If there’s one thing I hate more than being sick, it would be taking care of a sick child. No, it’s not so much the whining, it’s more the feeling of helplessness when I know there’s so little I can do to make them feel better. I caught a cold a few days ago and tried very hard not to pass it on to Kamalani but we spend so much time together, it was almost impossible to avoid her catching my cold. This morning she woke up congested. I gave her a cold tablet and it took an act of God for her to finally agree to chew on the tablet. After eating breakfast, I let her email her papa then I sent him an email translating her message. She looked too cute sitting at the computer banging away on the keyboard and reading her message outloud while she typed. Then she turned to me and asked if I can type as fast as she can. I guess I could if I hit random keys like she did!

After doing our emails, we played for a few minutes until she told me to hold her because she was tired. Now this girl is never tired. She has the energy of …. well, ALOT of energy that she wears all of us out. I know I should’ve felt relieved that she wanted to take a nap, I should’ve been gleeful, but I wasn’t. I knew it was because she wasn’t feeling well and that sucks : (

When she woke from her nap, her throat was dry so her voice was very hoarsed. She looked at me sadly and said, “grandma, I lost my voice. Where did it go?” I told her she needed to drink some special tea so I made her a small cup of tea and had her sip it. Then she spoke and her voice was back. She thought it was MAGICAL! I sorta gave her the idea because she loves Little Mermaid and she related her lost voice to Ariel losing her voice to Ursula. But alas! The queen (that would be me) came to rescue the Princess (that would be her) with a cup of magical tea!

I love being the Magical Queen

Today started off on a good note. I had made plans to take Kamalani to a matinee showing of Peter Pan. If truth be told, I wanted to see it since viewing the previews on T.V. We were to meet a friend who was going to take Kamalani to a birthday party after the movie. Anyway, the movie was great! It was colorful and perfect for a child’s imagination. There were a few suspenseful scenes where Kamalani wanted to cover her face but I talked her through it so it wasn’t so scary for her. I only regret that she wanted to leave 10 minutes before the movie ended, she was beginning to get antsy and kept asking about the party that she was supposed to be going to. Oh, and being the bossy lil shit Princess that she is, she was upset because a little girl sat next to her and she was sort of saving the seat for Frances (who, by the way, didn’t show up). I might just need to see the movie again without her next time.

After the movies, I called to see where Frances was and it was then that she told me she had changed her mind and wasn’t going to the party afterall. Needless to say, that started Kamalani up. OMG, she’s needs to attend anger management classes or something. She knows she’s out of control because I told her I wouldn’t pay attention to her until she calmed down. Through her gasping and whining, she told me she’s taking deep breaths but she was SCREAMING it to me. She finally settled down and fell asleep in my arms. Whenever they’re fussy, it’s usually because they’re due a nap and she ended up napping for over 2 hours. She woke up talking in her sleep about Peter Pan. I was just relieved she didn’t wake up in the same grouchy mood she was in when she fell aleep. Everyone said my grandmother spoiled me but I don’t ever remember throwing tantrums like this.

Well, now that she’s awake and in a good mood, we’re watching the video Return to NeverLand. This is truly a Peter Pan day.

American Idols is my only “must see” television show especially since there are 3 Locals who made it to the 32 finalist. Honolulu Advertiser has an Idol ChitChat Forum.

It was there that I found the website dedicated to William “She Bangs” Hung. He rawks!

Tonight we had our friends over for dinner. We barbecued kalbi and keilbasa and we had buttered corn, rice, chicken kelaguin (Chamorro lemon chicken), beef stew. Our friends brought a seafood salad and potato salad. We didn’t start eating until after 8 o’clock though because we wanted to wait until my daughter got off work.

The real reason for the dinner was so our friend could show me his new laptop that his wife bought him for V-Day, lucky dog! It’s a Sony Vaio and it’s sweeeeeeet. He also wanted to show me his other new toy, a Tungsten T3 palm and that’s sweet too. We beamed each other programs and that was neat. His wife has a Sony Clie and somehow has problems sending and recieving beams from him. We don’t know why she can’t but he’s convinced it’s because the brands aren’t the same. I told her to bring the manual so we can try to figure out what’s wrong. I doubt it has anything to do with one palm being a Sony and the other a Tungsten but then I may be wrong since I’m still learning stuff about mine everyday.

Anyway, we had a nice dinner and topped it off with apple pie ala mode. Surprisingly, I had the kitchen back in shape within a few minutes after they left, close to midnight. It was a good day, just what we needed before my friend and I get back to doing the healthy eating routine.

We had a quiet Valentine’s day, I rolled off the couch at 12:30 in the afternoon after Kamalani decided to use my head to bounce on. Ok, even that didn’t fully wake me but eventually, I rose to start the day. After washing up, I head to the tackle the kitchen, one of my morning rituals - - even on weekends! After cleaning the kitchen, I decided to feed hubby and Kamalani some lunch since I already missed breakfast. Spawn called a few hours later to ask that someone pick her up from work. She came home with a huge bouquet of roses, Easter lilies, some palm and this other plant that I don’t know the name of. When I seen it, I knew it costed her some doolas. We thanked her for them but we really wished she had just gotten us a card. The sentiments would’ve been the same but much cheaper. Anyway, it’s beautiful and it takes up alot of space on the dining room table. We joked about it looking a little like a funeral spray. Yep, it’s THAT big!