So today I was called stupid, not in that word exactly, but close enough. Of course it pissed me off so I retaliated by telling everyone on facebook how dumb I really am. Wonder if they got the hint yet? They didnt get the origional obvious sarcasm.
AHHHHHHH!!!!!! Ok, I do feel better now.
So some good news. Next week or the week after I hope to make a quick trip to fargo to pick up my tractor part, and my new mini donkey jenny. After that I think I want to make a trip to moms. Of course to do any of this we need sitters for kids, or for me to go get part when brandon is home so he can watch kids. It will be neat to have the new jenny too. I will still need a good jack, but a nice jenny will help out to protect the stock for now.
Brandon finally remembered to put out the selenium salt block for the sheep. It should help with that mineral specifically, plus they will get bits of mineral here and there from me too. The salt block is just so convienent! Now, when he will remember to put the one out for the horses is another matter!
Our headstart cancelled this week. Come to find out something happened with the new teacher. No idea what, or IF she will be back, but I wasnt too happy. I have some guy I dont know coming for my child who has trouble with people at all, and especially new people. I dont know the guy at all, and this is screwing everythig up for getting the info I need from headstart for Lucies TEFRA application. Who knows how she will react to the guy at all. From the little phone conversation we had I dont care for him. Hes curt, and doesnt speak very well in that I felt like he was talking to a wall. He seemed very unorganized, and generally confused. So why should I have confidence in this new stranger? He better act far different with my kid or he wont come back.
Hannah has been staying awake at night the last 3 or more days. I am almost ready for bed, so hope that she will be too! Dr. wants Lucie on melatonin to help her sleep, just wish I could do something about Hannah now! I have more infections too...... yay. Like I needed that.
They have Brandon on a stupid schedule agian. Makes things really hard for me! And for him, and for when we try to spend time together. There is no little for time for that.
Kinda annoyed with emmys awanas group too. Having problems and I will probably have to go fix it, and if I cant get it fixed then she will not go anymore. People really do upset me. And others wonder why I hate going anywhere. I hate having to deal with problems created by other people that I always have to fix....sigh... just a little frustrated I guess.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Kids are off.......
Tonight things havent gone quite normal with the kids. Lucie fell off the couch tonight and hit her head pretty hard. Poor kid. Not too long after she fell asleep for a while. That worried me, but repeated checking showed she was fine, and later her dancing to her tv show reinforced the feeling.
During Hannahs nap we snuck out to do some work with my sheep. Each was wormed first. Then marked with chalk on their face so I knew who had been done, and then I checked udders. No one really has much yet, or anything actually. Just some slight swelling in some that shows some hormone changes and a good possibility of being bred, but no certainties. I cant wait for the end of February. It means shearing which will get rid of the nasty old stinky wool......and getting into where my girls could start lambing. By then I should know better who may or may not be bred. I am hoping for at least a 90% breeding success rate. Last year we had around 60%? Not great, but what happens when you lose a ram. I have high hopes for this lambing season........probably setting myself up for a lot of dissapointment though. Anytime I hope....
Back to kids. We came in several times and no problems while we were out. Had a good dinner.....though some issues with someone at the pizza place making an extra charge on our credit card that wasnt on our reciept that I found on my banking website. Have to check into it tomorrow. Got kids to bed ok.
Lucie was up over and over agian tonight. She just couldnt sleep or?? Its impossible to know with her since she either cant, or wont tell us. We tried several approaches to get her to sleep, and none seemed to work. After about midnight she finally fell asleep.
Hannah on the other hand....shes laying there crying right now. Shes had a bellyache since 10pm or so? Not sure what is going on, what I ate, or just a bad night for her, but shes awake every so often crying and does not want to go to sleep. It helps to hold her with her belly agianst me. She will sleep then..... so much for teaching her to sleep in her own bed! Now to type with her in my arms......lol. I just wish I could do something for her!
I cant stand to see any kid suffering, and a baby is even worse. To have 2 of my kids having issues in one night just makes me feel horrible. Poor Emily. She gets left out of the attention a lot right now. Then agian she goes to bed and falls asleep without any problems.
Suppose I will finish up this episode of pitbulls and parolees and try heading for bed. Might have to let Hannah sleep with us agian if I want to sleep at all.
During Hannahs nap we snuck out to do some work with my sheep. Each was wormed first. Then marked with chalk on their face so I knew who had been done, and then I checked udders. No one really has much yet, or anything actually. Just some slight swelling in some that shows some hormone changes and a good possibility of being bred, but no certainties. I cant wait for the end of February. It means shearing which will get rid of the nasty old stinky wool......and getting into where my girls could start lambing. By then I should know better who may or may not be bred. I am hoping for at least a 90% breeding success rate. Last year we had around 60%? Not great, but what happens when you lose a ram. I have high hopes for this lambing season........probably setting myself up for a lot of dissapointment though. Anytime I hope....
