Nothing New

Still nothing new to report on my niece MH. She is still in the hospital and still holding nothing down. She's on like day 30 of vomiting. This is getting very serious, and the tests are not revealing a thing. Please pray for widsom for the doctors. Please pray for her spirit. Her mother, Paige, is very worried about that. Yesterday when I went to see her she was sleeping so hard from the medication. I guess that's better for her, but poor baby!

Amy

Please be Praying.....

my niece MH and DQ snuggling with a cutie!!

Yup, two posts in one night. Please be in prayer as my neice MH was admitted into the hospital this afternoon. She's been pretty sick for awhile now, but the last week has gotten pretty rough. The doctors are just not sure what is going on with her; poor baby she's been to the hospital 3 times since last Tuesday.
We just heard from big hubby boss man, and she's pretty scared right now. Please keep her in your prayers tonight!
Amy

Disappointed and Frustrated

My friend Jodi kindly informed me of a pleasant happening today. Publix has put Barney's out for the Christmas season! What is that you ask? Well, let me just tell you. Barney's has an absolutely fabulous flavor of coffee called Santa's White Christmas. It's sooo yummy.

So off I go to Publix after church tonight. I'm sooo excited for the creamy, warm, steamy, coconuty, vanilly, carmelly goodness!! I'm walking down the isle, ahhh, the coffee. I'm approaching the spot, oh, there's the Barney's hazelnut! I'm close, so very close! What? Can't be, not possible! NOOOOOOO!!!! They are all out! Oh, I'm dying! I've been waiting almost a whole year, and they are out? Do they not know that I've been looking forward to this cup of coffee for so very long now. Poor me, what now??

So those of you mom's out there, I know you now how this feels. We are driving home from Publix ( boo hoo) on a road BB has traveled up and down nearly every day for nearly 10 years. He knows exactly where we are, and he says
"Mommy, I'm thirsty."
"Ok, well, we are in the car, what can I do? "
"I don't know, I need a drink".
"Again, what can I do? You just have to wait a couple of minutes, we are almost home"
"But I'm thirsty,can't we stop?"
"Bryson, we are like 3 minutes from the house, you'll make it"
"I need a drink"
So mom's are you getting the point here? Cause I sure didn't understand. What's up with that? He's 10 years old for heaven's sake! Grrrrrrr........

Ok, one more little whining session and I'll be all through. DQ, baby girl I adore you, but must you debate EVERYTHING I tell you do to? When I say do it, take it for what it is and just do it. Yes, DQ, you must wear your coat. Yes, DQ, you must drink milk, not coke, not water, not juice, but MILK with dinner! Why???? Because I'm mommy and mommy says you must drink MILK!! Yes, DQ, you must take a bath tonight, not tomorrow, TONIGHT!! Grrrrrrr........

Amy

God is Soooo Dependable!

So as you know I started my job. Also as you know, change is very bad in the world of Amy. This has been a rough few days for me. Not just because of working in a huge place, and learning new stuff, but just the uproot in our family routine, yada yada yada. Anyway, yesterday began the morning child care as hubby's vacation endend and he had to go back to work. Also included is the afterschool care too.

Well, our morning "nanny" is fabulous and BB and DQ love her. She is so good with them. As far as the after school thing, well, they are only there for about 30-45 minutes and they love it. In fact, Thursday they asked to stay late because one of the teachers wanted to "use" them to get ready for an evening school event. Wow! Not to mention they get their homework done there so when they come home they are ready to play and hang out. LOVE IT!!!!!!

Today went pretty well. I have so much to learn, but I did ok today. I started some patient care and realized I'm not as bad off as I thought. Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way ready to be a "big girl" nurse, but I held my own today. Thanks Jesus, it's only because of you!

Please continue to pray for our family as we walk this road. I'm sure there will be many ups and downs. I pray we can focus on the ups when we are in the downs!!

Amy

Lesson Learned?

Lesson learned? Apparantly not. For those new to my blog, way way back hubby went to play flag football. Well, little did I know, the term flag football is used rather loosely when you are talking about 30 grown men. Hubby came home early with a broken wrist. This little history lesson is meant to lead the way into the adventure of today. Hubby is playing again today. This time however, there will be high school boys intertwined, oh and my 10 year old son!!! Please pray that not only do they come home with all the previously had body parts, but that they will also be intact!!!!!!!

Amy

Sorry

I know, I know, it's been awhile. I'll take this opportunity to answer all of your burning questions. Just chill out though, it's gonna take a second to wrap my brain around everything!

Let's see..... Okay, here goes. DQ had her first horse show this past weekend. She won her class! Yup, that's right, my daughter rocks at riding horses, much like her mommy!!!!! J/K, sorta. I'd show you a picture, but I can't upload photos at the moment so you'll just have to imagine the most gorgeous little blond princess with a big, bright, pretty blue ribbon and and great big smile! Seriously, I will try to get those pics uploaded this weekend. We are so proud of her! The look on her face when she realized she came in first was unforgettable. Goooo DQ!!!!!

