Dear Kids:
Okay - SO I finally did it. I applied to college and sat thru a 2 hour orientation. Now I just have to pray that I get my financial aid in order and my previous college transcripts ordered in time before classes start August 30th.
It is my goal to become a certified personal trainer and registered dietitian !
I'm nervous and scared and excited all at the same time. I am tired just thinking about it, but hopefully I can get done before any of you start college, huh? :) I'm hoping to get done before sweet baby James starts Kindergarten.
So wish me luck, pray for me and rub my shoulders when I feel stressed!
Love, MOM
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
R a N d O m !
Dear Kids:
Here are my top ten random thoughts floating around in my head right now...
1. We very much enjoyed a small group Church fellowship gathering last night. Even all of your boys loved it.
2. Your 26 year old cousin Ashley who just graduated nursing school has recently moved in with us to make a new life here in Houston. She is energetic and industrious so I am optimistic.
3. A foreign exchange student from Russia - who is 15 - will arrive August 3rd and she will share a room with Victoria and live with us for 10 months.
4. I think I'm Anemic.
5. Our teacup sized puppy named 'Margarita' died. Very sad.
6. Absolutely loved seeing the movie 'Inception' with Victoria.
7. I have not lost any more weight lately. I have not gained either. Time to shake things up a little bit.
8. When you kids go back to school in August - so will I. I am going back to college as a full time student.
9. We are in the midst of painting all the walls in our house. I love the new color. It makes me smile.
10. Things are going very well in our family.
Here are my top ten random thoughts floating around in my head right now...
1. We very much enjoyed a small group Church fellowship gathering last night. Even all of your boys loved it.
2. Your 26 year old cousin Ashley who just graduated nursing school has recently moved in with us to make a new life here in Houston. She is energetic and industrious so I am optimistic.
3. A foreign exchange student from Russia - who is 15 - will arrive August 3rd and she will share a room with Victoria and live with us for 10 months.
4. I think I'm Anemic.
5. Our teacup sized puppy named 'Margarita' died. Very sad.
6. Absolutely loved seeing the movie 'Inception' with Victoria.
7. I have not lost any more weight lately. I have not gained either. Time to shake things up a little bit.
8. When you kids go back to school in August - so will I. I am going back to college as a full time student.
9. We are in the midst of painting all the walls in our house. I love the new color. It makes me smile.
10. Things are going very well in our family.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Absent -not forgotten
Dear Kids!
So sorry I have not been keeping up with this blog nearly the way I intended to. Too busy living life to write about life, I guess.
Yesterday I had a whirlwind adventure. I drove about 5 hours by myself to Mansfield, TX to pick up your cousin Ashley who is 26 years old. She is my brother's 1st daughter. She just graduated nursing school and will be looking for a job here in Houston. So exciting to have her staying with us for a bit. After I picked her up, we got a little lost on the way back, so it took more like 6 hours to get home, instead of 5. OH well - we called it an adventure.
Meanwhile, your father has finished his MBA and that is very exciting. Now he has more time to work on household projects - like PAINTING. Yes, we are in the midst of painting every wall. We have a lot done so far - a nice shade of light green - but more work to do. We have been re-arranging furniture and throwing stuff out and giving things away. Woo hoo for de-cluttering.
And speaking of giving things away - OH sweet James - you hit a milestone. We gave away your crib and you now sleep in a big boy bed. Yay! You do it so well too, you are an awesome sleeper, always have been. I thank God for you every day (and your awesome sleeping habits).
At this moment, as I type - your father has taken all of you kids to the Galleria mall, and I am here all by myself. I must say, it's kinda quiet. I need to get some work done- so much to do. Best get busy and take advantage of my solitude.
So sorry I have not been keeping up with this blog nearly the way I intended to. Too busy living life to write about life, I guess.
Yesterday I had a whirlwind adventure. I drove about 5 hours by myself to Mansfield, TX to pick up your cousin Ashley who is 26 years old. She is my brother's 1st daughter. She just graduated nursing school and will be looking for a job here in Houston. So exciting to have her staying with us for a bit. After I picked her up, we got a little lost on the way back, so it took more like 6 hours to get home, instead of 5. OH well - we called it an adventure.
