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From the “You’ve Got to Be Kidding, Right?” Department:
My Mom had follow up appointments this week with the surgeon from her emergency open heart surgery on July 1st, and then with her cardiologist. There was some discussion of recent chest pain she has been having, and so she is having a heart catheterization procedure on Friday of this week.
We’re praying that this time around will be considerably less traumatic, and that there won’t be any problems to be found. I’ll post sometime this weekend about it. (If you want to know sooner, I’ll try to put it up on Facebook after we get the results on Friday.)
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In happier news, Noah’s new bike arrived on Thursday and Eric got it put together in no time. Unlike past attempts on bikes, he wasn’t hesitant and even rode to my parents house. He was very excited, and it was so much fun to see him get to ride with the rest of the family.
We were going to get him a cooler looking recumbent style bike with flames on it, but we found that he is growing faster than we thought and he only has about five or six inches before he would outgrow it. (At the rate he’s going, that may be next week.) This bike has made him thrilled though, and that makes us thrilled too. Plus, he loved being able to put some things in the basket in the back for the trip to Grandma and Papa’s.
(My eBook is still 50% off with the code bike through the end of August, with the proceeds going toward the bike expenses. Current sales paid for 20% of the bike. Thanks so much!)
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Watch out, Tooth Fairy. It would seem that the jig is up around our house.
Yes, yes, I know, Tooth Fairy. You haven’t even had a chance to visit Molly once. I understand.
However, five year old Molly says, “Come on. I mean, come on. A fairy? Yeah, okay. Fairies aren’t even real! Come on. A fairy just flies in and takes your teeth. Come on.”
All I have to say is that this Tooth Fairy discover was a whole lot easier than when Jack figured it all out.
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I love a nice variety of music, and one of my favorite places to listen to music is in the van while I’m driving. Earlier this week, I was in a mood while I was driving to go do therapy. Quite honestly, I wanted to cancel my appointments because I just didn’t want to go. I decided I needed to listen to music that matched my mood.
I’m just going to say – It’s probably not the right mind set to go play with toddlers when your mood is best matched with grunge music.
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We need to get new cell phones soon, but I feel a bit clueless. Anyone have a great suggestion (or something to steer clear of) for a phone to use through Verizon?
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I signed up for Home EC, which is an online sewing class for beginners. I’m kind of really extremely nervous about it, but I’m hoping for courage and good results.
I’ll have to keep everyone posted on how things are going as I work through the course, which could very well take me the whole year that they leave the materials online. Wish me luck!
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Why is it that I have two college degrees but still do things like say “wicked psyched” at a meeting at church?
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Praying for you and your mum.
I hope your mom is doing better!
And I’ve been known to say “Dude, it’s totally awesome” at church functions. I’ve even called a priest “dude” in conversation. I think my mind subs surfer lingo for the salty speech that usually comes out of my mouth in religious settings…..
@Kerrie,
I would place money on a bet that I had also called a priest “dude” before. LOL We used to have a younger priest (a few years younger than me) that my family got close with and I also had to work on a project with. So, I would be shocked if at some point I hadn’t accidentally called him dude.
I also have 2 degrees, one of them in English, and still say things like that.
And on the subject of the tooth fairy, this week my almost 6 year old woke up, looked right at me, lay back down and in the morning was STILL baffled about how the tooth fairy got the money under his pillow.
Yay on Noah’s bike! That’s awesome! I know he’s thrilled…and that you are, too. Praying for your mom.
Ooooh, your sewing class looks really, really good. I started sewing class with Amber this week. I had to dust the sewing machine off! I did buy that curriculum at the homeschool conference (remember you saw me in the stall?) Working with her makes me want to sew again!
Samantha
I am so glad to hear that your mom’s procedure was uneventful this time and pray for quick recovery and a fully-functioning heart for her!
Also very excited to read about the new bike! It’s so great to be a part of our children overcoming obstacles in their lives – especially those who have to try harder at some things than others. Did his face just light up and make your day?