Friday, April 18, 2008
Well, we have managed to survive getting the taxes filed at the studio, always a trial!
I am now in the process of getting the stuff to make the bodices for the pointe tutus for recital. At least we are not making the tutu part! Thank goodness. Thirteen layers of stiff netting in various widths gathered really full was not going to be fun. Than add the ten rows of ruffles on the panties, and it's a nightmare! Thankfully, Ginny bought the tutus, so we are just doing the bodices.
Cooper is back down with ear infections....she has a middle and outer infection in one ear, and just the outer in the other ear. They told me to keep her out of the swimming pool....which is interesting since she hasn't been swimming! DUH! Now she blow drys her ears after showering, and we have all these drops to put in them. I thought having her tonsils out was supposed to help with all this stuff. I think I need a rebate from her surgeon.
We have a performance again tomorrow...just an elementary school carnival and we are the opening acts. We are taking some solos, and Cymbre's Little Bitty is going. Cooper is coming to be the back stage manager which she is really good at since she does it for recital every year.
Company tryouts for Cymbre are next weekend, but she will make it. Probably the Junior A team this next year....heaven forbid! I wonder how many costumes that means I will make. Cooper's aren't until just before recital. She will be Teen A probably, but we will have to be careful about what dances we put her in since most of it will be on Sundays. Dad says he will pay for more solos or duets for her this next year so she can still dance, but it can be on Saturday. We don't want to pay for costumes that her understudy just wears.
Cymbre has all her flowers planted in the pots in the backyard and the front porch. She has them all named, and talks to them all everyday....the kid is losing it. Her tomatoe plants are already growing tomatoes. Dad is making her a flower bed beside the garage so she can have more flowers.
I set up the email on hotmail for the little girls, so you will probably start hearing from them.
We bought a new dryer. The bearings went out on the other one, and since it was 14 years old, we decided to just replace it. The new one has this sensor thing that tells it when the clothes are dry and it just turns off. Now I am constantly thinking it is still running, and go in there to find it stopped and the clothes are cold. I am used to three buzzers and this new one just buzzes once at the end of the cycle. I guess I just have to retrain myself. It does have a 30 minute cycle where it will tumble for just a minute to keep the clothes wrinkle free, but that seems like a waste of power to me.
I cleaned out the scissor drawer in the kitchen the other day and found some very interesting things in there. An empty packing tape roll...now just why would it need to live in the drawer if there is no tape on it? Will it miss it's friends if it goes to live at the trash dump. Surely, it could find some new friends there, I mean after all, I sent some of them there just a couple of weeks ago when I sent packages to people. Another thing I found were several top to granola bars. The rest of the wrapper must have made it to the trash can, but just the top part to open the wrapper seems to end up with the scissors in the drawer. Now I collect lots of dumb things, but granola bar tops of wrappers are not one of them! And those little plastic tags things that hold the tags on clothes at the store. We had a whole colony of them! Those things must think they were living in a palace there were so many of them....and no it hasn't been that long since I cleaned out the drawer. There's just 3-4 of them on everything you buy these days, and obviously the little girls think the place to leave them is in the drawer. There were also pieces of Cymbre's Zyrtec wrappers. I just don't understand why it is so hard for them to make it to the trash can. Is there some kind of mysterious suction that occurs when the scissor cut part away to get the pill out that sucks the rest of the wrapper into the far corners of this drawer. It just looks like an ordinary drawer in the kitchen, but I am convinced it has some kind of power of small objects that really should be living in the trash can! The trash can lives across the kitchen from this drawer, so it can't be in cahoots with the drawer, since I never hear any conversations taking place between them. Come to think of it, there should be at least 6-7 pairs of scissors in that drawer, and there aren't. They must have migrated south for the season! Maybe they are making tracks to the trash can...but I don't see any little clippings left on the floor. The calculator that lives in the drawer seems to have problems finding his way home too.....I actually think he has a thing for the pink calculator that lives in Dad's desk drawer....I saw them snuggling the other day. Boy I split that up fast, we don't need those baby calculators everywhere. And the lip balm pots that are supposed to stay in the drawer seem to migrate into my purse. Now why would I need 7 tubes of chapstick in my purse. I don't have seven lips! There are not even seven people who have lips that live at my house anymore! I never use chocolate flavor, or even cherry flavor, so why do they have to live in my purse? One of these days when I have absolutely nothing better to do, I am going to sit on the bar stool and stare at that drawer to figure out just how these things get into so much trouble. It's true my purse lives on the counter right above the drawer, but I never hear any ruckus going on in the drawer (and yes, I am home alone for a good portion of the day, and no, I haven't lost my mind!), so why would the chapstick need to find it's way into my purse? Is there something going on in my purse that I need to know about? Is something picking on the chapstick in the drawer? Are the scissors unfriendly? They aren't sharp enough to do any real harm to anything. Maybe the scotch tape keeps threatening the chapstick. I know, the chip clips must be picking on the tubes, so they just have to vacate the premises...that's got to be it. I really must just sit and watch. Of course, I could just zip my purse closed, but then I can't hear my cell phone ring when it's inside the purse, and I never remember to take it out and put it on the counter when I come home. And if I did, then when I left, it would still be on the counter, and what good would it do me then? I can't call anyone from the counter when I am gone in the van. I could call from the car, but I never drive the car since it makes my foot swell up, so I just leave my phone in my purse.