Back to kids. We came in several times and no problems while we were out. Had a good dinner.....though some issues with someone at the pizza place making an extra charge on our credit card that wasnt on our reciept that I found on my banking website. Have to check into it tomorrow. Got kids to bed ok.
Lucie was up over and over agian tonight. She just couldnt sleep or?? Its impossible to know with her since she either cant, or wont tell us. We tried several approaches to get her to sleep, and none seemed to work. After about midnight she finally fell asleep.
Hannah on the other hand....shes laying there crying right now. Shes had a bellyache since 10pm or so? Not sure what is going on, what I ate, or just a bad night for her, but shes awake every so often crying and does not want to go to sleep. It helps to hold her with her belly agianst me. She will sleep then..... so much for teaching her to sleep in her own bed! Now to type with her in my arms......lol. I just wish I could do something for her!
I cant stand to see any kid suffering, and a baby is even worse. To have 2 of my kids having issues in one night just makes me feel horrible. Poor Emily. She gets left out of the attention a lot right now. Then agian she goes to bed and falls asleep without any problems.
Suppose I will finish up this episode of pitbulls and parolees and try heading for bed. Might have to let Hannah sleep with us agian if I want to sleep at all.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Anyone over 3 feet tall?
Feeling very alone with a severe case of cabin fever. Havent had anyone to talk to lately, at least not face to face. I have not been feeling well at all. After yesterday I am not doing so well. I didnt mention when I cleaned house I cleaned up the bathroom and scrubbed out the bathtub. I fell onto the edge of the tub across my hip and belly. We have shower doors so I fell on the big lip that holds them into place. I am bruised and sore from that. My knee is really bad today too. My whole body aches, not regular muscle aches, but the horrible constant ache that means I far overdid it and I can hardly move. Of course in this house not moving is not an option. I did what I had to today, but nothing extra.
My friend got our federal taxes filed, so unless there are any problems, the date to get our return is the 4th as long as its approved by irs by the 27th. There is an end in sight for me. I hope to get my truck fixed, the tractor fixed, and maybe convert our attatched garage into part of the house. Not sure if we can afford that. We are for sure buying a horse trailer from a friend for $1500 minus whatever we work out as what they owe for hay. State taxes cant be done in MN yet because of tax law extensions and such that havent been fixed yet. Will paper file those I think. Supposed to get $9265 from federal, and around $1800 from state? Something like that. Hope its enough to do what we want to do. Should pay someone to finish our floors too. Part of fixing the tractor may be a trip down by moms where a guy says he has the part we need. I swear I will stay with kids at LEAST a week! There is my end to the lonley crap and cabin fever. I can get out and away. I can even go for the yearly horse meeting! YAY! Might plan my trip just to go to it! Of course we have to pay our hay bill, and pick up a bit more hay too. Started with 34 round bales, and down to 7 now. I would like to save the grass hay mostly for the sheep. Do we have enough to do what we want to do....I doubt it, but hey, its nice to dream. Medical bills, and other bills I would like to pay. How do I decide what to do? Only way would probably be to skip doing the house. But darn it next year supposed to fix septic.... choices are far too many.
Ok, so anyone who would actually read this would think I have all day to sit here and I spend a ton of time doing this. I really dont. I write a few lines here and there throughout the day, and publish as I go to bed.
Darn dogs just opened the door agian. How many dogs can actually open a door knob? I have 2 that can! Someone just did a min. ago. Anytime they do I yell at them and make them go back outside.
Looking at a new shetland ram for the girls too. I would rather have paperable lambs for the kids to sell for their college funds. Neither got a lamb last year out of their other sheep, and didnt give them the shetlands until their bdays, plus bought them late in winter and they were not bred... kinda crappy. Especially considering what I paid... hard to lose a year of lambs. Totally excited to see how big the lambs will be. Emilys sheep had a lamb last year, but something happened and he died, but he was soooo tiny when he was born. The shetlands are way smaller so cant imagine how little their lambs will be! They are all scheduled to be sheared on Feb.27th. In time for them to lamb since my breeds have such thick wool and lambs would die before they would find the teats. I can hardly find them on some of them even when they are full of milk. Only the hair sheep doesnt have that problem. Thank heavens for that considering she lambed on jan. 19th last year and hadnt even thought about shearing yet! Of course she sheds like a dog anyways so wouldnt have to be sheared. Still considering finding a way to switch to painted desert sheep. They are spotted, a hair sheep, and have awesome horns. 3 qualities I love in sheep. They can even be tricolored! My someday dream. For now I am just happy expierementing with my jacobs, icelandics, and shetlands. Of course I am try to keep shetlands pure, jacobs pure, and icelands bred for good meat and color. Hoping my jacob ram might put some horns on them. Wonder if he can throw the 4 horn gene to the mix babies? Most people think hes a goat.....but I swear he is a sheep! Right now he almost looks like one with a bit of wool on him. When he got here he was just shorn. The two pics here I posted of him (max2) are of him when he first came with no wool. Wool quality isnt so important to me since I cant sell it anyways, but the shetlands thanks to the person I bought them from are well bred for their wool.
