happy halloween

the kids are excited about halloween. cory especially, since he got his braces off and he can eat all the gooey candy and bubble gum he can get! i know some Christians are against halloween, but i think it is just an excuse for kids to play dress up and get free candy!

i am off to do my arm exercises and then go to work for a couple of hours. i am just an extra person, so if i get to tired i can rest or come home early. Amelia, you are the best!!!
yea!!!!!

I Voted! You should too

i voted today. i thought i was being smart by going after lunch time to vote early at the harrisburg library. hah! it took about 1 hour from the time i got in line till i had cast my vote. an hour well spent. the line was even longer when i left! i am really glad i have that taken care of!

sick kids and hurting arm

my poor kids are sick. they have all the classic strep symptoms, so we are off to the doc today. thankfully i am driving now, so i don't have to ask anyone to be around them to get us to the doc.

my arm is hurting a lot today. i am ready for the pain med to kick in. i started occupational therapy yesterday, so i suspect that is the reason i am in more pain today. that is fine with me, i will do whatever i need to, as long as it is helping me get better!

perspective

i recall not long ago complaining in my heart about cleaning the kitchen AGAIN and having to do laundry AGAIN.......wow...what a difference a couple of weeks makes. i put a few dishes in the dishwasher and turned it on and did a load of laundry today! yea me!! i am so excited that i could get up and do these things today. now, granted, i couldn't have actually washed any dishes (still in the cast) and i couldn't fold the laundry, but hey let's not be picky here! also, thanks to my friends stephanie and nikki i have food here that i can prepare for supper with a little help from cory. again, i can't do very much, but it was something!!! stephanie got us an angel food box with frozen (cooked) salisbury steaks and nikki shopped for us so i have a can opener that cory used to open a can of green beans. brian can do boil in bag rice when he gets here and viola...dinner is served!

i know God didn't want me to get hurt, but i pray that i can learn whatever He wants me to from this whole experience.

enough about me

people and stuff i am praying for and about:

• joe bagley and his family - joe has been in the hospital with gall bladder problems which would be bad enough if he didn't already have a brain tumor that he goes to duke for treatment for every 2 weeks
• al neumeister - he works with my daddy. he had multiple by-pass surgery last week and it has been pretty rough going
• a couple of my dearest friends are going thru some tough stuff right now
• my friend brenda's cat died
• the election
• the economy
• all the people who have helped our family
• family our church is helping who lost everything to hurricane ike
• my granny

i am upright!

yea! i got my staples out on Thursday. i felt fine till they put some kind of medicinal glue stuff on my elbow to stick the steri strips to. it smelled so bad it made me nauseous. they gave me 7-up and i thought i would be fine after Catherine got me home. not!!!! i have been sick to my stomach since then! i ran out of the anti-nausea meds on weds. night and took the pain medicine a couple of times without it. i don't know what caused the nausea, but the dr. called me in a different pain med and some more of the anti-nausea med. i took that last night and today and i was finally able to eat some noodle soup and crackers! yea! all i did yesterday was lay on the couch and cry off and on all day. i felt so bad, my stomach felt terrible and my arm hurt because i was afraid to take pain meds without the anti-nausea meds. again, i am amazed at the huge outpouring of love and generosity from everyone in our church family! we would really have been and still would be in a bad way if not for all of the wonderful people who have taken such incredible care of us!!!

thoughts from today

• cory got his braces off today! he was so excited. thanks tami for driving us to the appointment. i still can't drive. still need the mega pain meds.
• had a wart burned off my face and one cut off my eyelid yesterday. still pretty sore, which is saying something since i am still on pain meds for the arm.
• had my hair trimmed and colored yesterday, funny how something like that makes you feel better. thanks shannon, derrick, daniel and joshua.
• thanks brian for taking me everywhere yesterday. it was nice to see my friends from chick-fil-a. i miss going to work everyday.
• i love you catherine!
• i am trying to take this one day at a time and focus on the positive.
• i truly believe attitude effects how you feel and how you heal
• God is bigger than everything else...thank goodness