Poor Offspring, Part 2

Thought of the Day...In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. ~Author Unknown

On Friday, I took The Offspring to the doctor... after being poked, prodded and X-rayed... we found out that she had early pneumonia. UGH!

...Her fever reached 103.2 on Saturday... her cough was worse... DOUBLE UGH! As a mom, I felt helpless...

...Sunday her temp stayed high... coughing and coughing... not able to sleep... again, I felt helpless...

Today, her temp is coming down and cough is still around, but there is a little light at the end of the tunnel...

...and I don’t feel quite so helpless... until she starts coughing again... then my heart aches...

Get well, SOON, Offspring!

Nervous Wreck, Part 3

Thought of the Day...Karma baby, Karma. -Author Unknown

...Continued from Nervous Wreck, Part 2...

The first game was a nail-biter! If we won, we continued on in the winner’s bracket. If we lost, it would be our first loss so we’d head to the second and third chance bracket. ...

When The Offspring got on base, my nerves went into overdrive... Here you see her taking a lead-off and she’s in motion waiting to see if it’s safe to run...

... she ended up going back to first base....

Unfortunately, the game ended in a loss, but we weren’t out... we still had a second chance...

...downside... we were now going to face The Offspring’s team from last year (yep, the team she’d been on for six years... they knew her and she knows them...

ohhhhhhh..... the anxiety...... UGH!

... To be continued... (sorry, blame Nicole over at That’s Life and PioneerWoman... they like to tease us, too!)

Poor Offspring

Thought of the Day..It is so hard on a mom when her child is sick.

Blood drawn, strep test, x-rays... Ugh! Poor Offspring!!!

Nervous Wreck, Part 2

Thought of the Day...Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ~Author Unknown

As you may recall from my Nervous Wreck post, I was a bit stressed on Sunday. It was the State playoffs for The Offspring’s travel softball team. Needless-to-say, things went better than expected. :)

The girls have struggled in several games this summer and State is, as you can expect, an extremely important tournament. The winner qualifies for Nationals. As much as I would love to tell you that our girls won, we didn’t, but you know that is OK.

OK? you ask. Yep, OK. The girls had three extremely important victories last weekend...

It was a double elimination tournament... meaning that as soon as you loose two games you’re out of the tournament. Well, Friday the girls won both their games... meaning they didn’t get eliminated on their first day. As a mom, I find this the first important victory.

The next stop... Saturday... If they won their first game they were given the rest of the day off.... if they lost they had several games on Saturday ... all while knowing the next loss was their ticket home...

...They won their Saturday game! (You probably figured that out.... especially since in hind sight you realize I wrote about being a nervous wreck.)

...Sunday... ohhhhhh... the stress....

...The girls made it to the quarterfinals... (oooops... forgot I told you that on Sunday)... If they won... WOW... if they lost... we played The Offspring’s team from last year (actually, the team she’d been on for six years...

...To be continued...

Miss me?

Thought of the Day... I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, “Calvin & Hobbes”

It’s been almost a week since my last post... Have you missed me? Did you even notice I was “gone”?

I’m sorry for dropping off the planet! As you may recall, life at work for the last four weeks has been nuts. If you are a new reader and haven’t caught up yet, I worked 90+ a week for over four weeks. I was exhausted and am supposed to be taking about two weeks off from work. I’m still trying to get caught up on sleep and am spending time with Hubby and The Offspring. We’re spending a lot of time together and as such I’m neglecting you. Sorry! Sort of... time with them is special and to be honest it’s been really nice. I’ve also see a few friends and family... oh the number of people I’ve neglected... :(

Did you notice the new menu bar? I’m still working on it, so it’s not done yet. What do you think?

I just checked the Google Analytics for my blog and I was VERY VERY pleased to see that since I last wrote (Jun 24) I have had 54 visitors, 22 of which were unique visitors. Of that 54, 9 were from NEW visitors! That may not seem like much, but since my blog is still fairly new I’m quite happy. THANK YOU for stopping by even when I’ve been away.

I have several things I want to post.. including photos, recipes, garden updates FlyBaby BabySteps updates and general babbling. Oh yeah... and some cookbook discussions... I have bought four new cookbooks in the last few weeks and would like to share with you what I have discovered (well, actually they’re used cookbooks I found at a local bookstore)

What would you like me to talk about first?

WOW! I’ve asked you a lot of questions today... sorry! Let’s recap...

1. Have you missed me?
2. Did you even notice I was “gone”?
3. Did you notice the new menu bar?
4. What would you like me to talk about first? (photos, recipes, garden updates FlyBaby BabySteps updates, general babbling or some cookbooks or something else?

Don’t forget to leave a comment and let me know what you’d like to read.

P.S. Thanks for stopping by!

Last Day of School

Thought of the Day...Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein

Another milestone... The Offpsring has finished another year of school... She ended it on a high note - all As! We don’t have her AP National Exam score yet, but she got an A in the class so I confident she did well. :) I know you worked hard, Offspring, and are relieved to have the year over.

Now for summer break. Well, not really a break. She will be busy with softball, catching up on her reading (she has quite the long summer reading list), the Eclipse release (both of us are anxious for this, we’re both Team Edward) and she’ll be helping around the house and garden.

I’m looking forward to spending more time with her. She was so busy keeping to her school work - duh she maintained a 4.0 while playing softball so she was quite busy!

Now we can have more Mami-Daughter evenings. :) I hope that we will be able to do cooking adventures. I have several recipes I want to try and share with all of you.

The Offspring’s growing up way to fast!!

This is a couple of days before the first day of school... (meet her Papa on the left, Nana on the right and Auntie Mindy)

...and here she was at the end of school...

...I feel really OLD now...