Meanwhile, your father has finished his MBA and that is very exciting. Now he has more time to work on household projects - like PAINTING. Yes, we are in the midst of painting every wall. We have a lot done so far - a nice shade of light green - but more work to do. We have been re-arranging furniture and throwing stuff out and giving things away. Woo hoo for de-cluttering.
And speaking of giving things away - OH sweet James - you hit a milestone. We gave away your crib and you now sleep in a big boy bed. Yay! You do it so well too, you are an awesome sleeper, always have been. I thank God for you every day (and your awesome sleeping habits).
At this moment, as I type - your father has taken all of you kids to the Galleria mall, and I am here all by myself. I must say, it's kinda quiet. I need to get some work done- so much to do. Best get busy and take advantage of my solitude.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Personality Profile
Dear Kids:
I took an online personality profile type test. It was exhausting, but interesting, nonetheless. Here is what it had to say. I'd be curious some day to hear your thoughts on how accurate, or inaccurate, you find this to be. It was broken down into categories. I wanted to record it somewhere, and figured this is as good a place as any.
On the Agreeableness Dimension: You are best described as: USUALLY TAKING CARE OF OTHERS
Words that describe you:
Understanding
Unquestioning
Humane
Selfless
Gentle
Kindhearted
Gullible
Indulgent
A General Description of How You Interact with Others
Here's one important truth about you: you have a tender heart. Yes, you know that others need to learn to take care of themselves. Yes, you know they need to accept the consequences of their foolish or bad behavior. And sometimes, even when your instinct is to help them, you will let them fend for themselves and let them suffer the consequences of their choices or circumstances.
But most of the time you are there to help when they need you. If they are in trouble, you offer compassion and go out of your way to be helpful. If they need someone who will listen, you are trustworthy and sympathetic. And you are direct with them; when they need advice or counsel, you offer it in a straightforward, direct manner, without beating around the bush.
You're also smart enough to know that you cannot take good care of others if you fail to take good care of yourself, so you listen to your own wants and needs. If you've run out of sympathetic energy, you spend time restoring yourself. If you've ignored your own pain or frustration, you find a friend who will listen well, or go into your own private healing place and give yourself permission to focus on you.
But before long, you're back at it with your friends, offering a sympathetic ear and compassion on which they learn to trust, also giving straightforward advice and counsel when they ask for it. You do know how to take care of yourself, but your genuine interest is in taking care of others.
On the Openness Dimension you are: CURIOUS
Words that describe you:
Original
Inventive
Thinker
Brave
Eccentric
Avant-Garde
Out-of-Touch
Unique
A General Description of How You Approach New Information and Experiences
You think like an artist. Or better, you SEE like an artist. While most people look at life's straight lines, its height and depth and width, you're bending the lines with your imagination and turning black and white into shades of blue and yellow. And in conversations at work or with your friends you want to ask, "Do you see what I see?" A few might, most don't, but you've piqued everyone's curiosity with your own original and inventive ways of thinking.
You can, if you must, think in conventional ways. But left on your own, you'll usually opt for the eccentric or avant-garde; in fact you're usually bored with what everyone else is comfortable with. You learn from reading, talking, watching people and other fauna and flora, and simply sitting in the soft chair of your mind and wondering how people would learn how to count if they could only use uneven numbers. You are out in front of conventional ideas, bravely originally defining true and false, right and wrong, the good, the bad and the ugly.
On the Emotional Stability dimension you are: VERY RESPONSIVE
Words that describe you:
Emotional
Insightful
Perceptive
Sensitive
Self-conscious
A General Description of Your Reactivity
Each one of us encounters some hard times; we get caught off guard, or feel a sudden swell of emotion, whether from fear, joy, anger or sadness. Life is just like this sometimes. You know that because you are an emotional person. Some people go to great lengths to keep their emotions under wraps, to keep a stiff upper lip, to not let others know what emotions they are feeling. But that is not you. You embrace all of life's emotions, both the joys and the turmoil that life brings our way.
