Being seen

I hate making appointments to go to the doctor. I hate spending the money for the co-pay, and I hate going in thinking hey, maybe nothing is really wrong with me and I will just be wasting my time and money. I go in thinking maybe if I just had waited it out longer, it would have gotten better. I have had vertigo for the past three days, the room is moving, I am dizzy, almost fall over, have fell over once actually. I keep thinking maybe I am causing myself to be this way, but its just not going away.

I have an appointment scheduled for about a week and a half out for something totally unrelated, and I thought hey, I'll just combine going for that and going in for the vertigo at the same time, it will save time and money. But what do ya know, they only have same day appointments for patients with acute illnesses. So they will see me for the vertigo, but will not combine appointments for the other thing that I will be seen for. Darn it all!

I am the kind of person that if things don't go as i was trying to have it go, i get irritated, so i hung up on the receptionist at the first clinic that I called. The second clinic that I called, was adamant at first, but being the persistent person that I am,she eventually conceded to letting me do both appointments at once, but I felt bad for being pushy, so I told her I would call around and see if anyone else would take me for both today, and if not then I would call back for the appointment that was on Monday. But I didn't want to bother her, so I decided to give up and call the other clinic that is close to us and schedule an appointment just for the vertigo.

I guess I will be going back in two weeks and just be being seen for the vertigo today, hopefully I am not going in for nothing today...

June 27th:
Well it turns out that the vertigo aka inner ear infection is able to have antibiotics to help clear out the ears and help that all clear up and then they gave me some nausea meds that I probably wont be taking again. knocked me right out, no matter how hard I tried to stay awake. The vertigo is almost gone, but now I have daily migraines that are worse with motion and noise and now my stomach is uneasy and I have lost my appetite. Hopefully I start to get better soon :)

Its 10 am where are your children...

At 10 am my children were outside with the beach ball sprinkler on, inside of the kiddie pool that they filled up with the new sand that we bought yesterday. And the oldest that I asked to be in our yard while I was doing something in the house was at the neighbors. They were soaking wet, shoes off laying in puddles of water. I can seriously never leave them alone.

Yesterday at breakfast there soy sauce to drink in everyone's cups. Maybe it looked like grape juice and they were trying to be helpful :)

I've started doing chores for discipline, cant complain, I am loving this, kids rooms are getting clean. Today for Abbi turning the water on and putting sand in the swimming pool, and then leaving the yard to go play with friends when I told her not to, she got to clean her room before getting any privileges.

It hit me

Marta called me today(not a rare occasion), it came up in the phone call about her leaving. Today was her last day really living in Utah, she is heading out to stay in Colorado for about a week, then coming back to get another load of her stuff and staying with us for a few days before heading back out to Georgia to live. It took me putting all the kids to bed, being all alone and and feeling lonely to have it really get to me.
I started thinking about the kids birthdays, holidays, children's events and how the stalwart attendee wouldn't be here anymore. How this amazing lady who has practically been my mother for the past twelve years would be living in a different state, across the country and the tears could not be held in, an overwhelming feel of heaviness started to rush from my chest to my head and they just escaped. Im really going to miss her

Happy Father's Day

Here's to all the amazing dads in mine and my family's lives

My uncle who taught me to drive & was my dad when i liv
ed with him & walked me down the aisle

My father-in-law, Kelly he's always there for us, seriously...whether its car trouble, car repairs, sprinkler leaks, plumbing problems, kids birthdays, holidays, with how hard he is always working, he is always there for us :)He is moving to Georgia this week, we will miss him more than words can say

My husband Paul, a great dad to our four children

My Grandpa who came to all special events, daddy daughter date, ch

oir events, school play, graduation (mine and Paul's), kids recitals and many other things.

and to all those not mentioned, we love you, Happy Father's Day!



P.S. In case you have ever wondered, this is what my dad looked like....

Jesse is TWO :)

The morning before his birthday, We went to the store to get ice cream, treats for the goody bags and get the balloons blown up. He loves balloons, every time that he sees them, he squeals, "Balloons, Pop Em!"
While we were at the store we passed by the bakery section and I noticed that there was a Diego cake there. Diego has bobos (monkeys), I had a Curious George bought to go on a cake and thought that the bobos and jungle themed cake would go along great with George. And the cake was half off! So I took off Diego and put on George, but then later that evening when we got to the party at the park, Jesse wanted Diego and George to have a party on his cake, so they did!

We had a great time at the park, with cake, ice cream, presents
friends, grandma Wood, Papa and Bella

Another end to the school year

Pictures of the girls doing a dance at the school
and then a picture with Abbi and her teacher, Ms. Crompton and Alona and her teacher, Ms. Bowman

We were at a neighborhood hot dog lunch and the fire trucks came

Kacen: "Mom why did the fire truck spray water"
Abbi: "For Jesse's birthday"
Kacen: "Oh so the fire trucks came and sprayed just for us!"

another one from today:

Abbi had been asked to put away her clothes that she accumulated from not putting them away when I would give them to her after folding them. I go outside to throw away something in the big garbage and there are her clothes! And then she says, "you told me to throw them away" Oh my, where did I get her from