Today's Harvest and another final

Today I harvested 24 ears of corn. Some better than others, but 24 ears, well 25 if you include the one that I tossed since it was covered in ants and beetles. The zucchini plants are gone! They are looking so sad, there is two zuchs left, so I'll let them go until I can't let them go anymore. I want to try a bumper crop. I thought I'd get more, but I think I did give a lot away. I wasted a huge part of the garden this year, which I don't plant to do next year. I also harvested the carrots, they were a huge failure. Again another learning lesson.

Duck is taking his 3rd final. We'll see how he does!

So all in all, work was so depressing today that I nearly cried, not sure what that was about. I'm depressed because I want to learn more, yet no one will teach me, but then again I don't want to learn more. I think that I'm going to ask B or L for help, I need to be more informed and I need to do more. I think part of my depress is not necessarily a punishment, but maybe a reminder how good I feel when I attend the meetings regularily. I also haven't had a very active share in the Field Service this month, infact I only got 4 hours. I plan on going out Mon and hopefully Tue.

Okay, gotta run!
Me.

New experiment...

We have decided to move all of the food out of the pantry. This means that we had to move the huge ugly metal shelf into the kitchen....this is a good thing, I don't like how open the kitchen and dining room is. Problem solved. We found two interesting facts....we certainly aren't in any short supply of food and we have food that expired in 2003 which we still haven't eaten! This will put the food on the forefront of view, we can see what we have and hopefully it will prevent us from running to the local drive thrus. We are trying to save money so we can afford the new heating system. Now I need to figure out what to do with the back room.

Well I have to run, I need to wash my uniform, and I need to go to bed.
Katy

to organic or not to...

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/30/what-does-it-mean-if-organic-food-is-no-healthier-than-regular-food/

Here is the organic food article from cnn.com.

hum.....

What a meeting~

The meeting was interesting today. Some points were brought out which made sense as to why one of the owners was there, but then the attacks began. While I admit that I'm not perfect, I have done my best to try to get along with everyone on the team. The problem is that it is nights vs days, it doesn't matter who you are, what you stand for, or what you are trying to accomplish, if you are on the other team you are the enemy. This is the worst display of professionalism I've ever seen in a restaurant. Not only am I stuck between shifts, I'd rather be on days becauxse things run smoother and a lot more proper, but I'm stuck working with managers who undermine the right way of doing things, which is the way I've been told to do things. So once I become a full manager, I will be less inclined to take the crap that I'm forced to take right now. I'm just biding my time, I need "X" amount of money or I will have to find a new job or Duck will have to which will make me leave work anyway. I SO want to be out in FSM ministry right now and full time. Okay I've gotta run, I'm yawning, I need to get my uniform washed, and help Duck get his paper written.

Toodles!
Me.

Organic vs not organic.

Here's an interesting article.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090729/hl_nm/us_food_organic

This is the second article in two days that has struck me. Yesterday that stated that fake baking (tanning beds) are as harmful as arsenic and mustard gas. Anyone who fake bakes under the age of 30 is 75% more likely to get skin cancer.

working on the house...

Okay, I've been cleaning even though it doesn't look like it at all! I'm trying to re-arrange, but I will need Duck's help, I simply can't lift everything alone. I'm canning and have been doing so for most of the day. I've got my pints in one canner and my quarts in another. I've learned that the timing is much different if they are all the same so....we are going to see how well it works. I started the quarts well before the pints and they have caught up with eachother. Come to find out that since the massive time difference, (35 minutes) it is going to work out so much better to do it this way! The joys of having two canners. I'm also getting ready for this winter. I'm really trying hard not to become discouraged about the wood burning idea...but it looks nearly impossible at this point. Unless our ebay sales pick up for a month or two were are going to have to find other things to do. Duck has been at school most of the day getting ready for his math final. He really needs the help. Well I need to scoot, I've been trying to upload picks of my harvest this week and I can't get the silly program to work. I'll see what I can do later!

Toodles!

Day off goals...

Since I won't be able to go into FSM, I will have to stay home and clean. Here is a list of goals for Tuesday.

1. Fold all laundry
2. put all laundry away
3. wash laundry and hang it out to dry
4. hallway and stairs
5. bedroom
6. Help Duck finish report
7. can 28 quarts of something. Chili or spaghetti.
8. clean off microwave and clean it out and around it
9. clear off top of cabinets
10. clear off top of fridge
11. clean out fridge
12. clean out blue buckets and let air dry
13. put toys in buckets upstairs or down, see what looks better down here
14. take leaf out of table, move diningroom around
15. clean out filing cabinet
16. clean out desk
17. clean out cabinets in bathroom
18. clean out cabinets in laundry room
19. clean up front porch
20. weed flower beds
21. weed garden
22. clean up back porch
23. replant lillies
24. plant grapes

Garden plans for next year thus far

1. Pumpkins next to kiln
2. corn all along property line
3. 8 bean plants
4. 2 broccoli plants
5. 2 cauliflower plants
6. 16 pea plants
7. 6 tomato plants
8. 2 cherry tomato plants
9. 6 sunflowers (at least)
10. 3 loofah
11. 3 squash
12. 3 Zucchini
13. 12 onions
14. 2 bags of potatoes
15. 3 cucumbers
16. 5 peppers
17. cantaloupe
18. watermelon
19. carrots
20. lettuce
21. spinach

Duck Do list while he is out of school

1. secure window upstairs
2. ebay
3. .org site
4. Fix water system
5. build solar panels
6. take down boys bed
7. build shelves in our room
8. put up door downstairs in hallway and pantry
9. get fill dirt
10. help build chimney
11. secure chest of drawers and switch
12. put back baseboards
13. fix hole
14. fix stairs
15. build compost bin
16. finish deck
17. fix drawers
18. put the cabinets back in for now
19. build solar heater for back room, for bedroom and for JM
20. build solar cooker build kiln/chop wood
21. put up shelves in closets
22. clean basement
23. regout the bathtub

Okay, I think that is enough for now, I'm not sure how much of this will be hindered by liquid funds.

Good Night.

um.....

Today was interesting! When I got to work at 4 am, there were over 490 residence/places of business out of power. The best guess we could get was 2 hours. We cleaned, stocked and started rolling burritos. Then S got there, sent two home and was going to let me go....side note...I should have RAN when I had the chance. We started decorating the case and started talking about the fact that by Oct I need to be at "X" amount of dollars. She simply said that she didn't think D would ever do that as J and A have been there for over 5 years and neither make close to that. I told her that if I couldn't get the bare min needed to take care of my family, I would have to look for a different job. She said that she had heard something along those lines, and was going to wait to until I brought it up. The sad fact of the matter is simply that I can go across the street, and make more starting out than what I asked for. She said that she would talk to D. The power came on shortly after that and it was a NIGHTMARE. No food for nearly an hour, customers upset and complaining and grumping, computer systems crash, and credit cards didn't work. I was suppose to get off at 11 and didn't leave until after 2.

CW is here helping Duck in the garage. I need to get my WT study done for the morning, do the dishes and pick up the living room. I may just do the dishes and then do my study in the morning. Last night....are you ready for this???? Sunshine slept in his own bed. Duck came in and laid down and started to doze a bit when he came in and touched Duck's feet. "Daddy, it's raining, it's storming." Duck questioned, "What bubby?" Sunshine repeated, "DADDY IT'S RAINING, IT'S STORMING!" Duck then realized that thc car windows were still down. He got up, rolled them up and came to bed. Now the great thing....Sunshine stayed in his bed, in his room!

This is going to be interesting. I'm going to see how tomorrow goes. I'm under a lot of stress, and work isn't helping at all. I really want to find a way to quit and stay home with the boys. I want to go out in service with the boys 3 times week, do school work and wait for daddy to get home while cleaning and getting dinner ready. That is what I want to do. I want to fulfill what Jesus commanded of us. I've also though about downsizing the house as much as possible. I've starting view another's blog and he is something. Not sure how to approach all of it, but it sounds cool although something I could never do without huge guidance or instruction.

Tonight I made spaghetti with Zucchini and it was great. We had butterfly pasta (bowtie). Very cheap and Smiley had seconds. I'm impressed. Yesterday I harvested 2 zuch, 1 squash and 1 ear of corn. Today I was checking the garden and realized that the horrible storm that passed through knocked over several tomato plants and cages and snapped some corn. I spent quite a bit of time trying to get the tomato plants staked back up and growing in the right direction. I also put up a fence around 2 pepper plants, the pumpkins are trying to take them over. Right now we can see 3 gourd pumpkins, I can't wait!!!!! Then I made two wonderful discoveries! The first being my first red tomato, alas I've finally got one, it's a cherry, but it's still red...then the awesomeness of a purple pepper. I can't wait for it to get a bit bigger so I can try it. I'm hoping that it is one of many so that I can make stir fry even more interesting! My yellow or red plant out front has died off. I'm at a loss as to why, but we'll see if the other makes it. I'm thinking that I may want to plant two more out in the garden when I pull up the other squash. The garden has been a great success and blessing this year. Next year we will be planting more and more and more corn. Duck isn't glad to hear that as he will have to be the one to till. But he wants more corn, and so do I. We need to see how far this takes us. While we have given a ton away, we need to start conserving more for this winter. I just planted 8 pole beans, spinach, lettuce and broccoli. This should make a wonderful bumper fall crop. I need to find out when when the first frost is, I am thinking about planting another crop of corn. It takes about 90 days which would put us into Oct.
Well I need to run to bed, I'm really exhausted, I had 4 hrs sleep, and I'm really tired.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/1493487.html

A great website about living in a smaller home. Now this isn't for my family as I am married to a pack rat, but this would be great....$50.00 a month for electricity.

I've had a crappy week. I need some time to stew. I'm going to be applying at other places, this is getting harder and harder to be nice about. I'm really begging to hate my job and some of those who I work with. Hate is a strong word, but that is the level of anger that I am at

Oh my...

So today was interesting. The talk was great, although he seemed extrememly nervous, he did a splended job. The WT study ran really late. And then I headed into work. A is back...yah!!!!! L was there yah!!!! it was really a good start. We got a phone call at about 3 a sister store was hurting really bad for people and needed help, so I went. Boy that was probably a mistake on their parts. I found out that they are starting their employees who have never worked a day in their life out at more than what I am going to be making. Something is going to give. I want more money, to be transfered or I will need to find a different job. I can't survive on this when Duck's unemployment runs out. The facts are the facts. I won't be able to pay for heat, electricitiy, rent, water and other necessities. Thankfully Sunshine is out of diapers, not to just get the baby out. We have set a whole bunch of goals to get accomplished, most of them require our tax check and then some. As long as everything goes well, we will be able to spend all of it on what we are needing. We have some research to do and talking to the docs to make sure that it will be safe for Sunshine if we put in a wood burning stove. I don't have a whole bunch more, I'm irritated to no end, I'm tired of being chopped liver. Do I look like chopped liver?

Me.

Swimming Pool Tuesday...

Can anyone guess what this might mean? Could you guess how long swimming pool tue has lasted? Okay, it started about 3 or 4 weeks ago...I'm thinking it was more like 3. We told Sunshine that we would go to swim on tue. With his ASD, we have to explain things a bit differently. He understands his days as wake up, good night = one day. So we told him that we'd go swimming after a good night, wake up, good night, wake up, swimming. Then it was too cold to go swimming, it was horrible...now it is swimming pool tuesday...EVERYDAY. Saturday I told him that it couldn't be swimming pool Tue since it was Sat. He said, "Okay, Swimming Pool Saturday!" Darn it, he's getting smart.

I rec'd some info in the mail today...and I'm going to go apply for a new job Mon or Tue, I'm not so sure when they are open. It is basically for a breast feeding advocate locally. It will only be 10 hours per week, monthly classes and so on. On top of all of this, I am trying to set up my own not-for-profit agency. I'm going to unveil it as soon as I can secure the website. Thankfully Duck is taking web design next month and he will help me build the website for it. It is so sad to see how people are dying and starving daily because of the lack of food, so why not help them? How much food did you throw away today? Working in a restaurant, it kills me to see how much food we toss, food that could feed 15-20 hungry people. It is so sad that our restaurant, which corporate wide claims to be eco-friendlier, is so lying. They don't even recycle their cardboard. It is so sad. Then I look like the freak who takes it all home to use it. Sure, I'll take home all the plastics to either recycle at home or take to recycle.

The canning of the zuch and squash didn't go so well. While it was eatible, it was mush. I'm going to try one more time, I read that you should only can the pints for 55 min instead of 90. We'll see how that works out. I'm really considering freezing. I'm still praying for a miracle of a 1/2 a hog and a deep freezer, although I won't hold my breath, there is more things that I could be fortuante to have than that.

I've been kicked off of nights, it is horrible there, I don't like it one bit. Although I don't like days so much anymore either. I just want this nightmare to be over, although I'm looking for the patients and strength to keep moving forward while Duck finishes one more semester of school. That will leave only one more year until he would get his degree. The worst part is I feel like I'm doing all of this for nothing, I'm not going to be there much longer. Duck will have to find something suitable to make enough to keep us afloat while he finishes school. We are going to have to work things out for Sunshine to go to school, Pre-school is not a option since he is potty trained.

Okay I need to run, I have to be a work in less than 12 hours and I have done no chores, laundry or sleep.

me.

Oh my goodness...

The air conditionar blew today. More than likely completely. I heard a spark type blow and then smelt burning electrical. We shut it down and unplugged it. Now it looks like it is time to buy another window unit. This is really not cool! No pun intended.

I got quite a dent done in the laundry...I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow so I can continue to hang it out.

Okay, I need to do some research.

Katy

Today...

Went to work, worked and came home. Wow, that was fun. I did take presents in, a can of veggie soup for S and a Zuch for LA. I need to take in the WT and Awake to TB, I will probably have to take them directly to her house, I didn't realize that I didn't work tomorrow.

Goals for the next two days:

1. Plant grapes
2. Plant pepper plants
3. Seed beans and broccoli
4. build fence for pumpkins, they are horribly out of control.
5. Finish sorting seeds.
6. Finish laundry
7. Can zuch and squash
8. Work on bible study book.
9. sew pants
10. rearrange pantry.

Okay, I think that'll do.

K

Today...

Today we got up and I had to go into town so I could go to my book check. I found that my supervisor didn't finish her part, so this is going to be interesting, I did well on my test though. Now I have to go to BSM in Aug, we'll see how that goes, I'm going to have to pay for the other half of a room for 3 days, it better have a pool. I'm really not looking forward to this at all! By the way...K~ can you take care of my pets for me? This is not going to go well. I need to find something for the guys to do while we are in Indy. I think that we will try to go to the zoo one day after class. We'll see, maybe we can even go to the museum. I will need to find out where it is so we can go to the meeting at one of the local KH's.
Tonight for dinner we made Rice/broccoli aug. with fresh sliced zuch and squash. Now I need to figure out how the best way to cook them is. Tomorrow night I will have a stirfry of fresh veggies ready for Duck when he gets home from school. I need to make sure that I pull the chicken out for it today. While we were in town, we stopped by to see our friends at the fair, they had two of their goats there. We also go to see a hog with babies and a donkey. Unfortunately that was all the animals there at the time, but we did enter in a raffle for 1/2 a hog and a new deep freezer. I'll not hold my breath, but it would be great.
Our friends are home and on the mend, they sound like they are getting much better. We have a ton of house work to do, it's late so I need to get to bed to get up early and get it done.

Side note, I need to look up how to can squash and zuch, I would think that it would go to mush if I cooked it for 90 min. I have tomatoes so I need to pick some green ones for A.

Night,
Me.

Time to vent...

Last night was the worst night ever. While I kept my cool, I nearly had to call the police to have an employee escorted off the premises. He became beligernt, rude, obnoxious, swearing, threatening and nearly to the point of violent. I get so tired of asking someone for help and for them to do their job. I think it's great that you have a routine, last night wasn't a routine Sunday. Things are going to go the same way. You are however going to have to work, the rest of us are struggling too much for you to pull breakfast and restock boxes when DT is pending 2 almost 3, the front line has at least 3 orders and the assembler is having to drop his own product. Dishes and stocking can wait. We don't have to cook breakfast for 4.5 hours. Basically we were very short handed. I asked him to help twice and then he decided he was going to do dishes first, the whole time cursing and slamming things around. I went back to dish, informed him that they really needed help on meat to get through this rush and I really needed him to help out. He then started verbally attacking me. Telling me that I can't tell him what to do, to do my job and he will do he, so I asked him to do his. His job is to do what I ask him within normal perimeters of the job. He informed me that they have a way of doing things and I wansn't going to change them just because I was working tonight. Again, I think it's great that they have a normal way of doing things...normally we have another manager or two on nights and aren't so short handed. Thus normal things could have gotten done, but this wasn't normal. He then told me that he has a discrimination lawsuit pending against me and that he was going to call his attorney in the morning, I welcomed him to do so as I have do nothing in the wrong. He continued to cuss and informed me that he was taking his break at 10. I had already stated that I was going to run overnight breaks at 11 because we would have coverage since the diningroom closes at 11. He said that he was leaving at 10 becuase his wife was cooking his food and it was probably already done by now. I said, "I'm sorry and I can appreaicate that she is cooking for you, but we are short handed and there is no way I can let you take your break at 10." His tone changed even more, he started screaming cussing by now and I asked him to leave. He said that he had read the managers books and that I didn't have the authority to tell him to leave, I informed him as a manager I do, and that Iwould clock him out and he needed to leave. This began a huge mess. I can't let people do this to me. Why should I? How would he like it if I were to cuss at him and be little him in front of everyone? He acted like he was going to stay so I offered to let him stay if he was going to help them out and he must have decided that wasn't what he was going to do and he wanted to clock out. So I graciously let him go. In the mean time I had a customer who was irate in the DT b/c the back window person had opened the window to take the money and he was screaming the "S' word so loudly that her young boy in the backseat heard, and continued to repeat it all the time while they waited for food. I advised her that I was dealing with that employee and that he was sent home for his attitude. I requested that she contact SC in the morning or afternoon and advise her of what happened and she said that she would. I apologized a ton of times to her. I just don't get it..why do people think that cussing is socially acceptable at work, or in basic conversation? I grew up hearing the vulgur language that spewed out of my parents mouths and was appauled. As an adult, I found myself in the same position when I had children I vowed that they wouldn't hear me do that, it is wrong on so many levels. It is degrading and worst of all, it gives the wrong impression to others. I know that this individual was in a foul mood when he came in, he was already slamming things around before I ever said a word to him. I've only worked with him a handful of times and never given him a reason to think that I was discriminating against him. The only time I have really corrected him is when they were putting down too much meat and I told them that wasn't how it was suppose to be done, please do it right. So this leads me to believe that one of three things are happening here. He pointed out last night that he has been there for 15 months...would might mean that he was mad that I was FS when he was still crew. Would you promote someone who repeadiately didn't follow rules, and didn't really seem to work hard and gave everyone crap about what they asked them to do? None the fact that he walked out two weeks ago. So for lack of better words, is he jealous? If he wants to be a FS, the only thing he needs to do is to ask the GM. #2, he is leaving the company to go to a local competator, so does he think that he is going to bully me around? As long as he was picking on my last night, he was leaving everyone else alone. The last thought is that his sister who is also a manager has been treating me like crap for 2 or 3 weeks, ever since I have been on nights. I can figure as to why that is, one of the other managers threw a huge fit as to why I can do things as a FS and she couldn't when she was. Basically it all boils down to she thinks it is unfair that I can do things. I had no choice by to learn. Everytime his sister calls off, it seems like I am the one who has never refused to cover for her. Which means that I had to learn things before I was AM. She also said that she hated to do things like deposits, so I thought I was helping her by doing something she hated doing. Why am I the bad guy here? I was sent to nights to do the job right, being here, I have come to the conclusion that they have been doing the wrong thing for so long and that the managers have also be doing the wrong thing that they find it too hard to change, their way is easier to them and allows them to ultimately be lazier in the end. Last night he went home and called the GM before I even had a chance, I was so busy helping customers and getting things taken care of I didn't have the time. I specifically asked her, after I told her what happened if she was going to back me. She said yes. Then today she asked if I think he should be allowed to come back tonight. I told her that if she did, she gave him the right and everyone else to treat me like this. She basically said it was okay for him to do this.

All in all, this is a horrible way to have a day start, and it sounds like it isn't getting worse. After I talked to S today she sounded like she really wanted to bring him back. Duck says that I will not be working with him, she can cover my shift from now on, I shouldn't have to put up with that.

On a lighter note, I had an employee come up to me last night and tell me that he was proud of me for standing up for myself. He knows that it was a crappy situtation and this is how it normally is on nights.

K

Depressing

I looked at the headlines today and thank God for the fact that I have a job, a house and a safe family. Yes we struggle, yes we make some poor decisions but we are here. Iran and Korea are struggling for everything, people in other countries who live on a quater a day can't find ways to make ends meet and we are spending money on pop, fast food, new shoes, new cars and a million and one more things that we really don't need. Here in our area we have a local homeless shelter that houses a lot of people. It is sad, very sad. While they have what they need for basic daily survival...how is this okay in our society? How many of us have spare bedrooms, spare cars, spare change or spare toys we could give to the little boy or girl who is scared and ashamed. Okay...before anyone says anything..techinally I'm guilty too! I'm going to try to finish up my chores for today, can some food and do what I can to purge some things. I think I'm going to try to get the friends together to have a huge yardsale. This would help them...and me at the same time. I'm going to see about donating all or a portion of the money we make to a local worthy cause....I'll figure out what cause later. We are truly bless to have what we do. On that note, I need to get going. I want to get my chores done, send an email to a friend who I miss and do my daily reading.

Success....

Wow, now all my old blogs have been transfered, no thanks to the unhelpful 360...all the same, I got it done!

A manager at work is putting in her notice, last night was the worst by far. She apparently had nothing done when the opening mgr came in this morning and I'm not surprised. So....guess who is going to be stuck on overnights? Me~ I told her that I wouldn't work Sat overnight b/c it interferres with my meeting schedule. I'm tired of things interfeering with meetings. NO MORE. Next Tue I have to go take my BSM cert....oh boy!

K stayed late last night to help through the madness. Thank goodness, I can't wait to see her new goat. I bartered some fruit today...tomorrow I have to pay up. I did see Canteloupe at Wally World for a little less than what I paid, but I never would have gotten down there had the tractor not broken...so it was worth it. Plus I am going to harvest the seeds and plant them next year. I'm going to try it. I can't remember if I like it, but I have it engrained that I don't. Time to change my attitude on things. We picked up a TON of dried fruit for salads, we are going to try really hard to replace one meal a day with a salad, even if it is a taco salad...it is still replaced. I personally would like to replace two meals a day.

Well not a whole lot positive to say....work stinks and I don't wish to carry on about it. This is the #2 holiday I wish would pass quicker. Now we will be hearing fireworks for the next month. AHHHH.

Off to do housework...or study...or sleep. I'm off tomorrow so this is what I'd like to get done!

1. Laundry
2. weed, spray and water the garden
3. mow the grass both outside and in the back yard.
4. pick up the back patio
5. fold all the clothes upstairs and put them away.
6. clean out our bedroom AGAIN.
7. sweep the stairs
8. clean the kitchen
9. clean off the fridge and clean it out
10. harvest and take for trade the zuch and squash.

Okay, that's enough on top of everything else. I will keep these up until they are done.

I'm also going to start my meter readings again, we need to really keep track of usages and Duck's unemployment has been revoked for now. Reading 08370

More tomorrow...sleep well!

Katy

2006 & 2007 Old Blog Posts

AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 31, 2007 The last day of the year.
DATE: 12/31/2007 17:09:46
STATUS: publish
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We are in the middle of SO many things today. We are putting up border, touching up paint, painting tables/shelves and re-arranging the living room. The boys have lost more than 1/2 their toys because they refuse to pick them up. They have gone into the upstairs abyss of toys. I plan on going through a lot of them and either freecycling them or selling them to a second chance place to exchange them for perhaps another toy that the boys are interested in. I also may keep a couple back for next year. I think that Allen will be old enough to understand the true meaning of giving. I would like to wrap the gifts with him and take them to the local homeless shelter or transition shelter to give to the kids.

Today I was the W shopper that our female family member are so proud to call ourselves. I went to CVS and got 4 pks of 4 pk Mac and Cheese, 2 2-liters, 4 rolls of the most beautiful wrapping paper (I've been eyeballing it for weeks now, just to cheap to spend 3-4 dollars per roll, I only paid 75 cents a piece.) and a pk of toilet paper and spent a total of 6.08 at which I got 4 dollars off my next visit. WOW. I was happy.

We are in the middle of remodeling the living room. It is fun, but very messy. We have painted the shelf, new tv stand and we are in the process of painting the stacky shelf thing. Smiley is running a fever and has been most of the day, this on top of having pink eye hasn't been fun. I think part of it could be the molars coming in, but I'm not sure, I'll just watch him tomorrow and take him in at the end of the week if I need to.

Our hearts and prayers go out to our friends who are going though a tough time right now. And to those who are out in the cold with no where to go and to those who aren't able to be with their families tonight whether they are in active duty or just not able to be home. And to those who have to spend the last day of this year in the hospital or visiting a loved one in the hospital or looking for a loved one who is lost or mourning a loved one and to everyone who is breathing. Happy New Year and God Bless.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 30, 2007 One more day
DATE: 12/30/2007 11:00:26
STATUS: publish
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To the end of 2007. We bought a bottle of bubbly which I will have a very small glass of tomorrow. Not much new is happening, I just feel so lazy..not really motivated to do much of anything. I have to get up and go though I have so much to do. Duck wants to put the border up in the living room. Today we put up the picture frame and I need to clean out from behind the couch and decide if I want to move the livingroom around or not. Personally I'm not sure...I'm debating. Smiley showed off his new pearly whites to me today. Apparently he has been cutting new teeth and he is bringing in 3 molers. Poor little guy. He also got bit yesterday by Sunshine. GRRR. That is the first time in FOREVER and we talked at length about how bad it was to bite and he repeated it back to us. We pray that it won't happen again. The boys were getting along really well last night, I was really happy to see them playing with eachother. We have been making a lot of crayons and we will send some to school.

Well nothing new, perhaps I will write more later. I am working on my new diet/cleaning schedule as well...I will do it this time.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 26, 2007 I tried to milk my husband.
DATE: 12/26/2007 17:10:59
STATUS: publish
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Okay, if you are reading this, I hope that you are sitting down. For those who are bfing moms you will appreciate the humor in this. I battle all the time with the fact that my husband loves to walk in the door and start talking, especially when I am bfing the baby. Now mind you, he doesn't even think about the fact that the baby is nursing he just has something to say and if he doesn't say it he will inevitably forget in a few minutes. So I found these breast pumps at a Goodwill type place and they were 1.00 each. So I picked up all they had figuring that I could put them on EBay to sell or donate them to mothers who need them if nothing else. Anyhow, back to my story, I pulled them out today to make sure that all the parts were there. I found them to be AMAZING Pumps. The Isis was so powerful (against my hand) that I thought I should have bought that one instead of my electric one. I wanted to show Duck how strong it was, but his palm was too small to get a good suction, so I did the next best thing. Yup, you know it! I put it up to his titty and pumped. He jumped back and howled. WOW, it works great. I will be hopefully putting them on eBay in the next week and maybe get a few dollars out of them. It would be nice to make a little bit of money off of them. Okay, maybe it isn't that funny to some, but it was hilarious here.

Okay, gotta finish getting the directions down and the rest the stuff away from our shopping expeditions today. We had a blast!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 25, 2007 The birth of our Saviour
DATE: 12/25/2007 09:27:28
STATUS: publish
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Today is the estimated or should I say celebrated day of birth of our saviour Jesus Christ. The man that was born into the human world, walked through life doing God's will and ended up giving up this life for our sins. Happy Birthday!

We celebrated our Christmas with my dad this weekend. He seemed to really like the gifts that we got for him, his wife didn't seem as thrilled. I was really excited about the ornaments that I bought for her, I though that she would LOVE them, but she was okay, oh, okay. So, oh, okay. I try too hard. Granny LOVED her blanket that I made for her. I want to make one for JM and then scarfs for a few other for next year. We got this digital picture thing that ended up erasing like 300 pics of my hard drive before we caught it. AHHH. Some of them I can't get back. I'm NOT happy at all, I will be calling the manufacturer tomorrow and make them walk me through how to recover this pics. There is really only about 20 that I'm worried about, the rest were backed up in Sept. We got a bunch of other really cool things also. I am also going to go out tomorrow and do a little after Christmas Shopping for next year. I need to get a couple of things for wrapping next year. I am also going to pick up some items to donate for the Secret Santa thing. We got ours all taken care of earlier this morning and the boys are happy with what they got. Not that bad for not spending that much!

Well I need to go, there are plenty of things to do and clean up. Merry Christmas to ALL

The Wilkersons.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 21, 2007 4 days left and I reflect....
DATE: 12/21/2007 19:46:14
STATUS: publish
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I reflect over what has happened this year. "Spiritually" I have drawn closer to Jehovah through studies, I have learned more, yet have more questions that I can remember. Must remember to write them down and research the information. Emotionally I am closer to my husband and children that I have ever been. They are the light of my life. Then I think about my past, the wrongs I have done and what I do everyday and will do for the rest of my life to atone for those wrong doings. All things I plan on working on in the future. I think of my mother and of her mother a lot. I wish that I could have a mother that was caring and wanted to be in my life. Instead I have an aunt who is wonderful and loves my children. Granted she isn't their grandmother but she acts more like one than the three that they have. My dad's wife, while amazing in her own way and very very talented has never held my children and is hardly around. And when she is around sometimes she is very hard to get along with, she is often snappy and short. I just shrug it off as she is having a bad day, we love her all the same, I just wish that she would interact with my children more than buying them gifts. Her love would mean more to them than her money. She has been so much better lately, I just pray that it doesn't go backwards in the future. Then my mother who lied to everyone telling them that we wouldn't let her come around them because she smoked, has alienated herself into believe that lie. I told her that she couldn't smoke around my then 6 month old very asthmatic child who was on breathing treatments every 3 hours. This was shortly after I got the call that my son wasn't breathing at daycare. And then there is Duck's mom. We want to go and visit with her this weekend and he called her today to ask if she could possibly refrain from smoking while our kids are there for less than an hour. She made it sound like we asked her to stop breathing. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I hope for her sake that cigarette prices go up to 20 dollars a pack and she can only afford one pack a months so she will have to quit. Maybe then it won't be too much to ask for her to spend a few minutes with her grand kids. I am blown away. You know, she comes very close to our house once a month and she doesn't even stop by. I'd even make her a meal if she would, she could then visit with her grandchildren and eat before heading back home. But they don't and we can only assume it is because they can't smoke here. Perhaps it may have a little to do with the estranged relationship she has with her son. We got them gift 3 years ago that have been in the closet waiting for them. I don't care if she has to come out to the van and unwrap them in front of her grand kids, I would like for her to have them this year. The boys even helped me wrap the gifts. I can't imagine.

Sunshine got his shots today, six of them in less than 2 minutes. Poor little guy. Then we went to get his blood drawn this evening at the lab (when it is quieter) and they didn't have the order so we had to wait for about 15 min for Duck to come and get us. He laid on me for about an hour and just laid there. He doesn't feel good at all. I've given him some medicine and hopefully he will rest peacefully through the night. We are going to clean the house back up tomorrow, lounge around and then we are off to the south for our visiting.

I'm not sure if I have reported the latest from Riley. The EKG came back fine, and we found out that WPW isn't in fact hereditary, it is something ANYONE can get at ANYTIME, but it is rare. His murmur is a innocent murmur and doesn't need to be checked again for about 3-5 years unless there are signs of problems. We then went onto Genetics and they went over every single inch of his body. EVERY SINGLE INCH! They noticed that his 5th toe laid a little over his 4th. They looked in between each toe, at the nails and so on. They even measure his little family jewels and peeped at his bottom. The noticed that he had a big head, we already knew this, but it was noted. He was between 75 & 78 percentile while I remain in the 98 percentile. They noticed that his finger nails are larger and cover more finger width wise than most. The even looked at how his hair grows on his head and how his eyes closed when he blinked. They did some blood tests and we have to do a urine collection.

Well I must get going, I have to get to bed, we are all very tired.

Good Night,

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 14, 2007 Let it snow...
DATE: 12/14/2007 15:37:27
STATUS: publish
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Boy this is going to put a huge crimp in our plans this weekend. We have to be at Riley Hospital early Monday morning and we are now going to have to travel through this white stuff. Grrr. It's beautiful when you are a kid, you hope that it snows enough to miss school or when you can sit back and watch it come down and marvel in its beauty BUT when you have to drive in it, it's horrible. And what's worse is that people in Indiana seem to act every year like they've never ever seen or had to drive in the stuff. I am now under the impression that we will be taking the long way home. Anyhow, I have to go pack.

Well I just got off of the phone, my grandmother isn't doing so well, she is slipping as we all do with age, but this is the beginning of the end.

If I don't get back to this, have a wonderful weekend!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 12, 2007 Stop it, don't do that, put it down
DATE: 12/12/2007 20:14:54
STATUS: publish
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don't touch that, leave the heater alone, don't pull on the cat, don't lock mommy out of the house, no you can't take ALL your toys into the tub, stay out of the dryer, don't jump on the couch, don't jump off the couch, don't climb on the entertainment center, don't grind your teeth, don't shut the TV off, don't hit your brother, don't pull your brother's hair, don't call China, don 't climb on the counters, no you can't have another Scooby Snack, sorry you ate all 3 lbs of apples that I bought 2 days ago, leave the gate alone, Me-mo went goodnight, don't throw blocks, don't hit your brother with block, don't take the puzzle pieces from your brother, don't push your brother....does it sound like I've had a great day? OH MY GOODNESS. I HATE THIS MEDICINE THAT THE BOYS ARE ON. I'm sure that it will just take some getting used to, but AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! Okay, I feel better, thanks for listening.

I had a wonderful bible study today and it inspired me to do more studying so I did that instead of cleaning. Darn it I need to get off here and clean before Duck gets home. I know that he works hard and it is nice to come home to a nice clean house. And since the boys are still winding down, it will be a good time to try and get something done. Okay, well goodnight.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 11, 2007 Okay...so some ideas have crossed
DATE: 12/11/2007 14:25:22
STATUS: publish
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my mind lately.

#1 - Like the psycho that I am, I have been watching Jericho. Now I'm on the verge of being obsessed. What would we do if something like that happened to us. Where would we go, who would we trust? All these questions have been pouring into my head. So do I make a "survival kit" or be like the millions of others, unprepared, unorganized and helpless? I have decided to put together a small disaster kit. Something that any parent, especially if their children have special needs or medical problems, should do. But how much is over kill? Should keep a chicken in my basement for fresh eggs? Should I invest tons of money that I don't have into generators and solar cells and water purification tablets? How much is too much? These are the things that I am contemplating. I'm not sure that I will ever have the right answer unless it happens and the I will say, gezz, I wish I would have done that too.

#2 - I've been working on my diet and exercise plans for the 2nd of Jan. My goal is to lose about 100 pounds over the next 2-3 years. I think that it is for the most part possible, but I have to remember that it didn't happen over night and it isn't going to unhappen over night. I have also Incorporated into this schedule a cleaning schedule so I can hit the things that need to be done on a weekly, bi-weekly and monthly basis. I will also incorporate some things for Howard that need to be done on a reg basis and try my best to start learning how to do certain things in case, heaven forbid, something happen to him. I need to know how to do these things.

#3 - How am I going to pay for my kids college tuition's? I figure that it is going to be expensive and it is going to be almost impossible unless we start now.

Well last night we went to Sunshine's first on stage performance. It was the cutest darn thing I've ever seen in my life. Duck was trying to record it, but I recommend anyone who watches it that they take some Dramamine first. I'm sure that is spelled wrong. He did at one point, during the whole maybe 2 min performance, point Duck out of the huge crowd and say "Daddy!" loud enough for us to hear all the way in the back. He is a cute little performer. I do wonder though, he had a very hard time concentrating on stage, he kept looking around and not paying a ton of attention to his teacher. Although he is one of the youngest in his class he at least participated. One of the other kids stole the show, but there were several that froze or cried through the whole thing. I'm grateful that the school even allowed them to do their skit.

I'm happy to report that my medicine that I have been taking for milk allergy/lactose thing has been a HUGE success. And it's very reasonable priced. In fact, it has been working so well that I haven't had to take any med in a week and I haven't had any problems at all. I would strongly recommend this to anyone who has a lactose allergy or anyone who has a child who has it.(yes they do have a child dosage, and I have some of the children's if they want to try it before they buy). It has truly been wonderful to be able to eat ice cream with my family or have a bowl of cereal.

Okay, gotta run, busy getting my house cleaned back up and getting my bible study done for our session tomorrow.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 07, 2007 Priceless..
DATE: 12/07/2007 18:27:38
STATUS: publish
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• Albuterol for Smiley - $95.59
• Albuterol for Sunshine - $95.59
• Pulmicort for Smiley - $238.89
• Pulmicort for Sunshine - $438.99
• Azithromycin for Smiley - $42.39
• Azithromycin for Sunshine - $42.39
• Total of 2 trips to the pharmacy - $953.84

Having insurance to take care of this so I will have healthy children in less than a week....priceless. It makes me wonder why prices are so high on meds. I mean, if they can give the insurance companies a discount, why can't they just charge that amount to everyone? Even if someone doesn't have insurance. Any I do know that there is a difference above for the Pulmicort, that's what happens when you have a child who is 20lbs heavier and 2 years older. We now have at a minimum 4 treatments a day. And when they are sick, like they are now, I have to do 8-12 a day because I can combine the meds together otherwise it would be 12-16 per day. Oh my. The cool thing was I got a coupon for a $25.00 gift card coupon if I were to bring in new or transferred script that I used on the second trip and now I can finish my Christmas shopping my my step mother.

Smiley is having dry skin issues right now as well, so when he was taking his bath tonight threw the baby lotion in the sink and filled it with hot water. By the time we were done with the bath it was warmed up enough not to freeze him to death when I had to put it on him. I think that I'm going to try to lotion him up at least twice a day. Duck also fixed my cool mist vaporizer and it is running full blast and I brought down the Vicks Vaporizer and set it up in the hallway to run. That should put some moisture in the house. I will talk to his doc when we go back in a couple of weeks.

I cleaned my carpets with peroxide last night and wow....I am going to do it one more time in a couple of days...perhaps Sunday night to see if I can pull anything else out. I have a friend who was house training her dog and the place where she got her dog told her to use peroxide on the peed on carpet after you absorb it with a napkin. It pulls the stain out and smell. We used it on some of the darker areas of our carpet and it has done wonders...so I will use some more. I just mix a large bottle (roughly 96 cents) with the rest hot water and some OxyClean in the back of my carpet cleaner and go to town. Tomorrow, depending if the boys feel good enough, we will get our hair cut and pictures taken. We will then rearrange the living room and set up our Christmas Tree.

The baby discussion that I brought up the other day. Before I got prego with Smiley I had told a friend of mine that I would have her baby since she has a problem carrying term. I told her that I needed an answer ASAP since we weren't using any protection and letting nature take its course. She didn't let me know that she was interested until about 3 months later when I was already prego. I would have used protection to prevent me from getting prego if she was ready to do it. Now she has had to have surgery and using her eggs are no longer an option. I'm at a loss here. There is only two ways I will have another child. #1, if God decided to defy my IUD and we get prego #2 I would have one for her if she could find a donor. Duck and I talked about it today a couple of times. Although I would give the woman a kidney, I'm not sure that I could give her an egg. I just don't think it is possible to give up a baby that is half mine, but hers. I know that a lot of people out there say, your crazy, how could you give up a child that you carried period...well it wouldn't be my child. Granted I would hold a closer bond, but it would be like dog sitting for 9 months. If I could have chosen a different mother in life, I would have chosen her. I want her to be as happy as we are. Although she already has one child, it would mean the world to her and her family to have another. I do hope that she is able to find a suitable egg donor and possibly allow me to do this for her. I think that having the gift of a child is one of the most wonderful things in world. On the other hand I look at it in a different aspect. Okay so one of these days I will have another period. Hopefully not for about 4 years, but hey I've already gone a year, I'm happy with that. When I do, I will shed hundreds of eggs anyway. I don't know what to do, I think that her using a donor is far better than me giving up a child that would be half of me.

Well Duck is going to call here in a few minutes and I would like to get the dished put in the dishwasher so I can watch Jericho.

Life is priceless.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 06, 2007 One up and one down
DATE: 12/06/2007 16:25:46
STATUS: publish
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Well the good thing about taking afternoon naps with the boys is that it is refreshing....for them. I maybe get 1/3 of what they get and then they have 100% more energy than I do. Why do I let them take naps them......??? Well both are starting to get really sick. Smiley couldn't even get his shots today since he was so sick. He came home with 3 scripts two of which require neb treatments at least twice a day. Here we go again. So I decided after the blood bath last night on the couch when his nose just started bleeding like the flood gates were opened that I would set up the humidifier today. Got it all cleaned out and water loaded. Set it where it would be out of the little hands way and it was leaking EVERYWHERE. So I pulled the top off to stop the flow. The only conclusion I could come up with, since it had been a year, was that the oring gasket thingy was missing. AH HA....that's where that blasted thing goes. SO here the story of this gasket as I will call it now. I've thrown this thing away like 3 times and it keeps finding its way back on the floor, in the kids hands, in the sink whatnot. And finally I accepted defeat thinking, hey this will probably be needed for something and this has to be a sign of something so I put it in the candle drawer thinking that I would remember exactly where was when I found something that needed it. Sure enough it was still there, tucked away nice and snug. SOOO, I put the gasket in, refill the watch tub and set it back up. Go to turn it on and then the stupid fan stops running. Oh, geez, what now? I looked inside and there is two pop sickle stick stuck under the fan...someones been naughty. So no I have to wait until Duck get home so he can brave the man garage and find a screwdriver that I will forever confiscate for the house because I am tired of not having one. Once again my house is destroyed, it was nice last night and when I brought Smiley back from the doctor it appeared as if Duck had all the kids in our neighborhood over to tear the place back up. Oh and it was just he and Sunshine. Double Grrr. So I guess I need to go, I have to get the clothes folded and I'm thinking about making some more banana bread since it is cold in here. I start my new diet in 25 days and my banana bread will not be on the list. That is unless I can get the stuff to try low sugar/fat bread.....hummm...I think Diet Sprite instead of oil and Sweet and Low instead of sugar. That should cut some down. Anyhow, I will be keeping a blog hopefully daily when I start that. I really want to keep a journal as to my success. Until then I need to consider doing more sit ups, climbing more stairs and possible Sweating to the Oldies with my work out buddies. Well Gotta Scat.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 05, 2007 By the way...a baby in the future
DATE: 12/05/2007 20:29:52
STATUS: publish
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Don't let me forget to write about that one!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 05, 2007 So much to do
DATE: 12/05/2007 20:28:10
STATUS: publish
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and never enough time. I've started a monthly cleaning regiment that hits everything in general that doesn't get hit daily or weekly. Like the darn fan blades...and so on. Well I'm tired and I'm going to bed. We are sickly with this blasted cold and I've got to get up early to take Smiley for his year check up.

Toodles!

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 03, 2007 Something to make me go hum...
DATE: 12/03/2007 18:25:04
STATUS: publish
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Tomorrow night they are going to show Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer right before Victoria Secrets new lingerer show. While I will enjoy watching one with the kids I will only be jealous of the women who can wear those outfits while I watch the other. I will probably not watch the VS special. I have nothing against it, I just don't think that I want to watch it. While I would love to look like those women and in fact love to parade around in very expensive panties and make the kind of money they do, I can't and I don't see the purpose of paying that much for bras or underwear. Walmart works for me. We actually got a surprise in our mailbox the other day. Somehow we were added onto the Playboy mailing list...and I can't wait to lose weight. Somethings could be fun to wear for my husband.

On other news, I think I'm starting to come down with something. I will get up to go and get something, get into the room and forget what I went in there for. This isn't happening like the normal amount of times, it has happened numerous times today. I'm exhausted and I can't seem to get enough sleep. Last night Smiley woke up and wanted to stay up and play at 2 in the morning. Not fun....Sunshine laid down at about 5:30 to take a nap, he isn't feeling well also. I heard some wheezing last nigth while he was asleep, perhaps that is why I was waking up so often. I also thought that I kept hearing someone down stairs so I don't know if I was having a bad dream or what was going on. Boy! I'm tired.

I figured out today how to make snow globes....this is going to be fun. Tomorrow, assuming Sunshine goes to school, I will try a couple. Diaper to change, gotta go.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 30, 2007 I'm just so depressed right now.
DATE: 11/29/2007 21:44:16
STATUS: publish
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It is technically my mother's birthday. Yet I haven't been to bed yet so it is still the 29th for me. I have way too many things running through my mind right now. I'm sad that we aren't going to do something big for Smiley like we did for Sunshine. I'm sad that NONE of Duck's family found it in their precious schedules to make an attempt to come. I know that people work and have lives too. This is crazy and I feel that it is wrong to be sad over something so stupid and meaningless to most, yet happy to us. All that matters is that my little man turned one and that he is a happy and healthy blessing from God, that's what is important isn't it?

You know, a mother is suppose to be someone who is there for you always. Someone who has an objective opinion who loves you unconditionally no matter who you are, what you do or what you say. I wasn't one of the fortunate ones to get that. In fact I got quite the opposite. You know, my mother has only seen Sunshine once in his life? ONCE! She passed us in a Wal-Mart, saw him and didn't even have the courtesy to stop and meet her only (at the time) grand child. I just chalked it up to she was just trying to hurt me. No biggie, it is hard enough to explain to children why the world is the way it is today, let alone that they are related to someone who is helping the evil and helping Satan rule. You know, when we got married, one of the happiest days of my life, neither of my parents were there. Instead only friends. AJ, CJ, DJ, TJ, JJ, TM, TH, MH...okay well that sounds like a lot of people and most importantly, Duck was there. It would have meant the world to me to have my dad standing by my side, but he felt that it was a waste of a weekend to come up on a Friday and then do nothing on Saturday and wait until Sunday to be at the reception. I would have given up my entire reception to have him there for my wedding. And no, before you ask, I never told him that nor do I plan to. He is a wonderful man and I just have to understand that people have different priorities in life. Like me for example...I want to be at every school function that parents are invited to, or at least as many as I can be, my mother treated most of them like they were the plague. I know that she was the only one working and someone had to make the money.

Well this isn't the half of it, but I have to go, my beautiful baby boy just woke up and he isn't feeling like himself.

Me.

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AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 11/30/2007 04:01:03
As you know we don't have a car, I mean we have a car, put not to sure how much we trust it quite yet. [[If that makes since]].T is going to try it out when he is not to busy, but I don't think he will do it before MC's b-day party. I feel the same way you do about the whole wedding thing. It still upsets me to think that all of my family knew about it, but none of them showed, no matter how much my mom didn't like T then, I wish she would have been there to watch me marry the one person I love. The wouldn't have came to the "reception" due to it being out at T's sisters, and well A.) We didn't even know it was going on and B.) Boths sides don't really get along.

But I push it off. I have what I want, and the only think I have ever asked for. [[A man that knows how to treat a woman.]]
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AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 11/30/2007 05:31:45
You have a valid point. I have everything that I could have logically asked for. A wonderful husband and two beautiful kids. We have a roof over our heads and food in our pantry. Things really aren't as bad as they sometimes seem. I think that I was just having a really deep day yesterday.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 29, 2007 So Thanksgiving...
DATE: 11/29/2007 20:32:41
STATUS: publish
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was a success! I made two turkey, about 10 side items, 2 kinds or rolls, 5 pies and a partridge in a pear tree. It was a lot of fun to spend it with the M's and just us. I thought it was good.... Friday morning we joined the rest of the psycho's in the orgy of greed to get the best deal. I must say that having a child in tow did make me less aggressive, I didn't care if I got anything I was just having fun with B. I came home and crashed. I was so exhausted. I then took them home on Friday and went and visited my WT friends. That was fun also, although I stayed far longer than I ever intended. Thank goodness for Mocha Frappichinos.

I have canceled Smiley's birthday party thus far. Duck has to work and it was just an inconvenient weekend for most. I think that we may still do it, perhaps tomorrow I will put everything up and we will just celebrate the 4 of us. Which is more than fine with us.

They think that GG had a stroke the Tue before Thanksgiving...I will wait to hear the results.

Well I must go, I want to get a load of dishes in and the counters wiped down before I got to bed which hopefully will be in the next 30 minutes.

Sorry there isn't more, there just isn't anything to talk about.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 28, 2007 Today in history...
DATE: 11/28/2007 15:03:49
STATUS: publish
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One year ago today I was holding my newborn baby while he nursed and slept and pooped. I am so sad that he is one, but happy that he is at the same time. Make sense? I can't believe that it has already been a year. He is so adorable and learning by leaps and bounds. He now has a 14 word vocab, walks (which he has been doing for 2 months), jumps on the trampoline and lights up our lives in only a way that he can. He is a wonderful and amazing little boy as is Sunshine. Both my boys are so incredible special to Duck and I. We are truly blessed. Well gotta go, dinner is done and we are going to make a cake after we eat to celebrate.

Proudest mother in the world,
Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 28, 2007 Mothers who sign their rights away...
DATE: 11/28/2007 12:44:20
STATUS: publish
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A 3-year-old tells all from his mother's restroom stall.
By Shannon Popkin


My little guy, Cade, is quite a talker. He loves to communicate and
does it quite well. He talks to people constantly, whether we're in the
library, the grocery store or at a drive-thru window.

People often comment on how clearly he speaks for a
just-turned-3-year-old. And you never have to ask him to turn up the
volume. It's always fully cranked. There've been several embarrassing
times that I've wished the meaning of his words would have been masked
by a not-so-audible voice, but never have I wished this more than last
week at Costco.

Halfway, through our shopping trip, nature called, so I took Cade with
me into the rest room. If you'd been one of the ladies in the restroom
that evening, this is what you would have heard coming from the second
to the last stall:

"Mommy, are you gonna go potty? Oh! Why are you putting toiwet paper on
the potty, Mommy? Oh! You gonna sit down on DA toiwet paper now? Mommy,
what are you doing? Mommy, are you gonna go stinkies on the potty?"

At this point I started mentally counting how many women had been in
the bathroom when I walked in. Several stalls were full ... 4? 5? Maybe
we could wait until they all left before I had to make my debut out of
this stall and reveal my identity.

Cade continued, "Mommy, you ARE going stinkies aren't you? Oh, dats a
good girl, Mommy! Are you gonna get some candy for going stinkies on
the potty? Let me see doze stinkies, Mommy! Oh ... Mommy! I'm trying to
see in dere. Oh! I see dem. Dat is a very good girl, Mommy. You are
gonna get some candy!"

I heard a few faint chuckles coming from the stalls on either side of
me. Where is a screaming new born when you need her? Good grief. This
was really getting embarrassing. I was definitely waiting a long time
before exiting.

Trying to divert him, I said, "Why don't you look in Mommy's purse and
see if you can find some candy. We'll both have some!"

"No, I'm trying to see doze more stinkies. Oh! Mommy!" He started to
gag at this point. "Uh oh, Mommy. I fink I'm gonna frow up. Mommy, doze
stinkies are making me frow up!! Dat is so gross!!"

As the gags became louder, so did the chuckles outside my stall. I
quickly flushed the toilet in hopes of changing the subject. I began to
reason with myself: OK. There are four other toilets. If I count four
flushes, I can be reasonably assured that those who overheard this
embarrassing monologue will be long gone.

"Mommy! Would you get off the potty, now? I want you to be done going
stinkies! Get up! Get up!" He grunted as he tried to pull me off.

Now I could hear full-blown laughter. I bent down to count the feet
outside my door.
"Oh, are you wooking under dere, Mommy? You wooking under DA door? What
were you wooking at, Mommy? You wooking at the wady's feet?"

More laughter. I stood inside the locked door and tried to assess the
situation.
"Mommy, it's time to wash our hands, now. We have to go out now,
Mommy." He started pounding on the door. "Mommy, don't you want to wash
your hands? I want to go out!!"

I saw that my "wait 'em out" plan was unraveling. I sheepishly opened
the door, and found standing outside my stall, twenty to thirty ladies
crowded around the stall, all smiling and starting to applaud. My first
thought was complete embarrassment, then I thought, "Where's the fine
print on the 'motherhood contract' where I signed away every bit of my
dignity and privacy?" But as my little boy gave me a big, cheeky grin
while he rubbed bubbly soap between his chubby little hands, I thought,
I'd sign it all away again, just to be known as Mommy to this little
fellow.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 20, 2007 Oooh la la.
DATE: 11/20/2007 08:43:20
STATUS: publish
BODY:
And that's all I have to say about that!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 19, 2007 Simple Pleasures
DATE: 11/19/2007 17:30:18
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I have to make this quick...besides the simple pleasures of our children. I find it to be a simple pleasure to clean my toilet...why you ask? I find it very satisfying to be the first to use a nice clean toilet. Gotta run!

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 18, 2007 The dreaded Gas Bill
DATE: 11/18/2007 11:23:39
STATUS: publish
BODY:

AHHH. So Duck walked in and had the gas bill out of the envelope and was looking at it in disgust. I was thinking, "Oh Great another high bill, what the heck!" Then he said, "How can this be?" Great, now my stomach was churning at the though of how high this stupid bill was and how we weren't going to be able to pay it. Keep in mind, we use our dryer to dry clothes and it heats out house at the same time. The thermostat is set at 70 during the day and 68 at night. We have a plug in heater for when it gets really cold and we still have not done all the winter proofing that is on the schedule. So he wouldn't give me the bill and I couldn't take it anymore. I snatched it. Darn him, it was only like $39.00. Grrr. Granted, it wasn't all that cold last month but, geezzzz give a girl a heart attack. While it is 38 degrees out side, it is a nice 70 in here and the heater hasn't kicked on since this morning.

Well gotta run. I need to take Smiley's temp and nurse him, he's still not feeling well.

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 17, 2007 Plans are starting to come together
DATE: 11/17/2007 11:19:04
STATUS: publish
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B~ So glad to hear that you can come down Wed. This does cut down on a lot of stress on our end. I have your room set up. The only thing you need to pack there would be maybe some extra pillows. Sorry I don't have any extras. I also have sippy cups and all the jazz. It may be me and Smiley coming to get you all. You will not need any car seats at all. I have an extra for J. Is he over 40 lbs?? We will be on our way as soon as my aunt leaves. It may be 5 or so. Is that okay? I'll call you right before we leave. We have a special dinner at school with Sunshine. All the kids are cooking for the parents. This is going to be fun. Especially since Duck and join us in the event. All of us may be going back to L when we leave. Yes that means that we won't have the room, but you know me, we'll make is work somehow. I may have Duck drive the truck so he can pick up the swing set. Hey that works. Put T and Duck in the Truck. Heck yeah. It's going to be busy traffic wise, but we'll manage. The worst is the Sunday after Thanksgiving. I'm so excited, now you guys can sleep in a bit and relax all day Thursday. Or if we can get away with it, we may sneak off early early early and get a little exclusive shopping done. There are a few places that offer T-day specials. Okay gotta run, the kids have followed me all day making more of a mess than I can clean up. And Smiley has been VERY clingy.

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 11/17/2007 15:00:54
Nope, he is 37lbs, but he is in a booster seat tha is for 40lbs. That sound great! We will be ready for you. We can leave as early as you want to Friday morning. The earlier we leave the better and more deals we get... :]

Can't wait, it's going to fun!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 17, 2007 The fever and the mouse
DATE: 11/17/2007 06:51:12
STATUS: publish
BODY:
Smiley had a fever last night up to 102.8. We called the nurse and they just told us to call our doc. Well not much she is going to do besides tell us to take him in. So we decided to give him one more dose of meds and then see what happened. It went down to 100.4 so we went to bed. This morning it reads 98.6, but I think that's crap, he is so warm. He decided at 4 this morning he couldn't stay up stairs so we came down. Then I saw it. The haunting mouse. And of course, no cat to be found. I didn't want everyone to think that I was psycho this time so I woke up Duck. He saw it to. Haha. I'm not crazy. Finally the cat came home and I'm going to block him down here in case I see it again. I'm waiting to find the stupid thing dead already. Time to bait the basement. Grrr. Smiley was awake for maybe 3 hours after 11 am yesterday. It was so sad to see him like that. He didn't wake back up until 9:30 except when he was really uncomfortable or wanting to nurse. Now my boobs are going to be huge and leaking again. Double Grrr...get it? Double. Okay so I'm tired and seeing imaginary mice. Not this time, I refuse to be crazy, when the cat kills it I will take a pic to prove it. Okay well I need to go, in light of the mouse problem I need to put all the produce up off the cabinets and start make sure that he has no food he can get to. Gosh be darned it.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 15, 2007 WOW
DATE: 11/15/2007 15:33:39
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Those were his new words. He now has a vocab of about 12 or so words. He is doing very good. We have invited a family that isn't going to be able to do the T-day thing because he is a single dad and doesn't have that much money. I'm not 100 percent sure that he will come, but we do hope so. That will make 5 adults and 5 kids in my house that day. My aunt sent us a gift card with a heafty sum on it for the grocery store. I must say that we were VERY shocked. Well nothing really new going on, I have a few bible study homework assignments that I need to get done. I also have a house to finish cleaning and an upstairs to put the final touches on and a menu to plan and so much to do and so little time.

Okay, gotta run.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 15, 2007 New words
DATE: 11/15/2007 08:19:16
STATUS: publish
BODY:
In, out hi, up. I'll explain later.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 14, 2007 Ewwww. YUCK
DATE: 11/14/2007 19:02:02
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I cleaned my carpets just a few minutes ago and YUCK. I will be cleaning them again tomorrow after I clean the carpet cleaner. It needs a good once over. I plan on finishing the upstairs bedrooms. I am very close, well 3 hours closer than I was. It isn't easy cleaning two rooms at the same time while following either one or two children around. I can always tell where they are though, they leave me a trail of toys. I went through a bunch of Sunshine's cloths and gave a bunch away to a lady that needs them. I do hope that they help her. They weren't brand new and some of them this is the 3rd or 4th child, but they will work. I did give her a bunch of nicer cloths too. I have a very busy day tomorrow so I need to jump off of here. I have two loads that need to be dry and 50 loads (it seems) to fold. I also need to set up the fans to dry the floor quicker since I will have company in 12 hours. I also have to load the dish washer and make some more tea and Duck's lunch. Like I said I have a lot to do.

Tata.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 13, 2007 A little more accomplished.
DATE: 11/13/2007 16:12:52
STATUS: publish
BODY:

As I continued to think about the abortion issue today I got a lot more done than yesterday. Someone stated in a comment that certain abortions are now illegal. In my opinion ALL abortions should be illegal. That is horrible. There are too many people out there that would love to adopt a baby. And a 15 year old girl who has had 3 abortions...well her parents should be put into jail and she should be fixed. Of course that is my personal opinion. If it offends you, get over it. There are things that others do that offend me and I get over it. But this is far beyond offending this is MURDER.

I will detail my kitchen tomorrow and finish the pantry. I will also work on the upstairs while Sunshine is at school. I want to get the bed up for our very special guests.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 11/13/2007 17:42:02
We are special in more ways than just one. :]
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 11/13/2007 17:43:02
I'm so very syked to see you & well go shopping.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 11/13/2007 20:20:22
I never said abortion should NOT be illegal. I agree that abortion is wrong. I never said otherwise.



As for the 15 year old, who is to say the parents even know about it? In many states now, a child as young as 14 can get an abortion without parental knowledge or consent.



But, the specific type of abortion you were refering too where a live baby was birthed is now illegal. Baby steps. Legalizing elective abortions did not happen over night. Making it illegal is not going to happen over night either.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 11/14/2007 12:20:53
That is HORRIBLE. A 14 year old shouldn't be allowed to do such a thing without her parents consent and the consent of the father and if need be the consent of his parents. I agree with you that this didn't happen over night nor will it change over night. I didn't mean it as a personal attack on you. I was just stating that I felt all abortions should be illegal.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 12, 2007
DATE: 11/12/2007 14:20:47
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Mona Charen on the Baby Hope Situation
Editorial by Mona Charen

Cincinnati -- The woman was 22 weeks pregnant when she sought the assistance of Dr. Martin Haskell, the originator of the partial-birth abortion procedure, to rid herself of her already-kicking child.

Haskell performed the first stage of the partial-birth abortion. He inserted a seaweed-based substance into the woman's cervix and instructed her to return the following day. In the usual course of events, the seaweed absorbs the amniotic fluid from the womb and expands, thus slowly dilating the cervix. The next day, new seaweed is inserted. On the third day, the abortionist opens the cervix with his fingers, feels around for the baby's legs and pulls them out of the birth canal. He rotates the fetus' shoulders so that the baby's face is oriented toward the mother's lower back and then, using scissors, he punctures the bottom of the baby's skull and suctions the brain out through a tube.

But in this case, things did not go according to plan. The woman complained of severe abdominal pain on the first night and, being far from Haskell's clinic, reported to the emergency room of her local hospital, Bethesda North, in Cincinnati. As she was being examined (she did not say she was pregnant), the baby was born -- alive. Pediatricians and neonatologists came running. The baby girl weighed in at 1 pound. The doctors decided that the child was very unlikely to survive and instructed that nothing be done.