Maybe I should concentrate more on my sheep than birds.... though I want to stick with my peafowl. It would be boring in the summer without baby birds to raise. Guess my muscovy ducks too. The pigs will breed and make up some of their feed. I want to cut down to just the 1.....but Emily would never forgive me if I got rid of her pigs. I am sorry but I dont care if potbellys go for butcher. They likely will since I will not put all the time and effort into finding them homes that I did last year. At 8 weeks firm if they have not found homes they WILL go to the sales barn.
Why do I write about all of this.... guess it helps with the spring fever since I can see the end of winter coming. Planning can help to avoid lots of uncertainties later that can cost us in the long run. Like not having a set date to sell the pigs last year. Ended up paying way more in feed on some of them than what we made back. I just like to break even, maybe get a bit to pay for some of the animals feed. Its a hobby farm...... who really expects us to make anything, meaning come out ahead? Not many hobbys can even help pay for themselves, and even fewer can completley recover costs put into them. Do we really care? No....but getting some money out of everything is nice.
Emily is begging me for a calf..... we really want to get one, but prices are sooo high right now. Want to find a heiffer calf for less than $200, and one that is not a twin, and a beef breed, preferably herford. Maybe Simmital? Dont really want angus. A cross is ok, purebred not necessary, but really want red and white! We Have to finish fencing the back of our property for the sheep. It will cut way back on normal pasture use. The sheep like that stuff back by the creek better than the regular pasture. Hard to do it on my own though, and Brandon has to work so often. So wondering if adding the pics makes my blog a bit better. Would love to get pics of all of it to show what I am talking about! I found some to add, hope it makes my blog a bit more interesting...
I have a few plans. After a few more blogs maybe those will become more refined! I need to be sure we have everything done on the fencing so I can work with a larger flock and have more chance to get what I want for breeding stock. Guess I have a lot to think about to know where I will go in all this! Do I sound nuts.....probably, I have so much on my mind its hard to keep any of it straight. Lambing is coming up quick. We will see what our quick breedings got for us, and go from there. Maybe I should take more time to eplain this mess since even I am a bit confused......lol!
My friend got our federal taxes filed, so unless there are any problems, the date to get our return is the 4th as long as its approved by irs by the 27th. There is an end in sight for me. I hope to get my truck fixed, the tractor fixed, and maybe convert our attatched garage into part of the house. Not sure if we can afford that. We are for sure buying a horse trailer from a friend for $1500 minus whatever we work out as what they owe for hay. State taxes cant be done in MN yet because of tax law extensions and such that havent been fixed yet. Will paper file those I think. Supposed to get $9265 from federal, and around $1800 from state? Something like that. Hope its enough to do what we want to do. Should pay someone to finish our floors too. Part of fixing the tractor may be a trip down by moms where a guy says he has the part we need. I swear I will stay with kids at LEAST a week! There is my end to the lonley crap and cabin fever. I can get out and away. I can even go for the yearly horse meeting! YAY! Might plan my trip just to go to it! Of course we have to pay our hay bill, and pick up a bit more hay too. Started with 34 round bales, and down to 7 now. I would like to save the grass hay mostly for the sheep. Do we have enough to do what we want to do....I doubt it, but hey, its nice to dream. Medical bills, and other bills I would like to pay. How do I decide what to do? Only way would probably be to skip doing the house. But darn it next year supposed to fix septic.... choices are far too many.
Ok, so anyone who would actually read this would think I have all day to sit here and I spend a ton of time doing this. I really dont. I write a few lines here and there throughout the day, and publish as I go to bed.
Darn dogs just opened the door agian. How many dogs can actually open a door knob? I have 2 that can! Someone just did a min. ago. Anytime they do I yell at them and make them go back outside.