Well, I guess I need to get busy doing something useful today....I think I will iron the few pieces I have washed this morning so I don't have to get a basket out and stack it up. I finally got the mountain caught up. Then maybe on to the mending, or cutting out bodices. Or I could just take myself out to a nice lunch at Panera Bread.
Each of you have a great day, and remember to talk to Heavenly Father. Give your smile to someone else, and hug someone you love.
I love you bunches.
Mom
Friday, April 18, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
What is it with people when you tell them a deadline, they all think that they can take another week to get the stuff in. I tell you, if I was Ginny, I just wouldn't enter the late ones in competitions. This is totally ridiculous! I have to spend all night up, the night before we leave on a trip because these people REFUSE to turn in the money on time......you can't just count the money and be done. There are several forms we have to compile the information on, and then cross check everything.
On a lighter note, MTV is coming to the studio for the day tomorrow. Ginny wanted me to come and finish helping cleaning, but I paid for a sewing class and I am going. They are coming to interview her for something to do with the drill team stuff she does, and if she gets the job, they will be filming at the studio on a regular basis. Just what we need! Another reason for Ms. Michelle to be full of herself! I think Ginny is crazy to let this go on....it will be nothing but trouble just you watch. However, I will be a good girl and wear my purple office manager shirt if I go to the studio at any point tomorrow.
We survived another competition. That little Cymbre and her partner Megan took a platinum 1st place in their catagory, and then won First Place Overall too! She has all the luck with Star Systems. Cooper's duet did well too taking a first place platinum in their division, but they didn't quite get the overall. Their division is judged much harder than Cymbre's, just because of their age. They were competing against other Hintze duets, and bet out most of them. Our Mary Poppins and Happy Feet productions took the "Outstanding Achievement" awards, and our studio was the "Top Studio" at the competition. That means we got the highest average of all of the scores that performed for each studio. They average every entry for the studio, and it makes sense that we won since most of our dances received platinums. We received several comments on the costumes for the duets I made, so that always makes me feel good.
We are packing for the trip to Denver....I am excited to leave Houston for a few days. It will be nice to get away from the studio.
I am going to a pattern design sewing class in the morning....don't you think it's about time I learn how to do it since I have been doing it for the dance studio for 4 years! I thought so.
Friday, I have the priviledge of getting yet another crown on a tooth. The dumb tooth just broke off, so of course, it needs a crown.....nothing like a toothache for the trip.
Well, Russell will be proud of me....I installed a new font on my office computer and I didn't even have to call him.....AMAZING!. Then on top of that, I installed a new program too....Miracles will never cease. Then the best part is, it actually works! I was doing some things for Ginny for her charity league stuff she does.
I will finish it up tomorrow, and then she can just print it out over the break.
Have you ever really looked at a new package of CD's? They are all so pretty and new, and then when you open the package, even before you touch anything, the top one manages to get scratched! What the heck! How does the thing that doesn't breathe, have arms or legs managed to get scratched without anyone even touching it? Are there some invisible men inside the stack that run around with nails creating havoc? I even bought a package with those little separater things between the cd's, but NO, that didn't keep them from getting scratches either. And no, I didn't just buy the cd package at Wal Mart, I got some of them at Target, and one stack at Office Depot. I think there is a plot to ruin all the cd's in the world. Even the package with the colored ones is scratched. At least whoever is doing it isn't picky.
I got Uncle Gary a new nappy blanket made....he called and said his was worn out while I was making all the costumes. I got it made in time to go with us. The girls chose spider fabric, so it will be interesting to see his reaction. There will probably be spider wars going on this week. Beware!
Well, I must try to get some of these cd's to burn....we have taken a bunch of songs off the old records and put them on the computer and I want to make some cd's for Dad and I in the car.....we don't have IPods! Maybe I will put the C is for cookie song on one, and the train one about Cookie Monster. I know, you kids want those songs. Dad is working on it.
Remember to serve someone else this week. I'd let someone carry my part of Elizabeth and Ethan's stuff for a bit if you want to....the trial chemo has started, and she is a wreck....he is turning into a kind of "lab rat" as she calls it. I still am having a REAL hard time not crying when she calls. I have to cry when I hang up, but I try real hard not to fall apart on the phone. VERY DIFFICULT!
I love you.
Mom
What is it with people when you tell them a deadline, they all think that they can take another week to get the stuff in. I tell you, if I was Ginny, I just wouldn't enter the late ones in competitions. This is totally ridiculous! I have to spend all night up, the night before we leave on a trip because these people REFUSE to turn in the money on time......you can't just count the money and be done. There are several forms we have to compile the information on, and then cross check everything.
