feel better! :hug:


Thank you!

[Jacobs_Girl]

sorry about your back, I hope you feel better soon

[Tadswife]

I'm so sorry you back is in so much pain. My friend had herniated disk in her back and had to have surery. I know the cortizone shots will feel good for the most part, but i'm sure your doctor told you it is only temporty relief of your pain. Has he told you how many you are going to get?? Has he put you on any pain relievers? Because once you have a heriated disk it is pretty much a life long thing you are going to have to live with. :o I hope the cortizone shots help :bbcry:

[Danielle9608]

I'm so sorry you back is in so much pain. My friend had herniated disk in her back and had to have surery. I know the cortizone shots will feel good for the most part, but i'm sure your doctor told you it is only temporty relief of your pain. Has he told you how many you are going to get?? Has he put you on any pain relievers? Because once you have a heriated disk it is pretty much a life long thing you are going to have to live with. :o I hope the cortizone shots help :bbcry:

Thank you for the well wishes. I think their hope with the cortisone injections is once that area is no longer inflamed the disc will go back into place, with the help of physical therapy. I think I will be getting 3 injections over the next three months. They having been giving me vicodin for the pain, however its not something I can take at work. I am also hoping to get off of it very soon since it can become addictive and it has some unpleasant side effects that I am now feeling, like constipation.

[PGDesigns]

Oh, Danielle, I'm so sorry about your back! Thank goodness you will have an appt soon, though. A coworker hurt his knee recently playing basketball with us and had to get cortisone injections, and they really seemed to help.

[Nekochanpurr]

I'm sorry about your back! :( i hope you feel better..

[kgvettegirl]

You need to drink lots of water. Think of your disc as a jelly donut and the herniation is trying to squeeze the jelly out. You will need to drink lots of water since you disk is almost 90% water. I'm hoping that along with the cortisone (which is not good for you, being a steroid) they will also do traction or inversion. Any thing that you can do to take the pressure off the disc will help.
I don't know if you smoke but at least while under treatment you should limit your exposure to nicotine. It dries out your body. Also stay away from caffeine. I know just plain water is not everyone's favorite drink but it is essential to a healthy spine.
These are all the instructions I would give our disc herniation patients at the Chiropractor.

[Tadswife]

Thank you for the well wishes. I think their hope with the cortisone injections is once that area is no longer inflamed the disc will go back into place, with the help of physical therapy. I think I will be getting 3 injections over the next three months. They having been giving me vicodin for the pain, however its not something I can take at work. I am also hoping to get off of it very soon since it can become addictive and it has some unpleasant side effects that I am now feeling, like constipation.

I"m glad to know they put you on some sort of pain medication. I hope the cortisone shots do work for you and that inflammation does go down enough so that the physical therapy can put your disk back in place. I will have to ask my dh how that works since he is a pt...hmm.. I'll get back to you on that one and let ya know what he said:D

[Danielle9608]

You need to drink lots of water. Think of your disc as a jelly donut and the herniation is trying to squeeze the jelly out. You will need to drink lots of water since you disk is almost 90% water. I'm hoping that along with the cortisone (which is not good for you, being a steroid) they will also do traction or inversion. Any thing that you can do to take the pressure off the disc will help.
I don't know if you smoke but at least while under treatment you should limit your exposure to nicotine. It dries out your body. Also stay away from caffeine. I know just plain water is not everyone's favorite drink but it is essential to a healthy spine.
These are all the instructions I would give our disc herniation patients at the Chiropractor.

Thank you for the tips. I am drinking some water right now. I will keep it up too :) I am a non smoker but the coffee thing is good to know.

[Danielle9608]

I"m glad to know they put you on some sort of pain medication. I hope the cortisone shots do work for you and that inflammation does go down enough so that the physical therapy can put your disk back in place. I will have to ask my dh how that works since he is a pt...hmm.. I'll get back to you on that one and let ya know what he said:D

Thank you for the support. Only 1 more day till I go for my shot. I will let you know I am feeling after :)

[PGDesigns]

Good luck!

[Tadswife]

I asked him what the physical therapy would be....he told me that the shots probably wouldn't do much to help. But you would do alot of what he called extention ( bending backwards) to try to put the disk back in place.since an average person does alot of bending foward. I sure do hope the shots work and you can get into pt and have them "crank on you" as my dh put it.. good luck.

