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Saturday was one of those intermittent rainy Oregon days.  That usually means, get stuff done outside when you can.  We started off early by getting the rest of my compost soil for my garden bed and then I hit up various stores to fill in the gaps of veggies/herbs I still needed.  Lastly, I had to get Lowe’s to price match the 99cent Margiold/Petunia sale that Home Depot was having.  All the while, hope that I can get home in time to get things planted before the rain stopped me!

I get home, change into grungy, dirt friendly clothes and get to work plotting out that last part of my garden.  While out there I have Braysen, my friendly helper, telling me to plant the Marigolds.  I told him I wasn’t ready yet and he kept asking impatiently If I was ready yet.  Well, I’m trying to get things in the ground as it starts to sprinkle and I see him grabbing my flowers so I turn to tell him to knock it off. (nicely of course!)  Here I am hunched over my plants and I twist around to him when I feel this sharp pain in my back.  OUCH!  I tell Braysen to go get daddy and tell him that I’m hurt.  He runs inside and tells Patrick, who tells him that he can’t right now.  I don’t know what Braysen told Patrick but I told him to go tell him it’s important.  He still didn’t come out haha.  Well, I get myself  upright although painfully and tell him what happened.  It’s the same pain from a year ago when I had a slipped disc.   Nice numbness feeling through  my leg to my calf.  Sciatic pain (feels almost like the pregnant sciatica I had!) and of course this horrible lower back pain that kills to sit down and put pressure downward with.

But the good news is:  I have my garden planted!   haha A garden post to be coming soon!

On the other good news:  I have someone coming to clean my house tomorrow before family arrives, just so I’m not bending over toilets and stressing about my dirty house!

We just need to worry about getting the bedding and towels all washed & ready.  The car needs to be majorly cleaned / vacuumed before they get picked up in it!  Also, need to do the rearrangement of car seats in it so we can fit people.  Of course I also need to get some Rubbermaid boxes full of baby clothes out of the guest room and into a temporary spot until we can get people over to go through them and stake claim before I sell them off!  Not too bad really but still lots to do in the next 2 nights and with swim lessons tonight & tomorrow nite’s meet up to get Miss Lush (a bag …a whole other post..one in which you’ll think I’m even more bag cray than some realize).  Yup, lots to do and running out of time!  The grocery shopping was done last night…a fun 2 hours worth of it and I didn’t get home until nearly 9.  But we are getting there!

I did get Braysen signed up for a summer soccer camp and a summer swim lesson session.  I went with just the 3-4 year old soccer camp instead of the 4-6 year old camp because I think he will do better this go around with the younger age bracket.  The swim lessons switch to summer schedule so he’ll be doing basically a 2 week session where he goes every night from 6-6:30 instead of twice/week.  I’m not looking forward to driving him every nite to Newberg but I don’t want to stop his lessons now.  We’ll have a bit of a break after soccer camp until August because I don’t want him in camp during the day and swimming at night.  I figure we can pick back up in August and I think they start up the 2 night a week ones at that point.  Newberg also has a Sat. morning Soccer thing for younger kids in the fall that starts in Sept. so if Braysen does really like this soccer stuff we can get him going on that.  I am pretty excited to get him in these sports camps and fun things. He’s finally at an age where he is old enough to do it.   Then we the logistical side of getting him to / from places when we live in between the 2 towns that he can go to for these things.

Summer of fun here we come!  hehe

The dreaded dentist appt was today. Patrick drove me since we figured I’d be a bit out of it if they did decide to take out the tooth. The dentist was wonderful, cracking jokes and trying to calm my fears as I’m sure the anxiety was all over my face.

I guess he told Patrick that everything that could go wrong with my wisdom tooth had. It was completely sideways so pushing into my cheek. It had broke and I was starting to get an infection.

They actually got it out fairly quick and I was oblivious to any pain minus being numb n puffy faced. We picked up the kids at daycare on the way home & I retreated to the bed while Patrick has been holding down the fort.

