Friday, July 27, 2012

Surprise!

Surprise...we are going to Disney World!  Well this isn't a surprise to me and Scott but it will be to our children.  They have no idea we are going to be heading to Disney world within a few months. 

I have been scouring the internet for cool ways to surprise them.  We want to surprise them the morning we are leaving...I am trying to avoid the "is today the day, when do you leave for Disney" stuff.  I want to tell them and then board the plane! 

My plan is to have all the suitcases, carry on, packed and ready to go.  Thank goodness they are all in school so I can get stuff done during the day while they are gone. 

Now onto my ideas:

I have none....anybody have any fun awesome ideas! 

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Rolling with the Punches

It seems once one punch is delivered a bunch more follow.  Well in the last few years I have learned to roll with the punches, laugh at the crazy things that happen, ask friends for prayers and support and just make the best decisions I can make.

In the beginning of June my husband applied for a new job, did the road test for the new job and schedule the physical and drug test for the new job before ever telling me of the new job.  He knew I would not be on board.  I hate change, I hate the thought of no health insurance again because who can afford 1,400.00 a month for Cobra?  Well I did my research and decided to apply for medicaid for the kids for the next 90 days.  Scott started the new job July 2nd.  It has been a challenge getting used to the new job and the new schedule.  Scott is home every day but his training schedule was wacky.  Today he started the his schedule 5pm to 5am.  We will see how it goes for him.  So I applied for medicaid on July 1st/2nd for the kids.

On July 2nd we made an Urgent Care visit with Arianna.  She was breaking out in red bumps all over her skin.  Turns out it was swimmers itch.  On July 16th we made an ER visit with the one and only Arianna.  She found a penny at bedtime and swallowed it.  So at 945pm I was told by the on call physician to head to the ER for xrays.  I arrived there after dropping off Makenzi and Braxton at my parents house.  At 1040 I walked in to an ER waiting room packed solid, one man screaming at the nurses and staff, only to find out every room in the ER was full and people were waiting 2 to 5 hours to get a ER bed.  I was not happy.  I got our pager and waited.  At 11:22 we had our room (thank goodness they have a pediatric wing of the ER).  We had an xray done at 1145pm in our room and at 12:05am we were walking out of the hospital.  I was so glad it was quick.  Arianna should pass the penny with no problems.  She is all excited because they sent a picture of her penny in her belly, so she can show everybody! 

Scott and I just roll with all the punches, we just keep pushing through and we will come out on the other end with flying colors.