joy to the world

this year Christmas was both more, and less.
less about presents (though some how the pile for Ginny was bigger than we had planned) and more about people.
We were very deliberate about making time for certain folks and digging time out of our schedule to make certain we sent out the cards, letters and presents.
Martin did [...]

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all i want for christmas….

My memory verse for these last two weeks of 2009 is this -
One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek:  that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek Him in His temple.
Psalm [...]

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bragging on Ginny

alright.  I am going to brag on my child.
It is going to be sickeningly sweet and gushy.  If you don’t want to read it you don’t have to.  But I’m a mom and it is good for me to occasionaly wax eloquent about my darling child.  Ask Missy over at It’sAlmostNaptime.  This was her idea.  [...]

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update on Ginny’s RSV

okay, we saw the doctor Wednesday and she said that Ginny was very very much improved and that she is gonna be fine.
the big thing now is to keep from re-infecting her, or adding any new infection on top of the one she has just fought off.
So Martin and I are sort of in a [...]

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in-take and out-go

nope this is NOT a post about the economy or my personal finances.
This is just a note to say that Ginny is doing okay still.  The breathing treatments are helping with that aspect of her sickness.
She still doesn’t have a fever, so that’s good news.
But she had some eating troubles yesterday.  Well….not so much trouble [...]

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baseball bat sucessfully applied to nurse

okay not really.
mostly the metaphorical bat got applied to my overactive guilt complex.  Thank you for all your encouragement, comments and prayers.
So this morning at 4 a.m. Ginny was breathing really heavily.  wheezing and rattling and just having trouble.  She wasn’t struggling per-se and she still had no fever, but…
yes, sad to say I, logical [...]

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there’s a nurse chewing on my ear

and it’s NOT fun.
Okay lets’ see if we can all agree on something.  When a doctor says “give this medication every 4 to 6 hours AS NEEDED for wheezing”  that means what?
Well to me it means listen to my child.  IF she is wheezing and it has been at least four hours since the last [...]

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my head is spinning

So here I am at my desk with a head that is spinning and hands that tremble slightly.
why? you ask………
Well I was sick last week. Yes, on my vacation. While living in a tent. I got that horrible intestinal ICK that has been going around. You know the one, [...]

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Why do people ask a mute questions?

So here I am, at work. If I move, I cough. If I speak, I cough. If I breathe, I cough.
And every yahoo that comes in here wants to get cute with me and ask 20 questions.
someone walks in the door
I smile
They say “Good Morning”
I smile and wave
They intelligently ask “oh, are [...]

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back in the land of the …upright?

Hello again world.
I’ve been sick for three days. the “lie as still as you possibly can and try not to breathe too much” type of sick.
Upper respiriatory infection. ick.
It hit, conveniently enough, right after the Super Bowl. So I got to see the Giants win and then crawled off to bed.
For the [...]

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