On a lighter note, MTV is coming to the studio for the day tomorrow. Ginny wanted me to come and finish helping cleaning, but I paid for a sewing class and I am going. They are coming to interview her for something to do with the drill team stuff she does, and if she gets the job, they will be filming at the studio on a regular basis. Just what we need! Another reason for Ms. Michelle to be full of herself! I think Ginny is crazy to let this go on....it will be nothing but trouble just you watch. However, I will be a good girl and wear my purple office manager shirt if I go to the studio at any point tomorrow.
We survived another competition. That little Cymbre and her partner Megan took a platinum 1st place in their catagory, and then won First Place Overall too! She has all the luck with Star Systems. Cooper's duet did well too taking a first place platinum in their division, but they didn't quite get the overall. Their division is judged much harder than Cymbre's, just because of their age. They were competing against other Hintze duets, and bet out most of them. Our Mary Poppins and Happy Feet productions took the "Outstanding Achievement" awards, and our studio was the "Top Studio" at the competition. That means we got the highest average of all of the scores that performed for each studio. They average every entry for the studio, and it makes sense that we won since most of our dances received platinums. We received several comments on the costumes for the duets I made, so that always makes me feel good.
We are packing for the trip to Denver....I am excited to leave Houston for a few days. It will be nice to get away from the studio.
I am going to a pattern design sewing class in the morning....don't you think it's about time I learn how to do it since I have been doing it for the dance studio for 4 years! I thought so.
Friday, I have the priviledge of getting yet another crown on a tooth. The dumb tooth just broke off, so of course, it needs a crown.....nothing like a toothache for the trip.
Well, Russell will be proud of me....I installed a new font on my office computer and I didn't even have to call him.....AMAZING!. Then on top of that, I installed a new program too....Miracles will never cease. Then the best part is, it actually works! I was doing some things for Ginny for her charity league stuff she does.
I will finish it up tomorrow, and then she can just print it out over the break.
Have you ever really looked at a new package of CD's? They are all so pretty and new, and then when you open the package, even before you touch anything, the top one manages to get scratched! What the heck! How does the thing that doesn't breathe, have arms or legs managed to get scratched without anyone even touching it? Are there some invisible men inside the stack that run around with nails creating havoc? I even bought a package with those little separater things between the cd's, but NO, that didn't keep them from getting scratches either. And no, I didn't just buy the cd package at Wal Mart, I got some of them at Target, and one stack at Office Depot. I think there is a plot to ruin all the cd's in the world. Even the package with the colored ones is scratched. At least whoever is doing it isn't picky.
I got Uncle Gary a new nappy blanket made....he called and said his was worn out while I was making all the costumes. I got it made in time to go with us. The girls chose spider fabric, so it will be interesting to see his reaction. There will probably be spider wars going on this week. Beware!
Well, I must try to get some of these cd's to burn....we have taken a bunch of songs off the old records and put them on the computer and I want to make some cd's for Dad and I in the car.....we don't have IPods! Maybe I will put the C is for cookie song on one, and the train one about Cookie Monster. I know, you kids want those songs. Dad is working on it.
Remember to serve someone else this week. I'd let someone carry my part of Elizabeth and Ethan's stuff for a bit if you want to....the trial chemo has started, and she is a wreck....he is turning into a kind of "lab rat" as she calls it. I still am having a REAL hard time not crying when she calls. I have to cry when I hang up, but I try real hard not to fall apart on the phone. VERY DIFFICULT!
I love you.
Mom
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Early Morning Ramblings
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
It is early Tuesday morning, and I am awake with a backache! Lately, I just can't win for losing! I could take the pain medicine the doctor gave me, but I really hate that "hit by a truck" feeling when I wake up. I could use the numbing patch, but I would have to wake Dad up to put it on, and that thing is so cold when you first put it on. However, it does bring 12 hours of blessed relief. So, I am muddling through with muscle relaxers! They just make me sleepy.
I am in the last stages of Cooper's Lady in the Water top. I had to make a modest one after the seamstress doing them just threw them together last week. Dad and I took the stand that she would have a modest top, or they would dance without her. Ginny chose the modest top, but I had to go clear downtown and pay a bundle to get the material. The seamstress didn't want to give me all the scraps from what she did, so I had to even buy the thread. Which doesn't make sense because Ginny paid for everything in the first place. The bad part is, I had already paid a bundle for the first immodest one! Never again.
Cooper made that Joffrey Ballet Summer program. It's a real big deal....only 18 spots for girls her age from across the nation. Dad is sending me with her to NYC for the two weeks she will be in class there.....I told the school I would chaperone 6 girls. I hope I don't regret it. They haven't said if I will be a chaperone or not, but I will be Cooper's. What I will do all day in NYC by myself is a mystery, but I do know the temple is in Manhattan just a few blocks from where we stayed when we went to NY for master classes two years ago. Maybe if my back is better, I can put in some serious time there.