Looking at a new shetland ram for the girls too. I would rather have paperable lambs for the kids to sell for their college funds. Neither got a lamb last year out of their other sheep, and didnt give them the shetlands until their bdays, plus bought them late in winter and they were not bred... kinda crappy. Especially considering what I paid... hard to lose a year of lambs. Totally excited to see how big the lambs will be. Emilys sheep had a lamb last year, but something happened and he died, but he was soooo tiny when he was born. The shetlands are way smaller so cant imagine how little their lambs will be! They are all scheduled to be sheared on Feb.27th. In time for them to lamb since my breeds have such thick wool and lambs would die before they would find the teats. I can hardly find them on some of them even when they are full of milk. Only the hair sheep doesnt have that problem. Thank heavens for that considering she lambed on jan. 19th last year and hadnt even thought about shearing yet! Of course she sheds like a dog anyways so wouldnt have to be sheared. Still considering finding a way to switch to painted desert sheep. They are spotted, a hair sheep, and have awesome horns. 3 qualities I love in sheep. They can even be tricolored! My someday dream. For now I am just happy expierementing with my jacobs, icelandics, and shetlands. Of course I am try to keep shetlands pure, jacobs pure, and icelands bred for good meat and color. Hoping my jacob ram might put some horns on them. Wonder if he can throw the 4 horn gene to the mix babies? Most people think hes a goat.....but I swear he is a sheep! Right now he almost looks like one with a bit of wool on him. When he got here he was just shorn. The two pics here I posted of him (max2) are of him when he first came with no wool. Wool quality isnt so important to me since I cant sell it anyways, but the shetlands thanks to the person I bought them from are well bred for their wool. Maybe I should concentrate more on my sheep than birds.... though I want to stick with my peafowl. It would be boring in the summer without baby birds to raise. Guess my muscovy ducks too. The pigs will breed and make up some of their feed. I want to cut down to just the 1.....but Emily would never forgive me if I got rid of her pigs. I am sorry but I dont care if potbellys go for butcher. They likely will since I will not put all the time and effort into finding them homes that I did last year. At 8 weeks firm if they have not found homes they WILL go to the sales barn.
Why do I write about all of this.... guess it helps with the spring fever since I can see the end of winter coming. Planning can help to avoid lots of uncertainties later that can cost us in the long run. Like not having a set date to sell the pigs last year. Ended up paying way more in feed on some of them than what we made back. I just like to break even, maybe get a bit to pay for some of the animals feed. Its a hobby farm...... who really expects us to make anything, meaning come out ahead? Not many hobbys can even help pay for themselves, and even fewer can completley recover costs put into them. Do we really care? No....but getting some money out of everything is nice.
LAST YEARS LAMBS WHEN THEY WENT TO THE SALES BARN. LAMB ON RIGHT IS FROM BETTY, SMALL 2 WERE TWINS FROM NO.5, BLACK WAS A NICE ONE FROM DALMATION AND LAST WAS A RAM FROM FAIR MAMA. ONLY 1 LAMB WASNT SOLD AND THAT WAS BROOKS RAM LAMB. HE WAS USED FOR BREEDING, AND LATER WILL BE OUR BUTCHER LAMB.
Emily is begging me for a calf..... we really want to get one, but prices are sooo high right now. Want to find a heiffer calf for less than $200, and one that is not a twin, and a beef breed, preferably herford. Maybe Simmital? Dont really want angus. A cross is ok, purebred not necessary, but really want red and white! We Have to finish fencing the back of our property for the sheep. It will cut way back on normal pasture use. The sheep like that stuff back by the creek better than the regular pasture. Hard to do it on my own though, and Brandon has to work so often. So wondering if adding the pics makes my blog a bit better. Would love to get pics of all of it to show what I am talking about! I found some to add, hope it makes my blog a bit more interesting...
I have a few plans. After a few more blogs maybe those will become more refined! I need to be sure we have everything done on the fencing so I can work with a larger flock and have more chance to get what I want for breeding stock. Guess I have a lot to think about to know where I will go in all this! Do I sound nuts.....probably, I have so much on my mind its hard to keep any of it straight. Lambing is coming up quick. We will see what our quick breedings got for us, and go from there. Maybe I should take more time to eplain this mess since even I am a bit confused......lol!
Friday, January 21, 2011
-33 degrees and still dropping!
Ok, like my title says it is 33 below, ACTUAL TEMP! I spent 2 1/2 hours outside today because of the impending temp drop....but I suppose I should start at the beginning of the day or this could get confusing!
This morning I was physically unable to wake up and get the kids to school. Brandon got them up and off to school. Not sure why I couldnt wake up, but I couldnt. Maybe something to do with uterine infection, and the heavy doses of meds for it? Anyways, got up at 8:30 and Brandon had to practically pry me out of bed. I went out and helped him catch the horses for the farrier while the van warmed up, then I got Hannah ready and the rabbit and went to the vet office.
At the vet......I paid lots of money and learned nothing! The vet was awesome and didnt charge me for the tests she did, but I still had to pay the office charge and for the wormer I bought. We decided to reworm the rabbits with another wormer and hope that fixes them. Otherwise she said we have to wait for one to die and do a necropsy because she wouldnt be able to tell me anymore from a live rabbit. So let me get this straight... I have to hope for a rabbit to die so we can cut it up and find out what is wrong with them??? Crappy! I did get wormer for my sheep too since the wormer for both is the same. Actually both kinds of wormer I use on the sheep are used in rabbits too. The really good stuff that is a 1 time dose was $130 for just the rabbits.....I opted for the stuff that cost $20 for the rabbits AND the sheep! This wormer I have to give 5 days in a row though. Not the sheep, just the rabbits. I got to see a couple potbelly piglets while I was there, and I bought mom a kennel for her puppy to get him home in. Her friend who is bringing him home for her was worried about space, and my crates are bigger, so I got a tiny one for her.
