christmas and things

shnookie doodles on grammies lap

& playing with his house...christmas and things

i have to say all in in all christmas was a blast! i will post christmas pictures in the next blog.

back at work today, wish i could have been off all week - but that was just impossible. my brother and wife will be leaving back to Illinois on monday - sad to see them go - wish i had more time with them. they are hoping to move back here and be close by - but they have a lot to do before they can actually do that. aunt mel and uncle pickle juice are absolutely amazing with shnookie doodles! he adores them! and their two lovely puppies sophie and gus. i think shnookie doodles was a little overwhelmed with all the family and gifts - but he loved it. he def got a lot of attention & racked up in the gift area!!! :o)

i spent christmas eve early day in the emergency room where my parents live, i have been having horrible back pains and spasms that run down into my legs - by christmas eve i could barely move - much less walk. they gave me some meds and i finally feel much better today. i am supposed to get up with my doctor and have an MRI done. i guess we will see - the emergency room thinks it might have been my sciatica nerve. i have never in my life had back issues before now- we are guessing it all stems from the pregnancy last year????? and what sets it off is....STRESS!

i have to say - so many wonderful blessings to be thankful for this year. God, my child, family, friends, jobs, little finances that pop in just when we need them (sometimes) and all the little things we receive every day and take for granted (roof over our heads, food, car to drive, the fact we WOKE up....)all in all it has turned out to be a pretty good year- we have had quite a few bumps & struggles in the road this year - plenty of "trials and tribulations" - but so far- so good. :o)

i hope everyone had a wonderful christmas & has an unlimited BLESSED 2008!

i will post more on christmas later w/ photos!

peace forward~~be blessed!

just stuff

just stuff

it has been a crazy 7 days. i was laid off on Friday and picked right back up by the end of the day because a co-worker put in her 2 weeks after i was let go (talk about WHEW). so i came back in on Monday to a different dept. and too top it off there was a lot of rearranging going on. people being moved to different departments, upstairs going downstairs - people from the other bldg moving to our bldg. upstairs. i was one of the upstairs people and now im downstairs. so this morning was spent moving everything UP-->down.

i am not to sure how i feel about the whole thing, but i know that i am BLESSED that i didn't lose any time and STILL have a job. another thing that i just KNEW i had - Monday i was told i didn't have it - ugh- so that really upset me, and the type of person i am, i am obsessing over it trying to figure out WHY...... i just need to move fwd and KNOW that God just has something better planned.

well 5 more days to Christmas, i can't wait. ready to veg out a little and spend time with my family and play with shnookie doodles. i have to finish up MOST of my Christmas shopping tomorrow evening and then bake all night - head out to mom's Saturday sometime..... i can't wait to see my bro and sis in law they will be here for the Holidays - a def treat. and to top the treat off, Christmas Eve will be spent with a lot of family LOVE and i so enjoy these times, all the family (or a bunch of us) hanging out together under one roof - that is the most important to me...gifts & good yummy food are cool but don't come close to La Familia. we are doing a white elephant gift exchange after dinner along with our regular gift exchange - although this year that has changed up a little bit too. instead of getting EVERYONE a gift - we drew names for a MAIN gift, a GAG gift and a STOCKING. i would tell you who i got, but they might be peeking - so i will fill you in after the event!

on a shnookie doodles note - he is OVER the rash thing but now has bronchitis and will be monitored for asthma. we don't have asthma on our side of the family and i can't get a hold of his "father" to find out if he has it anywhere on his side of the fam. (surprise, not) hopefully he doesn't have asthma. even being under the weather, that little dude is as busy as can be - he is so entertaining to watch because he totally amuses himself. we tried sitting on Santa's lap at a work potluck, but he wasn't having it - although he got a nice big fluffy-stuffed puppy out of it.

well work is still calling and im trying to get back into the swing of things......i will update more later!

Peace Forward ~ Be Blessed!

darn daycare

darn daycare

my babe is sick - again....geeeez. i seriously hope by the time he hits kindergarten that he is the healthiest kid in the class - considering he is always getting something from daycare! don't get me wrong, i think daycare is really awesome for his social skills etc....building his immune system - but good grief....sometimes i feel like he is sick more than he is well. no sooner has he just got over a slight ear infection and pneumonia in his left lung - i get a call from daycare to pick him up NOW because he is covered in a rash of red dots and high fever (arrrgh) poor little dude. so now he is out another week.....supposedly another baby in his class was sent home the week before with the same thing and because shnookie-doodles was just getting OVER pneumonia his immune system was down and he caught that too.

my parents have him this week because they live almost an hour a way and i just can't miss any more work.....so i have been without my little man since monday afternoon - my first time being away from him over night - much less a whole day. he will most likely come back tomorrow evening (grammy says he is looking much better) but man oh man i miss him like bananas! i found myself sitting in my living room the other night just looking at all his toys neatly put a way and listening to how quiet it was....i used to be solo before i had him so you would think this would be no big deal, but shooooot - i miss that little dude - i miss watching 'jack's big music show' over and over and over and over and watching him get all excited watching it and dancing, clapping, singing to it. playing all his noisy toys at one time and listening to him just babble a way at me.....just not the same with out him......sigh

so.....other than that - just trying to get ready for Christmas and "stuff" brother (uncle) pickle juice and sis in law (aunt) mel will be spending the holidays with us all...and i sooooooooo can not wait to see them! :o)

be blessed all!