Good and not so good

Well the not so good .... as always it is health crap for me I am apparently an expert at injuring myself in different ways. I had an infection going on around my eye and had gotten up after being asleep to go check on it (was thinking of calling dr) and go to the bathroom. All was otherwise fine. Went to leave the bathroom and had the most excruciating pain in my rib cage. I actually thought it was a pleurisy attack at the time (HOMG those frikking HUUUURRRRTTT...I've had cracked ribs before and they rank right up there with that) anyway...so just to be on the safe side woke hubby and told him I needed to go to ER (I also couldn't get a good breath because I couldn't breathe in very deeply) The car ride there was absolutely excruciating and getting out of the car when we got there put me in tears. It was more than I could take almost. They did an EKG (I didn't think it was my heart so it wasn't much of a surprise when that was fine) but they seem to think it was a pulled muscle (a badly pulled one) and gave me something for pain. Thought I was supposed to get muscle relaxers too but I didn't and some antibiotic for my eye. Soooo we came home and I have trouble kinda sitting up it continues to hurt more (I've sat up too long really right now) I went to bed after taking the pain medicine and then had to make a couple of phone calls and when I went to roll over HOMG it seriously felt like I was breaking everything trying to do so. (one of those kinda funny because you are thinking how ridiculous it is at the time but you are in too much pain to laugh things....) so I lay there. Stuck. No one in the next room can hear me. So I kind of slide over to the side of the bed and slide my legs off thinking I was going to get up in a sitting position to get up. Nope. I wind up sliding down forcing my back into an arch and pretty much dying some right there. No fun. Somehow I manage to get up enough to get to the door. Told my hubby (this was later in the day and he was in the living room) what ever it was I was going to tell him...went to lay back down and promptly discovered laying flat on my back is not going to be an option so then I had to have him help me sit up til I could get pillows behind me. This really sucks for me because I hate being down that low that I can't even do something so simple as roll over or get out of bed. Nothing drives me more batty. In any case they said I'd probably be like this for a week so I am trying to take it easy but not let myself stay too stiff at the same time. They said I would have to watch for pneumonia because I can't take deep breaths. I am having to put off my last few sessions of PT because I can't move. (though I may ask if there is anything I can do about that) So anyway there is that. 

Now for the sorta good. I can now elaborate some on one of the two situations I couldn't do so with earlier. My 2nd oldest had an incident with a severe infection a year or so ago. She got over the infection or so we thought. She moved to another state and wound up finding she still has the infection in her body showing up in another spot so she had to go in and get it taken care of. It was a scary experience because this is an infection that is known to become pretty dangerous if left very long at all and is actually a pretty big deal. She seems to have caught it in time so hopefully it is going to be okay. She is on meds for it and had a wound it made that had to be cleaned out. Can be there for her via phone or internet but too far away to be there personally which kinda sucks. She and her fiance also recently both got jobs working at the same place so congrats to them both. Pretty awesome.  They seem to be getting their future planned out now and have some pretty good goals in mind if they can stick with them all should be pretty good.

Had a parent teacher meeting with my youngest's teacher. That went pretty good. We get tickled because she comes home telling us these stories about "field trips" she goes one. Usually involving a giant eagle that flies the class around. We told the teacher about this and apparently when she talks about home we live in a zoo with peacocks and zebras and such. Very imaginative. The class got to go see a circus tent being put up today. (for real not one of my youngest child's tall tales LOL) So that is pretty cool. We are going to be having Frontier days here soon. Our town's local yearly celebration. Kinda excited about that. Dunno how much I can do due to pain but going to try. 

at the free fair this is a big tank they do demonstrations in. I missed the demonstrations but this guy was pretty cool. He was all posing and everything.