I got home and the farrier was about to start on the donkey. Big horses were done. Guess there was some drama with them all before the farrier got here. We got Sven done, then Star, then Gimley. Somewhere in there we did Libby too. All were well behaved......mostly anyways. Farriers dont mind my horses because the little my horses do that I call acting up, they call no big deal and normal, and easy to handle. I do that on purpose. My horses will always be well behaved! I work hard for them to be!
Speaking of farrier, I later saw the work on their feet. I was a bit disappointed and when Tim our other farrier called I expressed my somewhat unsatisfaction. Tim is goingto drop by and see if he can do some finishing work or touchup whats already been done. This will help to decide if we will use Dale agian.
After hearing what the temp was to be tonight I went out and started gettig things ready to put my sheep in the barn, and maybe open part of the barn to the horses, but decided not to do that part. I got the door dug out in front and back, and dug out several gates I needed to be able to use.
Doug came out to help after a while and we got the sheep brought up and put in. I got most of the watering done before the hose froze solid. Took no more than 20 min for it to freeze solid with it running the whole time. Put all the sheep in the barn, except for of course the dead one...... They seemed happy to get to be where it was way warmer. Though they didnt want to go in there in the first place. Was a real fun time having to get them all in.
Got the tank heaters temporarily figured out. Everyone has some sort of feed, and all but the pigs have water. The pigs wont drink it, they would rather eat snow....... weirdos! Even the cats had a bit of water today. They all seem happy and healthy.
Then of course there was Hannah to deal with. She while eating pooped her pants and it went up out of her diaper all over her. She had it eveywhere and we had to give her a bath.
Brandons w-2s came today. Got our basic tax stuff done, just have to watt for my 1098 from the house interest stuff to finsh it all up. So far our refund is 11,200 or so, with both federal and state, but lots of that is spent. We have to fix the Chevy-$2000, horse trailer $1500 minus hay and board for the horse they have here, have to pay hay bill, and buy a bit more cuz we dont have enough, pay some on propane, fix tractor, finish our flooring job, then try and make garage into part of the house. It would be the play room. If we could some sort of new heating option would be nice to figure out too! No idea for sure what it will actually be spent on.... time to feed Hannah and get some sleep!
This morning I was physically unable to wake up and get the kids to school. Brandon got them up and off to school. Not sure why I couldnt wake up, but I couldnt. Maybe something to do with uterine infection, and the heavy doses of meds for it? Anyways, got up at 8:30 and Brandon had to practically pry me out of bed. I went out and helped him catch the horses for the farrier while the van warmed up, then I got Hannah ready and the rabbit and went to the vet office.
At the vet......I paid lots of money and learned nothing! The vet was awesome and didnt charge me for the tests she did, but I still had to pay the office charge and for the wormer I bought. We decided to reworm the rabbits with another wormer and hope that fixes them. Otherwise she said we have to wait for one to die and do a necropsy because she wouldnt be able to tell me anymore from a live rabbit. So let me get this straight... I have to hope for a rabbit to die so we can cut it up and find out what is wrong with them??? Crappy! I did get wormer for my sheep too since the wormer for both is the same. Actually both kinds of wormer I use on the sheep are used in rabbits too. The really good stuff that is a 1 time dose was $130 for just the rabbits.....I opted for the stuff that cost $20 for the rabbits AND the sheep! This wormer I have to give 5 days in a row though. Not the sheep, just the rabbits. I got to see a couple potbelly piglets while I was there, and I bought mom a kennel for her puppy to get him home in. Her friend who is bringing him home for her was worried about space, and my crates are bigger, so I got a tiny one for her.
I got home and the farrier was about to start on the donkey. Big horses were done. Guess there was some drama with them all before the farrier got here. We got Sven done, then Star, then Gimley. Somewhere in there we did Libby too. All were well behaved......mostly anyways. Farriers dont mind my horses because the little my horses do that I call acting up, they call no big deal and normal, and easy to handle. I do that on purpose. My horses will always be well behaved! I work hard for them to be!
Speaking of farrier, I later saw the work on their feet. I was a bit disappointed and when Tim our other farrier called I expressed my somewhat unsatisfaction. Tim is goingto drop by and see if he can do some finishing work or touchup whats already been done. This will help to decide if we will use Dale agian.
After hearing what the temp was to be tonight I went out and started gettig things ready to put my sheep in the barn, and maybe open part of the barn to the horses, but decided not to do that part. I got the door dug out in front and back, and dug out several gates I needed to be able to use.
