mindless chatter of a busy mom

Testing this is only a test

2011-11-15T10:05:00.000-05:00

To see if I still remember what it is like to post on my forgotten blog. (:

Winter Jam 2011 #8 (Kutless)

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Kutless my other favorite group.

Winter Jam 2011 #7(Francesca Battiestelli, David Crowder Band & KJ-52)

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Princess and Crazy J.. and their hair LOL
Crazy J and Princess...

and a little KJ-52

Winter Jam 2011 #6(Newsong)

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Winter Jam 2011 #5( Red)

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After the opening acts.. it was time to rock the place with Red.. Which was one of the big reasons Princess and Crazy J wanted to go :)
Princess and Crazy J
Jammin out.

Winter Jam 2011 #4(sidewalk prophets)

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The 3rd and last opening act... and the reason I wanted to go to Winter Jam in the 1st place.. was The Sidewalk Prophets...

I love these guys.... :)

Winter Jam 2011 #3

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Once inside the girls stopped to buy there Winter jam t-shirts and we found some great seats..

Here we are inside by our seats and the girls sporting there new shirts.

As soon as we sat down I kicked my boots off I thought I was going to need to go to the hospital my toes were honestly so cold I couldn't feel them.. I just started rubbing my toes to try to get feeling back in them.. but it took an hour after being inside for them to get feeling .. and then that The 1st opening act of the night was Chris Sligh.. here are a few shots of him

and up next was Chris August..(video of him singing was in my winter jam #1 post)

Think I'll end this post here because coming up next is my favorite group... so there are alot of pictures and videos to look forward to in the next post.

Winter Jam 2011 Post #2

2011-03-02T11:29:00.005-05:00

I tell ya I'm getting slower and slower with getting this post up.. I guess i should just be thankful I'm posting at all.. but ~sigh~ I remember the days I was such a good blogger..

Anyways... back to Winter Jam.. If you missed my 1st post you can find it here.

Sometime while I was taping Chris August.. The Sidewalk Prophets came out.. while i missed getting to sign the stool.. I did get to watch them shoot t-shirts out into the crowd.. Didn't caught one myself... but I did get a few pictures of them doing so... and Also got a shot with me, Princess and Crazy J. with Ben from SWP.

We stood outside freezing for a good while longer.. I honestly couldn't feel my toes anymore.. but it was well worth it..

Here are a few last pictures of Princess and Crazy J outside before we were left in...

I'll start Winter Jam Post #3 from inside the building.. :)

Winter Jam 2011 post #1

2011-02-28T22:52:00.000-05:00

In my facebooking my blog post I mentioned that on 1/30/11 I took Princess and her friend Crazy J. To the Winter Jam concert... We had the best time ever.. So I thought I would take a moment and post all about it.. I think it might take a few post not that I have alot to say just I took alot of pictures and alot of videos and I want to share them all. :-) We will start out with the two hour wait out in the freezing cold. :-)

We got there at 2:30pm the doors weren't opening till 4:30pm but we wanted to make sure we were able to get tickets and good seats. Not to mention I follow Sidewalk Prophets on facebook and twitter and I knew they came out to hang with the fans and I didn't want to miss them...

LOVE LOVE LOVE me my SWP..

Did i mention me and my bible study girls went to their concert back in December also.. if not here is a picture from back in Dec 2010 Ok back to Winter jam and freezing before the shows.. Oh my goodness I lost feeling in my toes, after getting into the building it took just over an hour before they weren't painful anymore, it was COLD...

Princess saw a group of teens playing ninja and jumped right in with them... think I'm mentioned before she is NOT shy. LOL.. here are some of the Ninja shots. After the Ninja game broke up and Princess and Crazy J started freezing again.. I took pity on them, handed them the keys and told them they could go back and sit in the van for 30 mins and stay warm and I would hold our spot in line. They jumped all over that and took off to stay warm. BOY did they miss out though..

Just after they left Jon Micah Sumrall and Nick DePartee of Kutless came out to hang with the freezing crowd a bit.. So me being just about as shy as Princess asked if I could get my picture with them. They were both so super nice..

To get this picture I turned to a family with a few teenagers who was in line behind me handed them my camera and said here can you take our picture.. After Jon Micha and Nick left the father asked me who was it I just had my picture taken with, when I told them it was Kutless, the teenagers got all excited and started screaming and jumping up and down for them to come back.. Jon Micha did while Nick went on to say hello to others in line.. One of the teenage girls was screaming "can I have a hug" Jon Micha said "how bout a hand shake" The girl was all like "Noooooooooooooo I want a hug" He said "sorry I only do hand shakes" I LOVED that... it showed what sort of character he has and that just stuck with me.

After they moved on I went back to freezing and wishing I could feel my toes... some time passed and we had another visitor come to keep us company, and i was extremely happy I was close to the front of the line because when the circled formed I was right there in the front of it. Chris August came out to perform his new song for us.. Said he was trying to help keep our mind off how cold we were. I wanted to txt the girl in the van and tell them all they were missing but then I wouldn't have been able to video tape this.

After he sang and passed out stuff to the fans, everyone had crowded us in that there wasn't really a line anymore and me being so short I did not see the the Sidewalk Prophets had came out and set up the stool that they had out for people to sign.. :(

I wanted to sign it but didn't see them until it was too late. They must have got there around the same time that Princess and Crazy J came back to join me..

I"m going to post this now and start the next winter jam post because blogger is acting up and I can't seem to load anymore pictures onto this one..

BRB in a 2nd post.

The Girls family Birthday Party 2011

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Princess birthday is 1/18 and Sweet Pea's is 1/29
so on 1/29/11 we had a combined family birthday party for them.. These are the pictures from that party.

Facebooking my blog #5 January 2011

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Happy 1 1 11
January 1 at 12:28am

Just waking up from the long but fun night.. I would say I feel old for sleeping in so late.. but seeing how me and my boys are the only ones awake at my place I'm not feeling that old.. the teenagers or stilled sound asleep as is Sweet Pea and DH.
January 1 at 10:53am

Waiting for Heather to come hang a bit.. the kids keep asking when are they coming????
January 1 at 1:15pm

Relaxing in bed watching v and playing with my nook
January 1 at 8:20pm

Home from church today :( with 3 sick kids.. DH was staying with them while Mr man and I went to church.. that was until Little Man started puking and crying his eyes out for mom.. So I turned around and now here I sit.
January 2 at 10:28am

Rhett just cam from the bathroom "mom did you know diarrhea is made out of poop?"
Hahahahahahaha... oh being a mom to a 5 year old boy is so much fun..:-)
January 2 at 2:00pm

I'm sort of finding it funny that my boys are sitting next to each other playing tag... Yes tag, like in your It.... but they are playing it on the wii...
January 2 at 8:25pm

Sleeping on the couch tonight since both my sick babies want to sleep with mom and since I don't feel like sleeping between two sick kids I made doggie beds on the livingroom floor for Sweet Pea and Little Man and ill take the couch.
January 2 at 11:28pm

I found about 10 christmas cards that I signed, addressed and stamped but never got around to mailing out... WOW I'm so on the ball.... Oh well hey if you get a Christmas card like a month late from me just know I was thinking of you before Christmas..
January 3 at 12:48pm

The plan is for all 4 kids to make it to school tomorrow.. fingers crossed there will be no more sickness tomorrow.
January 3 at 9:59pm

Alone at last... :-) DH went back to work today and all 4 kids are at school. Now to figure out where to put all the stuff they got at christmas.
January 4 at 9:00am

cooking dinner.. kids are playing wii.. later tonight OSU football.. but between 9-10pm its all about V.. with football during commercials.
January 4 at 5:41pm

this is not a good thing.. my poor tummy is killing me :( I was really hoping to avoid the bug the kids had... YUCK....
January 4 at 7:58pm

feeling better just a bit on the tired side.. Only now I have Princess home sick.. That only leaves Mr Man who hasn't had it. Then it should be out of my house... Yea!!!!
January 5 at 9:18am

Don't worry that is just me screaming nothing to worry about and don't freak out if you see my computer flying through the window. I tell ya if this thing turns off on me one more time......
January 5 at 1:00pm

Why are my children still awake and bickering in their beds?? I just found myself saying "DON'T MAKE ME COME IN THERE" LOL... That ranks right up there with the worst saying in the whole wide world "Because I said so" Look what these children make me do... :-)
January 5 at 10:35pm

Its Mr Man's turn. He is theone home from school today. my kids share really well. On a good note i didn't have to go to my dentist appt this morning since I have a sick child who I can't leave home alone. See there's an upside to everything:)
January 6 at 9:14am

thinking I should find something healthy for lunch seeing how my breakfast was a bottle of water and sno-caps :-)
January 6 at 12:18pm

Im so glad the doctor office moved my appt up an hour only 2 tell me they r running way behind
January 6 at 8:16pm

‎3 cases of strep and an ear infection... As soon as I got home from the doctors at 9:30pm with Princess, Mr Man and Little Man.. I packed up Sweet Pea and took her to my grandma to spend the next 24 hours... I tell ya when her PANDAS symptoms started to flare over the last two days I knew she had been around strep.. It just didn't hit me till this afternoon that it could have been her brothers and sister who had it..
January 6 at 10:35pm

I just tested pos 4 Strep :( now im waiting 4 my z pack 2 be ready think i should see he they will call something in 4 DH
January 7 at 2:29pm

In my pj's, on the couch layingdown with my blanket,pillowand nook. Hopefully I don't have to move tne rest of the night. Barry is in charge of dinner and child care from this point on.
January 7 at 5:59pm

Why is it the 15 yrs old(well almost) and the 5yr old fight the most?? I think it has something to do with their personality being alike but its rather funny to listen to and watch
January 8 at 10:44am

I love my nookcolor ereader. It has been extreamly useful as I lay here not feeling like moving I can read and. Check facebook without getting out of bed if one has to feel sick cool toys are the way to do it
January 8 at 1:47pm

Think I might putt the nook away, feeling a little tired of reading. Time to pull out the dvd's Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse sounds like a good way to spend an evening in bed.
January 8 at 6:04pm

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death Your perfect love is casting out fear And even when I'm caught in the middle of the storms of this life
I won't turn back I know you are near
January 8 at 10:33pm

My hubby is the best he just brought home my favorite comfort sick food. KFC mashpotato bowl
January 9 at 12:12pm

My parents just left, they stopped by and gave Princess her birthday gift 9 days early..
January 9 at 7:47pm

So am I like the only person who still has their christmas tree up
January 9 at 8:01pm

Post strep infection!!!! can't my kids just get normal things like a cold or something.. Mr man was in extream pain lastnight with his knee killing him, that and stomach pain and vomitting.. took him back to the doctors to be tolad it's like a secondary strep infection which is bringing on these symptoms.
January 10 at 12:59pm

Maybe just maybe I might finish this weeks Bible study before we meet tomorrow night.. you know the plan of one of day this week sort of got messed up when I got sick.. feeling better now and just finished one days study..:-) two more to go...
January 10 at 7:48pm

ornaments are now off the tree.. but dang it one of my favorite hallmark keepsake ornaments has gone missing.. I put it on the tree this year cuz the keepsake box is empty but it's not on the tree or under the tree.
January 11 at 12:31pm

off to the school for a meeting for Rhett.. It's snowing really good out there ..
January 11 at 2:49pm

Thought I was feeling all better till I went out to shovel the driveway so that Barry wouldn't have to do it when he got home.. My goodness did that take every bit of energy I had.. guess I'm not back to 100% yet..
January 11 at 7:41pm

Man there better be a two hour delay in the morning cuz I can't sleep even though I'm extreamly sleepy...
January 12 at 12:45am

yea baby 2 hour delay :)
January 12 at 5:36am

After getting the kids to school had to spend a good amount of time calling to change all the plans for the month.. One thing gets changed and I have to change 4 or 5 other things to work around the 1 change... Will no longer be going to Akron tomorrow won't be going till the 18th.
January 12 at 1:06pm

Thank you Lord for a wonderful neighbor who suprised me by useing his snowplow on my front sidewalk.. After doing the driveway lastnight I wasn't looking forward to having to get the sidewalk cleared today.. Think I'll leave the snow in the driveway for DH ;)
January 12 at 1:15pm

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! doctors.... UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 12 at 6:54pm

my soon to be 15 year old is amazed at the fact that if she sticks a blue cup inside of a red cup that they turn purple
January 12 at 7:11pm

Looks like Sweet Pea has the next 6 days off school.. Think being around all this sickness is getting to her also, being on a daily antibiotic for the last 8 months has kept her from getting a full blown case of strep but she is sick today. No school friday and monday for the kids, and tuesday she will be at the childrens Hospital seeing the immuneologist..
January 13 at 9:19am

There you will all be happy to know the Christmas tree is now down and out of my house.. shhhhh we won't talk about the fact that all the other christmas decorations are still up around this place :P I also happy to report that the missing christmas orniment has been found.. laying deep in the branches down in the middle of the tree.
January 13 at 10:49am

Since it's now after 1am.. I think I'll head of to read and then go to sleep.. night all.
January 14 at 1:09am

Taking Princess out for any early birthday dinner with Gabby and Shayanna tonight then dropping them off at a youth group party
January 14 at 2:44pm

Been shopping with Princess for the last 4 hour she didn't think I would find a store with wifi but I did :)
January 15 at 6:50pm

today is just flying by.. church this morning, then went grocery shopping, just finished lunch.. I heard i miss a great game this morning, but didn't feel like dragging kids who are just starting to feel better out that early. Princess High School softball team beat the Elyria Sundogs 2-1. She pitched 6 innings, striking out 9 and 1 walk. Also she went 2-3 with a double
January 16 at 2:10pm

OH NO!!!!!!!!!! I'm two cups away from being out of my Tim Hortons hot chocolate... No other hot chocolate will do... UGH... There needs to be a Tim Horton around here..
January 16 at 8:43pm

housework coming along slowly.. keep getting distracted with such things as children and internet :)
January 17 at 11:45am

At this time 15 years ago, I was sitting in an exam room for my 1st weekly OB visit, He did the exam looks up at me as says "Do you know your in labour?" I was like "WHAT?!?!?!?!" I knew my back was killing me but I had shopped the whole day before and figured i just over did it.. It was only Jan 17, I wasn't due Till Feb 2nd. He said 'yea, you might want to start timeing these pain"
January 17 at 11:54am

At this point in time 15 years ago I had been in the hospital for about an hour and 15 mins.. Thinking my baby girl should be hear any soon... goodness was I wrong.. Princess loved just taking her old sweet time.
January 17 at 7:47pm

It was at this time 15 years ago I was begging for pain meds.. didn't get the epidural until 1:30am though.
January 17 at 11:12pm

‎15 yrs ago at 610 Am my little 6 pounds 2 oz 21.5 inches baby girl was born happy birthday Princess
January 18 at 6:27am

Long long day very sleepy. About to take Princess friends home and think ill crash. Spent the day with aniston at the akron childrens then came home had dinner Princess had a few people over for cake and that was my day
January 18 at 8:44pm

Why am I still awake... Must get sleep... Night
January 19 at 12:08am

Two hour delay :)
January 19 at 5:33am

No school :) :) :)
January 19 at 7:27am

My house is crazy today...no school so the kids have there friends over. Got 4 extra. T
January 19 at 1:56pm

Sweet Pea lost a filling... UGH.... another trip to the dentist is in order... Only she if driving herself crazy with the way the tooth feels without the filling... It's going to be a long night.. Praying I can get an appt tomorrow for her.. and then praying the roads are ok for me to drive from Norwalk to Medina for that appt.
January 19 at 7:30pm

Thanks to facebook my procrastination skills have reached a new high
January 19 at 8:52pm