Ethan's visit to MD Anderson revealed that they think that Texas Children's is doing a great job, and they recommend the trial program there. They will only do the trial on him for a year, and then he has to leave the program. Not a good prognosis, but at least it could buy him some time. Elizabeth doesn't want to hand over her son to be a "lab rate" as she says. We talked about maybe it was time that his quality of life be the focal point instead of a cure. All I know is that the next year is going to be the REAL trial for that little family. I just hope and pray I can help her when my phone rings and I hear tears on the other end. I am praying that I will have the strength to help her through this experience. She so wants to do this with dignity. Just how do you prepare someone to lose their precious baby? I have to blink back the tears just thinking about it. She wants me to run interference for her at church to answer some of the questions. She just can't repeat things over and over.....I just can't believe this!
My staff at the church library is growing....they called three more librarians. Two men and a lady. Now I just have to train everyone again. I'll have to fit it in around trips to Austin, Denver, New York, and Nashville. These dance trips are getting expensive.
We are going to Denver to Spring Break. Dad will drive us up there, and then he goes on to San Diego on business. Then he will return to Denver, do some business, and drive us home. We thought it was a great alternative to staying here in Houston while Dad went. The little girls are SO EXCITED to go see Grandma and Grandpa, and Gary and Jean, and Grandpa Flanagan. They want to go back to that museum place with Grandpa Flanagan and see all those things made out of farm tools. I must admit, that was fun. I am looking forward to just leaving the dance studio behind for a couple of weeks.
We have Star Systems competition again this weekend.....must get those costumes packed up again. Between the girls, we have 15 costumes, with all the accessories and jewelry and shoes! It takes a full day to get everything ready to go. Dad is building the new garment rack, so hopefully, it won't break this time. We finally have a great system of keeping things organized, but it doesn't help when one of the parts breaks!
My sewing machine runs great again!!! Guess they filled up the oil reservoir. I told the man they need to put a little gauge on the thing so I know when it needs a refill before the thing freezes up! He just tells me it's not like a car. Well, I see no reason why it couldn't have an oil gauge like a car.....surely there is some scientist somewhere who could figure out how to do it. Since it uses the oil up, there would be no need to drain it like a car, so really you just need a little tube to fill up the spots that need the oil. See, even my simple mind can think this up, so a scientist should think it was a piece of cake! Just think of all the sewing that could be done if it could just be refilled at home and not have to spend a week in the sewing machine hospital. My goodness, my mending might actually get done! I might even be able to make something for myself....or fix Shyla's temple jacket sleeves, or make Britni her skirts. And there's always those pesky pillow cases that my extremely spoiled family love so much. Another idea would be to just figure out how to have the entire bottle of oil just built into the machine so that the refill tube just refilled the bottle, and somehow it spread out to all the parts that think they need a drink. Maybe the solution is to just feed the machine some alcoholic drinks, and then it would be drunk and would realize that it needs the oil.
Well, before this gets any crazier, I think the muscle relaxer is finally kicking in so I am going to try to get some sleep. I think I will just go on the couch because I can hear Dad in the bedroom....someday they will think up a cure for LOUD snoring. Then we can check Dad and Caleb in for it and be done with it. Russell may need to go too, I'll have to ask Shyla.
Well, remember to talk to your Heavenly Father....He is waiting to hear from you.
Love,
Mom
It is early Tuesday morning, and I am awake with a backache! Lately, I just can't win for losing! I could take the pain medicine the doctor gave me, but I really hate that "hit by a truck" feeling when I wake up. I could use the numbing patch, but I would have to wake Dad up to put it on, and that thing is so cold when you first put it on. However, it does bring 12 hours of blessed relief. So, I am muddling through with muscle relaxers! They just make me sleepy.
I am in the last stages of Cooper's Lady in the Water top. I had to make a modest one after the seamstress doing them just threw them together last week. Dad and I took the stand that she would have a modest top, or they would dance without her. Ginny chose the modest top, but I had to go clear downtown and pay a bundle to get the material. The seamstress didn't want to give me all the scraps from what she did, so I had to even buy the thread. Which doesn't make sense because Ginny paid for everything in the first place. The bad part is, I had already paid a bundle for the first immodest one! Never again.
Cooper made that Joffrey Ballet Summer program. It's a real big deal....only 18 spots for girls her age from across the nation. Dad is sending me with her to NYC for the two weeks she will be in class there.....I told the school I would chaperone 6 girls. I hope I don't regret it. They haven't said if I will be a chaperone or not, but I will be Cooper's. What I will do all day in NYC by myself is a mystery, but I do know the temple is in Manhattan just a few blocks from where we stayed when we went to NY for master classes two years ago. Maybe if my back is better, I can put in some serious time there.
Ethan's visit to MD Anderson revealed that they think that Texas Children's is doing a great job, and they recommend the trial program there. They will only do the trial on him for a year, and then he has to leave the program. Not a good prognosis, but at least it could buy him some time. Elizabeth doesn't want to hand over her son to be a "lab rate" as she says. We talked about maybe it was time that his quality of life be the focal point instead of a cure. All I know is that the next year is going to be the REAL trial for that little family. I just hope and pray I can help her when my phone rings and I hear tears on the other end. I am praying that I will have the strength to help her through this experience. She so wants to do this with dignity. Just how do you prepare someone to lose their precious baby? I have to blink back the tears just thinking about it. She wants me to run interference for her at church to answer some of the questions. She just can't repeat things over and over.....I just can't believe this!
