Lazy, Rainy, Saturday

Well, its been raining, and kinda dreary all morning, and I've already had like 4 naps, lol, the best of which I was nursing Becca and she was asleep on my chest while I was sleeping, she seems to enjoy to nurse while she is sleeping as much as when she is awake.




I got Travis to take a picture of me and the girls, but Lydia ran out of the picture, she really hates to get her picture taken if its a posed picture, but if she wants to pose for you then you better be ready to take her picture right then lol.



Katie Grace read a book to Lydia. Then she played dress up with Becca. I fixed cinnamon buns and orange glazed breakfast buns for brunch (1pm lol) I really would like to get some cleaning done today.
This is the start of my busy weeks starting tomorrow I really want to go to church, then Monday, Travis is to meet with the disability lawyer at 2:30, then Tuesday I have orientation for my new job and Katie Grace's report card comes out, then Wednesday Travis has court, then Thursday is my sisters birthday, and my first day of training at the the new job, from 6pm to 6am with a girl I worked with at the other job. Then I will be off on Friday, and will train my last two of three training days Saturday and Sunday nights with another girl I worked with at the other job. As much as I really don't want to leave the girls and don't want to go back to work, I really think this was lined up "just for me, in perfect timing" b/c I will be still not making enough to go out to eat everyday and go shopping each month, but should be able to get all of my bills paid each month without having all the stress I had at the other job. I will be making a little more than the other job, and will have much more family time. I am so happy to have such beautiful girls, and God is so good!! I have been reading in a Joyce Meyers book, but that'll be another post....... till then

Pictures from Friday night 4/4/08

These are the pictures we took last night at my sisters new house. We had so much fun. Matthew, holding Becca, Becca sleeping in her recliner, Matthew holding Lydia causing his britches to fall down, and Katie Grace in the background laughing, and Tina so sleepy yet still such a good hostess, and a video of the kids all horsing around.





She's gonna kill me, for doing this lol, but hey what can you say, it WAS almost 3 hours past your normal bedtime. Love you sister!

A Friday Night

I had a good night last night, and so did the girls. After a not so peaceful afternoon around the house, my sister called and said we were under thunderstorm and tornado warnings, and did we want to come to here house, that that would be better for us than our mobile home, and a good excuse to come see her new house. We went over there and, oops I just realized I forgot to pay her back, and she had gone and gotten us some McDonalds, and we sat out the storm in her condo, and I LOVE it! The girls had fun, even though they both got hurt, lol, roughhousing around and Katie Grace's was easily fixed and soon forgotten, (she was running and jumping up on my nephew and there knees collided and she almost immediately had bruises and seemed to weak to stand but that too was quickly fixed. Lydia was running (why don't my children listen to the no running in the house rules?) and somehow fell to where she got carpet burn on her chin, and wasn't able to be consoled at all, she cried herself to sleep, but I think most of that was b/c she was already so sleepy anyways. I really think Matthew liked his new cousin. It was the first time he and Tina had seen her, and he held her so sweetly. We watched some t.v., played around, talked, caught up on lost times. Then we all got a hankering for some ice cream, thanks to Tina lol. So Matthew's daddy brought us all some ice cream from McDonalds. We finally came home at midnight (where did the time go, we got there at something after 8), and I was the only one awake when we got home. On the way home I saw an ad so to speak, a sign in someones yard, stating that America's Homeplace would build you a home on your property for as little at $350 down so I pulled up there website, and they have some really nice homes, but Travis still wants to build the way he and I decided to earlier, which is fine by me, I think I would just enjoy the quickness of the builders, and the outer appearance, but I still want it built energy efficient like we were going to be doing. I fell asleep in the recliner, and Becca was still in her carseat asleep, but I woke up around 4 and went to bed, then woke up at 6 to go to the bathroom, and Becca was waking up so I just got in my recliner and nursed her, and ended up falling back asleep, and I woke up again at 8 and fed her again, then finally woke up again around 10 and fed her again, then Katie Grace woke up and Lydia just woke up now, so I'm going to close this, and post the rest of the pictures from last night then spend some time with my girlies, then fix some breakfast.