Took Princess, Mr Man, and Little Man back for a recheck today, all seems to be going well. After I got them back at school Had lunch with my SIL Shannon and got to play with T-man and hold and feed K who is now a month old and 8 pounds.. Sweet little thing is growing like a weed.. continue in comment section....
January 20 at 2:25pm

here was the comment part of it.
Manage to get a shower in also :-) Now getting ready to pick Sweet Pea and Little Man up at 3:15 from school, Princess up at 4pm from softball lifting, Mr Man up at 4:30pm from skating, do homework, feed kids, take Sweet Pea to gymnastic at 6-7pm take Princess to volleyball at 7:30 pick her back up at 9:30.. WOW thursdays are busy... As for Sweet Pea and the dentist.. they were not in today but the call has been made so hopefully they will call me tomorrow and set something up to get that tooth fixed... Happy Thursday all.
January 20 at 2:28pm

Thought I would sleep in this saturday since I had no place to be this morning.. That did not happen, Got woke up bright and early by two boys who were freaking out with a Major emergency... The Wii wouldn't work.. no power light of any kind red or green... After messing with it for an hour I now have the power back to it and too happy boys.. ONLY I'm wide awake while my lucky girls are still sound asleep..
January 22 at 9:23am

Very long day but I have one very happy steelers fan tonight. Mr Man is over the moon. Going to bed now have to get this house in order this week got two birthday parties to get ready for one Friday one Saturday and then winter jam next sunday
January 23 at 11:05pm

Two cans of my favorite Tim Hortons Hot Chocolate was just delivered to my door. :-)
January 24 at 12:48pm

Ok did not get the workout in this morning and did not get the house work done.. Did make phone calls and talked with people at the National Institutes of Health, now we wait and see what comes of that.. and Did get my hot chocolate :-)
And in other fun news only 6 more days till Winter Jam!!!!!!
January 24 at 1:21pm

not finding it fun at all that my throat is starting to hurt really bad, Didn't I just get over strep throat, I SOOOOOOOOOOOOO don't need it again
January 24 at 11:45pm

Throat doesn't seem to be hurting today and I don't feel sick so I think we might be ok. MUST clean the house this place is so cluttered and there are toys and cloths everywhere.. Sweet Pea friend party is Friday and Then Saturday is the girls family birthday party so I not only need to get it clean I need to figure out what I'm making for dinner that night for everyone.. guess I should go get started.
January 25 at 10:06am

Sigh I was looking forward to watching V at 9 not so much to hearing the president
January 25 at 8:41pm

Guess I'll go lay in bed and read some before passing out.. Another long day ahead tomorrow.. Taking Sweet Pea to Medina for an appt, afterwards going birthday shopping with her, Then rushing it back to take Princess to the doctors. Got one room in the hosue totally clean top to bottom today. wonder if I'll get the rest clean before the parties this weekend :-) Night all
January 25 at 10:29pm

feed kids breakfast, take kids to school, go to Medina for kid dentist, feed that kid lunch, pick kids up from school, take another kid to doctors, feed kids dinner, take kid back to school for softball, pick kid back up when it's over, in there somewhere bath them and do homework with them and then go to bed... sound like a normal day for a mom.. Happy Wed all.
January 26 at 8:20am

I know they say antilock brakes is a safty feature but I am not feeling to safe everytime I try to stop at a stop sign and end up in the middle of on coming traffic because the brakes aren't stopping me..
January 26 at 8:57am

Sitting at the hospital with Princess waiting for lab work to be done... testing for mono but she really doesn't seem that sick to me when annie had mono she was really really realyy sick but doc wants to check so here we sit
January 26 at 6:30pm

Well that's it for me.. I'm going to bed.. another full and busy day ahead tomorrow.. night all.
January 26 at 11:10pm

Just spent all morning doing one of my favorite things.. Playing with the twins. Now about ready to head off with my mother in law.. Later will be pick kids up from school and Mr Man from roller skating, then gymnastics for Sweet Pea and volleyball for Princess.. and some where in there I still have 1/2 the house to clean for the parties this weekend... later all..
January 27 at 12:30pm

I am NO WHERE near ready for this weekend.. Still so so much to do.. but at 6pm tomorrow night is Sweet Pea's sleep over birthday party, 6pm Saturday is the girls birthday party here at the house(which is soooo not clean at all) and Sunday will be my day of rest except it won't be LOL softball(high school) Church, softball(travel), then Winter Jam... I"m sure it will all pull together i just don't know how LOL.
January 27 at 8:47pm

clean, decorate, party, repete... party tonight, party tomorrow, Winter Jam sunday.
January 28 at 11:11am

Some people cant sleep because they have insomnia i cant sleep because i have internet connection :)
January 29 at 12:47am

Good night only one girl still awake and that is Sweet Pea so i can just tell her 2 in 2 bed :)
January 29 at 2:56am

Today my baby girl turns 9 years old... WOW 9 years old already.... Happy Birthday Sweet Pea... I love you more then life.
January 29 at 12:35pm

All birthday parties are over for the weekend. Bring on Winter Jam. Guess I should go shower seeing how I know I'm not going to bring myself to wake up one second sooner then needed for church in the morning.. g
January 29 at 11:30pm

Winter jam was the best at Taco bell in brunswick about b head home this was the best lots of pic 2 come
January 30 at 11:08pm

Morning is going to come way to soon my eyes r burning like I need sleep but to pumped up form singing dancing and screaming at winter jam. Ugh going to be dead trying to get the kids off to school
January 31 at 1:07am

Wow not the best day first I broke a tooth that is now fixed but took up the whole afternoon now my computer has a virus and I don't know how to fix it blah
January 31 at 6:10pm

Picking Princess up from softball at the moment but im excited God is good i think i was able 2 remove the virus :)
January 31 at 10:08pm

I give up spent way to much tjme trying to figure out what is wrong with this computer I found the virus fixed it. But can't get internet explore to work since tomorrow is another day I'm going to bed
January 31 at 11:29pm

Sweet Pea's 9 year old Birthday Party

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Sweet Pea turned 9 on 1/29/11 She had her birthday party with friends on Friday Jan 28,2011

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Sweet Pea turned 9 years old...

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And while I may be slacking the the blogging world missing her birthday and not getting her some really sweet birthday post.. it was because I wasn't slacking in the real world LOL..

On Saturday Jan 28,2011 she had a big hotel swimming and sleep over party with her friends and then On her birthday Jan 29,2011 We did a birthday party with the family.. so hopefully in years to come if she reads my blog and see i didn't do a birthday post on her birthday she will remember the fun times she had at her party and forgive me..LOL..

I love you Sweet Pea.. Happy 9th Birthday baby girl.

Happy 15th Birthday Princess.

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Today my 1st baby turns 15 years old..
I love you more and more every day Princess..

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Facebooking my blog #4 Dec 2010

2011-01-13T00:27:00.000-05:00

‎1st day of December.. and it's snowing!!!!!!!!! the kid inside of me is all excited wanting a white December to make it feel more Christmas-ie but the mother who has to drive to Akron Next week for Sweet Pea's doctors appointment doesn't really feel like driving on icey/snowey roads just yet..
December 1, 2010 at 8:02am

Must have kids feed, bath homework done.. all before Sweet Pea's gymnastics tonight.. because when i get home It's CAVS time Baby... :-)
December 2, 2010 at 11:21am

Pizza, Wings and The Game
LETS GO CAVS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 2, 2010 at 7:28pm

I never expected us to win but dang it.... It would have been nice to have someone put him on his butt hard... :(
December 2, 2010 at 11:10pm

Watching twilight next new moon then out 2 buy eclipse and watch that :)
December 3, 2010 at 6:36pm

There is snow ON THE GROUND..... I'm like a little kid Hahahah... we have had flurries but nothing on the ground.. While it's just a dusting IT IS ON THE GROUND!!!!! :-) As long as it is still good driving for my trip to Akron on Tuesday I'm happy..
December 4, 2010 at 7:57pm

Think I need to go outside and take some pictures of the lights.. but man it's cold & I know I'll just want to take more when there is alot of snow with the lights.. boy I hope there is a good amount of snow by christmas.. Maybe I should pick up inside a bit and just do the inside light pics :-)
December 5, 2010 at 6:52pm

hmmm.. so much for the snow they said was coming, all we have is a dusting which I'm sure will be gone by afternoon. Off to Akron Children's with Sweet Pea this morning. I heard there is plenty of snow there :-) 2 days till sidewalk prophets I can't wait..
December 7, 2010 at 8:04am

Long day in Akron and looks like we will be spending more long days in Akron with Immunology... tired now.. going to read and then fall asleep.. night.
December 7, 2010 at 10:49pm

spent all morning on the phone again.. Got the appt set with the immunologist for Sweet Pea So heading back to Akron Childrens next tuesday. Tomorrow Dentist for Little Man, Doc appt for Mr man, and then the concert for me. Friday Dentist appt for Princess. Mon, orthodontist appt for Princess and dentist appt for me.. then Tuesday all day in Akron.. ~sigh~ i don't like how having to run everywhere makes the time go by so fast.
December 8, 2010 at 12:02pm

Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
December 9, 2010 at 12:10am

There is a sour milk smell around my computer and I can't for the life of me figure out what or where it is... must ask the kids if they spilled something around here and then ring there neck if they did without telling me or cleaning it up..
December 9, 2010 at 12:23am

dentist for Little Man done, Doc with Mr Man done, they changed his antibiotic he goes back in two weeks hopefully this will clear it up. New a/b picked up.. Lunch in the oven now time for laundry and cleaning the house before the concert tonight.
December 9, 2010 at 12:38pm

I want to be where You are
I’m running into Your arms
And I will never look back
So Jesus, here is my heart
When did love become unmoving?
When did love become unconsuming?
...Forgetting what the world has told me
Father of love, You can have me
You can have meSee More
December 9, 2010 at 12:54pm

Leavin with Heather Traci Stephanie Sherry & Candace in about 45 mins to head to the Sidewalk prophets Concert.... Can't wait... :-)

wow took 2 1/2 hours to load a 5 min video onto facebook... but it was well worth it even if my camera work is shakey and I sometimes forgot I was recording and found myself singing along LOL.. now time to get dress take PRincess to the dentist and then go to work.
December 10, 2010 at 9:09am

can't stop singing today... lastnight was so much fun.
December 10, 2010 at 12:13pm

one would think when your kids were younger that getting a good group shot would be harder.. but no.. it seems that each year gets worse... Though I guess it was the younger one tonight who just wouldn't smile to save his life and yes his life was threatend :-) So this year christmas card photo will have Little Man not smiling just making goofy faces.
December 10, 2010 at 8:12pm

While DH was flipping though the stations tonight he came across Sidewalk Prophets singing there new christmas song.. and not just singing it.. It was taped at lastnight concert... IT was so cool to watch it again.. seeing how my memory card started flashing full when I was taping it lastnight and I spent the rest of the song deleting old stuff off the camera..
December 10, 2010 at 10:49pm

I'm thinking a new computer is on top of my christmas list :( this stupid thing was turning off every 10 mins today.. made photo editing a little rough. but the christmas card photo is now being printed so I can maybe get christmas cards out this year.. sending the kids to grandmas tonight to hopefully get a little christmas shopping in.. I have nothing pretty much at this point.
December 11, 2010 at 12:26pm

when I said a little christmas shopping I thought I would get alot more done then I did... UGH.. Couldn't find anything I needed and ran out of time.. Christmas is less then 2 weeks away.. I feel like I'll be writing out IOU's and putting them under trees... :-(
December 11, 2010 at 10:26pm · Friends Only ·LikeUnlike · Comment

UGh..I ordered the wrong christmas picture...shoot.. well it was the right shot but I did the one with the red eye and not the one I cleaned the red eye up on... OH well too late now.. people will just see my kids with red eyes this year..
LOL the twilight fan in me can't help but LOL about this..
December 12, 2010 at 2:02pm

really want a snow day tomorrow.. but snow day or no snow day I think I need to call a doctor for myself.. not that i feel sick sick.. but my throat hurts so bad, I don't remember it ever hurting this bad.. and if there is a chance at all it could be strep I need treated ASAP so it doesn't affect Sweet Pea
December 12, 2010 at 8:50pm

the christmas lights look beautiful with all the fluffy snow... but brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr is it cold..
December 13, 2010 at 7:01pm ·

feels like temp of -5 outside at the moment.. brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
December 14, 2010 at 7:54am

time to pick up Sweet Pea from book club, Mr Man from skating, drop the boys off with grandpa and go shopping with grandma and Sweet Pea
December 14, 2010 at 4:05pm

got to love when you and your 3rd grader forgets the date and forgets there is a project and paper due the next day.. Sweet Pea and I are out shopping with Grandma only to remember at 8:30 something that her project and paper are due tomorrow.. We get home about 9pm we eat dinner(yes at 9pm) then works on the project until 10:30pm.
December 14, 2010 at 11:46pm
(need to add here that her project looked like it was thrown together at the last minute, or atleast I thought it did.. BUT the teacher loved it gave her an A+ and it is on display in the school Libary now How crazy is that???)

blah I have been staying up way to late the past few days.. I don't think the 3 cans of pop I just downed in the last hour is going to help me fall asleep any faster either.
December 15, 2010 at 12:05am ·

went to my moms today while the kids were at school, while driving there it hit me I haven't been to my parents house in 2 months and that was just to park and take the kids trick or treating.. Anyways while there I found some old pictures that were my grandma so I grabbed a handful to scan and put online.. working at that now.
December 16, 2010 at 10:46pm

none of my kids want to see Santa this year.. :( in the past none of them have wanted to and I just sort of forced the issue.. but I think this year i'll just let it be unless they change there minds.. maybe i can brive them with something LOL..
December 17, 2010 at 8:16am

Little Man just broke Princess's finger, I think.. at least it looks broken to me ~sigh~ DH is just going to LOVE coming home to me telling him I think we need to take Princess for X-rays... and to top it off it's her pitching hand and she has a game sunday and a softball tournament on the 28th... OH the fun...
December 17, 2010 at 4:06pm (it wasn't broken just jammed)

WOW... Christmas is really soon.. I still have cleaning and baking to do.
December 19, 2010 at 5:54pm

Took a total of 7 hours over 2 days but the wrapping is done well almost still have a few more things to buy
December 19, 2010 at 11:30pm ·

Christmas music egg nog and baking cookies with Sweet Pea
December 21, 2010 at 4:20pm

Off to Akron Children's to see the Immunologist... this should be fun...
December 22, 2010 at 10:29am

Back from Akron.. minus 30ml of blood from Sweet Pea, she was NOT a happy little girl with that.. next trip to Akron is Jan 11 and then again on the 13. Now time to make dinner.. and go to bed early.. all the driving gave me a headache and I'm tried.
December 22, 2010 at 6:04pm

Polor Express and peanut butter fudge.. Love Christmas break...
December 22, 2010 at 8:41pm

Cleaning, baking cookies, taking Aubrie back to the dentist.. those are the plans for today..well morning and afternoon anyways.
December 23, 2010 at 9:03am

while cleaning the kitchen I placed a glass of pop on the table, Mr man came in tossed something on the table and spilled my pop all over the place.. I clean it up get everything un stickey, pour another glass of pop, grab my nook turn on christmas music start cleaning again.. Only to have Little Man come in and spill my pop.. this time on my Nook.. Thankgoodness for the Nook cover.. that is all I have to say..
December 23, 2010 at 3:40pm

Please pray 4 my grandpa he is being rushed 2 the hospital 4 his heart as i type this
December 23, 2010 at 6:29pm

Don't really have any new news on my grandpa yet it was a very late night so I havnt called anyone yet but grandpa was transfered to elyria I will update once I hear more please keep him in your prayers
December 24, 2010 at 8:54am ·

eating grandmas seven layer candy cookies watching the christmas story only wish grandpa was doing well and out of the hospital to enjoy it other then that having a wonderful christmas

