change is good

handling it all

So today is a half day at school, so when Messy gets home we will go to Children's hospital to get a blood draw...blood draws are difficult

did you ever see the movie Underdog?
well in that movie the evil scientist steals away all of Underdog's power with a needle
she thinks they are trying to take away her power

what is her power?
I'm not sure, but it is wonderful and she doesn't want people with needles taking it and can't understand why her mother is letting them do it. the place we usually do it is the pediatrician's office, they wont do it anymore so we must take her to children's it's actually been awhile since we did a draw...maybe she wont give us such a hard time this time?

we have had a lot of blood draws she has had Thrombocytopenia it means her platelet count was low, it improved, but you have to keep checking it, plus blood draws to test her epilepsy medication levels, and all the genetic testing they do on her.

everyone wants to steal her power

*sigh*

the end of the month we have an appointment with the Hematology department to go over the results of the platelet count

we will wait for a call from the Epilepsy clinic to hear how her levels are

after we get her blood drawn I need to take her somewhere fun

where?

anyone have any ideas?

she hates C E C it's too noisy

maybe we will just go and buy her a new box of crayons?

well snow

Church was snowed out today, MapBoy is not allowed to play Wii until the driveway is shoveled

it's not like there is 10 inches, just a couple I'm not mean right?
he thinks I am

*sigh*

I love the way the snow sticks to the tree and brightens up the world.

I love the overload of woodpeckers we get at the feeder on snowy days
I almost got a picture of the woodpecker at the feeder with MB in the background shoveling, but the bird flew away just as I was about to take it :(

I don't like driving in the snow
I don't like sliding on the ice


a few weeks ago we were walking the mall, and the girls were talking with Dh about the mannequins "he has no head" "he has no face" well now Messy has taken to drawing them...I sure do hope the teachers at school don't think she is weird...I might have to drop them a note in case she starts drawing headless people ROFL my little "Paula Picasso" :)


basketball starts
The boy is excited about it, and anxious at the same.


I am enrolling Moo into preschool
she has been asking to go ever since Messy was in it, I told her she couldnt go until she was three, and now she is three
she really needs to be around other kids, it's not like when the other two were that age, we were involved in everything, now moo is basically alone with me all day. Funny how we change huh?

I think it's funny

first you have to understand that we do not use the kids nicknames usually at home....I may have occasionally called Mapboy "Mapboy" because...well he is always reading maps but it's not what we say usually.




Today he is showing me his racing game

"mom look at this it's so cool, you drive right into the volcano, and I'm so boosted up Nothing can stop me!"


little moo standing on the sidelines says in the same kind of voice "Nothing can stop the MAP BOY!!"

ROFL

that was very funny



I have a whine

Messy is on Lamictal for her epilepsy
we have been increasing her dosage slightly every week
can the doctors write the prescription for the maximum dosage instead of the beginning dose?

so every time we run out the insurance company wont refill the prescription because the thing says to take less than I am giving her *sigh*

and every time I call the Dr's office they always phone in another prescription for the same dosage, no matter how well I explain it to which the insurance company wont refill because it is just a prescription for the same thing, and she should have lots left over

*sigh*

So I need to call the Dr's again and get them to write a NEW prescription for the higher dosage before the insurance will pay...it's like an endless cycle

But it is not endless because we are now at 100 MGs a day and hopefully the blood test will tell us she has the right amount in her blood stream :)

just thinking out loud

I can't do all the things I need to do while the kids are in school

so should I save a trip to the laundry for with the kids, or grocery store?


I think that the laundromat is easier with kids than the store


I can sit them down and give them some paper and crayons, boy can have his DS



I really dislike it when DH works the weekend

Hey there

Just busy
finally got the kiddos to school

now I am trying to clean the house

how the heck did Christmas ornaments get in the toy box?

*sigh*

:)

hope you are all doing well

be prepared

I figured out how to upload my blackberry videos :)

new furniture *sigh*

I want to share a story from way back when Mapboy was a baby

what I sight we must have been Dad and mom both fat sitting on what we through was a pretty cool futon.

we heard a crack and were both on our backsides laughing up a storm

it took us weeks to decide what couch to buy
we sat in ever couch in ever furniture store
we wanted one that would be comfortable for 2 hours since that is how long a movie is
we wanted one where we could sit comfortable, and a place for MB to sit when he got older

we ended up buying a recliner sofa, with the pull down table Perfect for us, a place to put our cups and the table flips up to make room for the boy when he got older.

little did we know...out family was going to grow

we were able to squeeze 2 kids onto the couch with us, but not all three, someone always has to sit on the floor KWIM?

plus we have holes, and broken springs

it has been WAY past time to get a new one

SO tomorrow Ikea will deliver our two new love seats :)

and we will have enough space for the whole family to sit at once :)

I'm very happy

but I will miss the old couch

how many pictures do we have of the kids sitting on it wiht it's green background?

how many movies we watched? how many naps? how many times we had to lift it up to look for a lost remote? how many sick kids sleeping there? how many episodes of "House" have I fallen asleep watching on that couch? LOL

I will miss the ugly shade of green that looked so nice when it was new, but hasn't looked that great since the time we rented a steamer to clean up so vomit off the couch ROFL
the rough texture that seemed so great when we bought it, but lately feels like sandpaper

since it developed a hole in it I always have to say "don't put you finger in it!"
how many times have I said "the couch is not a trampoline" you know I will still be saying that...maybe we could have saved money if we got one couch and one trampoline and then the kids could jump while the grown ups sat?

