Happy Thanksgiving week to you all!!

Happy Tuesday!  I've been spending the last several days preparing for a trip.  3.5 days away from home with my girls down to moms.
This is my favorite time of year as its Thanksgiving and Christmas all wrapped into one with a portion of my family.  Grandparents head off to Texas for the winter after Thanksgiving, so for about 9-10 yrs now, we have celebrated Thanksmas.
This is also generally the only time of year I see my dad and stepmom. They travel up from Illinois :)  And this year, they are bringing my little sister up too! :)  

There has been a lot of issues in the family lately, and that is the one thing I am dreading. Tension and emotional stuff galore.  Im just hoping for a smooth week.

Tomorrow, me and the girls are heading out once we are all up and dressed pretty much. At least, thats the plan. lol      I have all our suitcases packed, toiletries packed, diapers ready to go.. Im really hoping I dont forget anything, because we are going to be 4 hrs away. NOT an easy, oops, run home and grab it situation.


Hope you all have a pleasant holiday and be thankful for what you have around you :)

Its Thursday!!!

Happy Thursday one and all!!!    One week and counting until I get to see my family  :)    

Thanksgiving is pretty much the one time per year, that I get to see pretty much everyone on my moms side of the family. Also the time I see my dad every year. He comes up from Illinois.

This weekend, C is very excited, as she gets to attend her first snowmobile safety course. She has been sledding for a winter now, and she absolutely loves it. Now, she is finally old enough to attend the course to be certified.

A,CG, and myself, will more than likely just be chilling out at home. I have laundry, and packing for the week away to prepare for. I want to make sure everything is all ready to go as early as possible, so therefore, I have a lessened chance that I will forget stuff... Like the $50 worth of cookies in my freezer that need to be delivered to my mom. LOL.

 A, is still pleasantly sleeping, so I have been busy putting out ads online for my LBB business. We got a discount code for 15% off orders for our customers, for one week only!!  
Well, I am being buzzed for info on products, so off I go!!!


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The waiting game.

Well, we have been waiting since Friday for these infamous drops that the dr wants us to use on A.... Still nothing. I guess they are still waiting on authorization from the insurance. I talked to the pharmacy yesterday, and they said it could take days. Grr. On the up side, her ear smells a LOT less than it did after they sucked some of it out, and did that first dose of drops at the clinic!!

Yesterday, I was able to go get some Thanksmas shopping done. Got all the dice game gifts purchased, wrapped, and all ready to go...Last night, my sisters present that I ordered arrived :)    And my moms gift should be here just in time for Christmas.


I haven't been feeling the greatest this morning. Got a bit of a stomach bug. But I figured it'd been a couple days, and I needed to write something lol!




UPDATE..... Just got a call from the clinic... A's ear goo culture came back clear.. And they found out the insurance denied the drops they wanted us to use. I guess they are VERY pricey and the ins didnt want to cover them. So when her ENT gets in this afternoon, they are going to pick a different medication to try out.

No longer a happy friday...for now....

This mama is completely and utterly upset.. after multiple trips to different drs about A's ear and them telling us its middle ear drainage and its good....

Audiology went horrid. She is mostly deaf in her right ear right now. The ENT thankfully, thinks this may be remedied. We wanted to have her tube removed, but unfortunately, there is so much junk and inflammation in there, that we are unable to do anything with it until thats cleared up. I cried like a baby while the ent was working on her.. We had to papoose her into a little blanket and I had to lay on her in order to keep her still. They vacuumed out her ear, and took a culture of the goo inside. Dr finally found her tube, which yes, is still in place, but there's something very wrong in there.  We have to do a weeks regiment of these drops that they used in there today. Which means, pinning her down. Will probably be a 2-3 person job as it was today. :'(       Once the inflammation is cleared up, they want to redo both tubes, as it sounds like this will be the only way we can keep her hearing.  


Really, truly hoping for a better day after this.  I have a meeting this afternoon that I unfortunately now have to take A with me for, as CG got called into work.    

Here's to hoping a better day/weekend is upon us.

Happy Friday!!

It's early, I am up... might as well blog a bit right??

