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Greetings Friends! It’s been several weeks since my last post. My time off has ranged from extreme pain to downright fun. Here’s the quick scoop on what happened:

On July 23rd (Wed), I finally started the work on my teeth. I made the trip into the city where my dentist made molds of my teeth. Unfortunately though, I think when he pulled the top mold down that he loosened off one of my teeth, and that set off an infection that knocked me off my feet for a week. By Thursday the left side of my face was so swollen it wasn’t funny. And talk about pain.. oh my. I phoned my dentist and they phoned in a prescription for painkillers to my local pharmacy right away but still, the pain was unreal.

Thankfully I had another appointment on Friday, and though we were supposed to be doing some other work, instead I ended up having 3 extractions done. My hubby had driven me into the city which I’m very thankful for as there was no way I could have driven back home again considering the pain I was still in. By Saturday morning my face was so swollen even my left eye had started to swell shut. Over the next few days the swelling went down, and the pain diminished but it wasn’t until about the following Wednesday that I started feeling like myself again.

On Monday, Aug. 4th, we packed up the family and one of my daughters friends and went camping for a few days. It was so nice to get away. We only went an hour north, but we were right on Lake Huron at a place called Ipperwash Beach. The campground we stayed at was Our Ponderosa which had tons of stuff for the kids to do including a salt water pool with a 78′ waterslide. The water slide was great because it was big enough for the big kids to have some fun on, yet small enough that toddlers could go down with life jackets or water wings on. There was also horseshoe pits, playgrounds and a splash pad too.

I haven’t even unpacked my camera yet, which I’ll do shortly and then post some pictures

For the moment at least I’m happy and healthy and not so tired after a good nights sleep in my own bed lol. Next week I’ll be around and then we’re hoping to sneak in another 3 day camping trip the following week.

I hope everyone else is having a great August so far

First I would like to send out a HUGE Thank You to Courtney from Contests 4 Moms and A Mom Speaks. When I sent out a request for help for my blog theme, Courtney came through for me with flying colors and added the additional sidebar that I really wanted.

I first came across Courtney’s Contests 4 Moms site while browsing through blogs on Entrecard, and have since added her in as one of my favorites - in fact, it’s a site I visit as often as I can.  She’s got some amazing contests posted, and updates them on a regular basis.

Here are some of her latest additions:

• Preserve Toothbrush
• Balboa Adjustable Sling and Flexible Knit Serene Sling
• Bouquet of Cookies

And many more…

Additionally, Courtney has another beautiful blog - A Mom Speaks.. Christian.  Wife.  Mom.  A Christian, a wife, and stay at mom to two children (her son is 3, and her daughter is 1).  Courtney enjoys cooking, reading, movies, photography, scrapbooking, keeping up with technology, and most of all spending time with her kids and family.  Through A Mom Speaks, Courtney lets us know what God is doing in their lives, and how He is blessing them each and every day.

Thanks again for your help Courtney, and I’m truly glad to have met you in this vast world otherwise known as the internet lol

It’s Sunday, and I’ve spent most of the weekend with my nose either stuck in a book or glued to a sappy movie on tv (ok, so Rambo isn’t exactly sappy, but hey.. lol).  Some days I just absolutely cringe at the thought of even looking at my computer, and it really beats the heck out of my why.  Well, to be honest, I know exactly why… too many long days (and nights) sitting in this chair trying to get things done.  Burnout - the # 1 enemy of the Work At Home Mom.

This week it’s not all burnout though.. stress and anxiety are playing a big part of my lack of concentration.  We’re waiting to hear whether or not we’re approved for a 2nd mortgage.  If we’re not, I’m not entirely sure just what I’m going to do.  I need dental work to the tune of $16,000 - yes, that is 3 zero’s behind that 16.  I feel like a hick.  I hate going out and having to talk to people face to face.  It’s downright embarassing to be honest.  My brother is about to go through a similar situtation too which has me seriously thinking that our soft teeth may be genetic to some degree.  That and the fact that our childhood dentist was an absolute butcher.

The other thing is that I had to go for an ultrasound (or sonogram for my US friends) on Wednesday and it will probably be next Friday before I hear the wonderful results.  Hopefully it will be fibroid tumors, but again… waiting absolutely sucks.

So yes, I’ve taken a good part of the day off, and what the heck - it is the weekend anyway :)  Now to get a good night sleep and I should be right back in business.  At least as back in business as I’m going to get with school being out for the summer and both my kids at home.  However, that all changes on Monday for 2 weeks anyway when my 5 year old son starts Day Camp.

