Kid Funny

Miss G said that she has a rock she wants to show me that is “awesome!”  It was a flat, shiny, dark green rock.  When she showed it to me she asked me if it was a frog egg because her friend said it was.

 

Oh, the things kids come up with.

Random Thought

Everyone knows that cats sleep all day.  Now I am totally a cat person.  Always have been, always will be.  But why is it that when I go to take a nap they have to come over to me and decide to take a bath on top of me?  Come on, you get to sleep uninterrupted, let me get in my cat nap too.

Author Am I?

So I have really been thinking…I want to write a book.  The book would be about mental illness in the Christian community (which is totally needed, I’ll probably write a post on this another day).  I have personal experience from myself extending down to several family members.

Here’s my dilemma… I don’t feel like I have the educational or mental background to write it.  This is mainly due to the Fibro Fog.  Yes, I have graduated from college, with a Psychology degree to boot.  But can I recall any of it??? NO!!!  Yes, I  have been a stay-at-home mom for almost 10 years so I haven’t had to use my brain like that.

But with the Fibro Fog, I can’t even remember simple words like table, chair, book, etc.  So what is a girl with Fibro to do???  Well, I guess I better still try.  My only reason for writing the book is to help people.  There is such a huge need for help and understanding for people with mental illness (from depression to bipolar).  This goes for the regular community down to the Christian community to which I am really involved. 

So I guess I will start writing.  Who knows how long it will take.  Years I am guessing, but I’ll see how the Lord leads with it and see what happens.  Wish me luck and good memory recall!

Recommendation: Stock Up Time!

I was at Target the other day and saw that they had a lot of there paper products on clearance.  And with 2 birthdays coming up in March and May, I figured I better buy their birthday plates and napkins now.  Especially since they were on 30% clearance, how could I pass that up.  I usually wait for stuff to go on more clearance at this store, but there was not a big enough selection to wait for that.

Plates and napkins always seem to be one of those last minute things that always gets forgotten.  And then you are running to whatever store is closest and buying whatever they have.  Target did have several to choose from, which was nice and I choose to not go with the kid themed stuff (though that was on clearance too). 

I even thought ahead to see if I had anything else coming up.  I remembered that I am hosting Bunco next month so I bought supplies for that.  I think I might even go back and buy for my daughters b-day in September.

Oh, and another thing…go and stock up on Valentine’s stuff for next year.  Our Target had tons of stuff.  I already got some at 50% off, but am waiting for the 75% for the actual v-day cards.

Happy Shopping!

I Need You

“On average, a preschooler requires mom's attention once every 4 minutes or 210 times a day”  (MOPS)

Wow, does this saying ring so true in my life.  Every day, all day long I hear “Mom I need you!”  Little A has such a way of saying this.  I’m surprised I don’t hear it in my sleep.

Now I know this is totally part of a preschooler’s life, but I think she over uses just a tad bit.   Especially since there are times when she is completely capable of walking to me and asking for help versus yelling from her room and making me walk to her. 

Something else that Little A has been doing is telling me that she can’t walk because her leg hurts.  She’ll get up in the morning and ask me to carry her because she can’t walk.  She wants me to carry her to bed because her leg walks.  She wants to be carried to the dinner table because her leg hurts.  Little stinker.  I wonder if she gets it because she hears me talk about my limitations.   Lately I have been telling her I (well, I guess more like threatening) I will have to take her to the doctor if her leg keeps hurting and that pretty much stops it.

I know one day I will long for the day when I would hear “Mom I need you.”  But there are days now when I definitely wish I heard it a lot less.

Me and ML

          













        What can I say, I am so in love with him!


                                                                            

Third Nipple

Well, my third nipple (as my daughter calls it) is back, it’s actually another lesion.  I went to my Rheumatologist to finally start treament for my (what they are now calling) breast disease on Tuesday and it wasn’t there.  And as of Tuesday night it was already appearing.  I already had an appointment scheduled Wednesday with my breast surgeon so I had her check it out and she wanted me to go see my rheuma (my new shortened word) right away since I had just started this heavy treatment (more on that later).  So I was able to get back into him on Friday and his first comment was “yea, that’s what granulomatous is!”
But my biggest concern in going back to him was the fact that he originally couldn’t treat if I had any active lesions.  And since we had just started treatment and now one was starting I was scared we would have to stop treatment.  Thank the Lord I don’t have to.  He said that at least when I started it (for one dose) that I had no lesions and as of now it hasn’t “broken open” so we are good.  And if we had to stop treatment for every time I got one, we would never be able to treat me. 
Treatment right now will consist of a low dose of Prednisone/steroids for six weeks until the main drug kicks in. (Though I am on a heavy dose to try and thwart the lesion but only for 6 days.)  And the other drug, surprisingly, it’s main use is for people who have received kidney transplants and it is used so there bodies don’t reject the kidney. 
I don’t know how long I will have to be on that med.  I did ask the doctor and he said it may be the rest of my life.  So now along with the fibro I now have this stupid breast disease.  As I have said before, I just want my boobies back. 
Oh well, I know things could be so much worse and the Lord will only give me as much as I am able to handle.