Wow...and Thankful Thursday (late)

This week actually got away from me, didn't even realize what day it was, so I missed thankful Thursday on Thursday again :) What I am actually thankful for has to do with how this week went. I had a mild (thank God) headache that started Sunday and FINALLY went away to stay (I hope) last night. Chels was home Mon, Wed, Thurs and half of today. What we thought was going to turn into the flu, did NOT, YAY!!!! She had a fever, aches, a mild cough and congestion and of course was dizzy. Thank God the symptoms ended there. She is feeling better and did make it to cosmetology today. She will have lots of work to make up though. But just thankful it wasn't the flu and that everyone else is still feeling well so far :) We also planned a trip home in April to finish up some things in the house before all of our stuff is delivered. We have to put another coat of paint in Meg's room, put up some border, shampoo carpets, and take out some landscaping plants we don't want and a few other odds and ends. Oh and we will be getting some new, energy effecient appliances for the kitchen, because I think the fridge, stove and dishwasher are at the very least as old as we are if not older!! Anyway, I'll be back later, hopefully to do favorites on Friday. Hope everyone is healthy!!

Favorites on Friday

Well it's the end of the week again, so it's time for Favorites on Friday! So here is a picture of my house in IN surrounded by snow :) Now normally I love snow, but let's face it, back home has had more than enough snow this season. Now according to weatherbug, our county back home is under a winter storm warning with 6-8 inches of snow expected tomorrow, with possibly 1-2 inches per hour!!! I know everyone back home is sick of the snow and for good reason. We have hardly had any snow here in our part of Maryland this season. We just keep going back and forth with the temps. Enjoy the picture of my favorite house looking very peaceful and pretty surrounded by snow. Everyone back home please stay safe and warm, and just maybe since I will be home next winter and enjoy the snow, maybe there won't be as much :) It's a nice thought anyway. Have the best weekend possible! Thanks to my Daddy for the pic. :)

Thankful Thursday

Well I was having a difficult time trying to figure out what to be thankful for today and Todd had a great idea. This week I am very thankful for the opportunity to take naps!! Yes naps :) I think this world might be a better place if we all had the chance to take naps as needed. I know when the girls were little and even now, that they are more enjoyable and less cranky after a nap. Heck I am the same way ;) Naps are great, they can help with stress, they are great when you aren't feeling well, they can energize you, all in all good for our health. So I say YES to naps!! If you get a chance enjoy a great nap ASAP, you'll be glad you did ;)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

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I hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day and Happy Birthday Dave!!!

Favorites on Friday (on Saturday)

Todd has been in the Army for 19 years, 4 months, and 12 days. The majority of that time he has been on rotating shifts (usually all 3 shifts), working weekends and holidays. Not necessarily a bad thing, sometimes weekends in the middle of the week are great :) but when he had to work on the actual weekend and everyone was out having cookouts and having fun he would sometimes be sleeping to go in for a mid (3rd shift) and that sucked. Well since he has been back from Korea in 2004 he has been what a lot of us refer to as a "day ho". Which simply means he works days with holidays and weekends off. It did take some time to get used to that. But my FAVORITE part about him being a "day ho" has got to be the 3 (sometimes 4) day weekends he ends up with!! They are simply wonderful. We get to spend a lot of time together and actually relax. This weekends just happens to be one of those weekends, so I am very happy :)

Thankful Thursday

It's thankful Thursday again and this week has been a pretty good one! I am thankful that after Lily's follow up electrocardiagram that her heart block WAS caused by the anesthesia and it is no longer there!! :o) and the gum where her tooth was pulled is almost completely healed and she has just a few stitches left that will dissolve. Todd's smallpox injection is doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing, and he isn't too uncomfortable with some of the side effects. He did decide to put off the start of the anthrax vaccinations until the swelling and pain in his lymph nodes go away. We had a couple of beautiful spring like days this week which put me into a great mood and I cleaned the house with the extra energy. Now I am waiting for the wind to go away, gusts up to 55 mph are just not fun. Poor Lily walking out of the vet's office with the wind blowing right in her face caused her to sneeze about 5 times! Oh and today Jeff Gordon won the first Gatorade duel, so he will be starting the race in the 2nd row!!! Way to go Jeff!!! I hope everyone is having a great week!!!

Lily Update

Miss Lily Belle is feeling better after a week of pain from the extracted tooth, the swelling and itching from the allergic reaction to the antibiotic, the vomiting and losing chunks of hair from the allergic reaction and the stress from all of the above she was actually able to eat her regular food tonight instead of chicken and rice with enzymes. She was actually a little playful today and acting more like her silly little self. It was just like having a sick baby in the house, and boy was I a mess! We take her in Thursday to recheck her heart and hopefully it will be fine.

All of my animals in my mini zoo are sending prayers and strength to my friend, her family and mini zoo in Arizona. They lost one of their zoo members early this morning, a very sweet, loving, little black and white cat. God speed Eclipse and say "Hello" to Gabby for us.

