Here is the link to my new blog:

http://blog.myspace.com/bishopskitchen

You can also check out my space on 'myspace':

http://www.myspace.com/bishopskitchen

From here on out I will probably be blogging on myspace, so check it out there...you can still come here to read it...just click on the new link.

So now I am torn. I went ahead and joined 'myspace.com' and there is a blogging feature right there on your page. So I have started blogging there, but I will still try to get on here and blog unless all three people who actually read my blog prefer to go to myspace to read it! It's not like most days I don't have more than enough to say!

The kids have been crazy today!! Poor Kris. He has tried to take care of all of them (Livvy being sick with a fever and vomiting), take care of me, and somehow manage to take care of himself too! I asked him today "So, you see why I can't handle it by myself??" I felt bad for him. He was so frustrated, and I knew exactly what he was feeling, and there wasn't anything I could do about it. I tried to help out some, but he doesn't want me doing too much, which is wise since he only has 4 days off of work for me to heal completely! He can't afford for me to have a set back in my healing!

I'm tired today. I feel ok as far as pain is concerned. I'm uncomfortable and the staples are starting to bother me more. But I'm more tired (probably from laying around) than anything. I've done a little more work on Pampered Chef stuff but have so much more that I want to do while I am 'off' this week. It will actually be a great opportunity for me to do a lot of paperwork and things that I need to just sit down and do.

I just now had Kris (after however many years it has been) look at the 'code' I guess it is called for the blog here, and he was able to make it look nicer, and now there is even a link to my Pampered Chef website! I don't understand it...but I'm glad he knows how to do it! Better him than me!

I had my gall bladder removed. The surgery was on Thursday morning, and I guess it went well. The nurse told me that there were some pretty big gall stones in there...I'm not really sure what that means, but it doesn't sound good! They did that whole laporoscopic thing, like they did when I got my tubes tied. Since it was a similar procedure, I figured that they would use that adhesive glue stuff to close the incisions. Well, I took the bandages off today, to find 12 staples in my stomach. There are 4 incisions-2 have 2 staples, one has 3 staples and another has 5 staples. It's weird. Not to mention it's uncomfortable.

I'm already tired of laying in bed, but too sore to really do anything. I'm only sore if I move though...so if I do absolutely NOTHING, I feel great! :)

The kids are home today. We had Olivia last night, but the others had high fevers so Cindy kept them until today. They seem to all be doing ok now though. Everyone except Olivia is asleep-well all the kids except her. Kris and I are still up.

I have to share my wonderful news! God has really been working and blessing my Pampered Chef business. My show on Sunday turned out to be a $1280 show! That's pretty good! I've never had a show higher than $600 something so it was just amazing! I got 7 bookings just from the show, so total I have 3 catalog shows for March, 4 cooking shows for March and already 2 cooking shows for April. I am still trying to fill a couple more March dates, so we'll see how that goes!

Advertising the business really does pay off. I took some catalogs and things to look over and work on while I waited for my surgery. They called me back to get me ready for surgery (two hours before the actual time to start surgery) and I was going back and Kris said, "take one of these with you" and handed me a catalog. Well, I was just going to take some reading material about Italian cooking shows but I took the catalog too! So I was laying in there with the catalog on the bed and in came a girl to tell me about the anesthesia. She said "Oh you sell Pampered Chef?" And I said yes...and she said she needed some beer bread mix and wrote down my web address (which is www.pamperedchef.biz/bishopskitchen if you want to know). Now I don't know if she will end up getting on there and ordering, but I thought "That was great!"

It didn't end there. Next came the pre-op nurse. She was doing the vital signs and things like that and saw the catalog. Well, she needed a new easy accent decorator. So, I gave her the catalog and made sure she knew that she could order online! Well, that was before the surgery.

After my surgery they took me to a room and there were two young girls in there, that were apparently nurses. They looked suspiciously young, but I'm sure they were ok. Anyway, one of them started telling me about the Pampered Chef products she had, so I gave her a catalog and told the other that when Kris got back (he had gone to eat or something) I would get her a catalog too. So I thought--wow...that's pretty cool. Even if nothing comes of any of them...four people now know that I am a Pampered Chef consultant and so maybe in the future, I will come to mind.

But then...my evening nurse came in and we chatted a bit and I gave her a catalog. She said that she loved Pampered Chef and that she would look through it and probably order something. She also said she would show the other nurses and see if they wanted anything. Well...in the morning, as she was getting off of her shift, my nurse Jean (thank you Jean!!) came in with the catalog and a check for her order! It was so cool! So it really does pay off. Any little bit helps! I was so excited and so grateful for all the ways that God is showing he is in control of this!

Well, I need to figure out something to do now, since I'm not quite tired enough for bed and my 'happy' pills haven't kicked in yet!