My staff at the church library is growing....they called three more librarians. Two men and a lady. Now I just have to train everyone again. I'll have to fit it in around trips to Austin, Denver, New York, and Nashville. These dance trips are getting expensive.
We are going to Denver to Spring Break. Dad will drive us up there, and then he goes on to San Diego on business. Then he will return to Denver, do some business, and drive us home. We thought it was a great alternative to staying here in Houston while Dad went. The little girls are SO EXCITED to go see Grandma and Grandpa, and Gary and Jean, and Grandpa Flanagan. They want to go back to that museum place with Grandpa Flanagan and see all those things made out of farm tools. I must admit, that was fun. I am looking forward to just leaving the dance studio behind for a couple of weeks.
We have Star Systems competition again this weekend.....must get those costumes packed up again. Between the girls, we have 15 costumes, with all the accessories and jewelry and shoes! It takes a full day to get everything ready to go. Dad is building the new garment rack, so hopefully, it won't break this time. We finally have a great system of keeping things organized, but it doesn't help when one of the parts breaks!
My sewing machine runs great again!!! Guess they filled up the oil reservoir. I told the man they need to put a little gauge on the thing so I know when it needs a refill before the thing freezes up! He just tells me it's not like a car. Well, I see no reason why it couldn't have an oil gauge like a car.....surely there is some scientist somewhere who could figure out how to do it. Since it uses the oil up, there would be no need to drain it like a car, so really you just need a little tube to fill up the spots that need the oil. See, even my simple mind can think this up, so a scientist should think it was a piece of cake! Just think of all the sewing that could be done if it could just be refilled at home and not have to spend a week in the sewing machine hospital. My goodness, my mending might actually get done! I might even be able to make something for myself....or fix Shyla's temple jacket sleeves, or make Britni her skirts. And there's always those pesky pillow cases that my extremely spoiled family love so much. Another idea would be to just figure out how to have the entire bottle of oil just built into the machine so that the refill tube just refilled the bottle, and somehow it spread out to all the parts that think they need a drink. Maybe the solution is to just feed the machine some alcoholic drinks, and then it would be drunk and would realize that it needs the oil.
Well, before this gets any crazier, I think the muscle relaxer is finally kicking in so I am going to try to get some sleep. I think I will just go on the couch because I can hear Dad in the bedroom....someday they will think up a cure for LOUD snoring. Then we can check Dad and Caleb in for it and be done with it. Russell may need to go too, I'll have to ask Shyla.
Well, remember to talk to your Heavenly Father....He is waiting to hear from you.
Love,
Mom
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Cancer's Back!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
I spent the morning today just puttering around the house and getting some stuff cleaned up that has gotten left while my back has been hurting....what a pain! Don't know what's worse, the mess on the counter, or the pain in my back!
This afternoon, Cooper and I went over to Elizabeth's house and had an ice cream picnic on the floor with her boys. Ethan's cancer is back, and it's in his lymph nodes close to his spine so the whole situation has Elizabeth in tears. She just wanted to laugh today, so I took dinner, the ice cream picnic, Cooper and her jokes, and a Horton Hears A Who game I bought.
I have decided that I am not sure that I can sit with her and watch her little one die. The doctors don't know what to do, as they have done the chemo that he can have for his lifetime, surgery isn't a good option, neither is radiation. So, we are waiting to see what they come up with. A VERY DEPRESSING situation. I had to tell her today, that the Savior may need Ethan in heaven more than we need him here on earth.....that just breaks my heart after the year I've spent helping her through the cancer treatment. They thought they had won, and now this. I am the friend she calls to cry with....I am glad to be her friend, but this is SO HARD!
As I was ready to leave, she just clung to me and with tears in her eyes and mine, I told her I would trade with her if I could. She has been through so much, it would be nice if someone else could just carry her burden for a little while.
When I called the RS Pres. today to update her on the situation, we had a good cry together. I told her that I needed some help in getting Elizabeth to laugh....she is coming up with something.
Well, I must get something to eat....and then rest my back.
I love you all.....
Mom
I spent the morning today just puttering around the house and getting some stuff cleaned up that has gotten left while my back has been hurting....what a pain! Don't know what's worse, the mess on the counter, or the pain in my back!
This afternoon, Cooper and I went over to Elizabeth's house and had an ice cream picnic on the floor with her boys. Ethan's cancer is back, and it's in his lymph nodes close to his spine so the whole situation has Elizabeth in tears. She just wanted to laugh today, so I took dinner, the ice cream picnic, Cooper and her jokes, and a Horton Hears A Who game I bought.
I have decided that I am not sure that I can sit with her and watch her little one die. The doctors don't know what to do, as they have done the chemo that he can have for his lifetime, surgery isn't a good option, neither is radiation. So, we are waiting to see what they come up with. A VERY DEPRESSING situation. I had to tell her today, that the Savior may need Ethan in heaven more than we need him here on earth.....that just breaks my heart after the year I've spent helping her through the cancer treatment. They thought they had won, and now this. I am the friend she calls to cry with....I am glad to be her friend, but this is SO HARD!