Well I do have to keep this one short but for starters went and saw my foot dr. He released me though I do have to finish up my PT (5 sessions left that I need to set up) Foot is doing a lot better. Have some preventative stuff that I do at home too now. So anyway yay for that. I got hit with a whole bunch of news at once today and really not sure how much of it to share and how much of it to stay pretty vague on (though it seems I need to stay vague for now on all of it) but part of it involves a family member that is having some pretty scary health issues. Sadly they aren't close enough (physically) for me to do as much as I'd like but please keep them in your thoughts, prayers, light and love appreciated for them.  I may share later as I know more and I know it is okay to do so. 
Got papers in the mail today that took me completely by surprise. Don't know what to make of that just yet. Nothing bad really just sort of a wait and see what happens sort of thing. (dunno how else to put that. Not directly about us but can affect us indirectly) Again may say more as I know more on that one. So long story short... keeping it short because I can't share too much as of yet on anything yet I am feeling a lot of emotions on this. As for the family member.. hopeful but nervous for them will feel better when they know more. As for the papers... totally up in the air... curious...surprised....still in shock as it came out of the blue... just really not sure what to feel about it. Could be a good thing but have to wait and see I guess.  Anyway sorry for the vague postings but while I wanted to say SOMETHING I can't say too much yet on anything. Kinda frustrating in a way :P  

In other news... working on my fall cleaning. Wanting to work on my crocheting (need to make arm warmers and such). Working on a drawing for a friend that I have started just need to complete and see if it was what they were wanting. Got distracted today. I am not a morning person and to be out and about to my appt on top of lack of sleep it kicked my butt. My youngest has a hard time with allergies despite being on prescribed stuff for them and whatever is in the air sucks right now. It has been waking her up at night and way too early in the morning.  I think hers has developed into a cold and well my hubby and I have it some. My son and his awesome immune system has thankfully won out against it for now though he suffered a bit at the start of allergy season. Doing fine now though. 
I am working on learning more German and maybe some Spanish. I found I retained some Spanish while helping my son with his Spanish class and also from Abby watching Dora. *sigh* Anyway trying to expand on that. My son has been getting interested in computer coding and he does really well with complex ideas so he learns faster with things like that. He tends to get bored if it is too easy and loses interest. 
Hoping we can get to go fishing a few more times before it gets too cold. My son likes finding fishing gear (bobbers that strayed off etc) when we are there, taking pics, and catching lizards. (yeah he does actually fish some) he got my youngest using a net to catch minnows and I think she wound up liking that better than actual fishing. It is kind of relaxing. Other than that trying to get going with my fall cleaning and getting ready to start doing some winterizing. :/ I want to enjoy some in between weather though first. 

Taken at the fair when we went to enter our stuff. It was raining on the actual fair day but the kids still had fun. They had some kind of inflatable ride thing inside. My youngest did it but my son wasn't so keen on the idea LOL He was having too much fun harassing me :P 

blur of a week *lots of pics in this one

It felt like a long week but it went by in such a blur. My youngest had severe allergies the first full week of school. She gets sick when school starts I guess but this time she seemed to do really well after she got started on her flonase and all. So hopefully it won't be so bad this year. She is still loving it and comes up with the funniest stories when you ask her how her day went. Stories like an eagle came and picked up the whole class and flew them on a field trip and things like that. I look forward to asking her how her day went. She really does enjoy it. I am still going to PT 3 days a week so that takes up quite a bit of my time but it is still helping. I ordered an exercise pedaler thing to use at home as I know for sure now that one would work really well for me. I did have some trouble where it felt like the bones were trying to push through the top of my foot and they checked it out and said I was basically over doing it so they changed my routine up just a tad but I think it was something I was doing at home. I am using wraps mostly. We found that as the dr suggested the ones you get to wrap horse ankles in are a lot better than the ones for people you can get elsewhere and you can get 3 rolls vs. the cost of one. So works out. I am looking forward to using the bike thing. I also got a couple of yoga blocks as I wanted to start before but found out you need those and well...now I can. Something that will stretch the muscles but not be too hard on them. I miss my dancing but can't do it yet still. My son starts school next week online. Going to try a few things different this year. We took a day long trip to Norman for my RA dr. We took my son to see the Sam Noble museum because he missed out last time. (again I tend to keep pics of my kids to a certain page but I have tons of pics I think I took like 400 something and my son took around 600 LOL) I started doing photography as a theraputic thing for my anxiety /agoraphobia and it does help some for me. I get excited about adding to my collection. Longer trips like this take a day or two for me to get mentally ready for and I still don't go anywhere w/out my husband or sometimes I can stay somewhere for a short while with someone I trust but it is an improvement over being totally home bound from severe PTSD a few years back.

hot bird seeking shade under the tree

My youngest loved this there were a lot of fish in it. I have to agree with her. I want to build one. Our house gets paid off this spring so we'll see what we plan for our future then. 

