Tagged and a final Maren update

We received confirmation from the lab yesterday that Maren did indeed have Salmonella. Not that it really matters at this point, as she's about 94% recovered, but it is nice to know for sure. When we went back in on Saturday morning the PA said it looked like the skin had developed a yeast infection, simply from being so wet for so long, and prescribed us another cream to use. It has worked well and Maren is almost back to normal, which is a relief to all of us! If ever a week convinced me to renew my efforts on the potty-training front, this was it. Changing diapers every 30 minutes for 8 straight days will do that to a person. I'm also happy to report that the George Curious party was a success! We only had a few little guests and the weather was so nice that the girls spent most of the time playing outside, which was fine with me! Maren had fun and Mommy didn't get stressed out, so that makes it a success in my books.

I was tagged a few days ago by the lovely Kristin! I love her blog and seeing the pictures of her house and her decorations makes me 1) drool and 2) feel inspired. Kristin tagged me to share 7 random things about myself, so this time I thought I'd share with you 7 things I'd like to do:

1. Learn to do the splits. Silly, I know, but it's just something I've always wished I could do! I actually have dreams sometimes that I can do the splits. Better get stretching!

2. Learn to do pickups/pullbacks in tap dancing. This is a step that I've tried and tried and just can't seem to get the hang of it! It drives me nuts. Everyone tells me that it's one of those things that once you figure it out, it just "clicks" and then you can always do it. I'm still waiting for the click.

3. Visit Washington D.C. when the cherry blossoms are in bloom. Every year I see pictures of this and am just agog at the gorgeous pink blossoms.

4. Conquer my fear of making yeast breads. I've only tried a couple of times but in every instance the results were very, very sad. I love to eat fresh, homemade bread so it would behoove all of us if I'd learn to make it, but my previous failures have me a bit gun-shy.

5. Visit Australia and/or New Zealand. Maybe someday we'll get to go on an adventure!

6. Teach my kids all about early U.S. History and then take everybody on a huge road trip to visit the sites: Boston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. Maybe we can do it in the spring and kill two birds with one stone (see #3 above).

7. Finish the scrapbook of my study abroad to London. I went in fall of 1998, so I'm only 10 years behind! I'd love to be able to look through all my photos and memorabilia and the only way I can do that now is to go through about a hundred different page sleeves where I've separated all the photos by event. I've got to get working on this one.

If you need something to blog about this week, consider yourself tagged!