Feelin' Like the Milbourns

As I sit here and finally post something to this poor blog that has been neglected, I feel like our friend's the Milbourns. I am sitting in bed on my new laptop, surfing the web. Right beside me is my lovey on his laptop surfing the web. We don't have the Internet cafe thing goin' on in the dinning room yet, but just give us time.

I am Out

Do you every have one of those days where it seems like everything you use runs out? Well, today was that day for me. In the shower I ran out of conditioner. After the shower, I ran out of lotion. (I also had an empty contact solution bottle on the counter waiting to be recycled from yesterday.) While getting the kids breakfast we finished off two different boxes of Pop-Tarts and a bottle of syrup. While making their lunches I finished a loaf of bread, the deli ham, a bag of chips, the carrots, a container of applesauce, a plate of cookies from Grandma, and juice boxes. And this was all before 7:30 a.m. when the kids get on the bus!

Look out Wal-Mart, here I come!

The Good, Bad News

Last Friday, I had an upper GI.

The good news is, I think they have found out what is wrong with me.

Finally!

I have acid reflux, a hiatal hernia, and ulcers.

No wonder I have not been feeling well.

They have me on Protonix for the acid reflux and thankfully my insurance is now paying for it.

I am suppose to see a gastroenterologist as soon as possible. So after giving the nurse times I was available this week and next, she called the Dr. to set up an appointment. Well when she called back to tell me the date it is set for March 23rd.

So much for getting in right away.

I am hoping they will not have to do surgery to repair the hernia.

Maybe I should have kept my gallbladder!

Getting To Know Me!

Jessie e-mailed this to me the other day and I thought it would be fun to put on my blog. Anyone reading this consider yourself tagged. Put it on your blog, e-mail me your answers or leave me a comment with your answers. Have fun.

1.What is your occupation right now?

Stay at home Mom of 3

2.What color are your socks right now?

Brown

3. What are you listening to right now?

My computers humming

4. What was the last thing that you ate?

Kellogg's Special K bar

5. Can you drive a stick shift?

yes

6. Last person you spoke to on the phone?

Jessie

7. Do you like the person who sent this to you?

Yes (it was Jessie)

8. How old are you today?

35

9. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV?

gymnastics

10.What is your favorite drink?

Hot tea

11.Have you ever dyed your hair ?

No

12.Favorite food?

Chocolate

13. last movie you watched?

Disney's Bedtime Stories

14.Favorite day of the year?

Christmas

15.How do you vent anger?

yell

16.What was your favorite toy as a child?

Spirograph

17.What is your favorite season?

Are you kidding me here? SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

18.Cherries or Blueberries?

blueberries

19. Do you want your friends to e-mail or blog you back?

YES

20.Who is the most likely to respond?

?

21. Who is least likely to respond?

?

22. Living arrangements?

Hubby, Kids and a cat

23. When was the last time you cried?

Can you believe it, I can't remember.

24.What is on the floor of your closet?

TOO Much stuff

25. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending to?

Don't know?

26. What did you do last night?

watched TV, finished a really good book, helped with homework, relaxed

27.What are you most afraid of?

snakes

28. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers?

Cheese

29.Favorite dog breed?

German Shepard

30. Favorite day of the week?

Saturday

31.How many states have you lived in?

4

32.Diamonds or pearls?

Diamonds!


Let me know if you are putting it on your blog so I can read your answers.

Happy Anniversary

Hello!?! Is anyone still out there? No, I didn't think so. Anyway, today is Trav and I's 20th dating anniversary. Sometimes I think about it and think "Wow that has just flown by" and then I stop and think about all that we have done together and it amazes me. I am so thankful for Trav and all that he is and does. God's perfect gift to me! Here's to 20, 40, 80 more years of dating!!! I Love You Honey.

Sorry this ended up in two post. I hit the wrong button:)

Picture of the Day

I was going through some pictures and ran across this one I took this summer in St. Louis. We spent a week at my brothers and did all of the touristy stuff. We had a great time!

The Word and the Election

Proverbs 28:2 (Msg)
When the country is in chaos, everybody has a plan to fix it- But it takes a leader of real understanding to straighten things out.

Tonight is another Presidental debate. God, Let us have eye's and ear's to see and hear, who you need to run this country. In Jesus name amen.

The Word

Proverbs 25:13
Reliable friends who do what they say are like cool drinks in sweltering heat- refreshing! (Msg)

My Gallbladder

Well it is official. After an ultra sound and a Hida Scan, my gallbladder is not functioning properly. So I will have to have it removed. I go Friday for a consultation with the surgeon and then they will schedule the actual operation. I am not really looking forward to this, but at least maybe I will not feel so bad all the time. Hopefully it will cooperate while we are in Mazatlan!

Wow What a Day!