Today is a big day... Well, for miss A it is.  In a couple hours, I am shuffling her off back to an ENT to see about that rancid ear of hers.  Multiple doctors have told me its perfectly normal middle ear drainage because of her tube.. well, the shit isn't coming out of her ear, its pooling in there somewhere and she STINKS!!!   You can smell the toxic waste dump that is her ear, from across the room!
Hoping her awesome ENT will set up a procedure date prior to Thanksgiving, get that damn tube out, and clean up her ear.    UGHHHHHH.

Sunday is also miss A's 4th birthday... where did the time go?? Seems like only yesterday...

I wish I had pics like this of when C was born... :(    

A little blerb on my kids.... C, was 9lb 2oz 21in long    no drugs, perfectly natural...

A, was 8lb 8oz 19in long    yup, lots of drugs.. 

Pregnancy for me, just grand.. no complaints, no pains, never really sick.. Labor on the other hand....is HELL!

My body doesn't handle laboring well. It goes into shock, and I have seizures with almost every contraction... Thankfully, I realized that the epidural, stopped those seizures :) Smooth sailing, happy mommy, and not wanting to kill daddy! 

My girls have a love/hate relationship... Mainly because of their 8yr age difference. But, when snuggling is required, my girls do it best :)    If someone is feeling sad, one of those girls is right up in your face, ready to give loves. When C isn't acting like a typical preteen, she LOVES to play with A. They get the most insane dance parties started! Music ranging from Classical and movie music, to Rap and Country... we have very eclectic tastes in this household. My favorite thing in the world, is road trips to my moms with the girls..my cd case jam packed with mix cds from the 90s.. suddenly one of my "jams" will come on... and my 11yo daughter knows every word :)

Another little blog about my crazy little family in the books... pretty sure no one actually reads these, but its good for me to just type away and get things out there. 

Happy Friday all... be blessed and have a fantastic weekend!

T.

dinner fiasco

So, here's my funny for the week....  Last night, I poisoned dinner... like completely and utterly RUINED dinner...

After several nights of making a lovely supper, I decided last night, I was just gonna whip up some hamburger helper and some flaky biscuits... delicious right??  Yah.... once i added the pasta n liquids, something was smelling rather rancid...   Thought nothing of it, thought it was something burning off under my pan..(normal occurance around here)     tried the noodles to make sure they were done... instantly ill.... come to find out, my BRAND new jug of milk was rotten!!    GRRRRRR       then while trying to make sure it was all disposed of, I burned my beautiful biscuits...  Needless to say, we ended up with sandwiches, grapes, and chips....

Packages packages everywhere!!!

     My mail has been overflowing with packages the last couple of days!   I Love packages :)     I have become an addict of Amazon, as well as a member to MANY different sampler websites.   A few weeks back I entered a contest through Glade. Guess what? I won!!  
Yesterday I received a full sized Glad dual scent air freshener. This thing is pretty, and changes scents on its own every day.   I also received my new phone (4th replacement in a year, so ATT finally gave me a whole different phone).   Samples like crazy came in, as well as some LilyBean & Baxter items I ordered to toss in as Christmas gifts.

The best package of all though????......

A homemade super hero cape for A....courtesy of my grandma S.   She has been completely obsessed with super heros since she discovered Super Why on Netflix. 

We recently bought her 2 pairs of superhero pjs at Target. And my mom is creating a superhero cake for a mini belated bday celebration we are having for her around Thanksgiving while we are there for what we call.. "thanksmas" 

My moms side of the family has been holding Christmas on Thanksgiving day now for around 8-10yrs. Its convenient. And lessens the hustle and bustle we already have during the holiday season. Bouncing around to travel to various locations, trying to see all families and please everyone.

It's been a week....

It's been a long week in this household.   With almost everyone being sick in one way or another, I can't seem to keep up. Now... I'm not feeling the greatest again.  

I recently had a physical, and at 32 years of age, I have extremely high blood pressure. I have been put on a bp med, with a diuretic... yippee... I, who have bladder/kidney issues as it is... now has to use the bathroom more than I already do!! Add that to the antibiotics, my happy pill... then later that evening, they call me and tell me to take fish oil pills too.... grrr.  Now, to add on to that.. I believe I have developed the stomach bug that everyone else has had these last 2 weeks.  Not a happy mama.   

Today is CG and I's 6th anniversary... what are we doing? absolutely nothing lol        We went out for a bit last night to the casino. Bad idea. But it was fun. Ran into some old friends.  Today, I am trying to get laundry done in between trips to the bathroom. 

