Keep In Touch

I cant believe this is the last day of my fifth term with Kaplan. I have had a wonderful journey and met some great people. I hope all of my classmates will keep in touch. A special thanks to Professor Sands for all her help and encouragement. I know we all in time will succeed and meet our goals. Please feel free to add me to your facebook. Just remember it is important to never give up and be sure to follow your dreams. Believe in yourself! This has been such a busy week for me and I am hoping that this next week will be a little less demanding. Take care everyone!

Can't Believe Another Term Down

First of all, I want to begin this with a thank you to my professor and my classmates. I was dreading going into this class because I really do not enjoy writing papers. Though when I write letters to relatives and friends I express my writing so well. That is what I have been told. I also want to say how much I have enjoyed this blog but wish I would have had more time to post more and actually read all the other blogs. I may do this after this class is over and continue blogging. Maybe all of us can stay in touch that way. I enjoyed working on this paper and I am satisfied with my accomplishments. I believe we all put forth great effort and will take what we learn with us every step of the way. I just wish in all my terms I had a little longer to absorb all the information. It seems in ways I feel I have not absorbed much as I would like. Anyone else having those feelings? What I do know that even though the terms end I will continue to study and hopefully absorb anything I missed. Way to go everyone!

Where did the weekend go???

I sure can tell one thing it is Monday....anyone else feeling it? I always wonder where the weekend goes it just flies by. Saturday and Sunday was so nice. Saturday we had company over and cooked out. We had tbones and ribeyes on the grill, red potatoes with cream sauce, and corn. We all went swimming with the kiddos. Then on Sunday I took my babies swimming and just spent some one on one time with them. Sometimes I forget how important it is to slow down and breath in all those little things that count. Watching my children love the day with me and them having my attention reminded me they need me. We spent a lot of the day giggling and I just loved those little smiles on their faces. I had to work today and that is how I knew for sure it was Monday :)

This blog is for Last Week !

I am so sorry about not getting to this blog last week. You can blame my 9 month old little girl named Abigail. She was admitted to the hospital on the June 5th for fever and febrile seizures. Upon admission she had to have a spinal tap cause they first thought she had meningitis. That was hard to watch. She was kept in isolation. That test did come back negative which sigh I was so relieved. Through her hospital stay we could not get rid of fever and she was not eating but maybe two ounces a day. Thank goodness they do have ways to keep little ones hydrated through IV. She ran fever 4 days before going in and finally had her last day of fever on the 8th. I know upon entering her white cell count was 26000. Normal I believe is 8000 to 11000. They finally all did return to normal but still left unknown what was the true cause. I know on the 2nd she had her vaccines which I have even questioned. We finally got to go home on 9th. I am just glad she is almost back to normal except for the I dont want to be put down.

Thankful

Well another week has passed and I have had so many ups and downs. I spent Friday night at the ER with my 8 month old daughter Abigail. She had been running fever all that day and just so irritable. She didn't want to nurse and barely would take anything from a bottle. Her eye that evening started looking swollen and green stuff was coming out her eye and within an hour out the other eye. So I took her to the ER that night and was up there til 4:30am Saturday morning. She was diagnosed with an acute ear infection. I am thankful that she is getting better. It is so hard watching little ones be sick. I also had to do a reality check because I have been feeling so overwhelmed and actually kind of depressed. I took sometime Sunday evening for myself which I have not done in a couple years. I don't blame my kids for that I just wanted to be a great mom to them so I have spent most of my time with them. I have found out though I need time to myself and there is nothing wrong with that. I was feeling guilty for wanting that time to myself. I also took sometime to just remember what there is to be thankful for. I am thankful for my babies, my family, my friends, my professors, and even this blog where I seem to just speak what I am feeling. Any of you finding blogging like a stress reliever? Hope all had a great Memorial day and an awesome week.