Connie Boyles, a nurse, and Shelly Lowe, a medical technician, saw the baby girl gasp for air and were stunned. Lowe, knowing that the nurses were busy caring for other patients in the emergency room, asked if she could hold the child she dubbed "Baby Hope" until she died. The request was granted.

Lowe wrapped Baby Hope in a blanket and settled into a rocking chair for what she imagined would be just a few minutes. She sang to her and stroked her cheeks. "I wanted her to feel that she was wanted," Lowe explained later. "She was a perfectly formed newborn, entering the world too soon, through no choice of her own." The baby sucked on her lower lip, opened and closed her hands, and moved a bit as Lowe held her. She also did something else -- she continued to breathe on her own. Dr. John Willke, a pro-life activist and former obstetrician, says he doesn't quarrel with the initial determination made by the emergency-room physicians that Baby Hope was too small and too premature to survive. But, he says, when she was still alive and breathing room air 30 minutes after birth, her status should have been reassessed. An excellent neonatal care unit was a mere helicopter ride away. And she might have been saved.

As it is, nothing was done. After three hours, Baby Hope died in the arms of the compassionate Shelly Lowe. The state of Ohio issued her a death certificate. The cause of death was listed as "extreme prematurity secondary to induced abortion." Would Dr. Haskell have issued her a death certificate at his shop, or does he simply throw the bodies in the trash?

Very few premature infants survive when born before 23 weeks, though there have been survivors at 22 weeks. Still, one has to wonder: If a woman who did want her baby spontaneously aborted in an emergency room, would the doctors have been so quick to give up on the child? Would they ignore the signs of unusual vitality this infant showed? (Most premature babies have trouble breathing without assistance. That this infant was able to breathe room air was amazing.) Was Baby Hope's value as a human being secondary to her value to the mother?

If we judge people's humanity by any standard other than that each is a unique individual with God-given rights, we demean every person's dignity. A child is a child. Would-be adoptive parents wait years and years or go abroad in search of children to love.

Lowe was asked at a press conference what her position on abortion was. She said she had been pro-choice but was now pro-life. What changed her mind?

Three hours

From: http://www.righttoliferoch.org/wrpg01.htm

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 11/13/2007 15:23:12
There is now a ban on partial birth abortion. The law was enacted in 2003. The above abortion was in 1999. The nurse and tech were forced to quit and there is a question of how old the baby was. (22-25 weeks.) If the baby was 23 weeks or older (and there is a real possiblity due to the fact that she was able to breath room air for 3 hours) then proceedure would call for life-saving measures. But since this was supposed to have been an abortion, they did nothing.



The PBA ban prevents further tragedies like this.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 12, 2007 Update on my new decision
DATE: 11/12/2007 14:06:15
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I guess that I never knew the "truth" about this horrible crime against a baby. I thought at first that it was a hoax or a lie so I searched snopes.com and found nothing. Then I decided to search for this nurse and I actually found her. She has a book out that I plan on going to the library tomorrow and borrowing. I have attached her complete story that I got off of www.whatanursesaw.com. She is looking for others stories and such. I'm so horrified that this is even legal. I have this mental image that I wish I would have never thought about. This is so awful.

My Story

June 1, 2007

Good Evening! Thank you for visiting my web site.

As a registered nurse licensed in the State of Ohio, I had seen a lot of death -- auto accidents, gunshot wounds, etc. However, in all my twenty years as an RN, I had never witnessed anything like I did on September 28-30, 1993.

I was employed by Kimberly Quality Care, a nursing agency in Dayton, Ohio, and I was asked to accept an assignment at the Women's Medical Center in Dayton. Because I considered myself "very pro-choice" I readily accepted the assignment. What I saw over the next few days is branded forever on my mind.

On the first day, I assisted in some first-trimester abortions. One that I recall was a 15-year old girl who was having her third abortion. On the second day, I assisted in a second trimester abortion that is called a D & E (dilation and evacuation). Also on the first two days we inserted laminaria to dilate the cervixes of women who were being prepared for the partial-birth-abortions -- those who were past the 20-week point in their pregnancy.

On the third day, I was on hand for three partial-birth procedures. I recall one procedure in particular, the mother was six months pregnant, and the baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor went in with forceps and grabbed the baby's legs and pulled them down into the birth canal. Then he delivered the baby's body and the arms--everything but the head. The baby's little fingers were clasping and his feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck scissors through the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startled reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. The doctor opened up the scissors creating a hole at the base of the skull. He then stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and suctioned the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp.

I remember the baby's face as being the most perfect, angelic face I had ever seen.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 12, 2007 As I sit here in tears...
DATE: 11/12/2007 08:26:36
STATUS: publish
BODY:

B~ Sorry I tagged this from your site.

I was pro-choice until I read this. I can't imagine the horror. That doctor is a murder and should be put into prison along with the mother who allowed it to happen.

In September 1993, Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse with thirteen years of experience, was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic. Since Nurse Shafer considered herself "very pro-choice," she didn't think this assignment would be a problem. She was wrong. This is what Nurse Shafer saw:


"I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby's body and arms, everything but his little head. The baby's body was moving. His little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby's head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. Then the doctor opened the scissors up. Then he stuck the high-powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp. I never went back to the clinic. But I am still haunted by the face of that little boy. It was the most perfect, angelic face I have ever seen."


But what about if the baby had been aborted at a younger age.. say 6 weeks? When the baby is this young, doctors use the Saline Method, where they inject a salty saline solution into the mother's womb. You would think it would just poison the baby, but it actually burns it to death. Even though the baby is so young, on ultrasounds of the abortion, the baby is seen pulling away from the poison as it is injected.. obviously wanting to stay alive.(The baby is intelligent enough to move away from the pain..but the child can't escape it)


Think about that before you say that unborn children can't feel pain.


PASS THIS ON IF YOU BELIEVE ABORTION IS WRONG.

Life is life, no matter how small.
A baby cries for it's first and last time when it's aborted
You can deny but its true

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 11, 2007 baking...
DATE: 11/11/2007 11:38:21
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I am baking my head off today. I think that I'm going to get ready to do yet another round of bread. I've made pineapple and banana, now I want to make some apple. I picked up a bunch of bananas this weekend. I stopped at the farmers market and paid 44 cents for a lot of bananas. We then went to Walmart and they were the same price there and they were a more reputable brand. Sat we went grocery shopping and found a ton of bananas that were spotted at SaveALot. They were 20 cents per pound, I guess the girl rang them up for 10 cents per pound though. The sad thing is that the ones that were spotted and 20 cents per pound were in much better shape than the Farmer's Market bunch, not to mention they were a lot bigger. That's sad. While I was in the FM on Friday I also looked at the apples and they were much less than desire able as well. Needless to say, that is the last time that I shop there. Two times of disappointments is enough wasting my money for me. Anyhow, I bagged all the bananas up and put them in the freezer for when I could get to making more bread. I have also learned that using that spray in a can stuff ruins my bread. DARN IT. I will have to just wait until I can get to a kitchen place to get a spray bottle for my oil. I have also thought about using shortening. Hey by the way if any of this is a duplicate sorry, my computer has had problems because of the storms this morning. I have also gotten almost all the Christmas Cards done.

On another note, my washer has broken....DANG IT. Duck says he can fix it. I am also really looking forward to seeing the Mo family over Tday. I can't wait! You are still coming right? Well I need to get off of here, I am starting to feel a surge in wanting to get some house work done so I am going to start up stairs, it is much easier to work up there when Duck is here with the boys downstairs. That way if one wants to come upstairs he can help them. Also we used Smiley's old pumpkin seat to put him to bed in last night. I must say that he looked very comfortable and slept for quite a while. He woke up 3 times I think. OH..AND Hey guess what, not that any of you care, have dropped a cup size!!! I AM SO HAPPY. Well gotta dash for now, I'll try to write more later.

Love,
Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 10, 2007 It's HOT
DATE: 11/10/2007 16:21:48
STATUS: publish
BODY:

It was so hot in my house today that I had to open a couple of windows. We went to the grocery store and got a ton of food. I have more than 75 cans of veggies alone. GEEZ. I cleaned a lot today not meaning to just got it done, it is liberating! I have more that I want to do. Things like dust the fan blades, clear out the cob webs. Well gotta go for now.

Tata

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 08, 2007 When you think you have it bad...
DATE: 11/08/2007 16:11:32
STATUS: publish
BODY:

There is a town in Tenn I think that only gets use of their water for 3 hours a day. When the stream dries up they have to truck in water for the town. The 145 residents have 3 hours to wash their clothes, run their dishwashers, shower and water their animals. They said that they have found alternate routes of flushing toilets by using swimming pool water (since they aren't swimming anymore) or condensation from their a/c unit. They also said that a company in Texas is offering these water saving things that will save each household 90 gallons per day if they would just install them on their faucets, toilets and showers. We have just installed some on our faucets and have the one for the shower. We are also going to reduce the tank water level in our toilet to see if it works. If not we will buy one of the low water toilets when we get out tax check. I am also going to check into tank less water heaters. I also wonder about possibly collecting rain water during the summer months to flush the toilets would help. Our water bill is HUGE and it is mainly our sewage. $12.00 for water and $45.00 for sewage. Anyway...just thought I'd share that I have a lot yet to do tonight and we had some last minute change in plans. Gotta scat!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 07, 2007 So the invitations are complete
DATE: 11/07/2007 19:07:16
STATUS: publish
BODY:

They are done and going in the mail tomorrow. I have to remember what I did with the darn stamps! This is going to be fun. I have planned the Tday events and now I need to plan the events for the party. I don't know if I am going to do much. I am actually thinking about doing individual cakes for everyone and letting the kids decorate their own. I found these cute star tins that I can use. That way everyone has their own cake, no cutting necessary and easier than a whole cake. I am still going to get Smiley a personal cake that is decorated special. Not totally sure what I'm going to do yet.

Sunshine fell asleep at about 7 pm and hopefully he will sleep until at least 7 tomorrow morning. I really want to kick but and get things done tomorrow. My goal is to do all the following:

• Arrange books on the bookshelf and clean up the hallway
• Clear off the top of the entertainment center
• Fold all the clothes in the p-n-p
• Pick up all the toys and vacuum
• possibly clean the carpet
• wipe down the couch and end table
• Clear off the kitchen table
• Put the pumpkin seat in my van
• Clear off the desk
• Clear the counters in the kitchen
• Clear off the window seat
• Put all the dishes away and reload the dish washer
• Detail the stove
• Sweep, vacuum and mop the kitchen
• Vacuum the dining room and hallway
• Wipe down the sink, toilet and mirror in the bathroom
• Sweep and mop the bathroom
• Pick up all the clothes in the laundry room and sort them
• Put back all the can and box goods that the kids have pulled down
• Clean off the shelf and put all the canned goods on the gray shelves.
• vacuum the laundry room
• Put all the clothes away in the master bedroom
• move the bed over to the master bedroom
• make both beds
• Put all the cloths away in the small bedroom
• vacuum the small bedroom
• Set the bed up in the small bedroom and make it.
• Set up pack and play in the small bedroom
• Go through the toys
• Bring the extra clothes down stairs and put with other for AJD
• Vacuum the steps and hallway up stairs.
• Vacuum master bedroom

Sound like enough?????

Guess I have a lot to do tomorrow. Gotta get ready for bed and run a load of laundry to warm up the downstairs.

Oh and I have a surprise bonus Bible Study lesson to complete tomorrow.

Night!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 07, 2007 Very early morning
DATE: 11/07/2007 08:22:02
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Sunshine woke up at 4:30 this morning....and has been awake since. He is showing no sign of slowing down. As I hate to admit it Smiley and I needed more sleep so I put on a movie for him and dozed in and out. Once his movie was over he got up and started playing and our day began! I am tired! I do hope that he decides to go to bed at a more decent hour.

By they way before I go I want to add a movie review to my previous reviews. The new Disney movie Ratatooie or how ever it is spelled is horrible. I am appalled at Disney and I plan to send them a strongly worded letter about it. The movie shows a old lady pulling out a rifle and shooting several times at the rats and she then has to reload and continue. Then on top of that it later shows a man and a woman having an argument where the man says something like, "You don't have the guts" to the woman who is holding a gun t his face. Then a shot goes through the ceiling and it shows another brief clip of the two of them kissing. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. How in the HELL is this rated "G"? I am so fed up with Disney I could puke. What happened to movies like Cinderella and Lady and the Tramp? If it weren't for the fact that we bought Cars before we saw it I would not own that one either. In the movie Lightning McQueen refers to the town he is in as "Hillbilly Hell". What that's freaking appropriate. In Liapproaiteitch they have a song that says, "N**** rigging the ocean blue" WHAT. AHHHH. As far as I'AHHHHcerned Disney needs to clean up their act or they will not be receiving anymore moreceiveingy pocket. I know that the don't think that it is a big deal, ohhh....one customer, ohhhell. GOSH!

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 11/07/2007 10:09:49
Not including all the "inside" jokes that only us adults understand in Cars. I have to agree with you.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 06, 2007 Sunshine's Blog
DATE: 11/06/2007 15:41:01
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I have moved all the blogs from Sunshine's blog to mine. This way if Duck deletes them I won't be disappointed. There are some cute and some sad. I enjoy writing from his point of view. I will try to write now and again like that.

January 05, 2007 It has been a while

Okay, so I played a little too long with my mega blocks and puzzles. Mommy said that I should write some things down. My brother was born on 11/28/06, we'll call him MC. He is loud, cries often - even in the middle of the night when I'm try to sleep, he is always biting mommy and she doesn't even make him sit in time out. Oh and he peed on my face, so I just stay away from him unless he is crying, then I make sure mommy gets him. I'm enjoying being home with mom, but I miss my friends. My biggest accomplishment happened today...I peed on the potty. You should have seen mommy...too bad I didn't have a camera, she would have won America's Funniest Videos....she's crazy. Okay, gotta go, mommy wants me to pick up my puzzles, and books, and toys, and crayons, and paper...geez, does she want me to do it all??

Big Al

Entry for April 07, 2006 My big news!!!!!!!!!!

Mommy and Daddy told me yesterday that I was going to be a big brother! Yup, you heard it, my mommy is going to give me a little brother or sister. Daddy says that I now don't have to go far to torment someone smaller than me. I hope that all is with everyone....

Baby AL.

Entry for March 28, 2006 Hello to everyone

Just a quick Hi, I am busy playing with my new toys that a lady from mommy's work gave me. I couldn't wait to get them into the house. Mom has put on picture of me in the hospital. Sunday Daddy was cleaning and I wandered through the house playing. He noticed I was gone and came to look for me. He found me playing in the dryer...mom put those pictures on also. Well I'm going to go play...have fun.

Baby Al.

Entry for March 10, 2006 My trip to the hospital

Mommy said she'd put up pictures later. I have been very sick the past couple of weeks, of course it feels like forever. Three Fridays ago, including today, mommy and daddy took me to see the doctor because I had green stuff coming out of my eyes. YUCK. He said that I had an upper respiratory infection and Pink Eye. He gave me some drops and sent me home. That night I started running a fever and Saturday I started to cough pretty bad. Mommy had to stay home with me on Monday because my fever was really high. Tuesday she took me to see the doctor again since I was having problems breathing, still had a fever and a cough. Dr. H did a chest x-ray and a stuck a big q-tip down my throat and I wasn't happy at all. I had strep throat and nothing wrong with my chest. They gave me a breathing treatment and then they stuck me in the butt with something sharp, I thought my butt was going to fall off. I went to play with my friends on Wednesday and felt a little better, but still not my normal self. Wednesday night mommy and I spelt on the couch because daddy felt bad too. About 1:30 I woke mommy up crying and she gave me a breathing treatment and some more of that yucky stuffy. She said that I stopped breathing because she woke me up. I went back to sleep and then she woke me up about 6:30 that morning because I guess I stopped breathing again. She took me to the Emergency room in the other town and they were really mean to me. I had to get an IV put into my arm because they said I wasn't drinking enough. They took me down to get more x-rays and I was mad about that too. After a few hours they let us go home and I was so happy, but I still didn't feel good. The doctor's told mommy that if I wasn't better by the next morning to go to see our doctor. So she called the next morning and Dr. G saw us. He said that if my breathing treatment in his office didn't work I'd have to go back to the hospital. I tried really hard to get all the medicines in, but I guess it didn't work. Mommy had to page the doctor on call that night and he said to take me to the hospital. They poked me some more, took more x-rays and did a bunch of blood work. I really don't like that place. They made us go upstairs and put me in a room. Mommy had to stay with me and we were there until yesterday morning. I was not at all happy about any of this. Every time the doctors or nurses would come in, they would hold that cold round thing on my chest or put that thing around my arm or leg. I just covered my head as soon as they came in the room. I am so happy to be at home, I was clapping as mommy got me out of the car. I did have a huge problem walking yesterday, and a little bit of a problem today walking, but I'm learning again. Ultimately I had influenza, pink eye, strep throat, ear infection and a sever asthma reaction.

Thank you everyone for your prayer and calling my mommy to keep her sane.

I love you all .

Baby Al

Entry for February 27, 2006 Just wanting to say HI

Hello everyone!

I've been a little sick this past week, and kept mommy and daddy out of work. Mommy says that I had this green stuff coming out of my eyes, and then they took me to the doctor. He said that my lungs sounded good but I have an upper cold thingy. I went to an actual barber this weekend....I look so handsome. As mommy would say, I'm so dang cute, and I know it. Mommy says that I have to go back to play with my friends tomorrow so she can go to work, I do miss them, it has been awhile since I seen them. Mom and Dad got me this COOL movie that teachs me about music...I just love Blue. Uncle T is going to have another baby, at least that is what mommy said. I want a brother or sister to play with, but mommy keeps saying all in due time. Maybe one of these days I will make a wonderful big brother. I do miss grandpa, it has been forever since he let me fall asleep on him. He is so comfy. Well I've gotta go take some more medicine so I can start to feel better. Sloppy kisses to all! I love you

Baby Al.

Entry for February 07, 2006 Hello

Hi Everyone! I'm still playing and acting like a soon to be 2 year old. Nothing is new, just trying to give mommy and daddy some more gray hairs. I slipped in the bathtub the other night and banged my poor little chin. Just part of growing up. Mommy is going to get my pictures taken soon and I'll send them out to everyone. I hope taht you are all doing wonderful and can come and color with me soon.

Entry for January 31, 2006 "Update from Me"

I've been trying to get mom to write for some time, but she won't put down the color crayons. I really like my new daycare, we have so much fun and the lady there is great to me. She holds me when my mom leaves and when I'm just feeling sad and missing her. I colored some pictures the other day and mom sent one to Grandpa and D. I miss them too. Mommy says that we'll go visit soon. I'm not banging my head as much and I'm even giving up my prized possession...my passy, but I still want it when I go to sleep. I still climb in bed with mom when I wake up, but I have been trying to stay in my own bed when she lays in it. The other night I did fall out and Daddy came to my rescue! What a good Daddy. The kitty cat scratched me last night, I don't know why, I was just pulling on his tail...doesn't make sense to me. Well on to watch some more Barney and take the color crayons from mom, I keep trying to teach her to share.

Love you all...God Bless!

Baby Al.

Entry for January 22, 2006

My buddy S.S. is feeling better and is back to him-old-self. I had to go to the ER the other day because I was hoarse and couging alot and was running a fever. They tried to take me to a doc's office, but they wouldn't see me because of some paper work. Mommy was so sad she was crying all the way home. They then took me to the hospital to make sure that I was okay, and they got some x-rays done to make sure my lungs were okay. They gave me some medicine and now I feel better so I'm going to go and play with mommy.

Baby Al.

Entry for January 15, 2006 "Last night"

Last night I just wasn't feeling like the "Baby Al" that I usually do. Mommy started to put on her ugly green shirt and I really didn't want her to leave me....so I started to cry and cry and cry. So she gave me a crayon and some paper and we sat on the couch for a while. Then all the sudden she got up and headed for the kitchen...it didn't take me long to see that she wasn't sitting right next to me, so I jumped down and ran to the doorway and she had already made her way out the door and it slammed so I started to cry again. Then daddy started playing with me and I was okay. Shortly thereafter I took a nap.

After I woke up and began playing, Daddy put in the Heffalump movie. He ended up dozing off, when he heard, "I want my mommy!" You should have seen his eyes! He jumped up and looked at me with surprise before he realized that it was the movie, but I really did want my mommy. She came home early from work and brought me some ice cream. Well gotta go get something to eat now. Prayers to my buddy S.S. for a safe recovery and that he can come home soon. Love you all.

Baby Al.

Entry for January 13, 2006 "My Day"

Today was intersting...I don't know why mommy got me up so early, but we left the house before 7 am and I'm not usually out of bed before 10:30. She took me to where I played with all these kids last week. I gave mommy my passy before she left, I wanted her to have something to play with today since she brought my blanket for me. I played and played and ate and played and then I slept, I was kinda hppy mommy left my passy with my blanket. Then mommy came and picked me up while I was sleeping and we played at home while we were waiting for daddy. Well I've gotta go and tear something else up. Prayers for my little buddy S.S. who is still in the hospital. I love you!

Baby Al.

Entry for January 11, 2006 Not much new.

Mommy has added some photo's for everone to see. I had to start taking my breathing treatments again, daddy and mommy think that I'm getting sick because I have been coughing a little and had a runny nose. So I have learned to do it all by myself. I know that it looks kinda sad, but it helps me breath better and hopfully one day I will no longer need these. Mommy says that she is going to put me into swimming to help build the strength in my lungs. I can't wait to play in the water. I've learned how to blow bubbles in the bath and I've been working on dunking my own head. Although sometimes I inhale some water and mommy freaks out and won't let me do it again, I've gotta learn somehow. I'm getting better. Did you see my new tricycle? A.L. gave it to me for Christmas....my new favorite toy. I roll it over to the light switch, climb on top of it and turn on and off the light. Daddy and mommy push me around on it and they are teaching me to push the peddles, I'm getting it, but my legs are still a little too short. Must have gotten that from daddy's side of the gene pool since grandpa is tall. Well I've gotta go to go to bed. Love you all...and prayers for S.S. my little buddy that has to spend the night in the hospital because he is having some problem.

Baby Al.

Entry for January 01, 2006 Today...

What a way to bring in the new year, with all of my favorite people....We took Great-Granny out to lunch and had a wonderful time. Then we saw Uncle, Aunt and cousins. Went then went over the hills and through the woods to Grandpa's house. They got me soo many really cool things. March of the Penguins, some musical movies, books, musical toys, learning toys and a popcorn popper. We also went outside and ran around on the back porch, I had such a good time that I wore myself out and passed out in mommy arms while Grandpa was petting my head and holding my hand. I slept all the way home.

Gotta go play now.

Love Allen

Entry for January 1st, 2006 Happy New Year

We counted down from the last few seconds as mommy watched the puter. She and daddy gave me a group kiss and then they kissed each other. Then I decided that I wanted another kiss from mommy, so I walked across the couch and bent over infront of her and puckered it. She was so happy, her and daddy kissed me all over again. Happy New Year, to all of our friends and family.

Tomorrow we are going to take Great-Granny out for lunch, it is her birthday. I will be so glad to see Grandpa also if we get together with him.

Greatest wishes for the New Year.

Allen

Entry for December 31, 2005 Mommy's big scare

This morning when mommy was sleeping, after she heard me rustling around, she looked up toward my bed to see if I was still asleep and covered up. Well that's when she saw me standing right in front of her fact smiling and she SCREAMED very loud. I thought someone was going to have to change her diaper. I started laughing of course and daddy jumped about three feet off the bed. All in all it was a very funny thing. I then made daddy watch The Lion King about 100 times and mommy came home to celebrate bringing in the new year with us.

I love you all, God Bless.

Baby Al.

Entry for December 27, 2005 Our trip up north

Today we went to spend time with some golden friends. I got some more Christmas presents and I was thankful for them all. It was a long hard trip, but I was happy to see all my friends. I love you all.

Good Night,

Allen

Entry for December 25, 2005 Christmas Day.

Today we got up at 10:30, mommy and daddy love that I sleep so late. We opened presents, I got so much new cool stuff. I got 12 new books to read and look through, a ball thingy that blows air, a Noah's Ark Play Set, a green froggy that is a chair and folds out into a sleeping bag, two Blue's Clue's Movies, a Barney Movie, Muppets take Manhatten and a noisy popcorn popper. We had a HUGE meal that mom cooked and we play and watched movies all night. It was a wonderful day with mom and dad.

Love to all,

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Allen.

Entry for December 24, 2005 Christmas Eve..waking daddy up

This morning I got up before daddy, which is normal, I was so eager to get him up that I got his glasses for him and tired to pur them on him. He thought it was so cute, even though I was poking him in the eyes and nose. Mommy will be home soon, I need to go cuddle with dad.

Merry Christmas Eve & God Bless,

Allen

Entry for December 20, 2005 "My New Bed"

Last night I slept in my own bed. Daddy made sure that it was good and tight, then I bounced and climbed in and out for a little while. Daddy gave me a kiss and laid me down and I went right to sleep. I slept the whole night and woke up in the morning ready to play with mommy. Gotta go.

Allen

Entry for December 19, 2005

Today we got up at 11:25, mommy was so happy to sleep in longer than 8:30. Her and Daddy are rotating shifts again and I get to spend the days with mommy, which is good so I can spend the nights with daddy. Mommy is so excited about this week since it is the celebration on JC. We are going to get up earyl, mommy is going to cook, and we are all going to read from the bible and open some presents. Uncle T is going to get married this week and we are going to go down and witness the blessed event. Nothing new has been going on, just the usual stuff.

Love,

Baby Al

Entry for December 15, 2005

I have been doing well these past few days, I survived my glass eating experience and the slip in the tub the other night. Mommy and I are going on a long ride tomorrow to see our friends up North. It sounds like a busy day, but I'm sure it's going to be fun. I don't have much to say, I'm excited that Mommy is home and ready to play. Talk to you soon...

Al.

Entry for December 12, 2005

Hi All....wanna know what I did today?

Mom and I took a really long nap after Daddy went to work. Then she made us dinner. I decided that I couldn't wait any longer even through I had a snack waiting for me, so I decided to climb on the coffee table and pull down an ornament. Yummy, nothing like a good glass before dinner. Needless to say, Mommy just about had a heart attack...she called the "Resident Mother" since I didn't hardly eat any before Mommy snatched it from my hand, she just gave me fluids and I ate dinner. Someone should teach Mommy that it isn't nice to snatch things out of someone else's hands. Well on to the bath and more coloring. See everyone soon.

Love,

Baby Al.

Entry for December 10, 2005

Today I met my great grandmother and great Aunt. They were both very nice and gave me my Christmas gifts. I got a really cute tan puppy dog, a reindeer that sings a christmas song and a blue very soft bunny rabbit. They were all wonder gifts, and My Aunt took us out to lunch at Bob Evans. I got to color in a note book and on the table, yeah it needed color too. I had a wonderful day. We tried to stop by Grandpa's house on the way home, but he looked like he wasn't home. Gotta go to bed now, I'm a little cranky.

Love,

Allen

Entry for December 09, 2005

Today Mommy let me have another crayon...tehehe, I colored on the front door, she wansn't very happy, but I thought it was beautiful. Daddy wasn't feeling well, he builds things, and it is really cool because I hope some day that he will show me how to build things. Mommy's car wouldn't start this morning so she had to drive Daddy's truck, good thing I wasn't with her(she doesn't do so well in the snow with the truck). Today's biggest adventure was to try to climb the fence again. I took my box of wipes over to the fence, but I fell and busted my head and bit my tounge. OUCH. Later Mommy is going to let me play in the tub and we will have a relaxing evening in preparation for our long trip tomorrow. Mommy and Daddy are taking me to visit someone that I have never met before and I'm really excited, she sent me a wonderful puppy for my birthday this year. Well I've gotta go Mommy is going to make me dinner and we are going to start our wind-down routine.

See you later alligator!

Entry for December 08, 2005

We'll have Allen's pics up soon, they are still on the digital camera. He is getting so big, you are not going to believe it. They really do grow like weeds. His latest accomplishment is redecorating! Yup, you heard it. He decided that he didn't like the chalky white walls anymore and decided to color them blue. He also doesn't believe in diapers anymore (even though he isn't potty trained yet) so he takes them off. I'm not even going to go into details. He has also started strumming his finger, you know when he is waiting on something, he'll tap his feet if he is waiting too long. His latest word is "coke" and he knows how to say it in that high pitched scream that makes my toes curl.

We all love our new house and certainly hope that everyone will have the opportunity to visit after the new year.

God Bless!

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 05, 2007 Fat Lip
DATE: 11/05/2007 19:09:50
STATUS: publish
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Smiley got his first fat lip today when he fell on the trampoline. No he wasn't jumping on it, he was trying to climb onto it. Poor baby. Sunshine has been in rare form. He has been a little wild these past few days. I had the tedous task of cleaning the grosest refridegator EVER. I spent literally 3 hours cleaning the darn thing. Anyhow, it's clean and plugged in, tomorrow we'll move it to its new place and the old one to the garage. Well I need to go, I have bible study in the morning and I need to pick up the house a bit before I have guests.

Night,
Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 02, 2007 Early, late or right on time
DATE: 11/03/2007 05:11:45
STATUS: publish
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Children develop at different stages. Generally girls develop/excel a lot faster than boys, but this isn't always the case. While my 11 month old (preemie) can walk, that doesn't mean that a 12 month old girl should be walking. Sunshine didn't walk until he was 13 or 14 months old. While one child talks sooner than the other doesn't mean that the other child is stupid or slower. This only means that one has excelled faster and will slow down eventually in most cases. Not all of us can be Bill Gates. As parents it is our jobs to help them along any way we can. Put the baby down and let them crawl, let them play with pots and pans, let them stir the cake batter, let them be messy and let them babble and coo AND MOCK THEM. This helps bring out speech. Get on the floor and crawl around with them. While I had a friend who had a 2 year old with an amazing vocab, speaking in complete sentences and properly he is now at the same level as he peers. The secret for him was Barney. Every child learns differently and every child excels differently. A doctor will tell you when the child is not excelling properly, and if you ever have a question, call and ask they will tell you what they think!

I think that we are going to have T-day here this year. We have invited 2 families from home and we are inviting one from around here. The one from around here is a single parent who is struggling and my not be able to afford a good meal for their child. It is truly a sad situation when a parent has to work and can't afford a basic life with out help. I am so excited, I hope that they decide to come.

The setting back of the freaking clock thing. I HATE THIS! Mitch Daniels has screwed us over. At least we will be on the same time as the rest of our family.

Sunshine has decided that it is time for bed, he has stripped to his underwear and grabbed his cover and shut off the light. He is so adorable. He is speaking so much more,but still doing his mumbling. Today Duck lost his father of the year nomination by "making fun of him" in a mocking of his language. He felt horrible when he realized that he made fun of his language. All in all Duck is the best father I have ever seen. Granted he is better with our kids than he is with any others, he is a wonderful dad. Someone made a point a while back as to when it is appreciate to punish someone else's kids. Well I feel the answer is never unless said parent isn't taking charge of the situation. For example. Child #1 pushes Child #2 who is related to Child #1. Then Child #2 pushes Child #3 and Child #3 pushes back. Mother of Children #1 & #2 does nothing to #1, but jumps the case of Child #3. WRONG, bad mother of Children #1 & #2. All three children should be put into time out, no matter how many boys or girls are involved. At young ages it is my opinion that children should be taught not to hit, push, pull, tug, pinch, kick or bite ANY child no matter of sex, origin, race, religion or attitude. So basically, if your daughter hits my son, and you do nothing except jump my sons case for hitting your daughter back this will be my reply. #1, take care of your own child, she started it and no matter if she is a girl or not she deserves that same punishment if not a more harsh one. I will then tell my child that it isn't okay to hit someone even if they hit your first and that we don't hit girls. My child will sit in time out for 1 minute per year. But keep in mind, my child is being punished for hitting when he was just defending himself against your child.

Example #2 - if your child comes to my house and colors on my walls, I will give you the opportunity to correct your child. If you do not, I will ask your child not to color on my walls and ask them for the object they are using to graffiti my walls with. If it happens again I expect you to take care of it, if you don't wish to do your job as a parent, your child will be told that they were asked not to do that, that it isn't right to color on the walls and I will ask you to either take care of it or I will put your child in time out.

Example #3 - if you repeatedly tell your child not to play around at the kitchen table while they are here at my house and then you go outside to smoke and your child rocks back in the chair. I will make your child get up and stand to eat, no matter what kind of protests that they won't do it again.

While we all see things differently I do not agree with the fact of someone punishing my child in front of me. While the rules may be different at your house and that is fair ground to say something it isn't right to confuse my child by issuing punishment while the parents are there. And it is NEVER right to put in two sense when the parent is handling the situation especially when it is more derogatory towards the child.

All in all, I am usually right there to take care of a problem, if I'm not, let me know and I will handle it. There are a select few who are allowed to offer swift punishment to my child, AJD, T&BM, dad and us.

Well as you can see this has gotten long.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 31, 2007 Happy Halloween
DATE: 10/31/2007 20:16:33
STATUS: publish
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We passed out some candy tonight, we didn't really have that many trick or treaters. Next year I'd like to do a bond fire and party type thing since we have the yard space for it. Duck wants to dress up next year as well. By the way did I tell y'all that Duck want to have 3 more kids. Um....no, I asked him if he was going to carry the last two. Smiley started walking today. He is still in the crawling phase, but he is taking SEVERAL steps and walking across the room almost. I'm so very sad that I cried today. He is my baby and as far as I see now, my last one. I don't want him to walk yet. Well I'm going to go to bed, everyone is asleep but me.

Good night

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 30, 2007 Today is Duck's Birthday!
DATE: 10/30/2007 18:36:56
STATUS: publish
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Today was Duck's birthday and we ran ALL day. I went and rented the Spider Man 3 movie that he really wanted to see. I saw a whole 30 min maybe of it. I will try to watch it tomorrow. We went trick or treating today with our daycare friends and didn't hardly get anything. I think that we are going to try to go for about 30 min tomorrow night just to walk around the neighborhood. He liked it, but when DV took off while I was still sitting on the hay with Smiley, Sunshine had a melt down. Well I need to get off of here, my house was distroyed today in the mad dash to leave. I have got all my laundry folded except what needs to be dried and washed. Duck is going to look at the dryer again tomorrow. The dryer that we picked up from dad takes two times to run. This is okay since we are heating up the house at the same time, but we don't want to waste the electricity as well. We are keeping the house at 70 at night and keeping the heater off during the day. I'm sure this will change in a month or so. Well kids calling.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 25, 2007 I truly have the happiest baby in the world
DATE: 10/25/2007 19:35:12
STATUS: publish
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Smiley has learned to climb the stairs, and unfortunately has learned that falling down a few hurts. That's what happens when you step away for a second. Yesterday he didn't know how to do it and today he does. He has a scrape, but is doing fine. I felt awful, see I'm not perfect either. He is such a happy baby. Today he figured out how to unscrew the ketchup lid and was eating the ketchup out of the lid, he certainly is a momma's boy. He has even began to enjoy cheeseburgers and french fries, although this isn't a regular occurrence that we care to indulge in. We are working so hard on being debt free. Once we get past the HUGE cell phone first bill we should really be on the road to only having a house payment and putting money away for a rainy day. We are trying to plan a vacation for next year. That will require us to board the dogs and ask the neighbor to feed and water the car. I'm thinking either early spring or fall break going up to PA for a week. I'd love to visit the Crayola Crayon Factory along with the Hershey Factory and if there is time I'd like tour the Jim Beam Factory. For those of you who know us, we don't drink often. Usually like maybe once or twice a year. I'd just like to see how it is made. While we are there I'd also like to take the boys to a Amish Plantation while we are there. I'd like for my boys to see how the "simple" life is. I've always been fascinated by their way of life, even though I love my Kroger Produce. I know someone who knows a few of the families out that way and perhaps I can visit some of the families I have had the opportunity to talk with. The church that I used to go to also has several of family groups on the outskirts of the community. I think that it could be something that I could do if I had to, but I enjoy my computer and TV and Stove and Refrigerator and dishwasher and washer and dryer and running water and toilet. Well I need to get off of here, just babbling at this point.

Good night.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 25, 2007 It's been a while
DATE: 10/25/2007 05:48:22
STATUS: publish
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I've been very busy this week and I really don't even have time to sit down and do this. I've had HORRIBLE back problems this week and I am going to get the tens unit to hook myself up for a while. I have pain from my lower back all the way down the right side of my right leg. Then on top of that I twisted my elbow last night and popped it. I need to start doing my sit ups again so I can get rid of my backache. That is my big goal today. Duck got my dryer working again. We decided not to vent it back outside since it was really cold in here the other night and it raised the temp inside the house from 69 to 76 in less than an hour. DUH, if I'm paying for the dryer to be running anyway, why not use the heat and humidity to help me heat my house???? Plus the bonus is that my house smells good. I tried the whole hanging the clothes to dry, absolutely not for me. Nothing like drying my clean soft body with a hard towel. I don't think so. Well perhaps if I get all my stuff done today I will write again. We are still here and have been pretty healthy.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 19, 2007 Getting ready for the weekend
DATE: 10/19/2007 22:15:54
STATUS: publish
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CAC was born today at 4:30ish and is breastfeeding. I'm very happy. I don't want AJ to think that I will be disappointed in her if she doesn't breastfeed. It is entirely up to her and I respect her either way. I'm happy that baby and mom are doing well. I feel rather unaccomplished today, same as yesterday. I did pick up a little, but I had so much fun watching the boys chase either throught he house and we played parachute most of the night. The dryer stopped working, yet another thing on Duck's list of stuff to do. Well I'm going to scoot, Smiley kept me up most of the night last night wanting to nurse and I'm exhausted. I don't know what I'm going to do. I really need to get to baby depot or kids r us to get hiim a variety of pacifiers to see if one will work.

Good night!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 18, 2007 Fustrated!
DATE: 10/18/2007 20:56:26
STATUS: publish
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After reading the stuff that I posted last night Duck thought that he had a family member fall in some of that criteria. We found out today this his nephew pulled a loaded bow on another child for telling him to get out of his (the vic's) parents room. OH MY GOSH! We felt that his behavior was fairly volatile, but never realized that it was as bad as it is. We also found out that over some time his mom watched the children one day and he hid the teddy bear of one of the younger children. (this was a lovie, something that they child clung to for security) For over a week they asked him where it was and he wouldn't tell them. Finally they found it. Shortly thereafter his mother watched the children again with him in tow and he cut the throat of the teddy bear. The child was devastated. I can't believe it, I do, but it is hard to imagine that someone would hurt a child like that. That's like hurting a child to get revenge at the mother. He's 14, what in the hell is his problem? Here's the worse part, he is still living in his grandmother's trailer, 5 people, technically 1 bedroom. The grandparents are in Indy and the power has been shut off by the grandmother to get the mother to move. That's how hostile the situation has been. He cut school and was found in the woods, a police officer too him to school. Worse yet, CPS won't do anything, they said that the mother has to be the one who initiates the request for help. She's just as screwed up as he is. Frankly, she is the reason he is this way. This kid is going to do something terrible one of these days, and it could have all been prevented. Any suggestions? Besides the fact of keeping him away from our children, that's a "DUH" issue.

One another note, Smiley needs to start the weening process and he is getting worse. I'm ready to be done, he nurses all the time. ALL THE TIME. He woke up about 7 times last night, and he has nursed about 15 times today. My nipples are tender and sore. He turns 1 next month and he will need to be off around that time. I know that this is a process, but I need to start now before it's too late. I'm going to try to ween him to a pacifier and then break him from the passy in about 4 or so months. I know that sucking is a soothing issue for them so I will have to figure out how to do this. He was sick last week and he only nursed, I stopped feeding him like I normally do since he was just throwing it all back up and he didn't seem interested. I have a friend who is having a baby tomorrow, she wants to breastfeed, but I have no way of helping her. She lives north of Indy and I can't take the kids to the hospital. I feel bad that I won't be there to help her, but she knows that she can call me. I want her to succeed, but I don't see her trying it for long, it is sometimes a difficult process to get started and much easier to use a bottle to get more sleep if dad feeds him. I advocate breastfeeding, but I'm not going to chastise her for not. Millions of babies are bottle fed and they grow up just fine.

Sunshine's vocab is exploding, I need to follow him around with pen and paper and get all the words down. I also would like to get those sticky note things and put them up, naming different things. He can recognize letters and pronounce them so I think it would help him in the long run. They have them for 25 cents at my local Wally World. We are also living paycheck to paycheck right now trying to get all the medical bills paid and get all the bill caught up and the mortgage a month or so ahead. We have cut out all the extras like eating out and going to yard sales. The biggest yard sales are right now, but we couldn't afford plates for our other two vehicles so we don't need to wast the money out. I got Sunshine's new pics in, I'll have to start sending them out or I'll put them in the Christmas cards. I will take Smiley to get his 1 year old pics done really soon and then we will get our family Christmas pic done. Well I need to go, it's near midnight and I want to get the dishwasher reloaded and started if need be. I've been lazy today on account that it's near 90 inside my house and we are sweltering!

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 17, 2007 Let it rain
DATE: 10/17/2007 22:07:52
STATUS: publish
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It is peaceful heaing the rain beat against the a/c until while I type, actually it is rather soothing and I'm ready for bed. For those of you who didn't rec my f/f email update Sunshine had PPDNOS. We are going to work on getting him more speech therapy and perhaps getting him into a group of peers who don't have speech delays. While I think he is socialized, he isn't as socialized as if he were in daycare. Regardless, I will see what I can do about this.

While watching Dr. Phil today, which I enjoy watching. Sometimes he has good points and sometimes it is stupid that I just turn it off or put in a kids movie. Here is the signs of a sexual preditor. There a guy apparently taped a sexual assult on a 3 year old while at a babysitters, this was a couple of years ago, but there nationwide man for this guy. They found, they talked to a whole bunch of people on the show. There are some warning signs that he gave to just be cautious of. Remember there is no person who is going be as responsible or as protective of your child as you.

There are some common characteristics of sexual predators. If you're worried your teen may be a sexual predator, look for these warning signs:

Refusal to take responsibility for actions and blames others or circumstances for failures
A sense of entitlement
Low self-esteem
Need for power and control
Lack of empathy
Inability to form intimate relationships with adults
History of abuse
Troubled childhood
Deviant sexual behavior and attitudes

From the book, Protecting Your Children from Sexual Predators, by Dr. Leigh M. Baker.

Other Tips on Spotting a Sexual Predator:

• Often offend where they won’t get caught — when they have misdirected people’s attention
• Often married or in relationships
• Offend when the victim is handy
• Not always strangers, often family members, family friends and neighbors
• Most attracted to adults
• Good manipulators (seduction is an integral part)
• Overly self-indulgent
• Arrogant
• Sexualize, objectify women
• Users of various kinds of pornography
• Typically known as rationalizers, intellectualizers, justifiers
• Great helpers — are there to lend a helping hand — prey on people in need, when they can insinuate themselves in your life
• Use stressful and vulnerable situations to get in — they find a need they can fill and they use that to get next to the victim

Dr. Phil reminds parents they must watch everyone in their child’s life!

I also found this interesting....

Could you be raising a criminal? Acts of violence don't come out of nowhere, and every parent should be aware of the clues along the way. For the most violent of criminals, there are warning signs that often start in childhood. Below is a list of the 14 most common traits of serial killers.

1. Over 90 percent of serial killers are male.

2. They tend to be intelligent, with IQ's in the "bright normal" range.

3. They do poorly in school, have trouble holding down jobs, and often work as unskilled laborers.

4. They tend to come from markedly unstable families.

5. As children, they are abandoned by their fathers and raised by domineering mothers.

6. Their families often have criminal, psychiatric and alcoholic histories.

7. They hate their fathers and mothers.

8. They are commonly abused as children — psychologically, physically and sexually. Often the abuse is by a family member.

9. Many serial killers spend time in institutions as children and have records of early psychiatric problems.

10. They have high rates of suicide attempts.

11. From an early age, many are intensely interested in voyeurism, fetishism, and sado-masochistic pornography.

12. More than 60 percent of serial killers wet their beds beyond the age of 12.

13. Many serial killers are fascinated with fire starting.

14. They are involved with sadistic activity or tormenting small creatures.

Source: Internal Association of Forensic Science, an article written by FBI Special Agent Robert K. Ressler
"The Serial Killer," Harold Schechter

Okay, all the lists are from the drphil.com website. I saw the special today and it was sad about that little girl. When you know someone who is a sexual predator, you begin to wonder if your child has been a victim, just as every responsible parent would. I would like to state that the other day I heard that our local news channel had been doing some research on the sexual predators in our area and they found out that these people are registered with myspace. They contacted myspace and sorta got the run around then myspace decided to step up to the plate and deleted their accounts. They also hired a special company who will review to see if the name holders of the account are registered sex offenders. Now that is a good thing, but a waste of time and money for myspace. When you sign up it doesn't ask you for proof of your name, so John or Jane Doe works for any predator. My best personal advise for parents is to install a keystroke program on their system and know what and who your kids are talking to. I have met IRL 4 or so guys who I had been chatting with when I was signed up through AOL. It was rather dangerous even 10 years ago to be doing such a thing. Well Duck is home and I want to jump in the shower and get to bed. Good night!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 14, 2007 Okay so we are down one person
DATE: 10/14/2007 09:09:14
STATUS: publish
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Duck fell sick last night. He is trying to sleep most of it off. I think that he is going to have the short run like I did. Smiley spit up in his sleep, it wasn't vomit. He burped and spit up a little right after feeding. So we wouldn't have made our planned trip today anyway. I told them that if we weren't sick we'd come, but it turns out that the biggest baby in the house is sick. So I have 3 hours to pack because we are staying at the RMH. B~Thanks for the offer, I do appreicate it, and under different circumstances (like not having a room at the RMH, I would take you up) This allows Duck to sleep it off while Sunshine is in treatment tomorrow. We have the room until he is discharged and he can come and help me if I need him too. This will aslo put us like a block away from the hospital instead of 40 minutes. That is why we chose to go this route. I think that we may have done it regardless if we were healthy or not. Well I have 2 hours and 55 minutes to pack, shower, dress, brush my teeth and get the rest of them ready. B~ I'm so sorry we missed the party, we will try to bring her present by tomorrow. We also have the meter for T. I hope that the party was great and fun for you and the baby. Talk to you later.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 13, 2007 Timing is everything
DATE: 10/13/2007 21:16:33
STATUS: publish
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Smiley got sick a few times last night in the middle of the night. He has had no problems thus far today, knock on wood. I have felt better just a little queasy still, but nothing Sprite cant' take care of. We thought about going ahead with our Sunday plans, but lost our place to stay. I can understand why, but I'm bummed, I was really looking forward to going to TL's birthday party. We'll have to see how tonight goes. If we can get a room at the RMH, we will stay there tomorrow night and go up anyhow.

We got Smiley a new car seat today. I'm soooo happy. We also learned that our car seats weren't properly locked into place. I'm sure that this is a common problem with parents, heck most of my friends don't even fasten their children in right even if they've had live five already. Anyhow, we couldn't pass up free.

I'm a little disheartened today and I'm glad that I kept my cool because I was ready to explode. I know that I'm a satellite mom, but I also feel that you can never be to sure or to careful. I was once told by someone who was suppose to be a close friend that she believed my son, 8 months or so at the time, would wind up in jail before he was 18 and I'd be right there to bail him out. Now granted, my son does have a behavioral problem to an extent, I've seen worse and I've seen better, all about how high we set the bar. I believe that in some cases we set it to high and some we set it to low. We are going to re-evaluate the bar thing. He gets tested for ASD this week, that will help us with our bar/goal settings. We are also going to start working on a point/token system. Sunshine already does things like help around the house and what not. Needless to say I can't believe that my "friend" would tell me something like that. He was so young, how does she know how my child will turn out. Personally I think she needs to worry about her own children who need to be worried about and leave me to worry about my own child. I just frazzled today at the though of something she said a long time ago. I don't think he will wind up in jail, he has just as much of a chance at life as any other child, and better than most. He has two parents who love him and who are always there for him. How many children can you say that about? Okay I'm done, I'm going to bed.

Night.

Me

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 10/14/2007 04:59:59
I don't know what your plans are, but you guys are still more than welcome to stay wih us! Don't worry about making us sick, because JH was here last wk sick.
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AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 10/14/2007 05:00:33
Don't take that the wrong way, do whatever you feel is right. :]
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 10, 2007 Round two....ding, ding, ding
DATE: 10/10/2007 21:19:45
STATUS: publish
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Well although Smiley was himself this afternoon, he lost his breakfast, lunch and dinner about an hour and a half ago. GRRR. WHY IN THE WORLD IS THIS HAPPENING TO HIM? He so tiny, I feel so sorry for him. He looks at me like, "Mommy, what is happening to me, make it stop, it doesn't feel good, help me mommy!" It breaks my heart. His fever isn't back because doc told me to give him 24 hour rounds of Tylenol to keep his fever from even coming back. So I am listening yet again to the sounds of the washer and dryer running, I don't have my laundry folded, one load of dishes got ran, but Sunshine was on a rampage today and he went to bed early for it, just about the time Smiley started throwing up again. Now I'm feeling blah, please don't let me get this.

Gotta run!

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 10, 2007 Well we are contaminated!
DATE: 10/10/2007 15:11:00
STATUS: publish
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Both Smiley and I have double ear infections, sinus infections and he has a viral infection. Both on meds. He is feeling much better but he is still sleeping a lot, nursing a lot and not eating a lot. At least he is going potty. Well I hate to cut it short, but he is pulling at the key board, we are going to go and play....oh and what's up with this weather? Burrr....

Katy

PS for those of you who don't have my new cell phone number email me at mykatybug2002@yahoo.com and I will give it to you.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 9, 2007 A random act of kindness
DATE: 10/09/2007 22:04:26
STATUS: publish
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Yesterday I sent out an email to the leader of our bible study letting her know that I was going to have to cancel since Smiley was so sick. Today she called me to check on him and see how he was doing. Then again this evening she called again to check up on him. Then out of the blue there was a knock at the door. She had gone into town and knew that I hadn't gotten the chance to run to the pharmacy and was trying a different route. Anyhow, she had gone to the pharmacy and picked it up and brought it by. I was so surprised. People just aren't like that anymore. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I appreciate what she did and that I'm happy there are still some people like that. JD even called today and checked on Smiley to how he was doing.

Good night

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 09, 2007 So the pattern continues
DATE: 10/09/2007 18:00:33
STATUS: publish
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He got sick as soon as I got in the living room. It is so sad. He is asleep for now. Poor little guy. I don't have a lot to say since I have a lot to do. I did get some things done while Duck watch him sleep this afternoon, but I have literally about 20 loads of laundry to still fold and I have a load in the washer and dryer. I poor washer and dryer finally shut off about an hour ago after running since about 4:30 this morning. I can't wait to take him to the doctor in the morning, even if she just tells me that it will pass and we are doing what we can. I just want to feel comfortable knowing that I am doing everything that I can. I'm glad that he is still nursing, but I'm a little engourged. Well I'm going to go and eat while I can. He will want to play when he gets up. If there is a dotted line on here I don't know what Sunshine has done, but if there isn't I swear I see it while I'm typing. I'm NOT crazy.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 09, 2007 Helpless
DATE: 10/09/2007 16:44:33
STATUS: publish
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It is so hard to see your baby lay there in pain and not be able to help them. Smiley has vomited about 30 times between yesterday and today. He hasn't been able to keep anything down except his last nursing. Luckily I got him to keep his tyelonel down also. He has only had 3 barely wet diapers in the past 24 hours. He has a doc apt tomorrow morning. He gets up, plays a while, starts to whine, vomits and cries himself to sleep. Gotta go he's whinning.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 08, 2007 Boggled
DATE: 10/08/2007 20:23:01
STATUS: publish
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Okay so I have a lot to say, but I c/c/p so I could finish it later. Smiley has thrown up 4 times since 8 and it is now all bile that he is puking up. I need to scat to call Duck to have him pick up pedialyte and I have to run some laundry. I've changed twice and I'm quickly going through towels and blankets.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 08, 2007 A good day...
DATE: 10/08/2007 14:01:07
STATUS: publish
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No I didn't hit the lottery, but I have so many "good" ideas, I wish I could. I am happy today. First of all, I would like to thank the makers of Digestive Advantage, you ROCK! I love the fact that I can now enjoy a nice bowl of cereal for breakfast with my family instead of never being able to. Second of all, when talking to the lady who fit over $300 worth of groceries and stuff from walmart in a CRX with two grown adult, don't tell me something isn't going to "fit". Although we now have a little bit of a patch job to do on the drywall, the queen size bed is upstairs. NEVER to be removed again. It will be left for the next owners. I made marble cupcakes last night that I will never make again, they weren't worth the time. Sunshine is doing great and Smiley is wonderful. We go to Riley next week for testing. I bought a pinata today for Smiley's birthday party, it is a pull string one. I will start to buy the candy for it when it goes on sale from the end of Halloween as long as I can get it to stay good for that long. By the way, if anyone needs any canning jars or supplies, they seem to be really cheap at the wally world around me, I could pick some up and you could pay me back if need be. I think I may pick some up and do a special candy for Christmas is all the Christmas baskets with the goodies. Sunshine has been helping me cook, he loves it. We aren't going to have a big Christmas this year, we are going to get caught up on our bills and our boys just don't need anything. We are going to get up and read the story of Jesus' birth and then open presents and make a birthday cake for Jesus. We are going to have out at home and have fun all day as a family. Anyhow, I am just peacefully happy today and ready to go work on my house and get ready for bible study tomorrow morning.

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 06, 2007 Ahhhhhh
DATE: 10/06/2007 16:53:21
STATUS: publish
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Tickles (Sunshine) is asleep, JP is exhausted, MG just puked formula all over both of us & Smiley can barely keep his eyes open.

B~ I already have her present, I've had it for over a month, the benefits of shopping clearance isles. No worries about that!

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 10/07/2007 06:53:04
ahah, Well we know how it is to be tight! We just lost over $100 due to bounce fees. :]
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 05, 2007 And yet another crayon eater
DATE: 10/05/2007 19:25:03
STATUS: publish
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Thank goodness that they are non toxic. It is very weird to see crayon come out the other end. Kinda like grapes that haven't been fully digested. I will never eat them again. I got nothing done today, not because anything happen, but because I was lazy. I'm really tired. I am running a load of dishes and have one more to run. I am going to clean the bathroom as soon as Smiley goes to sleep and then I'm going to work on the laundry. I have a pack and play full and about 3 loads to do. WHERE DID IT ALL COME FROM? I really need to consider going through the clothes again. I will be bringing down some things for JP to wear since it is much easier if they only bring him and MG's bottles and formula and diapers of course. I have everything else that they need. Works out well for all of us. I want to go through a tub tonight to try and empty it. I am purging a lot of stuff, this is crazy, if it doesn't have a proper place, IT DOESN"T BELONG HERE. I have too much crap, I have too much crap, I have too much crap...this is me trying to convince myself to get rid of stuff we just don't need. I found Halloween candy from last year, granted it was only suckers and they are still okay, but they are going into the trash. Sunshine really doesn't need to be doped up on sugar anyhow. I'm ready for TL's birthday party. We are trying really hard to get caught up on all the bill, they should all be caught up by the end of this month...speaking of which, I forgot to pay the gas bill...gotta run.

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 10/05/2007 22:18:14
If you don't have $$ for presents thats totally fine! Your company and help is greatful enough. :]
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 04, 2007 My little smiles!
DATE: 10/04/2007 16:11:17
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Sunshine is loving school this year. He is entering back into the testing stage at home. Not listening, not doing what he is told and running when we are outside. (away from us in an "unprotected" area). But he is doing great. Tomorrow is my last day to get my house in order for our big weekend. Thankfully I only have to vacuum the floors and clean the bathroom. I will also work upstairs while Sunshine is at school tomorrow. He is learning a lot more sign language, and TONS more words.

Smiley made a huge improvement today. He took 2 unassisted consecutive steps. He also jumped in the air removing both feet from the ground, but he fell on his bum to land. He now says six words: mom, dad, bubba, Sunshine's name, there and easy. We are still working on cat, ball and bye-bye. Sunshine is doing very well with Smiley.

Well I need to go, I want to get the living room vacuumed and the other pack and play set up for MG. I am also thinking about setting up the ball thing that Sunshine got for his last birthday. It think that they boy (Sunshine, JP and Smiley) would have hours of fun in it.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: October 02, 2007 Okay so I was cut off.
DATE: 10/02/2007 17:36:29
STATUS: publish
BODY:

We are glad to be home. I've been cleaning top to bottom today, I am putting all the "buckets" in the laundry room and plan to go through one a day starting tomorrow. We are having a special bible study tomorrow afternoon, one of the elders who is new to our area and will be here for about 3 years is going to visit with us. I am excited! I am still very far ahead of the reading, but behind on the bible reading. I will work on doing better at that. Well I need to get off of here and get my livingroom carpet shampooed, Sunshine has spilled everything he walks by for the past couple of days. He is also going to go back to the doc tomorrow, I think he has tonsilitis again! 3 times in 3 months, not a good sign. If he has it 6 times in 12 months they are going to want to take them out, which I am not opposed to. Okay..gotta scat!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 30, 2007 Home sweet home
DATE: 09/30/2007 15:40:03
STATUS: publish
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I'm so glad to be home. I had a blast yesterday yardsailing (teehee) with J and B. I've got so much house work to do. We are getting ready for a new bed and I have a TON of laundry to put up. I haven't even unloaded the van yet. I also want to do a little baking and I am going to do a stock pot full of red potatoes. I just bought 15 lbs and Smiley loves mashed potatoes.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 27, 2007 And another thing of yogrut
DATE: 09/27/2007 20:33:29
STATUS: publish
BODY:

bites the dust. I love this being able to drink milk thing. I got a little gassy from it today, but nothing like usual...knock on wood.

Sunshine is doing so well in school, I can really tell that they are helping him bring out his speech. Tonight he spilled a little of his CF Diet Pepsi, I cleaned it up after he pointed it out to me. He said, "Good Job Mommy!" Can you believe it, he called me Mommy. Usually it is Katy or Honey. For those of you who are shaking your heads right now because I cleaned up a spill that my child was more than capable of doing, 9 times out of 10 he cleans up himself. He is really good about it. Since he is going to miss school tomorrow because of a meeting we have with the attorney, we are going to learn and play with seashells. We are going to also bake, which he loves to do. I am trying to find some cute birthday party things for Little Miss T. I trying to find cheap ideas that won't cost too much. I got this great book, but you have to be Bill Gates to afford any of the stuff that is all going to go into the trash anyway. I did however notice that their pinatas are really reasonable, it may be something that I consider.

Well I need to get off of here and finish vacuuming since Smiley woke up smiling, he isn't ready to fall back asleep yet. He did do really good last night, he slept next to me and only woke up to nurse twice, as opposed to the sleeping in his bed and waking up 7 times to nurse. This too shall pass.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 26, 2007 A good day
DATE: 09/26/2007 12:57:29
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I'm very very tired, but I'm having a good day. This morning I actually was able to eat a bowl of cereal. WITH MILK. I didn't get sick, but I never realized how bad milk tastes. I will try it again this weekend to see if it is just my taste buds.

I also saw for the first time today the turning of the leaves in our yard. The top of our tree out front has this beautiful burnt orange color to it. I love this time of year only because of the color of the trees. It is kinda depressing that everything is dying.

Well gotta go, Sunshine is teaching Smiley bad tricks...boys will be boys.

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 09/27/2007 04:33:52
Milk taste better with chocolate or strawberry syrup. :] I loved milk b4 I got prego with T and know I can only stand it when it has either syrups in it.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 25, 2007 What a messed up day
DATE: 09/25/2007 22:19:50
STATUS: publish
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Our phones arrived. I'm not at all happy with the service. Grr. I will call them tomorrow and discuss ways to correct this. Sunshine had a great day in school, they did grapes on vines. They are teaching the colors. He loves his teachers. For those of you who know Smiley's real name, Sunshine calls him Chicken. It's so cute. I don't publish my kids names because I want this somewhat private, just as I try not to publish other's names. I fogot about meeting C today...I'm so sorry. I got side tracked. And then on top of that, CR came to get some freecycle stuff and I forgot to set it out. Double Grrr. J got some bad news which breaks our hearts. Then Duck called me during lunch and asked if I could go through some of the boys clothes because a guy at his work lost everything to a fire. So I got a bag and a half of 24 mo to 3T boys clothes. I wish I knew if they needed anything else that we could offer to them. Then you have to wonder, will they appreciate it if we offer or get offended. I am going to ask him to see if he can find out what size shoes the boys wear so I can see if we can help with that too. Bible study was nice today. I understand very well the material that we are covering. Next week I have been assigned to explaining what I have already read in a "teaching the others" format. Well I need to run I've got a million things to do and it's already after 1 am.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 24, 2007 First of the 4 weeks
DATE: 09/24/2007 19:28:12
STATUS: publish
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Those who understand, know what I'm going through! Smiley is asleep, Sunshine is going comando through the house. In two weeks I will have a 3 year old, 2 year old, 10 month old and a 5 month old for the weekend. Oh and a 11 week old puppy. What in the world was I thinking? Well I got sidetracked and now I have a horrible tooth ache so I'm going to pick up the living room, take a few motrin and head to bed.