Hmmmm, what else? Oh yea, I started my job this week!!!! Ok, so I'm understating things just a bit. At the moment my emotions would best be described as exhaustion masked with sheer terror. Yup, add dazed and confused and that about describes it!! I really was doing fine until today when we actually had our orientation to the L&D unit, err I mean city. That place is soooooo enormous! So I was attempting to find the exit of this monstrosity when a friendly soul saw my little new employee blue ribbon tied to my badge, and the look of utter frustration and confusion on my face, and directed me to one of the 6 elevators (yup, 6 just in L&D)(in that hall) that led to the atrium, that led to the walkway, that led to another elevator, that led to the parking garage where my car was missing. Grrrrrr! Add all this to the fact that I'm slightly (yea slightly as in hugely) directionally challenged and you just got a real life disaster. Anyway, obviously since I'm here writing to you fine people I made it home and heading back for more tomorrow. What I'm really nervous about is that I'm actually gonna have patients tomorrow; poor little pregnant ladies :(

Amy

My First Tag

My friend Jodi tagged me so here goes. I love this kind of stuff!

10 Years ago I

1. Had a 4 month old baby (BB)
2. Lived in a townhouse in Charleston
3. Answered phones for 1-800 Holiday
4. Was too young to be a wife or a mother
5. Was wishing I'd finished college

5 Things on today's to do list

1. Drop bills off at post office
2. More laundry (never ending pile)
3. Make cookies for DQ's bake sale
4. Brush Bear the puppy so he won't get mats
5. Pull the trash cans up from the curb

5 snacks I enjoy

1. brownies
2. frozen grapes (weird I know, childhood tradition)
4. oreos and peanut butter with milk
5. chips and sour cream and onion dip

5 things I'd do if I were a millionaire

1. pay of my student loan, and other debt of course
2. take my entire family (parents, sisters, nieces, nephews, etc) to Hawaii
3. get a farm with horses
4. take yearly mission trip
5. buy hubby a ski cabin in the mountains

5 places I have lived

1. Louisiana
2. West Virginia
3. South Dakota
4. South Carolina
5. Georgia

5 jobs I have had

1. McDonalds
2. Front desk girl at a resort in Charleston
3. 1-800 Holiday
4. mommy
5. RN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whoo hoo!!!

I tag:
Todd
BB
Fab

Regret and other nonsense

I would now like to apologize for my last post. It was completely inexcusable to carry that kind of attitude. I have felt so bad that I've been awake since 3am. It won't happen again.

Moving on,not much else to report. Bear the puppy got in the trash this morning grrrrrr. Why do dogs like that anyway? Do they not care about nasty smelly food? I mean they have noses and all, do they not find bad smells displeasing? I know the trash smelled as evidenced by the slight odor permeating my den thanks to leftover butter beans and coffee grounds!

So the big day is getting closer. This is my last weekend as a stay at home mom. I feel as though a parting celebration is in order, I mean 10 years of staying home with the kids is a long time and I feel as though I'm saying goodbye to a decade of laughter, tears, boo boos and kisses, and well, you get the point. I know that's silly. I know I'll always be their mommy, I know I'm not going to miss that much being as they'll be at school while I'm at work, it's just that ever present hatred of change that I have. Ugh, I'm so scared!!!!

Tonight brings church, tomorrow DQ is in Annie at school, and Fri. I will be in Atlanta all day filling out paperwork, getting a physical and flu shot, taking a drug calculation test, etc. Saturday DQ has her first horse show. Yea DQ!!! I'll have plenty of pictures to post!! She'll be riding Champ. Pray for her that she'll remember her pattern and that Champ won't be stubborn. He is very lazy and would rather stop for pets than walk and trot like he's told to do.

Well, I must go, I have errands to run.

Amy

I know I'm wrong.....

So, have you ever known someone who is in your "circle" of people, but you wish that they weren't? I know, that's ugly, and rude, and very unchristian of me. I can't help it though. Something about this person just rubs me the wrong way. This person acts as if they are "in the know" about everything. This person has been known to be a bit two faced. This person can actually be a great person whom I've been known to enjoy their company in the past, and probably will in the future, but right now they are on my nerves. Right now this person is the greatest thing since sliced bread in my "circle" of people, and I don't get it.

After reading my own writing I sound like a whiney little brat and for that I apologize. I guess I needed to vent. I will work on my attitude. Done now.....

Amy

Countdown

OK, here goes, I'm starting the countdown till my first official day of work. I can't believe it's finally here! 1 week from today and I will be a working woman. I'm scared to death.

Why am I scared you ask? (maybe you don't, but I'm gonna tell you anyway!) Ok, so here's why. First of all, my children. As I listen to DQ living up to her namesake, and BB torturing her because of it, I wonder if hubby will have the patience to deal with it while I'm not around, cause I know it's hard on me!

