The New Year Brings New Things!

Welcome in 2009! I have been saying most of '08 that 2009 had to be better! And so far, it has been. This year will bring new things my way. I have decided to take a "hooping" class and learn at the ripe old age of 42 how to hula hoop! I am going to make sure that I do new things this year.
My oldest children are all "legal" now. My daughters are over 21, my oldest son is 18 and I share my other 2 boys with their birth mom. So, this year is a new year for me. I am getting my motorcycle on the 24th. I am going to start hooping, and I am starting a list of things to do before my body refuses! LOL I want to get back to how I felt 8 years ago! And I am well on my way.

Christmas this year

Hello! Well, all in all this has been a really long and hard year. I can not say I am looking forward to Christmas this year. We have no extra money to buy anything this year. We have told the children Santa may miss us this year. But, there is still hope. I have started making gifts, and with any luck, I will have them finished and in the mail so everyone gets their gifts by Christmas.
Keep your fingers crossed for me! LOL
I am really looking forward to this year ending! I have decided that next year MUST be better than this year has been. That is not to say nothing good has happened to me this year, but the bad far out weighs the good. So, onto a new year, new president and a clear head!

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The long month of October!

Well, as many of you know our son Cavan has had a long battle this month. It started out as a stomach virus on October 1st, but by the 7th he had a ruptured apendex. So, after 6 days in the hospital he was sent home. He never did get better, always batteling a low grade fever. So after 10 days we went back to the Dr, and back to the hospital. He had not one, but 3 abcesses in his gut. We have spent another 5 days in the hospital and gotten a PICC line. But we are home now and he is doing great! We have at least 6 more days of at home IV antibotics which take 2.5 hours a day, but his appitate has come back in full force!
Also we went to my brother, Ian's wedding. What a wonderful time that was. Not only did we go to the beach for the weekend, but we got to spend time with our family from all over the US. My parents were in from Hawaii, my baby broter and his wife and daughter were in from Ohio, Marla and Bill from Arkansas and all my "new" family too.
It was wonderful.

Our Son Cavan

Well, this week has been a long one. Last week our youngest son Cavan had his appendix rupture and emergency surgery. Poor baby. Than he spent the next 5 days in the hospital. We were lucky enough to end up at Dell Children's Center in Austin,
TX. What wonderful people there. They really make an effort to keep your kid happy. And we all know, if you kids is happy, you are happy.
We are home now and he is walking less and less like a little old man and more like himself! Yeah! He even said he thinks he wants to go back to school tomorrow. He has been out for 2 weeks.

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Things are looking up!

Okay, Well things are looking up. I am getting caught up with my finances, my living room is now a living room (not a hospital room) and life is looking up.

I had one daughter move out and my other daughter move in! We got a "new to us" sectional sofa, a HUGE "new to me" TV and we are spending time there as a family. It is a wonderful thing. I have not had a living room in several years. So, it feels good.

All 5 of my kids in one place along with my wonderful husband! YEAH!

Now all I need is my brothers and their wives and kids here!