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Hey folks Watz up? How's life out there? Anybody there? How about some
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"Bev" wrote in message oups.com... Hey folks Watz up? How's life out there? Anybody there? How about some communication up in here! Bev I'm here! I've been sooo sick... It started Monday night... I went to bed, tossed and turned. It was so bloody hot, for some reason. I was informed that I was sleep walking and sleep talking for most of the night. I also, I guess, was sleep showering. Wha? Anyways, don't remember it, but that's what I was told! I woke up in the morning on Tuesday feeling like I had been hit by a train. I slept until about 5pm. N brought M up to me for feedings and for her to sleep with me when it was her nap time, but other than kind of rolling over and feeding M, I didn't do much of anything. I just couldn't! Tuesday night, I managed to barely make it to Walmart and met a friend and her daughter there. I took M with me as she tends to settle down in the car very nicely - sometimes... Picked up a few things I needed and also some Tylenol and Advil. Went home and popped 1000mg of Tylenol and 600mg of Advil (what my friend had said to take, as that's what she took right after her son was born!) boy, did that ever help! I started to feel 100x better by the time I was ready for bed. Woke up this morning feeling a bit better, and still feel kind of crappy, but not like the day before. It's spring break here, so yea, I won't even comment on that one... I'm still trying to work on scanning the pictures from my mom's (and dad's, I guess) wedding album to make a wedding scrapbook for Mother's Day for my mom. Houston, there seems to be a problem with the scanner!!!!! POS is what it is, IM(NS)HO! It just up and stopped working... Still trying to bugger around with it but it's kind of ****ing me off more than anything. I'm about 2 steps away from smashing it into itty bitty pieces. I'm going to see if my brother(s) will help me out with this... I'll do all the actual work for it if they'll help me out with some of the expenses, and boy does there ever seem to be expenses! Decided it would be a lot easier (and cheaper) to just scan them and bring them to Walmart or something to get developed. That will cost some $$... I also want to invest in a quality album - probably a Creative Memories album, and they're fairly pricey... But at least they're top-notch quality, especially for something like a wedding book - it's not really something you pull out every time company is over, so CM books at least are guaranteed and have better pages that don't trap dust between the plastic. I do have lots of wedding and romatic type stickers and papers and gadgets... That's not a big issue, it's more the cost to print pics and buy other supplies like the book and all that. I know my one brother would help out, but the other is kind of useless, but we'll see. B's still doing fine in school. He prefers to be riding his bike as much as possible now that it's been a lot nicer out and the snow is going away. I've signed him up for soccer for this spring, and he's definitely looking forward to that. Grandma took him a couple weekends ago and he spent the night. They went shopping before coming home, and she bought him some soccer cleats. He doesn't really need them at this age, but it got him looking forward to playing soccer even more. Still is stupidly nuts over army stuff and dinosaurs. We're going over to Z's house for a little playdate tomorrow, as Z's mom called earlier today to see what we were up to and see if we were free tomorrow. He just turned 6 a couple months ago, and it seems like yesterday he was just a baby! A's new favorite word is "pretty" - I do her hair up in piggies all the time, and I always say something like, "Mommy will do your hair pretty now!" or "Oh, your hair looks so pretty!" so now she always grabs her bag of elastics, ties and comb and says, 'pretty!' and her shoes are also "pretty" too. New favorite word, but it's not as bad as hearing "Yeah!? Pooh Bear!" all the time! She does say quite a bit, it seems, but it seems to be the regular, easy words... Mama, Daddy, baby, Pooh Bear, yes, more, pretty, cat, dog, bear, book, ball, etc., shakes her head no, but won't say no (yay!) says, "Da" instead of Brandon, what sounds like "Saza" for 'Sally' (the cat) and the one my bro likes best, "t" (as the sound 'T' makes) for fish... Although we don't get it... She's used the potty only a couple times, but oh well. She's 20 months now. M has mastered rolling not too long ago. She also found her voice a little while back. She still won't take a bottle of breast milk, but nurses still like a champ. She can go for about 4-5 hours during the day between feedings, normally sleeps all night long. Still shows absolutely NO interest in any type of food - if you can even consider the baby rice cereal as food. She still seems to have the tongue thrust reflex and won't go near a spoon. She seems to be content just nursing, though, so oh well. I know the others were starting solids for sure by this age, as I remember clearly at the others' 6 month checkups, the ped said to try them on basically whatever we're eating (with the exception of cow's milk, honey and nuts), just toss it in the blender. Other than that, she's pretty boring for the most part as there's really nothing new lol. She's already 5 months, and does it ever seem like time flies... Other than that, not much new around here. I've spent most of today doing massive amounts of laundry. Ugh... |