 This was too cool

My youngest's favorite

My son had a blast playing with the effects on his phone and when he gets his uploaded ....which he apparently just suddenly got the urge to do...he has a T-rex with a white board effect on it that came out cool. 

We went to the museum first and ran out of time and so rushed over to my appt. There we spent forever and I was the last patient of the day so everyone in the office was in a great mood. It was catching :D They told me that there was a good possibility that the rounds of steroids I was on for multiple things could have affected the RA and may be why it was in remission. They said the antibiotics wouldn't have affected it but I'd just finished up several rounds one right after for Pneumonia, bronchitis, and then later Pleurisy which is lupus related. (the lining of your lungs becomes inflamed and sticks so that it makes it hard to breathe. It is excruciatingly painful and I used to get it as a teen all the time) anyway they had found that on X-ray and I had just finished them not long before my 1st appt with my RA dr. So they said that was a pretty good possibility but I appear to still be in remission which is good. I have to have paperwork sent from my foot dr about my stress fractures to him. Then when he was squeezing joints and pressure points somehow I guess he hit a nerve on my left shoulder and I haven't been able to use that arm much the last few days. It is getting better but it was so weird. Like if I try to lift anything with that arm it drops (the arm does) Guess just have to work it out. From the drs office on the way home we stopped at the Country boy store where my son was pushing my youngest around in a cart that the front part was made like a car with a steering wheel and she was having an absolute field day. She loved it. Then off to check out the nature center at lake Thunderbird but unfortunately it was closed so that is a trip we'll be planning for another time. They did however have a turtle pen out front that the boy scouts had made with their own special habitat and the kids found and pointed out all the turtles in it. Then we went down a little trail to the lake and checked that out. Wanting to go back it has been such a long time. As we had driven in the youngest was asleep and we couldn't get her awake to see that there were a lot of wild turkeys but she did get to see them on the way back out. 

pigeons catching bugs in a hay field

 the turkeys I say wild but pretty sure they really are used to people

purple thistle

Thunderbird lake

Lake

little bridge going out to a floating fishing dock

We plan on going back when we can spend a little time. Again we are tied down some by schedules which sucks but we do try to fit things in there. We got some life jackets for the kids for next time too.

Then we headed home and went by my MIL's house to meet up with her, my oldest, my grandbaby, and my friend and spent some time there visiting. We were pretty exhausted. Then the next day went out to the local lake for awhile (Tecumseh) and explored parts of that we hadn't been to before. They used to have a part of it gated off as a shooting range and you had to be a gun club member I think to go down there and it was open so we went exploring. 

I did not actually see the praying mantis when I first took this I was taking it of the water lilly 

 They have a lot of these growing in different places there now I love it

 water lilly

 inside of the other pavillion type building

 fireplace on the side

 an egret flying over water lillies

 I just loved how this looked

We spent some time out there enjoying just how peaceful it was. We did do some fishing but didn't catch anything just mostly enjoying the day. 

Youngest liked drawing with rocks

Sunflower season

dragonfly my son caught and then released

teeny little snails coming up out of the water (the little dots on the rock) 

little water frog

kids took to using nets to catch minnows

 sand plums

I actually thought they were wild grapes at first

feather (goose?)

tree that I am guessing had been lightening struck at one time 

Later that day after we got home went to a cook out with my MIL, friend, oldest and grandbaby. Definitely a full couple of days. So worn out today but it was a good time. 