C, is off to church with her friends. A, is playing silently in her own little world. CG, is sleeping. And me, yup...miserable. Hoping to get some rest later, but for now, I am going to gut through the ick, and get as much done as I can... JUST IN CASE this ick, gets worse. Heck, my hands are shaking so badly, that I have had to retype almost every word I have put on this blog already! lol.    

So, in other words, I should probably get my assets off the computer. And get to work. Yup.... Nope... hahahhahah     Off I go to see the Wizard of Oz... maybe he can help me feel better!

Remember how I asked???

Remember how I asked yesterday, if ANYTHING could get worse?? Yup... it did....

Yesterday morning, CG had a "performance review" at one of his jobs... This "review" led to him getting fired. They claim its because he was hanging out with one of his coworkers (who patrols our community), while he was off duty. Yah ok Whatever!!  It also is because we were "harboring" a homeless person in our home for almost 2 months.. This homeless person, was CG's little sister. Yep, he got fired, for helping family. See what I meant yesterday, by tooo many rules and bs regulations at our home?   She has also been banned from ever coming on the property here. WTF!!    She can't even come here to watch her nieces... So, of course, I called the necessary people, and informed them of Chris' job loss... hoping that helps us financially with our food benefits, and lowers our rent again. 

I didn't find out about him getting fired til last night when he got home from the other job.  Which he injured himself at..twice...   Finally talked him into going to the emergency room last night. The dr possibly thought he broke both his right ring finger, and his left knee. (this is the "good" knee. lol)   This would have put him out of work for who knows how long, and reaaally royally screwed us.  Thankfully, after xrays, no breaks. just lots of bruising. His finger is rapidly turning purple and swelling, so he is supposed to see a regular dr next week to see if it needs to be lanced open to relieve some of the blood swell.


On the upside to yesterday.... I applied for a Thanksgiving project through the blog, Scary Mommy.   Last night, while at the hospital, I received the Email that we were accepted. They are issuing me a gift card to help with food!!    On the application, they wanted a paragraph on why we needed help.. This was before I found out he lost his job. I explained CG works 2 jobs, and we barely make ends meet. We also lost $350 in food benefits when he accepted this 2nd job. I explained, that we eat the same things over and over, and that maybe this won't help with making a family thanksgiving feast, it will DEFINITELY help make my cupboards happy! lol     

Well, off to get some things done before my LilyBean & Baxter meeting this afternoon. :) 

Remember, Make Gift Giving Personal.... www.lilybeanandbaxter.com/partner/tanyalong

Halloween Aftermath.....

There is a horrid stomach flu floating around C's school. yippee... so guess what, yep, shes home sick from school today.   Awoken in the middle of the night to vomit... EVERYWHERE... in my bathroom. And of course, not a speck of candy in that vomit...  

A, also developed a crazy fever in the middle of the night, so needless to say, this mama did NOT sleep well last night. Thankfully, I was able to take a couple hour nap after I made sure CG was up and off to job one of his 16+ hr day today.  

The girls had a blast last night. A, who is usually clung to CG or myself, was off and running with 10 cousins and her sister last night. :)   

C's Bio dad J even came along!! This was a huge surprise that he agreed, and actually showed up. In her 11 yrs, J has not been around for her much. He lives 20 min away from us, and still.... yah.... 

Yup, these are my crazy girls.  CG bought them matching Diva Devil costumes. Although, if you asked A, she was a red kitty and C was a debull.. lol     

Hard to believe, that in 10 days, CG and I will have been together 6yrs.. And in 17 days, A will be 4 years old.. Its been one hell of a ride..  

At one point, CG and I were homeless. Bouncing from friend to friend, only to be screwed over in more ways than one. We finally got into a place... right after we found out we were pregnant with A. C was living with my mom to keep her safe.  And after 3yrs of living with her grandparents, C finally came home where she belongs.. 

There are definitely days, when I wonder if it was the right choice. But there is never a regret that I did what was best for her at the time. 

Now after 4 yrs in the same community, we are definitely ready for a change. But can we afford it? That's the daily struggle in our minds.  

We have multiple issues with neighbors, threats from a few of them. WAY too many rules and regulations with our landlords. And they just seem to get worse yearly.  

But we are all safe, we have a home, and are together. That is what matters, right? 

Well, here's to another day as the stressed out, sleepless SAHM that I am.  What else can happen today??