Night.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 22, 2007 A long day
DATE: 09/22/2007 16:34:16
STATUS: publish
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We went to the Hau to get our hair cut at our friends, get our pics taken and shop a bit. We were going to hit OG as we left, but Sunshine was DONE. We got to see NC today, it was very nice. He is getting so big. Pics came out good, just waiting to get them back....school pics were way too much and it wasn't worth it, not until he goes into K. Smiley was asleep the whole time, too bad...we will get their halloween pics taken next month before we go to Riley. Well I'm going to go and clean up the living room and the kitchen and the dining room and the bathroom and the pantry and the hallway and the boys bedroom and our bedroom. Hey, I'm going to go and clean my house.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 21, 2007 Long week
DATE: 09/21/2007 19:13:58
STATUS: publish
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Well we got bad news at first, the raise in our payment jumped to next month. Then we got the best news in the world. Just like we hit the lottery...our refi went through! YES YES YES YES YES...I'm so very happy, we really needed this. I went shopping yesterday and spent my birthday money that dad gave me. I bought curtains and I will put them up this weekend. I love them.... I am going to work upstairs tomorrow morning if I can and then we are taking Sunshine to get his pictures taken. I am going to see if I can cut a little bit of his hair tonight around his ears so it won't look so long. He is feeling better and had an amazing week (what was left of it) at school. He LOVES school so much. Smiley is sleeping, he is teething and I think gassy. He was up about every hour last night. I'm not going to give him any milk tomorrow and see if that is what causes the difference. I don't believe it will as this has been building since before he started drinking milk. I firmly believe that it is just the teething thing. We are up to 6 teeth working on two more. I will call the dentist Mon to make appts for both boys. Well I need to go wrap a few presents to get them out of the way and I'm going to let Sunshine decorate some cards and stuff. I have a ton of stuff to get done this weekend, I do hope that Duck is willing to help. He usually does, but he is also going to be busy with the outside stuff. I will have a new cell phone number next week.

Toodles!

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 19, 2007 Back to school
DATE: 09/19/2007 18:31:31
STATUS: publish
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Sunshine went back to school today, he was VERY excited. We dropped off a bunch of stuff that the teachers needed in the classroom, it felt really good to be able to contribute. They are also in need of misc things like baby food jars, string and egg cartons. That works out great since we go through about a dozen or so eggs a week, I again have someone that will take them. I have also offered to volunteer at the school when Duck is working nights.

Smiley was doing his crawl today and I finally got a video of it. It is too big to send to my dad though . We have been invited to several b-day parties, unfortunately we aren't going to make it to all. One is at Chuck-E-Cheese and well, I have several unfriendly words for that place. Perhaps I'll get into that later. We have to be in Indy in the middle of next month for Sunshine to go back to Riley. We are going to have to stay overnight since the apt is REALLY early. I hope that the dogs are going to be okay.

This weekend Duck is going to try to finish the fence around the dog area and take down the extra A-frame. He is also going to work in the basement if he has time. The pipes need to be connected correctly and sealed and there needs to be some patch work done before it gets too cold.

I am going to work on the dining room and upstairs this weekend. I want to get everything ready for the cold, except the windows. It is still too nice to put the plastic up everywhere. I also want to weed out the clothes that the boys can't wear and hand them down. N will be pleased. Well I have a ton to do yet and I want to get to bed soon, even though I am not really tired, Smiley is asleep and I should be too.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 17, 2007 And the verdict is....
DATE: 09/17/2007 11:02:34
STATUS: publish
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Sunshine has tonsillitis and an ear infection. Out of school for 2 days and a medicine that we are going to have to fight him to take. Double Grr. He is being onry beyond all belief. Just thought I'd drop in and say hi, back to cleaning I shall go. I want to get all the clothes upstairs, after they are folded of course. I also want to get the living room floor vacuumed and I want to clean the carpet tonight. I would love to see the pictures hung back up and the dining room back in working order along with the kitchen. It would be cool to start the painting process in these two rooms as well. I also have a border that is going to be put up in the living room. So much to do and so little time.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 16, 2007 Sunday
DATE: 09/16/2007 13:09:37
STATUS: publish
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Today it is beautiful outside, the sun is shining, the air is crisp and the birds, well I don't hear birds, I head Scooby Doo and the washer. Duck must have felt better, he got up and decided that today was going to be the day to tackle the back hallway and paint it. I helped a little and did a little work in the kitchen. I fried up over 12 lbs. of hamburger meat and put it in 1/2 pound containers and froze them. This is nice because when I am in a pinch, because I forgot to thaw some meat, hey, it's already cooked I can, if need be, just throw it in forzen. WOW, that was a lot of commas. I'm sure that was a grammer fubar.

Sunshine is going to have to go to the doc tomorrow if he throat isn't better, his tonsils are just about touching. He also decided that he was going to fly though the air with the greatest of ease and landed on the corner of the couch and busted his gums and eye good. If I've told him once, I've told him a million times, NO JUMPING OFF THE PAPPSON CHAIRS. I don't think it taught him his lesson. Smiley is beginning to climb also. He is so brave. He was doing a George of the Jungle thing on the entertainment center the other day. Just laughing his little head off. So here is a bit of an update on him. He is starting to crawl on flat feet and hands. He is beginning to walk in between objects like the chair and the couch without support. He stands without any support and falls about 20-30 sec later. He can hold onto something and then let go while passing objects between his hands for about a minute. He is feeding himself with a spoon. He is eating a LOT of table food. He is drinking milk (cow's) and diluted juice. He is drinking from a sippy cup very well. He vocab is what I'm concerned about...he says (momma, dadda, bubba, easy, and Sunshine's name). I want him to start saying things like bye-bye, cat, car, ball. I will work with him a lot to try and get more speech out of him. Sunshine is doing really well at school, they love him and he loves going. We are going to go to the tampareads.com website to get more writing stuff to help him work on his writing. He is doing great at recognizing letters, his alphabet and counting, so now we work on writing. He has been really interested in the cooking that I have been doing lately. He pulls his chair over and wants to help all to the time. I let him pour things into mixes or give him a spoon and let him help me stir things. We are still having a problem with the whole fire things. He can't stand it. We have our appt for Riley set and we are going in the middle of next month. I'm really hoping that they can get what they need. This is suppose to be a 9 hour eval. Well I need to go the baby woke up and I've got a lot more to do. I would also like to read another chapter in my study workbook.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 14, 2007 Today
DATE: 09/14/2007 19:37:17
STATUS: publish
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Well nothing eventful happened today. I tried hard to get the house clean, but it didn't work. I will plug away at it tomorrow. I want to finish the upstairs and work on the laundry room. I also want to start painting this weekend. Duck is finally getting sick. Not much else, just picked up some items that the teacher said the class needed.

Night, Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 13, 2007 Very Sad!
DATE: 09/13/2007 12:12:29
STATUS: publish
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INDIANAPOLIS -- The latest report on child abuse and neglect deaths in Indiana shows little improvement from that of the previous year.

The Indiana Department of Child Services reported 53 children died from abuse or neglect during a yearlong period that ended June 30, 2006. That compares with 54 deaths during the previous 12 months.

Deaths from abuse rose to 30 in the new period from 24 during 2004-05. Neglect deaths fell to 23 from 30.

Child Services officials said the hiring of more child welfare case workers is making a difference despite the little overall change in deaths. Of the 53 deaths, 11 were in households with which the agency had previous contact. That compared with 20 households with prior contacts where deaths occurred in 2004-05.

This is c/p from the www.theindychannel.com website. Please note that 11 of the deaths were from homes at which CS had already been at. Possibly more later!

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 12, 2007 UNFREAKING BELIEVEABLE
DATE: 09/12/2007 18:59:49
STATUS: publish
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Well I was trying to help out my wonderful hubby by doing something that I do enjoy...mowing the grass. I feel like Mariette Andretti on the lawnmower going a million miles per hour in circles. Feel the adrenaline rush! So I had Duck take the kids in since I didn't want to blow grass in their faces. I was mowing behind the garage and all the sudden I felt horrible pain. I looked down and I was being stung by yellow jackets. DAMN, is just isn't my week/month. Sting after sting. I rode the mower up to the gate, shut it of really quick and RAN up to the house. I was pounding on the door while screaming from the pain. Duck made sure that they were all off after we were kicking and swatting them away. I literally ran into the shower and turned it on, clothes on and all. I started pealing items off piece by piece starting with my shoes. I have two HUGE welts, one in my left thy and the other behind my right knee. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. What in the heck is going on? Why can't I get a little break? I put some sting kill on it and I'm going to bed, hopefully nothing more with happen to me this evening. I think I'm going to look into hibernating the rest of this month!

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 12, 2007 The results are in...
DATE: 09/12/2007 16:44:55
STATUS: publish
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She didn't tell me what it was, I forgot to ask. 10 days worth of meds and nursing or pumping that breast anytime Smiley eats or it seems to be full. It is already swollen to about 25 percent larger than normal. Well I'm going to go and cut the grass and do a little house work before I get in the shower and head for bed around 9 tonight. By the way, any of you who have my cell phone number, delete it. Somebody has stolen my cell phone out of my van when Duck took Sunshine to the doc yesterday. GRRRRRRRR. I will give those who want it the new number.

K

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 09/12/2007 17:20:28
I should call private on your old one and ask who it is. Lmao...That would be funny if they gave me their whole name and then be like YOUR BUSTED!

But I want/need your new number. :] Pretty Please.

Hope your boobie gets to feeling better.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 09/12/2007 18:52:38
Thanks for the boobie well wishes! It is just not my month!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 12, 2007 Going to the doc
DATE: 09/12/2007 06:38:25
STATUS: publish
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I feel better but I have red patches on my beast and I think that constutes as an infection. I am going to go to the doc today. Not much new to say, just going to get ready and try to eat some breakfast. More later.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 11, 2007 All the sudden....
DATE: 09/11/2007 14:16:34
STATUS: publish
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High fever, 101.4, pain in breast, throbbing headache and no desider to stay awake. I feel HORRIBLE. I think that I have a plugged or infected duct in my breast. I will not beable to get back to this until tomorrow. If I don't feel better I will have to go BACK to the doctor. Gotta go, I'm having hot/cold flashes.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 09/11/2007 17:56:20
Mastitis. Call the doctor NOW.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 09/12/2007 06:36:46
Thank you for the concern Kim, I called yesterday and they said to stop nursing Smiley, which I know we both disagree with. I don't want to lose my milk supply. I nursed him on the other side until the infected one was so full it was causing more pain. I called this morning to get an appt. Yesterday she asked if I still had any meds left from the sinus thing and I was done with those. Luckily I found some from when I was pregnant and started a dose of those with 2 fever reducers every 4-6 hours. My fever finally broke and I felt drained by much better. I'm going in at 11 today.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 11, 2007 Who's right?
DATE: 09/11/2007 06:14:49
STATUS: publish
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEpiZueC6qw&NR=1

Since there are two sides to every story, here is another side. I also encourage you to look at the father's side of this story. At the end of the video you should see a link. If you don't, let me know and I will post one. The whole situation is sad because a little girl died and MAYBE there were loop holes that BOTH sides slipped through. I'm not sure that I believe it was all one sides fault or the other, in my opinion, OPINION....if the mother's story is true, the father never showed up for anything, he too should be put in prison serving the same sentence as the mother. You never know who is out there, who is going to hurt you, when they are going to do it. Today should be a vast reminder that we let our guard down and the worst happens. (9/11/01) for those who are confused by the statement. I'm not naive, I know that when you let your guard down people often show their true colors...this has happened to me many of times. If my child EVER came home from his father's house with bruises and/or signs of abuse, I would NOT let them go back. The next day I would be filing for emergency custody pending an in depth investigation. I'm not convinced that the DFC did all that they could, but the mother, father, grandparents or anyone who believe that was happening is just as guilty as anyone else. There are so many children in our society being abused, this has gone on for ages and will go on until the end. Until Jesus Christ takes over the reigns from the Devil, this will continue along with everything else bad happening in the world. Well I must go...I will have more later. I will do my best to return.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 07, 2007 I'm exhausted
DATE: 09/07/2007 11:57:05
STATUS: publish
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Yesterday was way too much for us. We went to EVV for RG's funeral, it was sad, Sunshine was walking up to the casket and was telling people to shhh. That is what we say when someone is sleeping to him. We have also been observing the fact that when he hears someone cry or a sad song he himself starts to cry. Something else we will bring up with Riley. We then went to dad's house after a brief visit with Granny A. Sunshine played with GA as much as he could. He loved throwing the Frisbee with her and then he was feeding her out of his hand. I think that he may be ready for a puppy of his own. He didn't want to eat dinner with us, we made him sit there as long as he possibly could, finally he had to get up and wonder around. Grandpa did let him have a banana that he rather enjoyed. We talked and visited for quite a while. We didn't get home until after 9:30. After being in the car for so long the boys weren't tired, I think that it was after midnight when they finally went down. Smiley is going to be walking VERY soon. He is trying to take steps unassisted and he is also standing from a seated position unassisted. He is such a wonderful happy baby. He is now caught up on his shots and we will go for his next round in December. Well I need to get off of here, we are planning on heading out soon. Gosh, I do hope that I can make this last trip for the week!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 04, 2007 Intense Pain
DATE: 09/04/2007 16:36:10
STATUS: publish
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My back and chest hurt so bad right now that I would love to just be knocked out. I HATE feeling like this. I keep taking 3 Motrin and it dulls the pain for a good duration. On other news, my uncle has passed away. We are going to the funeral on Thur and going to visit dad after wards. Smiley got his shot to catch up today. He is doing very well and is ahead for his age group. Last night he went to take a step unassisted. He let go of Duck's leg pivoted and went to put his foot out, but decided to crawl. It's time to bring in the walking toys!!! He is staying up A LOT, and sleeping less at night. He is getting 2 more teeth in and I must say that he isn't really sleeping at all and my nipples do not like the teeth thing! He is nursing a lot less and is trying to drink from a straw. He sits on my lap while I read to him, something Sunshine never would do. Sunshine is doing very well in class, his teacher said that he is so wonderful to have in her class. She told us that she has never had another child ever be as happy as he is. He loves school! Well I'm going to go and fold clothes. I need to find something to wear to the funeral, I really am not sure what I'm going to do. I may have to go and buy something since nothing fits that is summer attire.

Good night!

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: September 02, 2007 Best care an ER has even done
DATE: 09/02/2007 12:09:09
STATUS: publish
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Last night Duck took me to the ER after we called the 24 hour nurse line through our insurance and we had our doc paged. She said that she wanted to make sure that I wasn't having a heart attack before we went any further. I walked in, told them that I was having chest pain and my doc told me to come in from an evaluation and they put me strait into a room. Duck signed me in and they the nurse told him that they would have to wait in the waiting room because they were going to be in there doing an IV, EKG and a bunch of other tests. Within 3 minutes I had an IV tap in place and my blood was literally on it's way to the lab. Within 30 minutes I was given an EKG, set up on an EEG machine and saw the doctor. We then had to wait for my labs to come back, but in the mean time they brought in an x-ray machine and took my chest xray. I never had to leave the room. All in all, two hours had gone by in total and I was walking back out the door. He said that it looks like the chest pain is being caused by Pleurisy (spelling??). Which means that the lining of my lungs are inflamed because of the sinus infection that I have. They sent me home with pain medication, told me to continue to take the antibiotic and follow up with my doc on Tue. A rather scary ordeal all dealt with professionally, efficiently and most of all timely. I do have to admit that it was really an eye opening experience. I am going to start taking better care of myself. I have bought a stepometer and I want to take 10K steps a day and work my way up to 20K. I will be looking for a treadmill for the winter months. More later, for now I am going to slowly clean my living room and relax a little. It still hurts when I breath.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 30, 2007 Not feeling much better
DATE: 08/30/2007 19:01:42
STATUS: publish
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The doc said to turn on the ac and leave it on. I just don't want to do that with this beautiful weather. I can't see wasting the energy or money for free nice air. What am I suppose to do when I spend time outside with the kids? It is a sinus infection, I will work it out of my system. I need to get off of here and head to bed, I'm very worn out and about to fall asleep. I do hope that I feel better, I have a MILLION things to do tomorrow and I know that I won't get it done before my friend gets here. I have no idea how I am going to get everything done and call the other attorney and get Sunshine to and from school. I guess I will have to shake the dust off my wonder woman cape. Has anyone seen it? Guess I better go and find it.

Night!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 30, 2007 Okay so I feel like crap but....
DATE: 08/30/2007 08:40:30
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I have lost 20 pounds. How you ask? Well the first 14 fell off when I was doing the WW points thing, but I fell off that wagon until the Monday after next since it is going to be games and parties for the next week. I went to the doctor today and I have a sinus infection and she ended up giving me a Rx. Well I have to take Sunshine to school I'll be back later, I have a funny story to tell about his school entrance.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 27, 2007 Sickly
DATE: 08/27/2007 19:35:15
STATUS: publish
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Both boys have shown signs of colds. Sunshine had green goop coming out of both eyes yesterday, a low grade fever this morning and barking cough with mucus. He didn't go to school today. Smiley was very congested/runny all night, higher low grade fever and miserable. He was up at least once an hour crying. He keeps grabbing his head like he is in pain. Tomorrow we go to see the doctor hopefully. I don't want him to suffer or get worse. Needless to say, I'm exhausted, have nothing done around my house and have company coming over tomorrow. I think I will cancel. I need to go.

Me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 08/28/2007 18:01:42
Sorry I passed it on over the computer! I saw you called my brother and I was outside cleaning out the car, making it all pretty for Tony, plus some stuff is doing down here. I will talk to you more about it later.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 25, 2007 Battered Mother
DATE: 08/25/2007 18:07:34
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Today I have become a battered mother. Sunshine was flying around his BL airplane and it slipped his hands and hit me right in the eye and ear. Now I have a bruised ear and a huge knot on my eyebrow. That's going to look lovely in the morning. I'm only grateful that it hit me instead of Smiley since I was nursing him at the time. New rule, no swinging toys around in circles like that.

We had a friends child come over today and I felt sorry for him. I remember when he was little like Sunshine he would "pick" (I say be 3) on his older brother, and she said that it was payback from when J did it to N. Well, Sunshine wanted to sit with him, play with him, dance with him and be with him a lot. Sunshine also had a breathing treatment this morning because he was coughing last night a barking cough. They were bouncing around a bunch and they both bumped heads a lot of times. R just didn't understand that it wasn't intentional, it was just an accident. I also told him that we were going to make brownies, and I forgot. They are coming up next weekend to stay over night ( I HOPE) and go to the town thing with us. I will make him (let him help me) brownies then.

I spent a lot of today going through the cookbooks that I have. Someone once told me that making the Hamburger Helper meals were cheaper than buying them. I've done some math and I don't even see how. I buy them when they are on sale 10/10. Then I usually have a coupon for 75/3 off. When that is doubled that means that for 10 I pay 8.5. That's .85 cents a box. To top it off, Kroger often runs a sale when the HH is 10/10 the ground chuck is $1.00 per package. So I pay .89 cents for a package of meat, make 2 boxes of HH, potatoes and a veggie for about 3.25 and we eat 2 meals off of it. Hum...that's not bad.

I was thinking today about what I want to be when I grow up. I think that I am going to go for medical assistant. I will go for my RN when the boys are older and in school more. Either that or tax prep and only work for 4 or 5 mos a year. If Duck gets the job at the RR then we are going to move closer to the terminal that he gets assigned to, if it is in Indy. Otherwise we are close enough to the local terminals that we won't have to move.

I bought some border for the living room today, Duck is going to help me put it up. I would like to get the living room put back how it was and get some things out of there. I have come up with a new plan. I'm going to bring in a huge box, I'm going to take all the clutter and throw it into that box and go from there. If by this time next month there is still clutter there and I have already gone through it, the stuff goes, either freecycle or nursing home. Speaking of which I have to drop some stuff off there tomorrow. I had another freecycler give me a bunch of stuff to take over. I am also going to start hitting the yard sales once it get cooler and try to get Sunshine some 4T clothes. He is hitting a growth spurt and needs some pants and shirts.

I got Granny Ann's blanket done, now I'm working on finishing Sunshine's should take me 2 days and I'm working on Smiley's which should take me about 2 weeks. I will then work on GG, I'm going to try a triple stitch and a red/white hand off with tassels. I'll see how it comes out. These are all Christmas presents. I will also, if time, work on one for my dad, I just need to find out what colors he likes. I did see some beautiful yarn today that I'd like to use. If I can get the 4 done in the next 4 months that would be PERFECT. I also started picking up presents for my kiddos for Christmas. Money's tight and clearance is cheap. We got this adorable buzz light year toy track today. Tomorrow Duck is going to finish putting up the swing. We also picked up this cool diaper pail that was on clearance. We need one, I've been using plastic bags and it's getting old. Well I think that I need to go, I want to clean up the toys in the LR and get it vacuumed before Duck gets in so we can watch a movie. I also want to run a load of dishes and change the laundry over right after I take a Motrin for my headache.

Night,
K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 24, 2007 Can't wait to go solar
DATE: 08/24/2007 18:57:15
STATUS: publish
BODY:
Okay so today we had a horrible storm and actually lost power for a while. I went to light some candles when it started to get a little dark in the house and Sunshine went ballistic. He kept wanting to blow them out, saying that they were hot. He would not leave it alone, even when I told him it was okay we needed the light. I don't want to go through that again. None the fact that it was incredibly hot in my house and we lost power while I was cooking dinner. I didn't even get to mash my potatoes, I had to eat them lumpy. GRRR. We are going to have company tomorrow and I need to get up and straiten up before it gets too late. Smiley was up every 30 min or so last night. Mostly wanting to eat, so I think that he is going through a growth spurt, but he kept kicking and hitting his stomach and has had diarrhea all day...o i will be watching him and call the doc tomorrow if necessary.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 22, 2007 Where do I start?
DATE: 08/22/2007 18:42:39
STATUS: publish
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Well this has been the week from hell. Saturday we had company and that was nice, the mess didn't get cleaned up from my bread explosion in my kitchen though. That was my fault. I made two batches of bread, gosh I need more bread pans. Sunday we were told about a family reunion that was going on that day...geez, thanks for the warning Duck. His mom said that she told him. So we went...only to find out that it wasn't where she said it would be. So we called his brother and it was close but further away...okay so we went. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I'm sure that everyone thought I was a biotch for walking away when the lit up a cig, but I REFUSE to put my kids though that again. Sunshine is having allergy problems so we are going to discuss that when Smiley goes into the doc. Infact we may end up going sooner because I think his tonsils are swelling up pretty bad. I will keep a close eye. Monday was the first day of school, (tear), he didn't need us, so we left after we all including Smiley got a kiss. He LOVES it! He is just cranky after wards, I think that it is taxing him. So Tue we took him back and when we got home, well...we got a letter in the mail and SURPRISE. Our rate isn't fixed....GOSH BE DARNED IT. We demanded a fixed rate and was never told otherwise. So our interest rate is going up 3 points in March. We CAN"T afford this. So, Duck called and used some rather profane words with the people on the phone, he apologized, but they weren't getting anywhere and he was rather upset. Finally he asked to be transferred to the "Pull your dick out of my ass department" and was told that no such department existed. Finally he was transferred to a department that deals with attorneys and refi, they said that if we missed this payment they could refinance us, lowering our rate and setting it as a fixed rate. Sounds simple? We are going to ask our attorney, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Needless to say, it is sad that you don't get anywhere being nice, you have to be rude and crude to get results. I know that what he said was harsh, but it put him in touch finally with the right people. Today Sunshine has well...if it tells you anything I think I would have rather wrestled a full grown Kodak Bear blind folded with both hands tied behind my back. We will have these days, this too shall pass. Well I didn't get a whole lot done today, I'm exhausted. I got up, after going to bed a little after 2, at 5 only to realize that I was drenched, Sunshine had completely wet though is pull up, all over himself, me and the bed. So at 5 am I was changing him, the bed, myself and washing all the clothes. Again I will say, this too shall pass. Well I'm going to indulge in a nice big bowl of hot fudge ice cream and be sick for the rest of the night.

Wish me luck!

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 16, 2007 Bad move
DATE: 08/16/2007 19:23:35
STATUS: publish
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Today I joined another group that I'm going to leave soon. I was just curious in other opinions and I'm being persecute for my own. That isn't constructive and I don't appreciate it. To think, they call themselves Christians. Grr. Nothing really new, just hanging out with the boys. Gotta go clean up and go to bed. Smiley has cut his 4th tooth and I think it is going to be a long night. I will also have to change his bed sheets in the morning if this one is anything like the last one. There was blood from where he had drooled.

Good night!

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 15, 2007 Going off another's
DATE: 08/15/2007 20:37:08
STATUS: publish
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blog today, I had a friend, yes I said friend write about the true meaning of friendship. Well I look at it a lot of ways....everyone has one true friend and that is God. (not to get off on the whole religion thing) A true friend will tell you like it is, but try to do it in a way that it won't offend you or sound to harsh. A true friend will not seem agitated that you called, but say, I've been waiting for your call so we could talk. A true friend would not go behind your back unless it was felt that someones life was in danger, ie. a friend who tells another or the cops or social service that she is the victim of domestic violence. A true friend not only opens their heart, but opens their mind and heart. A true friend loves you for who you are, not how much you make or what you look like. A true friend does their best not to take advantage of the other. B~ I know that we don't live to close, but you always have my phone numbers you are always welcome to call me whether it is 3 pm or 3 am. I apologize if I have been harsh with you in the past on certain issues, but I think that you understand that I truly only had the family (the four of you) at the best of interest. Well I need to do a few things before I wrap this day up.

By the way everyone, my diet is a success thus far. I thought that I was failing miserably, but my scale is broke. I went and weight myself at the clinic today and found out that I have lost nearly 12 pounds in the past week. And before I hear any harsh words, I have been eating correctly (no junk food, ie. cakes, ice cream, cookie, etc) and I have been exercising. I am doing the WW flex plan again and I like it. I do feel very hungry at times, but I remind myself that it is a lot about the fact that I'm bored or it is too available. I have eaten enough to sustain me for the rest of the evening and I shouldn't eat before I go to bed.

Night!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 15, 2007 Sad, but true!
DATE: 08/15/2007 05:38:41
STATUS: publish
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SCHOOL 1977 vs. 2007

Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1977 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1977 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1977 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1977 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1977 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1977 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1977 - Ants die.
2007 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1977 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 14, 2007 Yet again another nothing new day
DATE: 08/14/2007 20:14:22
STATUS: publish
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at our house. I have done a lot of sit ups today, but I would like to do a lot more before bed. Since it is after 11 I'm not so sure that is going to happen. Smiley is taking all the magnets off the fridge right now and very content. Sunshine has destroyed the living room again so I will need to clean that up also. We are working on a new rule. If he doesn't pick it up and it stays on the floor, it goes back upstairs. It is okay from him to bring a few toys down when he is allowed to go up there, but he is going to start picking up after himself. He was doing very good there for a while. He is doing a lot better at sharing with Smiley. I think that I found my SIL more than $400.00 on indianaunclaimed.com. I called her today and she finally called back. I hope that it made her day. I feel so distant from my in-laws, heck I feel distant from some of my family. We don't sit around for hours/days on end playing video games, smoking pot or drinking. We want to do things with our kids, we want to spend time with them, we don't pawn them off on people. The couple of times that Sunshine has it was an emergency or we went out twice. We felt so guilty about leaving him out of our night that we haven't done it since. Well I need to go, I have a little one finally rubbing his eyes again. That's what happens when Sunshine screams in protest, Smiley gets woken up.

Night all.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 12, 2007 Okay...so
DATE: 08/12/2007 15:03:53
STATUS: publish
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I'm working on a new blog. I went to the laundromat today to wash the pappose things. We have some very run down ones here. With it being 93 deg outside, inside felt like 100. I ended up having to go to two different places since the bigger thing wouldn't fit on the first one. Luckily the second was a nicer place, but still very hot.

If I haven't shared the good news, Smiley got a tooth for my birthday. He is now working on the second top one. He is really beginning to take off, I think he'll be walking soon. I had a good birthday, hung out a home and Dad sent me flowers. They were beautiful~!

I saw something rather depressing last night that it literally put me into tears. I saw a picture of myself from when I was 19. I wasn't skinny by any means, but I wasn't this big either. I have gone gun ho on the diet thing. Popcorn will replace on of my meals and I will drink 4 oz of veggie juice with it to get my veggies in. I am going to start off by completing 300 sit ups by the end of this day and increasing it by 50 sit ups per week. Obviously there will be a stopping point.

Well I really do need to get off of here. I'm trying to get my other page set up.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 09, 2007 GOSH I'M STARVING
DATE: 08/09/2007 18:23:42
STATUS: publish
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Okay, well I can eat some raw carrots or some more green beans, so it's my own fault. but I want to eat cookies and stuff like that. I will be strong, I can do this, I will fit back into my cocktail dress. I want to start attending church, but as pathetic as this sounds part of the reason is that I don't have any church clothes that will fit me. Pathetic huh? I continue with my bible studies and I try to work a little toward them everyday. I CAN do this and I WILL get back into my clothes that I love. I will be better to my body. I don' t want my kids growing up thinking that it's okay to be big, it's not healthy, it's NOT okay. I want them to be a mother that they can be proud of, not embarrassed of. I'm sure at some point they will be embarrassed, but I don't want it to be because of my weight! I want to love myself again, or for the first time. I can do it, I think I can, I think I can, I know I can! I have found the perfect exercise buddy, they are as uncoordinated as I am and a blast to be around. I will be doing up to 45 min of TaeBo everyday Hopefully!

Love,

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 09, 2007 Well I just weighed myself
DATE: 08/09/2007 12:54:17
STATUS: publish
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I am now two pounds lighter. So...2 down 101 to go. Just thought I'd drop in and say hi. Smiley is taking a nap and I am going to do a few 15 minute works around the house until he wakes up. I will start with the bathroom, laundry room, kitchen, dining room and finish in the living room. I will also do 4 15 minute work outs tonight. I am going to start rearranging the living room to how I want it and I'm going to finally clean the papoose chair pillows. Either they will get cleaned with the carpet cleaner or I will take them tomorrow morning to the laundromat.

Have a great day and night if I don't check back!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for August 08, 2007 Just another day
DATE: 08/08/2007 21:21:04
STATUS: publish
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I was awaken a little after 3 this morning to a kiss and a warm sound. Duck kissed me and wished me a Happy Birthday. It was cool. I quickly drifted back off to sleep and he went back to work. When Smiley woke me up around 8 this morning we went on about our normal days stuff. Eat, Clean, Eat, Clean and lots of play. There was a flood of phone calls today, I don't think that we have ever had that many. Dad and his wife sent me flowers, they were beautiful. I am just another year older, no change just me. I also decided to start a diet today...good day huh? I used my diet cake recipe which Duck really doesn't mind. If you knew him, you'd be shocked. He hates anything diet. I use diet Sprite or 7 up instead of the oil and water. I also use 3 egg whites instead of the whole egg. The after taste is just a little bit different, but not near enough not to scarf down the whole cake. I only had one piece, but I will have another tomorrow. I also don't ice my cakes since my favorite icing is Kroger whippy stuff. Plus it is far more calories. Smiley hit his head hard earlier, that is why I'm still awake. I also found mold under my bathroom sink. I will bleach it very well tomorrow and put the personal fan down there. I will try to wipe it all down before I turn on the fan so that the spores don't fly everywhere. Well I need to really get going, I have some toys to pick up and I need to get some sleep, Sunshine is going to be up early since he went to bed at 7:30. I really really hope that this is a further sign of things to come for him. He has been on his neb treatments just about everyday. He is so hyper and bouncing off the walls when he is on those. Well for those of you that don't/didn't know, today I celebrated the 1st anniversary of my 25th birthday. 25 was a big deal for me since most of the women in my family don't make it much past 50. Since I had a wonderful year I figure that I will just remain 25 and celebrate the anniversaries as a friend suggested.

Have a great night!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 06, 2007 Happy B-Day Kev~!
DATE: 08/06/2007 20:54:41
STATUS: publish
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I hope that you had a wonderful day in Maine...I think that is where you are.

I got my first modeling job yesterday..fun fun! I got to see how imperative it is for me to lose weight. Today I worked out to TaeBo, but I didn't get any riding in. I made bread and cleaned up instead. Mental note to self....keep house clean that way you don' t have to skip exercising. I have been riding my bike though. I still have about 100 pounds to lose. After I'm done breastfeeding Smiley I will go back on my energy things that I was taking. It helps reduce stress and I don't eat so much. Anyway, my picture will be on the side of someones vehicle as an advertisement for a handy lady service. Not exactly what I wanted to do, but hey, it works. Those of you that really know me, know what I really want to do...well I'll stop there.

We went to the LLL yard sale the other day, we were very disappointed that they didn't put up our signs. Howard worked until 4 or 5 in the morning on those because I dropped the ball and lost a week somewhere. When we got there (after looking for it for more than 1/2 an hour because signs weren't clear and fell down) we were told that there was a misspelling. Grrr. That is why we always send a layout for approval. I wish they would have told us the day that we dropped them off or called early that morning, we could have fixed them. It was also apparent that they needed more signs. We dropped off the other sign when we got there Sat that D asked for. I need to remember to get her a zero dollar invoice so that she can sign it in case we need it for tax purposes. I want to get the signs fixed for her and we even offered to have a yard sale here at our house since we are sorta close to a main drag and there are a ton of yard sales around Labor Day Weekend. Since we don't do anything for that weekend anyway, we could open our home to the helpers of the yard sale. All in all I think that it would be kinda cool, but entirely up to them. Anyhow, we did find two more Elmo's, a Zoe and a Big Bird for Sunshine. He LOVED THEM. We had a very rough time getting Sunshine to take his picture for the program that they were offering there. It took more than 1/2 an hour. Luckily we were the only one there getting it done at that point. One of the other ladies said that she noticed some of the traits that he was showing. We had a discussion about Aspbergers(or how ever it is spelled). She made a very valid point. To sum it up, it is hard to take our children some places. People look at them like they are brats and look at us like we are raising brats, not realizing that there is a deeper issue there. She kinda put some things into prospective for me.

Okay, off that issue. On better news...Smiley started to show significant signs of walking this past weekend. Sunday morning he stood up using his car seat, then he walked along the car seat using it to stableize himself. He placed one hand on the stand up toy thing and walked around it also. WOW. He is doing very well. Why am I so excited? My children are night and day....literally! We are very happy with his progress, now if he would only sleep through the night. Guess that will come later when his belly starts to get bigger.

Sunshine is going back to school a week late. They have moved the school and they had to hire a new ps teacher. We are very excited about it being much closer to us. He is doing so much better I do hope that he continue to excel. We didn't do so hot with the whole potty thing, but we are going to still go at it hard and heavy tomorrow. We are doing a sticker chart and he seems to be interested in that. We just make him sit there until he goes. When he had gone, he gets up on his own. We continue to ask him if he needs to go again until we thing he is ready to go again and then we make him sit there again until he goes. We do a sticker for each successful potty. He gets excited. Since Duck switched schedules he has been missing his daddy a lot. We moved the picture down of Duck and I so that he can talk to him when he wants to show him something or when he wants to see his dad. I also call the house and let him leave voice messages for his dad for when he gets home. He likes to hear his dad's voice of the VM.

Well I need to get off of here, I just remembered that I needed to send an email to someone. I hope that all is well with everyone.

B~I would like to talk to you about ms. When I got on there and looked around I kinda got the impression that there is a lot of smut on there. Is these true with what I'm seeing? I don't want a website that is going to show something like that when Sunshine is often with me when I check my email and such. Please let me know what you think.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: August 03, 2007 Well I dropped the ball~
DATE: 08/03/2007 14:22:24
STATUS: publish
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Well I missed a whole week somewhere. I thought that the yard sale was next weekend and it is this weekend. Thankfully Duck got the signs done in time. I called the leader yesterday and left her a message, but it was too late to drop them off by the time that she called back. We have just started a nice evening routine and I'm not too fond of driving at night when Duck is at work. I was really hopping that we could get these done a lot sooner, but we just couldn't get anything worked out and when she got back we were in the middle of a large order that was already delayed and VERY time consuming. Tomorrow I will be dropping off the last sign that has the group info on it that was requested by the leader. I love the idea of the whole group and what they are trying to achieve, but I just don't feel comfortable going any longer. I hate the fact that it is that way, but it is. I can call the leader if I need help and I encourage any mother or mother to be to breast feed. It is a truly wonderful experience and good for the baby.

I dropped off some freecycle stuff today, I do hope that the lady can use it or give it to someone who can. I had an awkward situation arise, but I just don't know how to feel about it. Duck says that it's in the past and I should not let it bother me. I don't feel like I have done anything wrong, unless not sharing ones views is wrong, then I guess it is not meant to be huh? I am a good person and I would give anyone the shirt off my back if they truly needed it. I am only human, and I'm sorry if someone feels like they are better than me, go ahead. I AM a good person and so are you, you just need to realize that just because someone does something different, doesn't mean that they are wrong. Grr. Oh well, you can't win them all.

Well it's off to clean we are going to have company tomorrow and I need to get the stuff together for tomorrow morning. I don't want to make two trips so I need to contact the LLL leader and ask her if it okay with her to come a little later.

Some IF questions before I go..

If you had to choose the color that describes you most accurately, which color would it be?

I pick blue, the sky is blue, the ocean is blue...blue is a happy color to me.

If you had to convert to a different religion, which would you choose?

I would choose my husband's religion...penacostal...although I am very happy with my current one.

If you were to be drown in a liquid other than water, what would you want it to be?

Well this questions seems a little morbid, but I think that I would like to be drown in chloroform..not sure if I spelled that correctly, but at least I would pass out before I drown.

If you had to name the most terrifying moment of your life so far, what would it be?

The night that I woke up and my baby was ice cold and not moving, I thought that he was dead.

If you had to be homeless for one year, where would you want to be?

I'm not sure, I've never been homeless, I guess some place warm with jobs available so I could bring myself out of being homeless. There are too many places for people to go nowadays, it seems hard to be homeless for a whole year...but then again, perhaps that is they way they want it to be..I don't know.

If you could be guaranteed one thing in life besides money, what would you ask for?

For my children to grow old healthy.

Well gotta go now...just some things to think about or ask your so.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: July 30, 2007 It's official...we are mobile
DATE: 07/30/2007 05:24:54
STATUS: publish
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Well today will be the day of crawling around looking for things that could be dangerous to the little. He started crawling yesterday the right way, we have been seeing this coming for a bit now, he has been doing the sit and move technique. My baby is growing up!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: July 26, 2007 Happy B-Day!
DATE: 07/26/2007 19:27:33
STATUS: publish
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Okay, so I know that my dad doesn't read my blogs, but I wish that I could have wished him a happy birthday today. I'm very sad that we missed so many years of building a relationship. I wish that we were closer! They boys are so lucky to have such a wonderful grandparent that loves them. These are the days that I enjoy life to its fullest! It just breaks my heart that the man that brought me into this world was ripped away from us at such a young age. We were led to believe these horrible things about him, and programmed to hate him. He truly is a wonderful guy and besides minor differences, I feel that I have married a wonderful man that shares some of the same qualities as he does. Perhaps that is why I love them both so much. I just hope that he knows how much I love him.

Okay, so I haven't been writing lately, I've been a little preoccupied. My friend is in dire need and I don't know how to help. Her heart is breaking and I feel like I'm in Egypt. I wish that there was something that I could do to take some of this pain off of her shoulders. My house...let's not even go there. Today we cleaned up the boys room. I bagged another bag of kids toys and I'm taking them to a girl that works at a daycare that knows of families in need. I have also bagged up some clothes that Smiley will never wear as Sunshine never did. I have also bagged up some of Smiley's clothes to give to JD for the new baby. I am cleaning out completely of baby stuff. We aren't planning on having another ever, but you know how that works! We are taking many precautions to prevent such an event. Sunshine has been keeping me busy, we play all the time and race and babble to each other and play with bubby. Last night Duck and Sunshine put on a puppet show for Smiley, I wish I would have set up the video camera. He was laughing so hard he began gasping for air. It was adorable! We are going to keep one of my cousins this weekend, this is going to be interesting! I told my aunt that the only thing that I need is him, diapers, any meds and passys since we already have clothes, cups and everything else. Duck is waiting to hear back from the LLL lady on the signs, I will have to remember to call her tomorrow if she hasn't contacted us yet. I want these done this weekend so I can drop them off Monday. We are getting ready for a wedding and a lot of time away from the house I would really like to have them done and not at the last minute. I met a lady the other day, she was wonderful. She gave me a bag of stuffed animals to give to the fire station and nursing home. I ended up giving them to the nursing home since no one would answer me at the fire station and the police officer said that they don't do that anymore. That's sad, a child could just a teddy bear to hold on to while the cops are putting cuffs on mommy and daddy and taking them off to jail. Yes I have been there and no I did not receive a teddy bear. The seniors looked so happy that we were there. I want to get Sunshine into reading ASAP, he is really doing well in recognizing certain words and he is really excelling. I am hoping that this year in school is just a rewarding as the last month of last year was! He is so funny. I will have to post the picture of Elmo. It seems that Elmo has to poo-poo all the time and Elmo will sit on the potty, but Sunshine won't. I'm beginning to notice a pattern here and I've rec'd a great idea from a friend. Put them both on the potty together. One on the little potty and one on the big. Well I just got Smiley to sleep again and I need to go to bed. I want to make more bread tomorrow. I will be starting loaves 6 and so on. I have done banana, pumpkin, zucchini, pineapple and an unsuccessful chocolate chip so far. I want more banana and to do some apple for Duck. I will also try to do some others that sound good.

Good night

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: July 18, 2007 Back to the cloth
DATE: 07/18/2007 18:52:02
STATUS: publish
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I went back to the cloth diapers and Smiley has pooed at least 7 times in the past 36 or so hours. AHHH. I now have more diapers than rubber pants so I will just have to wash them more often. I got a ton of them on clearance (boys and girls) in all sizes, but I could only get 2 of each size. Grr. That's life huh? He is asleep right now, but he should wake up in an hour or so to nurse again, he went to bed earlier than normal. I will change him again when he gets up so he doesn't wet through tonight, one down side of cloth diapers. Duck is working very hard and he still has to do the LLL signs...note to self, send him an email. Yes that is how we have to communicate now, I rarely see him anymore. How is that? I stay at home with the kids! Hum...I'm going to have to figure that one out. Well I am still looking for a new place to post my blogs. I'm really skepticle about myspace, I just don't feel easy about it. I have so much to do so I better get up. Tomorrow we are going to work on the potty thing again, Sunshine ran around most of the day without a pull up on, and no problems. Yet he didn't go in the potty either. Hum... I am also going to start writing down the words that he is saying since he is getting ready to start school back up. Again...need to make note about that too.

Well thanks for listening to the things that I have to get done.

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 07/18/2007 21:11:24
Go to Livejournal. There is also xanga, blogger.com, homeschoolblogger, homesteadblogger, and about a gazillion others.



I used to have Bravenet, but the ads were annoying me.



Kim
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AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 07/19/2007 16:06:10
Livejournal is the one that you are on now right? That one takes FOREVER for me to load up. I'm not sure at all why, but it does. I'll have to check out the other ones or see what is going to happen in Sept with 360. Thanks for the info.


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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 07/19/2007 19:18:35
Livejournal is the one I'm on now, yes. Do you have dial-up?
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 07/20/2007 18:34:27
No I have dsl.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: July 17, 2007 Tired~
DATE: 07/17/2007 05:56:54
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I had a baby up until about 1:30, and then he tossed and turned for quite a while after that. Grrr. The storms did me in for the rest of the night's sleep. I now have huge brown/purple/black circles around my eyes and will be drinking caffeine all day to try and stay awake. Well we needed the rain, but I'm not sure that we needed so much so fast. It was nice to hear it pinging off the a/c until all night. That's certainly does relax me. Well I will write more later I have to vacuum the living room before bible study and fix my hair. I did so much reading in the workbook that I think they'll be here all day. We try to cover all the stuff that I have done so I can continue forward. My goal is to finish this book in the next 2-3 months and then work on the one previously issued before going to the next one that was handed out at convention. I feel relaxed when I'm doing the studies, now if I could only get my bum up to go to the services on Sunday. I guess I just dread having to take Sunshine and make him sit for the two hours. We'll see what happens, I may just start leaving him with Duck until he gets back into school.

Gotta go,

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: July 15, 2007 So it's been a while
DATE: 07/15/2007 21:14:47
STATUS: publish
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I've been super busy getting no where fast. Make sense? I've been trying hard to keep the house up and it seems like I can't get it done. I've also been doing a lot more reading for my bible study group. Since I am a slow reader and don't like to read in the first place because I have reading comp difficulties it takes me longer than most. I just work my way through it until I understand. I'm looking for a wedding dress for TM, but no luck. Wanna hear something terrible, we don't think that we are even going to go. Duck is slated for mandatory OT and they don't care if the pope himself was getting married, if they say you work, you work! I've just been dealing with a lot lately that is mentally and emotionally draining. I have a friend who has to deal with something no parent should ever have to deal with. Another who is stuck between a rock and a hard spot. Another who ran over her own 15 year old cat by mistake. And the fact that I haven't really seen Duck but maybe 2 hours in the past week and a half. It is tiring. I'm going to re-sign up for flylady.com, I want to get my house back on track and I love that system. I need 15 minute structures at a time, Smiley only sleeps for about 30 minutes at a time during the day, especially since he has moved to his new bed. He began pulling himself up this weekend and clapping. HE is so funny and fully of pizazz. He cackles, coos and talks all the time. He is a lot different from Sunshine. Today Sunshine said his second curse word courtesy of his mother. Great! There goes my mother of the year nomination. I was responding to some idiot in a post and I got frustrated. I forgot that he was sitting right behind me and I said it. Darn it...I said poop! Well, you know what I said. He is saying so much more. Today he came up to me and said, "I gotta poop!" Ran him to the potty, sat him down for about 25 minutes and Nada. I guess at least he is starting to feel some urges or he is getting used to the idea of where his functions should go. I hope that he can be trained by the time school starts. I think it is like 3 weeks from now. Yippee. Well I need to get to bed, we have to do some school work in the morning, clean the carpets and put some stuff out for freecyclers. I'm looking for a pack and play or play pen if anyone know of one that is cheap for sale.

Thanks for reading!

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 07/20/2007 10:20:02
Hey we have an extra pack and play.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: July 10, 2007 Missed meeting
DATE: 07/10/2007 19:49:14
STATUS: publish
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Okay, so I was going to go to the meeting tonight, but I couldn't. Duck was busy out in the garage and misunderstood that I was going to go without Sunshine. I made myself more than clear on the fact that he wasn't going to go with me. Grrr. It wasn't to get away from him, it was to prevent what happened last time from happening again. It left me with a really bad taste in my mouth so to say. I didn't push the issue because we REALLY need the money. He is going to have to squeeze the donated signs in before Aug. If he gets this job for the Tshirts he is going to be busy FOREVER> I hate that I never get to see him, but with the chemical (nasty smelling stuff) I would rather not have the kids in the garage. Today Sunshine escaped the back yard...darn it, now it is time to finish the porch. I don't have much to say today. I had a wonderful bible study, and then got some really bad news all day after that. I will pray for everyone tonight.

Good night.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: July 09, 2007 Okay so he can see....
DATE: 07/09/2007 20:36:00
STATUS: publish
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And he can hear...Sunshine is doing well, now just the second round of Autism tests and hopefully we will be done. They are also going to check him for the several heart murmurs that he has. I tell you what! I have never been so proud of my 3 year old as I was today. It almost brought tears to my eyes. During the test, since he can't talk that much, they tried different pictures and things to stimulate him. When the do the test where they cover your eyes and make you read the chart, well we weren't sure how they were going to be able to do that. Then they put up letters, and OH MY GOSH! He started saying the letter or sounds or signing them. I was so proud. Why you ask? This is a HUGE step for Sunshine. Most people don't understand how it is in my shoes. Most people look at me like I have a bratty 3 year old who always gets his way. Does that happen??? Yes some times it does, but no as much as most would like to pin on me. Do you realize how hard it is to get your child to speak? How hard it is to not know why they are crying or what it is that they want? Or to talk to them and not know if they are at all understanding what it is that you are asking them to do? I've tried and tired my best and I'm not making any progress. I need help communicating with my child...do you at all understand where I am coming from? And then when we do go somewhere, the parents of the other children look at me like a bad person, like my kid is out of control. He is just different no better and no worse, just different. He needs a little more help to bring out what it is that he is wanting. And to top it all off, I have people who then try to correct my son right in front of me, who OBVIOUSLY don't understand how they are confusing him. Does this make me a bad mother? Because you sure as hell made me feel like one! I love Sunshine and I am getting him the help that he needs. Okay I'm done ranting for now. I love my Sunshine very much and today he made me the proudest mother in the world. It is so hard to go into a children's hospital and see what we saw today and think that our problems are bed, they could have been so much worse. He is the apple of my eye, both of them are.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: July 07, 2007 Lucky day!
DATE: 07/07/2007 20:13:57
STATUS: publish
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For some, today is 7-7-07. Sunsine went to sleep at 6:30 and has been down ever since. Smiley is still awake. Nothing is working, not bath, rocking, nursing nor passy. I figure he will just pass out when he passes out. Unfortuantley I am ready for bed. I didn't get a whole lot done today as I wanted to, but there is always tomorrow. I did a couple of the tedious things that I hate to do. I am almost completely caught up on my laundry and tomorrow plan to tackle the laundry room for a good organization and cleaning. Oh, spoke too soon, Sunshine is up, I need to go and see if I can wear him out.

night!

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for July 05, 2007
DATE: 07/05/2007 08:08:55
STATUS: publish
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http://www.yahoo.com/s/619739 This is literally a zebra and horse.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: July 04, 2007 Happy July 4th Everyone
DATE: 07/04/2007 20:07:30
STATUS: publish
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This is probably my most NOT favorite time of the year. Not that I'm not patriotic, it has been turned into a huge "buy firecrackers, spend money and then LITERALLY watch it blow up in your face". Can we say DUH? What in the heck are we thinking? I have to admit that last year we did by some fire works, they were of a little man that goes up, pops and a parachute comes down with the soldier attached. Duck spent like maybe $5 and we still have most of them left. No we didn't do anything today besides grocery shopping and some Wally World shopping. Another huge reason that I hate this day is that I will for the next week, and past week, hear the popping sound of bottle rockets until all hours of the morning. (they finally stopped after midnight and started back up around 7 this morning.) EXTREMELY ANNOYING. Needless to say that Smiley is still trying to cut those teeth and has been waking up a lot during the night.

We have some very unwelcome, annoying guest. Carpenter Bees or Hornet, we aren't quite sure which one. Now I am ashamed to admit that we haven't mowed our grass in like 3 weeks because of the sever drought that we have had, our yard is brown and only maybe a quarter of an inch taller in said time. But the flying things have made nest in our small garage. I pulled the van over there today and they were pinging off the side of the van and the windows. There were literally hundreds flying around and on the ground. GRRR. We bought some chemicals and if it doesn't work we are going to have to break down and hire an exterminator. I do not want my kids to be stung by these things, no my husband or myself. I don't care if people say, oh they won't sting you, it doesn't stop the fact that they do have a stinger and if they feel threatened they could sting. I've gotten a good portion of my house cleaned up from LW staying with us, tomorrow I am attacking the upstairs. After a discussion with Duck today he will no longer be staying for more than a weekend. I went into the bathroom Tue morning and found a huge puddle of pee on the floor. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!! He's 14, and can't even figure out where to aim his penis? I expect for Sunshine to have a few accidents, but not a 14 year old peeing all over my bathroom floor. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I was very angry. I said something that I really shouldn't have and I felt sorry that I said it, but I'm not sure that I regret it. I walked out of the bathroom after telling him that it was his pee and he had to clean it up with bleach and said, I'm over this! He for the first time apologized for something he did wrong.( this was the 2nd time he had done this) It shows me that he truly understood how upset I was about this. Did if forget to mention that I walked right into it as I didn't see it on the floor when I walked in? Yeah, it pretty much made my day.

I want to put the last load of dishes in before I go to bed, we bought some more bowls and cups today since they were on clearance and I don't like always using my good coke glasses. I defrosted my fridge. Tonight I'm going to do fifty sit ups before I go to bed and I want to read one chapter in Mark, no I'm not done yet. I did however learn that Jesus was with God in heaven before he was on earth. I never knew that. The thing that I really want to get out of all this bible study is the understanding of the bible in such a way that I can prove a point when I need to and lift my spirits when I'm down. The bible has the answers that I've always been searching for. I'm just sorry that it has taken me so long to come to that fact. After growing up in a house with parents that would make it a point to get up and chastise me for going to church when they NEVER got up that early on a Sunday. I remember walking to church with wet hair and tears running down my face in literally freezing weather. My hair would be frozen by the time that I got there unless someone saw me walking and offered me a ride. It's sad that not everyone can feel the relief that I feel when I get through a session. I will do my best to make it to church this weekend. It starts at 9:30 and I will only be taking Smiley, not that I want to exclude Sunshine. I know that he will not make it through the service without a huge scene and most people just don't and won't understand. There will be a time to take him, I just have to take Smiley since he is still nursing. I want my children to choose the religion that is right for them, not have it chosen for them.

Anyhow, off to do my sit ups, it doesn't look like my dishes will be done before I go to sleep, perhaps I will put them in when Duck gets ready for work in the morning.

AB~I will pray, keep praying and pray some more for you during this very trying and confusing time. I love you very much and hope that you know when ever you need me, I will be here or there.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: July 01, 2007 I'm over it.
DATE: 07/01/2007 16:58:13
STATUS: publish
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For the first time in a very long time, I just about lost my temper completely last night. I was so angry that I was very inclined to his someone, good thing I had the baby in my arms. Duck's sister, TW, just completely cut me out of a conversation. She was trying to tell Duck that he needed to let LW "earn" some time to play on the PlayStation after we had already said NO PlayStation period. This is MY household, when she gets a house of her own (or apartment/trailer) she can do as she wishes. She has NO right to tell me how to run my house. Nobody does! LW was here for 3 weeks and went home for about 10 hours. He was on the computer most of that time trying to download a game called Doom. This isn't a game that my children would be playing, especially at their age. Anyhow, he caught a virus while trying to download this game. His mother couldn't even find the time to spend with her son while he was there. Then she told Duck to please take him for the night and she'd sign all paperwork necessary. What in the world did she mean by that? In light of the news that we just got over the past few days, I'm not sure that I'm willing to take care of a 14 year old child who has had no guidance and listens worse than my possibly autistic 3 year old. It is her job to raise her kid, not mine. Sunshine wanted, as always, me to walk up stairs with him when he went to wake up his dad this morning. LW was laying in bed naked and exposed....ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME. He will be going home Tuesday, it is time for his mother to do her job. She didn't even have the nerve to tell him that they were moving up here in the first place, then she moved in with her mom in a two bedroom trailer. He mom's husband #4 or 5's son came up for a visit and in less than a week they think that they are sole mates and are going to get married. Can anyone say, "Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!" Ladies, please leave your shirts on, there won't be any beads thrown from your computers. On top of all of this, a friend is having troubles with her puberty stricken and pre-puberty stricken boys, honey, I pray for you. It's going to take lots of understanding to get through this one. And I saw my uncle yesterday, he isn't going to make it through the end of the year, if the end of the summer. I've never seen him look that bad. I really feel for my aunt and he has put up a great fight, this is just so much that man can do before God calls you home. This week has got to get better, if not, I will be visiting the pharmacy for a nice script of Prozac, I'm about ready to lose my cool.

Anyhow, I need to call the lady that I study with, I forgot to write down the chapter and lost my place. Love to all, prayers and God Bless.

Katy

PS B~ thanks for the future help on MS, I am going to look into it to see if that is the direction that I want to take. I'm afraid about all the hacking stuff.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 27, 2007 Well Crap!
DATE: 06/27/2007 19:16:20
STATUS: publish
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It looks like Yahoo is going to start changing some of the 360 things and I feel that one day it will be all over. This means that I am going to cut bait and run before it is too late. Time to find someone else to store my endless thoughts and pictures and joke and stuff that I do on here. I hate to do it, but it looks like I may have to open a myspace account, I will need to look into it before I decide to do anything further. B~ Any suggestions about MS?

Okay well I won't be blogging for a few days, I will leave you with a joke and a cute picture.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To get to the other side!

Katy

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AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 06/28/2007 13:41:26
I love MS, but the only problem is, is it is so easy for a hacker to get into your computer. I have out smarted the hackers, so they can no longer mess with me, because I know the tricks on getting them out and they can't get any farther than what they have.

I will teach you the tricks.

MS is working on a way to stop all the hacking, but it happens, and know easy for me to get rid of.

If you want to set an account up just go to www.myspace.com and it's easy from there.

You can even find people you graduated with, haven't talked to in days, months, yrs, ect.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 26, 2007 One Day closer!
DATE: 06/26/2007 22:11:19
STATUS: publish
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We are going to a friends house on Thursday, and then another. L and Sunshine can't wait to go swimming with T-14 and J-11. T and J have grown up so fast, I remember when we used to play dress up and matchbox car together. They were the typically brother and sister that we would all expect. All the kids are going to have fun.

Today I had an hour and a half bible study, it was nice. I have to go back and find something that is going to take some research. I got far in my "workbook", but not far in my reading of the scripture. I MUST WORK ON THIS. I will work on finishing Mark and then working forward from there.

I'm still working on the true friend things....I'm not sure what it mean. Sure I could look it up in the dictionary, but what is it suppose to mean in your heart. At this point I can see that I have acquaintances, friends, a few true friends and family. Should one have more true friends? And how true should the true friends be? What happens to the friends who fall (backslide) into the acquaintance category?

Anyhow, I will have another bible study Tue but we are going to work on a lot Thurs. as well. Well I'm going to go for now, I have a great deal on my mind and I'm sorry, but I don't feel like I should share for now. Well the marbles seem to be rolling around up there in my head, I think a few have leaked out through one the the holes somewhere, I'm off to go and find them.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 24, 2007 A cleaning fit...
DATE: 06/24/2007 21:14:58
STATUS: publish
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Well I went on a cleaning binge and it doesn't look like I got anything done. I still have to do the bathroom floor which will take me about 20 minutes ( hands and knees) and the kitchen floor which will take me less than 10. Then I might try to go to bed. I still want to do tons more, but Smiley is certainly an early riser as I used to be. He's doing great, he is cutting 6 teeth right now. GR> Sunshine is saying so many new things that I can't even keep track. Every morning he is going to wake up his dad, he hands him his glasses and says, "Wake UP daddy." It's really cute. We are going to a friends house this week and staying at another friend's house so the boys can swim. I have no plans on getting in as it might insight a riot with the people free whales from being beached. Yes I am working on my weight and I have found yet another great idea. I am going to the local church to climb their stairs out front. I used to do that when I walked a mile every morning with CJ and it worked great. I will also try to climb my stairs 50 times during Smiley's nap. Maybe I can get Sunshine to do it with me and we can make it a fun thing. Tomorrow we are going to start morning school time to get him back in the habit of sitting and working. I will be reading the bible while he is working on his school work if I can. We are working on a serious dilemma right now and we are really trying to find the answers in the bible.

I've been reading some other blogs lately and I find some of them rather disturbing, almost to the fact that they are making a laughing stock out of themselves. Some people are so ignorant. I just have to sit back and laugh at the stupid things they are saying.

Anyhow, it's getting late and I need to research Sunshine's car seat as we bought him a new one today so Smiley could have his.

Love and peace to all.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 21, 2007 Okay so it has been a while
DATE: 06/21/2007 19:16:56
STATUS: publish
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It isn't easy entertaining a 14 year old. He will go to Indy with my next week and we will take him home next weekend. Duck has been working tons of overtime and I've been trying really hard to keep up on the house work. I thought that my 3 year old was bad about cleaning up after himself...shesh. He's 14 I shouldn't have to tell him to do something that is obvious. We went to J's house the other day and she corrected Sunshine right in front of me. I was happy as I didn't see it happen and she didn't take the approach that most people do, she didn't yell at him. I also got to see that 5 year olds are very "drama"tic children and tattle tails, even if it is their fault. Anyhow we are going to visit again next week as we are working through some tough religious problems. How to make God happy and still be happy with decisions that you have made. We are working hard to find the correct answers. I missed my bible study this week, but I made up for it by far. I will have tons of questions about what we were researching and reading. I will finish the book of Mark and try to work on the book of Matthew. Well until next time, and hopefully it isn't as long, good by and God Bless.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 14, 2007 An almost castrophy
DATE: 06/14/2007 16:13:49
STATUS: publish
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This morning Duck went and pulled out some waffles from the freezer only to find them limp and the deep freezer defrosting itself. Confused as to how this was happening since the light was still on, we looked at the on/off dial...duh huh? Well apparently Sunshine had shut it off and it had been that way all night. Good thing we caught it when we did, there is about 300 dollars worth of food in there. Things are going good here, we are just working around the house. I am ready to finish the upstairs as soon as the AC gets brought in for the down stairs. I miss central air. Well I'm going to eat dinner and clean up the kitchen and finish up the laundry. Me.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 11, 2007 The mysterious fever is back
DATE: 06/11/2007 20:17:11
STATUS: publish
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I called the doc today and she said to pump fluids into him and Tylenol/Motrin every 4 hours. Now the fever is back to 101. Tomorrow we will be going in. He also has what appears to be bloodshot (only in a small section almost like a slice of pie) eyes. So I again am going to miss my bible study, wow, that makes me 1 for 3. I will see if I can reschedule it for tomorrow. GRRR. I will start to look through the "workbook" and work ahead if I can. Right now I am just writing to say Hi....HI. I hope that everyone is doing well. I was reading a blog from someone else and it got me thinking, we need to refinance. Time to call CJ. She's the master at these things. Heck, if she could get an 18 year old funding on a 75K home with no credit she can pull rabbits out of hats for all that I'm concerned. I will have Duck call her this week and see if we can start to work on it. I know that we can't have had any payments late (31 days or more) for the past 6 months to quality. If they will do it alone on Duck's income. I can't see why they wouldn't, he was the only one who go this house to begin with, plus he had another house on his credit at the same time. Anyhow, I need to get off of here, I want to get the laundry folded and the dished done, having a 3 year old up my bum all day really seems to slow me down.