December 25, 2010 at 8:08pm

happy Birthday Jesus i'm So Glad Its Christmas all The Tinsel And Lights and The Presents Are Nice but The Real Gift Is You. happy Birthday Jesus i'm So Glad Its Christmas all The Carols And Bells make The Holiday Swell and it's All About You
happy Birthday Jesus Jesus I Love You!
December 25, 2010 at 11:25pm

Puppy sitting so mom and dad could go see grandpa he is cute but its like haveing an extra kid one who pees on the rug
December 26, 2010 at 1:17pm

Got to babysit the newest Chaffins girl tonight.. she is a sweetie.. Then got a call that I forgot to pack Aniston's antibiotic so the going to the movies plans was changed to a trip to New London.. Now sitting at home waiting for Aubrie to get home..
December 27, 2010 at 9:31pm

Dinner is about done.. today on the menu BBQ pulled pork, greenbeans w/bacon and corn muffins... YUM!!!!!!
December 28, 2010 at 6:14pm

Grandpa got some good news today.. which means tomorrow they will be going into his heart to see what is going on. I think they are doing the catherization around 8:30am. Thank you for all your prayers this past week and please continue to lift him up to the Lord.
December 29, 2010 at 12:32am

ya know.. I really do suck at super mario..
December 29, 2010 at 10:31am ·

I might suck at super mario but I am high scorer on Hey Ya at Just Dance 2. :-) Hahahahaha..
December 29, 2010 at 9:53pm ·

Sweet Pea just came in my bedroom asking 4 a coin I asked why its because she and Little Man can agree on what movie 2 watch next. I say its 1:30 in the morning she ask So? Lol it gets better when I do the coin flip with them and start the new movie I say but you need to go to sleep after this rhett says why this is vacation we don't have school: ) can u tell my kids take after me
December 30, 2010 at 1:35am

thinking about going back to bed.. All the kids are still asleep so why is it that I woke up before 9????? :-)
December 30, 2010 at 9:47am

Now that I can lay in bed and be on facebook(thanks to my nook) I'm staying up way to late cuz even at 2am when I get offline I just pop open a nook book and spend another hour or two reading. Love my nook but need some sleep. :)
December 30, 2010 at 11:59pm ·

babysitting the twins this afternoon, then who knows guess it will depend on what my kids end up doing.. Maybe a movie and off to see a fish fall, or just back home to watch the ball drop.. IDK... Good bye 2010..
December 31, 2010 at 11:13am

Happy New Years facebook friends... everyone have fun tonight and stay safe... see ya in the New Year..
December 31, 2010 at 6:46pm ·

Wordless Wednesday(me, my small group bible study ladies and the Sidewalk Prohets)

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Facebooking my blog #3

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It's been awhile since I did one of these post.. Think the last one was in Oct so I guess I'll do this one for the month of Nov 2010

I so did not want to wake up this morning, I was sleeping so well..
November 1, 2010 at 7:59am ·

ON MY GOODNESS.. It just hit me TODAY IS NOVEMBER!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my where is the time keep going.. I have a 11 year old birthday party to get planned and like quick.. and on the topic of Birthdays... Happy Birthday to my sister today.. Happy Birthday.. :-)
November 1, 2010 at 9:09am

Taco salid for dinner tonight. Yum..
November 1, 2010 at 7:06pm

LOL my poor kids are missing out on so much in life ;-) Sweet Pea and Little Man thought it was just amazing that a big package of coolaid needed a cup of suger and a lot of water. You know instead of just the kool-aid package to go where you just dump it into a bottle of water and shake. That or just twist the top off the plastic bottle of kool-aid .... LOL LOL
November 1, 2010

Brrrrrrrrrrrr it's a tad on the cold side this morning.. I'm not ready for this.. guess I better get ready seeing how it's November already.
November 2, 2010 at 8:07am

I need to get dressed and go vote. But it's so cold outside I want to stay under my blanket and do nothing.. but I guess that wouldn't really be a good thing so I'll go vote now..
November 2, 2010 at 9:39am ·

There voting is done, Now I can chang into my baggy tshirt and jeans with the holes in them and do nothing but pick up around the house today.. I really want a do nothing day :-)
November 2, 2010 at 10:46am ·

Little Man just finished up at the dentist, thought i would give him some time for his mouth to feel right before taking him back to school..
November 3, 2010 at 10:35am ·

I just got back from dropping Little Man off at a birthday party and didn't see Sweet Pea anywhere, When I found her she was sound asleep with a cat that is not our.. But the big question is why is she sound asleep at 5 something PM?? she can't be getting sick she won't beable to be put under next week if she is..~sigh~
November 3, 2010 at 5:28pm

Nothing like your house smelling like brownies but not getting to eat any of them.. Just made "get better" browies for Justin(Princess friend) since Princess and Dustin(Princess other friend) asked nicely and said Please.. :-)
November 4, 2010 at 10:21am

Thinks it's time to break out the heating blanket.. I"m freezing.. brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... So not looking forward to getting out in this cold to take the kids to school in the morning..
November 4, 2010 at 11:07pm

So sick of coughing.. it has been 3 full weeks now.. not fun.. Anyways.. no major plans for the day.. Taking Princess to the dentist this morning but that's about it.
November 5, 2010 at 8:17am

Dentist didn't go as easily as princess had hopped.. They ended up numbing both sides of her mouth and doing more work then excepted, now she is in pain and can't talk very well so she is home and not back at school. but we are getting close to getting all the stuff the braces messed up fixed.. she goes back next Friday.
November 5, 2010 at 11:51am

what was grounding your child like before you could just take away their cell phones.
November 6, 2010 at 7:10pm

Going to bed, have to leave at 6:15AM tomorrow for Princess Varsity Winter league Softball game at 8AM then Sunday school at 9:45am and then church.. after church I think I'm going to take a nap before PM Church.. I'm NOT a morning person.. 6AM is till the middle of the night in my book.. good night all.
November 6, 2010 at 10:44pm

Good morning so far.. Princess's high school softball team won there 1st winter league game agaist Medina Buckey 4-3.. She got the win coming in at the 3rd inning and pitching the rest of the game. Then it was off to church which is always good.. key thing sticking with me this morning is you Can't Trust and Worry. got the family lunch now I'm thinking it's time to lay around and watch football
November 7, 2010 at 1:02pm

It's been a good sports weekend, 1st the Cavs, then Princess's team, and then the Browns.. :-)
November 7, 2010 at 8:13pm

Spent today on the phone with Doctor, Dentist and anesthesiologist. I'm telling ya my head just is spinning from all this stuff with sweet pea.
November 8, 2010 at 7:05pm

Thanks you everyone for the wonderful Birthday wishes.. :-)
November 9, 2010 at 11:32am

:-) Thanks guys for blowing up my wall with all 100 birthday wishes.. and for the txts and Phone calls, and to those of you who sang Happy Birthday in the van on the way to the rec and for the ones who stopped by to say Happy B-day in person.. and to my hubby and kids for the cake and gifts.. Love you all.
November 9, 2010 at 11:09pm

Surgery is done she is doing well so far just not really awake yet now we r on r way home
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November 10, 2010 at 1:53pm

Oh my goodness... I'm sitting here in shock.. after hours of crying before hand and crying for the last 4 hours after waking up, Sweet Pea is pleasent at the moment.. talking nicely to people When I said dinner was almost done she said "good I'm hungry mac and cheese please" She hasn't ate since 11:45PM lastnight I'm sure she is hungry
November 10, 2010 at 5:42pm

"mom I really don't feel well" "no fever go to school" hmmmmm Maybe I should have listen.. Seeing how I just got back from the doctors with a perscription for her because she really is sick.. Wonder if I should be listening to Little Man and Mr Man also who are complaining they aren't feeling well but like Princess hasn't ran a fever.
November 11, 2010 at 1:14pm

oh poo. I forgot I have parent teacher conferences tonight :-( I just want to stay home and do nothing.. I know that sounds lazy.. but I was gone all day yesterday and today I'm dealing with a sick teen and a 8 year old who is still in pain.. blah I'm not in the mood to dress up and go out talking to teachers.. I'm liking the blue jeans and t-shirts and hair in a pony tail look I have going on at the moment.
November 11, 2010 at 3:06pm

Sweet Pea still cant eat solid food, her whole mouth is still hurting.. but this is not keeping her from eating.. Today the girl has ate 4 cans of chicken noodle soup, and a can of spaghetti-o's The one time she tried bitting real food, she ended up crying for about an hour..
November 11, 2010 at 8:21pm

hard night for Sweet Pea . it took about 3 1/2 hours but she is now asleep and I'm going to join her.. night all.
November 11, 2010 at 11:55pm

Sweet Pea did go to school today, but still haven't tried solid food, she ate pudding for breakfast and since they only have a 1/2 day today, She will be home for lunch guess we will see how she does then.
November 12, 2010 at 8:50am

off to go see my two favorite little babies.. yea cleaning for the party or watching the twins.. guess which one I would rather do LOL later
November 12, 2010 at 9:24am

I got to hold both C and H as they fell asleep today, think that is one of my most favorite things in the world to do.. Now back to the care of my babies,everyone has been feed lunch and are now busy entertainig themself, So i guess I should get started at cleaning this mess which has become my home, having the family over Monday night for Mr Man's birthday so It really does need to get done..
November 12, 2010 at 1:28pm

just spent the last two hours browsing online for christmas gifts.. I only got online to look up one thing.. goodness spent too much time on the computer this morning.. must go clean for the birthday party..
November 13, 2010 at 10:22am

my kids are making my head pound.. Think I want a nap, but I really need to clean still 4 more rooms to go, then to keep it clean till tomorrow night.. hahahah who am I kidding, there is noway it will stay clean that long.. Maybe I shouldn't even bother with it until the kids are in school tomorrow.
November 14, 2010 at 1:05pm

Nothing like remembering 20 mins before the appt that you need to take your 5 year old to the dentist today.. blah... I still have so much work to do before Mr Man's birthday party tonight... Well off to the dentist... and Happy 11th birthday to my 1st baby boy..
November 15, 2010 at 10:04am

The party went well ryan had fun the after mess is cleaned up now im going 2 bed next party is saturday :) happy birthday Mr Man
November 15, 2010 at 11:22pm

don't worry that noise your hear is just me screaming.. trying to keep all 4 kids schedules straight when more things keep popping up is making me a little batty
November 16, 2010 at 10:54am

Take kids to school, drive Sweet Pea to Medina again for another dentist appt, pick kids up from school, take Little Man to OT, cook dinner, eat dinner, help with homework and baths, take Princess to youth group, pick up from youth group, come home put kids to bed, then climb into bed myself.. that's my day.. some fun stuff there dontchathink??
November 17, 2010 at 8:15am

I'm sleepy think I'll go to bed.. Another dentist appt in the morning for Princess.. Sweet Pea's went well today did I mention that.. Thankfully Princess is here in Town but at 9am so no staying in PJ's for me tomorrow. :-) Night all.
November 17, 2010 at 10:22pm

Where has the school day gone.. I have to leave to do pick ups soon and yet I feel like I just dropped them off.. Love my kids but an extra hour would have given me the time i needed to get the whole place clean before they got home to mess it up again. got 3 extra girls today one teenager and two 8 year olds.. Tomorrow is my house full of boy day with Mr Man's party..
November 19, 2010 at 1:59pm

my house was a crazy mad house this afternoon.. Princess had Sydney, Dustin and Josh over, Sweet Pea had Taylor and Lexie, add my boys into the mix and the place was a zoo and OH SO LOUD.. The teens left to go hang other places and bowl, Lexie went home and Annie went to Taylors.. the boys are sitting her playing wii but everything seems so quite you think I would be enjoying it but I'm missing the maddness..
November 19, 2010 at 7:29pm

My computer keeps turning off on its own this is not a good thing at all :(
November 19, 2010 at 8:29pm

Thinking maybe I should go to bed seeing how chances are good I'll be pulling an all nighter tomorrow
November 19, 2010 at 11:01pm

Ya know its never a good thing when you wake up with a headache and theres work that needs to get done before the party of like 10 to11 5th grade boys. Already popped some pills but I'm thinking a nap may be in order to make my head stop hurting.. UGH it HAS TO STOP HURTING before tonights party..
November 20, 2010 at 9:33am

one hour into the party and so far all they have done was play an hour of football in the dark :-) Pizza should be here soon and after pizza we are off to go gitter glow bowl..
November 20, 2010 at 7:25pm

football, pizza, bowling, gifts, cake Check.. all was fun I took way to many pictures.. now the boys are playing and sometime in the next hours we'll start a movie and call it lights out..
November 20, 2010 at 11:43pm

Party was a blast.. but other plans for the day R not happening. No softball, no church, no dinner at my grandparents. in the middle of the night DH had to drive to my moms and bring Little Man and Sweet Pea home.. Little Man is sick, in pain with his ear hurting him, coughing and vomitting. Sweet Pea isn't doing well and Princess woke up this morning feeling bad.. DH and Mr Man R the only 2 going to church this morning.
November 21, 2010 at 10:01am

DH is outside hanging christmas lights. while they were gone today I set the new tree up.. it's much taller then our old 1& even with bending the top my angle isn't going to fit..hmmm what to do? maybe just put a bow on top?? It was prelit so the lights r on it.. but I think it still needs more lights. So while the tree is up it's no where near done ;-)
November 21, 2010 at 3:54pm

Just back from the doctors with the kids, Poor sick Little Man, earinfections in both ears, a bad cold and a tummy bug, got and Rx for the ears and the cold. Sweet Pea today was a recheck on the PANDAS but she woke up sick this morning also.. She now has the cold and tummy bug.. Since she is already on antibiotics for the PANDAS she walked out with a new Rx for the cold. Looks like I'm home today with two sick kiddos.
November 22, 2010 at 10:49am

Sweet pea went back to school today, Little Man is still home since he threw up his breakfast this morning.. blah.. After dropping her off at school I come home read my facebook home page and see two of my friends who live around here kids have strep.. STREP is now like the worst word in the whole wide world to us.. Please dear Lord protect Sweet Pea from this.
November 23, 2010 at 8:57am

WONDERFUL night in Basketball... Way to go CAVS & Magic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
November 24, 2010 at 10:22pm ·

very very tired, but everytime i lay down I start to cough my head off.. UGH this sucks. but can't keep my eyes open any longer.. night
November 25, 2010 at 1:12am

God who loves me & sent His Son for me Jesuse who died in my place The Holy Spirit who brings me comfort & Guidan when I need it so often, & makes intercession for me when I don't have a clue what to pray. My Husband, My Children, My family, My Friends, The Doctor who found out what was wrong with my little girl, The Doctors who are working hard to treat it.
November 25, 2010 at 8:39am

FB doesn't give me enough space to count all my blessings. So On this Thanksgiving day & everyday of the year, I sum it up with. I'm Thankful for a Lord who is my Everything
November 25, 2010 at 8:39am

Less then an hour and I'm going to drag my sick self out to the store.. I hate shopping on the day after thanksgiving,but there are just a few items that I really would like to get and they were on my christmas list before I saw the add, so I'll go out with the crazy people.. ONLY I ended up Sick sick.. blah.. not feeling that well at all.. so hit the store grab the items and then climb in bed..
November 25, 2010 at 11:05pm

Got all but one item I wanted. :-) yeah me.. LOL.. Think I'll try to get the 5AM item online, I'm NEVER going into those crazy stores again for these sales.. The people there are nuts.
November 26, 2010 at 1:26am

I don't really understand it.. but sitting wrapped up in a warm blanket watching movies, eating a leftover turkey sandwich and pumkin roll makes me Happy. :-)
November 26, 2010 at 7:48pm

The plan is to clean the house, decorate for christmas, then who knows..
November 27, 2010 at 9:24am

Why am I still awake... OH YEA I REMEMBER Shayanna and Princess won't go to sleep....
November 28, 2010 at 1:11am

going to bed at 3am and waking up at 7am.. and then being gone from 7:30am till 2:30pm really makes me a bit sleepy...
November 28, 2010 at 3:24pm

Had a wonderful thanksgiving weekend.. Extreamly fun... Tomorrow back to the normal running..
November 28, 2010 at 8:44pm

spent the morning cancelling every card in my wallet since I have no clue where it is. next shower then 2 the store 2 buy what I need 2 make food 4 Princes's volleyball banquet, pick kids up from school, take Mr man 2 the doctor at 4:30 he's sick. feed kids & send them off 2 the PTO christmas thing tonight at 6(w/my mom) while I take Princess 2 the banquet(DH won't be home yet from work) toss in a few baths&homework
November 29, 2010 at 10:27am

is 9pm to early to go to bed :-) I'm exhausted after today and i didn't even get the laundry done. Dentist appt for myself tomorrow.. I don't want to go.. not a fan of the dentist.. night all.
November 29, 2010 at 8:22pm
very forgetful today.. goodness... but thankfully Nicole loves me and calls to remind me of things I had forgot, like 9:30 doc appt for Princess(which i went ahead and cancelled)and 4:20 doc appts for Sweet Pea and Little Man which they should keep seeing how they both are not 100% well yet and can't stop coughing..Thank you Nicole now to get these kids to school and then a dentist appt for me..
November 30, 2010 at 8:17am

Road Trip for me and my Bible study girls... Going to see Sidewalk Prophets next week.... I'm excited... :-)
November 30, 2010 at 9:55pm

AND Folks that all she wrote for the month of NOV 2010

Happy New Years...

