Currently Watching Over the Hedge (Full Screen) By Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner, Nick Nolte, Thomas Haden Church, Allison Janney, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Avril Lavigne, Omid Djalili, Sami Kirkpatrick, Shane Baumel, Madison Davenport, Zoe Randol, Jessica Di Cicco, Debra Wilson, Sean Bishop (III), Jeannie Elias see related

I thought I'd take a moment to jot a few things down.

I'd like to say thanks to everyone for praying for my mom and our family.  She is doing great!  Today was her first day back at work.  Well, actually she has been working from home all this time, but today she went into the office.  She called at 2pm and was headed home, exhausted!  Thank you Lord for your wonderful wisdom and mercy!!!

Clayton missed his first day of school today.   He and I had an 18-24 hr stomach "thing" this weekend, complete with vomiting and the "other" stuff.  Luckily I had some phenergan suppositories.  You know he feels bad when he wants you to give him one of those.  He's much better today, but I decided to keep him home in case it came back.  He of course was fine with staying home.  Then, around 9:30 I remembered WE HAVE SNACK THIS WEEK!!! UHHGGGG!!! So, we all got dressed and drove to the store to buy a snack to take to his school for his class.  Crazy!  Good thing snack isn't until 1pm.

Alston hasn't come down with it yet.  Hoping and PRAYING he skips it.  I don't want to deal with 2 1/2 yr old throwing up.  At least he has a diaper to catch the other. 

Okay.  Question girls.  Do you ever forget how old you are?  No, really?  Until a few weeks ago I thought I was a year younger than I actually am.  That's when my ever so loving hubby told my son to tell me otherwise. I had to stop and do the math to realize yeah, I am going to be 33 not 32.  It doesn't bother me really, I sort of feel like I skipped a year somehow.  Maybe it's this terrible 2's stage that makes me want the last year back.  It has been rough.  So, I have decided to welcome 33 in with open arms.  After all, I have it good.   Two awesome  kids, and a wonderful husband who hopefully will buy me a RED ipod for my b-day.  Feel free, any of you, to call and tell him that.

I guess that's about it.  Except I'd like to wish my friend Kristen a happy birthday next week (The day before mine!) 

Currently Watching A Walk to Remember By Mandy Moore (II), Shane West, David Andrews, Al Butler, Peter Coyote, Clayne Crawford, Lauren German, Daryl Hannah, Xavier Hernandez, Seth Howard, Paula Jones, Matt Lutz, Marisa Miller, Jonathan Parks Jordan, Erik Smith (IV), David Lee Smith, Al Thompson (II), Julia Ann West, Paz de la Huerta see related

Loving life, love and laughter!

Mom had her surgery on Thursday.  All went well.  No cancer!  Tumor was huge, but only attached the ovary.  They were afraid it might be attached to bowel and/or bladder, but it wasn't.  Surgery that should have taken at least 2 1/2 hours, only took 1 1/2.  GOD is GREAT!  Mom is home w/ pain meds, feeling and looking good.  Thanks for all the prayers.

I love the sound of laughter coming out of my kids.  Nothing seems to bring me out of a brood better that my kids laughing at silly stuff.  Could live on laughter!

Tonight at dinner....Clayton pipped up and said "Dad, you were a great dad this weekend.  Mom, you were a great mom this weekend."   So I thought, and I'm not every other weekend?  He's so funny.

Still praying for God's direction about going back to work.  I have to remind myself to seek HIS answers and not the answers I want to hear. 

Have a great week!  Where did FALL go? 

Currently Listening Me and My Gang By Rascal Flatts see related

Mom Update:

Mom found a doctor to do the surgery.  Actually, the doctor is the partner that help deliver Clayton 5 years ago.  My parents really like her.  She went out of her way to work mom in today, and then spent 2 hours discussing options ect.  She Rocks!!  Thank you God for sending her to us. 

The surgery is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.  Blood work came back clear with no cancer markers.  This is great news, but there is still a 10% chance of cancer in the tumor.  Found out the tumor is about softball size.  How do you have a softball in your gut and not know it?  No, really.  How?  It just seems kind of crazy?  Doesn't it?

Mom will be in the hospital at least 2 days and off work for 3 weeks.  I am sure she will go stir crazy at home, but I can guaranty she will not NOT work.  (I know that is a completely wrong and horribly incorrect sentence, but there it is.  You English majors just deal!)

So, here we go.  Uncharted territory that at first glance seems like no big deal, till you hear your mother talk about Chemo and radiation.  It was a bit bizarre to say the least.  I feel no need to go info crazy and stay up all night researching on the internet.  I feel as though my mom is in completly capable and competant hands.  Hey, with JC on your side everthings gonna be alright.....right?

Just reread that last paragraph.  Who writes like that?  What the heck did that even mean?  I think I'll leave it cause I'll get a big kick out of it in a ferw weeks when I realize how stupid and completly rediculous it sounds.  Who am I kidding.  It sounds that way now.

Please keep praying for "it" to be nothing.  Love you all.  Especially if you kept reading this far.

Done rambling....   

I know I haven't blogged lately....and this one will be brief.

Need prayers!  My mother was in tonz of pain this weekend.  Dad took her to the ER thinking it was kidney stones.  Turns out she has a large cyst on her overy.  He gyn doesn't have privaleges at the 2 hospitals she wants to have surgery at (for insurance reasons) so she is trying to find a new one who is willing to take her case and do surgery.  I refered her to my doc, but the a****** refused to take her.  Yeah.  He won't be my doc for long.  Makes me more angry than words could ever express!!!!

So.  Now it's a waiting game.  She visited her doc on Monday and he did labs to see if there are any cancer markers in her blood.  No word yet.  All my family keeps asking how I feel about this whole "thing."  When our family is in crisis, God usually gives me a feeling about how it will go.  For Example: when C had his surgery, God gave me an overwhelming sense of PEACE.  I knew he would be okay.  So far, I have none of that yet.  No feeling either way.  I am trusting that God will take care of mom and give us all strength to endure what lies ahead.  For now, I ask for you to pray for my mother.  Pass the need along if you feel like it.    Thanks for your prayers and I'll keep you posted.

Currently Reading He Chose the Nails By Max Lucado see related

Some things in my head.....

Loving this weather!   Alston and I walked (well, he rode) to school to get Clayton and Sarah a few days this week.  Great feeling!

The fam has been feeling yucky with this sinus stuff going around.  Getting better, but A  had to have breathing treatments all week.  Glad we have that machine at home.

Loving the lower gas prices.  Keep it coming!

Clayton is loving school.  I can't wait till bed time when he seizes the opportunity to tell us all the "dish" from school that day.  We talk about best thing, worst thing, craziest thing, thing he could have done better, thing he will try to do better tomorrow, ect.  He does like to talk about his classmates and what they do right and wrong.  Yeah, we are working on that one, but I like to know who I should steer him away from.

I am learning that I learn a lot when I (truly) listen to my kids.

Alston is learning how to use the computer mouse.  I am realizing I haven't been as diligent with teaching him "things" like I was with Clayton.  Need to take advantage of our time together.  He loves school. 

VERY glad both my kids love learning!

Feeling a bit sad about myself.  I am chaulking it up to PMS and being completely off anti-depressants for about 5 months now.   Also, arthritis is acting up with weather change.  Hope it settles down soon.

Guess that's about all for now.  Wrist is killing me so I should stop typing now.  Bed and glass of lemonaid are calling.