Toodles.

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 11, 2007 It's going to be a long night
DATE: 06/10/2007 22:28:01
STATUS: publish
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Sunshine has had a 100 plus temp for the greater part of the day. I have been doing the motrin/tyneol switch and it isn't working. He is larthargic and clingy and whines/cries out in his sleep. If he isn't better in the morning I will make him an appt.

I'm really tired so I am going to try to lay down for a little bit. I have to be up in 3.5 hours to give more medicine. I really do have tons to say, I just dont' have the brain power to keep going anymore.

Good night.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 09, 2007 The house guest
DATE: 06/09/2007 19:07:05
STATUS: publish
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Today we picked up a teenage house guest to keep for 2 weeks. He's into gory movies, video games and rap music. Two of the three I share interests in, but don't do while my children are awake. This is going to be interesting. Last night the boys were in rare form...we all went to be at 4 am. GRRRR. I'm very tired and completely unmotivated to do anything. I'm forcing myself to type as we speak. I need to get up and run a load of laundry, put the dishes away and vacuum the 150 ounces of laundry soap that my wonderful 3 year old spilled. Again shall I say...GRRRR. Well I need to get to it. My firend is having a baby at the end of Oct. Wed she finds out if it is a boy or a girl and I am foaming at the mouth to find out. I've also said that I will throw her a baby shower if the others back out of it. I love throwing baby showers! Well I'm going to get to it....I'm tired and ready to go to bed.

Me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 06/10/2007 14:07:09
Have fun with that. :]
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 08, 2007 New pics
DATE: 06/08/2007 11:56:01
STATUS: publish
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have been added under the title of 06-07-2007.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 07, 2007 B~ for the record.
DATE: 06/07/2007 18:15:13
STATUS: publish
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I do consider you a friend, you are always welcome in my house. I am comfortable around you and hope that you feel the same towards us. I wish we lived closer as I think it would be great to hang out with you guys more often. I consider you a great friend!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 07, 2007 Friends
DATE: 06/07/2007 18:13:41
STATUS: publish
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Well when I was younger my mother pulled me out of school and attempted to home school me. Now I always wondered what someone who barely had a high school diploma was thinking that she could home school her children at such levels. Anyone can home school their children though the early years and perhaps through 5th grade, but I have no faith that it works out for the "student" past that point. There are so many draw backs, just because I don't feel like that it was best for me or best for my family doesn't mean that I will persecute anyone for choosing to do so with their family. I do pray that they consider all the ramifications/benefits to such choices, and then make the best one for the child and not themselves. Anyhow, this is not what I want to blog about today. And before this starts a fury of foaming at the mouth...yes I was home schooled as was my brother and others that we knew. For the record...I am the only one with any sort of diploma...and we were all using accredited school. When I left public school, I lost contact with most of my friends, we lived in the boonies and most of us couldn't drive yet. So the few friends that I remained in contact with were great. Then I moved out on my own and had tons of friends again. We would always go places even if it was just the park to swing, hang out at each others house or run errands together. Then I got some friends that I felt were just using me. Cutting those ties was a difficult feat. Then we moved and moved into an area where we didn't know anyone. Now if anyone knows, I'm the type of person who likes to keep to myself. I enjoy being at home it is a sense of security that I just don't get anywhere else. I guess my point is that I consider a lot of people friends who I rarely speak to if ever. I have friends who home school, grow crops, have farm type animals, kill their dinner, work in offices, stay at home, have children, don't have children, own guns, oppose guns, are over protective, are under protective, have too much, don't have enough, use drugs, don't use drugs, are white, black, brown and red, are prochoice, are prolife, are gay, or are straight. I don't discriminate against someone who chooses what is best for their family. Just because I don't choose to home school my children and they do, it is a life choice, just as someones sexuality and food choices. I try my best not to degrade someone, I may not agree with their choices or decisions and I may in fact have a conversation with it about my husband but I do my absolute best not to batter that person with my unwelcome opinions. All in all, a true friend laughs when you laugh, supports when support is needed, cries when you cry and above all loves unconditionally. I pray for all my Friends, family, enemies and everyone else in between. All in all, I don't have to have a million friends, I don't have to go places or even do glamorous things. I am very happy with my life, of course as everyone could say, there are minor changes I would like to make.

Okay enough rambling, I'm going to finish the laundry and get ready for bed.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 06, 2007 Sunny day
DATE: 06/06/2007 22:13:48
STATUS: publish
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Today was a very wonderful for the most part sunny day. Smiley was running a bit of a fever along with cutting teeth and sever nasal drainage. He has a knot where he got one of his shots and he has 5 little bruises where they were given. Poor little guy, I know that it is very important for his safety and health to receive the shots, I just wish that they didn't have to hurt him so much. Guess that is just part of life, something like a right of passage. I have the neb machine setting next to the couch tonight incase he needs a treatment, I pray that he feels better. I heard from my aunt about my uncle's cancer..he is doing as good as can be expected. The tumors haven't grown any and they are considering chemo again. I continue to think and keep both of them in my prayers. Sadly I admit that I haven't been reading the chapter of Mark, I will take care of it tomorrow hopefully. I'd like to just sit down and read it aloud to the boys while they play. Kinda kill two birds with one stone thing. They don't realize what they are hearing, but they are hearing it. Since Sunshine doesn't really like to be read to, which is getting better, I will just do it when he is playing on the floor with his puzzles. I found some diaper covers at Wally world on clearance this week, I bought the boys sizes out. Unfortunately I only got 12 of each size and I need 24. This will be okay, I will just have to do diapers more often unless I can find some, or I get in the mood to try and make them again.

I've been thinking a lot about things recently, this is why I haven't really posted much lately. First of all we had a WONDERFUL time at B&T's house this weekend. I did hear something that I found disturbing, more sad really. I was telling them about the website that I found for Sunshine to work on www.starfall.com. I had heard about it from another mom, but could never find it on the net since I thought it was starfox.com...then I thought, duh that's a video game. Anyhow, I was talking to one of the parents about it and they said that their computer wouldn't run the program with all the other programs running. My questions was, can't you shut down your other programs for like 15 or 20 minutes so your child can benefit from this program...and the person had the balls to say, "No, I don't think that I can do that." HUH??? You mean that you can't give your child who is delayed 15 minutes of computer time? You have got to be kidding me, but I guess that would require him to sit with his kid in the beginning. Sunshine can navigate the whole program once he gets to the main screen and he loves it. I'm very happy with what he is learning. Maybe one day he will decide to stand up and be a parent. It took Duck a while to realize that his child was being ignored when he was on the computer all the time and not paying any attention to him. It's just sad how long it takes some dad's to realize that they are important in their children's lives. They aren't just there to yell and issue discipline. Sunshine bit J 3 times this weekend. GRRRR. The best we can assume it was a disagreement over a toy. J got his revenge, Sunshine got hit in the head with a toy train to the point of a goose egg and blood. I feel horrible, I lost my temper a little, I couldn't figure out what had happened and when I asked J, he told me nothing that he didn't do anything. That is a direct admission of guilt, then I saw the toy in his hands. I told him not to lie to me and hollered for his mother. It did come out that J had him him in the head. It happens. For those of you who don't know, I bought a van this past weekend, it if finally plated and insured. I was too busy defending my joke yesterday to have the patients to share my happy news. I'll post a pic of it later this week. Duch is replacing the hoses since the Check Engine light came on as I was pulling it out of the ladies driveway. Of course, that always happens to me. No biggie, we took it to AA and they ran the diagnotic thingy on it and it spit out some numbers and info. Looked foreign to me. That's why I have Duck.

I mowed the grass today, I really like doing that now that we have a riding lawn mower. Tomorrow I will need to push mow the kids area and hand pull weeds in the flower bed. I ended up planting some tomatoes and cat nip. Hum... Iwas going to say something else...Oh yeah, we celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary today, we have been together for a little over 6.5 years and married 4. I'm a very lucky woman.

At the end of the month I am going to go and stay with a friend so Sunshine can go swimming and we can visit with bunch of other friends. I got to thinking today, what is a friend? This is something that I will ponder, the true meaning at least.

Well it's time to go to bed.

Me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 06/07/2007 06:47:45
I have wondered on what a friend was my entire life.

But I have figured out that a friend is a person that is there for you no matter what. Wheather it be your signifagant others friend or your friends alone.

I have found that your family and the holacher family has been the only ones that have been a true friend on "Tony's" side. I feel like the Bright family deals with me because I am Tony's wife. It could be me but thats the vibe I get.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 06, 2007 Wow.
DATE: 06/05/2007 22:15:58
STATUS: publish
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Smiley went to the doctor yesterday. He is doing great, he is 16.15 and 26 inches long. Sunshine had another speech eval today and the stupid insurance held things up AGAIN.

Well it seems as if my post yesterday has caused a bit of a stir. First of all I'd like to start by saying that this came from my very devout Catholic Aunt who is against homosexuality. Second I would like to state that this was a joke, as some jokes seem to offend someone in life, that is why most of them are called jokes. For example, what do you call one hundred lawyers at the bottom of the ocean...A start. Get the point? If not, I could go on and on and on. Kids do say the darndest things, at some point everyone will have a chuckle at something that a child has said. Now it seems that the whole Brokeback Mountain thing is the issue here. I would like to start off by saying, I personally think that homosexual couples should have the same rights as heterosexual couples. Yup, that's right the SAME rights. After all, who are we to judge, doesn't the bible teach us that it is God's job to judge, not ours. Most people haven't even seen this movie and are only going off the basis of what is mostly talked about...Have you even watched the movie? I have, however my children nor husband has. This movie gets a 1 on my 1-5 rating since the story line was there and once it was reveled the writer decided his best seller was good enough and seemed to stop and the end the movie with crap. The father in the joke did a horrible job at explaining that just because they both looked like "Daddy" longlegs doesn't mean that one of them wasn't the mommy. If I cut my hair off the same length as my husbands, that doesn't make me any less of a woman, even though some of our features appear to be the same. I guess the reason that I believe this joke is so freaking hilarious is that the child who may or maynot have even seen the movie know that homosexuality is a "wrong or dirty" thing and that she had to have learned it from somewhere. Guess what people, homosexuality is part of our everyday lives now. Someone once told my husband that they have a "gay" day at Disneyland and now my husband will never go to the theme park that is built to facilitate kids. So it looks like I will be taking my children by myself. Sheltering children from such things is hindering them from a normal future. It isn't fair by any means. You always said be honest with the kids....well let's be honest to ourselves. If you never go anywhere where they may be a gay couple, a sex offender, a violent offender, a smoker, a drinker, a person who swears or a candy isle, you aren't doing anyone any favors and you are only wasting time in your life. One must do as they wish to protect their child as much as they can, we do everything we can, for example, we don't go anywhere where they will be smoking in front of our children, why??? Because they have asthma. But I won't not go into a store where a violent offender may or maynot be employed, hell I couldn't go anywhere then. We teach our children by example and explaining things as they come. Children don't one day just think, hey I wonder what the birds and the bees are all about, it is something that they pick up on at school, on TV, on the radio or hearing mom and dad either talk about it or do it. I plan on teaching my children that homosexuals are just regular people that prefer to love someone of the same sex intimately(this doesn't not mean that I will go into detail unless I feel that I absolutely must). We know someone who has a child that is destined to be a homosexual and they are Catholic as well. There is nothing that you can do about it, are you going to persecute your own child for following their own heart and falling in love with the same sex? Although I would pray and I would be devastated, I would accept my child no matter what. On a final note, when I lived in Evansville growing up, I lived next door to a family that was "different". They only ate wheat bread, never drank pop, ate tofu and other oddities. They too sheltered their children from a "normal" childhood and it backfired! The mother ended up having an affair and leaving the husband and both children. The kids would, before the mother even left, come over to our house just to have a bologna sandwich on white bread and a coke. Now I understand that some children have allergies, but mark my words, most kids will go wild when they are cut free from the constraints of their parents. I am a case in point, even though I followed mostly in my mothers footsteps as a young adult, I have changed my life for the best. I personally thought that the joke was funny considering the adult perspective to it. But everyone is entitled to their opinion. Well that's all I have to ramble on about this subject for now.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: June 04, 2007 A little comedy...
DATE: 06/04/2007 16:10:56
STATUS: publish
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A father watched his young daughter playing in the garden. He smiled as he reflected on how sweet and pure his little girl was. Tears formed in his eyes as he thought about her seeing the wonders of nature through such innocent eyes.

Suddenly she just stopped and stared at the ground. He went over to her to see what work of God had captured her attention. He noticed she was looking at two spiders mating.

'Daddy, what are those two spiders doing?' she asked.

'They're mating,' her father replied.

'What do you call the spider on top?' she asked.

'That's a Daddy Longlegs,' her father answered.

'So, the other one is a Mommy Longlegs?' the little girl asked.

As his heart soared with the joy of such a cute and innocent question he replied

'No dear. Both of them are Daddy Longlegs.'

The little girl, looking a little puzzled, thought for a moment, then took her foot and stomped them flat, saying 'Well, we're not having any of that Brokeback mountain shit in our garden.'

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 06/05/2007 17:27:16
Which in the funny part? The little girl cussing, the fact that a little girl knows enough about Brokeback Mountain to have understanding about its content or the deadly violent reaction to homosexuality? We're supposed to pray for homosexuals, not kill them.



I'm sorry, but I could not remain silent. I did not find this amusing. I found it nauseating.



Kim
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 06/05/2007 18:04:55
Ya, well I found it to be very humorous as did the rest of the house!

So what if people can't take a "Joke" LOL!

Some people must not have a very good since of humor!
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 06/05/2007 22:20:24
From an adult joke perspective, this was extremely funny, it appears that some read too much into it. And I thought that comedy was totally wasted on me! Guess there are some out there that feel stronger.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 31, 2007 The last day of May...
DATE: 05/31/2007 19:16:10
STATUS: publish
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Today is the last day of May, I was awaken by the phone at 7:30ish this morning to a friend in minor distress about work. I pray that things will work out for the best for him and his family! I called another friend today to let them know that we would be their way soon, unfortunately she has to work. I will visit her briefly at work when we get into town. We are going to look at a van this weekend and sadly enough I had to borrow the rest of the money in case we find that it is going to fit our needs.

Smiley is doing GREAT! He has two more teeth about ready to break through on the top. (total of soon to be 4) Sunshine is doing really really good also. Today we stepped out for a minute and we wound up playing in the back yard while Duck was feeding and taking care of the dogs. Sunshine keep yelling Daddy and Duck would yell Sunshine. They did this back and forth, then Sunshine starting saying, where'd you go? What are you doing? He is getting into this thing at night, when he wants to see if I'm asleep he say, "Pst, Pst, Hey!" This started when I did it to him one night, and then I said, I love you! He is doing really good. We finally found the website we were looking for that was referred to us by another person we know. It is called www.starfall.com we let him go on it and he navigates it all by himself. He loves it, is learning a lot of the songs and has picked up on the sign language part. I'm amazed how much of a sponge his little brain is. Well Smiley just woke back up, gotta go.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 30, 2007 Snagged from KH Blog site
DATE: 05/30/2007 20:25:07
STATUS: publish
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So answer the questions. Didn't know where you wanted them answered~!

1. Your Middle Name: Louise
2. Age: 25
3. Single or Taken: Taken
4. Favorite Movie: Not sure too many
5. Favorite Song or Album: Don't take the girl
6. Favorite Band/Artist: Ohh...again too many
7. Do you prefer to be hot or cold? cold
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings: depends...I have piercings, no tattoos
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ? NO
10. Tell me a motto (or mottos) you try to live by: There is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer. This is why I still a scab over my vein.
11. Right now, on a scale of one to ten, how positive or negative are you feeling? One is most negative, ten is most positive. 8, I'm tired.
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest? Yes, no need hurting those you care about.
13. What is your favorite memory of us? shopping
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure? eating
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: I have a lot of dumb facts floatting around my head like...the average person swallows 7 spiders in a lifetime while they are asleep.
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarkey). What are they? Money, that Sunshine isn't autistic and to loose 100 pounds
17. Can we get together and make a cake? Absolutely, I have a cool receipe that cuts the calories.
18. Name the next place you'd like to travel to: PA to the crayon factory with the boys
19. What is your big weakness? food
20. Do you think I'm a good person? Yes
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school: I thought it was math
22. Describe your accent: Indianan
23. If you could change anything about me, would you? Not sure
24. What do you wear to sleep? Wouldn't you like to know...just kidding I wear PJ's
25. What's your favorite UNUSUAL thing to wear? toe socks
26. What's one bad habit that you have? inability to finish things that I start
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!) I'd let you teach me how to milk your goats.
28. If you'd like, feel free to repost this.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 30, 2007 Two on the way....
DATE: 05/30/2007 11:55:28
STATUS: publish
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Before anyone starts thinking that there are two more babies on the way, I must ask, ARE YOU NUTS? There are two more teeth on the way, in fact they could be here any day now. I must admit, although I think it is great that he is getting teeth, my boobs strongly disagree. He had his progress testing done today and he is already caught up with children in his age group, even being 3 weeks early. Sunshine is refusing to take his medicine, I've tried everything! Even holding him down and forcing it down his throat, he ends up spitting it back out. I even let him have the medicine dropped today to play with, he was drinking his chocolate milk out of it, he loved it. I tried to trick him, and sure enough he completely caught me. I don't know what else to do. If I can't get him to take it tonight I will call the doc for advise. I just don't know what else to do.

My Aunt has asked if I would watch the youngest two while they went on a family vacation in FL. Well I know how that sounds and personally, I could never do anything like that no matter how inconvenienced I would feel. I wouldn't take a vacation somewhere where I would feel that way. We want to take the kids to PA to the crayon factory and the Hershey factory. Those are things that they can do. So I said yes, and I'm not sure what I was thinking. 4 kids by myself under the age of 3 for a week, two under the age of 7 months. Uhhhhhh.....what in the world was I thinking? I'm not sure if it is going to pan out anyway, but we will see what happens.

Well I need to get off of here and finish my house work, I cleaned the carpets last night and I want to get them all vacuumed before Duck gets home. I am also making dinner and going to have that ready for him. I also need to get some laundry done and hopefully put away. We need to find someone to help with the A/C, I just don't feel confident that I can lift it. I guess we will have to try if all else fails, I'm not sure how much longer we can just use the tiny a/c unit. Thank God we have that one.

Me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 05/30/2007 18:09:46
Stick the medicine dropper inside the cheek as far back as it can go and squeeze out the medicine fast.



To hold him down, sit on the floor and have him between your legs. Once the medicine is in the mouth, cover the mouth with your hand.



Going inside the cheek far back will force some swallowing.



Good luck. I've been in this situation with Charlie many, many, many times.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 29, 2007
DATE: 05/29/2007 20:15:59
STATUS: publish
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Just incase anyone is interested, I have uploaded a bunch of pictures to my page.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 29, 2007 I have officially
DATE: 05/29/2007 15:02:00
STATUS: publish
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made it through 6 months of new-babyhood. He is getting so big and happy and healthy! My little boys are getting big and are such a joy and blessing to have in my life. Today I had the first of hopefully many bible studies. A good point was made, even if I read a couple of chapters a day, I could finish the bible in a year. That seems very possible. Well I don't have much else to say, I need to get off here and get my corn on the cob cooking, I'm craving it soooo bad!

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 28, 2007 Yesterday....
DATE: 05/28/2007 08:44:06
STATUS: publish
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Well, among being hot, it was a long day. We had a great time though! Not sure that we will do it again until the kids are old enough to appreciate the whole process of the Rendezvous. We passed a bunch of vehicles for sale yesterday including a van that I would have love to have flopped out the cash to buy. It has WAY too many miles on it though. I put a call into a place today that we actually stopped at and looked at several cars on the lot. In fact, if they call back we will head up there today and test drive 4 of the car that we are interested in. I feel like it is one of those times that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is! Sunshine did GREAT yesterday, he sat in his stroller and walked a little. It was his choice, no fighting nothing. It was a little hot for Smiley, but we enjoyed the time with the family. All in all it was a great day. Today I am cleaning up and going to try to shampoo the carpet. I will cut the grass this week when it stops raining, and pray that it doesn't rain this weekend so we can go to the zoo. We check out the web cams at the Indy zoo and Sunshine loves sitting here watching the penguins, he sits here and says, "there it is!" every time he sees one move. He is doing great and I can't wait to get him back into preschool. He even sat on the potty all by himself and went. He is really getting close to doing his job correctly. I can't wait to get out of pull ups daily (I'll still put one over his underwear at night just in case). We got a lot done recently and have a lot more to day. I'm going to make a list and post it so we have a visual aid as to what we need to do. One of my big projects this week is going to be to paint the hallway. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with the dinning room, but the kitchen is going the sage green same as the hallway. I think that I'm going to mix 2/2 for the dinning room. I absolutely love the brown that we have in the living room and want to incorporate it into the rest of the down stairs. For the boys room we are going to paint it either light blue or yellow and we are going to cut number, letters and shapes out in vinyl and put them up everywhere. I am also going to get some reflective paint and a star patter and put stars on the ceiling. We are going to also try to find that magnetic paint and chalk board paint and paint them one on top of the other and make a huge chalk board in their bedroom.

I'm going to try to start putting up more pictures and posting one each day that I blog. Sunshine has really gotten into having his picture taken. He is so funny, I even have one of him on the potty...

Well, more later perhaps.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 26, 2007 Not even close
DATE: 05/26/2007 22:35:13
STATUS: publish
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to being ready to leave for an adventure tomorrow. Still don't have the diaper bags ready, have to pack the nebulizer and medicines for the asthma stuff. Just down loaded all the pictures off the camera. Duck has to get a part to fix the car as he did a tune up today and they gave him one of the wrong parts. Other than that the house looks like a three year old tornado ran through it, who is at 1:30 am standing next to me eating and apple...gotta love the meds he's on! Grr. I have about 30 minutes of cleaning to take care of in the morning. I will run my laundry tonight and Duck will go get the part in the morning when they open. We then have to RUN to Jasonville and then onwards. We have been doing a lot of projects. I weighted in this morning two pounds heavier than yesterday and expect the same for tomorrow putting me back at the beginning. I used this week as a test to see how good/bad I would do....well I have some work to do. Well I'm going to go and run the laundry and hit the sack. Smiley will be up eventually for an early feeding and then again for the morning and it is already morning....I fell as if I am rambling...time to go.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 25, 2007 Another trip to the hospital
DATE: 05/25/2007 21:41:00
STATUS: publish
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We took Sunshine into the ER tonight, he had white splotches on his throat that I noticed when I tried to give him some cough medicine before bed. Well, he has another inflamed ear and tonsillitis. Another round of antibiotics and decongestants. Tomorrow we will start back on the breathing treatments unless he gets too bad tonight then we'll start tonight. Since it is a steroid, it makes him hyper. Well I'm very tired and ready to go cuddle with my Duck and await the next feeding for Smiley.

Good night to all!

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 24, 2007 The last day of school!
DATE: 05/24/2007 15:05:08
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Today was Sunshine's last day of school. He went a whole 10 days this year. Now, he did miss 4 for being sick with pinkeye. We had the ice cream social and it was fun. He kept telling me bye because he wanted to stay and attend the class, thinking I was going to make him leave. But he was ready to leave by the time it was all over. Smiley was very interesting the whole time as well. We were sitting at the picnic table and all the sudden I looked down and it appeared as if Strawberry Syrup was everywhere, now keep in mind, there was Strawberry Syrup on the table as a topper for the kids, but this was blood and it was EVERYWHERE! I couldn't believe it, it was all over his hands, the table, my shirt and his pants. Apparently he had bitten his finger and it started to bleed, but he never made a peep as to the fact that he hurt himself. And then to top it all off, when I got home, I looked in the mirror and I was horrified at what I saw. I had a HUGE hickey on my chin. Smiley had gotten hungry and was sucking on my chin and sure enough, he sucked hard enough to cause this massive bruise on my chin. And of course it sticks out like a sore thumb. I didn't even realize that it was there and nobody said a word. I tried to take a pic to show you, it is funny but embarrassing all the same but the flash washes it out. Sunshine has a huge packed of info to do this summer along with the Pre-K books that we bought for him. We are also going to start going to the library and try to read a book a week through a program that they have there. I will see if our books here at home will work since we have so many. I was trying to clean the house but I feel like I am going in circles and it is very hot inside with the dishwasher running and the dryer. I will keep trying as I want Duck to be happy when he gets home. I want to cut the grass today before it rains tomorrow and I want to let him cut the board and get it painted. We also have 3 new movies, Fun with Dick and Jane - Excellent 3.5, Hitch - Better than excellent 4.5 and RV, which I don't think that I will rate since I don't really get into comedies. It will give me time to clean while Duck sits with the children.

I found a new baby food the other night, Apples and Chicken. He loves it. I was happy to see him eat something that he really likes. So far he has tried all of the following: Carrots - likes, Cereal - doesn't like except in fruit (this is a after dinner thing), Sweet Potatoes - likes, Peas - doesn't like at all, Squash - likes, Turkey and Rice - doesn't like, Chicken Noodle - likes, Chicken and Veggies - likes, Chicken and Apples - loves, Pears - likes, Bananas - likes, Blueberries/Apples - likes, Cherry/Apples - likes, Mac and Cheese - likes. Wow, that's a lot and he is doing great. I'm really glad that I started him on foods when I did, he sleeps better and over all, I'm not so sure that I believe all that stuff about waiting until the baby is a certain age. I do agree that some of their body parts can be not fully matured, but it has had no affect on either one of my children to start them on solid foods at 4 months when the doctor advised. I have even known parents to start the babies on cereal after 3 weeks and on whole milk at 6 months and the children are absolutely healthy. I understand that some children do have problems when they were started too early (before 4 months), but most of the children don't. I was told by Sunshine's first pediatrician that withholding things from a child has more of a "allergic" affect than introducing it at a reasonable timely pace. For example, everyone told me to get rid of my cat and dog because I had a new baby. After speaking with DI she advised that children on a farm don't have all their pets/animals taken away and they are exposed to a lot more than just animal dander and dust. I guess that my point is, I'm glad that I started him when I did, he is a happy, healthy little boy that has a smile that would make anyone smile. Well we just got back from the store and I want to relax a little before putting dinner (tomorrow) in the crock pot. As for my diet, well I didn't do as well today, I am very very hungry, so I ate, but not cookies and such, just food.

Me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 05/25/2007 17:40:24
Hey I need you to message me on here and tell me how to look up recipes for the "Points" or do you have to be a weight watchers member to get "Point" recipes? I get 43 points a day..1886 calories :]

Well talk to you soon.

Love all

Tell:

Duck-Quack quack..He should know what it means if he is a duck. :]

Sunshine-Keep shining, he is a star.

Smiley-Keep smiling, help sunshine keep shining

KatyBug-Ladybug, keep flying you're doing great on your diet! Better than what I have been.

Laters guys and gal. :]
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 22, 2007 Any suggestions?
DATE: 05/22/2007 17:02:11
STATUS: publish
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Well tomorrow I'm calling the doc to have some blood work ran. I really need to start taking my fish oil stuff, not that I'm depressed or anything, just a little moody. I will do a prelim start on my diet thing that I'm going to do. I now need to lose 95 pounds. Staying home around all this food isn't helping me a lot. So, I'm going to stop eating all the stuff that I shouldn't. I am also going to make up a water chart and start going by it along with doing a daily log of what I eat. I may do it on here, I don't really know. I'm also going to start doing bible studies on Tuesday mornings. I want to start completing a project a week, starting inside the house. I said that I wasn't going to buy any more fat girl clothes, but today I bought an outfit from Dollar General. I don't have any shorts and I would like to look nice this Sunday for our visit with the family. Kinda like a mini-family reunion. 9-10 adults and 9 kids under 12. Wow! I am also trying to a trip to the Indy Zoo, but I can't find tickets cheap anywhere, they used to sell them at Meijer. Tomorrow I will have to call them. Well I'm going to go start my lists of stuff to do, weight journal, finish up the paperwork for Sunshine's test at Riley and the trial that we recently participated in. Anyhow my question at the top about suggestions, does anyone know where to find cheap tickets to the zoo?

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 21, 2007 80 degrees
DATE: 05/21/2007 17:16:01
STATUS: publish
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This is what temp it got up to today so far inside our house. I am going to bake cookies tomorrow morning for Duck's friend who is going to help put the a/c unit in tomorrow while I'm at the doctors. Not much to say today.

Me

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 05/22/2007 08:39:23
http://www.indyzoo.com/content.aspx?cid=223
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 05/22/2007 08:42:22
Oh and we are game. Just let us know what you guys have planned-time you plan on coming up so we can be ready and everything. ttyl
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 20, 2007 Okay, so I'm not an "outdoorsie kinda gal"
DATE: 05/20/2007 16:47:04
STATUS: publish
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Today we finished up the fence, we just need to finish the gate and deck. Or should I correct myself and say that Duck finished. I planed the flowers up front and put mulch down. He moved the bird bath for me and I'm thinking about doing something with the front porch. Not sure what yet, but my mind is going. First I'd like to get a lot more done inside the house. The boys are asleep and I'm going to finish straightening up the living room and kitchen. I've decided against a "garden" per say. I think that I'm going to plant one bean plant, one tomato plant and one squash plant. I already have the strawberries working on the hanging thing. We'll see if that works or not.

Today my car is being picked up and it will no longer be my car. I just looked down at my arm and I have a perfect impression of an ear. It's cute, it's were Smiley fell asleep nursing. We will need to work on him "nursing" to sleep now that he has teeth. I questioned the fact that it is bad for a baby to go to sleep with a bottle in their mouth because the milk can cause baby tooth decay. Well I found out that the same can happen with breast milk, except it wouldn't be as extreme. It was explained that the "fat" in formula is higher than the natural "fat" found in breast milk. It got me thinking, I pump when I'm engorged and put it in the fridge to mix with a night meal to mix in cereal, or I put it in the bag and freeze it. Anyhow, the next day there is a "fat" line around the top of where the milk is...it kinda reminds me of what you'd see when you cook a chicken from scratch. So I am going to try to get him to nurse and then wake up for a few minutes, perhaps to burp and then to fall asleep. This will allow him the swallow all that he has in his mouth and perhaps move some saliva around in the mean time.

Okay, well I'm gonna go, I had something that I really wanted to say, but I can't remember what that is/was. Perhaps I will remember later.

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 05/21/2007 10:08:05
No need to stress over him nursing to sleep. :) The third link is straight from the dentist's mouth.



http://www.kellymom.com/bf/older-baby/tooth-decay.html



http://parents.berkeley.edu/advice/nursing/toothdecay.html



http://www.aapd.org/media/pressreleases/breastfeeding-99.asp
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 19, 2007 Giving the gift of life....
DATE: 05/19/2007 20:27:51
STATUS: publish
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So today I again tried to give the gift of life. There was a Blood Bus and I decided to jump on. I was glad that I did, they said that the rules had changed and that I could give. I was very very very excited. I know that I don't have a wonderful blood type, but I know that I could help save one person's life by giving them my blood. After all I will certainly recoup the blood that was taken and all it cost me was 40 minutes of my life. Time well spent if you ask me. I can't explain how good it makes me feel to be able to give again. My goal is to get to 10 gallons, so far I'm only at 3 pints. I know that I've got a long way to go, but I have plenty of time to get there.

Duck got the fence put up and Sunshine LOVES it! He loves playing outside. Now we have to figure out what to do about the deck. I also stuck my foot in my mouth today. I offered to babysit for this woman who you can tell is stressed running her own business. She just doesn't seem like she has enough time to do something that she wants. I thought, what the heck Sunshine would love someone to play with for a few hours or even over night. Then she asked if I was serious, and I told her yes. She asked if I would take them all so they could go out or something and I said sure, no problem. Well I then found out that she has 4 year old triplets! WOW! I look at it this way, the more the merrier! Well that's all I have to say tonight, I have a ton of house work to get done tomorrow and I want to get some sleep.

Me

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 18, 2007 The weird illness
DATE: 05/18/2007 13:36:19
STATUS: publish
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Yesterday was fine, nothing big just another day in the neighborhood. Well I woke up at 2 this morning thinking my chest was going to explode. I've never felt that feeling before. I got up and turned off the heater since I was burning up and used the potty as most people do when they first get up. About ten minutes later I was still feeling horrible, so I decided to get up and get a drink of water and try to eat some tums. I ate two drank my water and laid back down. I was up and down for about an hour or so when the alarm went off for Duck to go to work. I asked him to feel if I had a temp and he said that I was burning up but I was also sweating profusely. I checked my temp and it wasn't even 98.0, very weird. He stayed home to take care of me and the boys, I didn't feel very functional. I'm feeling a little better now and I'm going to have to chalk this one up to heart burn. Now for any of those that never knew, I didn't have bad heartburn when I was prego with the boys, in fact, I have never had bad heartburn. Well I need to go and change the baby and put the clothes away if I can make it upstairs with the baby in tow. Duck is tilling my garden area and I will try to plant what I can tomorrow. I'm not expecting a big crop, but anything will do. I am also going to try a tip from our neighbor about planting. One last note, we have a serious vole problem. Our neighbor told us how to get rid of them so we are going to have to go to the store tonight. He said that the green hot peppers do the trick. Beats having to find the one the cat killed that smells worse than any dying animals has ever smelt. Okay well I was going to show a picture of this ugly thing, but now I'm not convinced that it's a vole, I'll have to do more research when I have time. I just want it gone!

Me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 05/19/2007 13:40:35
Human hair tilled in with the soil will help keep the critters away from your vegetables.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 16, 2007 Today
DATE: 05/16/2007 18:44:51
STATUS: publish
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Well I tell you what, I can't wait for Sunshine to feel good and get off the breathing treatments. The steroids are driving me crazy. He was jumping on the kitchen table a little bit ago. AHHHHHH>>>> This isn't my usual Sunshine. He is wound up. Well we saw the movie Flight Plan....it was great! I would give it a 4. Well there isn't really a lot to say today. We are trying out a new diaper and it SUCKS. I had to change Smiley clothes and bed sheets and all 2 times last night. Well gotta go, I need to load the dishwasher, washer and vacuum the floor.

Good night...

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 15, 2007 Happy Birthday TM
DATE: 05/15/2007 17:44:40
STATUS: publish
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Well a big happy 27 to TLM. We wish we were there so Duck could give you your spankings. Hehe. I brought Sunshine home from school today and took him straight to the doctor. That was already planned since I had to give him a breathing treatment this morning and his eyes were matted shut with green puss...yum! I didn't eat until about 10 after that. So I was so worried about his lungs and it was a bad case of double pink eye. Crapola. I called the school and told them and I didn't even think about calling the doc office that we were at yesterday. Maybe I should do that tomorrow. Anyhow Sunshine will be out for the rest of the week...good huh, he only has 4 weeks to attend for the rest of the year and he misses one because he's sick. Smiley is doing great, he is already asleep, but I'm sure he will be up in an hour or so for more milk. We all got our baths, I have two more loads of laundry to wash and about 5 on top of that to fold. Yipee, well gonna go watch a movie with Duck.

Quick Movie review:

The Breakup - 2, I was bored enough to get up and start cleaning.

Queen - 1 - Sucked

DeJaVu - 3.5 good movie

Music and Lyrics - 2, wasn't impressed at all.

Smokin Aces - 1 - I can't believe I wasted my time with that movie

More tomorrow!

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 14, 2007 Missed his first day of school
DATE: 05/14/2007 10:01:30
STATUS: publish
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Sunshine missed his first day of school! He had green stuff in his other eye and was awake all night. Every time I'd put him in his bed, he'd climb back in with me. I could tell that he wasn't feeling good and he was coughing all night. We are scheduled to see the ENT today anyway so I didn't feel the need to call the doc. K~ thanks for the breast milk remedy, does it still work if it is an allergy issue? Since he has been playing outside so much, I just find it hard to believe that it is pink eye. It is coming and going too much and no other symptoms of pink eye, but he has some of allergies, which we already know he has. Hopefully they will do a hearing test today and I need to call his doc anyhow to get his book back and see if we have got dates for Riley yet.

We are going to get money out of my car from Duck's cousin who wants it. I told him that I wasn't joking, the deal has to be taken care of by Saturday or I will send it to the junk yard. I would much rather see someone who can fix it, fix it. I will miss that car, but we are going to try to get a mini van with our next tax check, and what money we save between now and then.

It is such a beautiful day out today, I wish that the fence was up, I would cut the grass with Smiley slinged to me. I wonder if the noise will hurt his ears or the vibrations will hurt him. I don't think that they will, but I will do some research to find out.

This morning I was checking my email and Smiley was sitting here on my lap playing. Sunshine came in and Smiley just wanted to touch him as much as he could. Sunshine was very hesitant to it in the beginning, but then warmed up when I was trying to tickle Sunshine with Smiley's hand. Sunshine gave Smiley a big hug and Smiley kissed Sunshine. Smiley is doing great! He is getting his second tooth rapidly approaching the surface and he is now on seconds foods. He was eating so much 1sts that I wanted to give him more of a variety and a portion that he wanted. I'm a bit concerned right now though, he doesn't really want to nurse anymore, he just wants to eat food. He is even putting his hand over mine and following the motion of putting the spoon in his mouth. Today we tried Sweet Potatoes and Corn, he was very hesitant to it, and even gagged at one point. I just fed him smaller bites and he seemed to tolerate it. Had he kept gagging to spit it back out I would have stopped. He is now eating pears, bananas, carrots, sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, turkey and rice dinner, prunes (doesn't care for these too much), squash and he doesn't like peas or green beans. I will try to reintroduce them in about a week to see if we can get him liking them.

I planted my strawberries yesterday. I had to get more potting soil since the stuff I bought wasn't for potted plants. The bag said to give them at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight, so I have put them outside until tomorrow when we are suppose to get very severe storms. I got that Miracle Grow Potting soil that has the plant food in it. I was thinking about just getting the regular stuff, but the rest of my plants grow great in the soil so I thought I'd try it. Then I got to thinking about the "chemical" aspect of it. Then realized that it was a huge joke for me to think that I could have non chemical strawberries. To begin with, nothing is unaffected by some sort of chemical anymore. Our tap water is even treated nowadays. There are so many chemicals that are dumped into the ground during planting times, not to mention the pollutants from animal poop. Nothing is unscaved. So what is it going to hurt if I use Miracle Grow in my strawberries? Don't get me wrong, I don't wish to pump my family full of chemicals, but there is now way around it. There is chemicals given to cows to make them produce more milk to meet demand. There are chemicals in soft drinks, caffeine in tea and fluoride in our water. Now, if you can't drink pure water that hasn't been chemically altered, there is no hope for a "pure" anything. I know a lot of people who like to eat the organic stuff, use the natural stuff and some who raise their own food. Now, besides those who raise their own food, the rest of us are just hoping to have the most organic. I wonder if the feed that the ones who raise their own food is chemically enhanced? Isn't it a corn base? Don't the farmers use chemicals on the corn? If so, therefore the food going into the chicken would have some effect of the chicken. Why am I on this kick, well two reasons, one Sunshine just got done watching Chicken Run and I was thinking about it. 2 - I was in the shower last night using my "natural" soap to clean my face. I'm weird, love the bottle stuff for my body, but I have to use a bar soap for my face since my skin is so oily. Then I got to thinking about the ground water and even well water, how "fresh and natural" is it? Everyone who has septic systems is dumping waste, and everyone who is on city water is flushing waste. So I guess my personal conclusion, we can only hope that what we buy when it says "natural, organic or fresh" is as untreated as it can be, even though we know that it can't ever be untainted by chemicals in some way. I understand why they feel the need to use chemicals, to produce more to make more money and to meet demand. I also agree that it is really affecting the human beings as a whole. For example, some people have chemical per say allergic reactions and can't eat some food just like if you had an allergy to peanut butter. On the other end of the spectrum, girls are starting their periods a lot sooner than their grand mothers used to, which would make it possible for a 9 year old to have kids. Now I was fortunate, I didn't start that early, but I remember girls who did. They had to start teaching sex education in 5th grade (10 and 11 year olds) because of this growing problem.

Well I'm done mumbling about chemical and toxins that we (generations before us and after us) will put into our mouths. I need to get everyone ready to go to the doctors off to hear Sunshine scream for another out until they get us back there and the stupid doctor asks me what script to give my kid. Yes I talked to my family doc about this, she advised to go ahead and see if we can keep the apt so we may be able to get his ears tested sooner. By the way, he is speaking ALOT. He is saying: Wake up, here it is, there it is, where'd you go, where'd it go, come on, I don't want to, get out, get down and many others. I'm very happy at his progress in just two weeks of school. I can't wait for him to start back up in the fall. Well Smiley is awake, gotta run now.

Katy.

By the way, does anyone want any strawberries when they come up?

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 05/14/2007 10:42:03
Dr Harbor told me to smash up some real-canned peas and green beans, and see how Tristan liked them because she wants nothing to do with baby food. She will eat the real thing a lot better than baby jared!

Then she told me that if I wanted her to eat the jar food to mix real smashed whatever in with the jar food.

But I just let Tristan eat people food. Lol In small bits of course. :]
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 05/14/2007 11:08:02
I'm so glad that she is trying more foods, that is wonderful. It is far cheaper to do table food, escpecially at her age. I choose jar food because #1 it's more convinent and #2 it isn't spiced up. I know that I could take care if it before I put seasonings on, but he is having a gag reflex with chunkier foods. I also like the variety it gives to him. He can eat things like sweet potatoes, where Duck and I don't like them. It also helps when we have something like lasagna for dinner or chicken nuggets, I can't dice them up small enough for him. She has a great chewing thingy, Smiley doesn't have that yet. When he gets there it will be alot easier to feed him table food. For now, I will stick with jars except for apple sauce. I'm very excite that Tristian is eating, that is great. Any teeth yet?
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 05/14/2007 14:44:10
Breastmilk will work if it is pink eye. If it is allergy related, it will flush out pollen, dander, whatever, and help soothe the eye, but won't cure it.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 05/14/2007 15:21:57
Thanks for that Info Kim.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 05/16/2007 18:34:52
Nope none yet. She is going to be 2 by the time any deside to show up. :] Lol
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 13, 2007 Happy Mother's Day
DATE: 05/13/2007 19:28:18
STATUS: publish
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To EVERYONE! Whether you are a mother of 100, 1 or a cat or dog, Happy Mother's Day! I had a wonderful day, we got to do a lot of the things that I really wanted to do. We went to Dollar Tree and picked up some school stuff for Sunshine. They had some really great pre-k books, weather and day changers! We will continue to work through the summer. I am also going to start a regiment of exercise and cutting back in the junk food department. Well I need to go..good night
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 12, 2007 The day before my day
DATE: 05/12/2007 17:03:54
STATUS: publish
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Well tomorrow is Mother's Day and I'm very happy to be a mother. We went and picked up the fence the back yard. And realized that someone had put the wrong poles in the wrong place...grrr growl! We had to go back only to find out that they sold out of the poles that we need so we got a rain check because they were on sale. We went out to dinner last night since that is all that we do for mothers and fathers day, not that we don't have the money, that's just how we celebrate being parents. I don't want any gifts, my true gifts are the kisses and hugs that I get every day from my kiddos. Nothing can ever compare to that!Smiley is now saying mom all the time. We have also determined that he doesn't like peas, he must have been switched @ birth! (by the way, that isn't possible since he was the only baby in the maternity ward.) I think that Sunshine may have pink eye, I'm keeping an eye on it, if it gets any worse I will have to take him in so we can at least try to get it cleared up before school on Monday. Last night he had thick green puss, this morning it was matted shut, but after his nap he was okay. We'll just have to keep watching it.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 05/12/2007 17:17:32
Squirt breastmilk in the eye 3 times a day for 3 days.



Actually, a medicine dropper is easier with aim. Just a few drops is all that is needed.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 11, 2007 Plans for this weekend....
DATE: 05/11/2007 19:09:04
STATUS: publish
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We hope to finish up some orders as we have gotten VERY busy these past few weeks. We are also going to go and get fencing. We are very excited, unfortunately Duck will have to put up most of it by himself. We are also going to try to till the neighbors garden for them since they are letting us borrow their tiller for our garden. We have adjusted the budget a little to save for a car. Duck is also going to try to do an oil change on my car. All in two days. I'm sure that we can do it! I am also going to try to get the house straightened up so I can start walking while Sunshine is in school. At least 2 miles a day. I'm going to see if I can find someone to walk with me, it would make it easier. I want to start off walking 1 mile a day, 3-5 days a week and end up walking 2 miles a day at LEAST 4 days a week. I'm going to look for a treadmill so I can walk on rainy days. This will give Smiley fresh air and me exercise. I want to lose about 90 bls. I am also going to limit myself to one snack a day and popcorn for lunch. I've done it before, I can do it again. Well gotta go.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 11, 2007 A Mother's Day Story.....
DATE: 05/11/2007 05:52:15
STATUS: publish
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Chapstick and Mother's Day

Now THIS is a great mother's day story! The Ellen Show was on and
she read this submission to a contest from a viewer:

So, we had this great 10 year old cat named Jack who just recently
died. Jack was a great cat and the kids would carry him around and
sit on him and nothing ever bothered him. He used to hang out and nap
all day long on this mat in our bathroom. Well, we have 3 kids and
at the time of this story they were 4 years old, 3 years old and 1
year old.

The middle one is Eli. Eli really loves chapstick. LOVES
IT. He kept asking to use my chapstick and then losing it. So
finally one day I showed him where in the bathroom I keep my chapstick
and how he could use it whenever he wanted to but he needed to put it
right back in the drawer when he was done.

Last year on Mother's Day, we were having the typical rush around and try to get ready for
church with everyone crying and carrying on. My two boys are fighting
over the toy in the cereal box. I am trying to nurse my little one at
the same time I am putting on my make-up. Everything is a mess and
everyone has long forgotten that this is a wonderful day to honor me
and the amazing job that is motherhood. We finally have the older
one and the baby loaded in the car and I am looking for Eli. I have
searched everywhere and I finally round the corner to go into the
bathroom. And there was Eli. He was applying my chapstick very
carefully to Jack's . . . rear end. Eli looked right into my eyes and
said "chapped." Now if you have a cat, you know that he is right--their
little butts do look pretty chapped. And, frankly, Jack didn't seem to
mind. And the only question to really ask at that point was whether
it was the FIRST time Eli had done that to the cat's behind or the
hundredth.

And THAT is my favorite Mother's Day moment ever because it reminds us that no matter
how hard we try to civilize these glorious little creatures, there
will always be that day when you realize they've been using your
chapstick on the cat's butt.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 08, 2007 The bad news...
DATE: 05/08/2007 18:43:13
STATUS: publish
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Well I got my heart broke today. The bad news came in that my car is beyond repair..something to do with the motor. I feel like I could puke. We really need that car to be running. I'm torn, we are in a stuck payment plan to pay off the old medical bills and debts to hopefully be debt free by the end of next year. Except for the house of course. I'm just to upset over this car issue I need to go to bed. For those of you thinking, for crying out loud it's a car. Your right, it is just a car. But if the car that I am driving breaks down, we can't go anywhere, I can't take Sunshine to school, doctor, Riley or even take the kids to the store. This car was the nicest thing that I have ever owned and there is nothing that I can do for it now. Unless the mechanic can find a motor for a resonable price my car will be sold for parts and we will try to find something reasonable with what we get from that. Good night.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 05/09/2007 08:58:18
Did you ever here about me and the Impala?

I still cry over it! It was the first car T and I bought as a couple. And the thought everybosy could have died that day.

I still have my temp plate, real plate, grill, insurance card, title/registration, paper work when we bought the car, the whole shabangs. :]

Cars are people to. :] Some people need to watch the movie CARS. Lol
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 07, 2007 Been busy
DATE: 05/07/2007 20:05:14
STATUS: publish
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Well there must be something in the water so to speak! Smiley was up every 1 - 2 hours last night nursing. He had been so constipated that he didn't go since Fri night so I called the doc. She said I had 1 of 2 options: #1 go to the pharmacy and get some suppositories and use half of a children's or #2 drink a beer and keep nursing. Since we had gone the route of prunes all weekend and I HATE beer, I chose the more "gross" of the two. Well, let me tell you! It worked like a charm. So tonight he got to have his favorite, carrots. I am going to call the doc back in the morning to see if there is a connection between him eating solids and the lack of bowel movements. I do find it a little hard to believe since he has been on solids for nearly a month now and this just started. I'm not sure though and that is what she is paid for, her medical opinion. On a lighter note, we have our first tooth as of this morning! Tonight Smiley was laughing so hard at Sunshine that it made me just about bust a rib. We got a good report today from MJ. She said that Sunshine actually played with another kid today and it was even better for the other kid. The other kid is a parallel and has never played with the other kids, and he played today with Sunshine. That made me feel really good. She also said that he cleaned up with the rest of them and went over to the circle for circle time and sat in his seat just like he is suppose to. She said that he is breezing through this and she is surprised at how well he has adjusted in just a week. Today Sunshine initiated taking a bath all by himself, he even took his clothes off and climbed in. A good friend has offered to go to Riley with me to help me with the baby while they are testing Sunshine. I really do appreciate her kindness as this is going to be very stressful on me and I could really use an extra pair of hands. Hopefully the car will be fixed and back before we go so I don't have to worry about this car breaking down on the way, if not, we'll made arrangements or make due. I'm pretty sure that the car will make it, I'd just really rather have my car back. I do miss my Vicky.

This weekend I want to paint the back hall and have Duck till the garden for me and he said that is going to help our neighbors till since they are older people. I also want to get the bedrooms finished up stairs once and for all. We are also getting ready for TLIF this summer, we are going to enroll and it will take a lot of time to get prepared. TM said that he may come up and I am trying to work on a rotation of shift to ease the time. This should be very beneficial for all of us! I will ask Dad if he can come up and watch Sunshine for a few hours during one of two of the days. I'm not sure if I'm going to the LLL meeting tomorrow, I'm leaning towards it, but Duck is so busy. I will try to get him to keep Sunshine, I think that it will do them both some good! Besides, it will be nice to go somewhere without lugging both kids around and it will be good for the two of them to share some father son boy time. They are so cute together and he is truly a wonderful dad. Well I need to go, Smiley is now sucking on my arm and it is hard to type.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 04, 2007 Okay...
DATE: 05/04/2007 16:28:27
STATUS: publish
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Someone made a good point about teaching kids what to tell them about the facts of life. For example, take them fishing. Fish comes from fish, chicken for chicken and for those of you who are going to ask, no hamburgers don't come from pigcows. I was reading another blog about the birds and the bees and when to talk to your kids. They will know about it before they get the talk in 4th or 5th grade. By that time a girl is old enough to have her period and I think it should be talked about in a casual term before then. About how our bodies change. Now I'm NOT saying sit the boy down and tell him that a girl has a monthly cycle...especially if there is a sister in the house. Face it, kids are cruel, and this will only lead to harassment of the sister behind the parents back. I'm not saying to not tell them anything at all, just depends upon your children as to when you tell them EVERYTHING. I've read in several places, call it like it is. If it's a penis call it a penis, if it's a vagina call it a vagina. Making pet names for things won't help at a young age. I've also read that chastising a child for exploring their body is bad. For example, if Smiley would grab himself our of curiosity. Now I do have friends whose children walk around with their hands in their pants in front of anyone, and I agree that's wrong, and they tell him to leave the room. I once heard a thing on the radio while I was sitting in Indy traffic on 99.5. A nurse called in because they were talking about children having children. This 9 year old gave birth to twins. HOW SICK IS THAT? WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD ANYONE DO THAT TO A CHILD? Okay that's just sick. So basically a girl can get her period at any time, some infants will often have a "bloody show" which I've heard is just mother's hormones. Just like Smiley's breast become rocks sometimes. Okay so call it at face value. I do like the movie Toy Story, it calls the piggy bank Hamm. We call the piggy bank here Hamm, one day Sunshine will put it together. It doesn't mean that I am going to go down road and show Sunshine a "steak". We also own the movies Chicken Run and Charlotte's Web, they both show the circle. But don't get the wrong idea here, I don't want a movie to teach my child about life and death.

Well Smiley has been constipated...so I will be drinking 8 oz of Apple Juice in the morning and evening and I have also fed him some prunes. They seemed to do the trick...I never thought I'd be so happy to change a really bad dirty diaper. He is now feeling better and back to sleep. Okay well Sunshine is soaking in the tub, I need to go wash him up and get him out. Good night to all and I hope that everyone has a super weekend. My house work is almost complete and we will get to enjoy this weekend!

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 03, 2007 Okay so my thoughts
DATE: 05/04/2007 04:48:03
STATUS: publish
BODY:
So I have thought about it a little more since last night. I don't find anything wrong at all with telling a child where we get bacon or beef from. Of course there is an age and place for that conversation. I do however do not want my children to see an animal killed for food until they are old enough to understand the full circle. I don't know if what I am doing is right, but it feels right.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 02, 2007 Getting used to the routine
DATE: 05/02/2007 20:33:41
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I'm still trying to get used to this routine, it isn't all that easy, but I'll get the hang of it in time for school to let out. Today he cried until they walked him into the doors, then he just wanted to go to class.

I was reading a blog of someone that we know and I'm personally struggling with the issue of childhood innocence. There are so many different controversies to discuss as a family. Believe in Santa or not, tell young kids where everything comes from or not. I hope that she doesn't take offense, I just am trying to figure out what is best for my boys. Up until Sunshine's 1 Christmas, we decided to tell the truth of Santa. First of all, Christmas is first and foremost the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, regardless if that is his true birthdate or not. I had a friend whose children are Jehovah Witnesses, and I have studied the religion. I felt the most "relief" when I was attending services, but I could never join since I don't believe in my heart the whole practice. Back to Santa - they were told that he is fake and never celebrated Christmas. Not that what people think of our decisions or how we live matters much to us as adults, it will matter to our children. I remember how embarrassed I was to even bring anyone into our home as a child. The kids were criticized, made fun of and generally felt out of place. It is children like that that wind up in situations like Columbine. So the next question is, do we tell our boys that bacon comes from a pig after it is dead? Personally the thought of it makes me want to throw the meat in the trash. Everyone says, that's what God put them here for...well I have a question, what if we were put here for food for the dinosaurs or something else in God's plan? I know that sounds silly, but that's why I'm at odds with the who question. I remember thinking as a little girl that the Jersey (black and white) cows made white milk and the brown ones made chocolate. I knew that milk came from cows because of the milk jug having a cow on it. We have a meat packing place right down the road from us, how do I tell my kids that the cows that they love to look at are going to be steaks that we buy from the store? How do I put it to them so that they will understand that it's okay to eat the cow but not the cat or dog? How do I answer the questions about the difference between the animals we kill for food and the animals that we invite into our homes as pets? See I grew up around a lot of animals. I personally couldn't slaughter one for food, and I admire people who can, as that is the way it used to be. Good thing that I have Kroger! If I was on a deserted island I would stave or eat fruit, veggies or grass before I'd kill an animal for food. I will have to ponder this thought as I do have time since Sunshine isn't really asking too many questions since he doesn't speak. I just have had a lot on my mind and we have always tried to think of the questions that we are going to be asked and be calm when they ask them. We had a friend who got two cows for meat and their daughter knew one day that they'd be taken to the slaughter house for food, when the day came, she was heartbroken. She is one of the smartest children I have had the pleasure of meeting, at 3 I'm not sure that she fully understood the gravity of what happened. And she was heartbroken. In today's society that is just how it is, we get our food from the grocery store just like driving a car instead of a horse and buggy. Most kids don't understand, even if it is explained to them. So what is the appropriate age to discuss the complete circle of life? Any suggestions?

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 05/03/2007 14:03:54
Keep it simple. Answer questions honestly. Bacon comes from a pig. Chicken comes from chicken. Fish comes from fish. Take him fishing. Have him dig the worms to feed to the fish. Help him catch a fish and then have it for supper.



As for Santa, the children know he is make-believe. Just as Elmo is and Barney and Bob the Tomatoe. They can have fun singing Christmas songs and playing Santa games as long as they know that he is not real and some stranger isn't going to be sneaking in the house in the middle of the night.



Kim
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 05/04/2007 04:49:09
Very good points!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: May 01, 2007 A pitch from left field.
DATE: 05/01/2007 19:59:01
STATUS: publish
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Once Sunshine was tested for the next phase of speech therapy, we realized the Autism was really coming up again. First let me back up and start from this morning. He cried when we dropped him off, but only for a minute. When I went to pick him up, MJ reported that he bit 4 kids. But he didn't leave teeth marks. I also believe that they are giving him a sippy cup as he has split 3 drinks tonight trying to tip it up. A 3 year old with his motor skill SHOULD NOT be drinking out of a sippy cup. It is insane. Grrrr. I will have to bring this up tomorrow when I drop him off. So then we came home and ate lunch. We had an afternoon 3 year old check up at the doc's office. She was watching him while we were discussing different things such as speech. I told her that he could count to 12 and she said show me. So I grabbed the block bucket and started stacking while counting. He picked up from 4-14. We have been working on 13 & 14 this week, now we can start 15. She said that we should also try hard to concentrate on his ABC's. (side note, he blew my mind away today when he spelled his name in the bath tub. We have the crayon things for the tub and he was trying to write it.) Then she said something that came out of left field. She is going to refer him to Riley to be tested for Autism, mainly Asperburger's. OMG! We discussed that he had already been tested, and she said that if she had to make a diagnosis on him today that she would say Asperburger. I thought that we were going to get over this, not have to go back through it again. She is also sending him to see an eye specialist and to have his hearing tested. She also said that he was bowlegged. Could she say anything else that I didn't want to hear? I guess the answer is yes, I thought I was going to go in there and hear that he is a happy, healthy normal 3 year old with a speech delay. Our goal is to get him caught up by the time he goes to school so he can lead a normal life. Now it is time for me to read up on Asperburgers. She also made mention that he as "hyper" and asked if he was always like that. You would have thought that I had fed him 10 Recees cups and a 2 liter of Mountain Dew before we went in there, but I swear it was only popcorn and water. (that's all he'd eat) Well I need to go to bed since I am now getting up around 6:45. Good night to all and please pray for us. This is really not the news that we wanted to hear again.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 30, 2007 One of the saddest days of my life
DATE: 04/30/2007 11:15:34
STATUS: publish
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Today was one of the saddest days of my life, we took Sunshine to Preschool. He went into the room and started exploring as I expected. Then we made a horrible decision. Class was starting and we had wrapped up all the paperwork. He was off playing and exploring and we decided to try and slip out before he noticed, once the door opened, he looked up and we were half way out and he started screaming. So we left not wanting to draw it out any further. We should have both stopped, said good bye and given him a hug and a kiss, then left. He cried and cried and cried. All in all, I cried all the way home, he cried for about 30 minutes according to MJ. She said that he wandered a bit and on his own decided to join the rest of the group in the activities. She said that he sat down on his own and started the project that was laid out for him. They did use a slight restraint at circle time to keep him in the group, but they said that he didn't mind. I don't think that they will have to use it much longer as we both think that he will sit on his own. MJ did say that he held two figures, one in each hand, during most of the day. He wandered during snack time, but was easily brought back to his seat. When we went to pick him up, he was holding MJ's hand walking down the sidewalk with his cute back that AL gave him for Christmas. We will need to get him a back pack to put all his stuff in. It was very sad to see him so grown up. He is doing great. I will never walk away from him again without saying goodbye, that was the wrong thing to do. It wasn't fair to him to see us leave without warning, especially being in a new environment. Well gotta go for now!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 29, 2007 A Fun Day
DATE: 04/28/2007 21:12:39
STATUS: publish
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Today was Sunshine's Birthday party, it was nice, just a few people, but great. Dad came up, and that really was nice. It was great to see him, and the boys enjoyed it too. Smiley even passed out in his arms. I got a great pic of it. Sunshine got a lot of great things for his birthday. We had Bob the Builder Cake and Ice Cream, Pot Roast for lunch and Hamburgers for dinner. They boys are going to the function tomorrow and I have some FC stuff to pick up. I did about 11 loads of laundry today, I thought that I was done and then I went upstairs, I even pulled out the summer stuff. Well I need to go, I will post a pic really quick of Sunshine with his new toy. BTW it is a Spiderman Potato Head. Good night to all

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 27, 2007 Cleaning mania
DATE: 04/27/2007 12:27:03
STATUS: publish
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I have the following stuff to get done today, as I don't want to do anything tomorrow.