When you're having fun with a group of friends you don't even try to contain your pleasure; you laugh hard and feel every moment of the conversation because of the joy that comes from the experience. You make very intense friendships; ones where all of the depth of emotions that you feel can be shared. Emotions are such an essential part of your everyday life. You may cry at intense movies or when watching a sad story on the evening news. You get angry, at others or at yourself, and you do not stifle it. Emotions drive your personality and your relationships - you simply are what you feel.
You experience both the highs and the lows more profoundly than most. And you usually relish the intensity of your emotions. For sure you enjoy the positive times. There are those times, though, when your feelings get the best of you and you wonder how you will manage the moment. But because you are so in tune with all of your emotions you will experience something very pleasant and will be able to engage with that positive feeling to again enjoy the wonderful intensity that life brings you.
Your approach toward your obligations is: FLEXIBLE
Words that describe you:
Spontaneous
Intuitive
Perceptive
Natural
Somewhat Disorganized
Unpredictable At Times
A General Description of How You Interact with Others
When there's a job to be done, like most people you want to know what the goal is and when it's to be completed. For you, that's a start. Next you want to know what the plan is to get to the goal. So you lay out a plan, or at least the major points of a plan: "Organize the kitchen sometime this spring" or "Get the project at work done as soon as possible." You don't need an in-depth specification of every little detail; in fact you prefer not to work that way. You lay out your goals, develop a general plan, and then you get things done.
You believe in intuition as well as organization. As such, you trust impulses as much as strategies and you value spontaneity as much as you do efficiency. In a word, you like to keep it flexible. When you set out to accomplish a task, you prefer to have some room to maneuver. Like an artist, you find that the best way to reach a goal is not always in a straight line. Some of the most productive times for you are the unplanned moments of inspiration and creativity that just come to you. While you do keep to a general plan, those times of pure vision and originality are what really drive you.
Some of the people who rely completely on an organized approach to getting things done may be surprised at your efficiency. But there is a definite method to your approach. With a creative flair that others may not have anticipated, the original plan gets met and there are often a few extra accomplishments along the way. Your comfort zone starts with a task and a plan but it also requires the freedom to be able to go with your instincts and impulses so that you can not just accomplish the task, you also have the option to explore something brand new along the way.
When it comes to Extraversion you are: OUTGOING
Words that describe you:
Friendly
Gregarious
Full of Life
Unreserved
Kindhearted
Talkative
Emotional
Spontaneous
Vigorous
A General Description of How You Interact with Others
People light you up. In conversations, planning meetings or almost any social situation, you bring your energy and your friendly, outgoing personality into these engagements with other people, and you come away pumped up. You can hardly wait for the next event, as long as other people will be there. And you're good at it.
You know how to communicate. You listen well, the first rule of good communication, and then, when it's your turn, you talk vigorously and with animation; in your uninhibited way you give all that you've got to the encounter.
In situations where you feel very safe, when you know and trust the people you're with, you can be very kindhearted and unrestrained. You let your affection for and pleasure in being with others flow freely. You're wide open And when you get back this same kind of unrestrained warmth, you are deeply satisfied. Because you are so friendly and full of life, these are among your favorite moments.
I took an online personality profile type test. It was exhausting, but interesting, nonetheless. Here is what it had to say. I'd be curious some day to hear your thoughts on how accurate, or inaccurate, you find this to be. It was broken down into categories. I wanted to record it somewhere, and figured this is as good a place as any.
On the Agreeableness Dimension: You are best described as: USUALLY TAKING CARE OF OTHERS
Words that describe you:
Understanding
Unquestioning
Humane
Selfless
Gentle
Kindhearted
Gullible
Indulgent
A General Description of How You Interact with Others
Here's one important truth about you: you have a tender heart. Yes, you know that others need to learn to take care of themselves. Yes, you know they need to accept the consequences of their foolish or bad behavior. And sometimes, even when your instinct is to help them, you will let them fend for themselves and let them suffer the consequences of their choices or circumstances.