[Jacobs_Girl]

Good Luck Danielle!

[Danielle9608]

Thank you everyone! I had the shot, and it was no picnic. I was hurting from the shot for a good 4 hours after. But I am now feeling a lot better. Definitely not 100% yet, but at least it's a start. I have also started lower my doses of aleve and I am off the vicodin completely now.

Also in another news, I no longer have a kitchen. DH and my Dad ripped out the cabinets this weekend. I am hoping by next weekend I will have a kitchen again.

Here is how it looked before:
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And Here it is now:

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/DSCN0797.jpg

and the mess in our dinning room:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/DSCN0796.jpg

[Goin2thechapel]

Aaahhh...We're heading down that same road Danielle...Remodeling in the spring and I'm NOT looking foward to it one bit!

[Jacobs_Girl]

Sorry to hear about your shot I hope it gets better :D

lol awe just think you'll have a new beautiful kitchen soon enough :D

I am use to it, Jacob always wants to rip something out and put something "cooler" in.

[Tadswife]

i'm so happy the shot worked well for you:D As for the kitchen... i'm jelous! I have been wanting to paint my kitchen for awhile now and dh won't let me:irked:
I hope the remodeling goes quick and you have your kitchen back soon

[caligal85]

Hmm yes I can see the improvement in your remodeling. ;) Glad to hear you're off the vicodin (vicious stuff) and feeling better.

[bichonlvr]

Happy 1 month!!!

[Kirby]

I can't wait to see how the kitchen looks after!

[Danielle9608]

Happy 1 month!!!

:) Thank you

[Danielle9608]

I started on painting the trim last night, and found out one of our pipes from the sink is leaking. So I need to call my dad and see if he can come over and look at it.

[Danielle9608]

Sorry I haven't been on more this kitchen remodel is taking over our lives. And I am so so so tired! Here is a link to the newest pictures.

http://picasaweb.google.com/DanielleRichard1/Kitchen#

Tonight I would like the finish staining the grout in the kitchen, touch up the pain in spot we nicked or got grout on and hang the shades. Wish me luck!

[brendalin]

WOW! You guys are doing a really great job on this! I can't wait until we start the remodeling phase again! It feels so good to get that stuff done!

[TeacherSonja]

Your kitchen looks great! I love the tiles!

[Jacobs_Girl]

Good luck!! thats the same kind of tile we have in the kitchen! Everything starting to look good. I like the black counter top idea! We went with a black marble mesh and black sink :D

[Danielle9608]

Thank you everyone!

[Danielle9608]

My fingers are sore and cracked from staining grout, but I finished last night. Tonight I have to seal the floor, and Jon needs to caulk around the back splash, then tomorrow we can put our stove back. I can't wait till there is order in our house again!

[MrsDM]

The kitchen is looking great!!!

[Danielle9608]

Well the kitchen is done, with the exception of some minor finish work. You can see in this picture we do not have toe kicks on the bottom of our cabinets because the cabinet manufacturer messed up and sent us oak toe kicks. We still have to get knobs, also we ripped up the baseboard around the walls so we have to finish that and the sink works but isn't secured because we are also waiting on parts from the manufacturer. But I am so glad that I can use it again and my house is back in order.

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[Danielle9608]

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/DSCN0812.jpg

Next on the list is painting the living room. :D

[TeacherSonja]

Wow it looks awesome! Painting the living room? Now that the DIY for the wedding is over you just have to do something else :D How is your back? Feeling better?

[Danielle9608]

Wow it looks awesome! Painting the living room? Now that the DIY for the wedding is over you just have to do something else :D How is your back? Feeling better?

Thank you! My back is feeling much better. I was sore from this weekend. But I think it was just general soreness from working so much. I can't tell you how happy I am that the wedding is over (and that I am married :) ) and have time to do these projects. Especially the kitchen used to drive me crazy! But we didn't have the time or the money with the wedding going on.

[Nekochanpurr]

Your kitchen looks SO nice!

[MrsDM]

That turned out great Danielle! I love love love the backsplash!

[amisteratwisterandme]

Have to agree. Kitchen looks awesome!

[Danielle9608]

Thank you! :cool:

[Jacobs_Girl]

Kitchen looks great! :D Hope everything is going well!