Favorites on Friday

It's time for Favorites on Friday again, after a long break. I absolutely love music boxes!! Well most of mine are actually packed up in boxes already and some are at home in Indiana. This is my newest music box and I'd say one of my favorites. She plays "Everything Is Beautiful" and she is :) Now I think for my birthday I shall order myself one similiar to her, but it is a sea turtle!!! I hope everyone has a great Friday and a wonderful weekend.

thankful thursday

I haven't done a Thankful Thursday in quite awhile and I really don't feel like doing one tonight after the week we have had. The stress of Lily's surgery on Monday to remove a broken tooth, then hearing about a possible heart problem with her, to today when her muzzle and face were so swollen because she is allergic to the antibiotic they gave her. So I was going to be thankful for benadryl, but it isn't helping for a very long period of time. We may have to go in tomorrow for a steroid shot for her if it isn't much better. Then throw in the fact that Todd got his smallpox injection and we have to be careful with that and wash all of his laundry/towels/bedding in hot water to prevent the vaccine crap from causing problems for any of us, until the blister forms, dries up and heals!! So I guess I am thankful for the benadryl (just hope it works overnight), I am thankful that I haven't had a complete breakdown with all of this (plus other things I really don't think I should post), but I think most of all I am thankful that tomorrow is Friday and I am praying for a calm one, plus a better week next week. I hope everyone is having less stress then there is in my house this week.

Army Stuff

I've decided not to go into detail about some of the Army stuff we have to do when we PCS (switch duty stations). But I thoughts I'd share some :) In preparation for Todd to go to Korea there are certain shots he needs this time that he didn't have to have when he went in 2003. Well today he went in to get his smallpox injection, which by the way scares the heck out of me. But next week is worse because he will start the Anthrax series. The short version of the smallpox is that hopefully within 2-3 weeks he will get a blister, it will come off and heal and he will be done with it. Until the blister is off and it's healed we need to keep it completely covered and his laundry needs to be done seperately. In the meantime some good thoughts and prayers would be greatly appreciated that he doesn't get sick and that this injection works the way it is supposed to. Thanks!!!

Miss Lily Belle

Well apparently Miss Lily decided we needed a little more excitement/stress to deal with, or she decided it was time for her to be the main center of attention. We discovered last week that she had a fractured tooth. So we make a couple of phone calls, get her into a certain Vet's office (we have been there before) they told us they could do the extraction when we called, then after we were there said "oh no, we will give you a referral to a specialist". Well we all know that anything that ends in IST and has to do with anything medical is going to be expensive. So we get home, I call the number of the ist they gave us and they quoted an estimate at $1200-$1300, but it could be higher!!! I almost passed out from that news, I said I needed to talk to my husband and I'd call back. So we called another trusty vet's office and they said "Wow, that is just way too much", I said no kidding :) So they asked me all kinds of ?'s and gave me a rough estimate of $500-$600!! What a huge difference! So today we dropped Lily Belle off at 7 a.m. and I spent the day missing my baby girl and worrying (my specialty). We were able to pick her up at 4:30 along with an oral rinse, pain meds, and antibiotics. Plus we were told that while she was under her heart was skipping beats. So next week after all the effects of the anesthesia have worn off she goes in for an electrocardiogram to see if it was caused by the surgery. I pray that's all it was, and that she is fine. She is doing ok tonight and she is very happy to be home. We still aren't sure how she fractured the tooth, but we are guessing that it was Hannah's nylabone (it's too big for Lily to chew) that did it. Needless to say all hard nylabones have been disposed of. Well it's very late, and I am very tired so off to sleep I go. Goodnight!!!

Happy Birthday Lil' Man!

Today is Reggie's 6th Birthday. He went from this darling little kitty here that Chels brought home from a friends neighbor... to this Lil' Man here! We've had him since he was about 8 weeks old and he has brought so much joy and love to us. He is quite a character, from hiding in an empty trash can or trying to fit into ANY size cardboard box, to crawling into a rolled up rug or burrowing his way into a very warm, fresh from the dryer mattress pad! He likes to play with the dogs and watch the outside world. We still aren't quite sure how he feels about Holly, but they do get along most of the time :) It is the perfect day for him too, we have lots of sun, so he will be on the kitty tower by the window until the sun isn't there, then he will come downstairs to find some more sun to soak up!!

HAPPY FEBRUARY!!

Yay, one month of this year is gone!!! Now maybe some things around here will FINALLY calm down and I can get back to semi-regular posting :) We spent all day yesterday at Chels's vocational school for the SkillsUSA regional competition. It was a very long day but well worth it, Chels came in 2nd for cosmetology!!! Now she will compete in the state competition in March!!! We are so proud of her :) This is also excellent practice for her when she takes the state board to get her license. Last week they had a class competition for nail art that was judged by local cosmetologists and she got first place for that!! It's obvious that she loves what she does and that makes me a very happy Mom.
Well it is Super Bowl Sunday, sadly no Colts this year. But I will be cheering for the Arizona Cardinals for a couple of reasons, I really like Edgerin James (former Colt), and I have never been a Steelers fan (sorry D. in Hawaii). There are only certain times I can root for them, like when they played the Ravens :) We will watch the game and hopefully there will be some good commercials. I will finish up laundry and tomorrow there will be 2 posts, one for Miss Lily Belle, and one for Lil Man!! Everyone have a wonderful rest of the day!!