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Hey Kat ! I knew I could count on you for a nice long read with my
morning coffee! LOL! Good to hear you are feeling better. Sounds like the kids are doing well and it sounds like you and Norm are back together. I hope this is a good thing for you. As long as he behaves himself and treats you and the children well, oh..... and works ! :-) I have had some ups and some very stressful downs over the past few months. My daughter S had the baby on Feb 6th and all is well with them. S's b/f graduated from basic training and is now a live in member of the houshold.S's daughter J is all of 3 going on 15 and keeps us on our toes, yes she is just about running this household and nanny bebe is trying to fix the mess that needs to be fixed. I didn't make it but there has to be the bad guy and it looks like I was chosen. J was jumping on the bed the other day while M was playing with her and she fell and smacked her face on the night stand and split open her left eyebrow, which was nicely glued at the ER. I left for Texas on Feb 9th to help take care of my mom. The first week seemed ok considering she was just in the hospital with congestive heart failure. She seemed to begin to get weaker slowly, not able to control her bladder. We hit a few doc appointments around the 15th of Feb and we were told Mom had 4 months to a year and we should set up hospice at home. We did and on Feb23rd (dads birthday) we called the hospice nurse because moms oxygen saturation was at 80 at rest which is what she told us was "Not life supporting" Moms oxygen was set at 5liters and basically this nurse told us she was dying and she would be suprised if she made it through the weekend, it was Friday.She convinced us mom would be more comfortable in the in patient hospice so we moved her that night . I stayed on with her for like the first week or so before everyone convinced me to go back to my sisters one night. What seemed to happen was as they continued to give mom morphine and any other drug they could to "Help her rest" they also wanted to stop giving her all the medications that were considered restorative care. Like moms coumadin and other heart medication, diebetic insulin shots and some others as well. I stopped them from doing that. I know all the conversations I have had with mom led me to know what she would have wanted. She would have wanted to be asked this. So I said you stop drugging her into unconsciousness and you ask HER if that is what she wants.So they did that and Mom said NO I will die! Mom was awake enough now to talk to and I told her what was going on and she said I dont want morphine and I dont want to be doped up. So I'd say about three weeeks after going into the hospice to die Mom has been steadily getting better, is in a rehabilitation center, and her oxygen is set at 4 liters she gets up to the comode on her own and has begun to start walking further distances. The plan is she is going to walk out of that facility to go home within the next few weeks! I came home I think the 16th of March and have one hell of a mess of a personal life to straighten out but other than that I am F.I.N.E. Keep in touch kid! Bev On Mar 29, 2:09�am, "xkatx" wrote: "Bev" wrote in message oups.com... Hey folks Watz up? How's life out there? Anybody there? How about some communication up in here! Bev I'm here! I've been sooo sick... It started Monday night... I went to bed, tossed and turned. *It was so bloody hot, for some reason. *I was informed that I was sleep walking and sleep talking for most of the night. *I also, I guess, was sleep showering. Wha? *Anyways, don't remember it, but that's what I was told! I woke up in the morning on Tuesday feeling like I had been hit by a train. I slept until about 5pm. *N brought M up to me for feedings and for her to sleep with me when it was her nap time, but other than kind of rolling over and feeding M, I didn't do much of anything. *I just couldn't! Tuesday night, I managed to barely make it to Walmart and met a friend and her daughter there. *I took M with me as she tends to settle down in the car very nicely - sometimes... Picked up a few things I needed and also some Tylenol and Advil. *Went home and popped 1000mg of Tylenol and 600mg of Advil (what my friend had said to take, as that's what she took right after her son was born!) *boy, did that ever help! *I started to feel 100x better by the time I was ready for bed. *Woke up this morning feeling a bit better, and still feel kind of crappy, but not like the day before. It's spring break here, so yea, I won't even comment on that one... I'm still trying to work on scanning the pictures from my mom's (and dad's, I guess) wedding album to make a wedding scrapbook for Mother's Day for my mom. *Houston, there seems to be a problem with the scanner!!!!! *POS is what it is, IM(NS)HO! *It just up and stopped working... Still trying to bugger around with it but it's kind of ****ing me off more than anything. I'm about 2 steps away from smashing it into itty bitty pieces. *I'm going to see if my brother(s) will help me out with this... I'll do all the actual work for it if they'll help me out with some of the expenses, and boy does there ever seem to be expenses! *Decided it would be a lot easier (and cheaper) to just scan them and bring them to Walmart or