I am a Slave to the Whims of a Two Year Old!

I sit here trying to type with said two year old crawling all over me, cause heaven forbid he be still for 5 seconds. We have just finished a battle over the TV, because I had it on a taped (DVR actually but I am a child of the 80's) movie of Cars, and because of all the said moving around, he punched the remote and changed the channel. Which met with a chewing from him because he thought I did it, "Hey dude it is all your fault!" I scramble to change it back to just to shut him up, in the meantime he has become engrossed in an episode of Calliou. I get it back on Cars, only to be met with vicious protests of wanting Calliou back! I like Calliou, I want Calliou, put it back on Calliou! UGH See this is how I spend my days now! Tens years ago if you would have asked me what I would be doing in ten years, I would have said shaping young minds as a high school English teacher! Now, I am shaping the mind of my own 2 year old. Well, you know really now that I think about is not too bad a gig, but the pay SUCKS! What did you think you would be doing now 10 years ago?

Could someone please tell me?

How if I got a shot in one side of my butt, why the other side hurts too? My other butt cheek is having sympathy pains! Either that or I have just been sitting on my butt too long! Who knows, but I am sore, that is for sure!

ER Visit, and Just Another Reason I Hate Living in a Small Town

Okay, very rarely will you hear me complain about small towns and living in them, because for the most part I love it. I love not having to worry about my kids playing outside or being snatched outside the Wal-Mart. Today though I hate living in a small town! I had to go to the ER last night, I was having some horrible upper abdominal pain, that just would not go away. I took several Tums, a warm bath, tried to sleep in the chair, on the couch, paced the floor, made Bruce rub my back when I could get him to stay awake, nothing was helping! I suffered for 3 hrs before I said I couldn't take it anymore. We call mom she comes down to watch the kids and Bruce and I head to the ER. Now, mind you there is a much bigger town about 30 mins away with 2 larger hospitals. (These aren't booming metropolises but are bigger than our town!) But I didn't think I could stand riding in the car for 30 mins because I was hurting so bad in my upper abdomen and my back.

We get there and there is no one there (benefit of a small hospital), they take down all my info and tell me to take a sit in the waiting room. I sit and was there for like 5 mins (another benefit)and they call me back. They ask my weight, bp, and ask what is going on and I tell the nurse, she takes me to room. Now ya'll I am not kidding I was in there like maybe 5 mins and in comes the dr. I was so impressed, it must have been a slow morning in the ER. He comes in pushes on my stomach a bit, that did not help! He says he thinks it could be an early onset of gall stones, so they were going to do some blood work, and give me shot for pain. Again maybe 5 mins pass, and the nurse comes in gives me a shot and takes blood. Now in between time this guy comes in with chest pain. I mean this guy was carrying on something awful! So I began to doze cause when it comes to pain meds evidently I can hold those like I hold my liquor, not at all! I am in and out dozing hoping someone comes back soon. I wait, and doze, and wait, and doze, you see the pattern. Finally he comes back says the blood work was fine, so they are sending me home with a prescription of Nexium and some pain meds, and that I should follow up with my family physician. I told him I didn't have a family physician, and he just kinda looks at me and goes okay. So, I figure he will go ahead and run the tests, ummmm nope! They finally discharge me about 9, we got there at 6! I have no idea what is wrong with me, and I am still loopy from that shot! LOL I go to get my prescription filled at the Wal-Mart and the dag gum nexium is $156 bucks, that about sent me back to the ER! UGH!

Anyway I have an appt with my OB/Gyn for an ultrasound of my gall bladder. Thank goodness he could do it. So, the moral of my story is heart attack trumps gall bladder. Remember it people, especially in a small town, with only one freakin dr in the ER!!!

Pink Blog

Pretty cool and very girly, dontcha think?!?

Book Reviews!

Yes, plural reviews because since my last one I have read count them 2 more books. I read the next two books that I had in the Love Comes Softly series, called Love's Enduring Promise, and Love's Long Journey. Both were really good, not a hard read in fact neither of them took me more than 2 days give or take. Both made me cry so if you don't like a book that makes you cry these aren't for you. I love the message of faith that both had and they were really uplifting. Think Little House on the Prairie for adult women. Anyway if you would like to read a good Christian series of books give these a peep! I will be picking up the next ones as soon as I can.

Why are weekends so short?!?!

It is the start of another week! UGH! LOL Mondays are not my favorite day of the week! We had a good weekend. We took the our kids and some of the kids from church bowling and out for pizza for a back to school bash. We had a good time. Megan even got a strike and a spare on the last frame. She was quite proud of herself. Cooper got tired of it toward the end, but it was way past nap time at that point. Alex enjoyed it as well. They had never been bowling before, so it was quite the event for them.

My friend Kyla and her husband Bryan came over Saturday night. We whipped the boys in a game of spades, big time! LOL So we played some Trivial Pursuit after that so they could redeem their manhood. We had sworn off playing Trivial with them a long time ago because they always kick the crap out of us! They did win, but Kyla and I had a good showing, we had more than just one piece of the pie, LOL. While playing we realized how horribly out of date our game is, but if I remember correctly Bruce got that for me the first year we were married for Christmas, and that was 10 years ago. So, yes it may be time to update, LOL.

Sunday was church, and then I went to help Bruce move into his new office at the school. So all in all a fun but fairly uneventful weekend. I am looking forward to the long weekend this week! YAY!

Another Book Review

I told you I was a fast reader when I want to be, LOL! Anyway after finally finishing A Million Little Pieces, I started my next book. I read Love Comes Softly by Jeanette Oke, it is the first in a series of hers about the Davis family. There is also a series of movies on the Hallmark channel. I loved this book, it is a beautiful story of love, adversity, family, pioneer life, and faith. It was just heartwarming especially after my last reading choice. I have wanted to read the series for awhile because I love the movies, but the book was so much better than the movie and the movie is wonderful. The book had some plot differences that really added to the story. Anyway wonderful read, there is a Christian message but not an overtly preachy one. I have already started the 2nd book in the series, so I will let you know how it is!