Doctor News

I got the results back from my doctor and the 24 urine test came back normal. Part of my is relieved, because there's no way I want to go through that surgery again, but the other part just wanted to know what's wrong with me, so I can stop this consent sweating thing. The office is sending me a list of endroconolgists and he/she will do the follow up to this problem, so it's back to waiting again :( My GYN office called and scheduled my ablation, she still needed to finish up with the insurance to see how much they will cover, but in the mean time, we have it scheduled for September 14th, that day should have been my baby brother's 35 birthday, so it will be good to be drugged that day.

Don't mess with me...

When I am sick. OK, so I'm sick a lot, but when I've thrown up and my throat is burning and my chest hurts, then don't mess with me. I mistakenly had Joseph scheduled at the eye doctor for the same time as Rachel's dance class. I dropped him off, then took her, wait until she goes in, thinking I'll be right back, but no. There is a Mom there with her 5 children (oldest was 8 and the youngest 2 1/2) They've been there for awhile and are getting really bored and are driving me crazy. There are all new girls in the office and they don't know how to use the computer very well. It took forever to get out of the office and the doctor only saw Joseph for 5 minutes. I stop and get Subway for dinner, so Sarah can eat before her dance classes. I bring Rachel home, and Joseph ate my sub. He wanted a pastrami, I got the rest of us, what the Monday deal sub was. I do not like pastrami and I don't think it would do well with my heart burn and tummy. I finally lost it, enough that Pat went and got me a new sub.

Joseph's New Pet

Pat took him over to my friend's house this afternoon, and got his new pet. It's pretty small still, I did go look at it once, but I won't be hanging out in Joseph's room much, even though it's in a tank with a lid, it's just kinda creepy. Joseph is so excited with it though, so hopefully he'll take good care of his corn snake named Arizona Indiana Jones. YUCK!

I am such a klutz

I've fallen again and again and yet again. I tripped on one of the teacher's big feet when I was serving lunch before school started. He saw me Friday morning and asked me how I was, ( I didn't get hurt on that fall). Friday afternoon, a kid was swinging his back back, and swung it right at me causing me to fall. I'm pretty sure my big toe is broken, it hurts really bad, it swollen and very bruised. Today, I'm walking across the parking lot at Micheal's, I trip on my shoes, bam right on my right knee, it tore right though a new pair of capri's I had on, and broke the skin on my knee. This has got to stop.

It seems like Christmas

Ok, maybe that's a bit of a strech, but not much if you see all the gifts I wrapped this afternoon. Which include all these birthdays- my FIL, 2 nephews, my sister, 2 nieces and my MIL, oh, and a gift for Rachel's friend, who's party is tomorrow. I had all the kids gifts already, but I had to go shopping today, because I knew Khols and Mervens were have huge sales. I saved a lot of money, yeah me.

A Blessing

I have not signed up for my church's women's retreat yet. I have been waiting until Pat gets paid and it will be a strech this week, closer than any other week, but I am planning on signing up this Sunday. One of the ladies in charge of the retreat asked me help with something. I thought it was funny that she would ask me, even before I signed up. When I told her why I haven't signed up yet, she said if I pay the $50, deposit, the rest will be covered! I cried and thanked God when I got off the phone.

New Rule

Right after school, almost the minute we walk in the door, one or both neighbor girls are knocking on the door. We have a rule that homework gets done right after school, with them coming over, it just doesn't work, so I finally got smart and said they could only come in if they brought their homework to do, otherwise they would have to come back. Well, today they brought their homework, it was way easier keeping my kids on track, it was a little complicated for me with three different spelling lists to practice, but we got it all done, and it way more peaceful when they all had something to do. I had a hard time helping the 2nd grader with a worksheet she had, she had to come up with long vowels words, with the vowels beside one another. "U" was way hard, we had to get the dictionary out to help us find a word.

Frustrations

Why is it some morning, go so smoothly with the kids getting off to school and other days, I just want to crawel back in bed and cover up my head! I should have known that this morning was going to be a rough start when I woke up with just having dreamt that I was fighting with the girls on what to wear to school. (even though I put out their clothes the night before you think I wouldn't have a problem) Rachel woke up on the wrong side of the bed, she was VERY difficuly this morning. (she had a good night's sleep) I was so thankful to drop the girls off at school on time (I had my doubts). Then I get home and remember that in all the war with Rachel, I forgot to have Sarah take her medicine, UGH! I called the GYN yesterday, because it had been a week since my ultrasound and I haven't heard anything. He finally calls me back late yesterday afternoon. Then he calls me back with another question, but I didn't hear my cell phone ring , when I had Joseph at the eye doctor's, so I called this morning and am waiting once again to hear from him, and left a message with the information he wanted, so now he needs to wait until my heart doctor calls him back UGH! I have been sweating like crazy, even moree than normal, so I had my regular doctor order a blood and 24 hour urine test, I did the collection of urine yesterday, and had the blood drawn today, as I was sitting in the lab, my BIL walled in, to have blood drawn too, so it wasn't that bad of a wait (30 minutes) since I had someone to talk to. I have really bad veins, she couldn't find one in either arm, so she tries my hand, and she finally finds one but it's iffy. She calls someone else in to look, she doesn't find anything better, I hate it when they use my hand to draw blood, it hurts, so bad. I haven't felt like doing much today, I feel bored, even though there's plenty of cleaning and orgainzing I could do, but I just don't feel like it. I did force myself into cleaning the bathrooms, mopping and vacuuming, and I making a cake for our bible study group tonight, I have a 5 books to read, I just don't even feel like reading, I'm just feeling blah!