Wow this was a long day. We finally got the keys to our new house late yesterday. We of course went out to see it. Well to sum it up it was really dirty. So today we have been cleaning and cleaning and cleaning. We also (by we I mean myself, B, Z, L, my mom, Trav's mom, Jessie, Kai, my Dad for a little while, and Trav once he got home and before he went to City Band practice) ripped out the carpet on the main floor and upstairs, rolled it and labeled it (it is going to Jessie and Kevin), striped wallpaper, cleaned three of the four bathrooms, cleaned out the kitchen cabinets, cleaned a ceiling fan, and vacuumed the whole house (yes even the carpet we ripped out). After all of that my mom, Trav's mom, and I went to Lowes to pick out the new counter tops and paint for the kitchen and family room. Now it is 10:30 p.m. and I am dead tired but so keyed up I can't sleep. My mind is spinning with all that we still need to do! And to top it all off they are going to show the house we are living in tomorrow afternoon. So in the morning I will be starting off by cleaning and getting this house ready to show!!!! No wonder I can't sleep and feel sick to my stomach.

I'M BACKKKKKKK!!!!!!

O.K. enough already. I will post something. I really have like 10 min. before I have to rush out the door and pick Zia up from school, wrestle her into her leotard, and dash across town to ballet. While Leighton complains that he wants to stay with Brenna and he needs a snack for the hundredth time today.

Things have been quite crazy with us lately. Most of you already know that ;) So here a some post that I have thought about doing but haven't had any time too.

Our trip to Aruba- Wow it was so beautiful. Leighton thinks everyone should go with us next time.

10,20, 30- See Jennifer and Kathy's blogs

God's amazing provision of a house

The saga of Leighton and his ears.

Zia and her excitement over losing her tooth.

Brenna's high temp and sore neck yesterday. Scared me a little. She is doing better today.

Having our house on the market! Yikes that was a lot of work :) Think I would be better at this by now!

Pictures and more pictures.

How I thought I might crash my computer!

Where are we going to live?

And the list goes on and on. Maybe someday I can sit down and actually write about a few of those. Now that you see what I was think about blogging about. You really haven't missed much. Maybe you all should vote on your top three and maybe I will be able to get one of them done sometime.

Or maybe not!

Homeward Bound

YAAAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! We are moving home! Travis got transfered back to Robinson as their PDU Manager. We are beyond excited. Don't have too many details yet with a date or anything. We still have a lot to do here to get the house ready to sell and then house hunt there before we can schedule the movers.

Yum!!

You will never guess what I had for breakfast this morning! It was so good and brought back some childhood memories. It was a fried egg sandwich. And man was it good. For some reason (maybe Mom or Dad can help out with this) any time I eat one I think about when I was little and my Dad and Uncles sided our house. I think my mom made a whole big bunch each morning for the crew before they started working on the house. (I guess I thought I was part of the crew:) Anyway this morning I was frying myself some eggs for breakfast and with the second one I broke the yolk so I threw it out and tried again. Well I did it again. So this time I thought I might as well just make a fried egg sandwich. Boy, am I glad I did. It was so yummy. So now go fry yourself an egg and make a fried egg sandwich. You know you want to.

Fireworks In Our Ears

The other day my "voo doo nutjob" friend Kathy blogged about using hydrogen peroxide to help ward off a cold. Well I had never heard of this so I checked out the link she had and read a little bit about it. One of the comments said it also helped with wax build up in your ears so being the thinking girl that I am I thought to myself "Man Leighton always has a lot of wax in his ears, and must not be able to hear very well because he is always yelling. Maybe I should try this on him." So off to Wal-mart I went and spent a whole $1.93 on a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and two medicine droppers. (thanks Denny for the heads up on the dropper issue :)

So last night after I gave the kids their baths and was drying Leighton's hair, I told him what I was going to do. By now Zia was getting her hair dried and I thought "I probably ought to do her ears too, because she has a little speech problem and maybe it is because she has wax build-up too and can't hear very well either." So I started explaining to them how they would lay their heads down and I was going to put a few drops of hydrogen peroxide in their ears. I told them it would feel really cold and sound like fireworks. I didn't mention that it might sting a little. Just thought I would keep that knowledge to myself.

Now sometimes Leighton can be a little scared of things so I thought Zia should go first and show her little brother there is nothing to be scared of. And after all Zia always tells us she is not afraid of anything. Just bees sometimes, especially when we lived beside Bobby! So Zia agreed to be my first patient. She laid her head down on the counter and I put the drops in. She said it felt cold but she didn't hear anything. But soon after it started bubbling and she said it does sound like fireworks. So Leighton thought that that was pretty cool and laid down on the floor to get his. He loved it and couldn't wait for me to do his other ear.