For the entire school year my 12 y/o daughter has been babysitting twins before and occasionally after school.  This has meant that 2 to 3 days a week she’s had to be up at 5 am in order to be at work for 6 am.  She’s gotten very used to having her own money to spend, and it’s certainly cut down on the money I’ve had to fork out for “stuff” lol.  Now that summer is here though, Kels doesn’t have anything lined up as far as work goes, so on Thursday when I was visiting a friend at her store, I mentioned that Kels is looking for work.  Susan was kind enough to provide me with the name and phone number of a local lady that hires students to help her with her gardens.  So, I gave the lady a call, and within an hour had my daughter booked to help her for 3 hours.  That was supposed to be today, but with the weather we had today it’s been postponed until Tuesday.

As you may have noticed, I’ve been working on a new blog theme.  A good portion of the edits are done, but I’m still not 100% happy with it and will continue playing around with the CSS and templates to get exactly what I can envision in my head.   But for me, that’s the fun part.  I love the technical aspects of creating sites.  Please let me know if the site looks messed up in your browser.  I’ve fixed a few things in IE, and it displays ok.. not quite right as there should be 2 sidebars, but hey… not gonna complain lol.  Flock and Firefox display everything well though.

I hope you’ve had a super weekend!  I’ve got teenage girls descending on me tonight to spend the night in the trailer.   Should be interesting lol.

It was bound to happen sooner or later as my 4 y/o is such a daredevil, but I was expecting something exciting like a broken arm. Instead, he was at his friends house just up the street, where apparently they were dancing and fooling around, when Robbie fell and smashed his chin on the arm of a wooden rocking chair.

The result was a surprisingly deep 1/4″ gash on his lower cheek.. near the top of his jaw bone. When it bled through 3 bandages, I decided enough was enough and that it looked deep enough that it may actually need a stitch or two, so I called my hubby who is working weekends right now, and told him to meet us at the hospital, and off we went.

Now, you have to keep in mind that we live in a small rural community with a small rural hospital. I called the hospital to explain the situation and they told me to bring him in, a doctor was on site and could take a look at the cut. So, maybe right that minute things were slow there… but it took me 20 minutes to get there and in that time, apparently things changed.

It used to be that we’d walk into emerg, sit down at the registration area where there would be a real live human being to ask us questions and take down our information… so that’s where I headed, only to be told that I had to back up and talk to the triage nurse first. Ok, so we take care of that. Then she tells me to head back over to the registration desk and push the red button on the wall, and I’d see a registration nurse come on the display screen - she’d be able to see me with this two way real time camera. The hospital I’m registering with is in another city entirely… go figure!

I guess this was one of the results of government cut backs… instead of paying for a triage and registration nurses, they only have to pay for one of them now, though that camera and monitor set up looked impressive and must have cost a pretty penny to have installed!

So anyway, we get registration taken care of, and head into the waiting room where there is only one other person. I’m thinking sweet.. this won’t take any time at all. And it turns out that she’s waiting for her husband who was already in seeing the doctor. This was about 5:30 pm last night. My hubby got off work at 6, and at 6:40 he arrived to still find us in the waiting room. Robbie was being excellent, but we hadn’t had dinner before we left so I bought him a can of pop and a bag of chips - healthy options huh?

At about 7:00, they finally ushered us into one of the exam rooms, where we started waiting all over again. Glenn (my hubby) finally said he’d give it to 8:00 and if the doctor hadn’t come in by then, we were leaving and would put a steri-strip on Robbie ourselves at home. Not five minutes after that, the doctor and nurse finally arrived (7:55 pm). While we were waiting in the exam room, Glenn kept us quite entertained, posing as a rooster and making Robbie a fish out of a glove (that ended up taped to the wall to see if anyone would notice lol).

After a quick exam, the doctor decides to glue Robbie’s face back together… well doesn’t my Robbie-o get a total kick out of that and he starts giggling away, while the nurse is trying to hold the incision closed lol. Robbie finally managed to stop giggling and put a straight face on while the doctor dripped this expensive super glue into the cut while both the doctor and nurse tried not to end up with their fingers glued to Robbie’s face! It was quite comical lol. Topped off with a steri-strip to hold everything in place, we were finally ready to head for home.

Still starving, I figured the easiest thing to do at 8:30pm would be to head out onto the highway and stop at the truck stop (Wendy’s) and grab dinner. So while Robbie and Glenn headed home, I went out on the mission. I got to the truck stop and realized I was almost out of gas.. went in and got our orders and headed over to the pumps adding an extra 5 minutes onto my trip, then continued on the highway to the next exit where I could turn around and head for home down one of the back roads… except, the off ramp was closed aaarrrggghhh. I ended up having to drive to the next exit which is like 20 minutes in the wrong direction, turned around and got back on the highway and spent another 20 minutes driving home. Darn good thing I stopped for gas LOL. By the time I finally arrived home, Glenn had been getting ready to call out the search party for me. Of course we don’t have cell phones right now and it’s times like this that I really wish we did.

The night was finally over and we had food in our tummies and Robbie was ok, except that he is going to end up with a scar on his sweet face. Good news is that his beard will cover it (so he informed us lol).