Ferguson just my personal thoughts

I know this is all over the news but I had some thoughts I wanted to express on it.  Did the "kid" break the law? Yes. Was the cop in the right to shoot him? Still up in the air for me. According to the report he was shot from a distance so I am not sure if that warrants the 6 shots (each of which left several holes) Also it is my understanding that they caught him later for jaywalking and they didn't even know about the robbery at that time. ....
Now then... my problem with this situation is not the race issue that some are seeing with it (though  I do get where they are coming from) It is with the militarization of the police force. There are good cops out there. I see plenty. There are also the ones who are on a power trip those are the ones that concern me. I am wondering if they don't need to do some type of psych eval screening process that looks for that type of personality trait in someone they are hiring for that type of job position? Yeah you have to be able to know what to do in a situation and some of the decisions you have to make are life threatening ones and are split second. I can understand that but it is when you see the ones who continue to use force in a situation where it is not needed or where you've exceeded what you need to use and that that is an escalating problem you are seeing across the country this is something that needs to be addressed. When you see that now it is getting to where it is no longer one or two cops on a force that is guilty of this but at times an entire police force and they seem to have an attitude like they are above the law itself or are over stepping their bounds as a group they are starting to have almost a gang like mentality. They see the entire public as the enemy instead of people they are supposed to protect and serve. 
Now then let me get to this part....You may be seeing one thing on the news but unless you've been watching the live feeds from people on the ground you are seriously missing something. I didn't start watching til night before last and I'd been hearing conflicting reports but of course I'm not there I can't say one way or the other ...well I got curious and if you would like to see these feeds too you can watch on livestream look for Tim Pool who also does a split screen on youtube with another set of reporters if you check that out look for vice news. He seems to try and remain pretty unbiased which is refreshing. He tries to see both the point of view of the police AND the protesters. There is also I am Mike Brown on live stream which is the one I watched the first night. I am Mike Brown the other one isn't up live right now but there are past videos. I am just basing this off what I actually saw. I was watching as it got close to curfew and the police pulled in swat trucks on either side of the group of protesters (which by the way they make it sound like they are the same but the protesters and the looters are separate groups) and as curfew broke they slipped on the gas masks boxed in the protesters and squeezed in on them with the trucks and started throwing the tear gas causing the reporters who were in a cordoned off area to start coughing and such...and that went on for what seemed like forever with so much gas. This was without the protesters doing anything except refusing to leave. They started shooting live rounds  (I guess into the air though one came down and hit someone) and rubber bullets, and then every time you think they stopped with the tear gas here it came again several canisters at a time til you could see nothing. They came out at first as trying to claim it was smoke (it was obvious it was not) until people started picking up the empty shells and tweeting pics of them then they reversed their statement. Why lie?  Also right before it began besides the fact that they had media sectioned off to an area where they couldn't see much they also parked police vehicles purposely in the way and at one point had a row of geared riot police in the way. Not protecting them just in the way of view. Anyway they also broke out the sonic or LRAD guns and that was such a strange sound over camera. It sounded like bats chirping only louder. (we get them around here...the bats not the gun of course) They came on that crowd with full force when to all appearances they weren't doing anything other than breaking curfew. They claimed the crowd started it. Anyone watching can tell you otherwise. The ONLY thing they did was to tell them they weren't going to leave. That may be wrong but that was not a call for full force they were still being peaceful. The public has a right to peaceful protest. THAT is what bothers me is the sheer amount of force they started using when it wasn't needed showing off all that military surplus when all that really needed to be done was police presence. I could see doing something about the looters of course and situations like that but as I said that is NOT the same as the protesters. They (the police)  are creating more conflict with using violence to prevent violence. Do they not expect these people to want to fight back?! Last night they put the media in a parking lot at the command post and kept them waiting there for about an hour for someone to come out and talk. They weren't allowed to leave. (they were told they could but then orders changed and the ones that tried to got escorted back)  I will say I missed what happened before that (it was still before curfew) but the police again claim protesters started it. Protesters say otherwise but it all comes down to he said she said for that (I'm sure there is video showing one way or the other) There was a group broke off and started looting I guess tried to advance on the police control center which is not something I'd condone but I think it stems from the people feeling like they are not being allowed their civil right to protest peacefully (again deal with the looters and such separately and quit attacking the protesters!)  