June 20, 2012

• Life Goes On

  
  Things have been clipping along at such a fast pace. 

  It is hard to believe that only a few weeks separate us from July. 

  Stephanie had her 34th birthday here.   We had a nice steak dinner and she got two birthday cakes.  I’ll show pictures of that next time.  She got itty bitty gifts from us this year.  A small box of very nice perfume (Miss Dior Cherie) that she and I like.  Then some very small tubes and bottles of face creams that hides the wrinkles. 

  Yes!  I have a daughter that is worried about wrinkles!!!      LOL  

  The 3 girls gave her a bottle of body lotion (Curelle) and a gift certificate to Bath & Body Works.  They are having their 75% sale this month. 

  I hope when I get money, at the first of July, there will still be part of the sale going.

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  Stephanie’s daughter, JanaLyn, is at a Baptist Church camp this week.  Hard to  believe she is old enough to be away to camp for a week.   We can email her and they deliver the emails at night, but JanaLyn can’t contact us.  I guess computers have replaced the old way of sending snail mail letters from camp.

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  My 3 girls are at a Nazarene Church Vacation Bible School this week.  It is about 1 minute from our house and they are getting to meet new children.  They are raising money for new shoes for children in the Oklahoma area that would have none, when they start back to school. 

  I like seeing fund raisers for people in our local area who need help.  

  Sometimes we get so wrapped up in foreign countries, we forget the needy people who live right under our nose.

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  I was to have MRI’s done of my brain and cervical & thoracic spine Monday morning.  We got there and waited while they checked with the doctor’s orders.  They had only gotten the request approved for the brain MRI.  That wasn’t even the problem area, but a scan had been ordered because of my headaches.  The headache problem stems from my damaged neck vertebrae and I am having a lot of shoulder spasms, too. 

  As it was, there was a mistake in the orders and they could only do the brain MRI.  At that point, we could have had the test done and been on our way home.  The wait to figure out what would be done was much longer than that one MRI brain scan!!!

  After being locked down in the MRI bed, the spasms started in my shoulder blade area and wouldn’t let up.  It was like having a Charley horse in between your shoulder blades.   My neck was really uncomfortable and I was glad the short brain MRI would be over in 45 minutes.  I don’t think I could have been still for a couple of hours, while they did the other area scans.  It was almost impossible for me to not move a muscle the short time I was in the machine.

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  Last Friday, I had the help of (sil) Angie and we knocked out the homeschool section in our kitchen.  It didn’t seem like I was doing much.  I’m not used to having help with much of anything around the house.  I’m afraid Angie bore the brunt of the work.  But still, I guess I twisted and reached enough to cause the shoulder spasms to act up.  That and my back on the right side – around my waist area.  I was miserable over the weekend and still am rather sore.  But, the kitchen area is cleared up into a neat group of textbooks that are going to be sent on their way.  Another group is of things we think would be beneficial for us to keep, as extra practice work, when all the children are in public school next year.

  There is the teacher side of me that finds value in almost all the books.  Throwing them away is  incredibly hard, and I find myself reluctantly putting them in the giveaway pile.  Angie has been great helping me balance what we really might need and what would be better for someone else to inherit!

  We’ve kept art stuff and the books about Oklahoma’s state history.  There are some excellent math books, reading comprehension books, and some language arts (writing and grammar/punctuation) books we are keeping.  Her children are A students and do very well in all areas of school.  But, their mom is great at helping them do well and extra work at home is part of her strategy.  She’ll will be so helpful to me next year when my girls are in public school for the first time.

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  And finally, I have a picture taken of Daniel’s spots.  He was all stretched out on his back, belly side up, taking a nap!  He never moved when the camera clicked and the flash went off!

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  The silly pictures of me are compliments of Rissy. 

  I was redoing one of my closet shelves and she made me pose for her.  I was acting silly (especially with the box of chocolates) but that’s what she wanted. 

  I haven’t posted a picture of me in a long time and thought you might like to see that my hair is finally long enough to wrap up in a bun, again.  But, it’s too fine and fragile to pin on a head covering. 

  I’m so grateful to have my hair grow back, I don’t want to do anything harmful to it!

  Be Blessed ~

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