[Danielle9608]

I have not updated this in a while. So my back is getting better. I still in physical therapy and most days I am pain free. However today isn't one of them. I decided to paint our living room, which is a huge room. Jon was working all weekend so I did it all on my own. I painted the walls, all the trim, and the chandelier and finished the caulking on the baseboard trim (a project left over from over 2 years ago). I think everything on my body hurts today! I will get a photo of it tonight or tomorrow once I have put everything back on the walls.

[Danielle9608]

Also forgot to mention. Jon and I were kicking around the idea of selling and moving into a single family house (we live in a townhouse). Since the market really tanked in MA it meant we could get something bigger for not much more then we are paying now. But when we ran the numbers - we have so little equity we would have to basically pay 10k to move, which we practically drain our savings. So for right now we are staying put and trying to make the house as nice as possible.

[Danielle9608]

I finally got around to taking pictures of the redecorated living room/dining room. Here are the before pictures. The walls were white and orange, the chandelier was green. I also changed the rug, window treatments, the throw pillows and the wall art.

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[Danielle9608]

After:
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[Danielle9608]

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[EarlyBird]

wow i LOOOVE IT. im so jealous. we are repainting our house and i just cant bring myself to do it.. its sooo much work. i cant believe you did it on your own

[Danielle9608]

Thank you, I am pretty proud of it :)

[Danielle9608]

So this Thursday we have a Realtor coming to our house to give us an idea how much we could sell it for. Jon is so miserable dealing with the people on the board/neighbors. I really can't into details but it just took a turn for the worse. Also a assessment is coming down the road and we want to be out before that happens. I have been looking a recent sales all day. I feel so sick to my stomach thinking about what our house might be worth. Please pray for me the we can get at least 240K! And even at that we are still losing money!!

[MrsDM]

So this Thursday we have a Realtor coming to our house to give us an idea how much we could sell it for. Jon is so miserable dealing with the people on the board/neighbors. I really can't into details but it just took a turn for the worse. Also a assessment is coming down the road and we want to be out before that happens. I have been looking a recent sales all day. I feel so sick to my stomach thinking about what our house might be worth. Please pray for me the we can get at least 240K! And even at that we are still losing money!!

Ugh, I totally hear ya about all the "what ifs" of real estate! I hope the best for the two of you!

[Kfancii]

So sorry to hear this Danielle, but I totally feel your pain. Since Mack and I got married a year earlier than we planned, my house is on the market right now too. I have it listed for $94,900 - and that is my breakeven point. Sales in our area haven't been higher than $90K for a house the size of mine, so at that, I'm going to have to come up with at least $3K for closing as a minimum. I one couple interested in the house but they wanted it for $84K meaning I would have had to pay over $10K to make the sale. It didn't happen because I'm not going to give my house away.

[Kfancii]

Oh...and one more thing. Don't be afraid to bring in a second realtor if the first one gives you a figure you can't live with. I had two appraisals done on my house before listing with my current agent. The first agent came through with her comps and wanted to list my house at $74,200 - well, it would have sold for that without any problem, other than I would still owe another $11K on a house that I didn't have anymore before the $10K in closing cost and sellers fees!

[Danielle9608]

Thanks Kelly. I wish you luck with your house too! That is our main problem right now, covering all the Realtor costs. :( We are willing to loose a little bit of money, just to get out of there and into a single family house - but no more the 3,000. Because we still have to put down a deposit on a new house plus closing costs.

PS. On the bright note. I just found out I got a $3600 raise, so it helped my mood a lot. :)

[MrsDM]

PS. On the bright note. I just found out I got a $3600 raise, so it helped my mood a lot. :)

WOW! That is a great raise! Congrats!!!

[Danielle9608]

WOW! That is a great raise! Congrats!!!

Thank you, it really did brighten my day. I wasn't expecting that much!

[Kfancii]

Thanks for the well wishes! I have set my bottom line at losing $5K - because I know there is no way I'm going to get my asking price in today's market.

Wooo Hooo on the raise! That should help some too! I'm currently looking for a new job as our new Dean is not much of an events person and since my whole job revolves around events, I'm a little afraid that he is going to decide to cut me. Hopefully I can find something I like even better and make a little more money too! How's that for being optimistic?