Last night I saw an older lady who wasn't from Ferguson who was trying to leave before curfew and got caught up in the commotion when the police got into it with a group of people that they told to disperse (I guess since it was before curfew they were not dispersing) she was trying to avoid being shot she just wanted to go home and had thought she had time to do so...to leave town and she called out for help and they told her no. She wound up getting hit with a rubber bullet as did a young girl who was standing next to her (the young girl was left limping) They left a body laying in the road for some time. There is just a whole lot wrong with this picture and if you think it doesn't affect you in some way think again. What if this was your town?  They were arresting people standing in their own yards. I can't say this is remotely like their situation at all but just what comes to mind when I try to picture it was when our own town (our section) was under curfew due to the tornado. We went outside and was walking around in front of our house (just our own house)  a little as there was no power and it was hot and my youngest was still a baby. We had several cops come down and we had to go inside. It was a scary moment because of the way they were acting and it is a strange feeling to not be allowed outside your own house on your own property. They are high on the offensive. Partly because of their job but that means you do not want to make a wrong move. In any case I could not picture  it being the way it is there. I would be terrified as a resident. Think about it. You have to go to something simple like the grocery store or something and you have to worry about getting caught up in all that. People do still have daily lives to live there. Even if it is before curfew.  That isn't why I say this affects everyone though. It is because situations like this is cropping up all over the place this just happens to have gone down in such a way that it caught more media attention and when I say that I am not so much talking about the shooting of an unarmed person I am talking about the police using all the military surplus stuff they bought up and starting to act like a militarized force. They are using unnecessary force. There are other people such as reporters and city officials? that got fired on with the rubber bullets or tear gas. Now they've got Amnesty International coming in and it appears National Guard. They did drop curfew. I am hoping maybe soon the peace will start to return to the town and for things to settle but I also hope this brings to light police..not military but police...what it means for them to be using such weapons that are meant for military. Again NOT police. 
Even our own small towns locally where I am are buying up the military surplus. Ours had one displayed at a local 4th of July festival. Granted that doesn't mean they are going to use it in the way this town did it is the corrupt ones I worry about. 
Also when working in Juvenile detention (and yes again I realize not same situation but...) we were expected to deal with juveniles who had been arrested for an array of things ... rape, burglary, stabbing, etc. You could not look at one person in the face and tell what it was they were there for but you could read their record and see how violent they had been and how they got that way sometimes from their history. In any case a lot of times we were on the unit with only one or two other people. At night you sometimes got left there alone locked in with only a radio and you had better have that radio on you. We were there with sometimes 18 or so residents and we sure as hell didn't have a gun.  Granted neither did they BUT they could sure overpower you in a hurry if they wanted. There were cases when that happened (not on my shift and pretty sure not on my unit) they could find something to use and they could hurt you.   Not to mention I am 5'3 and some of these residents were about as big as this kid was. There were several other specialists about my size or so and one had just had surgery recently. We did have self defense training. No not more dangerous than the cops job by any means but just saying that a gun is not always necessary to use.  ...This cop was out in the open, dealing with jay walkers, was he really so afraid as to have had to shoot 6 times and it appears aiming to kill? Maybe he did think the kid had a gun...I had a friend who was a cop for a time and he was taught to shoot in the shoulder to disarm them. What happened to doing something like that? They said he had been shot from a distance which does not sound like he was closing in on the officer but maybe I need to read more on that. What about a taser? I may watch again a bit tonight to see what happens and I will hope it is calmer for everyone. * I forgot to add they turned out the street lights in some areas last night and were using night vision

