Posts Tagged ‘Kids and Teens’

Crazy, crazy times

Monday, October 12th, 2009

My life has been nothing but a whirlwind lately. I got to chaperone Madison’s field trip on Friday to the pumpkin farm. Easy peasy, right? Well, it ended up being around 40 degrees and pouring, so not so much fun. The kids had a blast. Mommy got chilled. We did get a free pumpkin, and we get to take the wristbands and go back for free! All in all, not too much of a loss.

I’ve been working on my Christmas gift guide over at Lisa Reviews. I did around 36 posts yesterday, so be ready for that to publish on November 1st. It’s the must haves for Christmas (and yes I did start shopping over the winter).

Lastly, that brings us to last night. Will got up every 2 hrs all night long screaming. His nose didn’t start running till this morning, so we think he’s got a cold. I’m reading about swine flu and am hoping praying that this isn’t that.  Last time he had a cold, he had a seizure, so we are all just keeping our fingers crossed here.  Of course, we have weekend plans, so I am hoping he’s better by then and nobody else gets sick.

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JuiceBox Ads and Mint

Monday, October 12th, 2009

The JuiceBox on my sidebar is full of money this week. Mint.com (an awesome and free way to manage AND SAVE your money online) is the sponsor. Saving money is obviously near and dear to our hearts here on this blog, and I’m excited to see that JuiceBoxJungle has added an ecard which you can send right from the widget to tell a friend how and where you saved money online. Please feel free to pick your favorite deal on this page right now and email it to a friend! You’ll help them and help me gain new readers!

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Pedestrian Safety

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

This is the start of a series I am going to do on child safety. This is the story of Ben Jablonski, who was struck by a car in a school zone, and his mother’s advice to other parents on how to prevent similar accidents. Don’t let this happen to your family.

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Day 2

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

It was Day 2 for both kids today. Madison’s second day of school was today. She only went for three and half hours today. She still loves it and getting her to tell us about her day is still like pulling teeth. Pretty much, all she remembers is that she prayed (she goes to Catholic school) and had a potty break. Exciting morning, huh? Tomorrow, she goes all day. Will had his second day of speech therapy. He wanted nothing to do with it today. Getting him to respond was like pulling teeth. I am hoping he’ll warm up to the speech therapist more each week. Right now, we lose half the session, because he is being shy.

I’ll be honest — I can’t believe Madison is in school. We got a letter sent home today that she’ll start having homework shortly. I still remember the day I brought her home from the hospital. I just hope she continues liking school.

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The surgery went . . .

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

As well as could be expected, I guess.  If you don’t know what I am talking about, read this and this and it’ll catch you up.

Everybody back?  Well, they found nothing.  Absolutely nothing wrong with me.  All my bloodwork comes back fine.  Sigh.  So that leaves me with not a lot of choices.  I either have to stick with the birth control that doesn’t seem to be working or keep flipping them out every 3 – 6 months when they quit controlling my period.  This is the option Bill wants me to do.  I’m not feeling it.  I’ve been dealing with for 2 years now, and really, I am sick and tired of it.  I’m not real keen on this.

My other choice is an endometrial ablation.  Basically, they burn the lining out of your uterus.  Since I am so young, these tend not to work well.  I would still have a period, and I would still need to be on birth control.

I am not sure why a partial hysterectomy was not listed, because honestly that sounds like my best bet.  I have a follow up appt in 2 weeks, and we’ll go over in detail what we do next.  Needless to say, I don’t know what the right answer is here.

If you have had this done, I’d love to hear from you!

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