something to get developed. *That will cost some $$... I also want to invest in a quality album - probably a Creative Memories album, and they're fairly pricey... But at least they're top-notch quality, especially for something like a wedding book - it's not really something you pull out every time company is over, so CM books at least are guaranteed and have better pages that don't trap dust between the plastic. *I do have lots of wedding and romatic type stickers and papers and gadgets... That's not a big issue, it's more the cost to print pics and buy other supplies like the book and all that. *I know my one brother would help out, but the other is kind of useless, but we'll see. B's still doing fine in school. *He prefers to be riding his bike as much as possible now that it's been a lot nicer out and the snow is going away. I've signed him up for soccer for this spring, and he's definitely looking forward to that. *Grandma took him a couple weekends ago and he spent the night. *They went shopping before coming home, and she bought him some soccer cleats. *He doesn't really need them at this age, but it got him looking forward to playing soccer even more. *Still is stupidly nuts over army stuff and dinosaurs. *We're going over to Z's house for a little playdate tomorrow, as Z's mom called earlier today to see what we were up to and see if we were free tomorrow. *He just turned 6 a couple months ago, and it seems like yesterday he was just a baby! A's new favorite word is "pretty" - I do her hair up in piggies all the time, and I always say something like, "Mommy will do your hair pretty now!" or "Oh, your hair looks so pretty!" so now she always grabs her bag of elastics, ties and comb and says, 'pretty!' and her shoes are also "pretty" too. *New favorite word, but it's not as bad as hearing "Yeah!? *Pooh Bear!" all the time! *She does say quite a bit, it seems, but it seems to be the regular, easy words... Mama, Daddy, baby, Pooh Bear, yes, more, pretty, cat, dog, bear, book, ball, etc., shakes her head no, but won't say no (yay!) says, "Da" instead of Brandon, what sounds like "Saza" for 'Sally' (the cat) and the one my bro likes best, "t" (as the sound 'T' makes) for fish... Although we don't get it... She's used the potty only a couple times, but oh well. *She's 20 months now. M has mastered rolling not too long ago. *She also found her voice a little while back. *She still won't take a bottle of breast milk, but nurses still like a champ. *She can go for about 4-5 hours during the day between feedings, normally sleeps all night long. *Still shows absolutely NO interest in any type of food - if you can even consider the baby rice cereal as food. *She still seems to have the tongue thrust reflex and won't go near a spoon. *She seems to be content just nursing, though, so oh well. *I know the others were starting solids for sure by this age, as I remember clearly at the others' 6 month checkups, the ped said to try them on basically whatever we're eating (with the exception of cow's milk, honey and nuts), just toss it in the blender. *Other than that, she's pretty boring for the most part as there's really nothing new lol. *She's already 5 months, and does it ever seem like time flies... Other than that, not much new around here. *I've spent most of today doing massive amounts of laundry. *Ugh... |
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On 28 Mar, 19:14, "Bev" wrote:
Hey folks Watz up? How's life out there? Anybody there? How about some communication up in here! Bev Hi, me again, hope Easter is going well, Very tired this week, the final week of school was interesting I was making animal costumes until all hours, just out of bits and pieces of fabric, old curtains too good to throw out cos they only needed the hems tidied up, the costumes in the shops wern't bad, and I could have saved a lot of time buying off the peg, but you know what? we had so much fun going through old boxes of ribbon and buttons and doing a little drawing we never noticed It would have been great to see a photo of the kids all dressed up together. It was more like a zoo at home time!, everyone made an effort, there were all sorts of creatures and the noise they must have made during the day would have been a really something We're planning ahead which is great, usually one or the other will say they want to see something or go somewhere, If I try to get them motivated without planning ahead they simply won't budge and play up so we miss most of the day. Today they were throwing themselves around in the old wheelbarrow and climbing a tree. We'll go easter egg a hunting somewhere at the weekend and if the weather stays fine fish the rock pools down on the coast for a day. I swapped my digital camera in part-ex for a newer version in the sales, we've been taking photographs of all sorts, spider webs with drops of dew on the web, the cat, the concrete, the sheep misty fields at dawn and wellies covered in mud. Its a good little camera. There was a practice for music at school, one wants to play the violin (ooh! I don't think I could stand the noise) and the other already has a guitar and drums and gave up. I was invited away overseas for Easter by old friends, but I just hadn't expected the invitation and have not got any paperwork ready. Perhaps I'm getting old. Theres a chance I could get away for a week in the Summer, but, There ain't the chance to meet new people like there used to be, the cost of a sitter