follow up

so you know that you have a good doctor/nurse practitioner when she is worried and wants to dig into something even when others tell her that it is all good. i got a phone call on friday and she wants me to see a breast surgeon. She kept telling me she just wanted to be sure. She was trying to convince me to go when I had already said, "ok" and "sure" three or four times. Oy!

I was stressed enough during the last appointment. i don't think anything could strees me out more. i will just do what i did during my ultrasound: pray. know what I prayed? please God, don't let me worry. i know that nothing was going to change in that very second so what else was there to ask for? so i will pray for the same thing...not to worry....

maybe you could too...

mammograms

What a stressful way to spend the afternoon. I have had some weird issues going on so the doctor said, "Let's get that checked out". So I made an appointment and went in today.

Stressful.

Have the first "boob-squish". go sit down and wait. Oh, um, we need some more pictures of 2 specific spots. Hmm, ok.

Thanks. Go have a seat.

Oh, we need to do an ultrasound, so I am going to go get that ready. OOOOOOOOOk.

Hang out here and wait.

Come on in. Ultrasound, hmmm. Take a picture of that. Oh, take that one too. Hmmm,  click, click, click.

Wait here I need to ask the radiologist if she want to check this out.

Wait.

Oh, yes. She would like to check it out herself.

Hmmmm.

Well, looks good. Alot of cysts, but they don't do anything or mean anything. don't know why you are having the issues, but it's all good.

Well that's good, but really? Did you have to put me through an hour and a half of stress? They were nice. They were sweet. They tried to make me comfortable, but i was totally wiped out by the time I got home.



Fall

Except for the wonderful warmth of summer? Fall is my favorite time of year. Actually around October 1st until January 2nd. It's my favorite. I love to decorate. I love to sew. I love to craft and create. I love sending Christmas cards and receiving "real" mail everyday with some other family smiling from their Christmas card.
Right now I have been building Halloween table runners. Every time I go to the fabric store, which is too terribly often (I think it's where my paycheck goes after soccer) I find a few new Halloween fabrics and have to build another table runner. I think I have made 10 or so now.

This one I sent to my sister and Dusty. They truly only take 10 minutes and I just need to move on to the next holiday.

I am also working on another quilt. I just finished the "pink one" that Haley requested. I also found the cutest Christmas card holder, but I think I need to ask mom for help in making it. I will let you know how it turns out.

I am off to finish the squares that I am currently working on. It's a surprise, so I hope that it's a good one. I will post it after I have made the surprise!

the last 2 weeks...

What a crazy two weeks! For someone who only works 3.5 hours each day I am never home. Never! For the last 2 weeks I have been taking a class on our school citizenship program. I have had physical therapy on my shoulder twice a week. The Thursdays? Leave home at 8:30 and get home at 6:15. I only work for 3.5 hours. But I was at school for over 7. Hmmm definitely doing something wrong here.

So, Friday was my home day. My day to actually get Jack off the bus day. My cook dinner at home day. My hang out day. I needed that, cuz today? we left at 8:30 and got home at 5:30. Two sets of soccer pix and a soccer game in Tacoma, (That they lost.) and late lunch afterwards. Pick up Konley from a friends and wait up til 12:30 for him to come home from his paintballing party. Can't let him spend the night cuz he has a soccer game tomorrow.

I never realized what a crazy life this would be. I don't regret it at all. I just really wish that there were more hours in every day!

Quilting

So my mom has given me a new way to spend time. Quilting. I am having so much fun. I think I am having more fun designing them than actually putting them together. It brings out the artsy-fartsy in me.

This is my most recent. Just to give you a bit of perspective this is our ping-pong table. My girlfriends daughter saw the one I was making for my niece and said,  "I want a pink one!" I made one for her and her sister last Christmas that had ice skating material on it because they are both big into skating. They were my second and third after finishing my sisters. It was basic and simple, queen-sized but all 8" squares. Now look at me. I get out my graph paper and start designing.  This is my next project idea:

My cousin is requesting owls for Bella's first birthday party: look Whooooo's turning 1. I spent hours searching for this owl last night and turns out I had the magazine and pattern up in my room! Yay for me! Her birthday is the beginning of November so I need to get a move on but I am totally excited!

Also in my search I have found many different quilting blogs...here we go!

There are days...

    There are days where I really feel as though I don't know what I am doing. More like which way I am going. Even though I started working at Emerson last year, it was November. The kids had the routine down. They knew their numbers, they knew their teacher, they knew the Make Your Day citizenship program that we had, they knew what was going on...even if I didn't.

This year? Totally on me. This year we still have 5 lunches, but the time from beginning of the first to the end of the last has been shortened by 25 minutes. That's alot of time to have squished together. I feel like I am on a rollercoaster. Especially with the 1st graders. Who no longer have 1st lunch. They have 3rd, so they can't come in early. We have over 110 1st graders. The majority of whom buy lunch, don't know their number and can't seem to figure out that Mrs. Roberts means zip your lip when she says that we come in silently! I actually had one escape out the side doors to recess today, before lunch was actually done.

I know that somehow we will get into a routine. At some point I will be able to breathe before the end of the day, but I am not holding my breath.

Great day

What a great day! My mom got to take the day off and we went to the Evergreen State Fair. She found that if we brought 3 cans of food per person you got in for free! Free! It was going to cost us $41! Free is so much better. Now that mom is working she wanted to pay for the boys to have all-day ride bracelets. They had a blast!
We ate scones, rode rides, walked and walked and walked. It was sunny. It was easy. It was fun. We haven't had many days like that. I forgot how much I miss having my mom to hang out in summer. She has been off work the last couple of years, and I am so excited for her that she now has a job, but... I miss having her to call up just to hang out.
So, we are packing up our summer clothes. We are putting away the swimming clothes and camping gear and getting ready for school. We have this last weekend to play and then life goes back to a schedule. But for now? We got to play today, we have a soccer tournament this weekend (for Konley), we have a birthday party with friends tomorrow night, and we are headed to the beach house Sunday and Monday.
What a wonderful way to finish up summer!