For Barb...

I found something on YouTube that I am sure you will appreciate considering your last post about handling Telemarketers.......LOL!

Heads or Tails...

The theme/prompt for today, April 7, is:

TAILS - "List Three"

List three things from any category.

My choice for this week was easy....
Before two years ago, we only had three kids...

and so my list of three are my three grown girls!!

Bree

Krystal

and Brandy

More holiday pics

OUCH!!!!!

I think I am dieing...
Ok...so not really...
but I don't think I will be standing,
picking anything up,
moving
or doing anything else for a couple of days...

Yesterday when I got out of bed,
I had a sharp pain in my back..
as the day wore on it got worse and worse,
until I was crying out loud when picking things up off the floor...

By the time 6 pm hit, I was having spasms in my back
so bad that I couldn't move...
and after a while they were gravitating to my chest,
so I couldn't breath when I had an attack
which I was doing by sneezing,
or moving at all....
It was excrutiating

At 11 pm, I finally went to the hospital
after phoning a health line.
They wanted me to be sure it was nothing more serious then my back.
My MIL came over and sat with my sleeping children...
(Thank you Judy...)

Sooooooo...for the next five hours we sat in Emerg...
and listened to people in the next room
talking about their daughter's alergy,
and some woman's rash,
and another man throwing up...

THAT was appetizing.

So much for expectations of privacy....
NOT

and every time I screamed...
which i did for a while every time I moved...
Everyone heard me too...

Finally I saw the doctor who told me I was having muscle spasms...
(Really? No kidding.)
and that I must have hurt myself...

I don't really know how I could have...
but there is the proof...

So now, I am on Valium,
and Nu Naprox both which are supposed to help
relax my back enough to stop it from spasming.

I didn't sleep at all...
laying down was massivly painful
and then the baby woke, so I slept about an hour
But I think the drugs are starting to work,
because I have only a constant ache this morning,
and I am having spasms far less then yesterday..
But I am still wondering how in the world
I am going to manage a toddler
and a newborn....
when I can't pick them up
and hubby has to work till 2pm..
I guess we will manage..
It isn't like I have a choice..LOL!

So this is what happens after you turn 40...
:)

BC Vacation...

I had 50 undeveloped films sitting in my closet...and so for my birthday my MIL and another family friend helped me develop some of them...

These ones were taken on a family vacation about 7 years ago. We went to Victoria BC to the Crystal Gardens...It was beautiful..and I embarrassed my hubby by doing bird calls (which I do quite well) I had all of the birds clinging to our side of the cage...it was quite funny...

Unfortunately this place is now closed...but at least I have the pictures...

I can't believe how small my girls were...

Krystal..then 14...now 21

Bree and Brandy...now 16 and 18....then 8 and 10

The girls and hubby with some cousins...

Through My Eyes Friday...

This is what I see this morning....

OMG! I'm 40!

Today.....

yesterday...

OMG! When did that happen??
Seems like it was just yesterday that I was 20...
Of course..not really...
That was actually Three Children,
and two grandchildren ago....(wow)

To be honest, I am in a little bit of a funk today...
I know that 40 is just a number,
but still.....

I have been a little frustrated with some things in my life lately
which have contributed to my "funk"

I am not satisfied with where my spiritual life is....
I do not read my Bible or pray NEAR as much as I should or need too...
I used to be more heavily involved in ministry,
and I miss it.
I am also annoyed with myself for certain personality traits which always seem to get the better of me...
As Paul said...
^"15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do."
I am concerned about my children...
two in particular...
and
I am angry that I am never able to see my grandchildren,
even though they live three blocks from me.

I am wanting to go to school, but know that at the moment it is unrealistic for me,
and I am wanting to buy a house...
and considering the state of the economy
and the fact I am staying home
....that is also unrealistic at the moment....

Now...after that list of complaints...
I do have some things I am very happy about...

I love my family, and although I never pictured myself having five kids
they are my greatest accomplishment.
I think it was the best decision my hubby and I ever made
to have Jeremy and Gracie
even when the others were out of the house.
I am also grateful that although finances are pretty tight,
I have been able to stay home with my babies...


I love my husband....
He is patient with me despite my many faults...
and I am glad that we are still friends after all these years.'

I am thankful with the house we live in now...
It is in a great neighborhood, with a huge backyard
and our rent is really low,
in a time when everyone else is paying over 1000 a month...

I know that happiness is really a choice..
and so
I choose today to be happy.
because despite some of the bad in my life,
the good things are really good.

So here is to the next 40 years...
may they be filled with God, Love, Family and Happiness...

Wordless Wednesday...

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Heads or Tails!

The wonderful Barb over at Heads or Tails Tuesday chose this weeks theme choices to be.
HEADS - See
*OR*
TAILS - Sea

I am going to take the easy way out this week...and say

HEADS - See
my little girl growing right before our eyes!!!

I can't believe her. She is the total polar opposite of my son.
He is shy...she is outgoing.
He is small....she is tall
He hit his physical milestones slowly...
She is racing towards hers...(and I do mean racing...she is already trying to drink out of a cup and she is only 5 months old...little monkey...Doesn't she know she is my last baby?)
He is moody..she is always bright and smiley!

They are alike in some ways...they both seem to love books....and being outside, and tv and computers....

They absolutly adore each other...
all you have to do is look at pictures of them to see it.
They have been so much fun..I wish their baby hood wasn't racing past so fast....

By the way...she is five months old now...

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Bath tub Babies...

I'm back......

Sorry for the brief hiatus...but I had some health issues this week that were preventing me from spending much time on the internet...
But now I am back..

Jeremy and Gracie playing in the bathtub....
She just adores big brother...she is always staring at him....