As I was ready to leave, she just clung to me and with tears in her eyes and mine, I told her I would trade with her if I could. She has been through so much, it would be nice if someone else could just carry her burden for a little while.
When I called the RS Pres. today to update her on the situation, we had a good cry together. I told her that I needed some help in getting Elizabeth to laugh....she is coming up with something.
Well, I must get something to eat....and then rest my back.
I love you all.....
Mom
Thursday, February 7, 2008
I Was Tagged!
Thursday, February 7, 2008
I was tagged a while ago, but have just found the time to answer these questions. And no, I won't tag anyone else since everyone already has been tagged.
10 years ago: I was living in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. I was working with a preschool doing the book orders, and running the lunch room at the elementary school.
5 things on my to-do list:
Clean out my closet
Organize all the photo albums
Spend some time with Guy (always my favorite thing to do, and no, he can't bring his laptop!)
Catch up my ironing
Help my friend through her daughter's cancer diagnosis (I just finished this mess with one friend, and it looks like it is starting with another one. At least I know where the hospital is this time.)
5 snacks I enjoy:
cheesecake
warm chocolate chip cookies
warm brownies with ice cream and chocolate syrup on top
Snickers bar
Heath Bar
If I were suddenly a billionaire:
I would see that our children had the money they needed to totally finish their educations, pay my tithing, pay off any bills we still had, buy a new van with rear air conditioning, and go on some vacation with just Dad. The rest of the money we could give some to Grandma and Grandpa for medical issues, and maybe for the first time in our lives just waste some!
3 bad habits:
I'm a perfectionist - which leads to problems in some situations.
I demand to much of myself most of the time.
I hate to do the ironing and clean the bathroom - that's why I let Dad do the bathroom every Saturday. He loves me enough to pretend he doesn't mind doing it.
5 places I have lived:
Salt Lake City, Utah
Greeley, Colorado
San Francisco, California
Cobham, Surrey, England
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
5 Jobs I've Had:
Financial secretary for Finance America
Kelley girls- executive secretary
Model garment seamstress for Cloth World
Medical Coder
Dance Studio Office Manager
5 Things People Don't Know About Me:
I play the accordian, organ, and piano
I tried out to be a majorette for my junior high drill team - thankfully, I didn't make it!
I would like to open my own business
I love making chili, having a fire, and reading a good book under a snuggly cover when it's snowing outside. I know, fat chance in Houston!
I received a scholarship to go the the LDS Business college.
Must get back to the sewing machine.....have a good day.
Mom
I was tagged a while ago, but have just found the time to answer these questions. And no, I won't tag anyone else since everyone already has been tagged.
10 years ago: I was living in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. I was working with a preschool doing the book orders, and running the lunch room at the elementary school.
5 things on my to-do list:
Clean out my closet
Organize all the photo albums
Spend some time with Guy (always my favorite thing to do, and no, he can't bring his laptop!)
Catch up my ironing
Help my friend through her daughter's cancer diagnosis (I just finished this mess with one friend, and it looks like it is starting with another one. At least I know where the hospital is this time.)
5 snacks I enjoy:
cheesecake
warm chocolate chip cookies
warm brownies with ice cream and chocolate syrup on top
Snickers bar
Heath Bar
If I were suddenly a billionaire:
I would see that our children had the money they needed to totally finish their educations, pay my tithing, pay off any bills we still had, buy a new van with rear air conditioning, and go on some vacation with just Dad. The rest of the money we could give some to Grandma and Grandpa for medical issues, and maybe for the first time in our lives just waste some!
3 bad habits:
I'm a perfectionist - which leads to problems in some situations.
I demand to much of myself most of the time.
I hate to do the ironing and clean the bathroom - that's why I let Dad do the bathroom every Saturday. He loves me enough to pretend he doesn't mind doing it.
5 places I have lived:
Salt Lake City, Utah
Greeley, Colorado
San Francisco, California
Cobham, Surrey, England
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
5 Jobs I've Had:
Financial secretary for Finance America
Kelley girls- executive secretary
Model garment seamstress for Cloth World
Medical Coder
Dance Studio Office Manager
5 Things People Don't Know About Me:
I play the accordian, organ, and piano
I tried out to be a majorette for my junior high drill team - thankfully, I didn't make it!
I would like to open my own business
I love making chili, having a fire, and reading a good book under a snuggly cover when it's snowing outside. I know, fat chance in Houston!
I received a scholarship to go the the LDS Business college.
Must get back to the sewing machine.....have a good day.
Mom
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Pain and Suffering!
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Yesterday was a very traumatic day for me. My sewing machine DIED!! I can't believe it.....that thing is just supposed to keep sewing. I wasn't done with the maid costumes. How rude! It just croaked without any warning....frozen solid! The only thing worse is leaving my wedding rings at the jeweler!