Contacts

After an hour and fifteen minutes, Joseph was able to put in contacts, take them out and put them in again. The doctor just ordered a trial pair to see if he likes them and if he can see well with them. I'll have to take him back on Monday for a follow up. I was sitting in the waiting room waiting and reading, so very glad the girls went to a neighbor's house, while I took him. The waiting area is tiny and very boring, we all would have been miserable. I hope it doesn't take him long to put them in tomorrow.

Found!

Sarah has found her glasses! In her room, I didn't understand the details, I had fallen asleep on the love seat reading, waiting for the girls to clean their room (so I wasn't that coherent). I hope she still knows where they are on Monday when she goes back to school.

Making Me Angry

So, before school started Joseph decided he wanted a backpack for school, even though he didn't use one much last year, so I wasn't planning on getting him a new one. He told me the zipper is broken from last year's. He begs, I give in, and take him shopping he picks it out himself. On the first day of school, we find out that the kids will not have lockers this year at Desert Sky, so it was good he got a backpack. Well, most of the week he has not taken it. Today he asks me to get him another pack. The one he picked out is one shouldered and now that he won't have a locker and have to carry the thing around he wants a normal one. He's going to have to beg Pat now, I'm done with this whole backpack thing. The calves of my legs are crampy and hurt, (charlie horse) so I'm not in the best of moods anyway.

Open House

Last night was the girls' open house. I was able to talk to Sarah's teacher about her needing to go to use the bathroom, every 2 hours, and that she can't find her glasses, (he moved her closer to the board). I'm just not ready to give up on finding them yet, that's why I haven't ordered new ones yet. I know she had them last weekend, I have no idea where she put them. Rachel's teacher is a sweety, I've loved her for a long time. The PTO had a table and I worked for a while at the table, we had a raffle and gave kids otter pops, for turning in their raffle ticket. (we drew the winners this morning during morning announcements.) We sold our new Sunrise T-shirts and did very well. I made a nice deposit today of the money we made. Joseph's open house isn't until Set. 14th, it would be good to put faces the his teachers names.

What to do?

Now that the kids are at school all day and I'm home alone, I'm thinking I should do some of the weekend chores all week long and not do anything on Saturdays. But should I really do this? Should I leave stuff for the kids to do on Saturdays? I'm kinda torn, if I do everything, is that really the way to go? I hate cleaning, and laundry and I am really not that good at it, because I don't enjoy it. then I think back to why I don't like to clean, and maybe because I had to clean growing up, and it felt like I wasted my whole day on Saturday helping my Mom. But she would "rest" in between jobs and it took all day. I like to do it all and get it over with already.

This morning....

was far from the relaxing morning of yesterday. Both girls did not want to get up, they were too tired. Then Joseph ate all the poptarts, so they were mad. Then there were no socks in their drawer. Why I have no idea, other than they put them in the wrong drawer and now can't find them. We bought lots of socks before started and should not be out on the second day! I did laundry this afternoon, and didn't wash one pair of socks, (and Sarah wore a pair yesterday, so where did those go?) all the socks have to be somewhere? I bought an extra package of socks for emergencies, but I was really hoping I wouldn't have to use them on the second day of school! I had my ultrasound done this morning, hopefully I'll hear tomorrow from the doctor. Since I had an appointment at 1 for my blood check, which is in the building next door, I didn't want to drive all the way home, so I had lunch, and then went to Dollar Tree to kill time. It's really hard not to spend a lot of money at dollar stores, because you figure it's only a dollar! I forced myself to stop at 28 things, but could have easily gotten 28 more, because it's only a dollar!

Opps! (updated)

Maybe the morning didn't go as well as I thought. I was just sitting here, scrapbooking the first day pictures and I thought, Sarah does not have on her glasses, I wonder if she took them? Maybe she did, I didn't see them up on the cabinet or in the bathroom, but of course that doesn't mean much! The glasses have been around all Summer, but now that she needs them for school, do you think we could find them? NO! OF COURSE NOT!!!!!! UGH!!!!!!

They're Off!