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Yea yea i know I'm 10 days late... but seeing that I'm blogging at all is an improvement :)
We had a wonderful New Years Eve this year.. Since becoming parents almost 15 years ago, we have always celebrated New Years Eve at least with one of our children..
Like in 2008 when Princess had two friends over, Mr Man had a friend over and Sweet Pea had a friend over and we just rang in the New Year at home playing wii and games and watching the ball.. That seems to be our norm.
Last year my Parents took my younger 3 kids to TX after Christmas and the rang in the New Year in TX while Princess had a friend from out of state spending the week between Christmas and New Years with us.. and for New Years Eve Princess threw a party at our house to ring in the New Year.

Well this year was a little different then our norm.. DH and I got to go out ALONE.....
We started NYE with me babysitting for the twins while my SIL went to a wedding and that evening when my brother got home from work he and SIL was going to the reception while my Parents watched the twins.. Since my parents were babysitting anyways they offed to keep my kids also.
So around 7pm we dropped Princess off at a friends who was having a NYE party and then order a party size pizza and took it and my children to my brothers and dropped them and the pizza off for the night.
Then DH and I went out on a date.. yes you read that correctly a DATE!!!!!! Yea I know I almost forgot what that was.. but as we got going It all came back to me.
Dinner a romantic walk on the docks(it was warm in the high 50's low 60's) and then a 10pm movie.. got out of the movies just in time to do a count down of our own ringing in the new year as we were driving home
Then at 12:30pm we picked the kids up from my brothers, and Princess up from her friends and she brought another friend home to stay the night.
We got home and played wii Just Dance 2 and watched a movie and ended up going to bed around 4am..

that is how we bought in the new years..

Only problem is we have had sickness in our house ever since.. With Little Man getting sick on the 1st... Now every single person in our home is on an antibiotic.. which I'll post about later on...
Hope you all had a wonderful New years eve and that 2011 is a wonderful year for you.

Christmas Day 2010

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Before hitting play to watch this video scroll down to my blog music on the right hand side and hit pause so that you can enjoy the video..
This was Christmas morning and afternoon at our house, and then Christmas evening at my grandmas.

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Christmas Eve #2

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Before hitting play to watch this video scroll down to my blog music on the right hand side and hit pause so that you can enjoy the video..

This is at my In laws place on Christmas Eve with my MIL, FIL and two BIL's and there families.
The sweet Little baby girl in these photos my younger BIL and his wife just brought home from the hospital on Christmas Eve.. At the moment they are her foster parents but we are all praying that they will be able to adopt her soon.

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Christmas Eve #1

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In the afternoon on Christmas Eve we went to my brothers house for a little Christmas celebration with him, his wife and kids.. My mom and dad and grandma were there also.. This is the video from our time there.
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Merry Christmas 2010

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Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years.
Love KC and Family

Princess 14yrs 11m
Mr Man 11 yrs
Sweet Pea 8yrs 10 1/2 m
Little Man 5 1/2 years.

The twins are 5 months old.

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Where has the time gone.. goodness seems like they were just born.. But on Dec 2nd my two favorite twins in the world turned 5 months old.. and I got to go play with them on the Dec 3,2010 while there mommy was working at their big brothers school and their daddy was at work.

Here I am with my little niece and nephew
Then I thought i would spoil them by letting them enjoy the lights of the Christmas tree, So I laid them under it. THEY LOVED IT!!!!

My niece H got hold of the tree and tried to eat it so I had to upset them and move them out from under it.

H was a little tired and I was able to get to to sleep easily after she was asleep I got my nephew C into his cloths for the day.. and continued to play with him..
Only problem is I had hims spoiled and all he wanted was to go back to the tree.
but he soon too was tired and he feel asleep on my chest where he laid for an hour before I had to put him in his crib because I had to go and leave them in Grandma's hands.. but right before I left H woke up and she was a happy girl so I was able to get this great shot of her and my mom.

Thanksgiving 2010

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Thanksgiving 2010
this 1st pic princess took of herself. My sil and Princess

my husbands younger brother and his wife.

My FIL

Princess again
My Mil

SIL and Sweet Pea coloring

Princess coloring

SIL & Sweet Pea

Mr Man watching football with the guys.

Little Man playing with the dog
SIL and Sweet Pea again

Little Man with the dog

Sweet Pea as Potato head
Mr Man, Little Man and FIL playing checkers

Mr Man, DH's older bothers boys.. my nephews J, C and D.
DH's oldest brothers dd, my niece big E and Princess.

At the end of the night back home Princess took another shot of herself.

And that is all she wrote for Thanksgiving 2010

After leaving my IL's we did go to my family to visit hang and eat leftover but I didn't take any pictures..

Hope you all enjoyed your thanksgiving.

Ryan's 11th birthday party.

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Halloween Link Up 2010

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Thought I would join in the fun over at 5 mins for moms and play long in the Halloween Link Up. I haven't done any blogging fun in so long, I'm such a bad blogger.
But I did have fun with the kids trick or treating this year so I thought I would share. Our town does Trick or Treating the Thursday before Halloween. This year Princess and friends did not trick or treat in the same area as us. They went to one of her friends neighborhoods but I still have a few pics of them when I dropped her off.
Here is her Friend KY, Crazy J, Princess and JB.
Here they are again.

Crazy J, and Princess.

Now back at our normal trick or treating spot. We have Mr Man

Sweet Pea and her friend BWAnd Little Man before heading out trick or treating.
And there off, Little Man, BW and Sweet PeaLittle ManSweet Pea and BW posing with Mr Man in the background.here is my Sweet PeaIt was really cold and windy. Do you see those white dots?? It was also raining but the kids had fun.On Saturday Oct 30,2010 my Mom's town has there trick or treating, so we loaded up the van with a few friends and headed to grandmas house.
Here is Sweet Pea with her group of friends who went along with us. LN, TN, Sweet Pea and BW.
Little Man and LN
The crew that walked with me. TN, LN, Little Man, BW, Sweet Pea and Mr Man.Mr Man shortly after starting off ran into one of his new BF's from school. And Princess had planned to meet up with one of her friends who live in my mom town to trick or treat with her.Everyone had fun this Halloween, even if on Halloween day we did nothing Halloween-ish except for scaring the living daylights out of Princess when she got back from youth group that night ;-)

After PM church on Halloween evening, and after the younger kids got out of Awanas and Youth group was over, Princess and the youth group went out for pizza. DH had this idea to scare Princess when she was dropped off at home.. We told Princess to text us when she was on her way home. She did. At that time DH put on a dark coat and Mr Man's trick or treating wig and stood in the dark driveway, When Princess got home and was walking towards the house he jumped out and scared her... OH MY GOODNESS did she scream her head off and so did the rest of the girls in the car along with Crazy J's mom.. Ooopes didn't mean to scare the driver :-)

That's all I have for this Halloween Link Up.. to view more Halloween Link Up click here

From Gods Word Friday #11(10/29/10)

2010-10-30T08:15:00.002-05:00

This is being taken right from my email devotions Holiness day by day.
every thing beyond the line is quoted.
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Learning to Trust

Today's Scripture: Psalm 62:8
"Trust in him at all times."
It's difficult to believe God is in control when we're in the midst of heartache or grief. I've struggled with this many times myself. Each time I've had to decide if I would trust him, even when my heart ached. I realized anew that we must learn to trust God one circumstance at a time.

It's not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so anyway. That act of the will must be based on belief, and belief must be based on the truth that God is sovereign. He carries out his own good purposes without ever being thwarted, and nothing is outside of his sovereign will. We must cling to this in the face of adversity and tragedy, if we're to glorify God by trusting him.

I'll say this as gently and compassionately as I know how: our first priority in adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting him. Gaining relief from our feelings of heartache or disappointment or frustration is a natural desire, and God has promised to give us grace sufficient for our trials and peace for our anxieties (2 Corinthians 12:9; Philippians 4:6-7). But just as God's will is to take precedence over our will ("yet not as I will, but as you will" —Matthew 26:39), so God's honor is to take precedence over our feelings. We honor God by choosing to trust him when we don't understand what he is doing or why he has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur. As we seek God's glory, we may be sure he has purposed our good and that he won't be frustrated in fulfilling that purpose. (Excerpt taken from Trusting God)
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The text for this devotional comes from the award-winning NavPress devotional book Holiness Day by Day by Jerry Bridges. For more information or to order a copy, visit the NavPress website.

Thursday 13(homecoming 2010 part 2)

2010-10-21T00:01:00.000-05:00

Princess went to two homecomings this year.. the pics I posted yesterday in my these pictures are from when she went with one of her friends to his home coming.
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He is learning in Kindergarten.

2010-10-20T07:49:00.004-05:00

Looks like my Little Man is learning new things in Kindergarten.
He has just informed me that the teachers in the lunchroom "are so lame"
After I stopped laughing I was able to ask him if he even knew what lame meant. He then proceeded to tell me...

"DUH Lame means lame, as in that teacher is so lame making me eat food I don't like. Or like when your on the playground and your playing something fun and your friend says Hey lets go play something.. and then he says like race cars and you say LAME!!!!!! "

Hahahahahahahahahaha,... my 5 year old now knows how to correctly use the word Lame. :-)

Wordless Wednesday #14 (homecoming 2010)

2010-10-20T00:31:00.000-05:00

R.I.P Oreo.

2010-10-19T00:06:00.001-05:00

These pictures were taken Sunday Oct 17,2010 The following morning around 10:30am my neighbor rang the doorbell to let me know that he found Oreo out on the road hit by a car :-(

Facebooking my blog part 2.

2010-10-18T11:23:00.002-05:00

Yesterday I posted all of Sept 2010 facebook status updates.. So today I'll give ya my Oct 2010 status updates to this point.. Then everyone will be caught up on my life and hopefully.. I'll become a much better blogger again. :-)

Oct 1,2010
@9:13AM Princess woke up FEVER FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1st time since Monday... Yea!!!!!!!!
Now that she is feeling a little better(her throat is still killing her) it's time to got put her into pain.. Off to the dentist.. shudder, I can't stand going to the dentist.. my poor little baby girl...
@10:44PM DH is leaving for work at 3something AM. Princess has to be at St Paul for a 10am volleyball game by 9am, Mr Man has to be in Milan by 10am for his soccer tournament, Little Man has to be behind the middle school at 10am for his soccer game, and Sweet pea has to be there at noon for her soccer game.. There should be 4 of me..... That or DH's weekend OT needs to cool off a bit. We Can Do This.. Thanks mom & dad :-)

Oct 2,2010
@1:07PM So far 2 day Little Man team tied 6 - 6 he had 1 Sweet Pea team won 6-1 she had 3 Mr Man is still playing but tied the 1 game lost the 2

@ 2:23PM Sitting out in the cold rain waiting 2 c if Mr Man's team gets 2 advance or not

Oct 3, 2010
@8:17AM Mr Man's soccer team did advance and took 4th place in the tournament. Princess's volleyball won one and lost one yesterday. Now on our way to MI.

Oct 4, 2010
@9:15AM Ugh something is wrong with the Internet cable modem and i cant get online i need on line b 4 i meet with Annie doctor 2 get stuf

@9:17AM K the cell phone sent that 2 soon i was saying the stuff i need 4 the meeting with the doc is online in my email :(

@10:16AM Ugh they cant get the modem back online so they have 2 send someone 2 the house but wont b here till wed afternoon

@5:38PM Cable guy came :) nothing is wrong in my house :) still cant get online :( trouble is out on the line at the road :( so i wait

Oct 5,2010
@8:15AM Still not online :(

@6:57PM back online baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

Oct 6, 2010
@ 11:09AM very productive morning.. spent the last 3 1/2 hours dealing with PANDAS stuff for Sweet Pea, researching stuff making sure what we are doing and will be doing will help her and not hurt her.. Spent 30 minutes of that time on the phone with one of the PANDAS doctors from NJ. In the 30 minute phone call I feel I have learned more then I have in the last 6 months since we found out and started treatment. :-)

Oct 7,2010
@ 11:30AM I have spent all day Mon, Wed, and Thur dealing with doctors after doctor learning more stuff then I ever wanted to about PANDAS.. and while I feel informed I still feel confused, Please just keep praying for sweet pea this immune disorder is just crazy. In the mean time the house looks like a tornado has gone though it twice.. but I do have clean carpets(that was Tuesday) Guess Friday will be house cleaning day.

@ 11:58Pm Thank you Dustin and Luke for the pretty rock :-)
Little Man is calling it his pet rock and was holding it and hugging it alot tonight LOL He was very upset with me Tuesday when i cleaned his room, I saw a rock on his bed and I threw it away not knowing it was his old pet rock. So tonight you made a 5 year... old happy ♥

Oct 8,2010
@11:58AM today was my no doctor day so how is it It's noon and all I done today was more doctor stuff.. OK must got shower, get dress, clean up this place and get the kids from school.

@8:22PM Thought this was funny. Regarding
the mosque near ground zero, I say let them build it. But across the
street, we should put a topless bar, called "You Mecca Me Hot". Next to
that, a gay bar called "The Turban Cowboy" and next to that, a pork-rib
restaurant called "Iraq o' Ribs"? And a check cashing center called
......"Iran out of money" Lets see ...who's really tolerant! Repost if you
agree.

@11:14PM I'm sleepy... guess it's time for bed. I'm going to Princess's volleyball tourny tomorrow, DH is working, mom is taking the kids to soccer, then DH should be home to get Sweet Pea to softball and I may be back before Mr man does the putt, pass, Kick thing, but I really have no idea how long the v-ball will take.. Happy Saturday ya'll.

Oct 9,2010
@6:08PM Back from Rocky River.. Princess's v-ball team took 3rd. As for kids and soccer Sweet pea's team lost 1-4 and Little Man's team tied 3-3 he had 1 goal. Mr Man skipped soccer to go fishing on dad's boat today came home with 27 fish, now I'm off to go watch him at the football field... Later all.

@11:40PM Can't keep my eyes open any longer.... Good Night.

Oct 10,2010
@7:06PM Church, pumpkin patch, Lighthouse, Lake Side, Church, now dinner and in a bit a fire out in the yard to end the weekend.