[Danielle9608]

So the Realtor came on Thursday. He told us that we probably would not be able to sell for more then 238K. Not the news I was hoping for, but at least its less the we owe. However, I think he could be wrong. All the comps he pulled were older listings (over 5 months) and the houses were not nearly as nice as ours, plus we have lower condo fees then most. Right now we are working on getting the house in tip top shape. I am so tired of painting and spakling and caulking right now. We are hoping to list it in Jan and we are going to start it at 245K. If we don't get any interest then we will lower it. I am not about to give me house away without trying to get more first.

[Goin2thechapel]

I totally agree...Start high and go from there cause once the price is listed you can't go up...

[Danielle9608]

I haven't updated this for a while. After painting almost every room in the house, and a lot of stress and a few arguments, Jon and I decided now isn't the time to sell the house. A pretty comparable house just sold down the street from us for 40K less then we need to get for ours.

[bichonlvr]

Stinks you have to wait...but better to wait and get more money then try to sell it and realize it just won't work! Now you can enjoy an updated house :) Plus you really needed something to fill the no-planning of a wedding anymore time :)

[Danielle9608]

Here are some pictures from our Christmas:
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[Danielle9608]

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[Goin2thechapel]

did you get a dog for Xmas?!?!?!

Cute pictures! Thanks for sharing!!!!!!

[Danielle9608]

did you get a dog for Xmas?!?!?!

Cute pictures! Thanks for sharing!!!!!!

Nope that is ditto. We have had her for 3 years. LOL I just don't have any kids to take pictures of so I take lots of her :)

[MrsDM]

I might have missed this post, but did you get your hair cut??

[MrsDM]

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/DSCN0921.jpg

OMG - I love this pic! Its like she is thinking , "Oh man, I love Christmas!"

[Danielle9608]

I might have missed this post, but did you get your hair cut??

I did get my hair cut, I just never got around to posting about it. :)

[MrsDM]

I did get my hair cut, I just never got around to posting about it. :)

It looks SOO cute!!

[bichonlvr]

I love how it is a pic of humans...dog...humans...dog! Too cute!

[Danielle9608]

I love how it is a pic of humans...dog...humans...dog! Too cute!

LOL I didn't even notice that :)

[Danielle9608]

So my back has been doing great. I just order an elliptical this weekend. Go out to walk ditto this morning and I fall on some ice. I thought I was fine until I bent over to fill her water dish after our walk and then I felt it. I think I hurt my back again. Waiting ... not so patiently for my doctor to call back :(

[PGDesigns]

So my back has been doing great. I just order an elliptical this weekend. Go out to walk ditto this morning and I fall on some ice. I thought I was fine until I bent over to fill her water dish after our walk and then I felt it. I think I hurt my back again. Waiting ... not so patiently for my doctor to call back :(

Oh no! Hopefully, the doctor will call you back soon. I'm sending lots of good vibes for your back, though!

[TeacherSonja]

Oh, I hope everything's ok.

[Danielle9608]

Oh no! Hopefully, the doctor will call you back soon. I'm sending lots of good vibes for your back, though!

Thanks Allison :)

[karkar]

I came into this post pretty late after you made the post about the remodel in your kitchen and I have to say that it turned out soooo beautiful! I love the colors and how everything just flows together.

[Danielle9608]

I came into this post pretty late after you made the post about the remodel in your kitchen and I have to say that it turned out soooo beautiful! I love the colors and how everything just flows together.

Thank you :)

[TeacherSonja]

Hey Danielle how's your back? What did the doctor say? Hope everything's ok.

[Danielle9608]

They said to wait a week and if it's still hurting to call back. It hurts on and off so I think maybe I just pulled something. Thank you for asking, you are too sweet!

[TeacherSonja]

I'm glad the pain is going away. I'm sure you'll feel great soon. Take care.

[Danielle9608]

I haven't updated this in a while. Let's see what is new....
My sister is getting married in October and I am her Matron of Honor. I am currently working on her Save the dates. I will ask her if its okay once they are done if I can post them here. They are coming out awesome.

Also we have another home improvement project in the works. Since selling our house without loosing a lots of money is near impossible right now, we have to make do with what we have. So we are going to finish our basement and it should give us another 500 sq of living space. I just got my bonus today and it was a little over $2,000 and after tax return we should about cover most of it without digging into savings.

