Life

This should be a nice and pleasant post... but its not. Lots of trouble a brewing in my life right now. I feel like I'm in the eye of the storm and trying so hard to weather it. I really don't feel it's something I should share on my blog. But it does involve my kids and my job. I've moved my kids to a new school and things are now better for them. And I've been doing a heck of a lot of soul searching to see if I need to move myself as well. Any good thoughts and prayers would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Tell me

the bad come in threes and the rest of this season will be smooth sailing now that I'm feeling better. :)

I'm still using antibiotic drops in the eyes but things are so much better. I even returned to work on Thursday. Thurs. and Fri. I played catch up at work and now I'm home enjoying a three day weekend.

Last night was the annual Father/daughter ball. Must share some pics!







It was lots of fun shopping for her dress and ordering the flowers and such. They went out to dinner last night and then to the ball. It was reportedly a wonderful evening. :)

While they were gone last night (son's away for the weekend) I was alone and got into a cleaning frenzy. I moved all the furniture in the livingroom and library area and vacuumed. Then rearranged all the furniture. I girl's gotta do that every so often. On our way home from Christmas vacation we stopped at an antique store and found this perfect little coffee table that needed a little lovin'. We picked it up for a steal and I painted and distressed it when we got it home. Then I ordered a sheet of glass for the top. So in my furniture rearranging spree I was working that in. It is perfectly scaled and so unique. I love it!

Dear son has had two basketball games so far and they lost the first and won the second. Both games he played very well. I'm so proud of him.

I worked on one lo since my last post-



Thanks for stopping in. I hope you all have a super fantastic weekend!!!

If its not one thing

its another. Really! This is crazy. All fall I had terrible headaches. I went to the opthomologist, switched to decaf coffee, drank more water... nothing helped so I found a new cthiropractor. (Our chiropractor retired early summer.) After several aggresive sessions, my headaches were gone. Just as soon as that cleared up, I started having the earaches which drug on for months. As that cleared up over the holidays, I've been sticken with some lesser common variation of pink eye and have been off work for nearly a week because is contagious and horrible.

*Alright, pity party over!*


Sorry for being such a lazy blogger. In the past month we had much to be grateful for. The holidays were so special and I loved every minute of our family time together. Christmas morning we left for the cabin and checked in in the afternoon. The cabin when we got there was old and dirty. We were so surprised to find it in the condition it was since we've rented cabons before and they've always been clean. Luckily, there had been a cancellation of another cabin so they comp'd us that for the inconvience. It was so beautiful there. The cabin was right on the river. It snowed the entire time we were there and it made it that much more beautiful. We really had a ball!





After the holiday, I finally got some scrapping mojo back... it had been hiding for months. I started scrapping again and even did a hybrid project. Here I printed off papers and elements for Amanda's new Pinky Swear kit. :)



And here's a few lo's which were of pics I took while were were up at the cabin.







Good times I tell you. And since we've been back, dear son made the basketball team. Yay! He has his first game tonight. And darling daughter has been practing her bowling for the requalifier this coming Saturday. She did qualify the first round and now she needs to once more to join the Pepsi tourney. Wish her luck!

Thanks for stopping in. This morning I have another eye appt. which I'm hoping goes smoothly. If you could send a good thought or two my way it would be appreciated.

Have a great week my friends!

Well it's officially dead

my ear that is. LOL!

I've been sick for months. Been in and out of the doctors office with ear pain, sinus infection, swollen glands, ect. I've been on more meds in the past two months then I've taken in the last 5 years. Finally I was referred to a specialist.

I go into the office and explain my ear hurts. I had infections and tubes as a child. When I was a teenager I went through a year of the most awful dizzy spells anyone could imagine which was at that time chaulked up to massive scar tissue causing equilibrium problems. Since then I have experienced significant hearing loss in one ear. Pain in the one that was causing me problems now.

So the new doctor asks when was the last time I had my hearing checked. Well back when I was a teenager I suppose since they don't check our hearing as adults I replied. He proceeded to poke and prod for a few minutes. Then he told me I had an infected saliva gland that was causing my ear pain. He seemed quite certain that was my issue and gave me a presciption which I so hope helps me feel ship shape by Christmas. And before I left, he insisted on testing my hearing. Fine and dandy.

Soon after the test I find myself back in a patient room where doctor comes in and tells me that he is amazed. (Before I finish, know that although I didn't have statistics, I really knew in my heart it was this bad. Nothing he said shocked me.) He said at first he didn't believe me when I said I had significant hearing loss in one ear because of my age and that I cover it well. Then he showed me my test and said that the good news is great - I have full hearing in the other ear. The bad news is that I have 0% hearing in the bad ear. 0%. He went on to explain that when I had dizzy spells as a teenager something in the inner ear (he used the medical term) was detatching and essentially leaving me with a dead ear. He seemed quite fascinated with the whole situation because of course this isn't something that usually happens to people.