Oct 11,2010
@11am I think I'm taking a break from loading photos for a hour or so :-) I still have the photos from the volleyball tournament, the punt,pass kick thing, and from our outing yesterday afternoon.. but I'm thinking I should go eat breakfast seeing how it's almost lunch time.

@12:28PM There has been reported a case of strep IN SWEET PEA'S CLASS ROOM.... I'm so scared for her :-( Since the child isn't in school today and it's Monday and the class has been empty all weekend, I'm not pulling her out of school at the moment, but if anyone ends up sick at all this week in her class I'll have to. Please keep her in your prayers.

Oct 12,2010
@ 8:19AM nothing like getting woke up at 1am by a crying 14 year old with a toothache. Still trying to reach the dentist with no luck, thought they opened at 8am. :-( Not only is she sitting here in Pain but she is worrying like crazy that she won't get to school in time to play in her volleyball game tonight.

@2:30PM I hate when a day doesn't go as planned.. I don't know why it bugs me seeing how most of my days Never goes as planned.. that being said.. here I sit not having gotten a thing done today, just being the Mom taxi back and forth all day long to school and doctors and dentist.. and it's about time to go get kids and head... to a volleyball game..maybe I should cook something quick so when DH gets home he can eat.

@8:26PM Freshman girls kicked butt in Shelby tonight... Way to go ladies. :-)
Tomorrow 8am speech for Little Man and then school for all 4 kids, 1pm dentist appt for Princess.(yes two days in row) So more running tomorrow but hopefully not as much as today.

Oct 13,2010
@10:48AM eating a early lunch, then off to my brothers to love on the twins, then taking Princess to the dentist.. later all

@10:09PM I'm on the ball tonight! I got DH's lunch packed 4 work. I looked at the kids lunch menu saw Sweet Pea & Little Man didn't like what they were having tomorrow. I got there lunches all packed up thinking how nice it will be not to have to worry about that in the morning.. Then it hit me.THEY WON'T be at school 4 lunch they ...will be at the dentist & I promised them McD's if they were good ~Sigh~ anyone want some PB & J's

Oct 14,2010
@11:04AM woke up with the worse back pain I have ever felt, it is so hard to move.. Icy hot, a heating pad and Alive were my best friends this morning.. OH my goodness just typing that makes me feel Old. It still hurts but I'm able to move a little. This I think came from sleeping in a bed with both Little Man & Sweet Pea.. OUCH...

@11:21AM Beside not being able to move without pain, driving to school was awful every time i had to use the break it sent sharp pain into my back. My sweet 5 year old says "I know what will help mommy" then he closes his eyes and said "Dear Jesus make mommy's back not hurt and don't let her die, Amen" :-) think he got the die part from me yelling "ouch I think I'm going to die if i have to use the break one more time" :-)

@7:57PM no school tomorrow, so all my children have left me tonight. Still don't get to sleep in though, Sweet Pea has a dentist appt in the morning for some work to be done.. OH MY.. So not looking forward to that.. Pray she is having a good day tomorrow or this could get interesting.

Oct 15,2010
@10:44AM Dentist went fine.. now she is back at her friends playing happily. Think Mr Man is having someone over tonight.. as for me not much planned just trying to get the house in order today..

@2:55PM I just don't feel like doing house work anymore today.. too bad it's not done yet guess it's going to wait because I'm done.

@3:29PM Way to much going on again tomorrow.. Princess has a volleyball tournament at the High School, Mr Man and Little Man both have soccer games at 9am, then at noon Sweet Pea has a soccer game and Little Man has a pizza party with his soccer team.. AND DH HAS TO WORK AGAIN... calling in the grandparents again. I need a few clones..

Oct 16, 2010
@4:22PM Mr. Man, Sweet Pea, and Little Man's soccer and Princess's High School volleyball is OVER!!! done for the season.. I'll have a bit of free time what will I do with myself

Oct 17,2010
Yesterday Princess hit her head while at the volleyball invite.. 8 1/2 hours later she was still dizzy, head still hurting and her vision was really blurry.. so Last night we made a trip to the ER and a cat scan was done.. mild concussion.. Yet everyone keeps LOL at her.. while she did this at the invite.. she didn't do it... it playing.. She walked into a pole. LOL.. ~sigh~ that's my girl.

AND TODAY
@9AM 2 youngest R home with me today. both with tummy issues and not feeling well.. YUCK... Guess I'll do more laundry and get some work done around here today,Since it seems I'm stuck in the house today.

@10:30AM ‎:-( Oreo our kitten was just hit and killed by a car..
Sweet Pea and Little Man are not taking this news very well at the moment.

Facebooking my blog

2010-10-17T16:42:00.003-05:00

I never seem to find the time to keep up my blog the way I use to, and the way I want to.. and I always think I'll go back and make up for this.. but I never do..
I had this idea that I should go back a month or so and copy and paste all my facebook updates into my blog, This will do two thing..
1) let me sort of keep the memory of what was going on, here forever in time and
2) give you my loyal readers(LOL yes all 1 of you who are left) and update of what has been going on without me having to find the time to write it all out..
So here ya go.. my facebook status updates from Sept 2010

Sept 1, 2010 Thinking it's too hot to go to soccer practice today, Wonder if the kids would notices if I just don't take them

Sept 2, 2010 @ 8AM Work and Volleyball that is the plan for today.

Sept 3, 2010 @ 6pm two younger ones went to spend the night at grandmas, about to take the two older ones to the football game... Good Luck Truckers!!!!

Sept 4, 2010 @12am after working and planning and thinking about this with every free moment I have.. I can safely say that after I pick up the paper work from Sweet Pea's doctor I'm 100% ready to go into this 504 meeting. NOW IF ONLY THEY WOULD SET IT UP!!!!!!!

@ 9am woke up cold this morning... I think I like me this fall like weather. :-)

@ noon my hubby keeps spoiling me with totally unhealthy very fattening but extremely tasty food this week.. Lunch today hamburgers with cheese and bacon and loaded potato skins with Cheddar, bacon and sour cream... YUM!!!!!!!

Sept 5, 2010
@ 8:30am Church then off to NL I think is the game plan for today, Though not 100% sure if I'm heading to NL right after church, might come home 1st stop by Lennys and then head out that way.. who knows..

Sept 6, 2010
@ 12:45pm must do dishes and finish up the laundry, then pick up a van load of kids and head to New London for rides, fair food, and fireworks...

Sept 7,2010
@10pm It is so nice outside tonight I could sit out there all night long.. POO to having to go to bed and waking up early... Bring back summer..(and keep this weather lol)

Sept 8,2010
@8 AM Work, Doc appt for Sweet Pea, Then Soccer practice for Sweet pea & Mr Man, and will finish up the night picking Princess up from youth group.. and somewhere in there feeding, bathing and doing homework with the kids.

@ 4pm The hubby has been called back to work.....:-)
He has been home since June.. he goes back Monday....
I'm happy.. but oh my goodness I have been use to having him home and using him as my babysitter.. now what am I going to do LOL

Sept 9, 2010
@ 4:05PM UGH.. heading off to the doctor with Mr Man here in about 30 mins. He has been coughing and complaining about a sore throat for two days now.. No fever But with Sweet Pea and her issues I HAVE to take him in to be tested for the strep.. Praying it is NOT strep..
@ 6:35PM No strep.. :-)
Now I'm off to the meeting at Mr Man's school.. Later all.

Sept 10,2010
@ 12:06pm Trying to explain to the hubby, why we need a new couch.. Yes I agree it is extremely comfy and long enough for him to sleep on.. and I love that the two end are recliners and that there is a fold down table with cup holders in the middle.. BUT It is faded, worn and every cushion is torn and has holes in them... It's time for it to go...

Sept 11, 2010
@12:02AM Why am I still awake??? I have to have Princess at Volleyball at 8:30am have Mr Man at his soccer game at 8:30AM, Sweet Pea at her soccer game at 8:30am and Little man at his soccer game at 8:30am... Yea I haven't figured out just how we are doing all this yet.. but I do know I need to wake up early tomorrow.. So I should go to bed.. Night all.

@ 12:35 PM Mr Man's team won 7-0, Sweet Pea's team won 6-2, and Little Man's team lost 5-4 BUT Little Man scored 3 of those 4 goals. So he is very pleased :-) Princess still at Volleyball and Sweet pea has softball at 3. Busy day and I need to do laundry and clean the house.

@ 11:50PM Please put this on your status if you know someone (or are related to someone) who suffers from stupidity. Stupidity is a real condition and should be taken seriously. You could be sitting next to a sufferer right now. There is still no known cure for stupidity, but we can raise awareness.......... 93% won't copy and paste this... because............... they don't know how to copy and paste. Will you?

@ 11:58pm Mr man is sick and can't stop coughing to save his life... not only is he not going to get sleep tonight.. I don't think the rest of us are either. :-( I have given him everything I can and he still can't stop coughing.. blah..

Sept 12,2010
@ 2PM Mr man still feeling sick, no fever, but he has chills and still coughing alot. Kept him home from church this morning in hopes that whatever is going on will be gone tomorrow because DH starts back to work in the morning and I still have this week left of the sub job I'm doing So pray he is well tomorrow so he can make it to school.. and that he doesn't pass this lovely stuff around to the rest of us.

@ 10:26PM tomorrow should be interesting. DH goes back to work after 3 1/2 months off and on 1st shift don't remember the last time he worked days.. Plus not only is Mr man not feeling Well Sweet Pea is now complaining her throat hurts.. hope she is better in the morning or it's right to the doctor with her. :-( In happy news I got... to spend time with my favorite twins today :-)

Sept 13,2010
@9:07PM Back from High School Open House.. Princess seems to have alot of good teachers. In other Princess news The Freshman V-ball team lost there game this evening :( 1st lose of the season. In more exciting news Princess made homecoming court :)

@ 11:57PM blah.. I need sleep.. come morning and working with preschoolers I'm going to hate the fact that I'm still awake. but have so much running though my head.. antibiotics, probiotics, symptoms days, Doctors.. I hate that my little girl has to deal with P.A.N.D.A.S. :-(

Sept 14, 2010
@ 8AM Morning all.

@ 4:38pm I'm so tired.. I could climb in bed right now and sleep until noon tomorrow. guess that isn't going to happen.. guess I'll go cook dinner.. Princess is at v-ball, later Mr Man has soccer, and I need to help Sweet Pea study for her SS test.. and get Little Man bathed and in bed early since he has ST at the hospital at 8am before heading to school.

Sept 15, 2010
@5:30PM Hahahaha i just won a staring contest against Jensen cat Hahahaha

Sept 16,2010
@ 6:20AM Good morning, good morning!
Good morning, good morning!
Good morning, good morning!
There will be no yawning!

@ 5:15PM O man :( im at Princess game and the camera batteries just died

@ 7:31PM Time to figure out what is for dinner,cook it,eat it and get some kids ready for bed.
Princess team won 27-25 and 25-18

Sept 17,2010
11:24AM The plan clean the whole house and do laundry today. Tomorrow MrMan soccer at 9am, Little Man's at 10am Sweet Pea's at noon. Princess has a volleyball game at 4:30pm @ Edison. Sunday afternoon Princess has 2 softball games and sun night is the start of awanas.. busy weekend

Sept 18,2010
@ 1:37PM Mr Man's team won 4-1, Little Man's team won 7-3, Sweet Pea's team lost 3-0 now it's lunch and off to Princess's volleyball game. Happy Saturday.

@ 3:30PM ya know a few hours ago I sent a FB status via cell phone and it never showed up here.. HUMMMM wonder what time it will show.. in any case.. Just dropped Princess and Sydney off to get on the bus.. In a few I'll be heading to Edison for the Volleyball game...

@9:58PM very very very tired.. 3 soccer games and 3 volleyball games, well I guess 2 1/2 I left before Varsity was over. anyways..I'm tired.. and tomorrow I have to drive to Cortland for softball.. and back and then church and Awanas.. I'm going to be dead tired tomorrow night.

Sept 19,2010
@9:59 PM wonderful day. loaded the van with 6 kids drove 2 hours to Cortland, dropped the 3 who were playing ball off took the 3 who weren't to a fun playground went back to watch 2 softball games, lost one 8-2 then played the same team again and won that one 4-2(Princess pitched that game) drove back home got back just in time to... wash hands & faces headed to church, youth group and the start of awanas. I'm off to bed.

Sept 20,2010
@ 4:40PM Not been a good day for my little girl :-(

Sept 21, 2010
@4:47PM one more day of this what 4 week sub job.. and then I'll get some facebook time.. though if you saw all the games my mom have been playing on my site you would think I have done nothing but play all day anyways LOL.

@6PM Just found my Ipod at the bottom of a sink full of dirty dish water :-( don't ask.. I don't know.. not a clue who used it last or how it ended up in the sink..

Sept 22, 2010
@9:21AM not doing the sub thing today :-( I feel awful having to call off, but Mr Man is home sick with a fever and Sweet Pea was having PANDAS issues this morning again and now she is feeling sick herself. blah blah blah..

@ 6:08PM BBQ pulled pork I did in the crock pot, mashpotatos, corn, mac n cheese, and corn muffins... YUMMMMMMMMMMMMM dinner was good :-)

Sept 23,2010
@10AM All the kids are in school today, here is hoping I don't get any calls saying I need to pick one up.. After dropping them off I went and had my hair cut, it needed it bad.. now on to cleaning the house and figuring what's for dinner. Later is Princess's volleyball game..

@1:41Pm greys anatomy is on tonight.. I'm excited....

Sept 24,2010
@8:25AM drop kids off at school, do a load of laundry, then go play with the my little niece and nephew..
@11:59PM Way to busy of a day tomorrow.. night all

Sept 25,2010
@9:25AM sitting at Sweet Peas game next 2 a man who has stopped talking and all he is doing is complaining about every under the sun

@ 2:30PM Sweet Pea's team lost 3-2, Mr Man's team lost there 1st game ever today 4-3 and Little Man's team won 7-0 and Little Man made 4 of those goals. After soccer the boys went to my parents, Sweet Pea was to have softball, ONLY she isn't doing well again :-( So no softball for her.. Homecoming for Princess later this evening.. hoping to get a few good shots of that..

Sept 27,2010
@12:27AM two homecomings out of the way.. now I'm going to bed.. I'm not feeling very well blah..... so not looking forward to the alarm going off at 5am(for DH) and again at 6am(for Princess) and 7am for the rest of us... night all.

@8:06AM OK sleep seemed to have done nothing for me feeling sick. :-( Thinking my plan today is nothing.. or as little as I can get by with.. this is not a good feeling..

@5:18PM this day hasn't gone at all as planned and i still feel crappy :(

@10:40PM spent my day getting the last of the paper work ready for the 504 meeting for Sweet Pea tomorrow.. Taking Princess to the doctor with strep like symptoms and a 102 fever, and then over to the hospital for xrays on her foot, since we were at the doctors I had them look at her foot and they thought she needed the xrays.. Rap...id strep test was Neg.. and won't have the results of her foot till tomorrow..

Sept 28,2010
@ 4:47PM The 504 meeting went ok today.. Thought it went well till I opened my email a little bit ago and found an email letting me know they need more stuff from the doctor.. Thought I had enough paper work from both her doctors.. guess I'll be making another call into the doctors office to see what we can do..

Sept 29,2010
@ 7:45AM ‎4 hours of sleep is really just not enough.
@10:53PM God is Good!!!!! been in contact back and forth with the school today and I think this 504 thing is working itself out.. Just need to run a few things by Sweet Pea's doctor and I think we are all set good to go. Bad thing is there is already a known case of strep reported in the kindergarten... hummmmm... might be time take Little Man in to be checked and Princess rechecked.