But most of the time you are there to help when they need you. If they are in trouble, you offer compassion and go out of your way to be helpful. If they need someone who will listen, you are trustworthy and sympathetic. And you are direct with them; when they need advice or counsel, you offer it in a straightforward, direct manner, without beating around the bush.
You're also smart enough to know that you cannot take good care of others if you fail to take good care of yourself, so you listen to your own wants and needs. If you've run out of sympathetic energy, you spend time restoring yourself. If you've ignored your own pain or frustration, you find a friend who will listen well, or go into your own private healing place and give yourself permission to focus on you.
But before long, you're back at it with your friends, offering a sympathetic ear and compassion on which they learn to trust, also giving straightforward advice and counsel when they ask for it. You do know how to take care of yourself, but your genuine interest is in taking care of others.
On the Openness Dimension you are: CURIOUS
Words that describe you:
Original
Inventive
Thinker
Brave
Eccentric
Avant-Garde
Out-of-Touch
Unique
A General Description of How You Approach New Information and Experiences
You think like an artist. Or better, you SEE like an artist. While most people look at life's straight lines, its height and depth and width, you're bending the lines with your imagination and turning black and white into shades of blue and yellow. And in conversations at work or with your friends you want to ask, "Do you see what I see?" A few might, most don't, but you've piqued everyone's curiosity with your own original and inventive ways of thinking.
You can, if you must, think in conventional ways. But left on your own, you'll usually opt for the eccentric or avant-garde; in fact you're usually bored with what everyone else is comfortable with. You learn from reading, talking, watching people and other fauna and flora, and simply sitting in the soft chair of your mind and wondering how people would learn how to count if they could only use uneven numbers. You are out in front of conventional ideas, bravely originally defining true and false, right and wrong, the good, the bad and the ugly.
On the Emotional Stability dimension you are: VERY RESPONSIVE
Words that describe you:
Emotional
Insightful
Perceptive
Sensitive
Self-conscious
A General Description of Your Reactivity
Each one of us encounters some hard times; we get caught off guard, or feel a sudden swell of emotion, whether from fear, joy, anger or sadness. Life is just like this sometimes. You know that because you are an emotional person. Some people go to great lengths to keep their emotions under wraps, to keep a stiff upper lip, to not let others know what emotions they are feeling. But that is not you. You embrace all of life's emotions, both the joys and the turmoil that life brings our way.
When you're having fun with a group of friends you don't even try to contain your pleasure; you laugh hard and feel every moment of the conversation because of the joy that comes from the experience. You make very intense friendships; ones where all of the depth of emotions that you feel can be shared. Emotions are such an essential part of your everyday life. You may cry at intense movies or when watching a sad story on the evening news. You get angry, at others or at yourself, and you do not stifle it. Emotions drive your personality and your relationships - you simply are what you feel.
You experience both the highs and the lows more profoundly than most. And you usually relish the intensity of your emotions. For sure you enjoy the positive times. There are those times, though, when your feelings get the best of you and you wonder how you will manage the moment. But because you are so in tune with all of your emotions you will experience something very pleasant and will be able to engage with that positive feeling to again enjoy the wonderful intensity that life brings you.
Your approach toward your obligations is: FLEXIBLE
Words that describe you:
Spontaneous
Intuitive
Perceptive
Natural
Somewhat Disorganized
Unpredictable At Times
A General Description of How You Interact with Others
When there's a job to be done, like most people you want to know what the goal is and when it's to be completed. For you, that's a start. Next you want to know what the plan is to get to the goal. So you lay out a plan, or at least the major points of a plan: "Organize the kitchen sometime this spring" or "Get the project at work done as soon as possible." You don't need an in-depth specification of every little detail; in fact you prefer not to work that way. You lay out your goals, develop a general plan, and then you get things done.
You believe in intuition as well as organization. As such, you trust impulses as much as strategies and you value spontaneity as much as you do efficiency. In a word, you like to keep it flexible. When you set out to accomplish a task, you prefer to have some room to maneuver. Like an artist, you find that the best way to reach a goal is not always in a straight line. Some of the most productive times for you are the unplanned moments of inspiration and creativity that just come to you. While you do keep to a general plan, those times of pure vision and originality are what really drive you.
