Proud of Kids

Not too much going on around here. Danielle is going to the district spelling bee and won a poster contest about 2nd hand smoke. YOU GO GIRL!!!!

I dropped my pred dosage to 10.5mgs and went back to feeling like shiznit. I don’t think winter is ever going to come to an end. I really wish it would. The toes are still not moving at all. Bed rest is getting annoying and tiresome. So is getting around with crutches. Oh well, such is life. Have to deal with what rolls my way.

I got an electric blanket! OMG so incredibly awesome. I love sleeping in toasty goodness. It feels like you just took your blanket out of the dryer and it stays warm forever lol. All my joints are nice and warm and I am waking up with slightly less stiffness in the morning. Plus I don’t have the heaviness of a bunch of blankets piled on top of me.

After taking a week off of work to care for me when I was really bad, Danny is back to pounding out the overtime. He is working all weekend this weekend. There are times I really feel like a single parent and my boyfriend is spending the night with me lol. I couldn’t really ask for a better husband or for more support from him. Sometimes the kids just get draining. I’m sure I get draining on them too lol. I’m getting to the point where I can do more household chores and I am sure that is a relief for them. I move pretty slow doing them, but I get the job done. I want to take over cooking dinner again, but Arielle insists on doing it. OK, let her. She is getting better and better every day with cooking. There are times you can not tell that a 14 year old girl made supper. You would think it was an adult that made it. She was taught in her Foods class how to cut up a chicken and now she wants to get a whole chicken and cut it up and make soup out of it. I say you go girl!! She also has a recipe for chicken flavored with lime. We are going to let her make that too. This kid has a talent. I’m very proud of her.

I am crocheting again!! Even tho I am not doing as well on the 10.5mg dose of pred, I can still crochet. I have to take breaks and I am not as fast as I used to be, but at least I am doing it again. That is a huge milestone for me. I struggled thru finishing the blanket for my great niece and didn’t crochet for a month or so after that. I just couldn’t. Now I am back to working on the huge blanket for my sis in law.

I can’t wait to get down to IL to see our new niece. With all the OT Danny is working, I don’t know when we will make it down. Thankfully my niece has a website and she posts pics regularly of the baby. She really is cute. Like Danny, Mike makes a good looking girl lol. Jackie is doing well and the baby is sleeping well. Thank goodness.

I’m outta here for a yogurt and a piece of fruit. MMmmmm food. I hate pred sometimes lol.