First week of school

*see the tiny spider in the center? Okay so like two days of school LOL First day went good we weren't sure how the youngest would do since she just did half days last year but she loved it and she seems to really like her teacher which is great. I think I understood her to say she did have a couple of friends from last year and all ready has some new ones which is great. I had to go to physical therapy the same day which made it kind of hectic. (the car lines to pick up are crazy long) It took over the hour that they'd said because they had to do some paperwork but that went good too. They told me my shoes were probably helping to contribute to the breaks not healing because where they tie they sit and press down on it. Also the serious vitamin deficiency (since corrected) was contributing to the continued breakage and I've managed to get my calcium/D3 levels back up. I'm currently taking supplements for that. Basically I had a whole host of problems that were contributing to everything and now that after several years of fighting to do so I've managed to start getting into the roots of the problems and are getting those fixed so that everything else is falling in to place which is great. In physical therapy they hook you up to electrodes and create a pulsing shock that massages the muscle before they work on you combined with a heating pad. They have you do a lot of exercises and apparently there is a whole regimen for someone with a broken foot to do :) I seem to have a high pain tolerance (no complaints there) though I am on a constant dose of meloxicam too which may help. (though not complaining no pain=good thing) I did hurt the next day but nothing too bad as long as it is helping my foot I'm happy. I am learning some things to help keep foot problems down in the future too which is also always good. I have to say the people there are really nice :) Very comfortable atmosphere. In any case life all around is improving greatly. Starting to fall in to place a lot more and as a virgo I love some organization LOL :D 

I am still trying to get adjusted to these new hours and thankfully I only have PT 3x a week for at least an hour at a time so I have two other days to try and get other stuff done.  My youngest is still loving school. I hope they get the gravel spread out and the playground taken care of before it cools off some so they can actually get out there and play on it. My son starts his online school back first week of September. He says to quit reminding him LOL :D He has a project done for the fair and I still need to do mine. 

I've also been sort of busy with a situation with a friend I am trying the best I can to help them with. It is sadly like watching myself back when I was in Germany and when I first came back. So very similar and I hate watching them go through it. I keep wishing there was more I could do but I am doing all I can (we are in different states) I am hoping they let their friends that are closer to them help them too. I think they are willing just not sure what to do.  I just want to see them finally get back on the right track and to see them finally get to be happy. Positive thoughts, well wishes, prayers, and love and light and whatever positive energy anyone can send for them is welcome.I have given them all the information I find for them to use and I can't go in to more detail than that I just wanted to kind of not really vent...I guess get that out? It is hard for me because I know how hard it was when I was going through it and how alone I felt at the time. I've thought about working as a counselor or doing some volunteer work for project safe. I am not in a position to at the moment but it may be in my future. In the meantime I share my own experiences with those going through the same that I did and the resources that I can for them if they need it that seems to be something I tend to do for anyone. I know how to find them and sometimes people may not have the time etc. I hope if it can help anyone that it does so. I find it sad the number of people who find themselves in those places. I feel so strongly for them. Maybe some day I can put that to real use for others. On another note I have another friend who has finally found some happiness and I am so happy for them. There may be <3 a="" air="" all="" also="" always="" and="" awesome.="" beyond="" bit="" doing="" font="" for="" fortune.="" get="" good="" got="" great="" happiness="" hard="" has="" have="" in="" is="" it="" job="" just="" life.="" more="" nbsp="" negative="" of="" out="" own="" person="" positive="" put="" schooling="" see.="" seeing="" seems="" self="" similar="" situation="" so="" than="" the="" their="" them="" thing.="" this="" through="" time="" to="" which="" worked="">

 Hubby kept saying smile and honestly I felt like I was...

 then he caught me after that LOL  

In case you are wondering I don't tend to post pics of my kids anywhere other than on a private FB page for family and friends and on their own pages. My youngest doesn't have one yet but the older kids all got their own when they got old enough. So that is why you may not see them here except rarely.    I am getting excited about the local free fair. I dunno why it isn't like a big thing or anything but I really like it. Anyway I have a news related blog to do soon. 

Why so busy?

