Ten years ago tomorrow....

.....Chrisfeeney and I were married, I know, I can't believe it's been that long. I'm pretty certain that a few people (I won't mention any names) were hungover the day of our wedding from overindulging in few too many cocktails at the rehearsal dinner the night before, but that's a whole other story. It was a lovely wedding and a wonderful celebration, except for that picture of me in my beautiful ivory gown with a cigar in my mouth, damn photographer!!

To celebrate, we are leaving for NYC tomorrow morning. We are staying for two nights and I'm sooo excited. This may be the last time the two of us get to go away as a twosome...soon enough, we'll be a threesome, so we better party like it's 1999...we better drop it like it's hot...we better.....yeah right, we'll be in bed (and fast asleep) by 11:00 pm.

Yo shorty, it's your birthday, we're gonna party....

...like it's your birthday, we're gonna sip Bacardi like it's your birthday, and you know we don't give a @&*# cause it's your birthday! Don't you just love the poetically profound lyrics of 50 cent? So, Baby F turned 7 months old today - woohoo, happy birthday baby girl!!!. Time is certainly flying by, I can't believe she is 7 months already. I'm so ready to hop on a plane and go get that cheeky little monkey.

What's in a nickname?

Nicknames are interesting. A lot of people have them, but are known primarily by their 'real' name. This, however, is not the case with me. While I was looking at this blog, it occurred to me that my name appears as Chook, which may be very confusing to some of you who know me as Kim. I thought I should explain.
When I was born, my Granny (my mother's mother) who was from Scotland, looked at me lying in my crib and said "she's so tiny...what a wee Chookie birdie" which is a Scottish children's song about a wee bird. From that day on I was called Chookie. I have never been called Kim by my family in my entire life and I'm not even kidding. When I was married, the priest even said "do you Christopher take Chook......" I'm totally serious.
With that being said, Chris and I have the most beautiful name picked out for Baby F. It's a strong, Irish name and it fits her perfectly. Yeah right, my parents have a different idea. They have been referring to Baby F as Petal...It's my fault though, back in the day I did mention that I thought Petal was a pretty little name. Of course, I changed my mind about a day later and moved on to a different name. Yeah, well...my parents didn't. They continue to refer to their granddaughter as Petal. I have feeling that 'Petal' is the new 'Chook'. Hey, it's all good!!!!;)