I realized we had basically nothing I could eat so he drove us into town. I wandered through the store grabbing those single serving cups of various flavors of sorbert & ice cream. I got jello, pudding, some drinks and potatoes for mashed potatoes tomorrow. If my teeth feel up to it I’ll make the mac n cheese bought lol.

For now I’ll continue doping myself up & taking my penicillin. Both of which make me feel pretty cruddy. The vicodin just takes the edge off the pain but it still feels eh. I’m sure that once this heals up I’ll feel way better without that stupid tooth.

On a better note…I got a 89% on my last Stats exam last week!!!

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So last night I had insane pain along my jaw and in my mouth by my right upper wisdom tooth. Now I know I need to get them out but was hoping to do it over summer break. My bottoms have been in for ages but my top right has cut in. While feeling with my tongue I realized it has cracked…like a huge part of it gone! Dunno if I bit down at some point or was grinding but it hurts like hell.

I was up all night trying every remedy I could to ease the pain and popping Tylenol. Called the dentist this morning and nor open on Friday’s. So I start calling other dentists..not open on Fridays either. Why aren’t dentist offices open on Friday??

Got a call back from my emergency line message saying they’d get me in at 11:30 Monday morning. In the meantime I’m now on vicodin and penicillin. Sadly, as much as the pain is managable…my stomach and the rest of the effects from vicodin are a whole other side to feeling like crap.

Long weekend ahead and then a dreaded visit on Monday to probably get this tooth out!
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I remember being 16 in my lifeguarding class and the instructors telling us to go to the deep end and start treading water.  This tread was at the end of class when you’ve just swam a million laps, practiced swimming tower to tower (NOT FUN!) and various other drills.  Anyhow, after the 10, 15 or 20 minutes were up, instructors one by one would jump in the water and try to do everything in their power to bring us down. 

Basically they were pretending to be victims and our job was to get them to the edge.  Several instructors were stalky big guys that you could barely get your arms around them to cross-chest carry and they’d be flipping you over and over in the water.  All you could do was hang on tight and let them flip you until they acted tired, in which you could finally swim them to the edge.  Of course, a few years later in training they switched to using Rescue Tubes primarily.

So why all this talk of the good ol’ days? 

Well let’s just say that my life at the moment feels like I’m being put through the drills over and over.  I’m barely treading water and there’s a million things trying to sink me but I won’t let them.  I’m fighting but I’m tired! 

Yesterday was a near drowning incident!

I had to be up by 6:30 to get in the shower so I could be out the door around 7 for my 7:30am Stats class.  I plop myself down to dry my hair and I smell this very pungent odor coming from my dryer then Bam, it was dead.  Here I am thinking, shit..it’s too early to go ask a neighbor to borrow one.   Off to class I go with my wet hair.  Now, this wouldn’t be bad if I didn’t have to head into work afterwards which requires me to look a little more put together!  I also had a long day ahead and well looking like a drowned rat all day wasn’t the style I was looking for.

7:30am-8:50am Stats and the Professor tells us he has bad news and good news.  Bad news = our Stats exams are MIA!  Good news (in his opinion) = we get the exam to retake but as a take home exam.  This sounds great in theory but honestly I studied a few nights until midnight for that test.  It was fresh in my head that day, now it’s not!  I moved on darn it and now I need to go back and rethink haha! 

Worked from 8:50 to 12:50

12:50-1:50 Developmental Psych. rolls around.  Not bad but our study guide is well not much of a guide as much as it is a list of every term listed that were covered in 5 Chapters.  So Monday I have not only my Stats exam due but I have my Psych. exam on 5 Chapters. 

I get home around 2:15 and get Merrick all dressed, we are out the door by 2:40ish to head to his well baby check up at the doctors.  I love our pediatrician and we always end up there for a while because I think most of our visit is us talking about this that and the other.  We had a few shots to get taken care of because I have him on a delayed schedule and we were up for some of our next ones.

I will post his growth stats here soon.  I wanted to get it all typed up and put in a little chart that I can just update in one spot! 