Anywho- back to the ear pain- I just hope and pray this was a step in the right direction of feeling better soon. I'm so sick of being sick at this point.

Beyond my story above, we are ready for Christmas for the most part. We kept it small this year within the family and chose instead to focus on helping others in need. We donated to the food bank and helped distribute food. We also bought some gifts for kids in need. I'm thankful we were able to do this. It's a great reminder of what the season is really about.

Today the kids have bowling and then we are going to see Alvin and the Chipmunks. When we get home I plan on finishing the hand-made gifts and stamping the Christmas cards to mail on Monday.

Tomorrow I need to help the kids pack for their trip over Christmas break. So I guess that means no rest for the weary this weekend. But we'll have fun! :)

I hope you all are well and enjoying the season. Happy Holidays!

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend

I hope all my friends are well and enjoying a lovely long weekend with good food, family, and some fun! We are enjoying our tremendously.

In the past few weeks we've been busy busy busy again. To boot I've been sick. Went into the doctor who told me I had fluid in an ear but it wasn't infected so I'd be fine. He put me on a prescription decongestant to help dry out my ear. Two weeks later I was still feeling crummy and had fever and chills, headaches and ear pain - so I went back in. This time he said I had an infection (DUH!) and gave me an antibiotic. Thank goodness it was earlier in the week - I was feeling better by Thursday. Whew!

Took the kids to see Mr. McGorium's last weekend and that was cute. I know it gets really wish-washy reviews but the kids and I give it a thumbs up. Now we only have Enchanted left on our list. (Who can resist McDreamy on the big screen! Right?)

The kids are doing better each week at bowling. Darling daughter bowls up in the eldest bracket because they wanted to keep her and her brother together in league. Instead of that being intimidating to her, she's really rose to the challenge. She now set new high scores for herself several times. Last week she earn a patch for her inmprovement and got and invitation to the Western Regionals sponsered by Pepsi. You go girl! :)

Well, there's the highs and lows from my last post. Today dear hubby and I are heading out to see the kids bowl. When we get home we plan on putting up the baseboards in our dining room. That's the last thing to do to complete the new flooring project. Well that and maybe some new curtains in there too. We shall see. ;)

Thanks for stopping in and I hope you all have an awesome holiday run this season! Take care and enjoy!

Would you believe

I was abducted by aliens?

No?

Okay.

It's really just been a very busy past 5 weeks since posting on my blog. I cannot believe it's November.

Would you like to know what we've been up to? Well, we've celebrated 3 birthdays in that time and consumed entirely way to much cake to even think about.

Everyone is well. The kids are still enjoying their bowling a great deal. Things are going well for the kids at school this year. And I really love my job duties this year too.

The end.

Hahaha

The things I've posted above are all true. -Life is good.

On to some excitement? Let's see... We took the dogs in to the vet to get their routine shots. Our sweet Riley is a little bundle of nerves away from home or around new people. So put those things together, give him a shot or two and he had a terrible reaction. Oncc home, Riley's face began to swell. And continued to do so. All to soon he could barely open his eyes. Luckily with a call to the vet we were able to get him some meds and calm him down. Oh the drama it was at the time. Poor little guy!

Dear hubby spoiled me rotten this year for my birthday and bought me the new i-pod nano. I am super excited about that. He caught me by surprise! I of course had to organize all our music and now I have it on the go. :D

A few weeks ago the kids got some new pets. They bought parakeets. Neither picked out the traditional marked parakeet but instead chose white keets. They are really pretty with some unusual markings. To date, things have gone well with being new pet owners.

Do you think my darling daughter needs medical attention? Last night she chopped up some veggies for the birds and when she was putting it into the cage she turned to me and said, "McKena has earned a skill point." That should means something to you only if you are as addicted to Sims as this young lady. LOL! We bought Sims 2 about a month ago and omgoodness does darling daughter enjoy that game! So now she'll be going about her day and make a reference here and there about herself as if she were a Sim character. Sad! ;)

I mentioned at the beginning of this post about it being November. Do you know that means it offically time to start thinking about the holiday season? Yes I am listening to Christmas music as I type. LOL! I am ready for the new season. We are going simple and small this year in gifts and such. I say that each year and each year it seems we enjoy the holiday season more. I appreciate that my kids know- giving to others, spending time together as a family, and remembering not to take things for granted is the the true spirit of Christmas.

Well on to scrappy things? I've done some lo's in my blog absence but I think I'll only post a couple.

* I guess I'll have to come back and post my images as its telling me that feature is temp. unavailable.

I'll try not to disappear again.

You all have a super fantastic week and thanks for stopping in!