ROFL

in truth the new love seats, are not the style of my dreams, but they were afordable, and they will give us something we have nto had EVER :)


*HAPPY SIGH*

on the eleventh day

of Christmas..what has our family?
1 strep throat
1 sinus infection
2 kids home from school
1 Dennis home from work
5 phone calls to make
3 errands to run
5 grumpy family members
4 real bad colds
3 doctors appointments
2 antibiotics
and a Moo who isn't even sick


hey if you can't have fun with every day how can you have fun at all?

Merry Merry Christmas

hope you all are having a great holiday

we are doing good.

just remember some people have a hard time during these fun days

a thought or a prayer or an understanding ear can mean a lot for anyone who is having difficulty this time of year

(((hugs))))

Target!

So we have known for awhile that a new store is going to be moving in near us...used to be a grocery store, but they moved.

The other day DH told me he thought he read on the sign it was a Target.

So I went and looked at the sign and could not find anything :(

So I did a little google searching :)

and :)

:D

yes Virginia there is going to be a TARGET right near us WHOO HOOO!

OK it's the little things that make me happy :)

maybe next year I wont have to battle traffic to go to a Target :)

tonight, um I mean last night, I was in traffic so long that I gave up on Target.

Ok i just read some more and it's not going to open until 2010.

melatonin

The dr told me to give him one MG before bed
got the pills at the drug store they are 3MG so I was trying to cut it in thirds PITB

today at Trader Joe's I found 500mcgs of chewable pills
I had to google search to be sure that 1000 mcgs = 1MG

who would have thought that math stuff would come in handy LOL
should have paid attention in school better

actually Mapboy was int he store with me and he knew the answer

so I can say that while I think I am pretty smart I am not smarter than a fifth grader ROFl

hope you all have a great holiday


oh the stuff really does help the boy sleep :)

snow days and all

Ok so what do you think?

Tomorrow we are supposed to get hit with a storm
a foot of snbow they say

Messy's school has called for a half day sending the kids home at 11:45

OK

Mapboy's school has sent this notice.

7/8 Field Trips Canceled Due to Expected Snow  -

Regularly scheduled classes will take place

so is his school going to change thier minds and send the kids home early?

because if they do it will be impossible for me to pick him up AND be at the bus for her at the same time


if they are keeping their word then that will be okl...well except the part about me driving in the snow to pick him up

if it were not for the fact that he is just back to school from his suspension, Would just keep him home, but I don't want him any more behind

I could keep her home but...well it's her birthday and she wants to go to school on her birthday KWIM?


*sigh*

he had Quality night tonight, I sent Dh with him to the school and I stayed with thegirls, but I heard he did quite well :) he certainly is in a good mood

:)

good moods are good :)

Maybe we can blame Santa for all our troubles LOL

remember this from years ago?

thanks for reminding me Mel

:)

we could use some prayers

we are having issues with the boy

a kid was bullying him in school
not real bullying, just minor stuff
but to mb it wasn't minor
last week he got detention for losing his cool and throwing something that ended up hitting another kid. He had a few days off because of the ice storm he didn't even do the detention yet

today was his first day back

argument with the same kid

the school has suspended him.
my kid, the little mapboy


I took him right from the school to the doctor's
Told them I wanted to take him off his meds that I would rather have a happy jumping around hyper kid that this

They convinced me that part of ADHD is impulsive behavior, and that this was probably an impulsive reaction to the bullying

they upped his meds, and told me to give him meletonin at night so he can be more well rested

and I need to find a therapist for him

*sigh*

I wish I knew what was the right thing to do :(

not much to blog about

power failures, and school closings.

we have power, but no school

Messy is having trouble because her schedule is messed up

at least it's warm today, I can finish putting the Christmas lights up...maybe :)

I wonder if the laundromat has power?

I'm just happy to have my computer back

lesson learned

If I am going to have my blog set to moderate, then I need to check the dashboard and see if there are comments *blush* somehow I thought I would get emails

sorry I will check it more often

I am making a few changes

No room for the tree so I'm moving my desk back upstairs

I might actually get things done without the constant distraction of the computer ROFL

maybe Santa will bring me a laptop and I wont have the issue anymore.

I found it!

Yes I put it in an odd place, I remember why because Messy had taken it and I wanted it out of sight, out of mind

little did I know how out of mind wt would be ROFL


Ok now I need a ton of people to tell me this is normal and I am not getting Alzheimer like my mother


come on friends lie to me!!!! LOL

Messy got her finger slammed into a door at school

Blog entry

lets just say we had a day and leave it at that
ok ok I'll tell ya about it, it's good to write this stuff out
her finger is not broken

and she did a pretty good job considering

life is good

and a bowl full of ice and a few drops of food coloring makes for a fun time and an iced down finger :)

and a mess


did you know that food coloring doesn't come out of wood grain?

now I know :)


funny Dunkin donut thing

I usually don't like DD I am a Starbucks girl, like my coffee to taste like coffee not water :), but the turbo is not bad there so in a pinch I can tolerate it


AND Starbucks didn't have a drive thu and I had two sleeping girls in the car, so DD won out.

So I say "may I please have a large turbo hot with cream and splenda"

pause and a young man's voice came on with an attitude that can ONLY come from a teenager LOL

"Excuse me?"

so I repeated my order and got this reply with the same attitude in the tone
"you want a larger Carmel coffee with Splenda?"

"NO" I said and repeated my order louder and as clear as I could manage...waking up one of the girls in the car

his answer?

"yeah I got it! A larger combo with a hot coffee"

"NO"

he tells me to pull up to the window

I was laughing because I have been on the other side and remember how sometimes these things happen, but the scathing attitude that I got from this kid when I saw him, as nice as I tried to be, I had to force myself to not say "keep you coffee" and driving away. but I stayed with it LOL

$2.93 it's not that good, it has no splenda in it at all