I get home around 4:15 or so and then start trying to get things picked up.  Realizing that I haven’t eaten ALL DAY!!! It’s nearly 5 by the time I get a meal in my stomach. 

6:00 rolls around and I have Braysen loaded up in the car for swim lessons and off we went.  His lessons are in a nearby town that can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 30 to get to ..if you are stuck behind a tractor (like I had the privilege of encountering yesterday).  We get there in time, he does great (a whole post should be about this really so I’ll save that!).  Swim lessons go from 6:30-7:00 so we get home anywhere from 7:30/7:40.

Home finally for the night right?  NOPE!  Off to Walmart (the dreaded store I hate and cannot stand but Target is 40 minutes away and well my options were pretty limited.)  I finally get home around 9 from my town trip and I was beat….tired…exhausted and drowning.  Yes, completely under water by this time.  I seriously felt like I was treading water all day and finally everything that was thrown at me took me under…only briefly.  I will not let myself sink, I must stay afloat and keep treading!

So I’m laying here on the bed, home from work early because I hurt my back and am awaiting my chiropractor appointment this afternoon.  I’m done window shopping online, checking message boards for bargains and decided that I should update this blog thing! I had great intentions on writing a lot or at least posting pics often but instead I just make quick posts to facebook and neglect this. I’ll try harder I promise!

Lots has gone on! I went back to work a few weeks ago. All is going smoothly there and it’s nice to be back. School is back in full swing to that means no more nice parking spot *cry*, walking farther in the rain! It also means students stumbling into my office lost! It means the Professors, that I actually do miss from time to time, reappear from their breaks.

The kids are taking the new daycare better. Braysen LOVES it! He comes home beat tired and when he doesn’t fight us on naps he typically takes a nice long one. You can tell he’s playing and having fun because he tells me “have fun at Kim’s house”. He is Mr. Artist lately, loves to draw (even managed to get Patricks fairly new flatscreen tv the other morning…OOPS!) He tells me he’s drawing snakes, airplanes, helicopters, happy faces, tick tocks and many other objects. His circles look really good though (proud mom comment there!). He also is big into colors and shapes of things. We are always asking him what colors things are or what shapes and how many things he has. He seems to have those things down pretty well.  He is also into trains big time.  I mean the kid has loved anything with wheels for as long as I can remember but now he likes the whole train and train track building thing.

Merrick is 4 months.  Can you believe he’s already 4 months? He had a hard time at first with taking a bottle at daycare but seems to be better. Although, he doesn’t like to be put down for them which is kind of bothering at times. I feel bad for them and I feel bad for him. He gets put down all the time here, whether it be on his tummy or back, playmat, bouncing seat ..here there or everywhere! In fact, he scootches OFF his playmat now! No longer immobile, he’s off! He arches himself OUT of his bouncer so guess we need to start strapping him down! He rolls this or that way depending on what he wants. He also is grabbing things and putting them in his mouth. He’s growing like a weed, cooing REALLY loud and is the funniest little man.

Lots has been going on over the past few weeks but I just can’t seem to get myself to write.  Threw a baby shower for friend/neighbor Katie who is due any day now!  Went to a birthday party for 2 of the little girls in the neighborhood that turned 3.  Have been trying to get into the swing of water aerobics when not in pain with my back or when I’m not busy doing other stuff.  Would LOVE to lose more of my baby weight!  Had a girls night last week with some neighbors that I am just getting to know better and it was a fun night.  Had a bbq with some of our friends over the Labor Day weekend.  Painted the great room a different color, the “mint” green wasn’t working for me anymore.  Sam (a good friend of ours, affectionately known as Uncle Sam) came over to help us!!!  We <3 him.

Well, guess I’ll get ready to go pick up the kids at daycare and then hopefully lay low until 2:30 when I have my appt.

Someday soon I’ll do an update on my Fisher Price thing and some other stuff that is more like fun mom things!

Oh and I won a pair of baby legs from that site I linked on here last time!  SO COOL!  I NEVER win stuff and was very surprised!  Plus, I just love baby legs.

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