and the worry that something will happen if I'm miles away makes it rediculous. If life begins at 40 cos you've spent your early days bringing up the family and you can breath a sigh of relief that they're settled and independant, I can say that life still goes on at 40, but there wasn't much happening at 25. I think if I'd had the support of grandparents, mom, dad, siblings a cousin or two, I'd be better in myself. Talking about family, B's busy working and his cousin is going steady, which is great I'm looking forward to their wedding???? but every time he sees our cat he says "Have you got her neutered yet? I don't want kittens all over the place!" I shrug if off of course but it grates my nerves, it my freekin cat!, its my freekin home! What is it about the English they they don't want children? Its like some pied-piper has been through the towns and villages, totally weird. I went to the dr's for a repeat prescription, new doc, we chatted, "If you were thinking of having a child please let me know and I'll alter the meds!" you know what? I've been asking those guys 8 years to take into consideration that I wanted children and to give me something that wouldn't harm the baby, this is when I was in a steady relationship, and I was simply ignored. now i'm too friggin ancient they ask ! what can you say to that? Bev I feel for you, just make sure whatever they say or give you doesn't make you feel even more depressed than life has thrown in your way. I hope everyone has a Great Easter, maybe I'll get some photos together to share of what we found in the rock pools bye, miri |
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I totally forgot to write back! I started then saved it to finish it when I had a chance and then I forgot. That was ages ago.. All in all, sounds like things for you are just as crazy as ever. Believe me, I know what that's like. So glad to hear your mom is feeling better and hopefully that continues! I heard Judge Judy say that girls know how to get under your skin at a very early age - this is true. A is not even 2 yet and she's already started They're also so emotional when compared to boys... Yikes. Congrats on the new addition as well! It's hard to believe how time flies, anyways. It's fun, though! "Bev" wrote in message ups.com... Hey Kat ! I knew I could count on you for a nice long read with my morning coffee! LOL! Good to hear you are feeling better. Sounds like the kids are doing well and it sounds like you and Norm are back together. I hope this is a good thing for you. As long as he behaves himself and treats you and the children well, oh..... and works ! :-) I have had some ups and some very stressful downs over the past few months. My daughter S had the baby on Feb 6th and all is well with them. S's b/f graduated from basic training and is now a live in member of the houshold.S's daughter J is all of 3 going on 15 and keeps us on our toes, yes she is just about running this household and nanny bebe is trying to fix the mess that needs to be fixed. I didn't make it but there has to be the bad guy and it looks like I was chosen. J was jumping on the bed the other day while M was playing with her and she fell and smacked her face on the night stand and split open her left eyebrow, which was nicely glued at the ER. I left for Texas on Feb 9th to help take care of my mom. The first week seemed ok considering she was just in the hospital with congestive heart failure. She seemed to begin to get weaker slowly, not able to control her bladder. We hit a few doc appointments around the 15th of Feb and we were told Mom had 4 months to a year and we should set up hospice at home. We did and on Feb23rd (dads birthday) we called the hospice nurse because moms oxygen saturation was at 80 at rest which is what she told us was "Not life supporting" Moms oxygen was set at 5liters and basically this nurse told us she was dying and she would be suprised if she made it through the weekend, it was Friday.She convinced us mom would be more comfortable in the in patient hospice so we moved her that night . I stayed on with her for like the first week or so before everyone convinced me to go back to my sisters one night. What seemed to happen was as they continued to give mom morphine and any other drug they could to "Help her rest" they also wanted to stop giving her all the medications that were considered restorative care. Like moms coumadin and other heart medication, diebetic insulin shots and some others as well. I stopped them from doing that. I know all the conversations I have had with mom led me to know what she would have wanted. She would have wanted to be asked this. So I said you stop drugging her into unconsciousness and you ask HER if that is what she wants.So they did that and Mom said NO I will die! Mom was awake enough now to talk to and I told her what was going on and she said I dont want morphine and I dont want to be doped up. So I'd say about three weeeks after going into the hospice to die Mom has been steadily getting better, is in a rehabilitation center, and her oxygen is set at 4 liters she gets up to the comode on her own and has begun to start walking further distances. The plan is she is going to walk out of that facility to go home within the next few weeks! I came home I think the 16th of March and have one hell of a mess of a personal life to straighten out but other than that I am F.I.N.E. Keep in touch kid! Bev On Mar 29, 2:09?am, "xkatx" wrote: "Bev" wrote in message oups.com... Hey folks Watz up? How's life out there? Anybody there? How about some communication up in here! Bev I'm here! I've been sooo sick... It started Monday night... I went to bed, tossed and turned. It was so bloody hot, for some reason. I was informed that I was sleep walking and sleep talking for most of the night. I also, I guess, was sleep showering. Wha? Anyways, don't remember it, but that's what I was told! I woke up in the morning on Tuesday feeling like I had been hit by a train. I slept until about 5pm. N brought M up to me for feedings and for her to sleep with me when it was her nap time, but other than kind of rolling over and feeding M, I didn't do much of anything. I just couldn't! Tuesday night, I managed to barely make it to Walmart and met a friend and her daughter there. I took M with me as she tends to settle down in the car very nicely - sometimes... Picked up a few things I needed and also some Tylenol and Advil. Went home and popped 1000mg of Tylenol and 600mg of Advil (what my friend had said to take, as that's what she took right after her son was born!) boy, did that ever help! I started to feel 100x better by the time I was ready for bed. Woke up this morning feeling a bit better, and still feel kind of crappy, but not like the day before. It's spring break here, so yea, I won't even comment on that one... I'm still trying to work on scanning the pictures from my mom's (and dad's, I guess) wedding album to make a wedding scrapbook for Mother's Day for my mom. Houston, there seems to be a problem with the scanner!!!!! POS is what it is, IM(NS)HO! It just up and stopped working... Still trying to bugger around with it but it's kind of ****ing me off more than anything. I'm about 2 steps away from smashing it into itty bitty pieces. I'm going to see if my brother(s) will help me out with this... I'll do all the actual work for it if they'll help me out with some of the expenses, and boy does there ever seem to be expenses! Decided it would be a lot easier (and cheaper) to just scan them and bring them to Walmart or something to get developed. That will cost some $$... I also want to invest in a quality album - probably a Creative Memories album, and they're fairly pricey... But at least they're top-notch quality, especially for something like a wedding book - it's not really something you pull out every time company is over, so CM books at least are guaranteed and have better pages that don't trap dust between the plastic. I do have lots of wedding and romatic type stickers and papers and gadgets... That's not a big issue, it's more the cost to print pics and buy other supplies like the book and all that. I know my one brother would help out, but the other is kind of useless, but we'll see. B's still doing fine in school. He prefers to be riding his bike as much as possible now that it's been a lot nicer out and the snow is going away. I've signed him up for soccer for this spring, and he's definitely looking forward to that. Grandma took him a couple weekends ago and he spent the night. They went shopping before coming home, and she bought him some soccer cleats. He doesn't really need them at this age, but it got him looking forward to playing soccer even more. Still is stupidly nuts over army stuff and dinosaurs. We're going over to Z's house for a little playdate tomorrow, as Z's mom called earlier today to see what we were up to and see if we were free tomorrow. He just turned 6 a couple months ago, and it seems like yesterday he was just a baby! A's new favorite word is "pretty" - I do her hair up in piggies all the time, and I always say something like, "Mommy will do your hair pretty now!" or "Oh, your hair looks so pretty!" so now she always grabs her bag of elastics, ties and comb and says, 'pretty!' and her shoes are also "pretty" too. New favorite word, but it's not as bad as hearing "Yeah!? Pooh Bear!" all the time! She does say quite a bit, it seems, but it seems to be the regular, easy words... Mama, Daddy, baby, Pooh Bear, yes, more, pretty, cat, dog, bear, book, ball, etc., shakes her head no, but won't say no (yay!) says, "Da" instead of Brandon, what sounds like "Saza" for 'Sally' (the cat) and the one my bro likes best, "t" (as the sound 'T' makes) for fish... Although we don't get it... She's used the potty only a couple times, but oh well. She's 20 months now. M has mastered rolling not too long ago. She also found her voice a little while back. She still won't take a bottle of breast milk, but nurses still like a champ. She can go for about 4-5 hours during the day between feedings, normally sleeps all night long. Still shows absolutely NO interest in any type of food - if you can even consider the baby rice cereal as food. She still seems to have the tongue thrust reflex and won't go near a spoon. She seems to be content just nursing, though, so oh well. I know the others were starting solids for sure by this age, as I remember clearly at the others' 6 month checkups, the ped said to try them on basically whatever we're eating (with the exception of cow's milk, honey and nuts), just toss it in the blender. Other than that, she's pretty boring for the most part as there's really nothing new lol. She's already 5 months, and does it ever seem like time flies... Other than that, not much new around here. I've spent most of today doing massive amounts of laundry. Ugh... |
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