2 loads of laundry, wash, dry, fold and put away. 15 minutes total

4 baskets of laundry to put away - 15 minutes total

Bathroom - Tub - I'll do when I take a shower today, Toilet, Sink, Mirror, Sweep and Scrub Floor - 15 minutes total.

Kitchen - Wipe down the counters, Window seat, Sweep and Mop - 15 minutes, yet I will be working in the kitchen all day since it is pretty chilly today I want to cook so I can get more heat without having to turn on the heater.

Living room - general kid pick up stuff. - 15 minutes.

Bedroom - OMG - this is going to be a long list: Pick up all the clothes & presents that Sunshine has unwrapped - 15 minutes. Re-arrange to put Bassinet in the bedroom and put the chair where it belongs. - 15 minutes Put all the games up and move the TV on top of the Dresser, put the curtain up - 15 minutes.

Boys Room - Pick up all the toys and books - 15 minutes. Move the bed against the wall and make it, put up the pack and play for TLM, put up the curtain on my closet, Bring in the air mattress and make the bed - 15 minutes.

Vacuum the entire house including the stairs. - 25 minutes.

As you can see, I have my work cut out for me, including making a batch of snicker doodles, chocolate chip cookie and maybe some brownies. Plus I need to get chicken noodle soup made, pull the roast, pork chops and meat out of the freezer to make tomorrow. Okay, well it looks like a lot, but I can do it. I may have to have Duck vacuum as I really hate to carry the vacuum up stair since I dropped it last time and it fell all the way down the stairs.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 04/27/2007 17:25:38
TLM..Such a Pretty mamma's girl..Lol
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 04/27/2007 17:31:18
Ouch! Sounds like falling down the stairs would hurt. Hey sorry I didn't get your call, I was probably cleaning like always, you know how it is. Lol, But hey If you get this before we leave tomorrow what was the plan with Titus Dounuts? We didn't get anything in the mail, and I havn't heard anything, thought I would ask. Oh and where was everybody sleepin? You can message me on my yahoo mesenger:

Cowboyup_06_nicy

TTYL

Love always

Me
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 05/02/2007 20:34:49
It wasn't me that fell, it was the stupid carpet cleaner. I broke the dang thing too. It's too heavy trying to carry it upstairs, I will make Duck do it next time.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 27, 2007 Birthday boy
DATE: 04/26/2007 22:48:01
STATUS: publish
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3 years ago today I was screaming my head off, praying that God would put me out of my misery. I had a horrible time trying to deliver Sunshine. IT WAS the worse I had ever head of. Of course, I'm sure that all women thing that. They said that you could hear me from the elevators screaming. Anyhow, he is now three years old. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. Sat we are going to have a party, just a few friends and Dad. We have ordered a Bob the Builder Cake for him and took him to Wally today to let him pick out his own birthday card. He picked out this Huge Bob the Builder Card. It's really cute. I just can't believe how blessed our family is. We may not have everything in the world, but God has provided us with what we need and a little more.

Good night,
Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 25, 2007 I hate freaking rain!!!!!
DATE: 04/25/2007 21:28:48
STATUS: publish
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Okay, so it's suppose to be good for the ground as in providing water to plants and such, and I love to listen to it, but it brings in the gosh for saken bugs! I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT. Today I just about crawl out of my own skin. I walk into the bathroom to do, well what one does, go potty. I turned to push the door close a little, but keep it open so I could listen for any death curdling screams during the whole, what 2.2 minutes I'm in there. So anyway, in the back part of the door, where it closes into the wall surround thingy there was a BUG. I swear it was as big as my finger. I could have barfed. It was so disgusting. So what did I try to do? I tried to slam the door on it, I'd rather clean it's guts up than have it running around my bathroom, and I'll be damned, it got away. Feeling like I was going to be victorious I went out of the bathroom for about 30 minutes as I heard the baby getting fussy and collected myself. I had to go back in there. So I did, I beat around on the wall and the shower curtain with my size 8 Dr. Scholls Tenni, and he showed his grotesque ugly bug face. So the logical thing to do was to turn on the shower and shove him down the drain. So I DID, yup, I defeated the stupid bug. And I plugged the tub so he can't come back. I have a feeling that this is going to be a problem with the rains as it has happened a couple of times in the past. I will be taking huge precautions to alleviate this problem. Like move the outside trash cans away from the house. I will also be picking up Borax tomorrow along with a bait stuff. This is NOT a house wide problem I assure, and I'm embarrassed, but every one gets one now and then. I'd be horrified if there was a problem. Growing up with parents in the extermination business, I NEVER had to deal with bugs. And I've got some helpful tips for anyone who has a bug or rodent:

Borax is suppose to work well for roaches - Roaches can come into your house through a crack, crevice, or from the grocery store. They love the glue that is on the back of can (like soup cans) and wall paper.

Mice or Rats: Take a canning jar lid or similar and put warm generic coke in it. Since mice can't fart or belch, this will cause a huge gas build up and cause their tummies to implode. You can also just steel wool covered in peanut butter in their wholes if you don't have small one running around. Decon is great, again if you don't have small ones, but the number one killer is of course a cat that isn't lazy. And just so you know, my back yard is a mouse cemetery.

Moles: On top of their tunnels using a canning jar lid or a metal lid place some pea gravel in it. The rattling will cause them to go crazy and stop using that tunnel, you can work them out of your yard that way.

Spiders: Since there is no for sure way to kill as spider besides a shoe or in my case today the phone book. (I don't use it for anything else anyhow) {Reasoning is that spiders don't bath themselves therefore the chemicals won't kill them unless it gets on their food or should I say ingested by their food. Since the chemicals kill all insects, that isn't going to happen, the fly or what not will more than likely die before it gets to the spider's web} Keep their webs knocked down. It was cause a huge amount of stress for them and they will try to find more places to web at and eventually leave. Now we did use a chemical in the basement and sprayed it on the webs, although it seemed to cut down the amount of spiders, it was mostly psychological security.

Disclaimer: None of the items listed above should be considered safe in every home or in any home unless you feel safe doing it. I am not a pest control tech and I have only life experience behind me. If you have children, for the love of God, DO NOT USE THE STEEL WOOL method. Kids love peanut butter and it will tear up their insides and can cause death as it does in the mice and rats that ingest it. Okay, that's seems like what a lawyer would say.

Okay, well I'm ready to finish wiping down the stove and throw the diapers in the dryer. Smiley had carrots twice today. He even chose them over nursing. He loves the carrot, I think that we may do them for a few more days or I may try to throw in some green bean or peas and have the carrots as a bribe. We are also going to start letting him play with a sippy cup, he is doing so well with taking things to his mouth and he even tries to feed himself. Usually it is just the had that reaches for the bowl and winds up inside it, and then the fingers in the mouth. We are still having car sickness problems with him. IT IS AWFUL. I can't even go to Walmart without him freaking out. Sometimes I can't even make it a block. Doc says to give him some Tylenol before we leave, but I hate drugging him to go to the store, and I hate to hear him scream like that. So, I generally stay home or try really hard to make sure he is going to sleep in the car during the trip. Then he is usually fine, but when he's awake it rips out my heart.

Okay I'm really going to clean the stove and maybe the microwave, I'm really tired so it will be off to bed after wards.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 23, 2007 By the way....this is absurd
DATE: 04/23/2007 19:30:07
STATUS: publish
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Some people! You shouldn't put a price on GOD.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has filed a legal complaint in hopes of getting the law that created the new "In God We Trust" specialty license plates declared unconstitutional.

The suit was filed Monday morning in Marion County. It claims vehicle owners who ask for the God plates get preferential treatment because they don't have to pay a $15 administrative fee charged for other specialty plates.

Hundreds of thousands of Hoosier vehicle owners have requested the plates since they were first made available in January.

The plaintiff bringing the case, Mark Studler, said he paid an additional $40 for one of the popular environmental plates depicting an eagle above the word "Environment." Of the total fee, $25 goes to a state trust to purchase land set aside for conservation or recreational purposes and the remaining $15 is for the administrative fee.

The 2006 law establishing the "In God We Trust" plate waives the administrative fee.

"Therefore, those who obtain an 'In God We Trust' license plate are afforded the opportunity to make an affirmative statement through display of the plate without any additional cost while Mr. Studler must pay additional fees for his environmental license plate," the complaint said.

ACLU-Indiana attorney Ken Falk said the suit has nothing to do with what is on the plate.

"This is not a church and state (issue)," Falk said. "We are not claiming this is a violation of the First Amendment."

Falk said the ACLU-Indiana doesn't object to continued sales of the plate, but it does want the state to charge the $15 administrative fee.

State Rep. Woody Burton, who sponsored the bill that created the "In God We Trust" plate, said there was no reason to impose a $15 fee because the plate costs no more than regular plates.

Burton said he wasn't surprised that the suit was filed.

" Here again, you're getting an example of a small group -- the Indiana Civil Liberties Union -- wanting to take away the rights of most people in this state," Burton said. "Over half a million people have bought these plates already, so somebody must like them."

A Bureau of Motor Vehicles spokesman said he couldn't comment on the specifics of the lawsuit, but he said the creation of the "In God We Trust" plates had broad bipartisan support.

Copyright 2007 by TheIndyChannel.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

GET OVER IT! Some people ruin it for everyone.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 23, 2007 Only 4 more day...
DATE: 04/23/2007 19:26:02
STATUS: publish
BODY:

My 2 year old will be 3. I'm so very sad about this, he is growing up way too fast. We have been working on getting into our school routine. I don't think that it's going great. I enjoy sleeping in until 9, but I don't see that happening much longer. Well I don't have much to say today, I've been cleaning up a storm and trying to get everything ready for over night house guests for Sunshine's Birthday Party. We aren't doing anything big at all, just some friends getting together.

Good night!

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 21, 2007 Earth Day Celebration
DATE: 04/21/2007 19:07:39
STATUS: publish
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Well we went to a local Earth Day Celebration and it was nice. There were these absolutely adorable goats there. Full size they were about the same size as a cocker. Hum...makes me think. Well I've got a ton of stuff to get done tonight, so I must go, just wanted to say hi. Hope everyone is doing great.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 20, 2007 A day of play...sort of
DATE: 04/20/2007 18:06:52
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Well I've really gotten into the spring cleaning thing. I went through Smiley's drawers and got rid of the clothes that don't fit him. I also started working on the pantry and clearing it out. Sunshine got to play outside for quite a while this morning. Then Duck decided he needed to mow the grass so Sunshine had to come in. It was very sad, Sunshine carried his chair around to different windows to see his dad. Then he stayed back at the back door and cried. A few minutes later Duck came in and took him outside to let him finish cutting the grass. It is so cute seeing the two together. Sunshine is also really into getting himself dressed now, he put his jeans on backwards yesterday, and I just let it go. Today he put on adult socks, They practically came up to his knees. It was cute. Smiley tried Sweet Potatoes today. He has also been sleeping a lot today. But he seemed interested when we were eating, so I decided to let him eat something also. Well back to cleaning.

Me

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 19, 2007 The day of time out!~
DATE: 04/19/2007 21:00:44
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Well, Sunshine spent most of his day in time out. Between hitting and not listening, GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. I didn't get to tell the story that happened yesterday in the doctor's office. I think that I may need to ask for a new referral. Okay, so Sunshine is allergic to penicillin right? Well, the doc did say that his left ear was very red and he'd need to write him a script. The doc then looked at me and said, "Well he's allergic to penicillin, what should I give him?" WHAT ARE YOU KIDDING ME. Isn't he the one who went to medical school? Why in the world is he asking me. I looked at him and said, "I don't know, I'm not the doctor. What are the options?" Good Grief. Time to look for another ENT.

Okay well, we have watched a few movies lately, I would like to give my opinions...you know that's just how I am.

The Holiday - Okay, sappy love story thing...usually I like these, the ending sucked it left you hanging.

Talledega Nights - Yawn! Guess you have to be a red neck to enjoy this story. Again, comedy is totally wasted on me.

The Good Shepard - Well I've tired to watch it 4 times now and I can't seem to stay awake. So, how does that sound. Speaking of which I'm going to go to sleep soon, maybe I'll try for 5.

Dr. Dolittle 3 - Lame! Would have taught a 10 year old a lesson about fitting in, but I already know where I fit.

Saw 3 - Totally GORE FEST ~ it was great. I would rate it a 4 on my 1-5 scale. I did however make the mistake of trying to eat spaghetti when I tried to watch it, I needed a trash can just in case.

Charlotte's Web - Follows the cartoon one, it is okay.

Okay, well I've wiped down the counters and ran a load of dishes, Sunshine is bathed and both kids are in bed. I've even straightened up the living room and bathroom. I'm going to bed. Good night and God Bless.

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 04/20/2007 04:19:52
OMG That Dr. Shouldn't be a Dr. if he has to ask his "patients" what to give their children. Totally lame. I'de switch ASAP!, but thats me. Lol
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 18, 2007 Not another day...
DATE: 04/18/2007 21:22:06
STATUS: publish
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Today was BUSY....I was on the phone all day with doctor and offices. Grrrr. Finally Sunshine got seen by the ENT and boy, I tell you what. Their office is a mad house. It didn't help that he was very tired, hadn't had a nap and didn't want to be there to begin with. Finally one of the nurses was apparently either sympathetic or tired of hearing him scream. She took us back to a room, wow, that only took like a half an hour of screaming. It's like he has a doctor radar. He hates them. Guess the dentist is going to be fun huh? We have an apt at the beginning of next month. Anyhow, as I suspected, he does in fact have an ear infection and it seems to be taking a toll on him today. I couldn't get him up from his nap and he has been very cranky. So it is after midnight and guess what, he's up. So, I'll give him a snack, his medicine and let him hang out with his dad. They are great together. I did get some good pics today of Smiley. I'll upload them later. Well I just wanted to say hello to everyone. I miss you guys and hope to see you all soon. I've been kinda out of touch lately, but I'm feeling a lot better and my spirits are up lifted these past few weeks. Well I need to vacuum the floor really quick and then get ready for bed. Since Smiley is down, he'll be up in about 5 hours. Yes, I'm getting a lot more sleep. I LOVE IT.

Love, Me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 04/19/2007 07:23:59
I am so happy you are getting more sleep! YAY! I am also glad that Sunshine has an appointment with an ENT. Poor thing. :( Ear infections are horribly painful.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 04/19/2007 15:34:44
I'm glad they finally got him in yesterday. I agree, they are horribly painful, unfortunately, we hardly ever know when he has one as he really has no symptoms.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 17, 2007 Unofficial tax day...
DATE: 04/17/2007 21:26:26
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Okay, well we've had ours done for quite some time now. I will be calling the place to get my car tomorrow....why haven't they called yet? I WANT TO GET MY CAR BACK...okay so I will quit with my tantrum now. I will also be making a Dr visit for Sunshine tomorrow, I'm pretty sure that he has an ear infection. Just not sure if I should make it with the ENT or the Dr. I hope the Dr since she is so much closer and I hate to drag the baby and Sunshine out all the time. I replanted a dead plant today, in hopes of bringing it back to life. We'll see what happens. I've also started to really dig into cleaning, which I'm still motivated and will be jumping back into in a bit. I was reading some of the comments on the Cafe today, and I had to put in my two sense. Some people! Sunshine's B-day party will be in a week and a half, so I have tons that I want to get done. Smiley is sleeping very well now, the pillow trick has worked yet again. Again, as parents we do what we have to to keep our kids comfortable and safe.

Smiley is becoming an eating champ. Today he ate a teaspoon of squash and really seamed to like it. This is day two on squash, two more and we will start carrots. We did have a little allergic reaction over the weekend. His bottom was on fire. Duck had, as I requested, gone to Wally and bought some wipes. Unfortunately I forgot to specify the particular type, he got the brand correct, but I've been using the sensitive. Well, his bottom reacted to them and we had to switch from cloth to disposable diapers temporarily to get the reaction cleared up faster.

Well Smiley is asleep and I want to get about 15 more minutes of stuff done. Hope everyone had a wonderful day. Our thoughts and prayers remain with the victim, family, friends and everyone who has been affected by the the VA Tech tragedy.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 16, 2007 In light of the....
DATE: 04/16/2007 18:57:59
STATUS: publish
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tragic event in Virginia, I would like to take this day off of my usual complaining and/or joys and pray for the families and individuals caught up in that heinous act. As a parent I find it horrifying to know that one day, my children could be attending a college or school with such a tragic event. It's sad to know that not even our innocent children are safe in this world.

God Bless everyone involved and affected by this tragedy.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 15, 2007 The usual Tax day....
DATE: 04/15/2007 17:52:48
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Well for most people, this would be tax day. Instead for some it is a day of rest...and that's what we did. I have a bunch of chores to do this evening, but not too bad considering the relaxing day that I had.

After seeing someone else do this, I'm going to try it as well. Here is our plans for this week.

Monday:

Me: Focus on the bathroom - straighten under the sink; detail the tub, toilet and sink including base of sink and shower curtain and mirror; scrub floor; wash down walls. Total this should only take me about 30 minutes, if I can get it done without a child attached to me. In addition to the usual kitchen, living room and laundry work that I do daily.

Duck: Clear off computer desk; move cords and brains back to block off from hands; work on business for about 45 minutes.

Sunshine: DT early in morning; play outside with dad and help dad feed the dogs, and play some more, that's how kids are suppose to learn after all.

Smiley: Well, sleep, eat, coo and poop. If we get through 1 teaspoon of cereal today, we'll try squash tomorrow.

I'll try to get all that done tomorrow and perhaps more. I want to start sleeping upstairs again, or I will just need to move my bed down here. Well I'm going to straighten the living room and perhaps clean the floors as they have had a rough weekend with all the mud.

Well we had a good night sleep and I want to get everything done so we can do it again.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 14, 2007 A good night
DATE: 04/14/2007 16:16:43
STATUS: publish
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Last night Smiley slept for 7 hours strait. Yippee-yippee-joy-joy!!!!! I woke up this morning to raspberries being blown and a smiling face on a squirmy 4.5 month old little angel. We went into town and picked up some movies and stopped by our usual place. They screwed up my order...again. They always make it right. We were watching a movie earlier and a baby was crying, Sunshine put out his bottom lip and started crying. It was sad and cute all at the same time. Well, Smiley is upset, so I must go.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 13, 2007 Setteling down
DATE: 04/13/2007 21:57:19
STATUS: publish
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Well we had some company earlier today. I made a huge pot of Spaghetti, it was very good. I have enough left for about 5 meals. I think that we'll either pick up a whole chicken or some boneless skinless for some more soup. It was good and we are nearly out. Since I now know that I can do it, I can ad spices and herbs to it to make it more tasty. Smiley is hanging out on my knee, he is sitting up so well and doing so good. I can't believe that he is as far as he is. I know that doesn't mean anything because I've known kids who could recite their alphabet by well before 2 and now they are normal average/a little above average children.

Sunshine helped me make bread tonight. He really enjoys helping me in the kitchen, even though he has to stand on a chair, he is the best stir-er that I know. He also likes to help with the dishes and the laundry. Trust me, I'm taking full advantage of this now, it is important for a man to learn how to do things for himself, especially in the kitchen and laundry room.

Well, I'm getting tired, Smiley is now down for the first count, Sunshine is waiting on his father and I will be retiring to a nice movie when they get done doing what the two of them do. Duck is so wonderful to his kids, it almost brings me to tears of joy to see him play with the boys as he does. I've been around a lot of kids growing up, and I have hardly ever seen a father get so involved with the playing. He actually gets down on the floor to their level and do the things that they want to do. Today the 4 of us sat down on the floor and put together a large puzzle that Sunshine picked out. He is so smart when it comes to puzzles. I try to do the Spiderman Puzzle with him every night.

Well gotta go.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 13, 2007 Well I'm whipping up...
DATE: 04/13/2007 09:24:58
STATUS: publish
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a big pot of Spaghetti, then this afternoon I will be making 3 batches of bread and possibly some cookies. I figure, if I have to pay to heat my house I might as well cook and have the place smelling great.

Smiley slept a little too much yesterday afternoon, therefore he didn't do so well last night. He is taking his morning nap right now and I will wake him in an hour or so. Sunshine was up until about 2:30 due to an extended nap yesterday afternoon, I guess we all needed the sleep. Well it's started off to be a good day, I just miss my Duck. He's busy right now doing a whole lot of nothing, which is something that one must do sometimes for when something comes along he can do it. Make sense?

Okay, well lunch needs to be served up after I drain the noodles.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 12, 2007 The end to a good day.....
DATE: 04/12/2007 20:39:47
STATUS: publish
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The difference between night and day. Well Smiley is starting to get into the classic textbook sleep patterns as described by Dr. James Dobson in the book that I'm reading. I'm also looking into one that I checked out from the LLL library. Unfortunately, it seems as if I am producing less milk. He seems to still be hungry sometimes after I feed him and that is even switching sides which I never do. I will just keep drinking more fluids and I will try to eat oatmeal for breakfast, if that doesn't work, I'll fall back on drinking 4 oz of red wine. Well I got a lot done last night, but hardly anything done today. I just wanted to report the good news about the nice sleeping habits we have experienced the past few nights. I'm feeling a little better, even with a little more sleep. I contribute the change greatly to the new bed situation. I pray that it continues to work for all of us. Next thing will be to condition Sunshine to going to bed at 9ish and getting up at 7:15. Which means that I will start to follow the same schedule. Okay, well I've got like an hour and a half until Duck gets home and I want to throw the dishes in the dishwasher and throw the last load of cloths in the dryer. That is one thing that I did get done today, I have washed 4 loads of laundry. I can't believe how fast the stuff piles up, I just caught it up not too long ago. I just refuse to let it get as bad as it was when I was a kid. I can't stand to see that many dirty clothes on the floor when it only takes 3 minutes to switch and refill. Even if they aren't all folded, at least they are clean. Anyhow, I feel better today and happier. Tomorrow is Friday the 13th, and if you are superstitious, as I am, I don't think I'll be leaving the house since I don't see a need to. Not that I believe anything will happen, just dumb luck. Okay well I'm motivated, gotta go.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 12, 2007 The article.
DATE: 04/12/2007 13:07:29
STATUS: publish
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In the Feb 2007 issue of one of the magazines that I receive Dr. Barbara Howard advises that "a new study for the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver found that waiting until after 6 month of age to introduce cereals did not protect against wheat allergies; it actually increased the risk of developing one. The American Academy of Pediatrics advises starting cereal between 4 and 6 month, and the study's authors say their results support that recommendations." I know that I'm not Jewish, but I find that everyone has their own opinion about starting foods for infants...it's kinda like the egg theory, one day they are good for you, but the other they aren't. Kinda like Indiana weather, you never know what is going on.

Perhaps more later, I've gotten quite of bit of stuff done today, but I want to do more.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 11, 2007 The final decision....
DATE: 04/11/2007 22:30:20
STATUS: publish
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We have decided jointly that we aren't going to punish Sunshine for everything that he does, especially when we are at other's houses. We have had several play dates recently and it has come to my attention that he is being targeted by one of the mothers in the group. To put it lightly, this is pissing me off completely. The phrase that comes to mind is, "Don't push me because I'm close to the edge, I'm about to lose my head!" Hence, I cut the play date short. I don't not appreciate other people trying to discipline my child while I'm there. Have any of you ever wandered why I look over my kids shoulders so much? I don't want him to hurt another child or do something that he should be doing. I AM BEING A PARENT! Then I almost did something that I would have really regretted. I almost punished my child for something he didn't even do. The child started crying and the mother automatically assumed that he bit her child. She even said that he bit, well biting in our household (since we've had such a problem) warrants a spanking and time out. I didn't exactly believe that he bit the child so I went over next to Sunshine for a moment. The mother pulled up the child's sleeve and sure enough, there was nothing there, not even a wet spot on the child's sleeve. There was no evidence of ANYTHING. She has no idea how bad that makes me feel, blaming my kid for nothing, and to think that I was going to use the harshest punishment we use. How horrible I felt...there was another instance where the other child pushed Sunshine, so Sunshine pushed the child back. Can you guess what the other mother did? Well let me tell you, she started correcting my child right in front of me. Boy, she has a brass pair of balls. I was standing right there and already began correcting. Do you think she said anything to her sweet little angle? NO. So she had the nerve to correct my child, while I was in the process, and in a sense punish my child, and let her child get off scott free. HELL NO. Is she stupid? Where in the world does she get off punishing or even correcting my child in the first place when it was her child who started the incident? I guess everyone who has children has the "Rose" colored glasses on when it comes to their own children. Well guess what people, I don't. My child is 2 going on 3 and acts like a normal 3 year old except for the speech delay. My child isn't perfect and neither is anyone else's. I do not appreciate anyone correcting my child when I'm present verbally or with discipline, and it is going to stop RIGHT NOW. I'm tired of her trying to impugn my parenting skills when none of us are perfect. We do our best to raise our children. Now how do I tell her all of this without hurting her feeling or making a scene. I'm not sure that it is possible. I can't let this go on anymore and I refuse to punish my child as in time out every time he does something when she isn't going to do the same and he is just defending himself. It looks as if the play dates are going to have to stop for a while until something changes. And you know, it is sad for the children. I'm going to put Sunshine in pre-school at the end of this month, and then we are going to sign up to do things at the library also, they have some wonderful programs. Bottom line is, I think that I'm doing the best that I can with my children, and my best is great. I've quit my job to stay at home with them so we have more bonding time and I can teach them more than they would learn in the daycare setting. I'm breast feeding Smiley and going to workshop type things to keep me focused on it. Sunshine's vocab is exploding with new words, they just aren't always used, and we are working on that. We will always put our children first, and not put them into an environment where they are not going to be treated unfairly every time they walk into the door. I know that I can't always do this, but I can for now. The other parents would not like it if I were doing what they are doing. The sad thing is that I don't think that they even realize that they are doing it. I didn't have my kids for fun, nor do I expect anyone else to raise them, or punish them. I agree that they can learn from others, and that is what we were trying to introduce, but I think we need to see if we can find smaller groups or a different situation until this mother realizes what she is doing is wrong in every way.

I went to the LLL meeting last night and left with a lot on my mind.

Should I ask to be put back onto Prozac? Not yet, I'm sure that I can fix this myself, and will ask if it gets out of hand. The proper exercise, diet and sleep should do the trick.

When will Smiley get into the groove of a "normal" 4 month old? Whose normal anyway....he's starting to get his routine in, well keep working on it over the next oh, 18 years.

If I introduce the bottle to him now, what harm will that do? NONE! I've got enough BM to last me at least a week, so I can pump and put back if Duck can watch him while I sleep a little extra. Besides that, he is going to be starting a sippy cup within the next month/month and a half. Start at six months and off by 2 year.

And then there is the great food debate. Well, I look at it like this, Sunshine has no food allergies, and I know that isn't a road map to Smiley, but I started him on cereal at 4 months just as his doc advised. Smiley's doc has advised to start cereal, his DT and all the millions of reports out there. They say that you should introduce between 4 and 6 months. Last time I checked, he is around 4.5 months old. He is holding his head very well, sitting up with support, pushing himself up on his arms and rolling. The tongue reflex is also allowing the spoon in and the swallow reflex is working. I also read in a recent study and I'll do my best to find it and post it, that waiting until the child is 6 mos old or older to start cereal and foods can lead to more wheat allergies. Our niece was started on cereal at 2 months old, and granted they are now saying that doesn't have any helpfulness on the sleeping aspect, it benefited her in other respects. Something else that I found interesting was that children who are spoon fed earlier are better talkers because of the muscles in their mouths and throats. While they are sucking they are going in one direction and stay in that direction until they need to start swolling food. Granting Sunshine started with cereal in his bottle, which is a big no no, and he is delayed in his speech, I also understand that again it is not a road map for every child. We have weighed the pros and cons and at this point the pro out weigh the cons. In fact the only real con is that of the allergies, the only allergies in our family with my milk allergy and that is genetic, both my dad and brother have it. And that of alcohol with my grandfather and brother. Since Smiley isn't going to be drinking cow���s milk, just mine and he isn't going to be drinking for quite some time, the pros have it.

Something else that disturbed me last night at the meeting...I brought a bag of toys for the children to play with, as did another mother. I really appreciate the toys that she brought as the children loved them. Anyhow, the little girl was done sharing one of her toys, a bubble want to be exact and she was trying to take it back for Sunshine. Someone in the group piped up and told him to give it back since it was hers. Sunshine was playing with it for quite some time, and there were plenty other, she just had her sights set on that one. So I explained to him that it was infact actually her toy and that we were grateful that they were sharing it to begin with, but that she didn't want to share it anymore and we needed to give it back to her. I hated having to say that to him, because infact it is WRONG. We teach our children to share. Anytime that a child or group of children is here I always make Sunshine share his toys. EVEN if one child picks up his favorite toy and plays with it, I explain to him that we share our toys and that is a good thing. That he can have it when they are finished and put it down. That's the way it���s supposed to be right? This isn't someone's car or wife, it's a toy and there were other to use. So, I just sent my kid a mixed message, that means that when he is here and there are other children here and he really wants a toy that they have, since it is his I should make that child give it back to him right? Isn't that the message that I was sending to him over the bubble wand thing? So how do you explain to a three year old that it is okay for someone else to take their toys back when they want, but it's not okay for him to do it? I don't think that he is able to understand that philosophy right now. This is why he carries a lot of toys around with him where ever he goes, that way, no one can take them from him. The joys of being a parent.

Well I need to remember to send the leader a message about the signs as Duck is ready to actually start them now since he is slow right now. I will also not be at the next meeting since we may have company for Sunshine's birthday party and we will be getting ready for the party. Well I need to get a few more things done and send out and email and start a Katy Doo List for tomorrow, which will include research on sharing and feeding and infant night sleeping. Lots to do and it's nearly 2 am.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 10, 2007 The decision...
DATE: 04/10/2007 21:07:17
STATUS: publish
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Well, first of all I have to say that I'm extremely disappointed in the fact that Larry Birkhead is the father of Anna Nicole's Baby. For those of you who don't know, I'm a complete tabloid junkie. I was hoping that it was Howard's Baby. He seems to have so much love for that baby.

Tomorrow's Chore list...

Clean carpets, finish laundry room, put all laundey away, plant plants and strawberries, finish bathroom. All in all it should take me about 1.5 hours to do it all. Great 15 minute jobs.

More tomorrow, I'm completely drained.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 10, 2007 Finally an answer to my prayers
DATE: 04/10/2007 08:15:55
STATUS: publish
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Smiley slept last night, YUP HE FINALLY SLEPT. I am so grateful. He woke up twice to feed, but went strait back to sleep. The bassinet worked...for now. Last night, I just begged for some sleep and it happened. Perhaps we can keep this up. I only slept for about 6 hours total, but I fell like I've slept 10 or so. Well I need to get up since I have the energy. I'm ready to get going and I've already worked about 30 minutes today on the house, and I'm ready to start doing some detailing and moving again. By the way, we keep moving things around...two reason. I'm claustrophobic and the other reason is as a sign of autism children are very confused or unhappy when things are changed. So, I change them so he can get used to them...

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 09, 2007 Grant me the serenity
DATE: 04/09/2007 15:55:56
STATUS: publish
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Grant me the serenity...we well all know how this prayer goes. I'm very exhausted, it seems as if all the sudden I can't keep my eyes open, yet I have too. Both kids are asleep, and I have taken a break from cleaning to blog for a minute. What I'm about to say shocks even myself, I'm ready to switch Smiley to a bottle for the day. I need to sleep and he is eating every hour or less. As most of you know, I am still sleeping on the couch since Smiley for some reason can't stand it upstairs. Last night was one of the most horrifying nights of my life. I woke up to realize that I was suffocating my child. I woke up because of a bad dream and subconsciously realized that Smiley wasn't on my chest anymore, he was at my legs, between me and the couch. I didn't feel the weight of the baby at all. I was so shook up that I literally flipped myself off the couch. I was in a complete panic, when I looked over and saw that it was Sunshine that had wedged himself there, so I touched him to make sure that he was moving and looked for the baby. Sure enough he was safe and sound in his bouncer right next to the couch. Within 2 or 3 minutes he was screaming awake and nursed for only 2 or 3 minutes, and then would not let me put him back down. I really am having a hard time sleeping, and my emotions are truly suffering for it. I'm having some of the worst nightmares I think I have ever had. I know that some of you still feel like I have the missing mother/orphan complex, well maybe I do. Yes I miss her, or should I say that I miss the things that we should be doing together. I miss that she should be there to talk to, and that I should feel safe, but I don't. This is why there is so much distance between us, I can't let her hurt my family anymore. Here is a "IF" question for you....if you could change on thing about your parents, what would you change? I'd change who my mother is completely. Anyhow, that was a rough thing to wake up to, tonight we are going to put him in the bassinet and hopefully that will work, he is having a problem laying on his back right now in his bouncer, almost as if it is hurting him. He is very much acting like he has colic, but I feel like he is constipated so I have broken out the Apple Juice. Why you say? Well it's logic in my mind. If I eat beans and he gets gassy, like the chili that I had for dinner yesterday, or when I have burritos..you get the picture. Then when I drink something like Apple Juice it should soften his bowel enough to pass. Think about it, if a mother drinks a glass of wine and it makes her baby tired, then this would be the exact same thing. The doctor once told me to eat a thing of yogurt every day, well as most of you all know, I'm lactose intolerant, therefore I can't. But the point is that it helps with his yeast balances as well. This has worked in the past, and I'm hoping that it will work now. I do hope that I get some more sleep tonight as I really need to sleep more than I have and even though Duck gave me a mid afternoon nap, I'm completely drained. I hope to go to the LLL meeting tomorrow, we'll see if I feel like I can make it. Thanks for listening. Off to cleaning again...

me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 04/10/2007 03:54:51
Give me a call.



Kim
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 09, 2007 The 9th day of April
DATE: 04/09/2007 07:18:25
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Today's Goals:

Complete 5 (15) minute routines. I want to hit at least 5 spots today.

Bring in the exercise bike and ride for at least 30 minutes.

Give Smiley his bath

Wash 3 loads of Laundry

Go to Wally to pick up batteries and other ess.

Well that is what I want to accomplish today, I'll do my best to get it all done. I was reading a blog of a friend last night and it got me thinking. As she so bluntly put it, What is normal? I have one child who is very very far behind in speech, and then I have another who is surpassing the milestone for children his age, even though he is still considered to be 3 weeks early. It's amazing what we learn as parents. For example, Sunshine was in the 95-105 percentile group as a baby growth wise, and Smiley remains in the 50 percentile. So maybe where Sunshine grew faster than most children, he lacks in his speech. I think that all in all, Sunshine is a normal two year old, except for his speaking. We are working hard on correcting that. Just this morning, he went upstairs to wake up his dad. Once he got to the top of the stairs he shouted MORNING, something that we have never heard him say, be we say to him everyday. So you see, even though he may not be normal now, he wasn't all that normal at birth either, but one day I feel that where he lacks, he will catch up and possibly excel. After speaking with so many people concerning the Autism condition, and they have had time to see how he acts, everyone tells me that he is incredibly smart. IF HE COULD ONLY SPEAK. Grrrr. Well gotta go, baby is crying.

me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 07, 2007 The 7th day of April
DATE: 04/07/2007 13:30:39
STATUS: publish
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Today we went to pick up some free cycle stuff, outlet plates for the new garage...or soon to be new improved garage. Last night Smiley was literally up every hour to nurse...I'm trying to nurse my dead brain back to health. I'm mush today. We did go to the grocery store and pick up a couple of movies for tonight. After watching the Pursuit to Happyness, Duck and I have decided that if we ever win the lottery, we are going to do great things with part of the winnings. It is sad that so many people want to do good with their lives and can't and other mooch off the government and don't have any dreams at all. Well I'm going to put all the groceries away and have a little snack until we decide what we are going to do for dinner. Perhaps more later.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 06, 2007 What a Good Friday
DATE: 04/06/2007 11:57:37
STATUS: publish
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Today we had a gold friend visit. I gave her my crib, precious moments bassinet, car seat hoodie, crib sheets and a kid carrying back pack. I also need to see if I can find a LLL leader in her area. It was wonderful to see her and I'm sure it took a lot for her to get here. It is a long drive and extra hard with a 5 year old and being prego. I've invited her and her family to Sunshine's B-day party. I don't think that they will beable to make it because of work though. Just though I'd invite them.

Smiley learned how to use his Jumparoo thing today. He is bouncing away, and very happy. Well I need to get up, we have a huge list of things to do today, include make some money, so I must go and try at least.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 04, 2007 14 lbs and 8 oz.
DATE: 04/04/2007 14:55:51
STATUS: publish
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Smiley had an appt today, as you can see he is 14 pounds and 8 ounces. My house is a mess, I haven't gotten anything done and he is finally asleep, so I am going to get up and clean. Just wanted to drop a line. We are going to put in the exercise bike this week and I am going to start riding it everyday. I'm tired of being fat. I will track my progress without telling you how much I weight. I find it humiliating to be this big and I can't wait to lose it. Once I lose 50 pounds I get to cut my hair as short as I want it, and once I lose 100 pounds, we are going out on a hot date all dolled up. I can't wait to wear my prom dress or red dress again. Perhaps more later...I'm very sleep deprived and Smiley is running a fever.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 03, 2007 The third day of April...and.
DATE: 04/03/2007 17:19:31
STATUS: publish
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I got some cloths folded today and a load of dishes ran. I made some chocolate chip cookies, and I hope to sweep and mop the kitchen floor tonight. Besides that I am going to finish folding the clothes and going on a putting away spree tomorrow. I am also going to see if Duck can give me 30 minutes in the pantry to reorganize it. I really need to get in there are do that. Smiley has a doc appt tomorrow for 4 mo shots. I also want to clean the bathroom tomorrow. I think that I'll do that when I first get up and take a shower. Hopefully Sunshine will still be asleep and I can just jump in, shower and clean after wards. This weekend I want to do a whole lot of little things that need to be done. You know, like 15 minute tasks. I am also going to see if I can get Duck for fix the toilet, this will require me to hold my urine for about 6 or so hours. It think that I will be making a visit to the local gas station. I've been having horrible nightmares lately, I don't know what to make of them. Probably just my mind going in different directions. Well I need to work on questions to ask the doctor as I have some that I know I want to ask, and must write down, or I'll forget. I also want to work on a list of weekend chorse so we can work on Friday and Sat and hopefully relax on Sun. We have invited friends to come up, be we don't think that they are going to....we'll just have to wait and see. As with every relationship, they have hit a rough patch and not that we are experts or perfect, we have been together for 7 years and are going strong. Even without having sex but once in the past 3 months.....okay, so the world didn't need to know that, but hum....what's on my mind? Okay, well good night and bless you all, I love you!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 02, 2007 The second day of April
DATE: 04/02/2007 16:32:19
STATUS: publish
BODY:
Well today is the second day of April. And now what else to say? Okay nothing is coming to mind!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: April 01, 2007 Okay just a few mintues...
DATE: 04/01/2007 20:34:53
STATUS: publish
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Well there is nothing like realizing that you are not going to make it until tomorrow when it comes to diapers. Just threw the load in and I'll get up when Duck does to run them a second time. Grrrr. Oh yeah, I forgot to start the dryer. Double Grrr. Well I took a prego test and it's positive....can you believe it?? Well don't that's my one April Fools joke. Sorry had to get one in today. I spent some time today on the phone with B, they aren't doing so well, and I just pray that they don't do anything irrational! Think things through and NEVER say anything that you don't mean, it's too hard to take it back. Well I need to go to bed, the boys are asleep for now. We had a long nursing session after Smiley was assaulted by Sunshine's thrown apple. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I hope this isn't the start of the rivalry! I don't think that he was aiming. We are going to really really really really clean tomorrow, or should I say, I am going to. And I am going to work on potty training with Sunshine, no passy for 4 days now, and it's time to use the potty. Duck said that he walked in when he was using the potty and said, "Bubby (Duck said to Sunshine), this is how you are suppose to do it!" and Sunshine said, "Oh! Okay!" Good night to all and best wishes.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for April 01, 2007
DATE: 04/01/2007 14:33:44
STATUS: publish
BODY:
LARGO, Fla. -- A Florida homeowners group wants 3-year-old Kimberly Broffman to take her Big Wheel and hit the road.

They've banded together to oust the toddler from their Tampa-area community, which bans residents under 18.

The child's grandparents, Judie and Jimmy Stottler, admit Kimberly's been living there in violation of homeowners' association rules for three years. They said her mother has a drug problem, and isn't capable of caring for the child.

The grandparents said they live on a fixed income and can't afford to move until they sell their house. So far, there have been no takers to buy their house, even after they lowered the $189,000 asking price by $10,000 six months ago.

They also said they can't afford to hire an attorney.

Judie Stottler supports the family with her $18,000-per year dishwashing job because Jimmy Stottler is disabled and is unable to work.

Judie Stottler's friends told the St. Petersburg Times that they are worried.

"It is so ridiculous that this has gone so far," said Keith Tinsley, a cook who works with her. "She's trying her best to sell her house. It's like they are trying to force her to put Kimberly in foster care.

"These people keep batting her down and batting her down. They're just mean."

Judie Stottler said she is scared that she wil lose her house before she is able to sell it.

"We don't have any family to take us in," Judie Stottler said.

The Lakes homeowners association filed suit to oust Kimberly last month.

Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

It's hard for me to imagine living in such a place that limits who can live in the area. I believe that the only place that would prohibite a child from living in the neighborhood would be a neighborhood full of child preditors. WHO IN THE WORLD ARE THESE HEARTLESS PEOPLE? Okay, I need to go, I promised Sunshine we would make some chocolate chip cookies. Perhaps more later.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 31, 2007 Sleeping like a baby
DATE: 03/31/2007 14:58:39
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I have found out that Smiley sleeps like a baby when is in on his tummy. So, when we get the crib set up, we are going to put him on his tummy. He is also trying to chew the bones on his fingers and mine. I think that his teeth are going to break through any time now. I HOPE!!!!!! Sunshine has been a little grouchy today, we are on day three of no pacifier....Ka-su-rah. He isn't very happy about it, and is resisting going to sleep, next we are going to go to really break into potty training. He did pee standing up the other night, so I think that we are going to try to get him to do that. Since he is going to preschool next month, it will be a good thing. He is really starting to do good. Now if we can get him to use words all the time. Smiley has another doc appt on Wed, next round of shots and 4 month check up...goodness, he is already 4 months old. WOW. The time does fly. We are working on him rolling over and sitting up. He is doing great with all his other milestones such as the hand to hand and noticing his hands, feet and objects. He is a very alert and happy baby when he is not in the car. Putting him in the car and going anywhere is a mother's worse nightmare, or at least mine. I can't stand to hear a baby cry, and he doesn't just cry, he screams and chokes and gasps for air. I HATE IT. I have even put up a family pic to see if that will help him, and it does a little, but not so much anymore. Going anywhere, even around the corner to McD's or the store is not worth it. I don't know how to help him though this. Yesterday it was so bad that he started literally choking and I had to pull the car over. As soon as we get out of the car, he still does that gasping for air hiccup cry that toddlers and children do when they get really upset. We have half the room done upstairs and Duck has left to go do free cycle stuff. I am going to try to take a nap with Sunshine, but I really don't think Smiley will let me since he just woke up from a great nap. One thing Duck doesn't understand is, or doesn't acknowledge, is yes, he may only get to sleep for 7.5 to 8 hours, but his sleep isn't interrupted by one or both kids throughout the night. Sunshine crawls up with me when he wakes up, and Smiley wakes up every 1 to 2.5 hours to eat. It will be great to beable to sleep 8 hours again, heck I'd settle for 5. Okay, well I'm going to go, I hope that all is well....

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 31, 2007 The day of spring cleaning....
DATE: 03/31/2007 08:35:17
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Today we are going to do so much, hopefully so that next weekend we can take a nice 3 day weekend and hopefully go to church and relax and have a great weekend. If I get time today I'll do a list of "IF" or atleast start back up. Duck and I have some serious discussing that we have to do, we got some horrible news yesterday about Sunshine, and it completely breaks my heart. I have to keep telling myself that it is only up from here. Not every parent is perfect and I have a chance to help him now and fix all the past mistakes. I try my best to be a good mother. Okay, better go before I start crying, I'm thinking about it too much.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 27, 2007 Happy B-Day Jen and Alby
DATE: 03/27/2007 16:18:12
STATUS: publish
BODY:

It's amazing what one remembers in life...for example, today is Jen, Alby and Jimmy's Birthday, only two of which I'd wish a happy birthday to. I do however wish them all happiness.

B - I enjoyed our talk today, although I was a little heart broken. Due to certain eyes I will try to call you tomorrow to finish our conversation.

Today I was motivated to do cleaning, I got a lot done, even though it doesn't look like it. I try, and I hope that it will all pay off. I don't have a whole lot to say today, just wanted to say Hello....Hello. I did have to call Sunshine's doc since he is peeing red. At this point we don't believe it is blood, we think that it is fruit punch, and he isn't having any pain.

Well I've gotta go for now...

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 26, 2007 The beginning of a busy week...
DATE: 03/26/2007 17:59:04
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Today we went to the library for a party thing with Smiley's group, even through it was only 2.5 hours out of my day, it totally disrupted everything. But we had fun. I really don't feel good, I keep getting headaches, and almost like dizzy spells. I'm going to call my doctor tomorrow to see if he can order some blood work. My boobs are also swollen and I'm very moody. Hum....perhaps side effects of my birth control. Which I must say has cost me $113.00 for 5 years...YIPEEEEE. The other thing is that I haven't had a period in 2 months. Sunshine has been reverting back to the early two year old stage, full fledged tantrums, throwing himself on the floor and such. He has however been better about helping and picking up. He is also trying to get out of the nap routine, which could explain the tantrums. Today at the get together he and this 2 yr old were playing and the other boy hauled off and hit him, I'm surprised there isn't a bruise. He was in shock and walked over to me with his lip hanging out and barely whimpered. The other child was put into time out. This begs the questions, when do you teach your child self defense. I'm going to start working with him at holding his hands out and yelling no at a child that is trying to harm him. This was just out of the blue and the other child continued to hit Sunshine and other children in the group. I told Sunshine to stay away from him and he did well. I don't want my kids to be beat up on, but I know how it is to have a bully also. More sole searching. This is going to be by far the busiest week I've had since I've been home. Today we had out thing, tomorrow we have two therapy appts and Friday we have a CB review. We are also in the middle of trying to get my car fixed and so many other tasks at hand. We are going to put up a fence around the dog area and around the deck/back yard area so Sunshine can play without running off. Smiley has been running temps on and off. I really do think that it's his teeth, but he is also having diarrhea. I know, it always looks like that when they are breast fed, but this is different and it appears to have mucus in it. If we are still showing problems tomorrow or running temps, we will call the doc and get him seen either tomorrow afternoon or Wed morning. I pray that it is just a teething stage. Okay, well that's the ramblings of a frazzled stay at home mother of 2 and wife of 1. I've got so much stuff to get done before I go to bed, I don't think I'll see the pillow until midnight or later.

Me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 03/27/2007 12:02:23
Wow..For 5yrs thts a lot cheaper than what mine was. 65.00 a month. :[ So I'm not on Birth control. We use the other thingys. T is talking about getting snipped. :[ Bc he does not want anymore children. :[ Kind of upsets me but I guess that is what I have to put up with if I want to be married to him.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 24, 2007 Just another Saturday~
DATE: 03/24/2007 20:18:23
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Today Duck took Sunshine outside to swing in our homemade swing. HE absolutely loves playing outside, and it is a great way for the two of them to bond. I have to fold the clothes and run a load of dishes, besides that we are just putting around the house today. Today we defrosted the kitchen freezer and were amazed at the amount of room that it gives us.

Call me crazy, but I think that I have sorta helped the Smiley riding in the car thing, I taped a pic of us up so he could see it. He gets upset when he can hear us, but not see us. He has also been made famous, sorta. I sent his pic on, and it was sent all across the country to family through another family member. His praying picture made a big splash. It is cute and in the email I told everyone that he was praying to never have to take a bath again.

Life seems to be doing better, I still am having a huge problem keeping up on the house, Duck seems to think that he doesn't have to lift a finger anymore. I have to ask him to help, but when I do, he never protests and we get it done fast. Tomorrow we are going to set up part of the upstairs and I will try to finish it this week. I will be working on the laundry room/pantry. We are thinking about getting wire racks to put up instead of using the cabinet. I fear that it will just fall again. None the less, I will not be putting that much weight up there again.

We were suppose to visit with some friends today, but I guess things fell through. That is one thing that I do miss about Lebtucky, when we wanted to play cards, there was always someone to call. Sometimes I feel that we are a bit closer to everyone now that we are so far away...doesn't make much sense though. Right before we left, someone asked me, Why are you moving all the way down there? We'll never see you again, blah blah blah blah blah. I have you know that I never really saw them in the first place, and when I did, I had to go to them. Out of all my so called friends, T&B, K and J are the only ones who have come up here. Now we don't talk to J as much, she has a new love and soon to be new baby and new home and job, so it is hard to get together with her. However we do talk to the other often. You truly find out who your friends are when you leave. Good friends are hard to come by, I think that we are just blessed that we have found some close by. Even though our life styles are vastly different, VASTLY different even though we have some of the same moral...kids first and such, I think we mesh, but that's just my opinion. I think that it is great for my kids to see that not everyone lives the same way, not everyone is rich and not everyone is poor and not everyone is in the middle. When the boys get older we are going to serve dinner at a soup kitchen for Thanksgiving and Christmas to show that kindness, caring, compassion and giving are true blessings. Even though God didn't create us all equal, he gave us all a heart and a conscience, and I want my kids to use both. Had he created us all equal, we would not have the problems that we have today, granted we all started out as an egg and a sperm, so maybe in that text we were created equal, but most of us have different skin, different hair, different eyes, different diseases and so on and so on.

Okay, I've gone off in left field, I'm going to go lay down now, I'm tired and the boys are asleep for now.

I'm having a huge problem with a personal debate, should I feed Smiley cereal at this age, he is eating between every 1-2 hours and has been doing so for the past week and a half to two weeks. Humm....I need to ponder this a lot more before I decide what to do. I will also try to ask his doc.

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 03/25/2007 05:29:27
Sorry about yesterday. The day got well away from me, but we did get a lot accomplished that needed doing.



Cereal: Breasfed babies do not need anything but breastmilk until around 6 months. Doing so before hand increases the risk of allergies and other health problems.



I'll give you a call this evening.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 24, 2007 The trama
DATE: 03/23/2007 21:19:51
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Okay, well I have traumatized my infant and realized that the wrap that I bought works well...

First the Trauma - We bought him an exercise thing today that he can sit up in, I need to be able to sit him up and work around him or what not, and not have to hold him 24/7. Don't get me wrong, I love to hold him, but I can't get anything done. He was traumatized by it. He is still too unstable to use it.

The Wrap - I bought at Mayan Wrap from LLL and I love it. Today Sunshine went to throw a tantrum and I had his hand, I tried not to go to the floor, but I fell a little forward, Smiley was in the wrap and fell forward with me. He didn't hit the floor just did a back bend. He didn't care for it too much, but he was safe.

Well I need to go, but ask me about the McD's incident, oh boy oh boy....

Me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 03/30/2007 16:47:00
McD's Huh..Your going to have to tell me about that. :]
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: ..:Shortayy:..
DATE: 03/30/2007 16:47:16
Ohh..Yea new blog. ;]
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 22, 2007 Just today
DATE: 03/22/2007 18:42:31
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I was informed yesterday that Pluto is no longer a planet....hummmmm, I totally missed that one. Guess I now have something to look up in my spare time.

We went to our favorite Super Walley today. Smiley cried all the way home. Well let me rephrase that he SCREAMED all the way home. It was AWFUL. This is now the second time that this has happened. He has also thrown up twice today, DTS said that there is a horrible GI visus going around that they almost had to litterally close down the local elementry school because so many children had missed.

Okay well my hoarse infant is screaming again, I must go, forgive errors.

me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 21, 2007 Wednesday
DATE: 03/21/2007 09:35:10
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Well, now that I have a minute or two, I decided to do a little "IF"...

If you were to be recognized by posterity for one thing, what would you like to be known for? Well to admit, I had to look up posterity, but if I were to be known by my posterity for one thing, I think that it would be for generosity. I sometimes have to remind myself that I can't give everything away.

If you could have said one sentence to Hitler while he was alive, what would you have said? I would have told him that even though our children and our children's children and so on would always study about him, no one with have a mind would ever respect him for the horrible deaths that he caused.

If you had to choose the color that describes you most accurately, which color would it be? I think I would choose Black: Black goes with everything.

If you had to convert to a different religion, which would you choose? Well since we currently technically don't have a church, and I was baptized Catholic, I think that I would choose Mennonite. I really enjoyed the simplistic of the Mennonite people and the compassion of their sermons. Unfortunately the only Mennonite church is in Indy.

If you were to drown in a liquid other than water, what would you want it to be? Well if I had to drown, which I can imagine is horrible and painful, I think I would like it to be Rumple mints. I might as well not realize that I'm drowning.

If you could reverse one sports call in history, which one would it be? Well I don't watch sports, therefore I can't answer this question.

If you had to name the most terrifying moment of you life so far, what would it be? In 02/2006 we had a horrible ice/snow storm and I decided, like a fool, to try to make it to work. Sunshine was in the back seat and we nearly got ran over by a semi. It was horrible, I will never do anything like that again.

If you had to be homeless for one year, where would you want to be? I think that I would like to be in Zionsville. There are a lot of rich people and I'm sure that their garbage would be better than nothing.

If you could have one street or square or park in any cit or town renamed after you, which one would you select and exactly what would the name be? Okay, not to sound full of myself, but I'd have Market Street named Katy Street. Why not have one of the most powerful streets in the world named after yourself?

If you could be guaranteed one thing in life besides money, what would you ask for? That my children grow up to be someone important, whether they are priest or the president, as long as they make something out of their lives and don't have to struggle.

If you could have any person from any time in history cal you for advise, and they were to listen to what you told them, who would you want to hear from? Abraham Lincoln, I'd tell him not to go to the theater.

If you could easily visit one known planet, which one would you go to? I think I'd got to Pluto.

If you could have been the author of any single book already written, which book would you want to have penned? Any one of the Betty Crocker Cook Books.

If you could have any one specific power over other people, what would it be? To be able to force them to tell the truth.

If you had to lose everyone you know in a tragic accident except one person, who would you choose to survive? Wow, that's a tough one, being a mother, it would be hard to lose one or both or my children, yet being a wife, it would be hard to lose my husband also. Since I can't decided between my children, I can't answer this question, I think I'd rather die and let both of them live.

If you could have one meal from your past exactly as it was, which would you repeat? My dad took me to this restaurant called Harley's Marie's. The steak there was fabulous and I've never had a more memorable dinner in my life.

If you could become famous for doing something that you don't currently do, what would it be? I'd like to be a famous skinny, not dead looking, model.

Okay, last one, I need to get the kitchen finished....

If you could only keep one of your five senses, which would you save? I would keep my hearing. Having already had sight, I could imagine what something looked like, after having felt, I could image the feel, I don't care about taste or smell. To hear my boys is like music from heaven...that is when they aren't screaming at the top of their lungs.

Okay, off to do my chores.

Me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 03/21/2007 14:59:58
Pluto is no longer a planet. :p



I'll call you later.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 20, 2007 Just another Tuesday....
DATE: 03/20/2007 16:54:55
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Tuesdays are by far our worst days of the week...all the appts are scheduled for Tue, this way we get them done, but it is the worst of all days. Sunshine is tired, AND NOT LISTENING...but hey, what else is new? We are waiting for the very yummy chocolate cake to get done so I can ice part of it and we and indulge in some yummies and family time. Sunshine will be going to bed soon. Smiley has been up most of the night, his tooth is really giving him a fuss. Poor little guy. Tomorrow we have to run a morning errand and then we are going to go and pick up some things at the store. My veggies for the veggie garden have died, well, most of them. I will try to replant in time for Good Friday - Monday planting. Duck fixed, as much as he could, my washer, we put a Y on it to control the water temp. I don't feel like the diapers are getting clean in the cold water when I can still see poo in the leg seams. And since I don't dry my liners, I don't want to wash in cold water anymore. I will have to do a load of diapers tomorrow anyhow. Well gotta go, Smiley is waking back up.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 18, 2007 Can't follow directions
DATE: 03/18/2007 08:13:57
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I'm sure that you are all thinking, I am talking about the kids right??? NOPE, I can't seem to follow directions today. I was making biscuit, gravy and eggs for breakfast, and I couldn't follow the simple directions on the gravy mix. Duh!!!, it isn't that difficult. Okay, well I'm going to go work upstairs.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 17, 2007 St. Patty's Day
DATE: 03/17/2007 21:29:01
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Are you wearing your green? I am now... We ran some errands today and found Ground Beef for $1.19 a lb., so we bought 20 pounds. I will cook and divide it up tomorrow. I am also going to inventory my deep freezer, Duck is really getting into shopping with me when it comes to groceries, he seems to like to find the deals as much as I do. I think we are going to have to find another deep freezer. I will see if I can find one that is used.
Most of my starts for my veggie garden have died. :( I tried to transplant them and kaplute...I'll replant and start some new. I am going to order the strawberry plants that I saw, K do you still want some. The car is still down, I will schedule the appt Monday for it to go to the shop. We are hoping that they can fix it, it is getting gas, air and spark, but no start. GRRRRRRRRRR. Smiley's tooth still hasn't broken through, it is giving him such a fit. I feel so sorry for him.

I know that it has been a while, I've been trying to keep up better with the house, Duck made a comment about it the other day. Okay, well I'm going to go to bed, everyone else is asleep and I'm exhausted. Smiley ate every two hours or less last night and I have a feeling that it is going to happen again tonight.

Good night to all!

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 13, 2007 Is today Friday???
DATE: 03/13/2007 19:42:09
STATUS: publish
BODY:

I'm beginning to wonder if today wasn't actually Friday the 13th. You know, if we didn't have bad luck we wouldn't have any luck at all. Today as I was cleaning the house I heard this loud crash and shatter. It sounded like someone drove their car through the back of my house. Nope, it was the cabinets over my washer and dryer. Oh my GOSH, what else is going to happen. We had to take everything out of them and move it, mean while Sunshine was playing in the flour and looked like Casper, so does my kitchen floor. We found out the the cabinet completely knocked off my knobs, so I will forever be washing in cold water on an extra large load. I don't know what I am going to do for diapers. I think that I may take them to the laundry mat, or see if I can fill the washer myself with hot water, I'll have to ask Duck. So I missed the LLL meeting, to help Duck get the cabinet out of the house, which I really wanted to go to since I thought of a few questions to ask today, I'll have to call the leader or K sometime this week. I looks like I may have to get a part time job, I'm tired of being broke and I don't want to break into our rainy day fund. I need to at least work long enough to pay off the medical bills. If I can find a job making $6.00 per hour and work 12 hours one week and 20 the next and so on, I should be able to bring home about $325.00 per month to pay the bills off, I will have to work forever, but hey, that's life right? I may be able to pay them off by Christmas and have some Christmas money. I want to do more cooking/baking for the holidays this year.

Good news....I'm not pregnant, nor do I hope to be. I DO NOT want to get pregnant right now especially because of the type of birth control that I am on. I don't think that I will have anything to worry about. Hey, if it happens, it happens right?

Okay, I'm getting to bed, while the getting is good. Sunshine is sleepy and Smiley is already asleep. Smiley is sure to wake up later and stay up for awhile since he hasn't been up too much. I will be working on a schedule tomorrow so I can keep the house clean and us on track. Good night to all.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 03/14/2007 11:51:46
If you are worried about bacteria, the heat of the dryer will take care of that.



I'll call you later when the children are quiet.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 13, 2007 A message for Always.....true??
DATE: 03/13/2007 09:36:20
STATUS: publish
BODY:

AN OPEN LETTER TO
MR. JAMES THATCHER,
BRAND MANAGER,
PROCTER & GAMBLE.

- - - -

Dear Mr. Thatcher,

I have been a loyal user of your Always maxi pads for over 20 years,
and I appreciate many of their features. Why, without the LeakGuard
Core(tm) or Dri-Weave(tm) absorbency, I'd probably never go horseback
riding or salsa dancing, and I'd certainly steer clear of running up
and down the beach in tight, white shorts. But my favorite feature has
to be your revolutionary Flexi-Wings. Kudos on being the only company
smart enough to realize how crucial it is that maxi pads be
aerodynamic. I can't tell you how safe and secure I feel each month
knowing there's a little F-16 in my pants.

Have you ever had a menstrual period, Mr. Thatcher? Ever suffered from
"the curse"? I'm guessing you haven't. Well, my "time of the month" is
starting right now. As I type, I can already feel hormonal forces
violently surging through my body. Just a few minutes from now, my body
will adjust and I'll be transformed into what my husband likes to call
"an inbred hillbilly with knife skills." Isn't the human body amazing?