Some of the people who rely completely on an organized approach to getting things done may be surprised at your efficiency. But there is a definite method to your approach. With a creative flair that others may not have anticipated, the original plan gets met and there are often a few extra accomplishments along the way. Your comfort zone starts with a task and a plan but it also requires the freedom to be able to go with your instincts and impulses so that you can not just accomplish the task, you also have the option to explore something brand new along the way.
When it comes to Extraversion you are: OUTGOING
Words that describe you:
Friendly
Gregarious
Full of Life
Unreserved
Kindhearted
Talkative
Emotional
Spontaneous
Vigorous
A General Description of How You Interact with Others
People light you up. In conversations, planning meetings or almost any social situation, you bring your energy and your friendly, outgoing personality into these engagements with other people, and you come away pumped up. You can hardly wait for the next event, as long as other people will be there. And you're good at it.
You know how to communicate. You listen well, the first rule of good communication, and then, when it's your turn, you talk vigorously and with animation; in your uninhibited way you give all that you've got to the encounter.
In situations where you feel very safe, when you know and trust the people you're with, you can be very kindhearted and unrestrained. You let your affection for and pleasure in being with others flow freely. You're wide open And when you get back this same kind of unrestrained warmth, you are deeply satisfied. Because you are so friendly and full of life, these are among your favorite moments.
Friday, May 14, 2010
The Happy Column...
Dear Kids:
On this day in history, May 14, 1987 - I attended my mother's funeral. Kind of depressing, I know. Been thinking about her a lot lately. I know it's been a lot of years since she passed away, but I think that losing your mother is something that pretty much stays with you. Hopefully you will not have to worry about that for a very LONG time :)
I've been trying to envision or imagine what she would be saying to me during these difficult times we are experiencing, with your Father leaving and our divorce. I've been trying to think about what her advice would be. In some ways I can - but in some ways, not - because I wasn't even an adult when she died. I never related to her as an adult, only as a child and teen.
One thing that she did say a lot - which is timeless and applicable in most situations - is this: At the end of your life you will have two columns, one column will be called 'happy minutes' and the other column will be 'unhappy minutes'. Each column will have a total of the minutes you spent in each. Just remember that while you are entitled to be sad, angry, upset, disappointed, etc. - as these are all normal emotions and part of life - how LONG you stay in those emotions is your choice. So for every minute that is spent in the 'unhappy column' - it steals minutes from the 'happy column'. At the end of your life, you want to make sure that the happy column wins!
So - here's to making sure that our happy column is not robbed today!
On this day in history, May 14, 1987 - I attended my mother's funeral. Kind of depressing, I know. Been thinking about her a lot lately. I know it's been a lot of years since she passed away, but I think that losing your mother is something that pretty much stays with you. Hopefully you will not have to worry about that for a very LONG time :)
I've been trying to envision or imagine what she would be saying to me during these difficult times we are experiencing, with your Father leaving and our divorce. I've been trying to think about what her advice would be. In some ways I can - but in some ways, not - because I wasn't even an adult when she died. I never related to her as an adult, only as a child and teen.
One thing that she did say a lot - which is timeless and applicable in most situations - is this: At the end of your life you will have two columns, one column will be called 'happy minutes' and the other column will be 'unhappy minutes'. Each column will have a total of the minutes you spent in each. Just remember that while you are entitled to be sad, angry, upset, disappointed, etc. - as these are all normal emotions and part of life - how LONG you stay in those emotions is your choice. So for every minute that is spent in the 'unhappy column' - it steals minutes from the 'happy column'. At the end of your life, you want to make sure that the happy column wins!
So - here's to making sure that our happy column is not robbed today!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Mama's Ordeal Yesterday
Okay Kids - I find it ironic that the healthcare thing on Capitol Hill happened yesterday while your uninsured mama went thru a crazy ordeal. Keep in mind, I am not political, and not intending to comment or start a debate about certain healthcare bills or crisis going on in our country right now.
