So yesterday I posted pictures from Mister Man’s birthday party. As you can tell it had a dragon theme. It was his 12th birthday (His actual birthday isn’t until later this week) and thankfully for me he wanted to have it at home. It was really small just family and friends that are as close as family. My Mom made baked ziti. I made Dragon eye cookies. We had Dragon Snot Punch again, which you see me blowing on the smoke from in the pictures. (Yeah that’s me…scary huh? lol) The party itself went off great. The kids had a blast. The adults had a good time. Mister Man loved the presents he got. All in all a good time was had by all.

Flash Back to Saturday night preparing for the party. The kids were BEYOND hyper. Of course Nana and Poppy were there so that was one reason. We were baking cookies and Big Daddy was putting together Mister man’s cake so that was another. But it was finally bedtime and I got them upstairs. I got them all tucked in. We read our book for the night. I got up and kisses the Little Prince. I walked over to kiss Mister Man. He was laying on his stomach so I placed my hand lightly on his butt so he would know I was leaning down to kiss him and he wouldn’t be startled. It backfired and it actually startled him. His head came flying up and nailed me in the nose. I immediately saw stars and tears started pouring down my face. He flew out of his bed and turned the light on and there was blood pouring from my nose. Poor kid was so shaken up he started crying. He still feels bad. He gave his mother a bloody nose. Thankfully I didn’t get a black eye. but one side of my nose is still swollen.

Before the party my Dad was trying to help out and while my Mom and I ran to a few stores he ran the dishwasher. When we got back he was unloading it and looked down confused because the door that holds the dishwasher liquid was closed. He popped it open and the little Electrosol pellet was still it in…still wrapped in the plastic. He held it up for all of us to see. Needless to say my Dad forgot one…that the little door inside on my dishwasher isn’t working and we need to call the repair guy and two to take off the plastic on the tablet so that it would actually help clean the dishes. Needless to say it wasn’t realized until the majority of the dishes had been put away…

…introduce everyone to the family today and I still plan on doing it but today I’m doing something else. Today I believe I’m going to tell a story. A story about how several years ago I met a woman online and how since then she has become my best friend and one of the most important people in my life.

A few years ago I was playing the game Everquest. Remember I said a long time ago I was a geek. Well the group I played with had a message board and I wanted a ’signature’ picture for it. While trying to find what I wanted one of the people in our group pointed me in the direction of the hobby called Dolling. The basics of it was taking a base that either you drew or someone else drew on the computer and adding clothes, hair all the fun stuff. I ended up at another message board called The Realm. Well I started out slow there and kind of kept to myself and after awhile I met some really great people. They would have contests and challenges and even events. The dolling community is quite large and people typically had their own websites showing off their work. Part of that was if you had a site you typically had ’sister sites’. Other people would ask you if you were close enough, meaning you talked a lot, if you wanted to be sisters.

Well one of the events that was coming up was the prom (Again I point out I’m a geek and a dork) I was at the time just talking wit a group of women and we had drawn our dolls for the prom and we were at the “after party” which was a big chat room with a ton of people in it all laughing and having fun. A bunch of us had the same Internet radio station on and we were listening to that and having a good time. Well that night two women asked me to be their sister that night and they happened to be my dates. I’m even going to be dorky enough to show you my prom picture with them

(the base was done by a doller named Heaven who’s site is no longer up.

Well that was the beginning. From there we talked a lot. Talked on MSN, emailed, messaged back and forth on message boards. Soon that progessed to short phone calls here and there. Constant emails back and forth. Eventually it became more frequent phone calls. You could say we were inseperable.

She was there for me through my nasty divorce. Listening to me when I needed it. Smacking me when I needed it even more. From a simple friendship grew something even more. Through the ups and downs in both of our lives. Me waiting not so patiently for phone calls when something was wrong with Angel or Riley…or waiting for the latest test results. To her waiting for me to call her when i had something going on with the boys. Wanting to cry on my wedding day when hubby and I got married because I knew she couldn’t be here. Even though I know neither of us could afford to get her here. To wanting to beg borrow and steal the money to be there for things that were important.

What started as a simple ‘Hi’ on a message board became something much more. If you haven’t figured it out by now I’m talking about Sadie from Redefining Perfect. She is my best friend. My sister. My family. It doesn’t matter that we’ve never stood side by side the friendship we have goes beyond any conventional boundaries.

So Sadie I know you feel crappy right now. And I wish I could be there to drag you out of the house and run around doing girly things without the kids. Someday it will happen…I keep hoping for those winning lottery numbers.

But Happy Birthday to the best friend and sister anyone could ask for. I love you.

Happy Birthday lil Miss K. The little girl that surprised us all with her presence. I can’t believe you are 2 already. Have a wonderful day. We love you.

Happy Birthday Princess M. I can’t believe you are already 3. Time goes by WAY too fast

Yup that’s me…this witch is one year older today. Spent it with my boys. Day didn’t start out so hot but got better as the day went on. We watched the Last Mimsy and Eragon (again…that’s what happens when you let the 5 year old pick)