A picture tag

My friend Cherie has tagged me... I have to post the 6th picture from the 6th folder in My Pictures file. So here it is, from early spring Megan, Sophie and Vanessa with their kids came over to my house for a playdate.

Week in Review

This week was chaotic. To start on Monday I had a doctor's appointment, for my blood pressure. You see in labs, my BP would always run really high, finally my instructor took me aside and asked me to have it checked out. So I went, it was fine but I asked my doctor about a little spot on my stomach, ohh it's nothing, just an "age spot".... What in the world, I'm stressed to the point of high BP and now I'm getting age spots. What next, fitting me for glasses????

That was Monday...

Tuesday came, I had my clinicals at 8:00 AM, but have to fight traffic so badly that I have to leave 45 minutes before. After Clinical, I go to campus and take my first test in Nursing School.... get my results when I get home, 76!!! Hip HIp Hooray, a 76, I passed, BARELY. You see, in Nursing School, a 76 is the last digit before getting a F for the class. A 76-84 is a C!! That night, my back hurt really bad, so I took 1/2 of a muscle relaxer, did my homework and studied, and slumped off to bed.

Then comes the hazy day, not a weather thing, no a state of mind thing, I was so "out" of it because of that dumb 1/2 pill muscle relaxer... I couldn't function, it took lots of energy drinks, 3 to be exact and a Speedway cola to get me going. Went to class, and came home and studied with some friends in the evening time, until around midnight... Wendesday

Thursday comes, and I get up early, Kayla comes over to watch the kids, I leave early, because if you aren't in class in your seat at 8AM they close the doors and you are just out of luck!! So I was in class and ready, and I actually made an 87 on this test! Not too bad I think, then I had Lab and then came home to Kayla and the kids, and Jack. That night Kayla, Jon and her girls and Racheal and her kids took Clay and Cregan to the Trunk or Treat and Collin and I went to Children's for his sleep study.

I wish I had pictures from his sleep study, it was pretty pitiful, he had so many little electrodes all over his head and face and things all over his body, and in his nose. He cried and cried, and kept tugging at the cords, finally around 2:30AM they came in and put little towel around his arms so that he couldn't bend them. He finally fell asleep and then it felt like a blink of an eye and they were waking us up, he was ready to go home though. He kept saying, "bye, c-ya, go home mommy, go home". He's very cute... anyway, I think he'll have to get his tonsils out, I'll have an appt. with the doctor sometime next week and find out the results of the test...

Friday, I was beat! I sat on the couch and let the kids run free in the house. I got Jack at noon, and then Mike and Sophie went out for the evening and Jack got to spend the night. On Saturday, the kids went to Grandma's and Jack went home and I went to the cannery to can some food storage.

All in all it wasn't an exceptionally bad week, just mentally exhausting (well really only the 2 tests, but you know)...

Boys are their toys

After Cregan's birthday, and everyone but Jon and Kayla and the girls were left, Uncle Jon pulled out his gift for Cregan... can you guess .... Guns... four noisy, light-up guns, he's definetly getting the Cool Uncle Award this year!! Then he went out and played guns with them for about an hour. This is why he waited for everyone to leave...he wanted to play too!!

Go Speedracer!! Go!!!

Last night, we celebrated Cregan's 5 birthday!! This celebration almost didn't happen, he had been pooping in his pants, sometimes 2, 3 even 4 times a day. I was frustrated with him and used all kinds of tactics to have him stop, one of them was to tell him if he didn't stop he wasn't going to have a birthday party. Well, months went by, and still no stopping of the pooping... I was over at Sophie and Mike's and they saw the whole ordeal with me. The crossing of the legs, the jumping anxiously, then me running to the bathroom with Cregan... well Mike started doing some research and found a disorder that I am 99% sure he has... encopresis. All, and I mean all of the symptoms fit Cregan's situation. Click here to find out more about enconpresis. So we decided to have a party for Cregan and since it was last minute, or rather 3 days prior, it was rushed and put together by lots of phone calls...

Having said (or rather written) that, it turned out spectacular. Cregan had a blast, he was so excited that everyone came to see him and to top it off he got presents! and cake! and ice cream! It was like heaven for the little guy! The only thing that could have made it better was if his daddy were here! Which he will be in 61 days!!!!!!

Baby Jody Thomas Olivier

My precious little newphew entered the world on Thursday, he was 7pnds 6 ozs and 21 inches long. Mommy is doing well, she had a C-section, so I was and still am worried about her, especially now that she's home and will probably go into "overdo-it" mode. So hopefully she'll take my advice, and sit down, be waited on and enjoy it while it lasts, because it won't last long.

Give my baby newphew a kiss from Aunt Mandy, lots and lots of kisses, wish I were there!!

How funny!

How funny is this, I took this little quiz, just kinda curious to see what it said... and it said I should live in the place where I grew up...

You Should Live in Georgia

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