May 3rd---Bless Her

I was using the bathroom this afternoon and Hannah comes in and sits on the side of the tub and I see her cock her head and stare at me while I'm doing my business. I ask Hannah what she's doing and she tells me "mom, me tinks your butt is too big for the toilet." Well thank you Hannah for that wealth of information that you felt you needed to share with me. Bless her!

May 2nd

It's the end of the school year and it seems to me by the boys' progress reports that they are slacking off on their work. It also seems like they can't put in that little extra umphhh to make it until the end of the year and this really irks me to no end that they want to be lazy about it.

Lately Hannah has been having this little attitude going on. I know there has been a lot of change here at home with Josh's medical issues and BJ changing his driving/home time schedule and to add that she's almost 4 going on 16 and about to drive me nuts. I also feel that my patience is running thin and she knows how to test me. Bless her! I do love her and wouldn't change her for ANYTHING in the world. Her favorite saying right now is "Us girls have to stick together" while doing the dawg sign (knocking knuckles together using one hand) She's been asking me more and more that she wants a baby sister or I want that baby. I tell her I can't have any more babies and she tells me "the doctor can fix it mommy" That's my girl!

May 1st---Random Thoughts

I'm going to try to post something everyday----thats my new goal and we will see how long that will last :)


DH is back to driving a semi locally and he runs while we are sleeping. This change has really confused Hannah with her dad being home the last week with Joshua. She really misses her dad when he's not around so this will work well for all of us. Besides she loves to sleep in our bed and it gets VERY crowded with all 3 of us in it.


State surveyers left our building yesterday and we had NO nursing tags. YAY! Our building has come a long way and we have all worked hard for this to happen.

I really need to get to studying my American History 2 so I can CLEP out of it. I'm taking classes for my BSN and it will be a long road for me to travel. I'm really only doing this for ME and its a goal I want to achieve for myself.

When I started driving I can remember when the gas prices were only 79 cents a gallon and now my son is driving and its up to 3.65 a gallon. Isn't this ridiculous??? I can also remember rushing to the gas station to get gas at 99 cents because it would soon be over a dollar. What I wouldn't do for gas to be that cheap again especially traveling so much to St Louis and back.

Pictures

Pictures

Kristofer--Meps & Josh update

Tomorrow I'm putting Kris on the bus to head down to St Louis for MEPS. Since he has a tentative date for basic on the 28th May and its approaching soon---I'm just wondering if it will be as bad as the day I sent him off to kindergarten and high school (both of those days were rough for me). I can't believe he's old enough to make his own choices for his journey into the big bad world. I'm so very proud of him tho!


Josh is doing well after his surgery. He's still having headaches but I don't think that has anything to do with surgery--more so migraines. We are heading back to St Louis on 6 May (Happy Birthday to me!) for a follow up exam. We got the results back that he has NO tumor cells present--YAY! His brain lesions are a part of a demylating disease and we will keep an eye on them through MRI's. The MD wants to do another one in a month to watch for any changes.

Home

We got home late last night and Josh is doing well. We won't get the results of the biopsy back until Wed. and he goes back for a post surgery check up in 2 weeks.