April 22, 2006
Wow!
I was sitting here trying to think how to start this entry.. wondering what's happened last and there's been a bunch of stuff to write about!
First of all, Dad's birthday was the 20th.. and I've still not posted the birthday pics. My God the folder with his pics is empty. Hope I got them off the camera before I formatted it.
*kicks her own ass and runs to check*
Phew, I have them. I'll post them here in a bit.
Where the heck have I been? Any of you ever read the book "Triad"? I can't recall who wrote it, I read it another lifetime ago. The poor woman in the story had multiple personalities (that never ceases to amaze me, as if we all don't have a little bit of that) and she'd "go to sleep" in her yellow kitchen and wake up in a sparkling clean freshly painted blue one...wondering who the hell did it and how the hell she slept thru it, when she was the one doing all that work all along.
I remember thinking "frickin' cool!" when I read that.. I'd LOVE to wake up to a clean house, without the sore muscles and aching back that let me know .. oh hey, yeah, it was me, I worked my ass off yesterday.
Anyway.. I feel like that. Days gone and I'll be danged if I can remember where they went. Thank God I have pictures to remind me.
I've had the kids all week and that keeps me hopping. They've been sick with pharyngitis the past few days - no, I never heard of that before either, but that's what the doc said they had when we took them yesterday. Oddest thing, they were fine as can be during the day, but at nights their fevers would shoot up to 101 and 102 under their little armpits. Scary stuff to me, I hate when they're not feeling good. Joel tho, has been just fine. But then he doesn't go up into Sarah's hollar either. I think there's something toxic up there - anytime the kids go there with Sarah for a day or two they come back so sick.. maybe it's a coincidence, I don't know, but I've often kidded with Sarah that I bet there's a vein of plutonium in the mountains up there somewhere that's making them sick.
All kidding aside though, I do think something's wrong with the environment up there somehow. There's not really a person who lives up there who's well. There've been so many of them pass away with brain tumors, cancer, anurisms..sick children, sick parents, sick pets... ugh, it's coincidental I'm sure but where is Erin Brochovich when you need her?
Speaking of folks being sick.. Shelly called and said Papaw's been feeling bad.. he's had pneumonia and chest pains.. he went to the hospital for a night but he's back home now.
Bonnie's probably feeling a little sick today too, though she didn't mention feeling bad to me when she picked up Joel while ago.. it seems she had a little party of her own last night. I really wish that she had taken the time to come to Mom's for Dad's birthday party the other day.. but.. alas...she missed it. And she was worried about poor Joel lookin' like Butthead for Easter.. She IS Butthead!
Sarah quit this job she had. I'm not sure why, but she's not gone in all week, said she's not going back. Summer's coming and pools are opening and I just don't think she can stand being confined when it's so nice out there. Hey, it's me, I'm calling in today.. I won't be there, cuz I just feel too damned good to be stuck at work all day...I'm calling in 'well'.
Mallory went to her neurologist on Monday, she's doing fine, he said the scans show a vein that's swollen in her cerebelum (sp?) that may cause her some dizziness from time to time, but it's not the cause of her seizures. He said that it's a birth defect and it happens sometimes.
Mikyla's birthday is on the 28th. I can't believe she's going to be 6 years old. Sarah said this morning she'd like to have Mik's party here, so I think that's what we're going to do. Sarah said it would be easier for her little school friends to find this house than her own. Mik, however, insists that she doesn't want school friends at her party, just one or two, and her family. How 'bout that?
Dede, thank you again for the pens and the easter basket, I'll post a pic here soon! *big fat hugs to you and Thunder!*
Oh! Sufferin' Toys have really caught on around here... Nick had to have a booster shot at school yesterday, so Mikyla and Mallory had to go get him a sufferin' toy.. just insisted on it. *laughs* so I took them to K-mart and I swear as soon as we hit the door, this announcement came over the loudspeaker, " Our blue light special today, in the sufferin' toy aisle...is blah blah blah blah blah! Mom, you've really done something to us now - sufferin' toys - EGADS woman when people find out you're the one who started that, you're gonna get a lot of email! *laughs* Folks, you can voice your opinions on sufferin' toys at: Granny@Sufferintoys.net
Okay, Okay, enough blathering.. I'm gonna post some pics now...
The girls are signed up for Tee and Wee ball, I posted those I know, but yesterday I bought them some sucker paddles and a ball to play with and I turned to look and there's mikyla with her ball helmet on and the paddles plunged to the side of it, that made me laugh...then naturally Mallory had to get in on it...
I really don't think there's anything those girls wouldn't do, or get into!
Bonnie gave Sarah a bike with a child seat on the back of it, so she took Maegan for a bike ride in the yard this morning, and Maegan just LOVED it. Sarah looked like the Pied Piper of Hamlin with all those kids running behind that bike, following her.
Just to let you all know, those of you who have been fretting and worrying about my upside down plants, my cabbages are doing just fine, just beautifully!
And my Kidfruit-tree is blooming! Look at this blossom, I think it's going to be a perfect kidfruit!