Lastly I am officially off the pill. I had a preconception appointment and my doctor said she wants us to wait at least two cycles before starting to try. So hopefully come April we will start. The bad part is using another BC method for the next 2 months.

[Danielle9608]

So everything is all set for the basement remodel. We are going to start framing on 2/28. Between now and then we have the fun fun task on cleaning everything out from the basement. I can't wait to get started because I am really looking froward to having the added space!

[TeacherSonja]

Remodeling the house and decorating is one of the most exciting things for me, but my enthusiasm is gone when I have to put all the stuff back. :) Taking them out is much much easier :D

[Danielle9608]

Remodeling the house and decorating is one of the most exciting things for me, but my enthusiasm is gone when I have to put all the stuff back. :) Taking them out is much much easier :D

LOL I am the same way. I usually have full steam until the project is almost done and those finishing touches take me forever! Right now I am having fun picking out the flooring and lighting options. The "looking" part is always fun for me :)

[Danielle9608]

This weekend we started framing out the basement, it doesn't look like much yet but you can sort of get the idea of how it going to look. I am really pleased the amount that got done in just one Saturday.

Here is what it looked like the night before we started the framing. It was really dusty because I had just swept, it also doesn't help I had my camera on the wrong setting.
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[Danielle9608]

and Saturday night after just one day and half of the framing is done:

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[MrsDM]

Wow, you guys sure worked hard this weekend! I think it will be a great added space you guy guys!

[NOTKT]

It's coming along great! This will help a ton when you sell your house :)

[Danielle9608]

We are almost ready for drywall so I will take some more pictures tonight.
In other news tomorrow Jon and I have been married for 6 months. :bbeek: It still feels like yesterday!

[bichonlvr]

WOW!!! 6 months...crazy!

[Danielle9608]

We are now ready for drywall!!! This weekend we are going to pick out laminate flooring and go look at furniture. Here are some more pictures.

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http://picasaweb.google.com/DanielleRichard1/Basement#5312076483180878226
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[Danielle9608]

We got a new digital camera and took some pictures of Ditto to try it out. Is she the cutest or what??

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[Danielle9608]

This is the new camera:
http://transposure.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/828.jpg

[PGDesigns]

Congrats on the new camera! Ditto is too cute! I LOVE that first one of her.

[Danielle9608]

Jon surprised me with a dozen roses this morning and a Gerber daisy plant for my birthday. I didn't have time to snap a picture before I left today, but I will when I get home. :)

[Docsgirl]

Awwww! Your dog is adorable. And I have camera envy...I really want a nice new camera.

[Danielle9608]

we made a little more progress on the basement. We bought all the dry wall and lugged that into the basement. Which was no easy task! And we have most of the ceiling done. Excuse the cr@ppy photos. I didn't want to take the nice camera down there.

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/DSCN0967.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/DSCN0968.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/DSCN0969.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/DSCN0970.jpg

[Danielle9608]

Here is some new basement photos. Almost done with drywalling. Next mudding and taping ... YAY, lol :gurn:

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/DSCN0971.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/DSCN0972.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/DSCN0973.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/DSCN0974.jpg

[Moon.Dust.]

I have basement envy

[MrsDM]

Looks great! I bet you are totally ready to be out of a construction zone!!

[Danielle9608]

Thanks! The construction is really not all that bad cause its down in the basement. I mean some things have been displaced but as of right now we don't really use our second bedroom so everything is stuffed in there. I hope by this weekend all the dry walling will be done and then we can get to mudding and tapping. Once that is doneeverything is pretty easy from there :)

[brendalin]

I love all of the remodeling that you guys have been doing! Everything looks so nice! Plus once baby comes you will have nothing to worry about! everythign will be fresh, clean and ready to go.

I LOVE the short hair cut on you! SUPER, SUPER cute!!!

[Danielle9608]

I love all of the remodeling that you guys have been doing! Everything looks so nice! Plus once baby comes you will have nothing to worry about! everythign will be fresh, clean and ready to go.

I LOVE the short hair cut on you! SUPER, SUPER cute!!!

Thank you :)

[smileyone2002]

I spent all last night trying to catch up on what all you girls have been doing!! I love what you have done with your home!! It looks amazing! I also love your haircut!! I recently cut all mine off and it feels weird but great!:)