by Sarah | Oct 8, 2012 | All About Kennedy, Crap, Random
[flickr id=”5993418909″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”small” group=”” align=”left”]Last year Molly and Kennedy were playing and there was an incident. A finger (or was it a dinosaur?) went astray and Kennedy got poked in the eye. Her left cornea was scratched and after almost a week of pretty hefty pain she was better. The scratch was off to the side and not a major concern.
This morning while goofing off on the bus a plastic folder went astray.
Once again the big beautiful brown eye (the left one) got in the way.
This time the scratch is right over the pupil. It’s still not very large, but the location is a concern. They don’t want it to scar.
Kennedy is miserable.
Molly? Feels horribly guilty.
Guilty to the point of thinking she was going to be on the news for what she’d done.
I reassured her that the news doesn’t cover stories like this.
To which I got:
“So when our house burns down they’ll come?”
Um…our house won’t burn down.
~knocking on every piece of wood I can find~
by Sarah | Oct 6, 2012 | Photography, Scavenger Hunt Sunday
All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.
1. Shadow
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. ~Seneca
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2. Keys
A man who is of ‘sound mind’ is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Valery
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3. Smile
Beauty is power, a smile is its sword. ~John Ray
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4. Unedited
It takes a lot to turn an unedited first draft into a submissable manuscript. Case in point, mine – with all the red marks to show the work I did to make it there.
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5. Spice
The world loves a spice of wickedness. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Since I’m addicted to quotes w/ my images I’ve started to link to the Sunday Citar over at Fresh Mommy Blog w/ my photo posts every Sunday. It’s a great way to combine two of my loves 🙂
You can find more pictures over at my flickr account.
Scavenger Hunt Sunday is run by the beautiful Ashley. Head on over to see more Hunters.
by Sarah | Oct 5, 2012 | Random
[flickr id=”8012255308″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”small” group=”” align=”left”] Molly: Kennedy’s not eating breakfast
Kennedy *with that cheesy grin*: I’m eating in my mind.
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Oh, if only that would work. Dieting would be so much easier and i’d be so much thinner.
by Sarah | Oct 3, 2012 | Crap, Random
[flickr id=”5066025517″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”small” group=”” align=”left”]I tend to cycle.
One minute I’m wrapped up in one thing – and that one thing is all that matters.
Time passes in the periphery.
When life is busy my brain is chaos. Everything runs through it, meanwhile staying focused on one thing.
Right now that one thing is Kennedy. Between her weight issues, now compounded by a positive strep culture (& the antibiotics that come with), and her upcoming SSI appeal hearing…I’m a little consumed.
Of course in the mean time I still have Denver & his weight (also a concern, but not as severe), and his school and Scouts (& whether or not he’ll remain in Scouts), and Cross country. And Molly and her school stuff, and her increasing ‘moments’.
The husband has had some developments and turns in his recent struggles. We are doing amazingly better, but new stuff is popping up to deal with in that department. We’re taking it all one step at a time and might even be ready to talk about it soon.
October is also filling up with blogging activities (oh, I am going to be joyously busy). Of course the holidays are coming close on Octobers heels.
Let’s not even get into all I need to do for my writing. I’m up to my eyeballs in stuff right now that isn’t getting done, and stuff that is.
Needless to say I feel like my head is going to explode when I don’t force myself into tunnel vision. So for now I focus on Kennedy because it’s easier and appear to be the most drastic. It’s easier to focus on stuffing her face and meeting with the lawyer because it’s right in front of me and simpler than some of the other stuff.
So for now I focus on her…maybe the other stuff will be resolved by the time I’m done with that.
It could be…right?
by Sarah | Oct 1, 2012 | Crap, Random
[flickr id=”5026755818″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”small” group=”” align=”left”]I used to be a night owl.
I could stay up all night and function like a human the next day.
Of course, this was before children 2 & 3 (but as recent as 8 years ago).
I would stay up until 3AM and be up at 6AM to get ready for work & school & out the door. I’ve never been a morning person, but I would function and be almost perky by 9.
After the kids, I started losing ground. It’s now to the point where if I’m not in bed by 11PM most nights (9 or 10 sometimes), I can’t function in the morning. I’m still not a morning person but boy do I need sleep.
Last night I went through my usual routine. Shut everything down, went to bed at 11.
Tossed and turned for an hour and a half before I gave up.
Came out to the couch and turned on the TV. Waited until I couldn’t keep my eyes open (2AMish) and turned it off.
Rolled over and WHAM.
Wide awake again.
Short of it, I didn’t fall asleep until 4:30AM and woke up with my alarm at 5:30AM.
I’m so tired I stopped writing this post 2 hours ago and promptly forgot about it thinking I’d already posted.
Insomnia?
It sucks.
by Sarah | Sep 27, 2012 | All About Kennedy, Cystic Fibrosis, Failure to Thrive (FTT), Special Needs
[flickr id=”8012257268″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”small” group=”” align=”left”]Since birth the girls have been tiny. Hell, all my kids rock the bottom of the growth chart. Always. It’s in their genes. Up until 3 kids & a hysterectomy totally made my body go haywire I had insane metabolism. I remember hours spent in my pediatrician/allergists office playing with the toys he had on display while he discussed my growth chart (and how I was well below 0%tile) with my mom.
It’s a familiar theme.
One that in standard circumstances is a concern, but not panic inducing.
We eat.’
Tons of food.
We just don’t gain.
Metabolism rocks until it actually works against us. And trust me, as a teenager being asked if you’re anorexic when you eat like a horse is NOT fun. It really sucks.
But this goes beyond personal suckage.
When you combine Cystic Fibrosis with the words Failure to Thrive.
You get a heap of shit-panic-stuff-the-kids-faces-until-they-can’t-eat-any-more to deal with.
Back in June both my CF kids rocked the weight chart. For the first time ever the nutritionist said “we dont’ have anything to worry about here, keep doing what you’re doing. They look great.”
For the first time in her entire life Kennedy looked AMAZING. In the 10th%ile for BMI 10th! Dude, in this family that is some serious awesomeness. Worth celebrating.
Now, just 3 months later we’ve stalled. Flatlined. Kennedy gained almost nothing in the past 3 months. Her BMI is back at the bottom, in below the 5th%ile. Amazing how fast the growth chart swoops up to wipe away previous progress.
Again, in an average situation we’d not panic. But now we have 2 months to get meat on her bones.
2 months. Make sure at school she’s allowed extra snacks, extra time at lunch to finish. whatever it takes.
If we don’t put meat on her bones, they put a g-tube in her belly.
In a society where everything is marketed to keep obesity at bay.
I have to find ways to put weight ON my kids. Lots of it.
So that we can avoid the g-tube. The g-tube is not welcome here.
