And so it begins....

The descend of the Purcell family. Do you remember me saying that typically from this month on we will have people popping in and out of our home. Well this month is here. Robert's cousin Sonny is getting married this next Saturday and everyone is coming in from around the world. Robert's Aunt Lucy from Samoa is here with us and her Daughter Ann just arrived from England. Roberts Aunt Ava from Hawaii and her husband will be here Sunday. Thursday Harry and Richard will be here and on Friday Dicky and Melissa are coming in from Utah.

I flew home today and Robert has informed me that there will be a Sunday dinner here. If I start today (Saturday) I should have everything prepared. LOL I'm tired just thinking about it. Oh well. Unfortunately in the midst of all this I will be in Dallas on Tuesday and Wed. thru Friday I will be working from my San Jose office. What does this mean? It means I'll have to leave the house in order with meals planned and such so that Ann can take care of things while I'm gone. Thank goodness for Ann being here she'll see to order :)

Vacation Planned

Ahhh the sound of the ocean, sweet smell of the flowers thru the air.... I can't wait. I've planned our vaction. Air tickets are purchased, hotel reservations made and rental car reserved. We're off to Hawaii for a week. We don't leave till June but I've already put a picture of the hotel we're staying at on our desk top as a daily reminder. I can't wait. I gave up my Christmas trip at my Boss's request and now nothing will stop me. We're out of here. The girls are taking their friends. Robert's not happy at first we had reserved 2 rooms one for us and one for the girls but now since the girls are taking friends we decided that we would just get 3 rooms, one for girls, one for the boys and one for us. I don't know how thats going to work out but we'll see.

We're staying at the JW Marriott Ihilani Resort & Spa * Ko Olina, Oahu and all that it implys ahhhhh :) check it out http://www.ihilani.com/

Spotlight Night coming up

Ok so here are the invitations I created for Spotlight Night. Not very fancy but they are cute don't ya think? I originally had picture invites but the pictures were not as clear as I needed them to be and when I had the girls address the envelopes well lets just say I forget that some of these little girls are under 10 and don't really get the whole "address thing" so I had to improvise and made these.

Wow feeling better today

I am feeling much better today. The doctor upped my dosage of insulin yesterday (actually doubled it) so today is a good day. Getting lots done. Robert is home (sleeping still) then he's off to work. I've conducted 4 phone interviews today for the Atlanta market and will take a red eye out Wednesday night be there by 9AM and start interviewing by 11:00 AM. Hopefully I can do this all in one day and be on a flight to Dallas. I'm really behind and need to get this out of the way. Being so sick for the past 2 weeks has really put a dent in my schedule.

Again a long list of things I am hoping to accomplish today. I may have to call my sister and see what she's up too. She is off from work this week, how nice to have spring break. I look forward to one day not having to work so hard. Sometimes I wonder if it really would be worth selling the house here in CA and moving to Utah. I know Robert would do it in a heart beat but I just can't seem to see myself living in Utah for no reason other than its cheaper??? Oh well the only thing appealing about it is that I wouldn't have to work and believe me that would be nice. :)

Oh well until I win the lottery I better get back to work. I wonder what the lottery is up too? Robert and I like to play the game of "if we win we will......" We can kill hours playing that game. Simple pleasures for simple people LOL.

When I wish upon a star.....

I wish I wish I wish.....

I've just returned from the doctors. Last week I had finally had enough of not feeling well and went to the doctors. I had a battery of blood and urine test done and the out come is that I'm on insulin. Very small doses. My glucose level checked in way over the number it should be at and I'm already taking Metformin. Not fun. I'm now testing myself self 3x daily along with taking insulin at each check point. I've just returned home from the doctors after one week of being on insulin and I was able to lower the number by 200. I am extremely tired the doctor is a bit confused with that only to say that my body adjusted so well to being diabetic that all other levels checked in fine because body adjusted to the high glucose count that maybe now that it is trying to regulate to a more normal number but body is once again adjusting which may be causing all the other side effects i am having. We are going to monitor it for this week and if nothing then they will check me into the hospital. Kind of a relief because I was totally prepared to be admitted this week. I have about 2 or 3 good hours a day where I feel good aside from that I'm exhausted and just want to lay down not to mention my stomach feels like its constantly turning. I'm going to ask Robert to give me a blessing tonight. I need to focus on work and other things and can't really afford to be down like this too many other things going on. So if I had a wish it would nothing elaborate just to be able to focus and not be tired on a daily basis. Not much :)

Saturday

Once again its Saturday. Robert is working a double today. Sometimes that's a good thing and sometimes its a bad thing. Good when I have lots to do and want to be left alone to get things done and bad when I have nothing to do and am bored all day.

Today its a good thing. I have lots to do today. I will be gone for most of next week (for work) and so I have lots of things to do today. Drop off dry cleaning finish up invitations for Spotlight night and work on a couple of other Wed. night projects for the girls.

I wish my girls were home I could really use their help. Danielle is always so very helpful I can usually depend on her. I'm trying to get the house ready for all the guest we're about to have. All of Roberts family from England, Samoa, New Zealand and Hawaii will be coming in for Sonny's wedding on the 26th. We've already had most of the family call and asking to stay with us. Robert has said that all the Aunties have first priority after that its the living room floor or a hotel. I'll have to find the prices of the local hotels just in case.

I am trying to grocery shop ahead of time, also need to make sure the propane tank is full since I know we'll have a family BBQ one night as they typically do here. Anyways in between all this I am trying to hire new sales reps in Orlando, Dallas and Atlanta. Calgon take me away!!!!!

Easter Sunday

Robert, Jen, Dave (much to my surprise) Dayna and Jonny were all there in support. I have to admit I labored day after day as to what I really wanted to say. Although I knew I wanted to have the song "I know that my redeemer lives" as part of my talk but some how the balance was something I struggled with.

Easter Sunday was a very calm day for me. I woke up early read my talk a few times had breakfast then relaxed. Then Robert and I left went to our meetings with Dayna still sleeping. Just before sacrament started I walked out to the otherside and saw Dayna and Jen with there. As I sat on the stand it was nice to family smiling at me.

I have to admit 1/2 through my talk I looked around the congregation and nearly 1/2 of the congregation was in tears. At first it startled me. And then I realized they were listening to the words of the Hymn. After my talk the Bishop came to me and said "That was a very moving talk" I don't think when I was preparing it I realized the impact and power it would have although I hoped that those listening would share in my heart felt words.

It was a good day and I'm thankful for my husband Robert and my daughters Danielle and Dayna and of course my best girlfriend, my sister. Thank you everyone for your support.

Love you!