The man at the sewing machine hospital where I took it said it probably needed servicing more than every 2 years if I was going to use it everyday. He said it wasn't an industrial machine....can you imagine....a machine that can't handle sewing over 100 costume in 6 months?
I guess there is an oil reservior somewhere in the hidden insides of the thing that needs to be replenished every so often, and he thought it was probably bone dry. They need a warning light or something....not just dead machine! A whole week to 10 days before they have it back...I had to borrow Ginny's sewing machine to work on the maid costumes. One is almost done, and the other one is half done...just the apron left to do.
Spent the evening at the hospital with Tina. They were doing spinal taps and bone marrow tests on her Megan. They are looking for lymphoma....not good! All her lymph glands are swollen, which means it is throughout her entire body. A stressful evening in the surgical waiting room....it's hard to make someone laugh when they are waiting on those kinds of tests. However, I finally managed to get a smile just before I left. Lupus is also a possibility, but not likely.
Then as usual, I got turned around when I came out of the hospital, so I had to call Dad who is my personal guidance system. Thank goodness for onstar in the car, it makes talking to Dad lots easier while driving and shifting and trying to read the signs. Now my foot is KILLING ME! I couldn't take the van since it wouldn't fit in the parking garage. They say that sacrifice is good for the soul....hope that it's helping mine. I hope I at least got some kind of brownie points in heaven for tonight. I would hate to have all this pain and suffering for nothing. I know, I shouldn't care.
Cymbre is breaking out in hives again tonight....she came home covered with them from dance last night....we gave her Benadryl and I kept her home. May have to take her to the doctor for some of those steroids though if it keeps up. They fade until the Benedryl wears off, and then attack. It's just like when Cooper had them, but they aren't as big, and not all over her body. She will probably be home from school again tomorrow....at this point I don't care.
Well, this isn't a very cheery post, but I haven't had a real cheery day....cancer is a scary thing to deal with even though it isn't my kid. I just got through this with Elizabeth and Ethan, and now it's Tina and Megan.
Well, I am going to take my swollen foot and sit in the jacuzzi for a bit.
Hope you all enjoy your goodie boxes, that is if you can get the ransom paid and get them back from the post office!
Have a good day, and remember an extra prayer for Megan.
Love you.
Mom
Yesterday was a very traumatic day for me. My sewing machine DIED!! I can't believe it.....that thing is just supposed to keep sewing. I wasn't done with the maid costumes. How rude! It just croaked without any warning....frozen solid! The only thing worse is leaving my wedding rings at the jeweler!
The man at the sewing machine hospital where I took it said it probably needed servicing more than every 2 years if I was going to use it everyday. He said it wasn't an industrial machine....can you imagine....a machine that can't handle sewing over 100 costume in 6 months?
I guess there is an oil reservior somewhere in the hidden insides of the thing that needs to be replenished every so often, and he thought it was probably bone dry. They need a warning light or something....not just dead machine! A whole week to 10 days before they have it back...I had to borrow Ginny's sewing machine to work on the maid costumes. One is almost done, and the other one is half done...just the apron left to do.
Spent the evening at the hospital with Tina. They were doing spinal taps and bone marrow tests on her Megan. They are looking for lymphoma....not good! All her lymph glands are swollen, which means it is throughout her entire body. A stressful evening in the surgical waiting room....it's hard to make someone laugh when they are waiting on those kinds of tests. However, I finally managed to get a smile just before I left. Lupus is also a possibility, but not likely.
Then as usual, I got turned around when I came out of the hospital, so I had to call Dad who is my personal guidance system. Thank goodness for onstar in the car, it makes talking to Dad lots easier while driving and shifting and trying to read the signs. Now my foot is KILLING ME! I couldn't take the van since it wouldn't fit in the parking garage. They say that sacrifice is good for the soul....hope that it's helping mine. I hope I at least got some kind of brownie points in heaven for tonight. I would hate to have all this pain and suffering for nothing. I know, I shouldn't care.
Cymbre is breaking out in hives again tonight....she came home covered with them from dance last night....we gave her Benadryl and I kept her home. May have to take her to the doctor for some of those steroids though if it keeps up. They fade until the Benedryl wears off, and then attack. It's just like when Cooper had them, but they aren't as big, and not all over her body. She will probably be home from school again tomorrow....at this point I don't care.
Well, this isn't a very cheery post, but I haven't had a real cheery day....cancer is a scary thing to deal with even though it isn't my kid. I just got through this with Elizabeth and Ethan, and now it's Tina and Megan.
Well, I am going to take my swollen foot and sit in the jacuzzi for a bit.
Hope you all enjoy your goodie boxes, that is if you can get the ransom paid and get them back from the post office!
Have a good day, and remember an extra prayer for Megan.
Love you.
Mom
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Elastic Popped!
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Well, I thought I was done sewing for competition, but had to take in some of the Super Cali Vests, and Cymbre's duet skirt popped the elastic. That will be a major fix it job as it is between the two button holes holding the bib on the outfit!! GREAT!! I guess I should be glad that I don't have to pay myself to do it.
