Happy Birthday Grandma!

Today we celebrated my Grandmother's 83rd Birthday.

Through the eyes of a child

A couple of weeks ago we were at the cemetery decorating Andrew's marker for the fall. I had taken my camera to take pictures. Afterward, Allyson, William, and I were walking around the grounds. We go and pick up trash, arrange flowers and just talk. Allyson wanted to run around with my camera. When we got home I was looking at the pictures that she took. I just really enjoyed this one. It's amazing to see the world through her eyes.

Flash Back Friday

Remember...

Today, October 15, is the National Day of Remembrance for pregnancy and infant loss. In honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, it has been suggested that grieving parents and family members light a candle at 7 p.m. in their respective time zones to create a wave of light around the world in memory of babies lost to pregnancy and infant loss. Would you join me in this today?


If you are reading this and haven't had the experience of losing a child, then I invite you to join me in praying for these dear families.

Psalm 121
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;
4 indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD watches over you—
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;
6 the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.

The untold stories of motherhood

Just when I make the post that I'm going to start blogging more starting this week I come down with a horrible virus. Yesterday, I got off of work at three o'clock and felt a little nauseated. I thought my queasy stomach was from all the Mexican food I inhaled at lunch but I was so wrong. By five o'clock I was still trying to make it to step class at the gym and thought I could just “shake off” the nausea I was having. At 5:15 I got a horrible headache and could barely move from the pain. By six o'clock I was having full blown vomiting, diarrhea, migraine, and a weird neck pain. The pain was so intense that for a split second I thought I had viral meningitis. I spent a full hour laying on my bathroom floor crying, praying, and trying to decide if I could care for the kids (Brian was at school) or if I need to call some back up. Fortunately Allyson understood what was going on and was trying to help me out as best as possible. Poor William didn't have a clue why his Mommy is laying on the bathroom floor crying. He just sat is little body by my head and kept trying to give me kisses. Usually his kisses fix everything but oh not this time. Luckily the vomiting left as quickly as it came on and by the time Brian came home I was just having stomach pains and a horrible headache. I was all out of Ibuprofen but dug up some old Vicodin and took a sleeping pill. I was determined to put myself out of my misery for a few hours. Today I'm doing a little better. I even managed to drag myself into work around 6 pm for my 4 o’clock shift. Hey, better late than never.

On a side note when Brian came home he asked me how I managed to feed the kids and get them ready for bed. I just told him I sucked it up and managed. The part I left out is that William had a banana, cereal bar, and grapes for dinner while sitting on the bathroom floor!

As moms, we have all had similar experiences we just usually keep them to ourselves.

I promise one day...

I WILL start blogging again. It seems like sometime during the Olympics I got out of the habit of blogging and just never picked it up again. Just when I thought I would get motivated IKE came to visit Galveston. If that wasn't enough I then had to cram for my toxicology test and well, after that I just didn't have anymore brain power. I really thought I would get something done last week since I was home with the kids for the entire week but I was enjoying my time going to story time, McDonald's, visiting friends and catching up on all my shows (in case you don't know I have like 30 shows programmed on the DVR but that is another blog). So enough of the excuses, I hope I'm back but I can't promise that I will have anything worth reading. :)

It's Hard to Blog with Ike in the Gulf

On Wednesday we started getting the first signs that Ike is on his way. Unlike the people living on the coast we don't have to "hunker down" but we do have to prepare for the surge of evacuees that are on their way. The Belton Expo Center is our biggest shelter in the area and Temple High School is holding all the buses that were used to transport the people. Even the church where the kids go to daycare will be providing a shelter area so the daycare is on lock down all day even during pickup and drop off times. During these times if you ever want to find some entertainment just visit the local Wal-Mart. You find people stocking up on bottled water, canned food, batteries, flashlight, etc. By just sitting in the parking lot you would think that we lived in Galveston. It's just crazy. Now I have to be honest, we did do some preparation for Ike. We did have the yard mowed before the rain comes. Just didn't want to mislead anyone to think we didn't do anything at all.

This morning I came into work thinking that it would be a normal Friday morning. Usually on Fridays when I work the day shift it is a cake walk. You mostly get pediatric cases but nothing too complicated. The cases aren't too difficult because most people really don't want to kill themselves on Friday with the weekend coming up. Most of the calls are just pill ID's with people trying to get "their stash" together for Friday night. Well, I was informed that our Galveston center evacuated yesterday at 2 pm so we are now covering our area plus getting the Houston/Galveston area. I'm not complaining about the extra calls. I know if I lived in an area and was warned to evacuate or "face certain death" by the National Weather Service that I would get out of there. From looking at the news this morning it looks like Houston is going to stay and "hunker down" for the storm. I hope that's a good decision at least it will help prevent the gridlock that occured with Rita. Thoush this was a live shot from today.



I just hope these people make it to their destinations. With Rita it was such a fiasco. People where being stranded on the highway because they were running out of gas. The center had a surge of gasoline exposures during this time because people were siphoning gas on the side of the road. I also had people calling because their kids were hot, tired and hungry and they needed help. Talk about feeling helpless. Hopefully the people that want to get out will and the people that stay are in a safe place.