Draper

I have a bad habit that I cannot outgrow. Since childhood my mom has called me "The Draper".
When I come in the door from being out, I  drape my stuff all over the place. I take off my coat and leave it where I took it off. I take off my shoes and leave them wherever I am at the time. So in essence, my stuff becomes draped though out the house. I never caught on to the idea of putting things in the right place when you take them off. It sure makes for alot more work when you are the one putting it away afterwards. Or worse, you cant find where you last draped it.
I think it is time I now work on fixing my problem. I don't really like wearing a wig. It is hot and a bit annoying. I only wear it to church or special outings now. Nevertheless, as soon as I get into the house I take it off and put it somewhere. I think the kids are tired of me saying "has anyone seen where I left my hair?". That is bad enough. But last night it was late and I was sitting at the table and just had to take my leg off. It sure felt good to get it off. But guess where I left it? Leaning up against the table downstairs.
I overslept a bit this morning and tried to hurry out of bed and get my clothes and all of Ben's things ready to take downstairs with me and where was my leg? Still downstairs. I had to hop and crawl from room to room because of course the older kids left all their bedroom lights on and I can't stand to leave them on all day. Anyway, What a pain!! My leg was by the table, my special socks were on the couch and my other special sock thing was in the kitchen (I had washed it and left it our to hang dry). I have to rid myself of The Draper. What will I do if the house catches fire and my leg is not resting neatly by my bed so I can make a quick getaway? Goodness sakes!!

Jumping Beans

Everyday after school, Ben goes to the sliding door and pulls himself up and just stands there looking lovingly at the trampoline. It is the sweetest and most heartbreaking sight all at the same time. So I have one of the big kids lift him up and zip the enclosure around him and he starts bouncing. Some days he cries, realizing he is all alone and has no one to jump with. Then I ask each of the other kids to jump with him for 5 minutes each and he gets 20 minutes total of friend time. Well, after the last kid went into the house yesterday afternoon he cried so I finally gave it a try.
As I boarded the trampoline I could hear my oldest kids snickering at me from the window. I couldn't figure how to 'swing' my robot leg up high enough to climb on. My goodness, that trampoline is high off the ground. I finally decided to slide in on my tummy. Ben cracked up! Mom was finally on the trampoline. After he crawled over to hug me I said, "Hey Ben, Want to just lay here and watch the sun go down?" Yeah, right mom. He quickly pointed to me and then the other side of the trampoline. So I did it. I stood up. It was so wobbly. I tried one baby jump and that was the end of that. I ended up back on my bum. Ben thought it was all planned and cracked up at the bouncing. I decided to bounce his way. We crawled around chasing each other and bounced on our knees and bums. Way more fun.

Show and Tell

I was the object of Show and Tell this morning. What a great privilege. My daughter wanted me to come and show her seminary class my leg. (Seminary class is a religion class before school at 6am for the high school age students.) Starting from my amputation surgery, I know I have been remembered in their class prayers. What an amazing group of kids. They have been so supportive to my daughter as well when she was having her hard days dealing with the whirlwind we were living in for those months. How gratetful I am for that!

Childhood dreams fulfilled

Got this dvd from my mom for my birthday. HA ha ha!!  It was one of my favorite shows growing up. I would even act out being her. Who knew I could actually become her someday??!! Amazing!!!!
I need more bionic parts...

39 and feeling fine!

I'm the birthday girl!!

This birthday feels great! Simply because I am alive! I am so blessed!
(and the ice cream sundae wasn't too shabby either)

Maintaince required.

I saw my primary care doctor to check in and look at my final lingering issues. For one, I had a cyst that wouldn't heal. She lanced that one out. Fun times there. I got some good antibiotics just to make sure it doesn't turn into something bigger. I also discovered I had a couple of moles on my head after losing my hair. How would you know unless you had no hair to cover them up. She checked those and they look normal. Not suspicious. Then there is issue number 3... my hands go numb all the time. Even the smallest task makes them numb. I notice it the most when I am driving. It is probably just neuropathy left over from the chemo drugs. I am hoping that will go away soon too. I seriously felt like I was going in for a tune up. I think this should be my last doctor visit for a long time. What a great relief!

Are you sure you want ME to give that talk?

I got to give a talk at church today. Does anyone else notice that the times you are preparing a church lesson or a talk is the week when the kids decide to have their meltdowns or something in the house breaks? When I was given my topic for my talk, I knew what kind of week I had in store for me. The topic was "Having a Christ centered home".  Of course my kids decided to let all their undesirable qualities explode this week. By Thursday I had taken away all their modern day luxuries. They lost all ipods, cell phones, video games, and computer use, and television. Nice way to prepare for the talk, huh?. I love those little children of mine though. I just wish they could coordinate with each other so I don't get all their meltdowns at the same time.