As brand manager in the feminine-hygiene division, you've no doubt seen
quite a bit of research on what exactly happens during your customers'
monthly visits from Aunt Flo. Therefore, you must know about the
bloating, puffiness, and cramping we endure, and about our intense mood
swings, crying jags, and out-of-control behavior. You surely realize
it's a tough time for most women.

In fact, only last week, my friend Jennifer fought the violent urge to
shove her boyfriend's testicles into a George Foreman Grill just
because he told her he thought Grey's Anatomy was written by drunken
chimps. Crazy! The point is, sir, you of all people must realize that
America is just crawling with homicidal maniacs in capri pants.

Which brings me to the reason for my letter.

Last month, while in the throes of cramping so painful I wanted to
reach inside my body and yank out my uterus, I opened an Always maxi
pad, and there, printed on the adhesive backing, were these words:
"Have a Happy Period."

Are you fucking kidding me?

What I mean is, does any part of your tiny middle-manager brain really
think happiness-actual smiling, laughing happiness-is possible during a
menstrual period? Did anything mentioned above sound the least bit
pleasurable? Well, did it, James? FYI, unless you're some kind of sick
S&M freak girl, there will never be anything "happy" about a day in
which you have to jack yourself up on Motrin and Kahlúa and lock
yourself in your house just so you don't march down to the local
Walgreens armed with a hunting rifle and a sketchy plan to end your
life in a blaze of glory. For the love of God, pull your head out, man.
If you just have to slap a moronic message on a maxi pad, wouldn't it
make more sense to say something that's actually pertinent, like "Put
Down the Hammer" or "Vehicular Manslaughter Is Wrong"? Or are you just
picking on us?

Sir, please inform your accounting department that, effective
immediately, there will be an $8 drop in monthly profits, for I have
chosen to take my maxi-pad business elsewhere. And though I will
certainly miss your Flexi-Wings, I will not for one minute miss your
brand of condescending bullshit.

And that's a promise I will keep. Always.

Best,

Wendi Aarons
Austin, TX

This was sent to me today in an email...hum....more later from me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 12, 2007 Monday
DATE: 03/12/2007 17:23:54
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Just another Monday, I worked out with K today, it was nice! We are going to stop working out so much or totally since the spring is here and she is busy with the Homestead. I sold another thing on Ebay today and made nearly $9.00, Yipeee...now if I can sell a ton more making profit, I will be doing well. I am looking for strawberry planting info so I can get strawberries, I want to grow them and grapes too. Well I don't have much to say, I am tired and I'm going to lay down.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 11, 2007 The first step...
DATE: 03/11/2007 20:30:48
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Yesterday we had some friends over for a belated birthday dinner. I made a beef stew, which flopped, but was okay. I'll try it again some day. I also made bag salad and cake and ice cream. We played some cards and had a good time. Sunshine won't sit at the table still and eat. Duck and I have talked and talked and talked about it. I guess I wasn't fair to him the other day, I knew he wouldn't eat the salad, and I knew that he'd never tried the pot roast, but he didn't even try. I think that he didn't recognize it, therefore didn't want it. I will work harder to introduce more things to him, and try to get him to try more. Anyhow, it's late now that I've gotten back to this and I need to get some sleep. We are going back to our day schedules.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 09, 2007 The crying baby
DATE: 03/09/2007 21:51:36
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Smiley has been pretty happy today, but has cried for the past few hours. I really think that it is the tooth that is trying to push through. I didn't get anything done today and we have company coming over tomorrow. I will be on a mad cleaning dash when Duck gets home and in the morning. He isn't running a fever, but he has been throwing up . As everyone is going to ask me, I really don't think that this is spit up, it if far greater than a tablespoon of fluid. If he isn't doing better in the morning I will call his doc. Well he is starting to get fussy again, gotta go, please excuse any typo's only have one hand.

me

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 08, 2007 The mistake
DATE: 03/08/2007 21:46:59
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Today we went to pick up the last two months worth of pay information from my previous employer. We were bearly down the road when I discovered that the records were very wrong. I didn't work but 4 hours in November since we were very sick and I was on bed rest for nearly 3 weeks. The records from Oct had been put on Nov business with the same check numbers. I do hope that I am able to play it off as it should be. The problem is that we have filed taxes and already rec'd our returns. They are going to have to contact their CPA and find out what they will need to do. Of course if they want to pay me the money, I'd take it, but I DON'T expect it as I didn't actually earn it. It was nice to see my boss again.

I'm starting to feel myself slip again, I think that I may need to go and see my doctor. I don't think I can control this much longer. Don't think that I'm going to do anything stupid, that just isn't my style, I just don't have the motivation to do anything and I feel the fear starting to rise, not to mention the feeling of failure yet again. It's hard to explain. I don't feel like doing anything but watching TV, and playing with Sunshine. I'm neglecting my house work and my husband. Today the house looks better because I was able to stay awake while the boys took a nap and got a lot of cleaning done in a short period of time. I just need to get more done, and keep it done. Duck and I haven't spent any alone time together in a long time. With his hours it is difficult, not to mention a nursing infant. I found out that my mother is trying to find us. She is using the stupid ploy that she wants to send Sunshine a present for his birthday. What does she think I'm stupid... I know that she could hire a private dick to find me, but then that may cut into her drug money. I don't want her to find me, she just wants to cause grief or trouble. I am not going to have to take steps incase she does find us. She and her husband are as unstable and walking on water. You know, she passed Sunshine and I in Wally world one day and she didn't even stop, her chance to meet her grandson and she dismissed him. She tells everyone that I'm not her daughter, well that means my boys are no relation to her. Why can't she understand that I don't want her in my life nor do I want to be part of hers. If anyone has been following a portion of the Anna Nicole Smith thing, you would know what I mean when I say that we lead similar lives as far as mother and daughter. I WANT HER TO LEAVE ME ALONE AND NEVER CONTACT ME AGAIN. She was a terrible mother and has instilled insecurities in me. I feel like I have to be everything and everywhere with my kids because she was never with us, or not nearly as much as a semi-loving mother should be. I know that she is the only mother that I have, but to tell you the truth, I'd rather be an orphan. I'd rather forget her and my life before 18. I am also feeling failure, I feel like I am failing a friend that I haven't been able to get with and exercise, I feel like I am failing myself because I'm not taking care of myself to get into shape and lead a healthier life and I feel like I'm failing my husband for looking like this. I am going to get my dress out and hang it up in the livingroom so I look at it and remind myself that I need to exercise.

Wow, getting this off my chest is helpful, I need to look at it and change what I can, and get help where I can't. You know, God grant me the serenity.....

Smiley is getting big fast. He is not blowing raspberries when prompted, he is smiling at himself in the mirror and at his brother anytime he can see him. He is following things, reaching out and touching, lifting his head while on his tummy, trying to push off, putting things in his mouth, talking up a storm, laughing, and doing and almost joyous scream. He is also cutting his first tooth.

By the way, I was talking to my dad tonight and it is important that everyone know that if anything happens to Duck and I that the kids are to go to him. This is going to be put into a will ASAP. My mother is absolutely not allow to have my children and that means PERIOD. I don't want her to ever take my children for a drive, not even to Dairy Queen for a cone. She will not return with them.

Okay I need to get into the livingroom and make sure Sunshine is laying down and nurse Smiley so he can go to sleep..he is off his routine, I think that his teeth are really hurting him since he is sucking on anything he can get into his mouth. I will be talking to his DT tomorrow to see what she may suggest and maybe calling his doctor. I was never allowed to give Sunshine Orajel unless it was absolutely necessary and it only came down to that once.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 03/09/2007 08:31:56
http://www.hylands.com/products/teething.php



You can get them anywhere. They did wonders for Bethany. Whenever I used the teething gel that numbs, she had a hard time latching because she shouldn't feel the latch.



Kim
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 07, 2007 More IF
DATE: 03/07/2007 10:44:32
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Well we went and picked up the parts for the car, please keep your fingers crossed, Duck is putting them in right now. We also found out that there is another problem with the washer. It is shaking too much. Duck thought that I just had it off balance, but it can't go through 4 loads and be off balance like that every single time. I'm very careful when I put the clothes in to make sure that they are balanced, I don't want to have to pull up wet clothes to balance them during the spin cycles. He'll look at it tonight. I also got some diaper covers on Ebay from Baby Best Buy they are Dappi and really nice. Plus I saved 8 dollars.

Okay...more if questions>

If you could have one person from history live his or her full life over again, starting now, who would you pick? -- Hum...that's a tough one, I think I would like to know Einstein. He was so talented and very smart.

If you could have personally witnessed one event in history, what would you want to have seen? -- the signing of the Constitution. Then maybe I would have more answers to the boggling questions that I have concerning some of the laws set forth.

If one of you parents was to be a famous person from anytime in history, who would you want them to be? Oh----um.....Mother Teresa, although I wouldn't be here, she is 100% the opposite of my mother...or maybe Betsy Ross, then maybe I would know how to sew and she could've been my mother.

If you could receive one small package this very moment, who would it be from and what would be in it? Duh...from the Hoosier Lottery, the winning lottery ticket to tonight's game. I would then open the shelter that I have always wanted to do.

If you could own one painting from any collection in the world but were not allowed to sell it, which work of art would you select? I would select the JFK painting that is in the White House, I have always enjoyed seeing it in the movies, and hope one day to be able to see it in person. But I don't think that will happen since I am afraid to go to DC.

If you could have chose your own first name, other than your current on, what would it be? Julia..it is such a grown up and dignified name, much better than Katy.

If you could have seduced one person that you knew in your lifetime (but didn't), who would you select? Oh, this could get me into trouble. My first heart doctor Dr. Hall. He was hot and a doctor.

If you were instantly able to play one musical instrument perfectly that you never have played before, what would it be? Well, this is sorta an unfair question to me...I've played so many different instruments...now if they are talking about just fiddling around, I've never set my hands on a french horn, I'd love to play that, it is such a beautiful instrument. If they are talking about actually playing to sheet music and not including ones that I officially never played, I'd like to play the piano.

If you were to be stranded forever on a tropical island with one platonic friend only, in whose company would you want to spend the rest of your days? Well, I'd have to pick K. She is just so sufficient at the lay of the land. I think I would actually learn a lot and eat, where as if I were by myself, I'd die in less than a month.

If you had to live the rest of your life in a place that you have never lived in before, where would you live? Colorado!!!

If you could keep only one article of clothing you currently own and the rest were to be thrown out, what would you keep? -- My blue Mickey Mouse Germany Night Gown. It's huge and comfy.

If you had to lose one of your five senses, which would you give up? My taste, that way I could eat things like celery and stuff that would make me eat healthier and skinnier.

If you were to have one famous person alive or from history stranded with you on an island forevermore, who would you want it to be? -- I think I would choose Tom Hanks, did you see him in Cast Away??

If you could kill the pet of anybody you know, whose pet would it be? Hey all books can't be perfect, I wouldn't kill anyone's pets.

If you were to be recognized by posterity for one thing, what would you like it to be known for? I'll have to get back to you on this one....baby's up and I need to tend to him.

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 03/07/2007 16:41:21
LOL. You give me way too much credit. Thank you. I hope you like fish because we would eat a lot of that on the island. :)
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Katy
DATE: 03/08/2007 21:48:08
Hope it tasts like chicken! At least I'd be alive...that is where it would be nice if my sense of taste would give out!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 07, 2007 Early in the morning for some
DATE: 03/06/2007 21:49:08
STATUS: publish
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I still have not gone to sleep. Smiley woke up and refused to go back to sleep, I read to him, played with him and finally broke down and let him watch a little tv. He refused the nurse in between, and I had already changed him. After about 5 or so minutes I tried to nurse him again, and he went off to sleep. I swaped and put another load into my now working washer , I'll fold in the morning. I put the dishes in the dishwasher and wiped down the sink and counters. I'll declutter and do the floors tomorrow as well. The floors mainly have cat food on them because Sunshine always seems to spill a little when he feeds the cat. He does his chore very well, and we are working on cleaning up the food that spilled out. Usually the cat is in the way though. Speaking of the cat, he is healing nicely, he has two big wounds on his shoulder and one is still oozing a little, but nothing that I am at all worried about. He has lost the hair in that area and the abscess is completely gone. My seeds have already sprouted, I don't know what I am going to do, I guess I will have to transplant them into regular pots until it is time to plant them into the ground. I will also start my carrot and corn soon as I have more egg cartons already. Duck said that he thinks he can fix the tiller and then we won't have to rent one. That would be nice, and then our friends could use it if they needed it as well. Tomorrow or should I say today the boys and I are going to K's house to see Bobby-que. I haven't seen the blessed pig since he was at my dad's house. And I say he was blessed because I think that Duck wanted to throw him on the highway since he pooped in the cage and it stuck something awful. But that's a pig for you. Well Duck should be home any minute now, so I am going to go, the boys are in bed and it will be nice to spend a few minutes with him before either one wakes up or it gets too late. I am very tired. Good night to all!

Me.

Okay so duh, he has to take a shower first, here are some "IF" questions....

If you were to have your entire wardrobe designed for you by a single clothing designer for the rest of your life, who would you select? Jacklyn Smith. I think that her taste is great, she has something for every occasion, and though I'm sure she is rich, she isn't only selling her clothes in the mall where most sane people refuse to buy because of the paycheck price tags.

If you were to be stranded forever on a desert island and could only have one book to read, which would you want? The bible, maybe then I make the time to sit down and read it. I've been told that you can read it several times through out your life and get different means/understanding because of different experiences that you encounter.

If you could say one sentence to the current pope, what would it be? BIRTH CONTROL Enough said??? okay well the baby woke up, more tomorrow.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 06, 2007 Ka-su-rah!!!
DATE: 03/06/2007 11:33:11
STATUS: publish
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The washer is fixed. I can't believe how talented one person can be. My hubby is the best! (sorry I don't mean to rub it in anyone's face, I'm sure that every wife feels just as I feel about my husband, or at least I hope so!) He has saved us nearly $500.00 of our tax check by not having to buy a stove or a washer. The wrong parts were ordered for the car though, and we will have to wait until tomorrow.

Sunshine pottied on the potty the other night. He started to have an accident in the dining room (yes I cleaned the carpet) so I ran him into the bathroom and he peed on the potty!!! He woke up dry again today, we are on a roll her. We are working on potty training, we can save about $50.00 per month on that alone. I will still put him to bed with underware on and then a pull up over the underware incase of an accident. I'm very very very happy.

Okay maybe more later, I'm going to eat part of my 3 batches of banana bread that I made yesterday...oh and by the way...Peanut Butter Bread doesn't work with the A-Z recipe that I have. It was a bad outcome, but that theory is put to bed.

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 05, 2007 Motivation
DATE: 03/05/2007 15:00:00
STATUS: publish
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I've been having a huge problem finding motivation lately. I've been sorta down, but I'm feeling a lot better. Today we found a place to buy the parts for my car that is cheaper than the first. The first place was still out and the factory is backed up on them. So we are going to pick them up tomorrow. I pray, pray, pray that this is the solution to the problem. Duck fixed my stove the day before yesterday and we had warm Cinnamon rolls as a reward. IT was wonderful! Now, we have to fix the washer, Duck is pretty sure that it is just the same part that broke last time. So, we ordered it and it should be here tomorrow before noon. Sunshine has a DT and ST appt tomorrow, so I will be very busy. I need to remember to send LLL info to Smiley's DT person. I feel better, and I am very motivated today to get things done. I'm still very tired, but I think that will pass. I am going to start a list of things that need to get done, and my goal is to get at least 2 of them done a week. One side will be things that I want to get done, that I can do personally, and the other will be things that Duck will need to do as I do not know how to do them. Maybe he can show me how to do some of them so I won't be so "girly". At least I know how to change a tire in 40ish degree weather in the dark.

Saturday, I am making lunch or dinner for a friend for her birthday. I'm thinking about making a beef stew that I saw on Kraft foods. It is YUMMY looking and I am going to make a lot since I know that we love beef stew.

Ha ha, there is the picture...

Well Smiley is rustling around, I need to go, I also have to finish cleaning and clean the carpets. I also want to make about 5 loaves of bread tonight so I can get the done and keep the house warmer and smell the wonderful smell. I also have to defrost the freezer in the kitchen. Okay, I promise that I will try to start the if questions again, I love them!

Maybe more later....Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 02, 2007 Friday
DATE: 03/02/2007 19:31:23
STATUS: publish
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Smiley didn't want to sleep yesterday, every time I'd nurse him and then put him down to clean or use the bathroom or do anything besides hold him, he'd wake up and get fussy. So a lot didn't get done. I had Duck order diaper covers off the Internet, I'll see how it works. I hope to be making my own by the end of this weekend. My first pattern worked well, but I have picked up another one to see if it is better. I hope to work on them Sunday while Duck is up north. We didn't get to go shopping or exercise today, K was not feeling well. I hope that she is feeling better by now, I'll call tomorrow to see if she needs anything. Duck's Mom is coming over for lunch and a visit tomorrow. I can't wait to set my table again, it looked really nice last time. I don't keep it covered since Sunshine puts his drink on the table and I don't want it to get stained. Anyhow, I need to get up and finish cleaning. I have brought all Smiley's clothes 3-6 mo down from the closet, they look huge on him, I'll keep him in the newborn clothes until they don't fit anymore. Okay, I'll try to get back on my questions by this weekend. I'm getting a little more sleep since Smiley is sleeping on me.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: March 01, 2007 Back seat to a pig.....
DATE: 02/28/2007 21:35:37
STATUS: publish
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Those were the words as we pulled up to K and G's house that came out of my husbands mouth. Keep in mind that we have a small back seat and two car seats in the back. He was numb when we got home, but the pig was signed, sealed and delivered. Two weeks it took to get the pig...this was a nightmare for me. Don't get me wrong K, I love that you have a pig, Sunshine made pig noises all the way home. It was cute....Here's the story! Two weeks ago my dad told me that Uncle B was selling his pig. So I asked K if she was interested, and she was so I relayed the message. Keep in mind that K runs a homestead with two and a half (new baby) goats, 9 or so chickens, Turkeys and more chickens coming and now a pig. I wanted to go and get the pig since the situation seemed iffy at the beginning on UB's part. And he's usually late or forgets so I didn't want them to be down there waiting on him for hours. Today they would've waited for an hour and a half on him. My point exactly. At least I had somewhere to go. We used our pet carrier and put the pig in the car and rounded up the children, by the time we got to the car, maybe 5 minutes, the pig had already made my car smell like a barn. It was rather funny to figure out how we were all going to fit in the car, but it worked, we got to see family, even if it was brief, it was nice. We picked up pre-paid cell phones today, due to the fact that the car is unreliable, I'd hate to be stuck somewhere with the boys and a dead car. We decided to do pre-paid since it was much cheaper. We will only use the phones for emergencies anyhow unless we have to burn our minutes. Our phone bills will only be about $60 every other month. Well I have a ton more to say, but it's late, I'm exhausted and I need to help Duck in the living room. More tomorrow for me, same day as this one I guess. I'll answer my questions and ask some more. For now I'm going to have pig dreams after we are done and be thankful that BobbyQ is at K's house, and that everything has worked out. I can't wait to take Sunshine over there when it gets warm, we have a close petting zoo to go to! I'm really glad that they took him.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 25, 2007 Just life
DATE: 02/25/2007 20:46:35
STATUS: publish
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Today we did a whole lot of NOTHING....Duck slept most of the day, I wish that was me. Sunshine didn't take a nap and Smiley is starting to get congested again. Back to the breathing treatments and sucking his nose out every 30 min it seems. I need to find a new bulb syringe, mine are busted. I found some on ebay and I think we are going to go ahead and buy them. They want 5.86 for one at the store or I can find them on ebay for 3/10.00. Better deal! I picked up a patter today at Wally World for a diaper, they were cheaper at my Wally. I am also going to use the cap, bib and blanket ones if I can learn how. I'm quickly running out of time on making the diapers, Smiley's are getting too tight. He's getting so big, it's amazing. He's usually very happy and smiles all the time...I love both of my children with all my heart. Sunshine has taken to being tickled all the time, he loves it. He also love to be scared. He's a good kid for the most part, what can I say, he's two and spoiled. My fault, yes I know. We are working on the potty thing, another night of being dry.

Yesterday's question was about reliving a year knowing what I know now. I'd pick being 18 all over again. Knowing what I know now, I would've worked the two jobs, put the money in a savings account and saved as much as possible. I wouldn't have done the drugs, or drank nearly as much as I did (at least 5 nights a week)! I would've taken classes when I could and I would've still meet Duck and bought a nicer house that would've made it easier to sell. I would've been able to pay it off a lot sooner. When I was 18 I was working at BK as manager and I was working pt at Pondo as a waitress. I was making excellent money for an 18 year old, I was bringing home nearly 600 every two weeks from BK and at least 300 every two weeks from Pondo. Let's see that's 1800 a month for a single girl renting an apartment by the week for 75, paying electricity of 10 per week and gas about the same. My phone bill was a little higher, any my car payment and insurance was only 150 a month. What more could a girl my age ask for? I could've saved so much and spent so much less. I remember one night we went to the bar, yes I was only 18, I think I dropped 90 dollars that night on drinks and pool. What a waste of money, plus I was drunk driving home. What a horrible risk to take. Anyhow, I got a rude wake up call, and changed my life completely around. I have too much to lose to do such stupid things.

Today's question: If you had to identically repeat any single year of your life to date, without changing a thing, which year would you relive? I'd relive this past year, or the year that Sunshine was born.

Another question: IF you could be sculpted by any artist in history, who would you choose? Duh....DaVinci....

Well gotta go, Duck want the computer, Smiley needs to get to sleep, Sunshine is running on adrenaline and needs to go to sleep, and I need to finish cleaning the living room since we are going to get the carpet cleaner back tomorrow as we REALLY need it. It looks like we murdered someone upstairs since Sunshine spilled my cherry Kool-aid from the other night all over the off white carpet. It is going to be hard to get out. Oxy Clean comes to mind.

Good night to all!

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 24, 2007 Been a while....
DATE: 02/24/2007 19:49:59
STATUS: publish
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It has been a few days. I've been down, I'm not sure if I'm just so exhausted I don't feel well or if I'm starting to get the blues. Just a million and one things going on and nothing in the right direction. I'll be fine once I can start walking and I start really exercising again...and we get out of this slump that Duck's pneumonia put us in.

Wed. we are going to pick up Uncle B's pig...guess I better tell dad. Sunshine has been trying to use the potty, but we have been a unsuccessful as far as every time. It will be better when we get our carpet cleaner back, we loaned it to a friend to clean her Jeep. Tue we are going to be in big boy undies. He is really star in to talk a lot more. Smiley has been cooing and very content. I mean, how could he not be. We have had two hour nursing sessions for the past three days. He woke up screaming today like he was hurting...I really think he had a bad dream. It took me a while to calm him down.

The last question I asked was: IF you could suddenly possess an extraordinary talent in one of the arts, what would you like it to be? I would like to be able to play the piano. My dad's wife play/teaches and she is wonderful. She posses such a wonderful amazing talent that she really seems to enjoy. No one can take that from her, she is so good at it.

If you could be instantly fluent in one other language that you currently do not read or speak, which would it be? Well I would love to be more fluent in Spanish, but I already read and speak. I hope that my limited words in French and German don't count. I guess I would like to learn Portuguese.

IF you could have permanent possession of any single object in the world, what would you want it to be? I'm not a materialistic person, I don't believe that I can answer this question...I would like to own a Strativarious Violin, but then again, it is just an object, it can be burnt in a fire or stolen by a thief. I'd rather retain something, like a gift to be able to play the piano or be a good sales person.

If you could have the starring role in one film already made, which movie would you pick? I think I'd like to play Rose in Titanic.

If you could return for one year to one age in your life, knowing what you know now, to relive that year as you wish, which year would you go back to? I think I know, but I'll explain tomorrow.

I need to go now...Sunshine is getting into everything.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 21, 2007 Let the pottying begin...
DATE: 02/21/2007 10:34:19
STATUS: publish
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I have very good new for everyone....are you ready? Are you sure your ready? Okay, sorry I'm just so excited. As you can see by the title...you can guess that Sunshine has actually gone on the potty. YUP...the long awaited event happened bright and early this morning, okay it was 8:15. He woke up completely dry and so Duck put him on the potty and sure enough, he peed. I'm so so so so so so so so so so so happy. Granted some came out the front, but hey it was still pee pee on the potty. We made a huge deal out of it and showed him that he pee peed in the potty.

The Cloth Diaper....

Cloth diaper #1 has flopped. We got the sewing machine up and working and it was a flop. The patter will be great, but I need to learn how to sew in elastic. I will work on #2 just as soon as I pick some up. I have also found the next step of rubbers....on the Internet they are a lot more expensive, but they will last for the 3-9 mo instead of 3-6, so it about comes out right. Now that I know where to get them, I may wait to buy them until I figure out the cloth diaper cover thingy myself.

Taxes....

Today we are going to fill out our taxes. I called the 800 # to the SS office and told them that I just wanted to know if the number was available. They asked me everything under the moon about me and then told me that my name didn't match my SS card. So she acted like that was a problem, and I explained to her that I was in the process of changing it all. She then asked for all Duck's info and gave me the number over the phone. I thought they weren't allowed to do that, but she did, that's fine with me. We are going in at 3. big grins....

Questions:

If you could inherit a comfortable home in any city in the world what you could use but not sell, where would you want it to be? Thinking to my self this sounds like a time share pitch...I would choose Hawaii. They are always happy to see you, that have wonderful mountain, beautiful beaches and a uniqueness that we main landers don't have. yup...and it's warm.

If you could suddenly possess an extraordinary talent in one of the arts, what would you like it to be?

Maybe more later...

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 20, 2007 The Surprise test....
DATE: 02/20/2007 16:52:00
STATUS: publish
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Duck has officially said that he hates our doctor. He claims, mind you, claims that her sole purpose in life is to stick him with needles. He is now being tested for TB, so far it looks negative. I'm sure that it will amount to nothing. He is feeling better and I am ready for him to go back to work. We need him to financially.

Happy Birthday to K, sorry I couldn't do anything with or for you today since we are waiting on the results. We'll get together soon.

The BEEF: And I'm not talking about the cow. Duck and I have decided to do the cloth diapers as most or all of you know. NOW, I can't find the next size that I need and I'm being told that they no longer make them. SO, I am going to call Gerber tomorrow and see what the scoop is. I'm very frustrated and when we get our tax check I will be going and buying what stock they do have of the upper sizes. The new Wal-Mart doesn't even carry them.

The Question from the other day: IF you could change one thing in the world right now, what would you alter? - I would alter poverty. I know that there would be ramifications, such as the rich getting richer, but I think that if everyone had a fair shot, that they could at least afford the basic necessities such as basic house, food and a job where they don't have to worry about where their next dinner is going to come from or stress out money so much, I don't think that there would be as much violence. I know that you can't stop everyone from committing money based crimes, such as drug addicts which want the next fix, but I would try to help everyone.

Yesterday's Question: IF you could permanently alter one thing about your physical appearance, what would you change? - EASY - my weight, I would like to be a nice size 8/10.

Today's question: IF you could have stopped aging at any point in your life up to the present, how old would you want to remain? - Again, Easy - 25, the age I am now. I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care, right? NO, this is a decent age I'm happy and still young enough to do things.

Next Question: IF you could inherit a comfortable home in any city in the wold that you could use but not sell, where would you want it to be?

Well my 2 yr old is being, well 2. Hopefully more tomorrow!

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 18, 2007 Irritable....
DATE: 02/18/2007 20:51:16
STATUS: publish
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Today I was irritable. There are a million things that I want to get done, but I have NO motivation to do them. I have been increasingly tired lately, but can't see to sleep. Duck has provided no motivation to get them done or help me by either jumping in or watching the kids. Then when the kids are asleep I want to sleep also. All in all, I can't wait for him to go back to work. I can't keep the house clean with him here, he is worse than 2 two year olds combined. I still love him though.

I'm going to make this short and sweet, Smiley is awake and irritable....

The other day's question: If you could have any room in the world become your bedroom from now on, which room would you choose?

The answer is: I really don't know. I don't do anything besides sleep in my bedroom, I've seen some nice ones on Trading Spaces and in magazines, but I don't really know which one I would pin point. I guess I would just like a bedroom with a walk-in closet and a bathroom.

Today's question: IF you could change one thing in the world right now, what would you alter? Let me think of how to word this one.

I will ask another question today since I missed a day: IF you had to assassinate one famous person who is alive right now, who would it be, and how would you do it? Simple enough - Osama Bin Laden (SP) I would just present him to a group of people he is responsible for injuring or taking the life of a family member. That should do it.

Well I need to go, Sunshine is waiting to twirl my hair and Smiley is waiting to nurse himself to sleep for the 5th time tonight. I DARE ANYONE TO CALL OR WAKE THE BABY UP AGAIN!.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 17, 2007 And more white stuff again :(
DATE: 02/17/2007 20:43:41
STATUS: publish
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Today we started rearranging the upstairs. We are moving into the small bedroom and moving the boys into the big bedroom. Sunshine will start sleeping in his own bed in his own room. I don't feel that this is going to go well. I'm very attached to the idea of having him next to me. MC which will now be called Smiley - I'll explain later, will still be in our room. We have requested a couch and chair that a family was giving away on freecycle. This will be SUPER since I find it very uncomfortable and hard to nurse in bed. We will put the couch and or chair up stairs. We first have to dig out the truck to go and get it. I'm very excited, we will put them into the garage first and clean them in case the family has pets or smokes. Sunshine has taken to eating sugar out of the sugar bowl, now I have to put it further back since the stinker know how to use his step stool everywhere. Currently it is upstairs because he wanted to look out the window as we were cleaning.

It snowed again today...ARGHhhhhh, I don't like Indiana anymore. I can't wait for spring when I can open my windows during the day and let the fresh air come in and we don't have to pay a HUGE heating bill anymore.

Sunshine ran off with the "IF" book, so I will have to postpone it for today.

Okay, now to Smiley. This morning he decided that he wanted to nurse at 6:30, which was okay, he'd slept for 5.5 hours. So I get up, change him, nurse him for the whole whopping 5 minutes that he is interested before he falls asleep and unlatches. So I burp him, hoping to wake him up so I can get him to eat more and then get some more sleep. Nope, he burps and is still asleep. Okay, I think the myself, two hours of more sleep is better than nothing, so I lay him down. As soon as he hears the click of the strap (he still sleeps best in the swing), he wakes up, looks up at me and Smiles from ear to ear. Then he start laughing and kicking. Kinda like the picture I posted the other day. So I pick him back up and try to nurse him some more, he agrees and passes back out. So I burp him, and he still doesn't wake back up. Then yup, you know what I'm going to say, Click and smiles again. So this time I pick him back up, nurse him, burp him and lay him down with me. Don't get me wrong, I love the smile and the laughs, but I'm exhausted and if he is going to not eat and wake back up in 2 hours, I'd rather get a few more minutes of shut eye. He didn't object at all to being laid next to me, and doesn't wake up until Sunshine shrieks loudly. (happy) I'm going to have another child in my bed soon. Sunshine enjoys falling asleep with us, but upstairs, he seems almost proud to lay in his own bed like a big boy. And trust me, we make a big deal about it, telling him that he is a good boy and a big boy.

Okay, well it's late and I'm very very tired. I'm not getting enough rest as I constantly am waking up again. I do hope this passes, last time it took nearly 3 years to get over, and a lot of Prozac. No I'm not depress, just an insomniac.

By the way, my work out yesterday, WOW, I'm really feeling it. K - what time Mon afternoon would be good for you?

Have a wonderful day tomorrow everyone, and all who decide to travel, be safe. We are going to watch morning mass on the computer from Duck old church. Cheating??? Maybe, but then we don't have to worry about Sunshine making a scene or me nursing in front or behind hundreds of people. I still don't like the looks that I get when I'm doing the best and most natural thing for my child. For goodness sakes it's only a boob.

Katy

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AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 02/18/2007 09:14:24
I'm babysitting in the morning (just found out yesterday) and in the afternoon, Bethany has her 2 year check-up and Hannah has her 2 month check-up.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 16, 2007 Just another day of white stuff
DATE: 02/16/2007 19:31:46
STATUS: publish
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I went and worked out this morning with K. I had a great workout, I'm sore all over. Which means I did something right. Sunshine is sitting here helping my type, or he is trying to. I'm very happy with some of the progress he is making. He is saying a lot more and eating a lot more apples. He can't wait until his daddy if feeling better, he misses his horse. MC woke up with gunk in his eyes this morning, and he was pretty stuff when we got home. Just par for the weather.

Yesterday's question: "IF you could, in retrospect, change one thing about your childhood, what would it be? - I would change which parent raised me. I think that both my brother and I would both be more successful and in different places if we were raised by our dad. However I wouldn't be who I am today, or have the relationships with my friends/family that I have today if it weren't for how I was raised. That being said, I love my children and husband and wouldn't trade them for a medical degree any day of the week. I'm still young and Duck and I both plan on going to college to further our educations.

Today's question: "If you could have any room in the world become your bedroom from now on, which room would you choose?" Hummm...sounds like I need to find something out about others bedrooms. We just don't use our bedroom for anything besides sleep. Let's see what I can come up with.

Well I'm off to take a shower and get ready for bed. I'm really tired.

Good night and stay warm.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 15, 2007 The threat....
DATE: 02/15/2007 18:17:27
STATUS: publish
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There is one thing that I hate to do to my husband, and that is threaten him. Today I felt the need to do so. He went to the doctor this morning and came home with two expensive prescriptions. The doc told him it was walking pneumonia. DARN IT. He told me that she wanted to give him a shot in the office and have some blood drawn and a chest xray done. He refused the needles. She said that he couldn't work in a cold environment for 7 days. So since he works in a cold environment, they are more than likely going to send him home and he will ultimately be fired. We can't afford for him to stay home, but we certainly can't afford for him to be fired. I called her back to see if she could do FMLA papers for 3 days so he has a chance to recuperate and start to feel better. She said that she would only be able to do that if he went and got his blood drawn and an xray. So I told him he either goes in for the blood draw, stay home and get better or I was going to call his brother to come over and drag him to the doc on Monday, and they would put him in the hospital. (She also told him that if he wasn't better, he'd be in there Monday) And I told him that if he goes into the hospital it wouldn't be a matter of one or two needles, it would be a blood draw as soon as he got there, a permanent needle (Cath) in his arm for an IV and then a blood draw every day until he got out. So he decided that he would do it if I held his hand. I called the doc back and they sent the paperwork to the hospital.

He then informed me that there was a problem with one of the tires on the car. I went out and looked at it and I have NEVER seen a tire look like that. I may even take a picture to show you how incredibly bad it was. It looks like the belt had blown in at least 4 places. I refused to put the kids in the car, so I had to change the tire in 11 degree weather. BURRRRRR. Ha! I'm not completely a girly girl, but I still won't pluck a chicken. I will be taking the tire back to Walmart, I firmly believe that it is a defective tire and not a road hazard issue. Since we only got this on 9/30/06, they will replace it.

He did really well at the blood draw, she found a huge vain, had to wiggle the needle a little, but he looked away, held my hand and she drew it quickly. She told him to start breathing through his nose and out his mouth since his ears were turning red and he was about to pass out. She was GREAT. He thought she was still drawing, he didn't even realize she was done. He really did good, I'm so proud of him.

Yesterday's question: "IF you could dine alone with anyone form any period in history, which person would it be?" George Washington - I would tell him how screwed up things are now, and make suggestions that could be implemented during his time.

Today's question: "IF you could, in retrospect, change one thing about you childhood, what would it be?"

Okay, well I'm going to take care of my men and get the diapers on their second wash cycle.

Good night to all and stay warm.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 14, 2007 Valentine's Day.
DATE: 02/14/2007 18:32:49
STATUS: publish
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Well, not a lot going on here today. I boasted the other day that Duck and I don't get into arguments, and today we got into a little spat. He doesn't feel well, won't go to the doctor and I can't seem to get away from one child or the other without tears being shed for 15 or more minutes. Usually it comes with screaming as well. Anyhow, quick spat and it's over. He stayed home today, the car was stuck. I'm calling the doctor in the morning to see if we can possibly get him in. He has stopped running a fever, but he is now having problems breathing and significant chest pain.

I got bad news today on top of having a crappy day. My uncle has been diagnosed with brain cancer. I found out in April last year that he had prostate and lung. He did so well in fighting, but now it is in his brain and affecting his motor and process functions. I will pray for him everyday. My aunt is keeping good spirits, as much as one possibly can, but I pray for her also. Shortly after I got that call I realized that my cake had been in the oven for almost 2 hours and it still wasn't done. Thank goodness I got my lasagnas done earlier. My oven stopped working. I'm going to try to track down the part and pick it up tomorrow if it isn't too expensive. If so, it will wait until we get our tax check and I will use the slow cooker and bread maker for now.

Yesterday's question: "If you could alter one physical characteristic of your mate, what would you change?" I would alter his eyes to make him see better. He was born 3 weeks preemie and ended up having a near fatal reaction to his formula which, as the were told, had a huge impact on his vision. He can only see out of one eye, with limited vision. I would give him his full sight.

Today's question: "IF you could dine alone with anyone from any period in history which person would it be?"

Okay, I'm leaving you on a happy note, even though you will see it first. Here is a picture of MC. Sunshine tried to pick him up today twice, I'm glad but scared at the same time. I am keeping a more watchful eye.

PS: K - please remind me to send you pics if I forget to do so tomorrow.

Good night,

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 13, 2007 The white STUFF
DATE: 02/13/2007 18:20:55
STATUS: publish
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First I'd like to start out with the question from yesterday: "If you could have an elegant dinner alone with anyone presently alive, whether you know them or not, who would you want it to be?" Sappy as this may sound, my husband, but I don't want us to be alone. We don't so much without our children, however it would be nice to eat one meal that is hot without nursing first. That's the funny thing about babies. I'll start dinner and about 15 to 20 minutes left Duck will finish it. I will nurse MC and hope that he doesn't want to eat again until after I'm done. BUT it never fails, as soon as I bring him into the dining room he wakes up when he smells the food and wants to eat again. That's okay, this will pass.

Today's questions is a little touchy: "If you could alter one physical characteristic of your mate, what would you change?" OH BOY and right before Valentine's Day. Hum...I'll have to think about this one.

It sleeted since before this morning at 8 am until after 2 when the boys and I laid down for a nap. Now there is a lot of snow and they just let Duck go home early since the roads were bad. It is really bad here, Duck had to park by the garage and slid into that position.

I had Rice Soup and Grilled Cheese for dinner. It was good, I just put Soy Sauce in with it and it makes it DELICIOUS.

Anyhow Duck is home now, and we are going to settle into a nice warm (inside) evening.

Stay Warm!

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 12, 2007 By the way
DATE: 02/12/2007 17:43:26
STATUS: publish
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I had a WONDERFUL workout today with K, it was short, but a great workout. She picked up some new workout videos and they are great. I can't wait until Wednesday, if the snow isn't too deep. I will try to do Tae Bo tomorrow. Duck also brought in my ab thingy and I'm going to start doing my crunches. There was a part on the video today that I just couldn't do, even after she positioned me, I didn't get the work out that she said I was suppose to be getting. It must be a problem with the gravity...my mid and upper section not allowing me to properly lift my hips. Or just a first time...maybe I'll get it Wed.

K.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 12, 2007 More snow is on its way
DATE: 02/12/2007 17:38:59
STATUS: publish
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As I'm sitting here eating a Hostess Cupcake (yeah I know, what about the work out I did today...) I was thinking of my grandmother who is in a nursing home. I read a message from a fellow freecycler and it talked about how lonely it was in nursing homes. I need to go and see her again. I screwed up with Larry, it was always, I'll go see him tomorrow, well tomorrow came after he died on my birthday and the funeral was a few days later. That wasn't how I wanted to see him. I never got to tell him again that I loved him. He was a very close and dear friend's father. He treated me like his daughter. We all have our regrets about not seeing someone when we thought we didn't have the time.

Anyhow, back to the topic at hand...more crappy white stuff! Arggggghhhhhh. You know, when I was in school I would pray for snow every night before bed. When I was young I would wish for snow, and it would inevitably snow. When I was 6, the only thing that I wanted for Christmas was snow, and sure enough, on Christmas Day we got flurries....Did I mention that we were living in Tampa Bay, Florida? Yup it snowed. From that point on they threatened to send me to the Sierra Desert if I wished for it again. Well now, I HATE having to go out in it. I don't want it to snow anymore. Ever since my near death (like my life literally flashed before my eyes while the semi nearly ran over my car with both Sunshine and I in it) I hate it. I don't want it to snow. But then I hate the heat also. Humm...sounds like I need to quit complaining and go on with life. It could be worse, we could be living in Parish New York where they now have 11 feet of snow, yes I said feet. Well we are suppose to be getting between 7 and 11 inches tonight.

Yesterday's Question: "If you had to eliminate a single type of animal forevermore, which would you choose?" Answer: RODENTS - I'm not sure of what great significant they are to our world. They carry rabies and other nasty diseases. Weren't the once responsible for an outbreak of the plague? Bye, bye rodents. Wanna hear a story. Well it all starts with me sitting on the pot, yes I was using the potty and Duck walked in to ask me something or what not. Shortly after he opened the door, in runs this horrible little gray mouse and runs under the washer. What is one to do while sitting on the pot? I did what any other woman in my situation would do, I lifted my feet off the air and screamed that the top of my lungs. Yet again, another reason not to go to the potty with the lights out. Do you know the #1 reason? I was once watching this special on Rescue 911, a show that I used to watch when I was much younger. Anyhow, this little boy ran in to his mother and kept saying snake, and she didn't believe him. Finally she decided to show him that there wasn't a snake, and she went into the bathroom where he was leading her. He pointed at the toilet and she lifted, well guess what? There was a huge Boa coiled up in her toilet bowl. This was in fact a real event that actually happened. Someone in the apartment building had this huge snake and it got out. I slithered it's way into the toilet and through to several toilets in the building. It finally died after everyone had dumped so much Drano in the toilet to get the pipes unclogged. They had to rip out the woman's wall and pull it out of the plumbing. I NEVER go to the potty if I can't see what is going on. Ever notice that I have candles in my potty in case the power goes out? Yup!

Today's "IF" Question: "If you could have an elegant dinner alone with anyone presently alive, whether you know them or not, who would you want it to be?" Josh Lucas comes to mind....I'll let you know what I decide tomorrow.

It looks like tomorrow's question could get me into trouble....hum.

Well both boys are in bed, my doc canceled my appt for tomorrow, which SUCKS. Not to give you too much information, but Valentines Day is coming up and I was hoping to have Oh-LaLa for the 2nd time in 5 months, but guess not. BUMMER. Well now the kitty wants to go out, and I want to get the living room picked up and the dishes ran before I lay down. I may even try to catch a nice warm bath. Good night to all, and stay warm!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 11, 2007 Quiet....
DATE: 02/11/2007 13:29:01
STATUS: publish
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All three of my favorite men are asleep, one on the couch, one on a toddler mattress on the floor and one in the swing. Peace! I will blog and then straiten up the kitchen from lunch and get Dinner in the oven.

As for yesterday's question: If you could have lived through any war in history (without actually fighting in it), which would it be?........The civil war. As an American I believe that it was one of the most important wars in our history. We united all man, white, black, brown, orange and green to be created equally. Granted it took some time after that to get almost everyone on board, but we have some very profound black individuals in our world today...Colin Powell, Condalessa Rice and many others. We have the movie Glory which shows a portrayal of the war, and we have Remember the Titan which show how the hardships of joining black and whites in one school. We also have American History X, which if you have not seen it, I must warn you, it is very ummm...how do I put it? It is about a guy who was in a group for White Power and he went to prison and how it changed his life from hatred to understand the world around him. It IS NOT a movie that we watch when Sunshine is awake for it is a movie that I feel only adults should watch. It is eye opening at the hatred that still exists, but how people can change. Hummm...okay, well on to today's question.

"If you could eliminate any one type of insect permanently from the earth, what would you get rid of?" Well I already know my answer. The one insect beside a roach that I hate. And granted I never really grew up with roaches since my mother was a pest control tech most of my life, I pick the mosquito. They do so much harm....they bite you, suck your blood and leave this bump that itches. And if you are like me, you can't quit itching it and it becomes a scab and then you pick at it and it becomes a scar. They cause Parvo in dogs and now they are carries of the West Nile Virus. I would eliminate them completely. I often times wonder if they can carry and transmit the West Nile Virus, why the can't carry or transmit AIDS. Things that make me go....hum..... AIDS, now there is a disease along with Cancer that I'd want to get rid of. I'm sure that is a "IF" question down the road. I've never been effect or knowingly in contact with an AIDS or HIV patient, but I'm sure that it can effect a person/family just like cancer and I've had my fair share of that in my family.

So should I go to the next question??? Why not....

"IF you had to eliminate a single type of animal forevermore, which would you choose?" Assuming that they mean "type" as in species ie: feline, canine, etc. I'll have to think about this one.

Okay, well I'm off...more tomorrow.

By the way, anyone who reads this, I have a coupon off for $2.00 at Jiffy Lube that I can print or mail to you. Proceeds go to the La Leche League of Indiana. I person think that it is a wonderful group that offers support, guidance and a few ideas for nursing moms.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 10, 2007 Any place
DATE: 02/10/2007 12:56:08
STATUS: publish
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"If you could physically transport yourself to any place in the world at this moment, where would you go?" Humm... I still don't really know. I really am happy where I am, I wish it was about 73 degrees outside, but I'm happy here. Sorry I can't give a better answer.

Today's question: "If you could have lived through any war in history (without actually fighting in it), which would it be? Since I really don't like war, I will need to to think about this one hard.

Duck is finally starting to feel a little better. MC is doing better, at least he isn't as bad as he was. There isn't anything really new to say.

I did go to the bank today to close out an account that is never used. The girl came up and said, "Do you want a cashier's check or cash?" Well just cash, it was only about $160.00, she said now, it more than a thousand. HUH??? She must have had the wrong account. Yup! She did, she closed our main account, which also means that the mortgage check has not gone through yet. DARN it. So she went back and closed the right account and gave me cash, and then informed me that when she close out the main acct, it canceled our credit/debit cards. OMG! I could tell that she was ready for me to rip her apart, but heck, what can I do? I can take it calmly and say, hey, it was an accident or I can ruin her Saturday and mine by getting upset and yelling at her. We don't need to spend any money anyway, we have enough food, just gas, and we can get cash for that. Okay, well I need to get Sunshine, he's terrorizing the cat AGAIN. Poor kitty.

Maybe more later...maybe not.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 09, 2007 Good news and the visit...
DATE: 02/09/2007 16:34:36
STATUS: publish
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I rec'd good news tonight, I wish the two a lot of luck in minding wounds. And I was serious about the date night thing...just because you are married, doesn't mean that you can't have a date with your wife/husband. I will be here if either of you need someone to talk to. We love you guys!

And now the visit.....Have you ever had to visit the Social Security Office???? I think that being rude is a prerequisite for all government jobs. I mean, for crying out loud, how many times do I have to say that I haven't used my maiden name for more than 3 years now??? Did you not hear me the first 5 times I told you lady???? Okay, I feel a little better. I'm still having to hyphenate my name, they couldn't change it since I didn't have any documentation showing my birth date and maiden name together. What a crock of CRAP. I have an IN state Driver License, I have doctor's bills in my new name and the most important document of all.....my marriage license. OHHHHHHHHHFFFFFFFFFFF. I'm very frustrated. Then after I had already called to find out how it was going to work to get MC's SSN, apparently everything the lady told me on the phone was a lie! The lady behind the counter even had the nerve to ask me what the rush was for getting his SSN....I told her that we wanted to file our taxes an needed his number in order to claim him. Then she told me that we couldn't claim him since he was born in 2006. Uh...yes we can...HELLO? Then she precede to tell me that had until April 14th to file, DUH! I told her that when you are getting money back, you don't wait till the last minute. IT WASN'T ANY OF HER FREAKING BUSINESS. So now we have to wait 4-6 weeks to file. This has been a disaster, considering the health department didn't even have him on file.

Call of the wild, thanks for listening!

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 09, 2007 Humm.....
DATE: 02/09/2007 10:27:22
STATUS: publish
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Well yesterday I learned to not speed read something that was potentially a hate letter.

Today I went up to put the clothes away and saw the my darling cat has puked all over the play room...yuck. Guess what I'll be doing when Sunshine takes a nap and Duck is home.

The last "IF" question...."If you could spend one whole night alone with anyone in the world who is currently alive, who would you select?" - Well, I've put a lot of though into this question and my answer is very controversial. I get to spend just about every night alone with my family who I love and enjoy spending every night alone with. But I think that I would spend the night alone with Osama Bin Laden. Now before you "X" off my page, here are my reasons. First I would try to make the man understand that he isn't doing God's work, killing innocent people in wake of his cause is wrong and goes against the Bible and God. Number 2, if I were to spend the night alone with him, guess what, we'd know where he was and he could be arrested in the morning, or in the night I don't care. Perhaps if his group didn't have a leader the would disband, or at least hopefully.

No since I misses a day I will ask and state yesterday's question/today's answer.

"If you could spend one whole night alone with anyone in history, who would you choose?" Well that's easy, I'd choose Jesus, no question about that one.

Today's questions: "If you could physically transport yourself to any place in the world at this moment, where would you go?" Some place warm comes to mind, but I think the questions is due more thought than that. I'll give my answer tomorrow.

I haven't been able to exercise with my friend all week and part of last week...I'm bummed. I want to loose weight, but I need motivation. I think I will bring my prom dress down and hang it on the front door. Seeing it all the time will motivate me to eat less, drink more water and exercise more.

I'm going to start making a list of things that need to be done around the house that I don't know how to do or can't do. Like the toilet tank needs to be fixed. My goal is to get one thing done a week or should I say Duck to get one thing done a week. I am going to keep the house us and start to move our bedroom to the small one and the toys and kids stuff to the big one.

Well Sunshine is hungry and the baby is starting to fuss...gotta go, at least for now.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 07, 2007 And the answer is....
DATE: 02/07/2007 10:38:01
STATUS: publish
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Okay, so I've had about a day to think of the answer and....of course the obvious win the lottery popped in my head first, but I thought it deserved more thought than that. If I was to be granted one wish it would be that Duck and are a good enough parents to raise children that make a difference in the world while leading a good life. I guess that's every parents wish, but that is what I would wish for other than the lottery.

Tomorrow's question: If you could spend one whole night alone with anyone in the world who is currently alive, who would you select? Oh the possibilities...

I've folded all the laundry besides what is in the dryer and I'm going to wash the table clothes today. I also need to touch up the kitchen, it's fairly good, but I still need to de-clutter the counter. That is my project for today, de-clutter the counters in the kitchen and the top of the refrigerator.

Has everyone who reads this seen The Village by M.N. Shamalan? If you haven't, I recommend it. Granted it isn't the best movie I've ever seen, but if I could live like that for the sake of my children I would. I just can't pluck and kill the chickens...it may come to me some day, but certainly not today.

I spoke to Dad today, he said something about visiting us...I'd love it! As long as long as he'd let me cook. I'm sure that the kids would love to see him also. I get kinda bored here all day by myself with the kids and doing the house work. I miss some of the social interaction that I used to get. But until I am better about keeping my house clean, I don't want regular company. I'm working on it.

Duck is still running a fever, but it down around 99-100 area. MC is sick still, very congested and doesn't seem to get much better. Going to call the doc tomorrow if he isn't any better at all. Duck is going to the SSA office to get the SS number for MC tomorrow. I have to get the BC today.

Well I think that's all my news for now, I'm going to finish my de-clutter session and try to do some sit-ups today. If I get the notion later I may do some Tae Bo, I really need to. I'm tired of this excess flab hanging off my bones. Duck and I have made the agreement that if I lose 50 lbs, I can cut my hair off, and he won't say a word. I can't wait, I'm going to be this side of bald! Okay well I guess I better get up and do it. I'm also going to start keeping track of everything at fitday.com. It is a free website that will track things for you and help you decide what and where you need to do more or less.

Perhaps more later, stay warm.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 06, 2007 Family Decisions
DATE: 02/06/2007 11:07:21
STATUS: publish
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I feel bad that I have not been able to exercise with my exercise partner, MC is just so congested and it isn't fair to him to keep taking him in and out in this horrible weather. It is snowing so hard right now I can hardly see my neighbors house. The accumulation is just amazing. The truck has also had problems running the past few days, okay let me reword that, it hasn't been running the past few days. Duck has been driving the car to work, it makes me feel better with him doing that anyway. Not sure why. Duck is still sick, he was running a 102.1 last night. He still doesn't want to go to the doctor, I'll ask him again today. Sunshine did really well at his DT appt today. My house is picked up and my floors have been spot cleaned. I will go over them real good the next warmer day we have. Probably next week. I need to mop the kitchen floor and run the dishes, do a load of laundry, fold the laundry and clean the bathroom, sounds like a lot, but it is really only about an hours worth of work.

I found my favorite book today while I was looking at the book shelf. (imagine that a book on the book shelf) It's called "If..." so every day I am going to post an If question and think about it before I blog the answer. "If you were granted one wish, what would it be?" Humm...oh the possibilities.

I spoke with T last night and the news wasn't as good as I had hoped for. He did make a good point about himself though....he must start putting the children first. As a parent it is hard (for most, easy for us) to put the children first everytime. We have some close friends (K&G) whom we feel, feel the same way as we do. Yes I said feel twice, read it again if it didn't make sense. We are always thinking of our children first, granted the whole world can't revolve around them, they can't get everything that they want all the time, but it is important to us that we give them what they need when they need it. It isn't about always giving them what they want. He also brought up another good point that made me think about Jo. We were going to adopt him, and it think it may have been a mistake had we actually been able to go through with it. Don't get me wrong, I loved Jo and I would've done anything I could have for him, but would I have been as fair to him as I am to Sunshine. Would I have given him the same amount of love and time. Would I have felt that the same love for a child that isn't mine biologically. The answers are, we will never know. I loved him, but life would have been so much different. He would have been better in our home by far, but our hands are tied. I even went to DFC to see if I could at least get him placed in a better home, but they wouldn't do anything since I wasn't in the right county, even with a letter from his guardian/step-grandfather saying that he couldn't parent the kids. I pray for him all the time, and I do think about him all the time. I wish that we had the money to fight, but I'm not sure how it would all work out in the end. I think he would have a better shot at life if he lived with us and that we would show him more love than he has ever been shown. Unless someone can catch him before he falls too far, he is going to wind up one of those statistics that turn out bad. Unfortunately, I see him winding up in jail for a heinous crime that he commits. The best I feel that I can do is pray for him everyday. Maybe this is something that Duck and I should really sit down and have a heart to heart about.

Stay warm,
Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 05, 2007 Early morning
DATE: 02/05/2007 06:27:59
STATUS: publish
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MC woke up at 4 am and wanted to nurse, then he wanted to play. He was all smiles and coo's for about two hours. Meanwhile, Duck was getting ready for work. I made his lunch and gave him some medicine to take to help him get through the day. He was running a 101. I gave him the option to stay home and go to the doctor, but that would mean that he was going to more than likely have to go to the hospital for an chest x-ray and some blood work. He went to work. I'll see how he feels this afternoon, and he will decide if he needs to go to the doctor or not. She's been pretty busy, so I may either have to take him to a well center or the hospital. It will probably end up being the well check place since it is a cheaper co-pay.

Well I saw that the Colts won last night, that's good. I'm sure that a lot of people had blue fever today. Schools were delayed, partly because of the weather and partly because they felt that children needed to rest in since most people probably watched the Super Bowl. I'm not sure if they total cancelled, I haven't heard the buses go by today.

Well it's off to clean my house, take care of the kids, shampoo the carpets, run the load of diapers, fold the 10 loads of laundry loitering on my kitchen table, run the dishes and do a through clean of the kitchen which has been neglected lately. I know, I know, that is the one place that shouldn't be neglected. Don't worry, it isn't as gross as it sounds, I just need to scrub down the stove and do the floor.

By for now....

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 04, 2007 Still here.
DATE: 02/04/2007 18:00:27
STATUS: publish
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Duck still has a fever, but he must go to work tomorrow. He's now out of points again and can't miss any work. We need the money anyhow. I feel sorry for him, but I continue to re-iterate that he needs to wash his hands before touching his mouth, nose or eyes. This is the result! He says that everyone at work is real sick. MC is more congested today. I've cancelled my exercise date tomorrow, I will do Tae Bo here and clean the house, it's a mess. It is suppose to be really cold and I don't want to take either one of my asthmatic children out in this weather unless I really have to. Sunshine has an appt on the 8th that I may try to reschedule for the following week so Duck can go with me.

Colts - Okay, I'm not a huge fan of sports, but this is a once in a long time event for Indiana. Since I used to live up north and I've met a lot of the players for Indiana, I feel a little more connected than I want to. They are really nice guys. For example, Rick Smits, yes I know he plays for the Pacers or did, he is a family man. He would come into BK all the time with his daughter and son. He drove a purple PT Cruiser and literally had to sit in the back seat. He would also come in at night with his buddies after they had been dirty biking and 4-wheeling. They would be covered in mud and always nice as could be. I guess that goes with the philosophy of, never make the person who is handling you food upset. But they were really nice guys. So, I'm keeping tabs on indychannel.com. 19/14 Colts are up. I do hope that they win!

Ebay - I'm bidding on some breast pads that are washable,I'm tired of throwing the disposable ones away, they cost so much money. I figure if I can get them for the same price I don't have to drive the 45 minutes to get them. Good foreme, if not, I'll be taking a ytrip this weeknd to the southside, since PA doesn't have them anymore. I also need to get one moe thing of diapers, I'd like to have 36, but I will live with 24 for now, I want to get the liners before getting another package.

Well Sunshine wants to see Bob the Builder website, so I must go, he's been good today.

Prayers for T that he makes the right decision for himself and his family in his conquest to search for the truth of life. We love you.

Good night,

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 03, 2007 Marriage...the....
DATE: 02/03/2007 20:16:48
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sacred bond between two individuals who love each other. A bond not to be entered into lightly, a bond that for most doesn't last forever, but for all should. Today I heard from a very distraught friend, whom I consider more of a brother than my own, I consider him more of an important family member than my own mother. He and his wife had a blow out and she left. And though I was shocked and amazed by some of the few details that he gave me, my heart breaks for him. He still loves her, but is so hurt by words and now seems confused. Again, this is just he point of view of one, but I hope that things can be worked out. It is very tough being young and married with children. I was recounting the fights that Duck and I have had, and I must say that I can only count two that were major, one over a cat and the other over race. Don't get me wrong, we have our disagreements, but they are usually in the heat of the moment and don't last more than 2 or 3 minutes. I hate it when we get into a spat in front of Sunshine though, he starts yelling at us, even though we don't know what he is saying. We both try to keep our cool, our voices lower, try not to swear and far most we don't say anything that we don't mean. It is too heard to take it back. I remember growing up, when Jimmy and my mom would fight, it was awful and I never want my kids to go through that. C and I would lay in our beds listening to the fight, the screaming, crying and threats of him throwing her out the window. I would lay there crying, waiting to hear the glass shatter and praying that she would make this the last time we were subjected to hearing another fight. After all, we couldn't understand why two people who fought all the time would stay together, and to this day I can't believe they are still together. I look at it like this, they are saving two other people in this world from misery. I hate to sound negative, I just feel how I feel. I remember one time when I was in Kindergarten, they got into a huge blow out. You see when we lived in Florida he was ALWAYS drunk, later in the years we found out that there was a huge crank and crack problem as well. Anyhow, she threw him out and we ran around the house trying to lock all the windows, well when we realized that we forgot the bathroom window, we ran in there, only to find him looking in. I will never forget his face, it haunts me to this day. That night at some point, a bullet was fired through the stop sign outside our house. C and I believe it was the end of our mother. The next morning when I went to school I apparently told my teacher and she called DFC. DFC made it to our house the day that we were ready to leave FL for Evansville, and they didn't take us kids. I remember speaking to the guy who came out, he asked if we wanted to be taken away from our parents. Number one, what child wants to be taken from it's mother, number two, why would he put it that way? We left FL and I've never been back. My mother was never really around when we were growing up, she was always working longs hours because Jimmy wouldn't work. Granted he was partial disabled due to the fact that he had a hearing problem corrected by hearing aids, and a bum knee from an DD accident. He could walk and there was no reason that he couldn't work. It just interfered with his porn too much. Perhaps the fact that my mother was never around is why I'm so involved with my children. Sunshine has only spent 1 night away from us, and that was only out of need/want for Duck to be at the birth of Christian. I try my best to do everything that I can with my children, I don't want to be the absent mom. I didn't have them to pawn them off on everyone else. After all that has happened to me in my childhood, I refuse to let it make me a victim, I want it to make me stronger, to make me a better person and a better parent. I want my kids to know that I will do my absolute best to protect them, to listen to them when they say something has happened to them, that I love them will all my heart. Anyhow I know that this was a little deep, I'm just blessed that Duck and I have never really gotten into the position that several of our friends and families have. Perhaps he is my true sole mate, that we were meant to be together. I am a very bless and fortunate woman, wife and mother. He may not be a doctor, rich, a model or a genius, but he is the best man that I could have ever married. I hope and wish that everyone were as luck as we are. We just need to make sure that if we are going to disagree, we do it not in front of our children. It is okay for children to sometimes see an small disagreement, but not a shouting match, that only frightens kids and believe me, it hurts them as much as it hurts the two fighting. Kids do not need to see it, or hear it if at all possible. It is till death does us part...I can't see myself finding another man that will every make me as happy as Duck has.