Sept 30,2010
@5:15PM Today started the day at the doctors with Princess, Then came home and steam vac. the living room, took the fall softball shirts over to have numbers put on them, stopped at walmart to pick up some stuff for sick kids, then over to CVS to pick up perscribtions, came home made lunch, then went over and helped my grandma watch the twins from 2-4:30pm about ready to leave for Mr Man's 2 hour soccer pract. which starts at 5:30

@10:21PM I can't stop sneezing...

@11:22PM Night all.. tomorrow holds much of the same for me.. starting the day dropping off kids at school, then if Princess doesn't have a fever will be taking her to her dentist appt in the morning, then coming home and cleaning the carpet in the dinning room.. and who knows what more after that.. maybe go get my baby fix helping with the twins again :-) though I should start on the bedrooms but what fun would that be.

And there ya have it ya'll every single facebook status update I made in the Month of Sept 2010

Tomorrow I hope to do a weekend recap and then on Tuesday Maybe do a facebook update thing for all the stuff I posted in Oct.. and that should bring us all up today.. Then on Wed hopefully do a wordless weds of Princess homecoming pictures.

Remembering My Baby.

2010-10-15T14:11:00.003-05:00

Alyssa Reese
due date 10/29/2004
Never in my arms but Forever in my heart.

wordless Wednesday #13(the twins 2 1/2 months old)

2010-09-29T00:00:00.000-05:00

Weekend Recap Sept 24,25,&26,2010

2010-09-27T07:07:00.008-05:00

WOW when was the last time I did a weekend recap????

Friday Sept 24,2010

All my kids went to school and I did not have to work. This seemed weird to me.. I spent the early morning touching up the cleaning around the house and doing laundry, Then from 10:30am-1pm I headed over to my brothers house to play with the two cutest twins in the world, My 2.5 month old little Nephew and Niece..(pics from that day will be my WW post this week)

After that I came home ate lunch and got ready to get the kids from school

Once they were home I had to run to the store and buy snacks for 3 different soccer teams, and then feed everyone dinner.

After Dinner I drove Princess and her two friends to the homecoming football game, when I got back DH took Mr Man to the town we grew up in football game while I stayed home with Little Man and Sweet Pea.

The three of us brought out sleeping bags and Pillows and had a movie night in the living room. We watched Marmaduke. Cute show the kids had fun with it..

both the younger two were asleep before DH and Mr Man got home, and Princess spent the night at her friend S.F. house..

Saturday Sept 25, 2010

This was going to be one crazy busy day. DH had to work and he left the house at 5:30am leaving me to deal with the crazy.

We had to be up and out the door around 8:30am, we left more like 8:45am for a 9am soccer game for Sweet Pea,

Then at 10:30am Mr Man had his soccer game

and in the middle of his game we had to get Little Man to his soccer field for his 11am soccer game..

PLUS it was ALL THREE of there snack day(don't ask me how they all ended up on the same day) but it sure made alot of stuff to remember and carry that morning. fter soccer, Princess had to get her hair done for the homecoming dance and get dress.. and I had to feed everyone lunch and then leave by 2pm to have Sweet Pea at her fastpitch travel softball practice which was an hour away.. This is where DH was going to meet me after work and as soon as he got there I was going to book it home to be back JUST in time for the 4:30pm homecoming pictures for Princess.

ONLY how it worked out was after Sweet Peas soccer game she started having PANDAS issues which I wasn't sure how bad they might get but we stayed and she worked through them for the rest of the soccer games, my grandma ended up being the one to go with Princess to get her hair done, and my Parents took the boys to spend the night at there house, While I stayed home caring for Sweet Pea.. She ended up falling asleep and sleeping a few hours in the afternoon and after she at a tiny bit of lunch. I called her softball coach and told him she wouldn't be there and then called DH and told him to head home after work not the ball fields.. DH got home from work at 4:15pm and I took off to meet up with Princess who was getting dressed with a group at her friends house.. and then the big group of them meet up at another friends house so we could get pictures. hen I got home Sweet Pea was back to her normal self, her brain was no longer under an attack.. and she wanted to go spend the night with my parents also since the boys were.. So I packed her up and drove her over there.. I got home around 7:30pm and DH and I ate dinner together.. he was extremely tired (worked 56 plus hours this week and last) and He was in bed by 9pm and asleep by 10pm...

I waited up for Princess to come home from the dance.. after she did she and her friend S.F. went back to the friends house to spend the night. and I went to bed.

Sunday Sept 27,2010

Got up got dressed, picked up Princess from her friends house drove back home picked up DH and headed off to church.. After church Sweet Pea and Little Man wanted to go back to my parents house to spend the afternoon, DH and Mr Man took off had lunch together, got an oil change in the car and picked up groceries and on there way home picked up Sweet Pea and Little Man.. They were gone till about 4:30pm

I got home after church Princess washed and dried her hair, then she and I went and got her hair all dolled up again, got her make up on and got her back into the homecoming dress, ate lunch somewhere in there also.. At 4pm we were off with another group of her friends who attend a different school for there homecoming dance, Princess went with a boy who is one of her friends who asked her.. They are ONLY friends, she went to her homecoming dance with an upper classman who likes her.

After getting her pictures I came back home and went over Awana verses with the kids, then it was off to PM church and Awanas.

After church feed the kids dinner let them watch tv a bit and then got them in bed.. Just in time for me to watch Desperate housewives and Brothers and Sisters, when that was over I had to go pick Princess up.. and I headed off to bed with a book.. and ended up reading till 1am.. So I'm just a tad tired today and I think I have a sinus infection which is never a good thing.. blah..

So there ya have it folks how I spent my weekend... busy as always..

I'll try to post the homecoming pics tomorrow it's it's own post..

Still here

2010-09-18T14:36:00.003-05:00

Hi Blogging world, I'm still here just very busy..
The 2nd week of school I got called for a 3 week long sub job which I just finished up this week, only on Friday got called and asked if I could do it another week.. So I said yes..

DH got called back to work last week and just finished up his 1st week back at work.. Praise the Lord for the call back after being laid off for 3 months.

Kids have alot going on which keep me jumping.. At the moment.. Princess is doing high school volleyball, and travel softball, Mr Man is doing soccer, Sweet Pea is doing Soccer and travel softball, and Little Man is doing soccer... all along with school and church... and tomorrow starts the 1st week of Awanas and youth group.

So my normal week day is get the kids and myself to school after school soccer practices and volleyball games, homework 9pm dinner and bedtime.

My weekends are not much better..:-)
Today.. 9am Soccer game for Mr Man, which ended at 10:30am
10am Soccer game for Little Man, 12pm Soccer game for Sweet Pea, came home cooked lunch ate lunch and got Princess and her friend S.F. to the high school to get on the bus for a 4:30pm Volleyball game,which I'm about ready to walk out the door to get to myself.
Tomorrow we have a 3 hour drive to get to Princess's travel softball games, and then tomorrow evening like 20 mins after we get home is the 1st night of Awanas..

so I'm just taking this quick moment to say hello and hopefully will find the time to start posting pictures and get back into the swing of things here at the blog...
late..

Little Man's 1st day of Kindergarten.

2010-08-25T18:00:00.001-05:00

1st day of school 2010

2010-08-24T21:47:00.004-05:00

Princess started High School today.. She is now 14 yrs 7 months old and in the 9th grade

Mr. Man Started the 5th grade today and here in our town that means moving from your elementary school Into the 5th and 6th grade school which is run like a Jr high. Mr Man is now 10yrs and 9months old .Sweet Pea started the 3rd grade today, she is now 8 years 7 months old..
Tomorrow I'll have another 1st day of school post to add.. Little Man will be starting Kindergarten tomorrow... What a year.. one starting High School, one starting the 5th and 6th grade school and one starting Kindergarten.. and one we are doing everything we can to keep healthy now that we know she has an immune disorder...

I hate to see summer end.

Stuff going on with Sweet Pea.

2010-08-23T09:06:00.001-05:00

I haven't been the best blogger over the last few months.. but I have been sort of keeping up with Sweet Pea's journey with the immune disorder she has, PANDAS over at my other blog.. I just posted another long post over there if your interested.. click here to view it.

Look hows she has grown.

2010-08-21T20:41:00.002-05:00

From Last year 8th grade Volleyball to This year 9th grade Volleyball. From Jr high to High School, From braces to No braces, from blond to brunette. From 13 1/2 years old to 14 1/2 years old... My Princess is growing up.. sniff sniff.

oh and if you didn't know she is the one in between the two with the big wigs. This was taken at there High School Volleyball fun night.. all the girls got divided into groups and given a time period There group was the 70's

WOW I do remember how to blog

2010-08-21T13:26:00.004-05:00

SO so very sorry I was MIA again.. summer has been crazy and now with school starting up again on Tuesday it's even crazier.. but maybe when the kids are at school. I'll find some time to blog and get ya all caught up on what went on this summer and keep ya up to date on the happenings of this fall.

or at least that is the plan..

Today the kids(well 3 younger ones) Started there fall Soccer league..

I'll have pictures from the game later..but the color of there uniforms makes me LOL.. Mr Man Red, Little Man yellow and Sweet Pea green.

so here are my little traffic light.

4th of July 2010 post #3

2010-07-14T00:00:00.000-05:00

ROTFL!!!!!

2010-07-13T08:34:00.002-05:00

Ok I think I have lost my mind and in need of help ASAP....
I just opened up my blog so I could get started on the last 4th of July post..
I'm sitting here pretty much alone.. kids are at VBS and DH is asleep.. there is no noise in my house at all.. All of a sudden I start hearing music sort of really low like it was coming from the other room.. I jump a foot and I'm about ready to go see who or what started this music..... when it hit me it was coming from my blog that I just opened.. LOL....

4th of July 2010 post #2

2010-07-11T00:00:00.000-05:00

After the picnic with my inlaws. My parents took a few of the kids to the hospital to see my brother, his wife and the new babies.
This is my brothers wife E, and the twins C and H.
Here is my sisters dd, A holding C and Mr Man in the back there.

Sweet Pea holding C
Sweet Pea, My brother, Little Man and HLater we all waited at my Grandma and Grandpa till it was time for fireworks..

Here is Grandma with Little Man and my nices Little E.

my sisters youngest Little E
my youngest Little Man
Getting snacks before going to the fireworks.

in this shot.. is my uncle J, Mr Man, Little Man and Sweet Pea and the back of my grandma's head.

Here we have my Grandma, Little E, and A

The Firework crew all ready to go watch.

A, Mr Man, Sweet Pea, Little E, and Little Man. all the cousins minus P, H & C who were spending there 4th of July in the hospital.. and Princess who took off with friends to watch the fireworks.
At the place we went to watch the show.. waiting for it to start.

in back is my sisters husband D, and my sister(but you can't see her in this one) in front we have Sweet Pea, A, Uncle J, my Grandma, Little Man and Little E.

Sweet Pea, Little E, and Little Man
Little E and Sweet Pea

Sweet Pea, Little E and Little Man
Mr Man

DH didn't want to miss all of the 4th of July stuff with the family so he came at the last minute to the fireworks.. though as you can tell he would have done better staying home in bed.. Poor Guy.. Here is DH and Little Man

The whole gain

Little Man, Little E, Sweet Pea, & A

DH and Little Man

And here is a slideshow of the fireworks well a few shot of the fireworks that I snapped :-)

4th of July 2010 post #1

2010-07-08T12:31:00.015-05:00

With the 4th on a Sunday this year things were a little turned around.. Instead of starting the day with a Parade we started it off with church.. Parade was put on hold in our town until Monday the 5th.. Which worked out great..
DH woke up about 2 or 3 in the morning on the 4th.. sick as could be throwing up and having pain(he thought it was kidney stones like he had before) He spend the next 2 days not feeling well but he is doing better now..
When the rest of us woke up and went to church DH was still at home sick not wanting to move.. Same thing when it was time to go out to the campground that my bil(DH's younger brother) was having a cook out at..
It was very important to my BIL and SIL(according to my MIL) that we all be there, but DH was so sick there was no way he was making it.. So I took the kids and we went without him...
these are the pictures from the cookout.

Princess and cousin Big E.

MIL and Sweet Pea

Little man in the background is FIL
SIL S.

Big E and Princess at the pool
Inside the tent, sil S, bil D, J and Little Man

BIL D, mil and J.
FIL, Princess and Big E.
Princess got a little messy.

Little Man getting a little messy himself.

DH's older brother, My BIL D.

Mr Man and Sweet Pea

My Niece Big E.

Little Man

My nephew J
My SIL S.
Princess and Big E.

my BIL E and his wife S. We all found out they will be adopting a baby next month if all goes well... Praying that it does.
Little Man

Sweet Pea

Princess and Big E
Check out those softball tans.. and there pitching arms LOL

Mr Man
My 4 babies on the 4th of July
Sweet Pea and Little Man

Princess with my Niece Big E.

Princess, Mr Man, cousin J and Big E Mr Man, cousin J, and Little Man

Uncle E, Mr man and Cousin J.

Princess with her cousin Big E

Mr Man with his cousin J

Sweet Pea in the pool

Little Man jumping in the pool
BIL E with my nephew J

Guy with the football is my BIL with his nieces and nephews..
My BIL E, with his bil, Princess, Mr Man and Cousins Big E and J. Princess and Mr Man with there cousins Big E and J

I'm an Aunt Again..

2010-07-02T21:11:00.008-05:00

My brothers twins were born today... Oh my goodness They are so cute I could sit for hours and hours just holding them and looking at them...

Twin A a boy we will call him C. was born at 7:57AM he was 6 lbs 10 oz and 19 inches long..

Twin B a girl we will call her H. Was born at 7:59AM she was 6 lbs 5oz and 19 1/2 inches

Here are more pics of them

Great Grandma holding C and Me holding H

Grandma and C

Great Grandma and H

Grandma and C

me and my new little niece and nephew

C on my right and H on my left

Great Grandma and C

My brother and his little Girl

My brother and his 1st born... His little boy

Grandpa and H

Mr Man and his little cousin H

My dad and the twins.

My mom and the twins

Grandpa and H, Mr Man and C.

Sorry I went MIA

2010-06-15T09:47:00.002-05:00

life is crazy..
just busy and crazy
You can read all the latest of what is going on with Sweet Pea over at my other blog.. which I am keeping up with better then here :-(

Here is a quick run down of the stuff going on in my life

1) DH has been laid off again.. This time they expect it to be alot longer then the last 2 month lay off he had over a year ago.. They are thinking lay off until January 2011.. Please pray he gets back to work alot sooner then that.. and that his company has work for all the workers so they all can get back to work.

2) softball softball and more softball.. both Princess and Sweet Pea are playing travel softball and league softball.. So the weekends are tournaments and Sweet Pea has her league games on Monday nights and Princess has her on Wed nights..

3) no softball for Princess this week she is off at camp having a good time. though it is raining here at home today wonder how she is doing at camp if it is raining on the Island.

4) my sister and her family are home for the summer(well home for them is TX, but they are in OH) my bil and sister are working at the summer camp that my children go to camp at.. my sister got in on Saturday afternoon(I was at a ball tournament so didn't get to see her) and took off to the Island Saturday night.. but her girls are staying at my parents this week.. so my 3 younger kids took off to stay with my mom and hang with here cousins also..

and lastly
5) my brother got married..

So those are the things going on around here..

I need all your help PLEASE.

2010-06-06T17:19:00.005-05:00

Pepsi is giving away millions to fund great ideas It's called Pepsi Refresh project.
As alot of you my 8 year old daughter Sweet Pea has just been diagnosed with PANDAS. There is a group of parents with children who have PANDAS who has created a group to win some of this money Pepsi is giving away.. but in order to get the money we need to have the most votes. the groups is called. Parents on behalf of Dr.Cunningham's P.A.N.D.A.S. research

Dr. Cunningham is a research director at the Univ. of Oklahoma. She has been tirelessly researching the autoimmune process involved in PANDAS. She is on the verge of a medical breakthrough, which will help 1000's of children suffering with tics, ocd, etc. receive the proper diagnosis and treatment.
If your wondering what exactly is PANDAS.. read below.