Doug came out to help after a while and we got the sheep brought up and put in. I got most of the watering done before the hose froze solid. Took no more than 20 min for it to freeze solid with it running the whole time. Put all the sheep in the barn, except for of course the dead one...... They seemed happy to get to be where it was way warmer. Though they didnt want to go in there in the first place. Was a real fun time having to get them all in.
Got the tank heaters temporarily figured out. Everyone has some sort of feed, and all but the pigs have water. The pigs wont drink it, they would rather eat snow....... weirdos! Even the cats had a bit of water today. They all seem happy and healthy.
Then of course there was Hannah to deal with. She while eating pooped her pants and it went up out of her diaper all over her. She had it eveywhere and we had to give her a bath.
Brandons w-2s came today. Got our basic tax stuff done, just have to watt for my 1098 from the house interest stuff to finsh it all up. So far our refund is 11,200 or so, with both federal and state, but lots of that is spent. We have to fix the Chevy-$2000, horse trailer $1500 minus hay and board for the horse they have here, have to pay hay bill, and buy a bit more cuz we dont have enough, pay some on propane, fix tractor, finish our flooring job, then try and make garage into part of the house. It would be the play room. If we could some sort of new heating option would be nice to figure out too! No idea for sure what it will actually be spent on.... time to feed Hannah and get some sleep!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Bad Health and Bad Luck!
The kids and I were just arguing about the theme song to "The Wonder Pets" and guess what, I knew it better than they did....Scary!
Ok, so anyone who knows me knew about me dislocating my knee the week I got pregnant, and later my gallbladder that went bad almost killing me and the baby, some might even know about my occasional seizures that I try to pretend dont happen, or my well known fibromyalgia, migranes, insomnia, and much more, but come on.... how could anyone have the kind of health and luck I have! Now I have endometritis. Its a kind of uternine infection from having the baby.
My doctor is having me scheduled with a neurolorgist for the seizures. First time I have ever dealt with them except the casual mention of them. I have an appt with a joint specialist to do a surgical consult for my knee. That scares the crap out of me. I am not the kind of person who casually accepts needing surgery. I have so much work to do and sugery will keep me from being able to do it for a period of time. How do I chase kids, or lamb out my sheep, work with my horses....or even clean my house? How can I deal with Lucies issues if all my time is being spent on myself? Its not fair to her!
This week is going to be fairly busy. Today we had headstart, and the rabbits vet appt. got rescheduled. It is now tomorrow at 9:30. The Farrier will be here at 10. Brandon has to leave for work by 1pm. Friday I think he works morning shift, and agian saturday. Saturday I have to pick up a puppy for my mom and get it to my moms friends who are in Bemidji so they can bring it to her. Every single thing I just listed has been scheduled once, and rescheduled for the current times and days! Lucie has school tomorrow and crap......forgot tonight was awanas. Just got Emily a ride to it and getting her ready to go.
Speaking of Emily. Last night I noticed a nasty bump on her foot where the dr. removed a piece of glass from her foot. She wouldnt walk on her heels either. We soaked the foot in peroxide water, and after a while squeezed the big bump. A large piece of glass popped out of it...POOR KID! It had been in her foot for over a month and she never complained once about it hurting. I wonder if she was afraid to be taken to the dr. agian. I just cant believe the dr. missed it. But they arent perfect. Talk about horrible luck, she had the piece of glass removed that one day, ended up with the flu the next and was hospitalized, then she ended up with strep throat and a nasty rash from it. That was a bad week!
Might have found a home for our last puppy. I might have to drive to the cities to meet her, but at least he would have a good home!
Anyways, hopefully we can keep up our busy schedule. I hope to go to ECFE tomorrow night too. At least I woudnt have to cook, but thats hard dragging all 3 kids in the cold by myself. I almost dont even want to try. I find myself avoiding going places because of that. I guess we probably should go..... Its so good for Lucie. I suppose thats all for now.
Ok, so anyone who knows me knew about me dislocating my knee the week I got pregnant, and later my gallbladder that went bad almost killing me and the baby, some might even know about my occasional seizures that I try to pretend dont happen, or my well known fibromyalgia, migranes, insomnia, and much more, but come on.... how could anyone have the kind of health and luck I have! Now I have endometritis. Its a kind of uternine infection from having the baby.
My doctor is having me scheduled with a neurolorgist for the seizures. First time I have ever dealt with them except the casual mention of them. I have an appt with a joint specialist to do a surgical consult for my knee. That scares the crap out of me. I am not the kind of person who casually accepts needing surgery. I have so much work to do and sugery will keep me from being able to do it for a period of time. How do I chase kids, or lamb out my sheep, work with my horses....or even clean my house? How can I deal with Lucies issues if all my time is being spent on myself? Its not fair to her!