But the fact remains we are uninsured. Because of this - we try to find the most inexpensive route possible to take care of our family's needs. Yesterday, I woke up with a raging ear infection. It was REALLY bad, probably the worst pain I have felt in many years. Victoria - you were so sweet when you came in and kissed me goodbye before school while I was in bed all miserable.
Now, your daddy is a consultant and when he does not work, he does not get paid, so it is a big deal for him to take off work. My pain was so bad I had to ask him to stay home with you kids so I could find a doctor, etc. Our regular doctor, whom I love and adore (Tayma Shaya) is off on Mondays and I really could not wait or make Daddy take off again on Tuesday - so I started a search for a walk-in clinic.
I made some calls to local clinics to try and find the cheapest place. The cheapest one, which was pretty close by, said it was slow and to come on in. I drove over there to find that the waiting room had no empty chairs and the parking lot full. So I left and went to another clinic that is suppose to be good for cash paying folks. I go in there and she says you cannot be seen unless you 'register' and the waiting room to register had over an hour wait, and even if you register, there is no guarantee you'd get an appointment with a doctor. Ugh - so I called the little clinic inside Wal-mart ... and the guy said he is the only one there and he was going to lunch. So I ended up going to the clinic in Kroger, even though their visit fee was the highest of all aforementioned.
So I go into Kroger and she examines me. She said my ear infection was one of the worst she's seen and I have dark, twisty narrow ear canals. I go to pay and realize I have left my wallet at home. Ugh. Yes, even mama can be flaky sometimes, especially if she's sick. So this doctor is kind and she said I can go home and get it. I drive home, get the wallet and go back to pay. She then says she wants to 'show' my ear to her colleague because it is so bad her colleague could learn from it. Twenty more minutes of them twisting and poking my ear with the little light thingy. Finally, she writes me two prescriptions.
I walk over to the Kroger Pharmacy to have them filled, one is for drops and the other is an antibiotic. Pharmacist says I need to wait 20-30 minutes. SO I sit and wait. As I am paying for it, I just happened to say 'my ear thanks you' and she shrieks 'WAIT, your EAR?' I said, 'yes', and she literally rips the bag out of my hand and says I'll be back. I see this girl fly over to the clinic and then go talk to another Pharmacy guy and 15 minutes later finally returns with my bag and says the doctor wrote the scrip for EYE drops instead of EAR drops. Ugh. 10 more minutes I must wait. Oh - and here is the kicker - the ear drops cost $26 more dollars than the eye drops so I have to pay more money.
SO I finally pay the extra money and get the new and improved prescription, and I asked her as I was leaving - 'so what would have happened if I had put eye drops in my ears?'. You know what she says - 'NOTHING! She said that it is the same medicine just that eye drops are slightly milder than ear drops'. Are you kidding me? ALL of that extra waiting and extra money for something that would have worked in the 1st place? Seriously? Yes, even moms can get frustrated. But I remembered that I am a Christian woman who gives people the benefit of the doubt, and just smiled and said 'thank you'.
I think the doctor KNEW that she prescribed me eye drops and did it on purpose to save me money because she knows I have no insurance and I'm tight with my dollars. I think the Pharmacist was just trying to get all the extra bucks she could. Maybe I'm wrong but the way she handled the whole thing just really annoyed me - especially given that I was in extreme pain thru this entire ordeal.
All I can say is God Bless your daddy who took care of James all day and did the minivan taxi service for you other kiddos. So I apologize to you my sweet and beautiful children if I was anything other than patient and bubbly yesterday. In years gone by, I'm sure you probably won't even remember yesterday - but I know I will - because my husband and kiddos were so super kind to me and it made all the difference.
But the fact remains we are uninsured. Because of this - we try to find the most inexpensive route possible to take care of our family's needs. Yesterday, I woke up with a raging ear infection. It was REALLY bad, probably the worst pain I have felt in many years. Victoria - you were so sweet when you came in and kissed me goodbye before school while I was in bed all miserable.
Now, your daddy is a consultant and when he does not work, he does not get paid, so it is a big deal for him to take off work. My pain was so bad I had to ask him to stay home with you kids so I could find a doctor, etc. Our regular doctor, whom I love and adore (Tayma Shaya) is off on Mondays and I really could not wait or make Daddy take off again on Tuesday - so I started a search for a walk-in clinic.