Love, prayers to all...good night

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: February 02, 2007 The sicklies....
DATE: 02/02/2007 18:35:07
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Well, it has been sickly around our house. MC has got a sever case of congestion AGAIN! Breathing treatments every 4 hours, decongestant drops and lots of sucking out the nose and nursing. Duck has had a 102 for the past 2 days, I told him to stay in bed. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I can't get enough to eat. I'm having to literally stop myself from going back for more, it's like I'm starving all the time. I think it's my time of the month, that would certainly explain a lot. My house has been neglected lately, although not a complete mess, messy enough that I would be embarrassed if someone showed up unexpected. I found out that the load from the hospital computer didn't take and MC's social security card has never been processed. So...I am going to have to go to the Health Department and get the Birth Certificate, then to the Social Security Office and file for the card. It will take 7-10 days to get here, but we can go the next day and get the number if we are ready to file taxes.

I found a patter that I printed out from the internet today to make my own diapers. I am so excited....crazy huh? I want to make changing the diaper easier, even if I spend 3 hours making the diaper to begin with. What else do I have to do. I can work on one a day for a month, then I'll have enough. Hopefully Monday MC is feeling better so I can exercise with my partner. I have re-evaluated my weight and decided that I want to lose 100, no that doesn't mean that I have gained. I just want to be at a lower weight, actually I don't care what weight I am at as long as I can get into my close again that I was wearing when I was 18. And no, they aren't the typical "18 year old" clothes, all my suits and really nice outfit, including my prom dress I wore when I was 18. Sunshine has done NOTHING but TEST me, and I am determined not to lose my cool about it, he is NOT going to WIN, I AM. Okay I feel better. Anyhow, I need to get the clothes changed over, I plan to clean most of the day tomorrow and then sit down and make up a weekly/monthly chart of things that I need to make sure are done, like dusting the very dusty fan blades. I'm also going to see what I can include Sunshine in doing to help. He loves to be with me and to help, so why not! If I make house work fun at a young age, maybe he will not have the same opinion as I do about it. I certainly hope that's what happens. Okay, he's wanting me to play with him since he took a 5 hour nap, he's going to be up all night. I don't want to interfere with him sleeping if he is coming down with what his dad has.

Good night to all!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 31, 2007 Fussy day
DATE: 01/31/2007 15:33:08
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Sunshine woke up around 6 am. AGAIN. I don't think I'm going to sleep again until they are teenagers. Maybe Duck will let me sleep in on Sat, or at least take Sunshine upstairs with him. We are going to re-arrange the two bedrooms. We are going to put the boys in the master bedroom and put us in the small bedroom. "Why" do you ask??? Because kids need more room than adults. We only sleep in our room. We dress in the bathroom usually, we just don't use a bedroom for much other than sleep. Anyhow, Sunshine was very cranky this morning and I didn't feel like fighting with him at K's house during the workout, so I rescheduled for this afternoon. Well, I got through the first part of the video, then MC cried and I fed him. And Sunshine was crying outside the door. Call me a sucker, but I can't stand to hear a child cry, it breaks my heart. Sometimes I think he knows that, but he was really upset. He is a VERY clingy child and that's okay with me for now, he's only 2.5. We did Yoga today because I have starting to bleed after Tae Bo. At first I just thought it was a fluke, but it's happening every time. I may try to do it this weekend and see if there is a problem still, if so I'll call the doc on Monday. I've gotta loose this weight! It would be sooo much easier if it was Spring, then I could walk with MC and Sunshine to the park and walk around while Sunshine plays. We'll see what happens! I'm going to start doing sit-ups gradually. I think I will start out at 50 3 times a day and then work my way up from there. 50 4times a day, then 5, then 75 5 times a day and so on. I'm also going to start climbing the stairs more often. Every time I need to go up there, I will just go. After every load folded, I'll go immediately up and put the clothes away, this will help me keep my laundry caught up and burn a few calories as well. Anyhow, dinner needs to be stirred and some more put on. More tomorrow.

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 30, 2007 Shots
DATE: 01/30/2007 18:35:29
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Today MC got his first set of shots. Sunshine went with us for a follow up on his ears and to evaluate the dry patch on his knee. He got a script which I will fill as soon as I find out whether or not it is the same as what I had. If it is, it will be okay to use for him. MC didn't really like the shot process, but the nurses worked together and they gave them at the same time. Nothing new is really going on, I'm just VERY tired and mentally exhausted. MC has cried out several times tonight, so I assume tonight will be rough. I'll see if I can walk strait in the morning. Sunshine said the word "stuck" today, it was cute. He has also started bonding with his brother. It is very relieving to experience. Okay, well I'm kinda blah today, perhaps more tomorrow. I officially don't work at TE anymore, her full time person got fired last Monday and she is without anyone. But I don't have daycare that I can afford and don't feel the need to burden our friends with two more children. She said that she may have me come in part time when Duck is on nights, lets see what happens. MC won't drink from a bottle.

Night, K.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 28, 2007 $1.81 and cloth diapers
DATE: 01/28/2007 09:12:56
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Yesterday we went to K & G's so I could do Tae Bo with her, we then did Yoga and Duck and G went to see their other house. Sunshine was a menace while they were gone, pushing B and being unruly. I don't know what has gotten into him. He has started grabbing people by the throat, ie. pushing B over in such a way. I'm against spanking every time, but next time and there after I feel it may warrant such a punishment. I hate to do it, but I see no other way at this point. I don't know where he got that from, but I will certainly be watching him a lot more closely while at play with other children. Often times he plays off in his own little area and uses the "defense" tactics when other children approach, as if he feels like they are going to take his toys. They don't even have to take his toys, they just need approach and it seems as if he feel threatened. Again, I don't know where he got that from except perhaps daycare, which he doesn't attend anymore. I will also try to make it a point to play with him and other children. At least he isn't biting. Okay so to the $1.81. That's how much I spent on gas yesterday. I had a ton of errands to run after the workout session, and Sunshine was sooo hungry and tired it made it completely unbearable to get his hair cut. So we went to get a quick bite, and he feel asleep as soon as we pulled up to the restaurant. So we grabbed a quick bite and went to Big Lots to get some more rubbers for the baby diapers. Luckily they had them, but they only went up to size small. I'll have to find the Mediums for the next level. For now I'm set, and since he is still pretty small I'm not going to go by the weight limits on the packages. So then it was off to Kroger where they had a bunch of the 10/10 sales. We picked up about $74.00 worth of food for about $37.00. And that put us over the $100.00 mark for .10 cents off per gallon of gas. What luck, I was on "E". So we went over and payed $1.81 per gallon. Down the street it was $2.09. Duck was so proud. So then we stopped and got Sunshine a bite to eat and headed home, he was so hungry he could've eaten more. Since we had Turkey Dinner for G's birthday Friday I was going to make Turkey soup out of the rest of the Turkey, and so I started that LONG process. It took about 4 hours but I was done finally around 9. And let's say, I HORRIBLY messed that up! I put (6) 16 oz glasses of uncooked rice in the pot. OOPS...that was way too much. I now have no room in my deep freezer at all, and i have 4 lbs of meat out to make lasagna. So for the next month I will be eating Rice with a little bit of turkey soup for lunch. Last night we started using the cloth diapers. I have 24, so I think I'll be washing them ever day, which is a good thing this I don't exactly have a stink free pail thing, nor do I have the room. If they work out very well, which I think they may and don't really have much of a choice, I will buy more with our tax check. Well I need to get up and get the kitchen cleaned, it isn't really all that dirty just cluttered and I want to get everything done so I don't have to do so much tomorrow since we are going to work out again. Until next time...

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 26, 2007 4 kids and I still have my sanity
DATE: 01/26/2007 18:17:51
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I must admit, I wasn't too sure about today. I had K's boy C (4) and middle daughter B (almost 2), Sunshine and MC today. I was very amazed that I got as much done as I did. I folded 6 loads of laundry, washed about 3, cleaned the kitchen. Duck helped with the dining room and the table. It was G's birthday, and we had a turkey dinner with chocolate cake for desert....yummy! A salad would have topped it off, but I didn't have the supplies. The kids were good, typical grabbing, pushing thing on all three sides. It was cute to hear B say, "go away" when the boys would hassle her. I did my absolute best to make sure that she didn't over wet herself. I changed her very often, and I think that may be part of the reason that we nearly ran out of diapers, I washed three of them to make sure we were going to make it through dinner. It was all great in my opinion. Thanks to G for cutting the turkey, Duck and I are chicken! I will use the rest for Turkey soup tomorrow or Sunday. It should turn out great. I got to use my pretty new table clothes that I got for Christmas for Dad and D. It looked great! Well Sunshine and MC are both asleep, it is 9:30 and Duck is in the garage so I going to curl up on the couch to a movie and pass out, just as soon as I put the Turkey carcass away for tomorrow. Too tired to deal with it tonight. Okay....well good night to all!

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 25, 2007 A long week
DATE: 01/25/2007 10:18:49
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Tuesday I had an 8:30 am appt with K to do Tae Bo. I over did it on some parts and under did it on other. And MC ate in the mean time. It was fun, and we are doing it again at 3:00 today, I think. Then I ran home, didn't have time to shower, but I had taken one the night before, and ran to the doctor. I forgot that my appt was at 10:45 instead of 11:00. No matter, he was running 2 hours behind anyhow. He got through all the patients pretty quickly and I only ended up waiting about 30 minutes. Then he set me up for the IUD. There I was vulnerable, and all the sudden I hear (click, click, click). He was messing with hemostats. Then the next thing I know...OUCH. I have NEVER felt a pain like that there. I haven't decided if it was the hemostats or an injection of Novocaine. I started to feel a warmth come over me, and then I could taste the medicine in my mouth. I felt two more "warmth's" come over me and then all the sudden...>WHOA NELLY. My uterus started contracting and I was having flash backs of when I was in labor with Sunshine. He then told me that he had to dilate my uterus to put it in. All in all, I'm glad that I won't have to worry about birth control for the next 5 years, but I think I would have rather had my wisdom's pulled out without the Novocain while I was awake. On the final note he asked me if I had any pain killers left from the c-section. And I said yes, I had only taken 1. He said, "Great, if you need more just give me a call!" OH BOY, this doesn't sound good. Thank goodness the only pain killer I have had to take was Motrin for my soar throat. It was really bad yesterday, so I started the antibiotic and I'm going to gargle with salt water and take Motrin as needed for pain.

Yesterday I went shopping with K after the non-LLL meeting. We had a blast, well at least I did. I got way more stuff than she did, but I won't need half as much next month. I hope to have Sunshine potty trained by then, and we won't need the 25 lbs of flour, rice or the 50 lbs. of potatoes. Duck was set back by the amt of stuff I got, he thought I had spent a fortune, it was only around $135.00 and that includes the pull-ups. Sunshine stayed with G yesterday, he was passed out when I picked him up. I could tell that he missed me though, when we got home Duck came and got him out of the car since he was shoeless and still groggy. He cried at the door until I got MC out of the car and came in. He just wanted to be held for the next hour or so. So his 10 min nap put him in bed around 9....HALLELUJAH. We stopped at Olive Garden and had a great lunch and fun harassing the waitress...she took it in great humor. We also go several compliment on our babies and just about everyone stopped and looked at them...one of the joys of being a mom. We also had a few people ask us if we were sisters or related...which was a compliment to me at least. I didn't however like the look that we got at Sam's for the employees while we were sitting there feeding out babies. It isn't like we were walking around topless, and we weren't showing our selves. I just try to let things like that roll off my shoulders, they have no idea how much we are doing for our babies. Oh, well...

I'm in the middle of making 3 batches of banana bread, then I'll make one apple, two pumpkin and one peanut butter...a new one for us. I've burnt up my good mixer though, so I'll see if we can swing a new one, the back up one is a cheap one and I'm sure it won't last very long. They also sent us a new carpet cleaner, guess the motor was too bad on the other one. Duck is going to clean the upstairs so MC can try to sleep up there. We are also going to play some soft music. Okay, well I need to go, I think I burnt the first batch of bread, or I got it too dark, Sunshine and I will love it!

Katy.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 22, 2007 Oh what a day!
DATE: 01/22/2007 18:46:04
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MC was upset and crying/fussy between like 12ish and 4:30 ish. I thought I might pull my hair out. He was so tired and I'd nurse him, he'd fall asleep and then I'd lay him down. He'd either wake up on his own and realize that I'm not there or Sunshine would run through the house screaming (playing) and wake him up. So I'd nurse him again. I would've used the sling, but I was washing dishes by hand, and cooking and cutting things....not a very good idea to have him in a sling when I'm doing such things. Tomorrow I'm going to start doing Tae Bo with K, I hope that she has a DVD player...yup she does. Well MC is asleep, and Sunshine is watching a movie, so I'm going to finish the laundry up and mop the kitchen and bathroom floor. I want to be in bed within the hour and MC needs a bath still. I will pick Sunshine up tomorrow after my appt and come strait home to vacuum and clean off Duck's desk. I also want to dust the living room if I don't get to it tonight.

Wish my luck with tomorrow...80 lbs. to lose. AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE LOST.

K~

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 22, 2007 The $1.35 lunch
DATE: 01/22/2007 09:53:26
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WOW, that's all lunch cost for Sunshine and I today. I made a HUGE pot of chicken noodle soup. And I must say it is bland, but very good. We had grilled cheese with it and Sunshine had peanut butter and crackers and we both had juice. Good lunch for only $1.35. Cha-ching. Okay, just wanted to gloat a little..gotta go for now, perhaps more later if time permits. I have so much to do since I'll have people over all day tomorrow in the afternoon and I have an exercise date at 8:30 am.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 21, 2007 And the snow has arrived
DATE: 01/21/2007 19:04:00
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It finally looks like winter in Indiana or at least where we are. We got about 2 inches or so of snow. Duck went out once today, but the rest of us stayed cozy in the house. I cooked chicken breast for lunch today, we shared one, didn't even eat the whole thing. I used the left over and other 3 halves to start my soup. I boiled the bones, but I'm bummed that I didn't get to finish it. I have to wait for the fat to harden on top so I can scrap it off. I was hoping to be able to finish it today and do the turkey tomorrow. We put the turkey in the freezer and I'll probably take it back out tomorrow to thaw. Yes our fridge is really small, just this side of a camper fridge, maybe a little bigger. Tonight I'm going to re-arrange the living room and try to do some power cleaning. MC just went down and Sunshine is still up since he took a late nap. I'm going to get him back up at 8 tomorrow at the latest. Since he has been saying so many new words this weekend we are going to go to the next letter of the alphabet and go around the house and name everything we can find. Okay, well I'm going to go clean so I can put sunshine to bed and go to sleep myself. 3 quick things:

Last night I tried to go to bed upstairs with Duck, that didn't last because MC just cried and cried. In the little time we were up there, MC was in his crib and Sunshine was in his toddler bed. He had his Chicken Elmo, one button does the chicken dance and the other goes "bauck bauck bauck" while Elmo's head rolls around in a circle. He'd hit the button and listen and then say, "I know", and again, and again and so on. We were laughing so hard.

Today he kept asking Duck, "Why, Why, Why, WHY" it was adorable, I know that I will only think that for a while.

After his nap today Duck was holding MC and asked Sunshine if he loved the baby he said, "no, no, no". Then he asked him if he wanted to kiss the baby and again he said, "no, no, no". He then told him that mommy and daddy loved the baby and he didn't say anything else. He then asked him again if he loved the baby and he said, "no, no, no". I certainly hope this isn't a sign of things to come! I know that he will love his brother, especially when he can play with him.

Good night,

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 20, 2007 Our journey to Walley World
DATE: 01/20/2007 17:35:27
STATUS: publish
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Today we went to WalMart after Duck got off of work. I wanted to pick up a stock pot....YIPEEE I finally got one! I'm very excited. I'm going to make Chicken noodle soup and Turkey Rice Soup...It's going to be GREAT!... I'm going to go shopping with K on Wednesday. The two of us and the babies. It's going to be fun, educational and adult! I'm also going to make up 6 lasagnas and 6 meat loafs. This is going to be great, it is going to cost us about $135.00 next month for groceries, granted I have most of it here so I will have some extra money when the sales hit. I know that we are always going to use certain things like cheese etc. We also got cloth diapers. I called ahead to make sure they had the plastics to go over them and she said yes they did. Next time I will know better, ask if they have a particular size. The smallest they had was 18 months. I guess I will have to go to Big Lots. I don't know what else I am going to do if I can't find them in his size.

Okay, going to watch a movie with my hubby, relax and get ready for tomorrow. A day of cooking!

Night!

Katy

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AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 01/21/2007 07:55:26
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 19, 2007 More of today
DATE: 01/19/2007 19:51:16
STATUS: publish
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Duck just headed off to bed. I'm so proud of him. If it weren't for his hard work (50 + hours a week) I would not beable to stay at home with our children. He is working a ton of overtime...granted he hates it, grumbles all the time, but the money is coming greatly in handy. I will wait to find a part time job until after he is done with the overtime. It doesn't make sense to me to work at a job making 6 dollars an hour when he is making nearly 3 times that much. I'm preparing a shopping list for February's groceries. Some things at Aldi, Sams, Walmart and the rest at either Save-A-Lot or as they come on sale at Kroger or IGA. I watch the ads very closely and since Duck don't work far from Kroger he can stop and pick some things up. He will also pick up all the bread that we need in 6 loaf increments since I don't have enough room in the deep freezer. I am also going to see if I can pick apart K's brain to get some recipes and tips. She has no idea how much she has helped me. She is like a angel from God. It is amazing how we met...have I told everyone the story??? We belong to this group called freecycle.org. It is a wonderful group of people who offer things that they no longer need or want to everyone. They pick who they want to give them to and so on. We have rec'd several things of use from there including clothing and a pool table. We have also given a ton of stuff away. Anyhow she posted a message on there and I got curious. When I worked at SRI in Indy I worked with a lady by the same name. She was in her mid-40's and could never get pregnant. I felt really sorry for her, because you can tell that she would have always been a good mother. Anyhow, before I left, she became pregnant and I wondered if it was her. It took me writing and canceling several emails to finally decide to hit the send button. I thought, what the heck, she'll either be the same person or she'll think that I'm a psychotic freak who is stalking her. I'm not sure if she thinks I'm psychotic, but she isn't the same person. Some how we got on the topic of breast feeding and babies and found out that we were due a week apart. I started asking questions about breastfeeding since I really wanted to succeed with MC. She was very helpful and then she gave me many more ideas. Such as saving money by going to cloth diapers, planned meals and shopping on a strict budget. Although she will never turn me onto the idea of slaughtering chickens or eating opossum. Sorry K! She met my Dad when MC and I were in the hospital and seemed to spark an interest in him also. He made a few comments about her and has asked how she has been doing and about the baby. She is the only person that we have trusted with our Sunshine to stay over night. Like I said she is an angel. Without her pearls of wisdom I would have never been able to stay at home as a stay at home mom/wife. Thank you...sorry if you need a tissue...I just appreciate all that you have done for me and my family. We will forever be indebted to you.

Okay, I need to go Sunshine wants to play with me.

Love to all and God Bless!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 19, 2007 Today...
DATE: 01/19/2007 18:09:23
STATUS: publish
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was pretty lazy, I fold some clothes, emptied the dish washer and made meals for us. I was hoping to go to the store today, but Duck ran a friend home to Paris. He was here to pick up the stove and help with the car. Good news we hope...it's the coil packs or at least he thinks. I picked up my script today for the breast infection. I don't think that I have an infection anymore, but I am going to take it. Both ears hurt and my throat is very raw. Par for the course since I live in Indiana. We went to the store today and got some sale items. We did very well. I am going to make Chicken Noodle Soup instead of buying Aldi's. I'll let you all know how it goes. We did eat out tonight and spent nearly $20.00 OUCH...

more later if I can

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 18, 2007 Where's my mind at???
DATE: 01/18/2007 15:27:32
STATUS: publish
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Have you seen it? I wrote yesterday but didn't post it and Yahoo kicked it off. Darn it. Last night I got to take a bath....A BATH! It was so nice that I feel asleep in the tub and then I heard the phone ring. Good thing, my neck was so stiff had I spent much more time like that I would have suffered greatly today. I watch K & G's kids today, and I felt terrible. I was in the middle of cleaning up the block and then I was going to change B and they got here. Of course I had just picked her up not 10 min before and she was fine, but I thought that she might be due. They boys were kicking the block and they were bouncing off the entertainment center so I decided I'd clean them up and then change her...of course when her mom picked her up she had soaked through. I feel AWFUL. Lesson learned, change the baby before boys try to bounce blocks off the tv, if they poke an eye out, they'll learn their lesson and the baby will be dry. We had a good time, it was short but Sunshine liked having visitors, but didn't like sharing his toys. He played by himself for quite a while. The brother and sister had a more difficult time sharing, but that is to be expected, new toys and only one of each. I then suggested that we all build together and it worked out great for a whole 3 minutes then B went off on her own and the boys and I built together....until Sunshine pushed it over. All in all it was a good play date and gave K&G time to get done what they needed to. I think we should do it more often. K - sorry about the diaper thing...I really do feel like an idiot! Next time I promise to changer B before I clean up the blocks.

Today's food list

B - Cereal and water (we were out of milk) - .35 cents ( I didn't have time to eat ) - PB&J sandwich for Duck (go figure??) - .15

S - 4 apples eaten - .80

L - 2 cans of veggie soup, 4 grilled cheese sandwiches and 1 peanut butter sandwich. Juice to drink (Kool-aid for me) - 2.15 (this fed 3 children and a nursing mom with left overs)

D - Tuna sandwiches with mac & cheese and a corn dog for Sunshine - Kool-aid to drink (still out of milk) & a PB&J sandwich to top Duck off - 1.82. So we spent $5.27 on three meals and snacks.

Gotta go get muchkin talk to you later.

Love,
Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 16, 2007 I have a fan...
DATE: 01/16/2007 15:35:14
STATUS: publish
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I was told today that I haven't written in my blog in a few days....that means that I have a fan. Someone actually reads what I have to say...and I'm sure that she sits there shaking her head durning most of what she is reading. I took Sunshine to K&G's house while I took MC to the doctor today. He has to stay on his breathing treatment for atleast the next 6 weeks. Then we left to go to my doctor's appt only to find out that I didn't have one today, it's next week. Not very good news in the love department, but hey, what's one more week??? I think that I may be getting mastitus again..or a plugged duct. That just means that MC will have to start nursing on that side first everytime and I will have to pump the other if I become too engorged. I would like to take this moment to say that I am very proud of myself...I am breat feeding my son. I am giving him what he needs, when he needs it. The bond that we are creating is priceless to the plastic thing that sits between a mother and her child. Not that I'm knocking bottle feeding, I bottle fed Sunshine. It is just a very wonderful and unique experience. Okay, well I wrote for my one fan today. Thank you for watching my Sunshine and sorry he threw a fit at your lunch table, he has no idea what a wonderful lunch he missed. I can't wait to get a turkey. Thanks for lunch, your friendship, advice and your support, both you and G.

Love,

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 12, 2007 The hospital stay...
DATE: 01/12/2007 14:00:30
STATUS: publish
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Wednesday I took MC back to the doctor for congestion and she put him in the hospital. 24 observation and breathing treatments. I'm not sure that it was a good idea to put him in there. I could have done the breathing treatments at home and gone back the next day. They only listened to his chest 4 times, and it was all different people listening. How are they going to determine what they did or did not hear if they didn't listen before and after a treatment??? So we left with ANOTHER breathing machine, we now have 3. They also said that he has bronchitis (spelling) and asthma. I didn't want to go down this road again. So I'm very tired and I think we are going to have to plan a trip to Riley one day soon to the respiratory specialist. Nothing else is really new, just trying to get as much sleep as possible, so I'm going to lay down since both boys are asleep.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 09, 2007 The good, the bad and the ugly
DATE: 01/09/2007 20:55:57
STATUS: publish
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The Good: I'm only 4 pounds over my pre-prego weight. (it's all milk and breast) I now have 85lbs. to lose. And the march is on!

The Bad: I have to wait a week for birth control, I was offered the Depo shot, and my response was HELL no. I bled 87 out of 90 days last time I had the horrible thing. They say it's either one way or the other. The doctor did seem adamant on strictly informing me that I'm fertile. DUH! What exactly does he think I went through with him for the past 9 months.

The Ugly: MC is now having blood come out when I suction his nose. I feel so sorry for him that I could/can cry. He just screams and cries when I have to suction out his nose. He doesn't realize that it helps him and I can only imagine how much it hurts. I have blisters on my hands from doing it so much. I just don't understand why this is happening. I know that he was born without an immune system, but he has been congested for way too long. I'm ready to have a healthy baby. I can't put him down for more than 10 or so minutes before he is hysterical. At night he only sleep on me or on a pillow, or I should say he only sleeps well. If he is in his bouncer or swing I'm lucky to get 45 min to an hour in between screams. And it is so dangerous for him to sleep on the pillow. There is just no other way to make him comfortable. I don't know what's going to happen when he goes to daycare, they will not accommodate him the same way. Duck is going to apply at some new places to see if he can switch jobs. If he can make a dollar or two more an hour, it would greatly help and perhaps I wouldn't have to work as much, or I could work around his schedule. MC is so precious and beautiful I just wish it were easier for him to breath. We are going to try kicking the cat out and when we get our carpet cleaner sent off and back we are going to clean all the carpets to help remove any allergens in the carpets.

Sunshine has been really good, and starting to speak so much more. I'm very happy with his progress in speech. I think that part of it is because he is exploring more and just becoming more vocal and I think that the other part is because of his speech therapist. She is helping us coach him and trying to draw new words out. She is much better than his development therapist, whom I don't feel is benefiting him in any way.

Okay well thanks for listening or should I say reading! I need to get up and do about 30 minutes of power cleaning.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 08, 2007 By the way
DATE: 01/08/2007 22:26:08
STATUS: publish
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We are trying to set standards around our house as far as the children are concerned. As children we grew up in very different households. My parents (mother and her husband) were drug users and alcoholics. Duck's Dad drank and joyrode(???), but they went to church. Growing up the only time we ever went to church was when we went to our Dad's house. It's a huge long story, basically we were brain washed that people who believed in God were weak and so on. Today we all sat down at the table, which we never did as children, and prayed at lunch. We want Sunshine and MC to both understand the meaning of family meals, and the love of God. I do hope that this is the start of a family trend. Next we need to find a church to go to. If you knew the troubles we have had with this in the past...we both believe, but our believes are on different religions..so we have a dilemma in picking a church. Okay well I did more than my 15 minutes and I'm waiting on Duck to get home to remind him that it is trash night, I've already rounded it all up, he just needs to take it out front. Good Night and God Bless, even if it makes me a weaker person!

Me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 01/09/2007 06:22:55
It makes you a stronger person. Don't look at religions. Look at what you both believe, trust God to guide you and go from there.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 08, 2007 Same old same old
DATE: 01/08/2007 21:32:55
STATUS: publish
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They boys are asleep in the livingroom, and I'm heading back to sleep after feeding MC. He is going to go to the doctor tomorrow. I'm now getting what he had, and I am taking Sudafed to head it off. Tomorrow I plan to drink a gallon of OJ and get as much sleep as possible. Speaking of sleep I feel HORRIBLE....G, K's hubby is having problems sleeping and what do I do, I call and wake him up. She said that he fell right back asleep, but I understand how it is to be awaken by the phone, especially when you are REALLY tired. She was going to come over tomorrow to visit so he could sleep, but our Tue schedules are hectic. I have a doc appt, MC is going to have one and Sunshine has a Speech Therapy appt as well. So she is going to come over Wednesday. I look forward to having adult conversation and seeing Sunshine have child interaction. I think that I'm going to try to get all the appt, ST, DT for both children set up on Tuesday's that way I don't have to miss as much work. Tomorrow I will call work after I get back from the doc's office. I think I'm going back on the 29th. I may go back a week earlier, I haven't discussed it with Duck yet. What's $25.00??? We'll see what happens. I want to get up and do about 15 min of house work.

Good night,
Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 07, 2007 Accomplishments
DATE: 01/07/2007 18:57:32
STATUS: publish
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This week/end I made three large pots of chili, and put them into servings in the deep freezer. I fried 13 lbs of chicken and put them into portions. We went to the store and bought frozen veggies to make stir-fry. We got MC's wipes and trash bags and gallon storage bags. Tomorrow I'm going to make up the stir-fry veggie part. We are going to get up early and get back on schedule. I have a doc appt on Tues. I'm still at odds on which birth control to use, if any...meaning only that I don't want my milk supply to lower. I'm REALLY concerned about my milk. I am also not at all happy with the new reports out that my car seat is the most unsafe on the market. Well going to go for now, need to get to bed and actually get some sleep.

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 01/08/2007 06:33:24
Anything non-hormonal is safe wrt milk supply.



Use the car seat without the base. The way infant seats used to be used with the seatbelt going over the car seat. There should be a spot on either side of the seat near where the handle comes up for the belt to thread through.



Kim
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 05, 2007 A first for everything
DATE: 01/05/2007 19:49:20
STATUS: publish
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I'm proud to advise that my 2 year old (almost 3) took his pull up off and handed it to me this evening. This was after he had already stripped all the way down to his pull up. So I decided to put big boy underware on him. I showed him the cool people on the front and back and told him not to get the dirty. He was sorta grabbing himself so I decided to put him on the toilet. I ran some water as a suggestion from several people and guess what?? HE PEED ON THE POTTY. I'm so very excited that I gave him a Reece's cup at 11:00 pm. Daddy will be home soon to coral him. I praised him and told him what a good job he did and he was very excited as well. Just wanted to let the world know that my son used the potty. Gotta go cook 15 lbs of chicken now.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 05, 2007 A small break
DATE: 01/05/2007 14:06:08
STATUS: publish
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Both munchkins are asleep, and I will rest with them in just a few minutes. MC is doing a little better, still clogged up, but better. Sunshine hit the baby in the head again today by accident, not paying attention to what he was doing. He knew he did wrong when he did it.

We have evaluated the budget and figured that there isn't anything that can be done. I'm either going to have to get a raise at work or find a new job. We are going to stop eating out, making so many trips to Indy. I'm also going to try to save on electricity and gas and food and such. By the way, I copied this website that I found on a friends blog...it is AMAZING!

http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/

I have turned my heat down to 71, and we are going to program our heater to hit 65 during sleeping hours and back up to 71 30 minutes before we get up. We have a space heater for our bedroom to keep us warmer. I'm also going to start cooking at home for every meal possible. I have found that it takes about 14 dollars for us to eat at McDonald's for one meal, but we could eat for a two days or more on the same 14 dollars. I intend on tryng cloth diapers while we are at home. Daycare won't use them and it is a huge inconvience to use the out and about. (Kudos to you K & G, I have huge respect for the fact that you do it)

MC's DT came over today, she worked on exercises with him, I know he's only 5weeks, but he can still stretch and such. She also believes that he is going to speak sooner than his brother since he is already doing the cooing and making a lot of verbal noises. He moves his head from side to side, follows objects and holds his head up. He's on track!

Monday we are going to get back onto track, we are going to get up between 7 and 8. Sunshine is going into underware, I know that I'll have to do a lot of laundry that day, but I want him to use the potty. We are going to sit down and do an educational craft and playdoh. I want him back on a schedule, not going to bed at 1 am and getting up at 10. Yeah that's nice, but it isn't going to work when he goes back to daycare.

Okay I need to go, I have 4 loads of laundry to fold and put up and I'm going to get a little bit done while Sunshine is still sleeping.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 04, 2007 So it's been a few days!
DATE: 01/04/2007 19:48:55
STATUS: publish
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Where do I start..well Duck is mad because his past is haunting him. Sunshine went to bed early for hitting MC in the head, he was aiming at me. Regardless, he needs to go to bed. MC is asleep on my lap right now, the only place he wants to be in on me. I know that I'm going to call his doc in the morning anyway to get the results of the x-ray. I am also getting some small amounts of blood up when I suck his nose out. I'm not freaked out about it or else he'd be in the ER. He slept better last night, but has been eating ALL DAY! I wish I could just remove my boob and let him have it for an hour so I can clean. Sunshine DESTROYED the living room. All the books are off the shelf, all the toys out of the bins and bucket. AHHHHHH. THIS TOO BETTER PASS. I am looking for a way to make $1100. per month so I can stay with the boys. Not sure how I'm going to achieve that, unless my boss gives me a two dollar an hour raise or I find another job. We have worked every aspect of the budget and there is just no way to survive on Duck's income alone. Even if I worked part time on the weekends somewhere. I've thought about maybe watching a few kids if I stay home, but then that would restrict me to the house day in and day out. All my problems would be solved if I could just hit the lottery. I would buy the house behind me, move into it (it's bigger), use this house as an office/daycare facility. Stay home with my boys running the daycare facility and volunteering to fight poverty and working with the homeless. Maybe I should run for Mrs. America...on second thought, I'm sure NOBODY wants to see me in a bikini. Okay, getting off my soap box here, I'm sure that there are people out there with far many more problems than I, I'm grateful for what I have and what I've been given. Gotta go clean what I have!

God Bless~

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 01/05/2007 06:49:56
One of the ways we have found to "earn money" is to find ways to spend less by seeing what can be cut out. Such as disposable diapers.



MC is making up for lost time with his nursing. He is doing fine and so are you. Yes, this too shall pass. Keep up the wonderful job you are doing.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: January 01, 2007 Feeling Helpless
DATE: 01/01/2007 21:13:55
STATUS: publish
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MC is really sick at this point. I called the doctor today and she asked me if I was sucking his throat out? I didn't know that is something I should be doing, so I tried it. I don't even know if I'm getting down in his throat. He is miserable, and looks miserable. He isn't eating hardly at all, and hasn't been very wet or dirty. She wants to see him in the morning. I'm also going to take Sunshine in, I think he has an ear infection or two. He is falling everywhere from just walking and is sticking his fingers in his ears. I feel so helpless because I can't make or help my baby feel better. Everything I try to do, nothing works. I can't wait to hear what she has to say, hopefully she can help. I know that I will still have to put up with this for a few days, but I hope not for too long. Well I need to get back to tending to him. He is going to sleep on me all night tonight. God please give me the strength to get through tonight with some sanity in the morning and above all please help MC breath better/easier.

Amen!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 31, 2006 New Year's Eve
DATE: 12/31/2006 19:18:41
STATUS: publish
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Okay, it's been a couple of days since I last wrote. MC is pretty sick and Sunshine is walking around with his fingers in his ears and falling everywhere. Sound like an ear infection?? I thing it would be best to have it checked out. MC is congested and not eating as much and sleeping a lot. Other than that we are being lazy around the house today, we are going to clean real quick and spend the last 30 minutes vegging on the couch. We are going to be doing much, just spending time with the family. My New Year's Resolutions are:

To : loose 80 lbs., read more to the boys, keep the house clean, create and stick to a meal plan, exercise 4 times a week at least 30 minutes a day, retire until the boys go to school!

Think I can do it? Wanna watch me try? I'm going to be healthier, happier and have more money. Okay well, at least wish me luck! I need to go get the kitchen cleaned up from dinner and fold the 8 loads of clothes....Gotta start the year off right!

Love to all my friends and family

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 28, 2006 Just another day
DATE: 12/28/2006 20:56:02
STATUS: publish
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Nothing real new to report. MC is moving around a lot, I feel asleep with him on my chest today and he wormed his way vertical instead of horizontal....I have to start being more careful. I'm very tired today and I've got a headache, but other than that I'm doing great. Just wish I had a little more motivation to clean my house...probably tomorrow. I want to get it all cleaned up before the weekend so we can veg and party. Duck has given me good news on the work status thing...sorry to do this to you but ask and I'll tell you, I'd rather not post it right now. I made Chicken Stir Fry tonight, even though it wasn't as good as I thought it would be, it was much healthier and I think we are going to start eating this type of food more often. I bought a bag of Tyson BS Chicken Breast, 6 come in a bag for 6 or so dollars. I also bought a bad of stir fry mix for about 1.25 a bag. So let's add this up. Say 1.25 for chicken, 1.25 for stir fry mix, .05 for oil, .5 for kool aid and sugar, .5 for noodles and .25 for rice. I fed Duck and I for 3.80. That is cheaper than McDonalds. On the other hand, we offered the meal to Sunshine, but he chose to eat 3 Chicken nuggets and a banana. So, we all ate for about 4.25, which is still cheaper than McD's. Okay, enough with the math/cooking lesson today. Good night, I have a 2 year old dragging me away.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 27, 2006 Oh...last night
DATE: 12/27/2006 16:44:53
STATUS: publish
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Well we went Lebtucky so Duck could fix B & T's computer, it's all fixed now. I went to see K, I haven't seen her in so long, it was great to go shopping again with her. I hope it didn't offend B & T. I took K home and we ordered pizza and then we hung out for a while and ended up leaving around 10:30, didn't get home until after midnight. MC slept until his 2ish feeding and then until about 5:18 am, when he woke up to eat, refused to be put back down and ate every 30 mintues. I thought I was going to loose my mind. Now when I say that I don't mean that I would do anything stupid to hurt my baby, I just didn't know how I could continue to nurse every half hour for the rest of the night/morning. Well I made it through it, Duck let me sleep for about an hour and a half when Sunshine was literally pushing me off the couch. I very tired, and have nursed between every 30 min to hour for most of the day. NO MORE PIZZA FOR ME. I hoping that it is just a growth spurt that he is going through and will be out of shortly. Well Duck wants us to watch a movie with him.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 25, 2006 Christmas Day
DATE: 12/25/2006 22:01:36
STATUS: publish
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We got Sunshine up at 10ish this morning after sleeping for 12 hours strait. I think that he needed it because he was running a small fever. He has been a little cranky today, but was happy for the most part. We opened gifts and played all day. Nothing too exciting just family time and fun. Merry Christmas to everyone.

God Bless

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 24, 2006 Christmas Eve
DATE: 12/24/2006 17:26:47
STATUS: publish
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Today was relaxing....we got up late, real late, even though I have been up most of the night. MC is really having a hard time sleeping upstairs. I'm confused, but until we find out why, I will have to keep coming down here in the middle of the night. He is getting big, but he is still very small. I don't think he has hit 8 lbs yet. Today we went and dropped off some fresh baked Snickerdoodles to K&G, their baby is a week younger than MC and is much bigger. She is certainly well fed. MC is just going to be small I think. Guess he'll have to have his brother teach him how to defend himself without the biting I hope.

Yesterday Dad and DE came up to do the Christmas thing. I got a very nice set of coverings for my kitchen table, which I did not have. I also got some things for the center piece. I have a million idea to do with them. Duck got a shop vac, he's happier than a kid in a candy store. Sunshine got several new puzzles, and ones that work with his animals and environmental things. We are going to have a ton of fun with them, he is picking up so much right now, they are perfect to help him. He also got a book, which many know he loves his books. MC got a frog that he can rattle, move the rings on and chew on and he also got a book (soft) that he can feel the different textures on. We were all very happy with our gifts and as soon as we get through tomorrow I am going to dress my table and take a picture. I can't wait to have company over.

Right now MC is laying on a pillow that has a burp cloth/diaper thing on top of it with Vick Vapor rug on top of it, and then two pillow cases on top of that. I can't break up his congestion and I think it is causing latch problems. He won't stay latched on because he has to take a breath, then milk leaks all over the place and his mouth is really wet. Then he gets ready to latch back on and he slips off. I'm beginning to wonder if this is why I'm a little more tender than I have been. He has also slowed his eating. I am going to weigh him today and keep weighing him to make sure that he isn't loosing any weight, he seems content he isn't crying uncontrollably and his gas has gone down a little on a scale of 1 to 10, probably only a 1. Okay, we are gong to set out Cookies and Milk for Santa and get ready to turn in...well Sunshine is going to turn in, we are going to stay up for a little longer straightening back up. I'm very happy that my house has pretty much stayed clean, I hope to keep it this way, next I'll work on keeping the car cleaned out EVERYDAY. Wish me luck.

Love,

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 22, 2006 2 days left
DATE: 12/22/2006 17:08:31
STATUS: publish
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Are you finished with your Christmas shopping? Well I still have that one present to buy, but I may just give money. But I hate to admit that I have to go grocery shopping. I am thinking that we may go to super walmart at like 2 this morning when Duck gets home so we don't have to fight with the traffic. I'm not sure, I'm so tired I can't believe that I'm sitting here doing this. MC was up every 45 minutes last night. He'd nurse, fall asleep latched, then he wouldn't burp, then he'd wake up 45 minutes later screaming, fart, cry some more, want to nurse, fall asleep latched....getting the picture? I need to touch up the house, and I have about 50 things that I want to get done this weekend/next week. Duck is on vacation, yup, he was off for 3 weeks, and went back for holiday pay, and the plant closes until the 3rd.

Not to rub it into anyone's face I just want to say how blessed I am. I have a wonderful husband who does a lot for me...even though it sometimes doesn't seem like much, he really is great to me. I have two wonderful boys who I adore and love with all my hearts.

We went to Sunshine's daycare Christmas Party today, and it was cool...basically an orgy of greed. I think that the true meaning of Christmas has gone away and it is now all about "what's in it for me." Children have no idea what it is to need, what am I saying, I really don't have any personal idea of what it is to need. I see it everywhere and I do wish that I would hit the lottery, I could/would do so much good with the money. Everything happens for a reason. Well I need to get off of here and motivate myself to get something done.

If I don't get a chance to get back on here, Merry Christmas and God Bless everyone.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 21, 2006 Holy MILK!!
DATE: 12/21/2006 13:30:48
STATUS: publish
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Well, after all the advice that I have tried, I haven't been able to get my milk supply to increase so I can pump for MC when he goes to daycare or so Duck can enjoy the look I get when his "tank" is full! Well...I was going threw the deep freezer when I was on the phone with K yesterday and I found some juice...yum yum. This was some juice that we bought a long time ago, Old Orchard Apple/Cherry. Let me tell you what a relief it was to pump today. I have been so engorged most of the night, but too exhausted to pump and MC would wake up and relieve me enough. I got 4 oz! Which is the most that I've been able to pump in one sitting. Needless to say, I will be drinking more Apple/Cherry juice just as soon as I can find it.

Well we were going to go to Indy this Sat, but Dad and DE are coming up instead to do Christmas. The boys are napping and I am going to eat a snack, so I had better go. I also have 3 batch's of Snicker doodles to make as per C's request for the party. I'm going to take her a huge batch as a gift.

Perhaps more later....love to all.

Katybug

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: December 20, 2006 And the days are winding down
DATE: 12/20/2006 13:03:47
STATUS: publish
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to Christmas...to going back to work...to New Years...to 2007. I've been working on the New Year's Resolutions...this year I'm going to make them count. My current resolutions are to make sure that my house is picked up every day before bed and before we leave for work. I don't want to have unexpected visitor and be embarrassed that my house is a mess. I will NEVER have a spic and span house, it will always looked lived in, just not filthy. Right now we are on the verge of cluttered and lived in. I'm working on the clutter and moving towards lived in quickly. We are going to work on moving the boys to their own room, they are going to take the master bedroom because they need the room, we don't. Since we only sleep in our room, there is no reason that we need that big of a room. This will also allow them to each have their own little space/cubby holes. I think that this Sat we are going to Indy. Last visit of the year. We are taking the pool table to T and B. I'm going to see if I can wrap presents for J and D....J has been in the hospital and I do pray that she is doing well and recovering quickly. We can't spend the entire day there as I don't want to be too tired to drive the 85 miles home. Doesn't sound like much, but it is an awfully boring drive home.

Monday night Sunshine ate the top of a glass ornament. Heave forbid I ever need to potty or such. As from experience, yes this happened last year, I didn't take him to the hospital, there is nothing that they will do for him unless he has a blood stool.

MC is still stuffy, we have done the cool mist vaporizer, the Vick's Vaporizer, sucking the nose out, nose/saline drops and nothing is working. I'm keeping an ear open to make sure that it doesn't settle in his lungs.

Perhaps more later, I need to get some house work done now.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for December 18, 2006 In light of....
DATE: 12/18/2006 18:03:18
STATUS: publish
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recent events it appears that I may have to cut all milk out of my diet. Which means that I'm going to be in hell. Even though I am lactose intolerant, I use milk in every meal. Whether it is grilled cheese, hamburger helper, mac and cheese or mashed potatoes. I don't know what I'm going to eat for the next year. Duck and I are working on a meal plan to cut out some expenses. Our goal is to get all the bills paid off and get satellite and cell phones before summer or sooner. If we stop eating out we can certainly afford one or the other. MC is sleeping a lot today, I know that's what he is suppose to do. His breasts are still enlarged and I wonder if they are painful for him. I know that they are my hormones and I don't know what to do for him or how to help him. Nursing is going great, just need to work on getting my supply ready for when I return to work. Sunshine ate the top of a Christmas Tree Bulb today...one a year. I don't know what is so appealing to him about the stupid bulbs....Yes I watch my children, but heaven forbid I have to use the bathroom once in a while. Now I just have to watch him for the rest of the night and make sure there isn't blood coming out of any of his orifices. The dishwasher is running, I've ran 6 loads of laundry today, have 2 left to fold and 2 left to run. That includes all the sheets, blankets and pillow covers from our room. This will hopefully help MC as it should remove any cat dander or dust stuff on it. We can't see to break his sniffles. Sunshine is being rotten to the core today, he hasn't had a nap, nor is he going to get one. He is going to bed at 9:15ish...like it or not. He wants to be rough with me, and especially when I'm holding the baby. Okay, well it's almost that time, and I need to sweep the kitchen floor before bed. Good night to all.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for December 17, 2006 Just being mom...
DATE: 12/17/2006 19:48:37
STATUS: publish
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Nothing really new to report. I think that MC has colic. I'm getting very very exhausted and I don't know how many more night I can spend awake all night and then only sleep briefly during the day. This too will pass....I just pray that he is okay. He will sleep for a while, but when he gets up, he is up and fusses the entire night. He refuses to sleep anywhere but on me, and he has a harder time breathing up stairs, so we have had to stay down stairs. Tonight we washed all the covers and blankets, we are going to take a humidifer upstairs and not turn on the bedroom heater. I don't know what else to do, if I don't get some real sleep soon, I'm not going to bealbe to function. Duck has been good about letting me get naps in, but he is going back to work tomorrow. I will just have to tough it out I guess. Nursing is going good, I'm just very sore, he seems to nurse longer and longer, the other night it was for about 2 hours. I don't think that he's getting enough milk, though every time he unlatches, there's milk in the corner of his mouth. Maybe he's just using me as a pacifier. I am having a hard time getting him to take a passy, they choke him most of the time. He is also having problems with choking in his sleep. He will gag and then most of the time spit up, but if he's on his back, it doesn't come up. Okay, well Sunshine just woke the baby up, so I've gotta go.

Wish me luck!

me.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 12/17/2006 19:59:14
Sounds like there may be a food intolerance. I know you limit dairy, but have you tried totally eliminating it? I'm talking cheese, yogurt, ice cream, chocolate, creamed soups, non-dairy creamer (yes, there is milk in it), etc. That is usually the number one culprit of colic in a bf baby. It can take up to 2 weeks to work out of your system.



In the mean time, try laying him belly down across a hot water bottle.



And judging by the description, he is getting enough milk. You are a human pacifier. Bethany was the same way with me. Hannah, not so much yet. But getting there.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for December 14, 2006 11 Days until Christmas
DATE: 12/14/2006 11:40:58
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11 Days left, and I'm just about ready. One present left to buy and two left to wrap. The tree is up and decorated. I'm getting excited to see Sunshine open his gifts.

MC slept a little more last night. He is very conjested today, and I am waiting for a call back from his doctor. Other than that he is doing great.

I'm fighting a monster headache in my right eye. Nothing else is new, just hanging out at the house today, cleaning up after the tornado two year old, and trying to rearrange some things.

K.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for December 13, 2006 Same old...same old
DATE: 12/13/2006 11:44:22
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Just another day here at home with my munchkins and hubby. Duck is working on the shelves, reverse osmosis and toilet today. I'm rearranging the kitchen and pantry. MC had a doc appt yesterday, two week check up. Bad news first....he has a 6 mm cist on the back of his head. We are going to watch it to make sure it doesn't get bigger or what not. Good news, he is 7 lbs, 20 1/4 in. long and pooping like a champ. He is showing signs of a 1-2 month old as far as motor skills, which is good. He DIDN'T sleep last night. I bet we were up5 times. He was so hungry all night, I think he is hitting a growth spurt.

I went to a LLL meeting last night. Although I must admit that it wasn't what I expected, it was fun. I was nice to hear the stories of the other mothers. I wasn't nearly as successful at breat feeding with Allen as I hope to be with Christian. The nice thing is that Duck is leaving the choice up to me. It's nice for him because he doesn't have to get up and do the midnight, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 feedings like lastnight. Financially it is great, we are saving $20.00 a week on formula. I don't find bottles laying around, and I don't have to run down stairs in the middle of the night to get a bottle. Although we are ready for that in the event that I can't or stop breastfeeding. Well I must go, he's waking up again.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for December 11, 2006 Oh what a night!!!
DATE: 12/11/2006 18:06:45
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MC will NOT sleep in his own bed, and was very cranky last night. We didn't get up until 10am, which was nice, but I was caught by the Apria Healthcare guy in my poka-dot sleep shorts and blue shirt, sexy huh??? Stop laughing! We went to C's today to show off the new baby, she was happy to see us, and Sunshine was happy to play with his friends again. He has been a nightmare, no naps, not my decision! Then we were off to Wally World to get our pictures taken and do some shopping....well Sunshine didn't agree with that plan and decided to throw the biggest fit in the world, or at least Walmart. You know how you can't help but look at the child that is throwing a fit and how embarrassed the mother must feel???? I was that mother today. Duck took him out to the car and well, straited him out. We got our family Christmas pics taken. I HAVE TO LOOSE WEIGHT!!!!!!!! I have a double chin....I refust to have a double chin, 80 pounds left to loose. I can't wait. I did over do it today, my body told me so, soooo I guess I won't start Ti-Bo tomorrow, maybe I'll weight a week. I did manage to get my wedding rings back on. I'm going to have to have them resized once I lose the rest of the weight, they're a little loose now. Well gotta go...sorry for the grammer errors or spelling, I don't have time to check it.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for December 10, 2006 One in and one out
DATE: 12/10/2006 14:06:26
STATUS: publish
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Well, I wish that I could say that MC was sleeping and that I was sleeping, but I can't. Last night we all went to bed for the first time together. Sunshine jumped right into his own bed, covered up, and quickly (less than 5 minutes) drifted off to sleep. One out of our bed. Duck and I were enjoy the fact that we had the bed to ourselves, it's been 2 years, and then the call of the wild one. MC cried, I tried to confort him in the swing in his crib, we though that might work since he won't sleep in his crib or the bassinet. We apparently though wrong, he ended up sleeping in bed with us. One in our bed. I know what everyone is going to say, he's too young, he should sleep in his own bed, it will be two years before you and Duck get to spend some time together again, and so on. But I HAVE TO SLEEP!!!! I'm going to ask his doc for some suggestions, I don't want to just let him cry, he's too young for that. Well I need to go, the cat wants the seat, the cake needs to be iced, and I need to take care of some other things. All is well, we are happy, geting a touch of colds and tired.

Katy

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AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 12/11/2006 18:06:01
Bethany is still in the bed with us part of the time and now Hannah spends some of the time in bed with us. If she is not in bed with us, she is on one of us and we are in the recliner.



They are only little for a little while. Enjoy them. 2 years is temporary compared to the comfort and security they receive from you which will stay with them a lifetime.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for December 09, 2006
DATE: 12/09/2006 13:16:04
STATUS: publish
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As most of you now know MC is here and happy. He was born on 11/28/06 at 12:12 am. This came as a huge surprise. I was sent to the hospital by the doc for evaluation, they decided to keep me. I was very sad , Sunshine has NEVER spent the night without me, and I have NEVER spent the night without him. Duck started to get frustrated because he was into everything and decided that it was time to go. I really didn't want to be alone, but what could I do? I went into the bathroom and just bawled my eyes out, I decided to watch a movie and go to sleep so I didn't have to think about it anymore. The doctor's plan was to see if MC needed to be taken early since my BP had jumped really high. So I went over to the TV to turn off Sponge Bob and found Me, Myself and Irene to watch/fall asleep to. Then all the sudden, I felt a gush. "Hummm....I know I didn't just pee my pant," I said to myself. Then I felt another little gush, I decided to sit down on my bed for a minute, and sure enough, I was certain that my water had broke. I called the nurse and she confirmed it. She didn't realize that I was so upset about Duck and Sunshine leaving. Now the race was on, the contractions started coming more often and harder....but the doc didn't know when he was going to make it in...they said something about 8 am....none the fact that they were just about to bring me some food since I hadn't eaten since noon, I was starving. But no food now that my water broke. Then the NP showed up for the baby and we were given word that I would be on the table in 1/2 and hour. What to do what to do???? Sunshine is at home with Duck, Dad is an hour and 1/2 away, the only other person we trust would be K and G. I felt so bad having to call on their help and so late, but if Duck wanted to see MC born, that was our only option. We will be forever grateful that they we kind enough to take Sunshine. They said that he did great, he whimpered, but didn't fuss. I'm soooo happy about that, I'm glad that he feels comfortable with them. We only hope that one day we can return the favor.... The doc was a little upset that they didn't have me in OR when he got there, but the nurse told him that the dad wasn't there yet nor the anesthesiologist. He got over it, Duck got there and they cut me open. MC was born at 12:12, I was hoping before midnight to have him on the 27th, but I'm glad that it's all over and done with, no matter what day it was. Sunshine doesn't have much to do with him, especially since curiosity killed the cat. Sunshine wanted to see what I was doing when I was changing his diaper, well lets just say that Sunshine's face started getting wet, and it wasn't raining in the livingroom. He also isn't too thrilled to see MC nursing, you can tell that the wheel in his brain are turning and that he doesn't see that as right. He'll get used to it. MC is a fairly good sleeper except the past couple of nights. Time is flying by so fast. Well I must go for now, please forgive me if this jumps around, it only took me two days to write it in between feeding and playing with Sunshine.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Update November 25, 2006 And 4 hours later
DATE: 11/25/2006 15:57:11
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The 10 am hospital visit for an NST that only took 30 minutes left me in there for 4 hours. The good news is that my labs came back better today than they did earlier this week, but I'm on ANOTHER collection. I will find out Monday if he is going to take MC this week or wait the 10 days. This being in limbo thing really isn't cool. He keeps saying everything is going well, but I have NST tests done twice or three times a week and I'm on a 24 hour collection for the second time this week. What's up??? I guess I'll know more on Monday, until then, no worries. I'm just going to follow the doctor's orders - lay on the couch and watch TV. RELAX.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: November 25, 2006 Let the contractions begin
DATE: 11/25/2006 05:30:06
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It all started on a very cold night...at about 11 pm last night, the contractions started. I was sitting there thinking...hum...I remember these. On my pain scale of 0-10 I ranked them at a 2 or 3. So I decided to take a shower. I figured that if my water was going to break, what a better place than the bath tub right? The contractions continued much longer than the hot water, so I had to get out. The continued for about 15 minutes afterwards and then stopped as quickly as they started. I was hoping...but then again, God knows what is best. I will continue to carry MC until it is right. I've had a few contractions this morning, nothing major more like a 0 or 1. I have to go in for an NST test today, and BP check. I'm so swollen and I'm ready to just bust. I'm going to see if I can get Duck to go with me, I know that he doesn't want to take Sunshine, but at this point, I'd rather not drive. I'm going to try to make some more banana bread and pumpkin bread today. We are going to the shoe place to find Sunshine and Duck some shoes and the OUAC. I have to buy the swing soon, just in case, the pump can wait a week or so.

Perhaps more later....if not, then I'll be holding my newest blessing.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 24, 2006 Is it bed time yet????
DATE: 11/24/2006 18:02:18
STATUS: publish
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WOW, I can't believe how tired I am. Everyone laid down for a nap earlier. 3 1/2 of us on a couch, um....I was obviously uncomfortable and didn't get but maybe 15 minutes. Duck got up finished bleaching the basement. I can't believe how much of the smell stayed down there, I could hardly smell it, other than the fact that I was bleaching some laundry. He is getting ready to paint the walls with a mold, mildew & water repellant paint stuff. I just can't wait until he is done, I can turn the heat back on when it is dry. We aren't freezing, but I'm am cold, which is very unusual. I also don't think MC is going to wait too much longer. I've been having contractions all day, still can't get rid of this headache, and I'm so swollen, my toes look like Vienna Sausages. I've been having sharp pains like knives, but that is just the baby settling I think. I have an NST tomorrow at the hospital...not looking forward to that. We are going to have to wait forever, and Duck is going to be corralling Sunshine. There is no point in driving separately, we have to go to the Southside anyway. I want to go into OUAC to see if I can find a cheap pumpkin seat to carry MC back and forth from the car and in the store. We are going to get a convertible chair for the car. I am also looking for a swing, both have been destroyed in the move. Well I think that I'm going to get off of here and finish the livingroom and make some bread to heat up the downstairs. We are pretty much sleeping down here so I don't have to climb the stair every hour. Good night to all.....

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 24, 2006 And the madness is over
DATE: 11/24/2006 06:07:12
STATUS: publish
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Duck wanted to go to Menards for the sale today....well needless to say, he said that he would never do that again. We were about 3 blocks away and he made the comment, "Men don't get up at 5:30 in the morning to go shopping." Then we went to pull up, and there were people parking in the grass across the street and blocks away. He decided he would NEVER do this again. Thankfully we pulled up as someone was leaving close to the door. Talk about LUCK. We went in, there were no carts so we had to carry sunshine through the store to get the stupid saw. We got the last one on the shelf and then decided to head for the check out. The place was a complete mad house. We then headed to Biglots, and NADA. Their deals were so terrible, we did get some house shoes for MC and some more tupperware for quick meals. Then it was off to Walley World. Where we got our Christmas presents for eachother. Some we will wrap, and some we gave eachother at the checkout. I still have 2 presents to buy, both for kids. Sunshine did very well, he wanted to take his pillow in and rested most of the time. We did pick him up another Christmas present, he played with it all the way through the store and forgot about it when we got into the car. I love shopping with him at this age.

Yesterday we went to K & G's house so Duck could help G put up the fence. It was a fun day, we chased the chickens and the kids for hours. I felt sorry for K, she didn't feel very well and was so hospitable. I had a great day, but Sunshine decided that he didn't want to eat what she was serving, which was a delicious oven baked lasagna. I hate it that we had to eat and leave, but I feel awful that he was so upset that he was screaming the whole time. I don't know what it is about eating at other people's houses, but he just doesn't want to do it. Maybe next time she can serve dinner in the car. We left so no one had to hear him continually crying and upset. I felt bad, but I can't stand to hear him crying so much either, none the fact that I can't seem to shake this headache that seems like it has been here for 2 weeks now. We are really going to work on getting him to sit and eat at the table.

Well I need to get up and get some things done, perhaps more later.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 21, 2006 Better than yesterday
DATE: 11/21/2006 09:09:51
STATUS: publish
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I feel better than I did yesterday. I haven't had to take any nausea med today, just for the persistent headache. I'm hoping that I can go back to work on Mon. after Sunshine's appt, or before I can't remember when it is. Last night we went to Wally world, I had to get out of the house. I was very sore when we got home, I think that I'm carrying an 25 pound kid... He's going to come out and already be 18 mo. old. Sunshine was coughing a lot last night, finally I decided he needed a treatment to get some sleep, or so we could all get some sleep. He didn't see affected by the fact that he was coughing, nor did Duck. Of course when your stuck in the middle of a cough and a loud (lion size) snore, it tends to get a little nerve racking at 1 am. So I gave him his treatment, and presto - no cough, then I told Duck to turn over so it would muffle the noise. Sunshine has a speech appt today at 3:30, at this rate he will sleep through the whole thing. I'm going to have to get him to lay down in about 15 minutes so he can get his two hours in, and I can pick up some of the mess. I finally got the mega blocks put away from Sunday...I love that the kids enjoy to build so much, and I don't mind putting them away. Even though sunshine is very good at puzzles and problem solving, he can't even get them all back in there. We found out that we are going to have to buy a new car seat for MC, the one what we had was in the basement and apparently there is too much moisture down there. There was so much mold on it that it made my stomach turn. After what we went through in the last house I can't stand the sight of mold in this one. Dad said to spray the basement down with bleach, let it air dry via fans and such and then seal the entire basement. Duck has his work cut out for him. We (MC, Sunshine and I) will just have to leave for a day or so. Maybe that is what I'll ask for - for Christmas, that project to be completed so I don't have to worry about it anymore. Okay, well lunch is done and I think I'm going to match up the socks while I eat. I have two loads left and I will again be complete with laundry. I only have MC's drawers to go through and the 2T clothes to store and I will be done with putting it all away as well...not to rub it into anyone's face, this has been a struggle for me, and my goal for myself was to never allow this to happen again. I grew up throwing dirty clothes in the washer right before bed and in the dryer when I got up in the morning so I'd have something to wear. I don't want to live like that, I don't want to live out of my dryer or in the mess that I grew up with. I want my children to play, learn and clean, but to have fun and not find it so much of a chore...I guess that's what I mean. Cleaning is an everyday part of life, if you leave one room, take something out that doesn't belong and put it away, on your way back in, take something in that belongs in that room and put it away. That's how I'm going to try to work it, I'll let you know.