This week is going to be fairly busy. Today we had headstart, and the rabbits vet appt. got rescheduled. It is now tomorrow at 9:30. The Farrier will be here at 10. Brandon has to leave for work by 1pm. Friday I think he works morning shift, and agian saturday. Saturday I have to pick up a puppy for my mom and get it to my moms friends who are in Bemidji so they can bring it to her. Every single thing I just listed has been scheduled once, and rescheduled for the current times and days! Lucie has school tomorrow and crap......forgot tonight was awanas. Just got Emily a ride to it and getting her ready to go.
Speaking of Emily. Last night I noticed a nasty bump on her foot where the dr. removed a piece of glass from her foot. She wouldnt walk on her heels either. We soaked the foot in peroxide water, and after a while squeezed the big bump. A large piece of glass popped out of it...POOR KID! It had been in her foot for over a month and she never complained once about it hurting. I wonder if she was afraid to be taken to the dr. agian. I just cant believe the dr. missed it. But they arent perfect. Talk about horrible luck, she had the piece of glass removed that one day, ended up with the flu the next and was hospitalized, then she ended up with strep throat and a nasty rash from it. That was a bad week!
Might have found a home for our last puppy. I might have to drive to the cities to meet her, but at least he would have a good home!
Anyways, hopefully we can keep up our busy schedule. I hope to go to ECFE tomorrow night too. At least I woudnt have to cook, but thats hard dragging all 3 kids in the cold by myself. I almost dont even want to try. I find myself avoiding going places because of that. I guess we probably should go..... Its so good for Lucie. I suppose thats all for now.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Busy Day
This morning I woke with a horrible migrane that felt very much like a hangover..from what I cant say, but reminds me of those teenage years. Thank god Brandon was home! He got up with the kids when I had to lay back down. It was so bad when the baby cried I needed him to change her, and I couldnt yell so I got creative. I texted him....lol.. Feeding her after he changed her actually seemed to help my head.
After a while I got up anyways...migrane or not. Got some laundry run through, and the floors scrubbed over and over agian until I was satisfied they looked and FELT clean! Brandon being the good sport he is, helped out by cleaning the entire kitchen for me. I sent him to a friends house now that I am feeling a bit better to bring them some stuff for their baby. I thought it might be nice for him to get out to visit for a bit. The kids cleaned their room, and Lucie is running around in underware. Another attempt to potty train a kid that refuses to do so. They say not to push her with all her other issues.
Guess I havent said on here what those would be. Basicially she has a high functioning form of autism in the aspergers spectrum, with pervasive developmental disorder, a sensory disorder, and a hair pulling disorder with a really strange name. Amazingly enough, my friends were already minimizing her issues the very day I finally got names for her problems. Guess I wasnt surprised. People like to tell me I am full of it, there is nothing wrong with her, so hearing that she will be fine, she will grow out of it, and dont worry about it wasnt something I didnt expect. I guess according to them they figure if I ignore it the problems will go away?
The school on the other hand is helping me to get all my paperwork done for the state so Lucie doesnt lose her medical. Something I tried working on for quite a while last night, and didnt get too far. Like I know all the names, titles, phone numbers, addresses, and such for all the people that work with her at the school. So that the school will have to fill out. Her dr. helped with a lot of the paperwork yesterday, and gave me some of what I need for documentation. The rest I have to start trying to get on Monday. Doctor reports, teacher reports from headstart, and reports from our county nurse. Have to figure out if there is anyone else... maybe her wic info? Not sure if they would want that or not. I also need to get letters from family members, and least the ones who recognized Lucies issues. I guess that is just my mother.
Hannah is doing pretty well. So is Emily. Of course they both get left out a lot in all this mess. Emily cleaned her room today, mostly by herself. Lucie did help with holding the trash bag, then flipped out when Emily threw it in the trash can. Hannah has been pretty happy today, and awake quite a bit. Though at times its hard to get things done, we really enjoy spending time with her, especially with her smiling and cooing at us!
Brandon too is feeling a bit left out. Part of why I sent him out to visit for a while. He works so hard!
Animals...well I really cant tell you. I wanted to get out and see them today, but didnt have a chance. I need to check my ewes for udders, and really need to castrate those 2 rams we plan on eating. Pretty soon they will be too old and with the hormones will end up tasting bad. I think the beginning of February we will have to put the sheep into the barn and have the guy come out to shear. Hopefully my girls will be lambing soon! I will be so busy then I wont have time to think, but I also wonder how I will do it at all.... Horses are fine, trying to get my farrier out, but no luck so far. I have an appt. for a rabbit to be seen Wednesday. Hope to find out what has been making them all sick and killing them! Pigs are well, peafowl and all other birds looked great last time I saw them. Although my dorkie butt didnt realize my male pig could be breeding or have aleady bred my girls so no idea if they may decide to have babies soon. Something I am definitly NOT ready for! Dogs and cats are well, though I still have a puppy to find a home for.