P.A.N.D.A.S.(Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Assoc. with Strep)When a child contracts strep, antibodies that are aimed to kill the strep turn on the child and begin to ATTACK THEIR BRAIN causing inflammation. This swelling causes dramatic behavior changes. A once "normal" child suddenly has OCD, tics, high anxiety, sensory issues, and more. Most doctors are not aware of the complexity of PANDAS, how it presents itself, or how to treat it. This may lead to a misdiagnosis of clinical OCD, TS, or other mental disorders. Imagine a childhood of unnecessary psychotropic meds, suffering, and unanswered questions. With CORRECT DIAGNOSIS and treatment, remission is possible!We need this grant to fund Dr. Cunningham's study because it gives hope for correct diagnosis and treatment of this alarming disorder.Please help these kids and REFRESH the RESEARCH! Vote Project P.A.N.D.A.S!

My little girl.. is suffering from this.. every time she comes in contact with strep.. she doesn't even have to get totally sick herself.. just just has to be around it pick up a little bit of it and her body starts making these antibodies that then turn on her brain and really messes her up.. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take the time to go and vote every day for Project P.A.N.D.A.S.. to help all the children just like my Little Sweet Pea.

To Vote Click HERE

You should see the Project P.A.N.D.A.S. link it will have a spot to vote for this idea.. click it.. when you do it will ask you to either sign into your facebook account or give and email address(just so you can't vote ten hundred times in a day) then it will take you back to the link to click on the vote for this idea button again.. click it and it will count your vote..

We need all the votes we can get..

or go to http://www.refresheverything.com/ in the search type in pandas and it will take you to the voting link for it..

Please help my Sweet Pea and all the children like her and vote.

And Please Please pass this on to everyone you know so they can vote also.. or send them over her to read about it and then vote..

I Thank you all for your help from the bottom of my heart..

From Gods Word Friday #14(5/21/10)

2010-06-04T00:00:00.000-05:00

Nehemiah 2:1-10
1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

What 1st jumped out at me is how God answered Nehemiahs prayer from Chapter 1
Nehemiah didn't come before the king to ask anything of him. But How Gods hand moved the kind to ask Nehemiah What was bugging him.. Once Nehemiah told the king God stepped in again to work through the king by moving him to ask how he could help.
What I love here is how Nehemiah just didn't start blurting out stuff. He took it before God and prayed then asked in a respectful way.
Then God had His hand on the king again to grant Nehemiah what he asked.

Isn't the way our Lord works amazing?!?!?!

Sweet Pea and Little Man.

2010-06-02T21:13:00.002-05:00

Sweet Pea and Little Man are in my bedroom in bed watching cartoons(no more school this year so no more bedtime YEAH!!!)
I'm at the computer right outside my bedroom..
Sweet Peas says in a normal voice so that I could hear..
"mom I'm thirsty"
Little Man yells at the top of his lungs
"MOM SWEET PEA WANTS SOMETHING TO DRINK"
Sweet Pea in that normal so I could hear voice
"May I have water"
Little Man at the top of his lungs
"MOM SWEET PEA WANTS WATER"
Sweet Pea in a normal talking to the person sitting next to her voice talking to Little Man
"can you please be quite"
Little Man at the top of his lungs
"MOM SWEET PEA WANTS ME TO BE QUITE"

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thought I would share

2010-06-01T08:03:00.002-05:00

Thought I would share this because I couldn't stop LOL when it happened..
On Friday DH, the Girls and I were heading to Sweet Pea's 1st softball game of the weekend.. We were in DH's car not my van with the dark tinted windows.. We had the windows rolled down and we came to a red light. DH was turned looking at me talking and I was facing him.. All of a sudden he was looking over my shoulder and yelled at the window.. "SHE IS ONLY 12 STOP STARING" I turned to see two older teenage boys like 18 or 19 maybe even 20 in a fancy sports truck looking back into our car where Princess was sitting.. She is turning bright red and her and I are both LOL at DH yelling at these boys.. mind you she is NOT 12 she is 14 but still too young for the driver of the truck and his friend ....
BUT DH yelling at these guys wasn't even the funny part of this... It is what happened next..
The friend from the passenger side of the truck leans over and yells out the driver side window
"DUDE, YOUR DAUGHTER'S HOT"

ROTFL... I thought DH was going to die... but Princess, Sweet Pea and I all got a good laugh out of it..

Spring Break 2010 post #10

2010-05-26T22:42:00.009-05:00

Monday morning April 5 was to be the day we came home.. but I didn't get my day in the mountain just exploring so DH said we could do that before heading home.. We checked out of the hotel and off we went driving and hiking.. and me taking a ton of pictures.

take note of those big tree/logs that are laying on those rocks I'll tell ya a story about them here in another picture.

we drove a ways to get to this spot and Aubrie was feeling a bit car sick.

This is what Happened to DH when the picked up and tossed it in... I think he got more . LOL

After leaving this spot we drove more and found a beautiful waterfalls before heading home.. I'll share those pictures some other time..

From Gods Word Friday #14(5/21/10)

2010-05-21T00:00:00.000-05:00

Spring Break 2010 post 9(Thursday 13 style)

2010-05-19T23:56:00.000-05:00

Easter Sunday 2010 After finding Easter Baskets, after going to church, after the photo shoot, after our wonderful Easter Dinner, after feeding the ducks and hitting some stores and doing some walking.. AND after spending hours at the pool.. That Evening we hit THE TRACK.. We road go karts. Little Man rode some kiddie rides, and we putt putted.. For Putt Putt the friends Princess meet at the pool that afternoon joined us.. So she putt putted right behind us with there group.. while the younger 3, DH and I were in the group in front.. Here are the pictures from Easter Evening.
1) Little Man driving a go kart.

2) still little Man 3)Princess on the go karts
4) Me and Sweet Pea rounding a curve Mr Man is right behind us.5) here he comes, Mr Man rounding the curve6) DH, Mr Man, Princess, & Sweet Pea waiting while Little Man rode some rides.
7) Little Man on the train.8) another shot of this.
9) Little Man putt putting

10) Princess and the group of friends she was with11) DH helping Little Man

12) Princess and group

13) Mr Man and Sweet Pea

And that is how we ended our wonderful Easter of 2010

Oh Little Man

2010-05-19T13:00:00.002-05:00

Little Man walking out of the bathroom after going this afternoon "mom when Mr Man gets home can we both pee in the potty at the same time cuz that would be soooooooooooooo cool"
Me "no you can't pee in the potty at the same time"
Little Man "why not"
Me "because it would make a mess"
Little Man "what kind of mess, it wouldn't make a mess.. we both just stand them and pee into the potty at the same time"
Me " pee would splatter everywhere"
Little Man "Ohhhhhhhh that would be sooooooooooo cool"

Next time in the bathroom today.. Little Man yells.. "mom the toilet paper is on the floor get it NOW"
I walk into the bathroom and say "Now are you to ask me to do something"
he gives an "ugh" and says "mom can you please pick the toilet paper up for me"
I did and hooked the roll back to the holder then look at him and said " So now what do you tell me after I do something for you?" He says "Thanks"
and I sort of ruffle his hair and turn to walk out and let him finish up... he yells at me "AND MOM you were to say Your Welcome after that and you didn't"

Wish they had these when my kids were babies.

2010-05-19T10:23:00.002-05:00

I use to have to Swaddle Little Man up so tightly with all the receiving blankets I could find and then in the middle of the night he would just kick and toss and turn his way out of them, waking himself up..
I'm done having kids so I wouldn't have a need for these anymore.. But my brother is expecting his 1st, a set of twins.. and if they are anything like Little Man was normal blankets just won't do. and when your talking two to wake you up at night.. your going to want as little as possible to wake those little babies up..

That is why I headed over to SIMPLE and I'm trying to win this giveaway.. if your interested in the Halo Sleep Sack Swaddle or the Halo Sleep Sack.. head on over there and check out the giveaway.

Spring Break 2010 Post #8(Easter Afternoon)

2010-05-19T06:54:00.009-05:00

up a little way into the mountain, we took a little drive after church, the boys changed into shorts and Sweet Pea changed into her sundress so we could take a few more pictures.. Though not a one of them were too thrilled with mommy and her camera craziness.

Easter Sunday April 4,2010

My handsome hubby.
I could take this girls picture all day long if she let me..

at the sign.. The traditional Smoky Mountain picture
after my little photo shoot.. we headed over to the Old Mill for our Easter Dinner..

My little family Easter 2010
my food.... OHHHHHHHH YUMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Princess's food

after dinner outside the Old Mill
feeding ducks and birds
after feeding ducks and walking Pigeon Forge for a bit we headed back to the hotel and went swimming for hours.. here is Aubrie and a few of her new friends she meet at the pool.

Spring Break 2010 post #7 (Easter Morning)

2010-05-18T11:32:00.012-05:00

Easter morning after breakfast and before church finding there Easter Baskets.. Princess tends to think she is too old for this, but her 4 year old brother thinks she isn't :-)

Easter bunny hid the baskets outside this year since there really wasn't anyplace in the hotel room to hid them.

Starting to look at there loot

Princess and myself still while getting dressed for church

stopping by the stream for pictures before heading to church

Little Man picking me pretty flowers ;-)
My Babies Easter 2010

Princess 14 years old
Sweet Pea 8 years old

Little Man 4 years 10 months old

Mr Man 10 years old

First Baptist Church of Gatlinburg this is where we went to church this Easter Sunday.

after church sitting in the church parking lot waiting for the long line of cars to go though so we could back out :)

still in the church parking lot
And this is where I'll end this post and we will pick up with Easter afternoon and Easter dinner in the next Spring Break post.. If you have missed any you can view day 1 Here and Here, Day 2 Here, here here and Here... and Easter was day 3.. that will get ya all caught up.

Update on Sweet Pea and the PANDAS.

2010-05-17T22:30:00.002-05:00

I'm not going to retype all of this but I'll send you over to the other blog to read this post which talks about today being her 1st visit with the counselor and what all happened there and how Mr Man did test pos. for strep throat and what that might mean to Sweet Pea and how they both need your prayer..
Here you go.. CLICK HERE... to read the post.

New Roof, Broken Hip, and Birthday Parties OH MY!!

2010-05-16T20:45:00.006-05:00

New Roof, Broken Hip, Birthday Parties, Sick Kid.. OH MY!!

That was my weekend.. I don't have the time to do a real weekend recap.. or to do it the way I would want to.. but this is all stuff worth sharing.. even If it is just tossed together in this post.Friday my dad came over and we started the roof project.. got it all stripped and part of the way on..Friday night spent the bigger part of the night in the ER with Princess who has fractured her right hip bone. Did this weight lifting for high school volleyball.. the ER doc placed her on bed rest and pain meds and now I have to call the bone doctor in the morning.. to see how bad this is and what we do next.
Friday was also Little Man's 5th birthday my baby boy is 5..

Saturday morning we finished up the roofing project, scraped the paint on the back porch and got it primed.. Then cleaned up the house and Saturday evening had Little Man's family birthday party..

A few pics from the party.. I'll get all of the party stuff up sometime soon.

Sunday we went to church, came home and panted the front of the back porch and got the gutter hung back up.. BUT After church this morning Mr Man started running 102 fever and complaining about his sore throat... not good news for him... poor thing.. But this is AWFUL News for Sweet Pea... Please Please keep them in your prayer, Mr Man to get better and Sweet Pea that she won't pick up one tiny bit of this where it could create antibodies which could attack her brain again...(if your have no idea what I'm talking about with Sweet Pea check out my other blog HERE)

Spring Break 2010 post #6

2010-05-14T00:38:00.003-05:00

Still on Day 2 of our spring vacation.. This will be the last post of what we did on Day 2.. Picking up where we left off, we are still at Princess's softball tournament waiting for game 3 and game 4.. When not watching there sister play ball the younger 3 kids enjoyed time at the park.

Game 3 Princess pitched another no hitter, this one they won LOL unlike the 1st game which was a no hitter and yet they lost.

Steeling home.... under the tag.... safe!!!!

back playing in the dirt

She was on fire this game.. and it even got her sister and brothers excited..

here is Sweet Pea and Mr Man making signs and holding them up as they cheered for Princess

Game 4 she only gave up 1 hit.. but we lost and was out of the tournament after that.

We ended up taking 4th place in this tournament.. This is the team she played for.. They needed a picture to do this tournament because there pictures are freshmen and can't play yet because they are playing for there school team.. They picked up two Pitchers but Princess ended up pitching every inning of every game.

softball didn't end until close to 8pm at which time we got dinner went back to the hotel went swimming for an hour or so got the kids bathed and the younger two in bed while Mr Man and DH went out to see the Titanic
It wasn't open then didn't open till April 8th but Mr Man is a big Titanic fan so he wanted some pictures of it all lite up..

DH promised Mr Man that he would get him back down there once it was open.. and over mothers day weekend got to keep that promise to him.. I'll post about that sometime after I get these spring break post done.

Well there we have it how we spent day 2 of our Spring Break Easter Vacation..

you can get caught up with Day one Here and Here , and Day two Here, Here and Here.

Happy 5th Birthday Little Man.

2010-05-14T00:00:00.000-05:00

Today I'm wishing my baby boy a Very Happy 5th Birthday..
Oh Little Man you are a joy and I love you very very much.. I can't get over you already being 5 years old, seems like just yesterday you were born..
I hope you have a wonderful Birthday
Love Mom.

Thursday 13(spring break 2010 #5)

2010-05-12T23:41:00.001-05:00

Continuing with my Spring Break 2010 post.. Still on Day 2.. To get caught up on the Spring Break saga.. you can read about Day 1 Here and here and The start of day 2 Here and Here.
This starts after Princesses 1st softball game in which she pitched a no hitter..
After that 1st game I took the younger 3 kids over to The Track to do there second Easter Egg hunt for the day..
Here are a couple of video clips and pictures from that .

1) Little Man's 2nd Easter Egg hunt.

2) Little Man and the Eggs he got.

3) Mr Man and Sweet Pea waiting for there 2nd egg hunt to start.

4) Mr Man and Sweet Pea during there 2nd egg hunt.

5) checking out there loot.. The kids cleaned house at this hunt.. tons and tons of candy along with Free kiddie ride tickets, free go cart tickets and enough free putt putt tickets for the whole family to putt putt for Free... Got to love egg hunts like that.. We didn't use the tickets right away we hung on to them and used them later on in our vacation.. I'll be getting to that in a different post.
6) The Easter Bunny was there also.. I had to threaten the kids to get a picture with him LOL.. no one wanted to do it, but I'm a mean mom ;-)
After this we got lunch went to the room and ate it then headed back to the park for game 2 of Princess's softball tournament

7) Back at the park for game 2

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13) Ugh you can see me sitting in the front row of this one.. blah.. not looking that hot LOL.. but I did end up with a nice tan. :-)

Happy Thursday to you all...

Starting a New Blog.

2010-05-12T11:22:00.004-05:00

No No I'm not closing this blog.. I'm just starting another one.. Oh I know I can't even keep up with this one..
BUT you see I have started to keep a journal of how Sweet Pea is doing day by day while starting on the medication and all that is going on.. I'm awful at doing journals on paper .. So I made a post over her just never published it of what she has been like.. Today I just thought why not just make this journal a blog.. So that is what I did..
If anyone is interested in what is going on with this P.A.N.D.A.S. stuff and Sweet Pea you can look over at my new blog.. Our Sweet Pea's Journey with PANDAS.
With bigger updates and issues I'll still post over here as well.. but for the day to day stuff.. I'll be using this new blog.

