Better today.

I'm feeling a bit better today, though still not 100%.   I am able to think about some things other than how much my belly/side/back hurts.  No one has any idea what caused this.  Between the 2 doctor's visits, blood work, urinalysis and ultrasound, we have a pretty long list of things its not and apparently, its not, in the words of the radiologist who read my ultrasound, "something dreadful".  I do wish it would go away though.  I've got a lot of things to do.  I want to get my garden planted, my home organized (you know, kinda)  and my bedroom painted.  I still want to finish my book which I really, really thought was 'almost finished' last November.  :-(  The book is really the only thing that I might feel like working on this weekend so I may get some work done on that.  Unfortunately, it's another holiday weekend and so I probably won't get as much time as I'll need.  I kind of think maybe we have too many holidays and therefore can't savor them like we should.  

And now, I will stop whining and share some photos of my mom's garden today.

Still not.

I'm still not feeling well.  The second doctor I went to yesterday (after my blog post)  has decided not to do a CAT scan today since my fever was down this morning and so I'm at work, trying to take it easy, but feeling very sorry for myself  and now my youngest may have strep so I'm going to have to muster the strength to drive him to the pediatrician this afternoon.  :-( 

Sorry about the whining.  This pain, on a scale of 1-10 is about a 7.  

Not feeling well.

I'm still not feeling well.  The back pain that I've been having has moved to the left lower quadrant of my abdomen and it hurts.  I just got back from the doctor where I had an ultrasound and they didn't find anything.  They're comfortable with me just letting them know how I am next Monday but I'm not really comfortable with that.  I'm pretty darn uncomfortable, if the truth be told.  I'm trying to decide what to do about it.  Other than taking Tylenol.  :-(

Our excursion yesterday.

The trip to the spine center went well.  Apparently, my daughter's scoliosis is very minmal, maybe 5-6% and they don't intervene at all unless its more than 25% so they are just going to watch how it develops over the next couple of years while she is still growing.  We go back in September.   Here's a picture of some flooding we saw on our way there.

 When we finally got into the parking garage (I drove past the entrance not once, but twice!) it seemed a little, well, short.  We felt like we needed to duck our heads inside the Suburban and really we felt like the Suburban was going to scrape the top, especially when we went over a speed bump.  This is what it looked like from inside the car. 

 and this is what it looked like when we parked and got out.

about 4 inches of clearance there.

Glassworks photos.

I was fascinated with these orbs which kind of had an optical illusion of being larger than they were.  It was very cool.

Multitasking.

It's no secret that I have done too much multitasking over the years.  I often am reading, watching TV, surfing the internet and playing a computer game at the same time and yes, I have read a bunch of things lately that indicate that this is not a good idea.  It's probably too late though.  I haven't read anything that says that unitasking for a few years will reverse the effects of years of multitasking. I guess I could try?  Anyway, I'm saying all this to explain that I have a bunch of different things on my mind today and I'm going to blog about a bunch of different things.


Rain.  My husband was telling me this morning that we've had over 24 inches of precipitation this year.  Is that crazy or what?   I have absolutely no idea what to do about my garden this year.  We have some seedlings started.  Should I just go out in the rain and transplant them or wait until it stops.  Will it ever stop or should we start building arks? 

Today. I took off work today because I have to take my daughter to the spine center.  At her well child check, it showed that she had scoliosis so today we're going to go find out what the treatment will be.  I'm praying its an easy fix at the physical therapy center and that she doesn't have to wear a back brace.

Degrees.  I saw on a google alert that Tennessee is thinking of relaxing their homeschool laws so that parents who do not have college degrees can homeschool.  I wasn't even aware that this was a law, because thankfully, I don't live in Tennessee.  My husband and I do have degrees and since he's gotten his in the last 10 years, his probably helps him quite a bit with the math teaching that he has to do.  Mine, I got right out of high school and I've got to say, I do not think it helps me very much.  Occasionally, when I'm trying to explain things like chemical equations, a few things do come back, but most of the time, not really.  They also said that they would allow parents to hire tutors to teach skills that the parents don't know.  When did hiring tutors for your kids come to be something that the government needs to control?  If my husband didn't teach algebra 2, I can assure you, we'd be hiring a tutor for that.  :-D   If we hadn't found DVDs that teach guitar, we'd hire a tutor for that. 

Backache.   Still here.  :-(

Backache and already May!

I hate to do a blog post about my backache on my homeschooling blog, but really, it's all I can think about today and pretty much yesterday too.  I had all kinds of plans of the things I was going to get done yesterday and did not do any of it, I mainly just felt sorry for myself because my back hurt and of course, chauffeured the kids around.  Today my back is even worse, and its starting to make me just a BIT crabby.  It doesn't help that I have to work and it's Monday.  :-P.  The kids are better though.  Several days of antibiotics have helped the ear infections, so they'll be doing school today.  It looks like we are going through the end of May after all.  Oh well, that's pretty normal.  I'm trying to decide a few things about what we'll be doing next fall, homeschooling only 2 students.  It's going to be different.  :-( 

I can't believe that it's already May 2nd and I can't believe I've got a kid graduating this year.  It all has happened so quickly!  There's a song that plays on the radio station I listen to that goes like this and it kind of sums up how I feel lately:

It happens in a blink
It happens in a flash
It happens in the time it takes to look back
I try to hold on tight, but there's no stopping time
What is it I've done with my life
It happens in a blink.

Against the odds ...

I now have 2 kids with ear infections in their right ears.  Are ear infections contagious?  One of them also has strep, but the other one doesn't.  Don't kids usually get ear infections when they are little and grow out of them as they get older?  I'm pretty sure that this is a first ear infection for both of them, although somebody around here has had one at some point, I think it was the youngest and so far, this time, he's in the clear ... at least for now.