A post every girl can appreciate...

Okay, so before I start this post I would just like to inform all reading that I'm talking girl stuff that you may not care to read about... don't say I didn't warn you. Also I find it incumbent upon myself to further inform you that...

A. I was raised with 4 sisters and 1 brother, there was alot of estrogen at my house. We girls kind of ran freely about the basement... I tried to be careful and be modest when Justin was around (I never left my bras laying on the living room floor... Rochelle) but I did have Justin bump into me while wearing only panties and a tee and say "TIFF! PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!" I secretly always loved getting a rise out of him, he always reacted big when it came to hearing about girl stuff...

B. Since I was raised with girls I'm very comfortable talking about girl functions... it doesn't embarrass me (alright in the right situation I could be embarrassed)

C. I'm a nurse, it's my job to talk about this kind of info.

SO... this is a story I would share with my sisters or close friends... welcome to the open world of Tiffani, generally reserved for those I know very well...

Let me further preface this story by saying that I'm on my period right now. As every girl has different side effects to this delightful part of life, let me share mine with you to set up my embarrassing moments from today.

About 5 days before my period until I'm off my period, my chest gets extra sensitive and tender (great combination) I also get a little bigger so my bra doesn't quite fit and I feel like I'm popping out over the top. Generally I think it feels better to have the support of a good bra (sports bra is the most comfortable, it's soft and supportive but alas, it causes the uniboob... not my favorite) but it feels good in the morning for just a little while to just have no constraints...

Additionally, I have a couple of days where I bleed really heavy (I have a 23 day cycle and my period lasts 6 days... I think this is ethically wrong. There is NO REASON for me to be the most fertile woman alive today. However, I have almost no cramps, food cravings or moodiness... I'm just a little extra sensitive/emotional; this almost makes up for the blasted frequency) and I have to watch it really carefully because I saturate tampons rather quickly...

On with the story...

This morning I get up and am getting my kids ready for school. Corynn informs me that she got a zero on an assignment because the teacher wanted her to read 10 non fiction stories and 3 novels this month. I figured there was a miscommunication somewhere about the assignment and told her I'd run into school with her early and talk to her teacher. So I throw a jacket on over my shirt (I'm wearing running pants and my white, very thin Ragnar shirt), finish making lunches and we jump in the car and drive to school.

As I'm walking into the school I look down at myself and realize... yep, you guessed I HAVE NO BRA ON!!! And to top it off, I'm nipped out, my shirt is thin and you can see everything. I might as well have been in a wet tee shirt contest... ugh! So I zip my jacket right up and walk around my children's school as the bra-less wonder. Wow don't I feel like a princess...

Oh wait... don't think I'm done yet... this day gets even better!

I've had meetings at the hospital all week, so after dropping the kids off at school I showered and changed and ran up to the hospital. I don't like wearing jeans to work so I was wearing thin cotton pants. Jacki and I (she got a job at the hospital on the mother/baby floor!) are eating lunch in the cafeteria and I felt just a little bit crampy so I thought I'd run to the bathroom and just make sure everything was okay. By the time I got to the bathroom I kid you not... I had completely soaked through everything! Not just a little... clear through underwear and pants!

Good grief! I had to run all the way home, clean up (yes, I'm a freak about that... I HATE the period smell and feeling even remotely dirty in that way) soak my clothes in cold water and get dressed again. Of course I was late returning from lunch to my meeting.

All of you girls who have 28 day cycles and periods that last only 3 days with only light spotting... I don't like you very much today.

No wonder I have to be careful about anemia...

Trick or Treat!

Halloween was really fun at our house... I didn't have my kids this year so I told them we could celebrate on a different day. The kids threw a party Friday night and it was oodles of fun. I started my new job this week and hadn't finished Clayton or Corynn's costumes yet so I pretty much sewed during the day, went to work and would get up and do it again, all week... ugh. I keep telling them I'm not sewing for them anymore, they don't seem to believe me.

We all played games, ate food and watched a movie. I have to say I love teenagers. Clayton and his friends were telling me about the girls they like. Clayton ended up pulling out his year book and they went through it showing me all of their crushes, girlfriends, and the girls they don't like at all... it was so fun (Rochelle it was pretty close to the conversation I had with Benjamin and Clayton last time we were at your house. The second Clayton ran to get his yearbook, I thought of Benjamin going and getting his so I could look through it).

Corynn was bummed because one of her friends was sick and couldn't make it, another one was a no show and the one that did come didn't wear a costume (I think her family doesn't believe in dressing up for Halloween... I wonder what they thought of me when I came to the door.) so she didn't want pictures with her friends. Corynn did say she had a good time though.

Alyssa as always was happy with everything. All of my kids made a comment to me sometime on Friday about how they were so excited for the party with me that they forgot to be excited about the real Halloween... dang I love my kids!!

Check out my black cauldron... found it at Smith's. It was a BIG hit!

And just for the record... I had a few people make fun of me for having fruit and veggies...

The veggie tray was almost completely gone at the end of the night. :)

Clayton thinks he's big and tough. I seriously thought he was going to drop me... turns out maybe I really could take him down still.

Yeah, I had no problem holding him at all... maybe I weigh more?

The girls and I

The kiddos being silly

My happy family

My girls

Rochelle I think my hair might be able to compete with your 80's hair for height. lol

Alyssa and her friends

Clayton and his friends

Corynn... she was a fairy (a character from a book... hey, we read alot over here.)

Clayton was a musketeer, not sure where that came from.

Alyssa was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz... I'm so glad I spent ALL Thursday morning running to a zillion stores to find her ruby red slippers...

Good times, good times. And just FYI I bought a new Christmas CD about three weeks ago and I've been dying to play it. I told myself I'd hold out until at least Halloween (I'm sure this doesn't surprise any of you who know me really well) I'm putting it on today. Justin have you cracked yet? I bet you do soon. :)

Oh, and PS I absolutely LOVE my new job. It challenges, teaches, intrigues and pushes me. And I love the people there...