Well in came Brenna and she wanted to know what we were doing. I then explained it to her and she looked at me like I was crazy. (I get that look from her a lot any more. I am sure it is only going to get worse as she gets older.) But Zia and Leighton won her over after she looked in their ears and saw the bubbles and heard them laughing. She consented, so I put a few drops in her ears. She started laughing and had a good time with it to. An interesting note is that she didn't have the noticable bubbles like Zia and Leighton did. She did say it sounded like fireworks, but she doesn't have as much wax as the other two do.

As we were finishing up in the bathroom Trav made it home. Leighton was so excited about it he insisted that Travis try it. So Travis got down on the floor and had me put drops in his ears. He also had noticable bubbling in both ears. (They must get it from their Dad) By this time it was time to head to bed. As I came back into our room Trav was laying on the bed. I ask him if he felt O.K. and he said "No, I can't hear out of my right ear now." So he was giving it another shot. I am not sure if he can hear today. I will try to remember to ask him when he gets home tonight. Hopefully it won't take him as long to get home as it did to get to work this morning :)

Nothing New

Hello All. That is if anyone checks this thing anymore. I know it has been a while since I posted anything. Not much is going on here that I have wanted to post about. Leighton seems to have more of a social life than I do right now. He had his friend Travis over to play Tues. played at Sarah's house on Wed. and went and played at Cade's house on Thurs. He is a little upset today that he doesn't have anyone over to play today.

Beth and Randy did get to come and visit us last weekend. We had a really good time. We didn't do much. They brought our new T.V. and picture for the wall that they got us for Christmas. We couldn't get them in the van when we came back home. So we hung a few pictures and got the new T.V. working. Beth and I made a trip to Home Goods and got a few more things to hang on the wall. Luckily we got those hung too. We played lots of games, ate, and started planning a summer vacation.

I still don't know where we are going, but it was fun looking at different places! One place I do know where my family will be going next month is Aruba!!! Now that is exciting. We are using our timeshare and we can't wait. Since we live in Michigan now the kids get a winter break the last week of Feb. Last year we went to Disney and had a great time. So this year we are headed to Aruba. Leighton is looking forward to wearing tank tops and shorts. Right now it is around 15 degrees out and he just has a pair of pants on. He makes me cold just looking at him. I think it is going to be warmer this weekend. Around the 30 degree mark!

Who Knew!

In case you ever wondered, Barbie's hair will melt when put on a light bulb that has been on for a while.

A few minutes ago, I looked over in the family room and saw smoke coming out from the top of the lamp. Leighton was beside it and in his hand was a Barbie shoved up under the shade. I quickly told him to stop and take it out. Now I am trying how to get all of the melted hair off of the bulb. :)

Christmas Pics

I know it has been awhile since I lasted posted, but I have been busy people. :) Anyway I know we haven't had Thanksgiving yet (or as Leighton has been saying "Turkey Day") but I couldn't resist posting this incredibly cute picture I took of my kids and my brother's kids a couple of weekends ago. Trying to get everyone to smile and look at the camera was worse than trying to herd a bunch of cats, but worth it. Enjoy and Merry Turkey Day!

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Fall Around Here

We had a great time at the corn maze. This year it was Pirates of the Caribbean. Travis kept trying to get the kids lost but they kept finding us. ;)

We had tons of fun picking apples and pumpkins at the apple orchard!

Then we carved them!

Trick or Treat.

We Had A Slide-in

A few weeks ago we had a slide-in. A slide-in is kind of like a break-in but nothing gets broken. Let me explain.

We have a cat named Dotz who as Travis likes to say is an I.D.O.D. cat. (That stands for indoor, outdoor cat) So we usually leave our overhead garage door open a few inches for her to get in and out of the garage when she is outdoors.

Well I guess we left it open a little to far and had more than a cat get in the garage. Someone slid under the door and stole the DVD player out of the van. We were very surprised that Sat. morning when we got in the van. First, I noticed that all of the stuff from the console was on the floor. I, of course, ask the kids what they were looking for and they all denied getting in there. When Trav came out, as I was putting things back in, I ask him if he had been in there. As I said that I realized the DVD player was missing. Everyone was shocked! We had had the dual screen DVD player for a long time. But we were not ready to get rid of it. We have had to have it worked on because it stopped working once, and I had just gotten new cords because we were having problems with the sound and picture not working all the time. But we still used it. The cords didn't really fix the problem so it was probably on its last leg, but it sure made us all mad. And a little scared that someone had gotten in our garage and could have gotten into the house without much trouble. Needless to say I have installed an alarm on the house garage door and we make sure the overhead door is only open enough for the cat. Since it was not working the greatest I figure it ended up in the trash somewhere. :(

Luckily we have only went on a 1 1/2 hour car trip since then. So our next trip back home will seem even longer than usual. :( I bet you can guess what the kids have on their Christmas list already!!!!