Wish me luck~! Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 20, 2006 CRAPPY DAY
DATE: 11/20/2006 10:13:39
STATUS: publish
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Woke up with a headache, and feeling like I was going to get so incredibly sick. I took more medicine that doc prescribed...did I mention that it is prescribed for Schitzo's and nausea cancer patients. Perhaps pregnancy causes mental problems in some of us. To do this again I will classify my self as NUTS. I had a good contraction last night, the doctor seems to think I won't make it to the 6th, neither do many others. I pray for the health of our baby if he does come early. Today I went to see the doctor again! I have a nice hicky looking thing on my neck, so I had to wear my hair down for the first time in over a year. It was a reaction to the antibiotic he put me on last week for an ear infection. I'm falling apart...he left me on bed rest, and my bp was 139/91. Another 24 hour collection has been scheduled and I will again have to give blood tomorrow. I feel like I'm not going to have any left after I'm done having MC. I go back in on Wednesday. He mentioned having my kidney's checked, hummm....

My boss "forgot" that I had a doc appt today that I told her about last Thursday. She called my babysitter to find out if she had heard from me. Even though, she left me two messages on my phone at home saying I'll talk to you after your doctor's appt, one at 7:30ish and I can't remember the other. She told my babysitter that I could quit if I wanted to....what in the world is that all about? I don't want to quit! I love my job, just not the negative attitude. MY FAMILY COMES FIRST. I'm not going to quit. This too shall pass.

Well I'm going to go put some puzzles together with Sunshine and work on his numbers. He decided last night at about 11:30ish that he really had something more important, than sleep of course, to tell us. He started screaming "wake up, wake up!" Then he talked for about 4 minutes and passed out. Guess it was important...couldn't tell you what it was, but we listened.

Have a wonderful day!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 18, 2006 Splendid day!
DATE: 11/18/2006 18:22:29
STATUS: publish
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We had some friends over for lunch...I cooked my second pot roast in history. I even have enough to make beef stew for some surprise guest tomorrow. I was really nice to have company and Sunshine enjoyed playing with the children. Even though he did try to bite their little girl, which resulted in swift punishment. We also need to work with him on eating at the table...he doesn't do well at all and like to roam. I tried to put the boys at a kid table, which I don't think was a good idea or success. Now I know huh? Their little boy did great, but my sunshine well....let's just say we will eat at the table next time...all of us. I may have to invest in a bigger table though, next time there will be 9 instead of 7. Sunshine and I took a 3 hour nap after they left. It was nice to sleep, but the interruptions were annoying, the cat, the door and then the bathroom. GRRRR....I think I'm going to have to take some anti-nausea med tonight and hopefully that will allow me to sleep better. This past week certainly hasn't been as fun as the past few months. MC is moving well again, but I'm in so much pain, and it doesn't help that I pick up a 38 lb 2 year old often. I volunteered to teach K how to crochet, I love to do it in the past time even though it takes me forever to finish a project, I enjoy the result. I hope to have both of the boys done by Christmas so I can give them a special present.

Call me crazy, but I think that sunshine is ready to start using the potty, great timing huh? 18 days before his brother is going to be here. He keeps bringing me his pull-up. Well as most of you know, he has been ill with diarrhea for the past week.... WELL....He had brought me his pull up about 30 minutes ago...then I heard ut-oh. Little pitter patters walked into the kitchen and his hand extended out to take mine. He didn't pull or try to force me to get up, but as always I want him to know that he is important and what he wants me to see is important also. So I went...reluctantly. We walked into the livingroom and he pointed to the floor in front of the TV. Sure enough, ut-oh. Thank goodness this ut-oh was solid and not liquid. I cleaned him up and the mess, and will have to reclean my carpet tonight when Duck gets home or tomorrow. Like I said it was solid, so no mess, but still the principal. I'm so glad that his is back on track. After dealing with this for nearly two months and then even worse this past week, I'm done! I tried eliminating everything bad from his diet, and took him off his beloved applesauce. Nothing worked, especially when he got this bug last week. And yes I know I'm not a doctor, but since there is 4 other children at daycare sick, I think that I'm classified enough as a mother to consider it a bug. So I finally decided Thursday that I was tired of him not eating and trying to eat everything out the fridge that he shouldn't so we broke down and he had McD's....and Papa Johns yesterday. Perhaps I should write them thank you letters...just kidding. I'm sure that their food had nothing to do with it.

I go back to the doctor Monday morning, bright and early. I will see if they allow me to go back to work. I do enjoy where I work and what I do, I just didn't appreciate the attitude this week I got from my boss. I understand that it put her into a bind, but there was nothing that could be done...and her guilt trip made me feel worse at first, but then angry. I don't respond well to guilt trips and I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to rethink the whole situation. It isn't in my control that my child was sick, nor that my husband had to work nights this week and couldn't get up at 6:30/7:00 am to take care of our child. Someone had to stay home with him, and then to top it off, if I'm sick, I'm sick. I'm not going to go to work and spread it around, nor do I feel like driving to the southside would have been a good idea with as dizzy and nauseous as I felt. I do hope that she understands that some things just aren't in our control, and I can only do my best.

Okay, I think I'm going to go put puzzles together with my little man. Thanks for listening, sorry if it is off or rambling, my brain isn't all with me right now!

Katybug

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 17, 2006 Up to our ears in pooh
DATE: 11/17/2006 13:01:35
STATUS: publish
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Well Sunshine gave it new meaning this morning. He slept in, THANK GOODNESS. We woke up at about 8 am, and I didn't have the strength to carry him downstairs. He was SMELLY . So I knew I had a diaper to change. It was literally all the way up his back. More sheets to wash! Mrs. C. said that 4 other kids at daycare were sick yesterday, sounds like it is just a virus going around. I woke up in a huge amount of pain, the baby is just getting big I think. My headaches are coming and going, and I'm finally getting some color back. I had Duck run me to the store, we needed some things to get us through the next couple of days, and I was sorta hoping the fresh air would help my nausea. Nothing new to report. We have decided to stay home for Thanksgiving. We both feel that the trip would be too much and if something would happen we would be too far from home. An hour and a half of a screaming woman in labor and leaking all over the front seat didn't sound like Duck's idea of a good trip home after turkey. It is going to be nice to have a relaxing day at home eating at our pleasure. I'm going to throw some turkey breast in the crock pot with some gravy and let it cook all day and make some of the trimmings. Nothing spectacular, just dinner. Well I'm going to go lay down with Sunshine, he has pulled the pillow and cover off the couch and is laying on the floor, that's my cue.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 16, 2006 Until further notice
DATE: 11/16/2006 15:41:15
STATUS: publish
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That's how long I'm off work. I went to see the doc today, I didn't feel like I wanted to wait until tomorrow. I was so dizzy last night that when I laid in bed I feel like I was falling continuously down a spiral stair case. MC hasn't been moving anything like he has for the past few days. I know that it's getting tighter in there, but he should still move some. The doc had a hard time finding his heartbeat today and as usual they did a stress test on him. Duck took me to the doc since I didn't want to have another dizzy spell on the road. The headaches have returned and the nausea. The pain has also returned, but he says that is just baby pressure. Sunshine still has diarrhea, thought that was going to go away today as this morning it was looking much more hopeful, but not this afternoon. I'm at a total loss. He's not running a fever, not upset, there's nothing. I called his doctor again and again they said that there was nothing that they would beable to do for him, they said that there is a virus going around. I hate that answer.

On a lighter note, my cat is getting fatter. I always thought that if we had him clipped that he would get fat and lazier...not him. He is one of the best cats a cat person or non cat person could ask for. He potties outside, unless he has an accident, and it's been at least 8 months since that happened. He comes in to eat, drink and sleep. The only annoying thing is that he believe that humans are door people just for him. Anyhow, he never started getting fat, I think it is because of him being outside so much catching mice and chasing rabbits.

Okay well I'm feeling a little better, so I best get up and run a load of dishes and laundry before I can't.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 15, 2006 Revenge of the Corndog
DATE: 11/15/2006 05:28:44
STATUS: publish
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I think that I may have to eat my words today. I was talking with a friend last night and said, I've been very luck, I haven't thrown up but a couple of times during this pregnancy...well I keep tasting corndog. Needless to say it doesn't want to stay where it is. Sunshine feels better, but I'm going to have to keep him home today since I'm not going in. He hasn't had any problems since yesterday morning. Nevermind, I retract that last statement...gotta go.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 14, 2006 No sunshine on a rainy day
DATE: 11/14/2006 17:06:31
STATUS: publish
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This week started well, unfortunately they had to cancel Sunshine's Speech Therapy appt, not all the paperwork was complete, but now it is. He had diarrhea yesterday and was sent home sick today from daycare. Duck didn't get any sleep, it's hard to get to bed at 2:30, help me get Sunshine ready in the morning and then get back up at 8:30 and go pick him up. I had a doc appt today...my BP is high again 138/89. Another 24 hr collection. They must not understand the concept of how embarrassing it is to do that at work.

My boss has posted my position in the newspaper to find someone to fill in. She said that if this new person works out pt, the other lady may leave. I almost get the feeling that it may be to replace me all together. I try very hard to do everything that she wants, sometimes it's impossible. She waits until last minute to give me stuff or tells me to do something's two different ways, and I have to decipher how she wants it done. Most of the time I can get it, but other times I give it to her to approve, she sends it to the customer and later realizes that it isn't exactly how she wanted. I'm just not a mind reader. I just continue to try and do my best. I can say, that I do leave there thinking that I put my best foot forward that day. She is very good with me as far as Sunshine being sick and the fact that I have to go to the doctor twice a week. I can only do things that I am shown though! I'm just fortunate to have a job. We'll see what happens. No use in worrying about something that I can't control. Everything happens for a reason.

I was going to go to a LLL meeting tonight and unfortunately I couldn't because of little man. He slept 3.5 hours. I didn't want to take him and be around all the pregnant woman and young children/babies if he really has a bug. He's the most important thing to me, but I'm still disappointed that it worked out like this. I really want to have the best shot at breast feeding MC, and I do feel like I will need some guidance as my luck with Sunshine wasn't very good. This was the last meeting that I would've had the opportunity to go to before he was born. I will just do my best and do more research. K said that I can ask her anything, so if a question or issue arises, I'll ask her until I can attend the meeting perhaps in December. We'll see what happens.

Well I'm being drug away by a 2 yr old....good night

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 11/15/2006 09:19:23
Good news. There will be a meeting this month. It will be the day before Thanksgiving at 10:00 at D's house.

There will be no daytime meeting next month.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 11, 2006 Glad it's the end
DATE: 11/11/2006 18:32:27
STATUS: publish
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Well today was long and exhausting. We dropped off some signs at the mall, and encountered about 100 pregnant women all trying to sign up to see the big baby shower. We had to wait for this woman from the March of Dimes to hand us a check, she was so incredibly rude. Sunshine was very upset that he couldn't ride the rides, we didn't have any change on us, and we felt awful. So there we stood outside Penny's waiting for this woman to take 15 seconds out of her extremely busy schedule to pay us so we could get our very very upset, screaming child out of the area. Okay, enough complaining about having to go to the stupid mall. We then went to the Dollar Tree and got little man some crafts stuff. Then it was off to Sam's were we walked out with out an arm and leg each! But I did buy the roasts, one to make sure I can do it, and one for next weekend when our friends visit. I will also have the tomatoes I need for the spaghetti (already in containers in the freezer) and chili (base that I'm going to make up for Duck). I'm very frustrated tonight, I've dropped just about everything and today seemed to be the day that little man decided to show me how interesting two can be. I also made it by the bread store and bought 9 loaves and some snacks and to Wally World to return the video games for Duck's B-day. (they were messed up) I've run about 6 loads of laundry since....well lets just say Sunshine had too much to drink last night. I'm so sore that I don't even want to walk upstairs to go to bed...why did I do this again? 3 WEEKS AND 4 DAYS. Tomorrow we will go to Indy, we have decided to take one vehicle as I don't feel that I can drive both up and back. I think that it will be a short last trip. I would like to be home by 3 or 4 to make some banana and apple bread. Since I have to go to IGA anyway, I may make some pumpkin bread also. I'm going to see if I can get it to work in my bread maker. I want to finish the laundry room and re-arrange it, I'm tired of not being able to do anything in there. I also want to rearrange the kitchen a bit. Okay, well enough complaining for one day, atleast I am able to do the things that put me into so much pain, and trust me I thank God everyday.

Good night! Love,

Katybug

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 11, 2006 Results are in
DATE: 11/11/2006 05:43:48
STATUS: publish
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Well first I'd like to say, darn I can't spell. Yes I know that knew is spelt k-n-e-w not new. DUH! Sunshine was reviewed by a doc a Riley and she conferred with another doc. They have determined that he doesn't have autism or fit into the spectrum...hum.. Not sure how they can determine that after only a 2 hour visit, but that's what they do. It's good news (n-e-w-s) either way. My BP was 124/84 yesterday! I'm happy about that. MC is 5lbs. 4 oz. and breathing He can come out now!!!!!!!!!!!! I think that I'll keep him in for a few more weeks though, I mean what the heck, what is 3 weeks and 4 days of pain right???? We are making our last trip to Indy tomorrow. It is just really too hard for me to walk around all day and trying to keep up with Mr. Man, is hard too. At least at home, he plays in the livingroom, or comes when you call him. And if he does something like color my washer and dryer in purple sharpie, it's my own fault and I can punish him, but not freak out because it's at someone else's house. Are you wondering if my washer and dryer is covered in purple sharpie??? Well in fact it is. I'm going to a Le Leche meeting on Tuesday, I'm a little nervous how Sunshine will act, but excited because I really want to have much more success in breast feeding this time. Not only for the benefit of MC, but it is much cheaper than formula. Well I need to get off of here and get some house work done. All of MC's clothes have been washed and I want to get them put into the drawers and get Sunshine's room picked up. I also need to get some detail cleaning done today. Yipee.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 08, 2006 Some Good New Alas!
DATE: 11/08/2006 16:17:49
STATUS: publish
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We have been waiting nearly a year for our sunshine to be tested for Autism and new that one day we may get a call with a cancellation and today was that day! We have to be at Riley at 11 am tomorrow morning. Duck is going to try to get off of work for it so he can go with us, if not I'll be making the treck alone. Sunshine bit again today, or as I plan on classifing it, he blew on the kids hand. He has been doing that at home, and we never had a problem with it, we didn't realize that daycare had cut it out completely. I feel strongly that if he wanted to bite the kid, he would have bit harder, and left a noticable mark. Instead he just left minor teeth prints and the child didn't even wimper. Hum....am I wrong? I still encouraged him being put into time out and getting in trouble, he can't do that at daycare and no longer at home. Well I must get ready for the long journey tomorrow. I'm not used to driving so much in one day.

Wish us luck!

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 07, 2006 Just another day
DATE: 11/07/2006 16:21:53
STATUS: publish
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Well, my little sunshine bit again today. I don't get it! FINALLY my daycare lady used a mild form of physical punishment. I pray that it worked. After he bit the girl, C flicked his passy. THANK YOU C!!!! She said that he was so shock, she talked to him about it hurting the other person when he bit, and that it was bad. She then walked him to the playpen where he spent his time out time quietly, instead of the normal fit. PLEASE LET THIS WORK! He's been really good since then.

My BP is stabilizing for now. I'm at 134/84, which I think is the best in almost two weeks. Friday MC will be completely measured and evaluated. Work has been getting busier and busier. I like the fact that I'm very busy, but I'm beginning to feel frustrated a little. I hope that I can get everything caught up by the time I take leave. I just want to leave with a clean desk and a smooth leave. Want in one hand right???? 4 weeks from tomorrow if everything goes well.

I'm in the middle of cooking lunch and dinner for the rest of the week, gotta go. Have a great evening to all.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 05, 2006 The 11th will be the last.
DATE: 11/05/2006 06:48:06
STATUS: publish
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I have decided that I over did it so bad yesterday that I think next weekend will be my last trip. I'm feeling better this morning, but not nearly as good as I feel on a normal morning. I ended up sleeping on the couch for most of the night, I felt so dehydrated last night that I drank two quarts of OJ by myself, except the 3 sips Sunshine took. I'm going to make up some Taco Salad for lunch, and then we will have Ham, Beans and Corn Bread for dinner. Duck is taking back our nice new couch today. Our first piece of brand new furniture and the darn thing has a rip in it. They said that they would exchange it for the same. The couch is a leather look, brown and very inviting. We just finished breakfast and I need to get working on more meals and straitening the house. I'm also going to wash all of MC's clothes today and put them in the drawers. 4 weeks really isn't that long when the days are flying by so fast, and seem to be getting more tiring. I've already packed my toiletries bag, and I will work on putting some things together for my bag. Well I guess I better get to it...

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 04, 2006 Well...let the nesting begin
DATE: 11/04/2006 20:14:53
STATUS: publish
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It's 10:30 at night, my body hurts head to toe, but I'm still cooking the end of the 15 pounds of ground beef to make meals up, and the beans are in the crock pot with the ham....K, does this sound familiar??? I'm going to bag them into 1/2 pound amts and freeze them for Duck when I deliver MC. Pull it out, put it will something and go. Easy and Fast! My blood pressure is getting really high, 146/92 as of Friday, I suspect I will be put on bed rest next week if it doesn't go down...boy that'll make me happy...not. How can one be on bed rest with a 2 year old? We'll just see what happens, and pray for the best. Well it is now 11:30, we have bagged 16 bags of meat for instant meals, 3 dinners/lunches of spegetti, one pizza sauce and 108 oz of fruit cocktail. It's time for all of us to go to bed. Good night and God Bless!

Katybug

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for November 02, 2006 Okay...4 weeks and 6 days
DATE: 11/02/2006 08:41:00
STATUS: publish
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Well I must first say that I'm not nearly as good at this as my new friend K. I will try to keep everyone a little more updated. Allen bit again yesterday drawing blood on a little girl that did absolutely nothing to him. Does anyone have any pearls of wisdom to offer? My next step is to find a ped. dentist for him, he was chewing on the vacuum last night. I think his teeth are coming in. We went to the store last night and spent 103 dollars, but saved 69. I'll offer some pearls of wisdom, don't send a prego lady with a kid to the store that hasn't had dinner yet. Don't worry, I reaped what I sewed, I had to carry everything in by myself and put it away, I hate it when Duck works nights. MC is going to be measured on the 10th, to see how big he is. I'm beginning to think that I'm carrying an elephant. He is head down, and he is really down far. How do I know, you say???? When he has the hiccups, I feel them in a place that one generally doesn't feel hiccups at. Get the point? And on top of that, his feet at in my ribs....again you ask?? Well I won't go into detail, let just say that certain positions are very uncomfortable when one is trying to wipe. Like I said, 4 weeks and 6 days...that is if the doc doesn't take him early. Yes I've been struck with the unfortunate diagnosis of Pre-Eclampsia AGAIN....I see my doc twice a week, every week and MC gets his stress tested. He is doing well, but I am ready to hold him. Allen came up and lifted my shirt the other day and pointed. I told him there was a baby in there. He smiled, grabbed my fingers and led me into the living room where we have a life size baby doll asleep in the bassinet dressed in MC's Clothes. He pointed to the baby, and I told him that was right, there was a baby like that in mommy's belly. He just smiled and walked away. We had dinner with some new friends last weekend, did I mention that yet? They eat much healthier than we do, and I was very surprised to find out that she budgets only $200.00 per month on a grocery bill to feed everyone (4.5). I must learn more I said to myself. The meal was very good, and the conversation was a very nice change. It is hard to find people who are like us. We just don't do anything without our son, and maybe that is part of the problem, but we had him for a reason, he isn't a convenience child as we see so many people try to do with their kids. Family comes FIRST.... Allen did very well playing, didn't want to eat, which didn't surprise me, he was out of his setting. But the playing he did was wonderful, he had so much fun, especially with the chickens. He chased them around in circles with CH, and then they ran into the coup. Well he didn't think that was going to work, so he tried to go in after them. KH raised the ends and they all ran out only to be chased by the boys back into the coup....poor chickens. Then the three children started eating apples, and running around. I think Allen got overheated a little and ended up choking and puking on me. That pretty much ended the evening. I didn't want him to continue to get sick everywhere so we said thank you and exited stage left. They are coming over to our house on the 18th I think for dinner.

We are going to Indy next weekend to see some friends, I'm sure that this will be the last time before MC gets here. I want to see T & B's new baby again, she is adorable.

Allen went Trick or treating with daycare as...of course BUZZ LIGHTYEAR. We finally got his costume on him and he said thank you at just about every house. He's doing well, if we could just get past the biting.

Well I can't think of much more, but I'm sure I will later.

Love and God Bless

Katybug

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 11/02/2006 16:27:49
The picture is adorable! I'm happy to see that Allen had a wonderful time and said thank you. I've been thinking about the biting issue. A friend's child went through this. She ended up getting a small chew toy from the pet department (sounds strange, but she picked one that did not say "I'm made for dogs") and gave it to her son to carry with him. She told him that when he wanted to bite or was angry, to take this out of his pocket and bite on it. When he used it, he was praised for expressing himself appropriately and it gave a BIG indicator that someone needed to spend a few minutes with the child. When he bit another person, he was sent to the corner and a big fuss was made over the person bit.



The biggest thing was making sure the child's pants had pockets to put the biter in.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for October 25, 2006
DATE: 10/25/2006 16:32:57
STATUS: publish
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Hello!

Well I must say that all in all this week is one of the worst in quite some time. I can't believe that it is only Wednesday. Monday I was cussed out by the same customer at least 10 different times. It isn't my fault that my boss isn't returning his call nor picking up her phone. I wouldn't want to talk to him either. Hopefully we have things strait now with him, he seems a little on the vengeful side, and threatened that if the problem didn't get solved, the consequences would be awful. JERK! Then we have had run ins with just about every truck we have scheduled this week. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Allen was very bad at daycare on Monday, I'm not sure what to do yet about this, but he seems to be getting better as the week progress...knock on wood. Please pray for guidance for both of us..I really am about to lose all of my hair. Today I went back to the doctor, another fetal stress test, wow, that only took about an hour. MC is doing well, his heart rate looks great, I on the other hand, well lets just say I have two more visits this week, did I mention that it's Wednesday! My BP is high and now I'm classified as pre-eclamptic, and they are saying they may have to deliver earlier than even planned. Everything looks good on the monitors though, plenty of fluid and his heart is beating great. I can't believe how much he is moving tonight, that's all he has done since 4. On a lighter note, we are having dinner on Saturday with some new friends, which I am really looking forward to, as she is due right about the same time as I am. Friday night Allen has his evaluation for speech here at the house. He has been trying so hard to talk, he'll tell us stories, well they make sense to him, and we just play along. We don't want him to think that him talking is nothing important, besides he too cute when he talks with his hands not to be interested. Well I need to get off of here and prop up my feet, I've also been placed on modified bed rest, can't tell you what that means besides no lifting. I'd much rather to be modified than full though, so I'll do as they say. Good night to all and God Bless.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for October 22, 2006
DATE: 10/22/2006 16:38:13
STATUS: publish
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Okay so it has been a month, and oh what a month it has been. My Sunshine bit a kid on the cheek last Tuesday, in Al's defense, he was tackled, but it doesn't make the bite right. The mother is FURIOUS, and I'm not too happy either. I wish he'd quit biting, and I wish her son would stop provoking fights with mine. Al is so much bigger than hers and I don't see the desire he has to make Al's life hell, they both just wind up in trouble. Thank God they won't be attending the same school. I have hives over most of my body still since Tue, the doc put me on steroids, and did a fetal stress test for MC. And for anyone who is wondering, he is still a he. There's certainly no doubt, pictures speek a thousand words. I go back in Wednesday for another fetal stress test and to get the results of the blood test. By the time I'm done being prego, I don't think that I'll have any blood left, I've never had so much taken in my life. Al is tyring to potty train. His newest word is POOP. He now also says Hello and bye-bye and wow, and other words more plainly. He will be re-evaluated on the 27th for speech. Not much more to say today, more later.

Love,

Katy

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Kim H
DATE: 10/22/2006 16:56:06
Thank you for the link.



You have a wonderful blog and a beautiful picture.



As for blood loss due to vampires...errrr....phlebotomists, don't worry. It's all part of how mothers become zombies until their children move out on their own. LOL.



Let me know how the re-evaluation goes. :)
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for September 13, 2006
DATE: 09/13/2006 18:15:09
STATUS: publish
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OMG, it's almost been 2 months since my last entry. Life is progressing interestingly enough. UR has had good reports from the doc on his Cancer, we pray for him everyday. My sunshine still isn't speaking as much as he should, but he is doing much better than we hoped for. He now says purple, red, blue, yellow and brown, he can count to 5, says hi and bye to everyone even if you aren't coming and going, and is a dancing fool. We are trying to potty train now, he is smart enough, he just needs to be consistantly worked worked with at home and daycare. Mark Christian is getting big, and kicking the crap out of me. I'm 27 weeks today, only about 11 more to go! I can't wait, although I can. I'm not unhappy being pregnant, just feel restricted, and I want to see how he turns out. We will get the 4 d pics soon, the 21st I think. Well I need to go for now, but hope to write much sooner than two months, perhaps if I can find a few minutes tomorrow I'll drop in a line.

Love to all and God Bless!

Katybug

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for July 22, 2006 The Latest
DATE: 07/22/2006 18:55:39
STATUS: publish
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Well not a lot to report. Let's see

The newest baby is as stubborn as it's brother, we still can't tell what it is, but problem solved! We are going in Friday for an in-depth ultrasound. This should check all aspects of the baby, even though it is going to hurt me, we will have a much better idea of the baby's overall health when we leave. When I say hurt, it hurts when they press that stupid thing against my stomach and roll it in circles. Try having someone push their knuckles into your back hard and then rolling them around. You'll understand what I'm talking about then. I found this website that has awesome prices on diapers. 1800 diapers.com I think I'm going to sign up. Although diapers are still cheaper at biglots, if you can find them. We will also try the Sam's Club generic diapers to see if the baby is tolerant to them, Sunshine wasn't.

Speaking of Sunshine, he was jabbering up a storm today, he was amazingly happy all day, weird....hope this doesn't mean that tomorrow is going to be horrible. Friday he bit his first kid at daycare. Thankfully he didn't draw blood, but he bit him in the ankle, weird. He just hasn't EVER bit anyone beside me, and only when he's teething. We have been telling him often that he's going to be a big brother and that there is a baby in mommy's belly. I'm not sure that he understands, in fact I don't believe he cares. Boy will he ever when the baby comes. He has been putting shoes on Elmo, and putting Elmo to bed and shutting off the light signaling that Elmo is asleep. We are having a hard time keeping him out of the baby's stuff like the bouncer seat, so we have taught him to put Elmo in there. Next it will be to break him of taking the baby out to put Elmo in. He is very affectionate to Elmo which makes me confident that he will do well with the new baby.

Well I've gotta go for now, I hope that everyone is doing great and well.

With love,

katybug

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for July 13, 2006 Not a lot about anything
DATE: 07/13/2006 19:47:34
STATUS: publish
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Well Grandpa is in the hospital following a valve replacement surgery. We send him all our prayers for a safe and speedy recovery. Work has been so busy, it's great. The weather is a little unbearable. Duck seems fine at night when it's like 78-80 degrees, I'm sweltering and miserable. Guess he should carry the next baby, if there is a next. A week from today we will find out what we are having. We watched Super-size me the other night, and boy oh boy. We haven't eaten out since. I'm actually excited at the money we are going to save. Last night Allen and I ate for about $2.00 instead of $8 - $10 had we gone out. If you think about it logically, I want to only spend about 5 dollar a meal, so that's $35.00 per week on dinner only, instead of $70.00. 35 x 4 = $140.00 a month. That's my electricity bill!!! I heard that they have passed a new law that states that every registered sex offender will have to wear one of those ankle braclet for life. THANK GOD!!!! Finally our state has gotten the balls to do what it should have done many years ago. My personal opinion which is shared by a majority of my friends, especially those that are parent, ALL sex offends should be castrated or in the case of a woman, de-sexed some how. Second offense should be death by firing squad. I can't imagine why someone would do something so stupid and horrible. Well I guess that's all for now, more later....love to all, prayers to all..good night
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for June 22, 2006 Good News
DATE: 06/22/2006 17:18:24
STATUS: publish
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HELLO ALL!!!

I went to the doctor today and saw our newest little one. It is growing very big, and the heart beat is doing GREAT. I won't go back for 4 weeks instead of the usual 2. The doctor said that I'm considered higher risk because of my past, ie: heart surgery, ER C-Section and such. My BP is doing WONDERFUL! 109/66. Hopefully we will find out what the munchkin is at the next visit. We are suppose to get the 4 d pics at 22 weeks. I can't wait, and Howard said that he's going to go to every one at that point. He's in it for the technology end of seeing the littest one that close. I came home yesterday and opened the door, and WHOOF, I smelt the worst thing in the world. I would have much rather smelt or even been sprayed by a skunk, my poor kitty had been stuck in the house without the air on and he threw up EVERYWHERE, even down the stairs. He had an accident in the bathroom and was hiding in the bathtub. You know a cat doesn't feel well when his in the bathtub of all places.

Well I guess I better finish this later, we are getting hammered by a horrible storm.

Love and kisses to all

Katybug

Prayers for Grandpa and UR!

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for June 19, 2006 Okay, again it's been a while
DATE: 06/19/2006 16:06:09
STATUS: publish
BODY:

Hello All!

Life has been....um flowing. I have been sicker than a dog for the past few weeks, thank God I'm starting to overcome it. My OB/GYN is now seeing me weekly...yeah I know, I'm only 15 weeks along. There has to be some underlying problem that he is forgetting to tell me. Don't worry I'll get to the bottom of the problem this week. My sunshine was running a 103 this morning, so I had to keep him until it went down. The best we can figure...he has some pearly whites coming in and it is really throwing him for a loop. Right now he is dancing around with a flash light in his fishing/jail bird outfit. He is getting so big, if you haven't seen him in a while, you'd be amazed. We are trying to get him aquainted with the fact that there is going to be another one running around here soon. He is resistant to the fact....momma's boy.

We went to a funeral this weekend of a wonderful 49 year old young at heart man that deserved to live a million years. I can remember all the holidays that we shared with him and TM's family. Priceless! What a sad event to loose such a wonderful person. He will certainly be missed, but I'm sure that he is in a better place now and not suffering.

My Uncle R isn't doing so well either, he has been diagnoised with lung cancer and male cancer. Aunt S seems like she is holding up. I pray for a speedy and safe recovery everyday. We have also found out that Grandpa isn't doing well either. He has a heart thing going on, It is so sad to see so much illness, everyone I talked to last week seemed sick or knew someone who was. Guess you shouldn't call me huh?

Well little man wants to color so I best go and play with him before bath time.

Love to all and God Bless everyone

Katybug

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for June 01, 2006 Just another day
DATE: 06/01/2006 18:40:23
STATUS: publish
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Wow, it's June already. I spoke to a dear friend today only to find out that another close friend isn't doing so well. She is so unhappy in the position she has put herself in that she is well.....unhappy. My advise, cut your losses and go on with your life. You are young, beautiful and smart....Life is too short to be so unhappy. Apollo, my kitty has a really bad hurt paw, he will need to go to the vet if the meds I gave him don't work. My sunshine FAILED his "speech eval", depressingly enough he only scored at 67 out of 200. We work with him so much, yet he doesn't speak. I want his ears check. As for the new addition to our family....it is doing good, strong heart beat, brain forming as should be and correct size for 12 1/2 weeks. I'm a little unsure as to why the doc wants me to come back in two weeks though. I'm afraid that they aren't telling me something. They think I have a UTI, that's why I've been having such sever cramps, and that I'm not drinking enough and that's why my headaches won't go away. Gulp gulp! My blood pressure is still borderline, and I fear they will try to put me on bed rest, fat chance since I have a 2 year old. Above all the bad news, I'm proud to report that I have only gained back 2 of the 20 pounds that I lost 3 months ago, and I plan to start cutting out the really bad stuff that I've been eating. We missed the Memorial Day party with T, B & J, I just couldn't gather the strength to get up and go. I've been very tired and in pain...it has finally all caught up with me. I've had a sever headache for the major part of the past 3 days. I only get relief when I sleep, and since we are all sleeping in the living room because of the a/c, Sunshine is tossing and turning on the couch with me. Needless to say, I'm not getting much sleep either. Duck goes to days next week, and we will celebrate our 3rd anniversary on 6-6-06, yup! I know, and no it wasn't planned that way. I love him with all my heart, an silly superstition will not come between us on that day...besided I think I may use this time to catch up on my sleep. Much love to all, and I hope my good friends makes the best decision for herself and her family.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for May 23, 2006 What an AWFUL night
DATE: 05/23/2006 06:02:00
STATUS: publish
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We all have our bad nights, but this on takes the cake for me. After being chased by a baby Blue-Jay that was just learning to fly at my sunshine's daycare, we went home. I did a bunch of paperwork, and then talked to a friend that I hadn't talked to in a long time. Received some not so good news from her, but it's her life and life will go on. Only she determines how she lives her life. Best wishes to her. Then sunshine and I went to bed at about 11ish. If you have any questions or concerns why we go to bed so late...ask me I'll be more than happy to explain it to you. There is logic behind the madness. If I had it my way we'd be in bed by 9 everynight. At about 2:15ish, the dogs started to go NUTS, I looked up and saw that the tree outside my bedroom window was Orange. Okay I thought, I'm still dreaming apparently and the aliens have landed.(that is seriously what I said to myself) I was too tired to go and get my ray gun, and I figured Duck would come to my rescue. Thinking nothing else of it, I went back to sleep. Shortly later.....the dogs started to go again. For both dogs to be barking like they were, something was really wrong. I sat up, opened the window and again saw the orange tree, thinking that the Aliens had already left I yelled at the dogs to shut up, and that's when I heard the crackling sound. I must admit that I have NEVER been so terrified in my life as I was at that very moment. I thought to myself, oh my god my house is on fire. I looked around the room and my sunshine was asleep next to me and there was no smoke or disarray in the bedroom so I decided that the best thing was to leave him in the room since I felt he was safer there while I went to investigate. I literally jumped out of bed, and ran to the door, swung it open, and saw the normal hallway. I couldn't figure out why there wasn't any smoke, why I didn't see anything. For the tree to be that orange, it had to be serious. I ran down the stairs and into the laundry room as I knew that if I had to go outside I didn't want anyone to see me in my night clothes. Again I saw the orange tree, and now the side of the garage was orange. I still was having a difficult time comprehending what was going on, there wasn't anything out of the ordinary. I ran to the kitchen and opened the window, again the orange garage, and the side of the deck was glowing. Figuring that something was a muck, I ran to the front door and opened it cautiously...that's when I saw it. The fire was across the street, I turned around really quick and grabbed the phone...I saw only a chimney among the flames. I was horrified and started to lose control of my feeling and began to massively panic. I called 911 and hysterically told them the house across the street was on fire and that there was nothing left. They told me that they had already rec'd a call and that help was on it's way. I immediately called Duck's buddy to see if they had left work as he wasn't home yet and I really needed someone to help me calm down. He talked to me for a while and said that he should be home any minute. Not wanting to leave my sunshine, I stayed there on the porch and watched in horror as the building continued to burn uncontrollably. A few minutes later the fire department arrived but it was too late, there was nothing left. Duck seeing all the fog on the way home and then realizing that it wasn't fog, it was smoke was horrified to see the direction it was coming from. He raced home and had to drive through all the traffic of the small little streets. By the time he had gotten home the fire was mostly extinguished and the only thing that you could hear was the sounds of the truck, men and crackling of the electrical wires. I managed to calm down before Duck got home and in the mean time I had recorded the fire on the camera. I saw this boy walking down our street and I stopped him to see if he knew if anyone was hurt, he said that it was only a garage. It is certainly an eye opening experience. Duck will put in 5 smoke detector this weekend, and we will buy a ladder for the second story window. I'm still a little shaken by the event and have sore eyes from crying.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for May 11, 2006 The new baby
DATE: 05/11/2006 15:54:50
STATUS: publish
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I'll have Duck post the new pic of the new baby soon. You really can't see anything, but it's cool! The baby now has hands, feet and is 10 cm long. Today our little sunshine got to see our new bundle of joy. Let's just say, it wasn't worth the experience and it won't happen again! He threw the biggest fit in the waiting room, in fact, he was so loud that they brought him a sucker to quite him down. Luckily we were the only ones in there. They finally decided that an hour of him screaming was enough and they put us in a room. When the doctor and nurse came in, they wanted to see if they could hear the heart beat. Well, Sunshine took this as they were hurting mommy, and bawled as if they were. Afterwards, before they moved us to the ultrasound room, he wrapped his arms around my neck and held on for dear life. We went through the same thing in the ultrasound room. Needless to say, he was only trying to protect me, but he will need to go to daycare next time. Which is in 3 weeks. My blood pressure is creeping up, but they are keeping any eye on it. I'll keep you posted with anything new.

Love,

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for May 07, 2006 It's amazing how quickly the weeds choke the path!
DATE: 05/07/2006 17:22:15
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Today we went to visit some of our friends up "North". I can only say WOW! It is amazing how quickly the weeds have choked the path. We were invited and still were treated like out casts. Is it because we aren't filthy rich? Is it because I didn't wear my cross? Could it be because I wasn't dressed in Polo or Ralph Lauren? What ever the case may be, DAMN IT, I am who I am, my mother couldn't accept me for who I am, and was, and I didn't change, so why in the HELL should I change for anyone else? Wanna know my secret??? I'm not a materialist person, yes, I drive a nice car, sold very cheap (and I sincerely appreciate the deal) by my dad and his wife, yes, my son wears Ralph Lauren, Gap and Polo, again my secret, they were all given to me for free. Again, we are very appreciative. Life is no about being the best, making the most, and looking the best, it is what you leave behind and I'm not talking about possessions. Our life will not be remembered by our great-great grandchildren, but by our children, and grandchildren and the impact that we leave on them. Sunshine will grow up with the best that I can provide him, but with dignity to shop at Goodwill and Yard Sales. I fell like everything after 2:00 today was a total waste of our time. We simply should have stayed at T & B's and played Euchre and hung out with real friends. And then on the way home I got to thinking, what in the hell am I doing with my life? Who am I going to be in 10 years? What can I do to change it. On one hand I want to have enough money not to worry about bills, and such, so I bought a few Powerball tickets, but I want to ALWAYS be home to put my kids in bed EVERYNIGHT. Why have them if you can't spend time with them? I know that several of my friends and family disagree with the way that I'm raising my child, soon to be children, but they raise their kids the way that they want to, and they are alive, so what can I say. My sunshine changes with every sunrise and sunset, whether it is something that he learned at daycare, or the few extra minutes that I took to spend with him instead of sleeping. I only want to do the best I can, and GOD, I hope that it is good enough! It is very sad and difficult to report that I'm terribly depressed today and ready to ball my eyes out. I used to get the feelings when I left their house, why did I think that things would be different today, I'm still the outcast. And Howard always asks why I make sure that we are invited before we attend certain things, because this is what we feel like, even after we were invited. Crazy huh? So to T & B, thank you so much for eating a wonderful slider lunch with us, and spending the few hours with us that you did, it was fantastic. To JM, I'm sorry that I missed you, I will see you next time, or perhaps we can meet in the middle. To everyone else, life is very good for us, even if we aren't sitting with a big bank account, new cars, and a million toys, we are happy with love, compassion and companionship. Either way, we love you all and GOD Bless.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for May 03, 2006 It's been a while
DATE: 05/03/2006 17:59:42
STATUS: publish
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All is well, just hanging in there or here. My sunshine had a horrible mishap with the corner this evening, he cried for a few minutes and that was it...he has a huge bump on his cheek and a bruise . I've been feeling a little , but that's just how it goes. A lot of the kids have had Strep at the daycare where sunshine goes. But I don't feel....completely strepish. I can't explain it. I'm a little over 8 weeks along, and I go back to the doctor next week. I will talk to the doctor about my heart as I have been having several arrhythmia's and skips. I know that it has something to do with being pregnant, but it is beginning to take my breath away and I've been having chest pain. I certain hope it is something as simple as gas or such. My doc seems decent, but he likes to push pills, and that makes me a little uncomfortable. I also really don't care for his NP at ALL, let's just say she's new and I'm not a guinea pig. I'm at a loss as to which hospital to have the baby at, I want to have a private room, but I'm not sure if I should sacrifice care for privacy. Just something about flopping my boob to feed the baby in front of someone else. And we just have habits that aren't shared by everyone. We are going to go to the local hospital and see what they have and ask a million questions. I'm sure we will come to the best decision possible. Sunshine was born in a small remote hospital, I didn't have a problem there and didn't EVER have to share anything, including my nurses. Well that's all for now. Sorry if this is drab, just feeling blah lately!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for April 23, 2006 Baby News
DATE: 04/23/2006 09:51:40
STATUS: publish
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For those of you who may or maynot know, we are expecting another baby. Friday I went to the doctor for the second appt, and we saw the heart beat. We are very excited to welcome this new addition to our family in late Nov, early Dec. I will keep you posted as the days go. I will post ultrasound pics as I get more that are clearer.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for March 28, 2006 Life is better
DATE: 03/28/2006 15:23:42
STATUS: publish
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With all the worries that everyone faces, I face them too. My son is growing up so big, am I raising him correctly, teaching him good values, making him purposfully in life? Will be beable to pay all of our bills this month? Etc...I have been blessed by God for the wonderful things that he has given to me. Sunshine is doing so much better back on his asthma medicine, and for Duck and I, we both are battling a round of the stomach flu....At least he can sleep all day with out our sunshine demanding attention every second...luck duck..hehe. Our buddy Kevin is getting married, great new! He deserves a wonderful woman that will make him happy every hour of every day. Tony is prego again, well you know what I mean.....I do hope that they find out what it is, but ultimately it is up to them. We want to know what it is next time, and perhaps not the third, if there is one. I'm very happy today, don't really know why, I don't feel very well, but I'm just happy. God Bless all of you, your families, friends and enemies.

Love,

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for March 20, 2006 Another Sleepless night
DATE: 03/20/2006 20:25:25
STATUS: publish
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Well, it's another sleepless night, my Sunshine is snoring away, my duck at work and I just jumped off the scale. I happily inform you that I have lost a total of 18 pounds in 3 weeks. I hope that it keeps up. I hope to loose another 80. I'm watching this so called winter storm that is suppose to hit us tonight, I don't think it is going to be so bad for us. The weather is disapating before it even gets close. I think that we are going to get rain and maybe a little sleet. I doubt that we are going to get 6 inches. Well I'm going to lay down with little man until daddy gets home. I hope that everyone is doing great and special prayers to Grandpa who has had a stroke, Granny who isn't feeling well. Prayers to all my friends, family and all those in need. I read a disturbing article in the "Hot Zone" hosted by Yahoo about this Afganhi girl who was brutalized as a child. The story is sad, but very touching, if you get a free minute, I recommed it!

Love,

Katybug

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for March 10, 2006 Sunshine's trip to the hospital
DATE: 03/10/2006 10:29:50
STATUS: publish
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As many of you may know, Sunshine and I spent a 6 days in the hospital. It was one of the saddest things I have ever seen in my whole life. He was hooked up to a Blood Oxygen machine, an IV and Oxygen. It all started two weeks ago when I picked him up at daycare and he had a little something in his eye. Later that night he had green goop pouring out of his eyes. we took him to the doctor and Dr. S. said that he had an upper resp. infection and pink eye. That night he started running a fever and Saturday he started a cough. Monday he was too sick to take to daycare, Tuesday I took him in the morning and went picked him up early to take him to the doctor. Dr. H said did a culture and an x-ray. He had strep, so she gave him a penicillin shot. He didn't like that at all. She also put him back on all his asthma meds. Wednesday, he went and played a little, but his fever never broke. Wed. night we slept on the couch because duck was sick also and I didn't want little man and I to wake up everytime Duck coughed during the night. He woke up at about 1:30 and I gave him some medicine and a breathing treatment. He then stopped breathing as if he had forgotten. I placed my hand on his stomach and said his name. A couple of hours later Duck got up ant went to work, shortly there after I called a special friend and she advised that I call the doctor. They returned my call and said that it didn't sound life threatening and to wait until the office opened to come in. He stopped breathing again and I decided to run him into the ER. They did a blood ox level which came back low. They insisted that it was a machine malunction. They gave him IV fluids and told me to follow up with his doc Fri if he wasn't any better. Friday morning, I called and got an appt with Dr. G, his assigned doc, once there Dr. G was understanding the error of taking him off all his meds 6 weeks earlier. He said that we were going to give him a breathing treatment in the office and if it didn't work then we would have to have him admitted. He had a orapred treatment, and the doc said that he sounded better. He said one of two things were going to happen, he'd either be better or the same at which time I'd have to call the on call doc an have him admitted. At about 5:30 he got worse so, I had the doc on call paged. He said to take him in. They put in a IV and drew blood. They decided that he needed to be admitted and then the doc on call came in shortly after that and set him at breathing treatments every 3 hours. They then put him on a bunch different meds and during the night his ox level dropped below 87 and they had to put him on oxygen. They finally we able to reduce the oxygen over time and they were finally able to let him go home Thursday early afternoon. They did so many things to him to him over the week, but it was MISERABLE. Well I need to get up and get Mr. Man his meds. Thanks to everyone who called and kept me sane.

Love,

Bug

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for February 27, 2006 Taking my body back
DATE: 02/27/2006 16:55:56
STATUS: publish
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Well not that many of you knew me when I was smaller, but I AM TAKING MY BODY BACK. I have joined weight watchers and I'm going to loose all my excess "baggage". I have already lost 7 of my 84 pounds. Yip-Yip hurrah! I can do it! I'm very excited and can't wait for spring to get here so I can walk more. I miss all of my friends and hope that I can visit soon.

Love you all.

K

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for February 10, 2006 "Truely a lucky woman"
DATE: 02/10/2006 17:51:05
STATUS: publish
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How many times have you gone home to see all the stuff that you have to do that night? Gotta fold the two loads of laundry that the husband did during the day and threw on the couch. Gotta wash all the breakfest, lunch and sometimes dinner before dishes. Then when you are trying to perform miracles to get you house clean, your child is running around writing all over the walls in crayon, spilling his drink, throwing food everywhere and knocking everything over in his path as if he is a bull in a China Shop. I realized today that I may not be the richest woman in the world, I may not see my husband every day, I may not have a perfect house and so many more things I don't have, I never REALLY stopped to look at what I do have! I have the love a wonderful man who doesn't fight with me, doesn't hit me and kisses me every night when he comes in from work and makes sure that we are safely in bed and warm. I have a BEAUTIFUL child who comes up and sits on my lap to cuddle while he is watching a movie or when I'm on the computer. We have a house to call our own, food in the fridge and pantry, running water and heat. I am a very lucky woman, with all the horrible things going on in the world today such as the reporter who was kidnapped, the two woman who were shot and killed and all 4 of their children were shot and are struggling, I have a "safe" enviroment to call home. Do I believe that I'm invensible? NO absolutely not, but I feel secure for the first time in years. So when I sit back and look at the clothes on the couch, dishes in the sink and food on the floor, I smile, because I am lucky, even though I have to take time to clean up, I have things to clean up and I always have time to cuddle whether I'm done cleaning or not. And I have a home that is filled with love. I thank GOD every day for the wonderful gifts he has given me, especially for the gift of another day, and the prividlege of being a mother.

I love you all and God Bless you, your family, your laundry, your dishes and the food on your floor.

Katy

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for January 31, 2006 "The Last Day of the Month"
DATE: 01/31/2006 17:21:26
STATUS: publish
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Well today is the 31st...what's my point right? Well there really isn't one. I just can't believe that tomorrow is Feb. 1st. My little sunshine will be 2 in two months. I also am having a hard time with my age this year. I'm not up for turning another year older. I'm also ready to have another baby, but we just can't afford it. We always seem to make it, but whoa! babies cost a lot, even though they are worth it. I'm incredibly tired today as is my little man. My new job is going great, time flies while I'm there and I do talk about my little sunshine, but I really don't have a lot of time to sit and think about how much time I'm not spending with him. Then when we get home we play and clean and fold clothes and so on. Well I must get some stuff together for tomorrow, and clean up the apple peel he just spat on the floor...

Me.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for January 22, 2006 "The day before"
DATE: 01/22/2006 13:43:12
STATUS: publish
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Today is the day before tomorrow....hehe. I guess that is always the case isn't it. Tomorrow I start my new job, and I'm really excited. I'm a little worried, but I think that it is going to be GREAT!!! My sunshine is feeling a little better, but he is still coughing and conjested. I can't wait for him to start talking. I want to him, "Mommy I love you!" Riley can't get him an appt until 01/2007, WOW that's a while to have to wait. I hear that we will be put on a waiting list. Nothing else new to report except that we are getting more of the house put together. I can't wait until we are completely done!
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for January 18, 2006 "Rejection for an innocent"
DATE: 01/18/2006 18:58:45
STATUS: publish
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Early this morning...about 2:30 am I woke up to my little man coughing and well what it sounded like he was gasping for air and hoarse. I felt so sorry for him, then about 5 am, he started to scream and cry and then there was nothing. I got up to see if he was okay and his arms were frozen and he wasn't moving. I of course thought the worst at first, then I picked him up and he whined. I then laid him down in our bed so I could get him warm and have him closer to me. This is the 3rd night in a row that I have had little to no sleep with him crying in the night and coughing last night. I went to work and told them that I needed to get him to the doctor this morning in fear that it could be something horrible like pneumonia. So I called a few doctors to see if we could get him in today. Finally I got him an appt at a children's clinic. So I hurried to get my portion of the opening done and left work early, drove home, woke little man and Duck up, got them dressed and rushed to make our appt. When we got there they told us that they wouldn't see him unless we physically had our insurance card. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? How absurd! My son is sick and needs medical attention, they are a doctor's office, and they REFUSED to treat him over a medical insurance card! I am appalled. We were forced to leave and I just burst into tears. We came home and called his old pediatrician in Lebtucky and I was describing the symptoms and they told me to take him to the ER right away. So that is what we did. We were there for about 2.5 hours and it turns out that he has a terrible sore throat and is being treated for croup. I am horrified that a doctor's office would put more importance in an insurance card than a childs life. What if he had a sever respiratory infection and we just went home until we got his insurance cards? Needless to say I am going to being writing a strongly worded letter to the doctor's office. Duck made a very good comment today, "It seems like we stepped out of reality, and into the Twilight Zone!"

Last night I was speaking with a friend who brought up a point, it seems like I really miss my old home and all my friends. Well I do miss my friends and I do miss my previous job, but I don't miss my home or the fear that came with it. I don't expect anyone to understand, but I feel what I feel, no more and no less. It is different from me up here, I don't have a "support group" of friends close, I haven't really meet anyone that I would even want to consider a friend. People are so different here, they are into drinking heavily, drugs, holier than thou attitude, on the other hand think that everyone should hand everything to them on a silver platter. I never thought that this place would be so different than where we where, it's just something that we need to get used to for now, not forever. I don't plan on living in Indiana for ever.

I hope that no one ever has to go through what I went through last night and today, even though I know it happens all the time.

God Bless, Katybug

By the way, if anything is amok in this letter or my grammer is off, please don't mind it, I'm sure that you can figure it out. By the way, it has been nearly 5 days since I have had a decent night sleep, more than 5 hours without being woke up.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for January 15, 2006 "No laughing matter"
DATE: 01/15/2006 16:05:53
STATUS: publish
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Last night after our little sunshine went to sleep we decided to have some "mommy and daddy" time. Well as you can imagine it is hard to do when we all sleep in the same room. It's just one of the few down falls of having your bundle of joys in the same room. Well Duck was tickleing me and I was laughing...all the sudden we heard a little laugh come from our little man. Needless to say it ruined the mood and we laid back down until he fell asleep again. I have had so many debates with people over the who sleeping in the same room thing. I say poohey on everyone....I'll listen to your side, tell you mine and then go to sleep with my son either in my bed or his that night. There is nothing greater than having you child within ear shot of you when you are sleep.... Does anyone remember the story of Elizabeth Smart? Granted our little sunshine will not be in our room forever, but for now it suits. There in NOTHING greater than laying there snuggled up with your child and being albe to feel his/her breath on your cheek. Now that does come with the occassionally kicks in the gut or head when they turn around, but I sincerely don't feel that it will have any effect on him in the future when he needs to be independent. That comes with them being albe to play alone when you are cleaning or washing dishs and folding clothes. A child is a very valuble, irreplaceable being that you should protect and cherish every moment of every day. And to me that means when he is asleep as well. I hate the fact that he is having to go back to daycare, but I firmly believe that this is going to be great for him, he LOVES it there. There are so many kids to play with and so much to do. They lady that runs it is wonderful. Happy Birthday to my friend D.S. and best wishes for S.S. as he recovers and hopefully gets to come home soon.

Well I guess I need to get going.

Love Katybug

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for January 13, 2006 "my new job"
DATE: 01/13/2006 10:55:21
STATUS: publish
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I went for a "preview" of my new job today. The lady that I will be working with is leaving for several months and I will be filling her shoes. Unfortunately I won't have anymore training until then...I'm a little nervous. I'm sure that it will al be great! The president of the co is going to work with me to get everything taken care of until my co worker returns. Today I also dropped my little sunshine off at a new daycare and he didn't even want to kiss me goodbye. He even gave me his passy. :( I was soooooo sad. I made it without crying, just bearly. Well I'm physically exhausted, and I'm going to wait for Duck to get home so I can take a nap.
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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for January 12, 2006 Boring Day
DATE: 01/11/2006 22:00:16
STATUS: publish
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Today was boring, work was slow, came and went in spurts, but slow. My little sunshine didn't want to go to sleep until 3:00 am. I was up with him, he is soooo adoralbe, he would lay there and laugh, play and fight sleep. It is remarkable to see that he has grown from 8 lbs 4 ozs to nearly 35 lbs at 20 months. Children are such a wonderful addition to our lives, I can't seem to understand why anyone would hurt someone so defenseless. I read about things everyday that want to make my cry, so why do I read them right? I feel that we all need to be reminded that these things really do happen in our world that we must be that more vigiliant to protect our own children from such harms that they could come into contact with. Life is so precious. Oh by the way, not to start anything among us, but did any of you see what, I think it was in Vermont, a judge gave a child molestor? 2 MONTHS!!!! What an outcry, if you want to read more about it you can visit www.theindychannel.com the story is there. I just pray everyday for the safety of all the children, my and everyone else's. Maybe tomorrow I won't be so, I don't know...deep.

Good night everyone,

Katybug

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for January 11, 2006 "Anal Glacoma"
DATE: 01/10/2006 23:01:58
STATUS: publish
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Well, as you can see my header for today. My darling Duck has thought of a new word for the medical field. "Anal Glacoma" guess you are wondering what it's meaning is....Well put it this way, if you call in to work and tell them you have "Anal Glacoma" who's going to question what that is? It has something to do with you buttocks right? Well you are correct if you thing so. It means that you wounldn't see you A$$ coming to to work that day. Well it made me laugh. Needless to say as I type right now my little sunshine is still awake next to me fighting tooth and nail every inch of his closing eye lids. Daddy of course isn't happy he has to be up in 2.5 hours. Poor guys, what he puts up with to be the "man" of his family and support us. I'm not sure if Daddy Duck knows just how much we appreicate him. A hard, litterly hard working, giving, unselfish dad and husband that makes us so happy. We are still thinking about getting our sunshine tested for Autism. He is still banging his head and such...I do worry, but think that some of is really just being a kid. We'll find out one way or the other. Well I need to go and dream about my little sunshine growing up to be a world famous scientist, engineer or president. We'll see what dreams may bring. Good night to all.

Katybug.

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for January 10, 2006 Bomb Shell
DATE: 01/09/2006 22:18:39
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Today was interesting. I turned in my notice and the DM came up to me and asked me why. I told him that the opportunity of a life time has been presented to me and that I had to take it. He started in on me about how many jobs I have had over the years and how he has only had 4 in his life. Well goody for him...does he want a cookie? It is great that some people out there make it their "life's" destiny to be a District Manager of a fast food chain. Fortunately I am not one of thoes people. How dare him attack my past, he doesn't know who I am or what I have been through. I worked a full time job at BK at the age of 16 earning 6.5 per hour to help pay my mother's mortgage since her husband wouldn't get a job to support the family. Then I decided that I wanted more money and didn't want to be around them, I'll explain at another date, so I decided to get a full time position at a store. I was working 5 am to 1 or 2 pm and then 2 pm to midnight at the store. At 17 years old I was working approx 75 to 85 hours a week. Who in the hell is he to tell me that I'm a job hopper, I have busted my butt of over the years. I have tried and deserve to better myself in different avenues, sometimes I wind back up at fast food, call me crazy, but I love the adrenline of the fast pace, but I don't want to do it for the rest of my life. Kudos to anyone who does, someone needs to run those places. So then he started to say that he owned 4 houses, 3 of which he rents and he owns a 2002 Dodge Ram....again, does he want a cookie? Is he nuts? He seems to work hard, and he is in his mid to late 40's with a fast food career, medoaker life and let's not forget he owns a Dodge Ram. Don't get me wrong I LOVE Dodge Rams, after all my dad owns one and I love the look of them, but big deal, none the less it is a 2002, with all the "big" bucks he sould have rolling in he should be driving a brand new one every year. What is his point in all of this? It seems that he is just a materialistic person. I don't want to just make enough money to squeak by, I want to exceed in life. Besides I own two houses, well they both have mortgages, but they are in my or Duck's name. We both own our vehicles, both of which are paid off. So I have resigned myself to working everyother weekend after my two weeks are up. The other thing that he said to me was that he expected a 5 year commentment out of his employees. YOUR HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME....how in the world does he expect to keep anyone at $6.00 per hour for 5 years, got off the crack dude. What a freaking joke. Did you ever see the movie "You've Got Mail" where the talk about Zingers. I just wanted to ask him if he was "F'ing" kidding me, and ask him if he wanted a cookie. It must be great to have an average life, but I want more. Pardon my spelling tonight, I am running through this trying to get ready for bed. I certainly hope that everyone's day has gone better than my night. Screw "DM" I hope that he has a happy average life in surburbia meth town with his Dodge Ram and 4 houses. He should be happy in his thought of a 5 year comentment from teenages and young adults who are looking for something better.

What goes around comes around.

Katybug

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AUTHOR: mykatybug2002
TITLE: Entry for January 08, 2006 What a week!
DATE: 01/08/2006 21:18:10
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This week I have had several new things come up. The biggest of which happened to me Friday. When we decided to move to a new area I had sent out over 50 resumes, and got several interested parties, however none near as interesting as this particular individual. She owns a unique company and is an amazing successful woman who I can see that I will learn ALOT from. However she never called one way or the other after two interviews. I have thought about that position and was a little disappointed that I never rec'd a call one way or the other, but figured everything happens for a reason and something would happen. Just last week Duck and I were talking about me trying to find something that was more rewarding to me than just working as a Drive Thru attendant. They have offered me management granted, but the raise would have NEVER have been worth it. Anyhow Friday I got a call from this lady and she explained that she never hired anyone full time and was interested in interviewing five of the individuals again and I was first on her list. I told her that I had found something and wouldn't be able to meet her until next Friday or this weekend, she jumped at the opportunity to meet me on Sat. So we set something up. Her husband joined the conversation and they decided that it wasn't necessary to go on with the other 4 applicants, and they offered me the job. I was shocked, but I'm sure that this is going to be fascinating. I am going to learn so much, and I feel that I was led to do fast food until she was able to get her personal issues secured. I'm really hopeful that this will be the job "career" that I'm looking for. I'm going to go to classes for espanol to learn more and be more beneficial to the organization. I'm very excited that I will once again have a 8-5 m-f job. :)

I have also been doing a lot of thinking about my friends that I miss so much. A very dear childhood's friend's mother is ill and having surgery tomorrow, I pray for her safe recovery every time I think about her.

I think about so many things everyday, like am I making the right decisions for my son and family? Should I keep my mother and son from knowing each other? I absolutely feel that I'm doing it to only protect him. She can try to hurt me all she wants, and no matter what she is my mother, but she doesn't have the right to do the things that she does. Oh what to do? I only hope that I am doing the right thing as most people do agree with that I am doing. She doesn't even claim him and has tried to break up my engagement to my now husband and tried to ruin our reputations with everyone. She is a real piece of work. I only hope that she can find peace within herself.

We are going to take Baby Al to the doctor next week to find out if he has Autism. We are concerned as he is displaying a lot of the signs. Either way we will love him and cherish him as we do now. We will just be able to get him the help that he needs now instead of waiting. He is such an amazing little boy who brings a smile to my face all the time. I thank God for the blessing that I have received over the years.

Well I must be going to bed soon, the baby is laying down and I need to get my house clean tomorrow.