I made some calls to local clinics to try and find the cheapest place. The cheapest one, which was pretty close by, said it was slow and to come on in. I drove over there to find that the waiting room had no empty chairs and the parking lot full. So I left and went to another clinic that is suppose to be good for cash paying folks. I go in there and she says you cannot be seen unless you 'register' and the waiting room to register had over an hour wait, and even if you register, there is no guarantee you'd get an appointment with a doctor. Ugh - so I called the little clinic inside Wal-mart ... and the guy said he is the only one there and he was going to lunch. So I ended up going to the clinic in Kroger, even though their visit fee was the highest of all aforementioned.
So I go into Kroger and she examines me. She said my ear infection was one of the worst she's seen and I have dark, twisty narrow ear canals. I go to pay and realize I have left my wallet at home. Ugh. Yes, even mama can be flaky sometimes, especially if she's sick. So this doctor is kind and she said I can go home and get it. I drive home, get the wallet and go back to pay. She then says she wants to 'show' my ear to her colleague because it is so bad her colleague could learn from it. Twenty more minutes of them twisting and poking my ear with the little light thingy. Finally, she writes me two prescriptions.
I walk over to the Kroger Pharmacy to have them filled, one is for drops and the other is an antibiotic. Pharmacist says I need to wait 20-30 minutes. SO I sit and wait. As I am paying for it, I just happened to say 'my ear thanks you' and she shrieks 'WAIT, your EAR?' I said, 'yes', and she literally rips the bag out of my hand and says I'll be back. I see this girl fly over to the clinic and then go talk to another Pharmacy guy and 15 minutes later finally returns with my bag and says the doctor wrote the scrip for EYE drops instead of EAR drops. Ugh. 10 more minutes I must wait. Oh - and here is the kicker - the ear drops cost $26 more dollars than the eye drops so I have to pay more money.
SO I finally pay the extra money and get the new and improved prescription, and I asked her as I was leaving - 'so what would have happened if I had put eye drops in my ears?'. You know what she says - 'NOTHING! She said that it is the same medicine just that eye drops are slightly milder than ear drops'. Are you kidding me? ALL of that extra waiting and extra money for something that would have worked in the 1st place? Seriously? Yes, even moms can get frustrated. But I remembered that I am a Christian woman who gives people the benefit of the doubt, and just smiled and said 'thank you'.
I think the doctor KNEW that she prescribed me eye drops and did it on purpose to save me money because she knows I have no insurance and I'm tight with my dollars. I think the Pharmacist was just trying to get all the extra bucks she could. Maybe I'm wrong but the way she handled the whole thing just really annoyed me - especially given that I was in extreme pain thru this entire ordeal.
All I can say is God Bless your daddy who took care of James all day and did the minivan taxi service for you other kiddos. So I apologize to you my sweet and beautiful children if I was anything other than patient and bubbly yesterday. In years gone by, I'm sure you probably won't even remember yesterday - but I know I will - because my husband and kiddos were so super kind to me and it made all the difference.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Wonder Woman
Dear Kids:
On this day in history back in 1974 - a show called "Wonder Woman" debuted on TV. It was very popular. Even then, at that young age - I remember thinking she was beautiful and I wanted to look just like her. I wanted to be WONDER WOMAN...and not just for Halloween. I remember my mother being shocked by her outfit. I guess in this day and age fewer mothers would be shocked Ahhhh, the media hype sending such messages to young girls, even back then - to be perfect to be beautiful, to show off your cleavage. I SO very much wanted to be her when I grew up.
Now some may argue that as a grown-up, married mother of four who runs a household and works for a non-profit organization and keeps up with 2 dogs and 2 cats ... that I may indeed have achieved my Wonder Woman status :) (tee hee) ... but alas, I do not look anything remotely like her, and shall not be wearing any such costume, not even to the beach.
And you know what, that's okay. I like me, as is. I am a work in progress of course - constantly learning and striving to be healthier.
I no longer have a desire to be wonder woman,
I'm thinking I want to be longevity woman!
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