Second of all, adjusting to the "busyness" of it all. I mean there are days now where I don't know where the time went, what's it going to be like when you tack on 8hrs of work outside the home to those kind of days?

Third of all, I'm going to be a nurse! Gone are the days of nursing school where I have an instructor and a nurse to guide me through every step of every thing I do. No more of that. Well, I mean I will have a mentor nurse for the first few weeks, but I mean now I'll be the one responsible for the patient. Actually, because I'm in labor and delivery that's 2 patients (momma and baby), possibly more if we have multiples and/or nervous/freaked out daddies. Believe me, I've seen a dad or two go down and require a nurse of their own!

Lastly, you know me and change. We don't mix at all, like oil and water. I hate change. Whew, just thinking about all the chaos that is sure to come our way until we adjust to this is giving me a headache!!

So anyway, enough of that, check me out on Facebook! I'm cool now!!

Amy

Happy Denial

Sigh....... I'm afraid I'm going to have to step into reality with the rest of the world now. So sad, I rather enjoyed my life in a bubble of denial.

This morning Fab called me and gave me my dose of reality. See, I live in a town within a town. What that means is that officially Loganville is my address, but I actually live in Youth; we just don't have a post office, or a city hall, or any of that mess. We do have our own schools though, so we officially live in Youth.

Anyway, all that being said I'll continue with my little story now. Not only do I live in this little itty bitty town, but I live waaaaay back from the road, on tons of land. Pretty safe environment. We've lived here for years and never had a care in the world; so careless in fact that we usually leave our keys and purses in the car. It's so nice cause then you never lose them! Well, no more. This week we have apparently acquired a band of thieves breaking into cars and robbing people blind. So much for my little bubble huh? Stupid bad people! Go AWAY!! You are ruining my denial and you burst my bubble!

Amy

Help I'm Dying

Yuppers, 2 posts in one day. What can I say? It's been a rough one. So my main reason for this post is to share with you and to warn you. There is an evil out there that is almost too terrible to speak about. It's lurking around the corner. Many have overpowered this evil, and I might, but I'm just not sure yet. This evil makes me shudder in fear and terror. This evil must be stopped! OK, you ready for the evil?
4th grade!! Sorry Fab, but 4th grade is the ultimate evil! I barely survived it myself. I remember 4th grade like it was yesterday. I still have nightmares. Whew, I'm sweating right now just thinking about it!! Mrs. Moss (moss the boss), Mrs. Maxwell(good to the last drop), Mrs. Nutter(nutter nutter peanut butter), and Mrs. Lanham( the phantom). See, I even remember there "real" names!
Last year BB was in 4th grade. I remember it well too. When school ended for the year we all breathed a sigh of relief that 4th grade was over. Whew, we survived. We lulled ourselves into a false sense of security. Here at Hworld we are knee deep in
4th grade again with DQ. To give you some insight DQ is on hour 3 of homework. She is copping attitude and distraction the whole way through. UGH! Will this nightmare ever end?
I'll let you know, if I'm still alive, when it's safe to come out. For those of you still facing 4th grade.... well, I'll pray for you!

Amy

My Happy List

So a few posts ago BooMama posted a list of things that make her happy. I've been just a little busy lately, so I'm posting my list today. Thanks for tuning in....

1. making lists like this, they are so much fun... weird huh?
2. coconut coffee oh my I need to go make some now!!
3. Bear the puppy and Spike the dog all snuggled up to me
4. Bubble baths
5. Great books
6. Having my hair chemically straightened so I don't have to use a flat iron anymore
7. Snuggling with hubby when I don't feel good
8. BB letting me hug him
9. DQ's kisses
10. Jesus
11. clean sheets
12. my mother's hugs
13. cool breezes
14. pajamas I love pajamas, why do we have to get dressed anyway? Just wear pajamas!
15. 80's music
16. praise and worship music
17. laughing
18. warm fuzzy socks
19. the smell of clean laundry
20. Christmas, snow, and all that good food!!!!

What makes you happy?

Amy

Bestill My Heart

Come on, I dare you!



BB is not a morning person. He just doesn't like to get up in the morning. Anyway, this morning he was unusually cranky. He was just flat out angry. I decided that I was going to just hug him and love him through this rough patch of his day. I took him in my arms and the strangest thing happened.... he let me!! He just stood there and let me hold him. I'm thinking wow, he must really need this as usually he's like "Mooommmm! I'm too old for this!" or " Leave me alone, I'm tired!". But no, he just stood there, and eventually he gently returned my hug. I whispered a thankyou to God and told BB that I could just stand there all day and hug him. That's when he quietly returned my comment with this. " I know that, I'm hoping you will so I don't have to go to school today"! Oh the pain you little stinker!!!

Amy