I often mention how busy we are. I wish very often for life to slow down a bit so I could take a breather and regroup. (It has slowed a little but still in the fast lane) Why are we so busy? Partly because in technicality we are taking care of 3 households. Our own of course, my mom, and my MIL (Who is actually pretty independent but still needs help at times and I don't mind) For my mom we have to schedule our day around her medications. We have to make sure someone is home to give them to her when they are due (3x a day) so sometimes we have to schedule around them. She also has to have someone prepare her meals and clean and do laundry and dishes etc all that good stuff. For all 3  households we handle getting everyone to appts, doing shopping, etc. So yeah that sort of makes it easier to understand why so busy all the time.  My mom can't do any of the things she used to and we are responsible for her care. The parkinson's has been rough on her. If you would like to know what Parksinson's is think Micheal J. Fox that is what he has. For more on this disease go to that link. *I had written this as a draft and left it up and wasn't done with it and shortly after it came out about Robin Williams having it. I'm sure that had to be a rough blow for him. She also has the Lupus and Sjogren's and several others things going on. Renal failure is a big one for her. Her kidneys are slowly failing we were actually told a couple of years ago she wouldn't be around much longer and our family managed to come in from their states to see her. Here she still is though. She does have some really rough times. She broke a hip back in January and actually recovered rather quickly from that. She is the last of her siblings now which is rather saddening. My aunt passed not long ago with a massive bacterial infection that they almost didn't even know about. She was in a car accident and they thought she had a concussion and they found it when they checked for that. She passed with in a day  or so. Sometimes people are handed some rough cards but sometimes there are gifts in those cards. Different ways of looking at the world through eyes other than your own is one. Empathy. Sometimes it makes you stronger than you thought possible and you are able to handle more than some people because you've all ready been through tough times you have more of an idea what to expect. You can also help guide others through those tough times or just be an ear when they need it because you truly do understand. In any case that is an inkling of why so busy. We are always doing something whether for ourselves or someone else and we cherish any little moments when we are NOT busy :) 

Back to school

 My youngest daughter's school is all decked out in lego people and lego blocks of all shapes and sizes. She LOVES legos. In a bit of a different way than her older brother ...I don't think he will ever lose his love for him I could see him being one of those people who work building the elaborate lego copies of real life buildings etc. He has made a huge plane before that was so detailed it had everything inside made to scale too and even had a turret type thing that worked. Though his real other love is aeronautics. Anyway.... she plays the lego games with him sometimes and she was pretty excited about that. (They also have my love of sims and their sisters' love of pokemon) One of my girls was more into the dance games/karaoke but she got into pokemon some too. Getting side tracked but all in all it kind of helps to get her excited about going. Her actual classroom is ocean themed. She went and met her PE teacher and he told her to save her energy for her first day. I think he'll be in for a surprise LOL She never runs out. My biggest worry is about her sitting still in class. I know she did okay at the Pre-K. Apparently she is a bit of the class clown though. I am hoping that she has some of the students she knew from there in her class this year it would help. I think it will help some too that she took speech over there so had to go to that school some last year. My son had to have it too and I remember he only needed it for a year or so. My son doesn't start til next month so he still gets some time to goof off though he is going to have withdrawals from his game I think when it starts. He tends to get bored. He has been teaching himself some coding too. He got glasses this summer so hoping that helps him some too. He'd been borderline needing them for awhile. 

 Also tomorrow I get to start my physical therapy which I am told will take about an hour *yay me* I don't know how often I will have to go yet. I have never been through it so I have really no idea what to expect. Hopefully it helps. I also go back to see my Rheumatologist this month. Curious how often they test to make sure the RA and all is in remission to make sure it still is. (blood work) They had originally found it via blood work in 2005 also when they found my lupus. I was pretty bad sick around then and it was affecting my liver at that time too. I had to be on potassium and my body had trouble absorbing it. This last time when they found out I was in remission my liver enzymes were too high which led to blood testing for Hepititis and such but all that came out negative. No clue why it was high but am grateful it wasn't anything like that. They put me on a medication for my arthritis when I went in (Meloxicam) which has so far been helping. We are wondering if the reason it went into remission is because I'd been sick for several months and had to be on multiple strong doses of antibiotics and steroids. I was suffering pleurisy not long before too which is usually lupus caused (I think there can be other reasons too) but that was diagnosed at ER via X-ray and I'd been on a strong steroid dose for that. I will have to remember to ask about it when I go in. We are planning on taking our son with us this trip and trying to go to the museum again since he missed out last time. (had to do end of the year school work and only had a couple days left)