I must admit, if we ever get all these teams on the floor this year it will be an absolute miracle!!
Cymbre is having to step in for a girl who is quitting company. It may be for two dances, but I know it will be for one. She is going to have to learn the whole dance in a couple of weeks. We videoed it for her on Friday, so she will be working on it from now on. Why do my girls always have to be the ones to step in at the last minute?
Cooper has picked up another private lesson student for every Saturday. That kid will be making $60 a weekend. She is also making the company CD's, so she will get the money from that. At this rate, I am going to ask her for a loan so I can chaperone her in New York.
For those that don't know, Cooper made the Joffrey Summer Intensive Workshop. They overbook, so she is on the wait list, but is really hoping to get a spot. I don't know who is more excited, her or Ms. Ginny! I just see the $$$$'s before my eyes. Two weeks in New York City will not be cheap! It's a really prestigious program, so they were lucky to even get in. It will be really good for her dance resume. Then we all go to National's in Nashville for both the girls to compete in July. Joffrey is in June right after recital. Cooper really wants to go to BYU for a dance camp, but I don't know if the $$'s will hold out.
My foot physical therapy doesn't seem to be doing much...four more sessions to go. Then who knows that the Dr. will say. Hopefully, it won't be surgery. I just flat don't have 6 weeks to be laid up flat with the dumb thing! I think I may just buy a whole bunch of new slippers, and just wear them for the next several months until the Dr. says it should be feeling better. Although, I do like that numbing stuff the therapist rubs all over it when she is done with the therapy. She gave me some samples, but I am saving them for competition weekend this week.
We will be competing on Friday night and Saturday throughout the day......everybody has to cheer for them at the appropriate times. I will have to find the sheet, and send the times to those who have to cheer. Prayers for Mom's foot to not swell would be gratefully appreciated!
Well, I guess I better get on that piece of elastic.....it's a major rip out job, and then I think I will be giving a piece of elastic a piece of my mind. There is nothing that irritates me more than when I have to do something like this. It takes me a long time to fix it just because a piece of elastic can't hold itself together! It should have warned me that it was going to have issues before I sewed it into the waistband and gathered 5 yards of material around it. I think it is a pretty slouthful servant if you ask me.
Well, have a great week, and remember to do something nice for several people. Maybe make a special valentine for someone you love. Remember that Dad and I love you all very much, and we wish we could be there for hugs and late night talks.
Love you.
Mom
Well, I thought I was done sewing for competition, but had to take in some of the Super Cali Vests, and Cymbre's duet skirt popped the elastic. That will be a major fix it job as it is between the two button holes holding the bib on the outfit!! GREAT!! I guess I should be glad that I don't have to pay myself to do it.
I must admit, if we ever get all these teams on the floor this year it will be an absolute miracle!!
Cymbre is having to step in for a girl who is quitting company. It may be for two dances, but I know it will be for one. She is going to have to learn the whole dance in a couple of weeks. We videoed it for her on Friday, so she will be working on it from now on. Why do my girls always have to be the ones to step in at the last minute?
Cooper has picked up another private lesson student for every Saturday. That kid will be making $60 a weekend. She is also making the company CD's, so she will get the money from that. At this rate, I am going to ask her for a loan so I can chaperone her in New York.
For those that don't know, Cooper made the Joffrey Summer Intensive Workshop. They overbook, so she is on the wait list, but is really hoping to get a spot. I don't know who is more excited, her or Ms. Ginny! I just see the $$$$'s before my eyes. Two weeks in New York City will not be cheap! It's a really prestigious program, so they were lucky to even get in. It will be really good for her dance resume. Then we all go to National's in Nashville for both the girls to compete in July. Joffrey is in June right after recital. Cooper really wants to go to BYU for a dance camp, but I don't know if the $$'s will hold out.
My foot physical therapy doesn't seem to be doing much...four more sessions to go. Then who knows that the Dr. will say. Hopefully, it won't be surgery. I just flat don't have 6 weeks to be laid up flat with the dumb thing! I think I may just buy a whole bunch of new slippers, and just wear them for the next several months until the Dr. says it should be feeling better. Although, I do like that numbing stuff the therapist rubs all over it when she is done with the therapy. She gave me some samples, but I am saving them for competition weekend this week.
We will be competing on Friday night and Saturday throughout the day......everybody has to cheer for them at the appropriate times. I will have to find the sheet, and send the times to those who have to cheer. Prayers for Mom's foot to not swell would be gratefully appreciated!
Well, I guess I better get on that piece of elastic.....it's a major rip out job, and then I think I will be giving a piece of elastic a piece of my mind. There is nothing that irritates me more than when I have to do something like this. It takes me a long time to fix it just because a piece of elastic can't hold itself together! It should have warned me that it was going to have issues before I sewed it into the waistband and gathered 5 yards of material around it. I think it is a pretty slouthful servant if you ask me.
Well, have a great week, and remember to do something nice for several people. Maybe make a special valentine for someone you love. Remember that Dad and I love you all very much, and we wish we could be there for hugs and late night talks.
Love you.
Mom
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