I had my doubts last night when none of them would go to sleep. It was like 10:30, before I think they were all asleep. Joseph got up on his own (with his alarm clock) Sarah woke up before 7. Rachel I had to wake at 7:30. We had a relaxing morning getting ready for school, which really translates no fighting. I drove the girls to school, but couldn't get a parking spot anywhere :( I had to just drop them off :( I went home for 15 minutes and then went back to school to greet the kindergarten parents from the PTO, no problem with parking then.

Dance shoes, UGH

Dance starts tomorrow afternoon. I had the girls try on their dance shoes today instead of waiting until we're at dance tomorrow and nothing fits. Rachel's ballet shoes are a size 1 and tight. I had her try on Sarah's size one's that she wore last year and there to big :( She wanted to go shopping and get another pair of shoes, but what size to get? A size 1?, That doesn't even make sense. She'll have to wear the tight ones for awhile without socks. Rachel's tap shoes were a size 13 and she couldn't get them on, I dug out Sarah's old pair of size 1's and they fit well. Then she tries on Sarah's old pair of size 1 jazz shoes and they're a big, but fit OK with socks. Why is there such a difference in shoe brands in the same size? UGH!

Crack up

Tonight my friend Trisha came over to scrapbook, I was really to tired for this, but I wasn't thinking very clearly, when I planned it. Pat took our kids and Trisha's 7 year old daughter to see Barnyard. Trisha and I are hard at work with no kids running around and she says something about the TV show Numbers is on tonight, so I say Pat's really kinda into that show. She's telling me about it, and I'm thinking that does not sound like what he has disribed about the show, then it dawns on me that he doesn't watch Numbers he watched 24! Trisha says, well, yes 24 is a number, we laughed so hard! I was close :) proof of how tired I am.

Yea!

The teachers/staff lunch at the girls' school was today (I've been helping plan it). it went really well, and all the teachers except the 2 PE coaches loved the gift cards to teaching tools. I guess last year PTO president had already stocked them with ribbons and things. Bummer. Rachel's teacher is happy to have Rachel in her classroom. Which is the same room that Sarah had in first grade but a different teacher. Now we can get ready for the first day of school. I'll be busy most of the day at school on Monday, setting up the PTO phone and desk, and kindergarten orientation.

Indoor mini golf

Originally uploaded by muffinmet.

The winner!
A fun afternoon. Rachel and Sarah were a little cranky, because they were having a difficult time. Sarah really got mad when Rachel got better then her.
We stopped and got an early dinner on the way home too.
So for me it's been a great day!
No cooking or cleaning, Yea!

Teachers

This morning at school, I overheard that you can check to see who your kids teachers are online with power schools. I was able to look to see who Sarah will have for 4th grade (the teacher she wanted, she'll be happy). I don't have Rachel's users name or password, since I never picked it up from the office last year, so I'll have to see if I can talk them out of it, I figured at the time what's the point looking at Rachel's grades online, since the don't really use the same grading system as the upper grades, and I saw her teacher every week, and knew how she was doing, now I really wished I would have gotten it anyway :( Joseph got his schuedule yesterday and he was happy to see that he got a different math teacher from last year. (he had 3 last year, 2 were 8th grade teachers)

Frustrations

Friday afternoon, I took a nap in the afternoon and woke up feeling so sick. Joseph had made himself 2 hamburgers and the smell, was horrid. I totally though I was going to throw up. I felt gross for hours. This morning at church at the leadership meeting, my right eye felt irritated, and I couldn't see out of it, why? There was a big slash through my contact. I took it out and then had to keep it closed so I could see out the left eye, which then of course gave me a headache. We got home and I went to bed, to sleep off the headache, I guess I was tired, because I slept for 2 and a half hours, the headache is gone, even though I wasted most of the day.

School lunches

I hate packing lunches, I hate worse having the kids buy the school lunches and then only eat a little of it. I've read so many articles with some great ideas for lunches, but really, I need stuff I know the girls will eat. I was counting done the last few weeks of school last year, by how many lunches I would need to pack, it was so frustrating, I couldn't wait until the last day of school. I went to Costco tonight and came home with some stuff I hope I can get them to eat, fruit cups, yogurt, pudding, teddy grahams. Joseph was easy when it came to packing his lunch, I could pack the same thing all school year he didn't care, (but I used to pack apples in his lunch when he was in 1st and 2nd grade, & he used to throw those out, I found that out by having lunch with him one day, I was so mad at him, for wasting the food, he could have told me he never eats it and I'd stop packing one it took me a long time to figure it out) I think I'm going to be challenged by the girls, aahhhhh!

Ablation

I met with Dr. Kyman today, he did an exam and scheduled an ultrasound, not until the 15th :( Then will schedule the procedure. I'm praying the insurance company will pay. I am so done with this messed up cycle stuff.