Lucie wore her underware for about 20 min. Then I got her to go potty, then she flipped out until I let her put her pullup back on. I swear this thing has taken hours to type out so far.. Now shes playing with playdough so I think I have a few min. I can see her and keep and eye on her while on here.
Anyways, guess thats all for now. Cant believe I have so much on my mind at once, and I could write forever. Maybe getting some of this out will help with my need to get this out of my head. I might be easier to talk to? Hope so! I know I get awfully wound up and hard to talk to when theres a lot on my mind.
After a while I got up anyways...migrane or not. Got some laundry run through, and the floors scrubbed over and over agian until I was satisfied they looked and FELT clean! Brandon being the good sport he is, helped out by cleaning the entire kitchen for me. I sent him to a friends house now that I am feeling a bit better to bring them some stuff for their baby. I thought it might be nice for him to get out to visit for a bit. The kids cleaned their room, and Lucie is running around in underware. Another attempt to potty train a kid that refuses to do so. They say not to push her with all her other issues.
Guess I havent said on here what those would be. Basicially she has a high functioning form of autism in the aspergers spectrum, with pervasive developmental disorder, a sensory disorder, and a hair pulling disorder with a really strange name. Amazingly enough, my friends were already minimizing her issues the very day I finally got names for her problems. Guess I wasnt surprised. People like to tell me I am full of it, there is nothing wrong with her, so hearing that she will be fine, she will grow out of it, and dont worry about it wasnt something I didnt expect. I guess according to them they figure if I ignore it the problems will go away?
The school on the other hand is helping me to get all my paperwork done for the state so Lucie doesnt lose her medical. Something I tried working on for quite a while last night, and didnt get too far. Like I know all the names, titles, phone numbers, addresses, and such for all the people that work with her at the school. So that the school will have to fill out. Her dr. helped with a lot of the paperwork yesterday, and gave me some of what I need for documentation. The rest I have to start trying to get on Monday. Doctor reports, teacher reports from headstart, and reports from our county nurse. Have to figure out if there is anyone else... maybe her wic info? Not sure if they would want that or not. I also need to get letters from family members, and least the ones who recognized Lucies issues. I guess that is just my mother.
Hannah is doing pretty well. So is Emily. Of course they both get left out a lot in all this mess. Emily cleaned her room today, mostly by herself. Lucie did help with holding the trash bag, then flipped out when Emily threw it in the trash can. Hannah has been pretty happy today, and awake quite a bit. Though at times its hard to get things done, we really enjoy spending time with her, especially with her smiling and cooing at us!
Brandon too is feeling a bit left out. Part of why I sent him out to visit for a while. He works so hard!
Animals...well I really cant tell you. I wanted to get out and see them today, but didnt have a chance. I need to check my ewes for udders, and really need to castrate those 2 rams we plan on eating. Pretty soon they will be too old and with the hormones will end up tasting bad. I think the beginning of February we will have to put the sheep into the barn and have the guy come out to shear. Hopefully my girls will be lambing soon! I will be so busy then I wont have time to think, but I also wonder how I will do it at all.... Horses are fine, trying to get my farrier out, but no luck so far. I have an appt. for a rabbit to be seen Wednesday. Hope to find out what has been making them all sick and killing them! Pigs are well, peafowl and all other birds looked great last time I saw them. Although my dorkie butt didnt realize my male pig could be breeding or have aleady bred my girls so no idea if they may decide to have babies soon. Something I am definitly NOT ready for! Dogs and cats are well, though I still have a puppy to find a home for.
Lucie wore her underware for about 20 min. Then I got her to go potty, then she flipped out until I let her put her pullup back on. I swear this thing has taken hours to type out so far.. Now shes playing with playdough so I think I have a few min. I can see her and keep and eye on her while on here.
Anyways, guess thats all for now. Cant believe I have so much on my mind at once, and I could write forever. Maybe getting some of this out will help with my need to get this out of my head. I might be easier to talk to? Hope so! I know I get awfully wound up and hard to talk to when theres a lot on my mind.
A new blog for a new year
I found this site while looking at someones blog... so thought I would give it a try. I want to write, It makes me feel better, and I can keep track of things. Sometimes I am such a ditz or a blonde as everyone else would point out. Most of the time I am just plain tired. My own health issues are being put on a back burner for those of my children, and the consequences of that can be me not being me. I am constantly tired, sometimes depressed, and always in pain. But, none of that matters when it comes to my responsibilities. It doesnt matter how many legs they may have. I am boss, I am everything to them all. Without me it could all fall apart. Brandon is the most wonderful husband, and he really does try, but where would he be without me? So what exactly does that make me? Who am I? What am I? I think I would like to explore all that a bit later. Now I have to get a fussy 2 month old baby to sleep so I can sleep as well.
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