Leaning totally on God and Prayer

Well, its been quite some time since I last sent in an update on us. Let's see.........
Ok, well, first off let me say that Becca has really been doing great with her weight gain, and on her two month well baby visit (3/11/08) she got her shots, and weighed 10lb 15oz and her head was 15 inches and she was 23 1/2 inches long. She was in the 95% for height so yet again, I'll be outgrown before they hit middle school most likely.
Wednesday March 12, I went to Greenwood Regional Rehab Hospital to get my first of two TB tests administered, that went well. Thursday the 13th, I finally had my postpartum check up and everything was great, the pap smear results came back normal. Lydia also on the same day went to see Dr Hughes, b/c Travis wanted her screened for diabetes. She refused to pee pee in the cup acting scared it would hurt her or something lol. Friday I was to get a fasting blood sugar on Lydia and it was 118. Monday March the 17 (St Patty's Day) Lydia was vomiting and very lethargic, and couldn't' even keep liquids down, the doctors wanted us to bring her in to be seen, and they recommended we take her to the hospital to get some blood work done, and it came back normal so they sent us home. Tuesday the 18th, Lydia's fasting blood sugar was 79, and then that afternoon, Travis had been working outside and didn't' put his tools up and Katie Grace decided she would grab the utility knife and whittle some wood, and sliced her forearm wide open, severing the nerves. We took her to the ER, and waited for almost 4 hours then came home. We got home and they were calling us back saying there was only a certain time frame it could be stitched up in and we needed to get her back there, but that we would have to go through the waiting process again. This time I stayed home with Lydia and Becca and Travis took her.
bbl to finish feeding time
ok I'm back now.....
So when Travis and Katie Grace got home he was quite upset, and rightly so, after waiting all that time, and then getting a phone call telling us that she had to come in so they could stitch it up all they did was glue it together with dermabond. So anyways it was after 3am when they got back, and Katie Grace was beginning to hurt a bit from it and so Travis decided it would be best for her to stay home from school that next day, well good thing too, b/c it ended up splitting open and Travis put a butterfly bandage and two band aids over it and it ended up still healing with a wider scar than if it had been stitched. Wednesday the 19th I went to get my second TB testing done, and I brought Becca with me b/c Travis was working outside at home and Lydia was content in the sand, so I decided to take her with me. It was fine that she went, but the lady that was to give me the shot, was at home sick with the flu, so I had to wait for someone else to administer it to me. Ok so I did, I waited and waited, then they found the lady that was to give it to me, and then I saw someone I knew and I went and showed her Becca b/c she hadn't met her yet, and stood there and talked to her forever. Then Friday (Good Friday) I went to the school to make pinecone bird feeders with Katie Grace's K-5 class, and they all had a blast. Lydia's blood sugar that morning was 87.
Saturday March 22 we left to go to Mama's for Easter/Spring Break. We were going to stay anywhere between 1 and 4 days. We got there extremely late Saturday night, and Sunday we opened Easter baskets (the girls did lol) then we went to the Chambers for Easter brunch and everybody got to see Becca for the first time. Saturday was not only Becca's first time to Highlands, but her first time discovering her tongue, and her first time trying to lift her head while being held, or while laying down. She had lifted her head well and kept good control of it for quite some time now when you were holding her over your shoulder, but this was her being held forward facing, and she was trying to sit up so to speak. We came home Wednesday afternoon, just in time to unload the jeep and get settled in time to watch the American Idol results show. Thursday 3/27 I went to Abbeville to get my CPR training, and that went very well. So then I was to call the Rehab Hospital and set up a schedule for me to start working and the lady wasnt' in so I was kinda relieved, b/c I really wasn't ready just yet, lol. I called her back on Friday (Lydia's fasting sugar was 114) and she was able to give me a schedule. I was thrilled with my schedule. It will allow me to have the best of both worlds, I can still have lots of hours at home to fulfill my SAHM feelings I desire for, and I can still be making enough money to hopefully get some bills paid. Katie Grace and Lydia both had doctors appointments Wednesday April 2 and Katie Grace got a clean bill of health with the exception of the fact that they found some blood in her urine, and so we have to take her to the hospital and get an UA on her, and she got one shot, a Chicken Pox booster.
Now for the not so fun stuff.......
bbl Katie Grace just got off the bus
I'm back and its now Saturday morning...
That night (Wednesday April 2) Travis asked me if I no longer had any sexual desires, and I told him that no that wasn't it, I just didn't feel comfortable making love during the times he was wanting to. Well, he says it has nothing to do with that but that night he slapped Katie Grace across her cheeck because she bluntly ignored him. The next day I knew he was upset, but he wouldn't talk to me and tell me what was up, so I grabbed his face and "made him look at me" well that made him madder and he grabbed me by my arm and my jaw and twisted, to get me to take my hands off of him, saying that I'm not his mother quit acting like it. Well it hurt quite a bit but I just prayed for him and forgave and forgot, but was quickly reminded of it b/c the bruise hurts when I laid down. It is still a little sore but doesn't hurt near as bad this morning.