Hurray It is prep day!

I am going to spend my day making all of our side dishes so that tomorrow we all can just hang out. My sister is usually here for this day to help but she can't make it until later tonight. Barry is home today although he had to go in last night and do some "testing" and he didn't make it home until after 4:00 a.m. so I don't expect him to be up for awhile. So......I need to hope that the boys can keep themselves occupied.
I am so looking forward to lighting a fire outside making hot cocoa for the kids and just relaxing!
In case I don't make it back on here again before it is turkey time.... Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! And I hope you are all able to enjoy the day the way you most like to!!!!!!!!!

Finally a diagosis!

I went to the foot Doc yesterday and finally found out why I am in such pain in my right foot.
My big toe and top of foot has been giving me trouble. At first there was the can of spaghetti "O"s. Which actually fell on a different part of my foot but I wanted to believe that it was the problem. So 13 years ago most of you know I was in a car accident. I hurt my back and my foot but my foot really didn't bother me and it was mostly my toe and I knew that they do not tend to do anything with those so I focused on my back. Big mistake. It seems that I fractured it at the joint! The joint has completely deteriated. It is grinding against bone and I have also grown bone spurs. The damage is ireversable. So now what do I do. I am going to have orthotics made hoping to relieve the pressure on the joint. Hopefully, this will make day to day living less painful. If not they can go in and "clean up" the joint, maybe inject some of my platelets in there. If or when I have used that option up they can fuse it. Then I will lose the mobility in the joint. Now a part of me knows that people live with much more devastating situations. I mostly am just kicking myself for not having it xrayed at the time. Let this be a lesson. No matter how you get hurt or how slight you may think it is you best get it checked out. And another thing, if your doctor doesn't give you a good explanation about your pain, keep bugging him/her or go see someone else. I spent the whole summer dealing with this. I thought I was losing my mind!

On an extreme up note. I am meeting my Tri-Cities pals for dinner and drink tonight! I can't hang for long as Barry is going to work tomorrow.
Turkey day is almost here. The kids are already off! Made cranberries today.

A shout out to Auntie Carol........It's not bunions that make people disply voilent behavior it is deteriated joints grinding against bone!!! I can't believe we couldn't self diagnose that!

Shots!

Wow, am I ever glad that is over. The boys have had their H1N1 vaccines. Wyatt went first and boy did he howl. You should have seen Cooper's face after that. Wyatt kept on screaming "no more Doctors....ever". Coop was next and he just let out about 30 seconds of tears. Then it was big brothers turn. He was pretty frightened. The nurse gave him the shot and he said "hey, that was easy". For Pete's sake!
I am one of "those" who never feels totally confident with immunizations. Unfortunately, I have this feeling in my heart that we don't really need as many as these kids get. But a bigger voice that reminds me of how terrible I would feel if they would get something terrible.
Big day tomorrow. Dentist for Barry. Ortho for Max and a Podiatrist for me.

Not much news

It has been pretty slow around here lately. Turkey Day is almost here. Sounds like my Mom and Sister will be here for just a couple of days. Weather permitting. I am looking forward to my favorite holiday.

Wyatt is doing much better at school. He is actually staying there without me. Not without negotiation. He wants me to "wait in my car" and "don't go grocery shopping". He gets so mad when I pick him up and he sees grocery bags! But gets over it. He tells me his is shy and that's why is isn't talking too much at preschool. He is starting to though and that is enough for now.

Coop is loving school and loving learning. Conferences are coming up and I look forward to chatting with his teacher.

Max is a reading machine. He has read 3 books in two weeks and is working on his 4th. He has been reading a series by author Rick Riordan. The first book was The Lightning Thief and they are making it into a movie. He has a book light and as you can see from the pic he gets totally absorbed!

I have been reading again too. I can not believe that I have denied myself the Twilight series books! I read two books last weekend! It was so great! I am just starting the 3rd. I am going to have to pace myself this time because I did not get anything done while I was in vampire land!

Max and Barry started a game of Monopoly this morning. The other kids wanted to quit and do something else. Now Max is looking for some more game players.

I am stuck in a rut with cleaning and organizing the house. Really do not know where to start.

All for now.

Pumpkin fun

Barry has updated his blog with pics of pumpkin carving and Halloween festivities. Had a great weekend! The boys were way too ramped up but we survived. Catch the link to the right for Barry's blog.

Preschool Halloween

Yesterday was the Halloween celebration at Wyatt's preschool. He is going to be a skeleton tomorrow but that is too "scary" for school. The pic on the left he is waiting to go to the red square and show off his costume. Which at that point I started running out of batteries!

Tonight Auntie, Auntie Carol will be arriving. Tomorrow is a big day. Pumpkin carving, trick or treating at the Uptown Mall and then of course our neighborhood tricks or treats. I usually dress up as a witch but Coop and Wyatt said that was too scary. So in honor of "Mister" I will be a black cat tomorrow. More later, until then Happy Halloween everyone!

Pumpkin Patch

Coop's class went to the pumpking patch today. Barry was off so I got to tag along.

He had way too much fun. But I did not get one pic of him with his pumpkin he picked. It was really pretty low key. It was at a nursery and the focus was on just this patch of pumpkins. There was no maze or anything halloween. Which I could only imagine trying to keep track of everyone if there was all that extra stuff. So it was low stress but still fun for the kids. I think that since we have so many pumpkins growing here that I am just kind of spoiled with them.

Tomorrow is my helper day at the preschool. Barry has been taking Wyatt and is able to leave the class. So he is getting better. Wyatt that is.....not Barry. Ha Ha!

We are having rain today. The pumpkin patch was one big mud patch! Cooper managed to stay out of the worst of it. Some kids found a hole and had mud up to their knees.

O.K. so I went on a rant yesterday. And when all was said and done I was completely exhausted.

I will try to make this short. On the front page of our paper there was an article about a 114 unit apartment complex going up less than a mile from our house. BECAUSE the developer who purchased some land from an orchard owner and turned the zone into commercial zone built a grocery store building and then was not able to fill the grocery/office/mini mall. Something happened with the negotiations. (boo hoo shouldn't be my problem). Anyway, I sent a batch email to the email at the city web site. I was a smart ass. I admit. But I said that I really needed to start paying more attention to what they where doing down there. That I didn't move to West Richland from Seattle for a city atmosphere. That I am here because I liked the ruraliness of it. And that I was glad that there is an election looming. The city administrator shot me a 2 page email back (cc to the mayor). A complete run down on city managment and that if I cared I should have been at the public hearing when they announced that Vandervelt Development needed an "anchor" to attract businesses so that he could fill his buildings! Oh, and that there are a few openings on several boards if I was interested. I honestly thought that (1) my email wouldn't be read and( 2 )that it would just go in some bucket as someone against the building. Now, I am not against apartment living. I have lived in apartments and I am not judging anyone who lives in an apartment. This property is surrounded by people who have 2 -3 acres and I just really wanted things to stay with that kind of look. Anyway, I made up with this City Admin. For now. Some day I am going to have some time to learn more about their system and when I do I have some ass kick'n to do!!!!!!!!!!!!