Wordless Wednesday #12(Spring Break 2010 #4)

2010-05-11T23:28:00.004-05:00

Still on Day 2 of our Easter Vacation in Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg TN You can read about Day one Here and Here and the start of Day 2 Here.. this picks up where that leaves off.. After the 1st egg hunt it was time for Princess's 1st softball game It started at 11AM and she pitched a no hitter this game... now I'll go wordless so this can count as a wordless Wednesday post :-)

Room It Up Giveway..

2010-05-11T19:34:00.003-05:00

How cute is this???????

You all have to check out this Room It Up site, they have some extremely cute stuff there..

Then if you like what you see and would like to win a gift card for them.. Head over to SIMPLE and sign up.

Lime Ricki Swimware

2010-05-11T15:54:00.003-05:00

It's almost summer people.. Are you ready for bathing suit weather.. well fitness wise I'm so not.. but that isn't what we are talking about here... How about do you have that perfect suit yet???
If not you should check out the Lime Ricki Bathing Suits.

If you like what you see.. you need to head over to SIMPLE and try to win one.. OR DON'T because I really REALLY need to win one.. I'm broke at the moment so Winning would be good.. But if I don't I can at least get 10% off one.. by heading over there. So head on over.. check them out..

Spring Break 2010 Post #3

2010-05-11T09:34:00.007-05:00

I might get these spring break post all posted before summer rolls around.. Today we start with Day 2 of our Easter Vacation to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburge TN. if you Missed Day1 you can read and view pictures Here and here.
Day two was Saturday the day after Good Friday.
Nice and early while the sun was still coming up and everyone was still sleeping Mr Man woke me up asking me where the camera was.. I thought the boy had lost his mind but he had peeked out the window and saw ducks in the pool and wanted a picture of it

The sun coming up..
Ducks in the pool is pretty funny seeing how the river is right behind the hotel guess they like the heated water over the ice cold mountain water

That morning afte breakfast we headed to the Piegon Forge city park for the kids Easter games and egg hunt Also Princess was picked up by a Knoxville team to pitch for them for a one day tournament which was being held at the same park.

At 10:30AM it was time for the Easter Egg hunt.. I didn't get pics of this because I video taped it.. I'll post those video clips later but here is Sweet Pea waiting for her group to start

Little Man waiting for his group to start
Mr Man waiting for his group to start. While we were there someone came around and handed us a invite to another easter egg hunt later that afternoon over at The Track(which is go carts, putt putt, kiddie ride sort of place) So I asked the kids if they wanted to do that also they said yes.

But first we had to go watch Princess's 1st softball game of the day.. This is where I'll end this post and start back up with Princess's softball on the next post.

Here are the video clips of the kids and there Easter Egg hunts.

Little Man's age group got to go 1st

Followed by Sweet Pea's age group.

and the last group to go Mr Man's age group.

Sweet Pea, PANDAS, and Prayer.

2010-05-06T09:06:00.009-05:00

I haven't blogged about this, mostly because I haven't been really blogging about anything.
But for the last 15 months there has been some sort of change in Sweet Pea.. Right around the same time she caught Mono last Jan/Feb... things have been bugging her.. Stuff like blankets touching her, socks and clothing.. she says they are too tight even when they are clearly not.. I didn't think anything of it at 1st because she was extremely sick at the onset of this.. we are talking 103.5 fever for weeks.. The fever 1st started on Jan 9, 2009 and then went away, came back on the 19th and then went away.. Came back on Jan 24, 2009 and never went away.. she was in an out of the doctors though out this time.. and on Feb 3, 2009 the mono test came back saying she had mono and she was sick for a very long time after that.. I'm talking the sickest I have ever seen any of my children.. I don't remember all the dates but around this same time she also tested positive for strep throat which in the grand scream of things seem like nothing given how sick the mono was making her.. she ended up missing over 30 days of school and sleeping all day long, even after getting back to school she would come home just totally worn down..
She still to this point has not got back to the child she was before getting sick energy wise and in other ways.. Such as she seems to be much more clingy at times and this whole cloths and stuff hurting her thing.
For a good long time I over looked it, marked it up to her not feeling well, and then I thought maybe it just became a habit for her to think they hurt her.. It got to the point where it seemed like we would have ups and downs.. sometimes she didn't complain at all and she was perfectly happy with her cloths.. then boom out of nowhere they would all be hurting her again.. she would fight and cry trying to explain to me how much it hurt her and how tight they were and I would battle back no they aren't.. your going to wear them.. she would listen but pull at them crying and crying and trying to tug at them to make them bigger.. It all just seemed crazy to me..
I tried yelling, punishing, even bribing her... nothing seemed to work..
We all sort of marked it up to something that was brought on by the Mono well the Epstein Barr virus that will forever remain part of her..
But the weird thing about this was sometimes she would be ok then out of the blue boom it would all start up again..
Sometime around November 2009 and December 2009 things started to get worse and worse and worse.. they would start to get better and then get worse again..
In March it got to the point I felt I needed to see a doctor since this wasn't going away.
So at the end of March 2010 right before Easter I took her in.. Doctor told me it has nothing to do with the Mono and that he thought she needed a Psychiatrist. They were going to get a referral going for that.. I never really bought into that... I was thinking some sort of sensory problem which was brought on by the Mono or from how sick she was the last year. The Doctor was thinking it was some sort of OCD or conversion disorder.. I never really could buy into that because she had be perfectly fine up until she got really really sick in January/February 2009.. Sure she has always been a shy child.. but she seemed to have out grown that alot to the point of being sort of out going a leader of her friends always wanting them over for sleep overs or her going to there house.. UNTIL she got sick then she went though two different times where she didn't want to leave my side.. One was shortly after she got sick and then she started staying with friends again.. until June 2009 when she went though a phase I couldn't understand.. She was totally afraid to be out after dark.. even if I was with her.. if it got dark out she wanted to be in the house sitting right next to me and we couldn't even have the windows open.. it was weird.. and while she wanted to go to her friends houses though the day.. she didn't want to spend the night.. This went on for about 3 or 4 months.. but now she is back to being perfectly happy spending the night places and seeing it dark outside.. but this clothing thing has got really really bad.

We went to TN over spring break and everything seem to be doing alot better.. no issues with cloths no melt downs or anything like that..
Then two weeks ago it all started happening again.. only worse.. so much worse.. Normally if I just let her wear what she thought fit(normally 2 to 3 sizes too big) the world was happy for her.. but with this last onset of it she couldn't even get comfy naked.. hugs hurt her, laying naked in bed hurt her the sheets hurt the pillows hurt leaning back on the couch or chair hurt..
We were up all night with her listening to her cry and cry and crying sitting up arms wrapped around her knees in the middle of the bed or floor because everything was hurting her..
The 1st night this happened I called the doctor and demanded that they get me the script to see OT at the hospital for sensory issues.. and he asked about the Psychiatrist I told him no one got back to me about it.. I told him I'm willing to take her if he is willing to let us try OT also..So he said fine.. She got placed on the waiting list at the hospital for OT.. and he got on the ball about the Psychiatrist.. turns out there is waiting list for them also.. So they want you to go though counsellors and if they think you need the Psychiatrist then they will put you in with one.. but we got the ball rolling with the Counselling people.. This was all done on April 21, 2010
During the next few days she had issues every morning and every evening.. most of the time I could get her to sleep and off to school... But on Tuesday April 27,2010 things were so bad I couldn't get her to stop crying and having a major melt down about the cloths.. that she ended up not going to school that day.. Tuesday night was awful also.. she couldn't get comfy no matter what.. she just cried and cried and cried that everything was killing her and why is this happening.. But Wednesday morning I let her put on one of the two shirts that have never hurt her when wearing and she went to school in baggie shorts and this silky tank top even though it was only in the 60's. But Wednesday night she came home with a high fever again.. Wednesday e didn't have trouble with sleeping because the fever had knocked her out.. So we all got a good night sleep..
Thursday I called up the school to tell them she wouldn't be in and they told me they have strep running though the school so I might want to get her tested so I called the doctor and got an appointment.
30 minutes before the appointment I had her get dressed which started a major episode.. she cried and bagged to take her shirt off and wear the tank but it was so dirty and the minute she took it off I placed it into cold water.. so she couldn't wear it.. and we couldn't find the other shirt like that just in a different color.. so she had to wear something different.. and it was hurting her .. she cried and cried and screamed and yelled and was pulling and tugging on the shirt.. not only at home but the whole trip to the doctors, in the office, during the visit.. everyone thought I was bring her in because she was hurt.. I had to tell both the nurse and the doctor we saw that day(her doctor wasn't in) that no.. but I am seeing her doctor for this but she is in today because of fever and sore throat.. It took 4 of us to hold her down pry open her mouth to get the strep test.. sure enough it came back positive for strep...
Sweet Pea continued to scream "It's killing me" and "I can't take this" all the while biting at tearing and ripping at her shirt.. even after the appointment was over.. while walking to the car in the middle of the parking lot she ripped her shirt off over her head.. I said to her that people were going to see her and she blurted out in a scream that didn't even sound like her "I DON"T CARE" once in the car I gave her my sweeter to cover over herself and she continued to cry on the way home and while getting her perscription for amoxicillin.
30 minutes after the A/B was in her all the crying stopped.. and she was back to a happy little girl.. she still didn't want to wear a shirt for the rest of the day just stayed hidden under a blanket.. The next morning she woke up and seemed like my little Sweet Pea again.. wore normal(well normal for her cloths) didn't complain about them hurting her or anything...
That 1st dose of antibiotics was on April 29,2010 and we haven't had any issues like that day since.. No crying at night or in the morning ..beyond the normal her thinking cloths are too tight.. but she can find something she is happy with she isn't hurting just being in her own skin anymore.
ON Friday April 30,2010 she had an allergic reaction to the amoxicillin so on Saturday May 1, 2010 they changed her to Duricef and are now saying she is allergic to penicillin.
That Friday night though when I called the after hours line to explain the rash to the doctor.. It was her Doctor(Dr. T.) who was on call... He talked with me for close to an hour on the phone.. Doctors just don't do that..
I guess after we left the office on Thursday the doctor we saw called Dr T. to explain what was going on with Sweet Pea how she was acting and everything(because I told them that I have Told Dr T about this but he has never saw it).. They also told DrT. that she has strep throat..

This got Dr T. thinking and researching and he said he thinks he knows what is going on with Sweet Pea.. It is something called PANDAS. He said "you said all of this started around the time she got the Mono, well right around that same time she also had strep throat" and then he pointed out that the times I have mentioned to him the clothing issue and the clingy-ness and fear of the dark and all... Were all right around other times she had been sick with strep and or ear infections(that could have been strep also but once they saw the ears were bad they didn't test for strep) The explained to me what PANDAS is and what it does..
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PANDAS, is an abbreviation for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections. The term is used to describe a subset of children who have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and/or tic disorders such as Tourette's Syndrome, and in whom symptoms worsen following strep. infections such as "Strep throat" and Scarlet Fever.

The children usually have dramatic, "overnight" onset of symptoms, including motor or vocal tics, obsessions, and/or compulsions. In addition to these symptoms, children may also become moody, irritable or show concerns about separating from parents or loved ones. This abrupt onset is generally preceeded by a Strep. throat infection.

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We have to do a few different things for treatment for this.. one is still see the councillor because Dr T says he really does need the Psychiatrist and maybe a neurologist help with this.. and medically.. we need to keep Sweet Pea from getting anymore strep infections.. which isn't going to be easy.. But with each on set of Strep more antibodies are being made and those antibodies attack her brain and each time it gets worse.. meaning if she get sick again there is a chance her brain may not recover 100% or that she could be left permanently in that state. WE CAN NOT let that happen.. So we are doing prophylactic antibiotics with her, she will be taking the antibiotics everyday. in hopes that it will keep her from not getting sick..

this is the first step and where we are at treating this at this time... We saw Dr T and talked about all of this with him and what it all meant this past Tuesday May 4,2010

She goes to see the councillor on May 17, 2010 and we go back to see her doctor on May 24, 2010
and the OT at the hospital called yesterday and they can't see her till July 1,2010.. by then I should have a better understanding if she will even need to go that route or not..

In the mean time I'm going to be keeping a journal of how things are going to help get a better Idea of all of this..

BUT most importantly.. Sweet Pea's needs your prayers.. So please add her to your prayer list..

I will keep you all posted..

Photo tag..

2010-05-05T20:56:00.005-05:00

Jodi over at My Life as Mama Jodi tagged me for this photo tag.
Now the rules:
1) Go to your photo files, select the 8Th photo folder.
2) Select the 8Th photo in that folder.
3) Post that photo along with the story behind it.
4) Then challenge 8 blogging friends to do the same!

Oh man.. my 8th folder and 8th photo isn't very exciting.. It was taken right after I hung the stocking on the chimney with care this past year 2009

Oh this next part is so sad.. I haven't been hanging in the blogging world in so long I'm not even sure who I would tag.. Normally it would be Jodi, Tina and Annie but Jodi already tagged them LOL.. hummmmm think think think.. LOL

1) Fantastagirl

2)Midlife mom

3)Mel

4)Rachel

5)The Wheels are rolling.

6)No Reason Needed

7)SportsMum

8)Lizzie

There I found 8 LOL.. Now if they only all remember me LOL.. I also found out that over 1/2 of my blog roll no longer are blogging.. guess it's time I go and delete a few bloggers who haven't blogged in 2 years or whose last post was saying good bye to the blogging world.. and Maybe I should try to find a few minutes to say hello to a few of my old blogging friends.. even If I can't find the time to blog much anymore.

Wordless Wednesday #11(not so wordless on Braces)

2010-05-05T11:57:00.003-05:00

This is Princess back on April 1,2008 Right before heading into see the orthodontist
Here is Princess right after that appointment.
Here is Princess 2 years later..And Here she is yesterday May 4,2010 just after leaving the orthodontics..

We aren't totally done yet.. we got back today to get her retainer which I think they want her to wear for 12 to 18 months.. That and also we need to have all 4 of her wisdom teeth removed surgically to keep them from moving all the teeth it just took 2 years to get perfect.. but the braces are off..

From Gods Word Friday #13(4/30/10)

2010-04-30T14:47:00.002-05:00

13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy

Wordless Wednesday #10(Spring Break 2010 post #2)

2010-04-28T00:00:00.000-05:00

Walking Gatlinburg TN on our 1st evening of Spring Break 2010
My babies.. Princess is now 14, Mr Man 10, Sweet Pea 8 and Little Man 4(well he will be 5 here shortly) Not going to say anymore about this so I can sort of keep it as my Wordless Wednesday Post. :-)

Spring Break 2010 post #1

2010-04-27T11:05:00.007-05:00

I know I'm way behind, what's new right?? Anyways here is the 1st post of our Spring Break 2010 We went to Piegon Forge and Gatlinburg TN over Easter..We spent about 5 hours of the 1st day at the pool while DH slept.. He couldn't fall asleep Thursday evening so when we left at 3AM on Friday morning he only had about 1 1/2 hours of sleep.. So the kids and I left him in the room sleeping after driving 8 hours and we went to hang out at the pools.
Princess and Sweet pea above and Little Man below

Mr Man and Little Man below
The Girls again

The boys on the slide

Princess and Little man

after swimming while we were getting dressed for dinner this is what Little Man did all that swimming must have wore him out.

Sweet Pea doing head stands on the bed waiting for us to head out to dinner
The views from our Hotel room

Sweet Pea on the balcony

Princess and Myself getting dressed yes she is the taller one LOL
Me and my girls.
Another view shot before heading out.

We left the hotel room and headed out to Gatlinburg for dinner and walking the town.. But I'll shows pics of that in my next post..