More On The Surgery

When we were moving to Cincinnati from South Carolina, my children’s pediatrician told me that Cincinnati had one of the top children’s hospitals in the U.S.  Of course, I’m a pessimist, so naturally I think, “Greeeeaaat…God’s probably sending us there because our kids are going to need a good hospital in the near future!”  Well, [...]

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Surgery

The surgery went well.  Thank you all for your prayers.  As mentioned before, the doctor performed a frenulectomy (clipping her upper frenulum up to the base) and laser surgery on Madison’s birthmark.  I’ll blog more about our experience later, but I did want to post some pics for now and let everyone know it all [...]

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Half The Kids

Things really have been crazy.  On top of all the stuff I mentioned in my previous post, Dwight broke out in hives this last weekend and is still suffering from them.  It looks terrible!  Yesterday he woke up and his face was all red and swollen.  We let him stay home from church because I [...]

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Irresistable Charm

We took a nap after church today, and then Scott woke me up to let me know it was time to get ready for Joshua’s Cub Scout picnic.  I got up and immediately dug into the two piles of unfolded laundry in the laundry baskets on my bedroom floor.  It’s just been too hard to [...]

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Expressions

I had to get up and take one of our dogs to the vet yesterday morning and had Dwight ride with me so he could stay in the car with the two littlest ones while I dropped the dog off inside.  I’m sure I’ve made a point to share that I am not a morning [...]

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Pain

I got up at 6:30 this morning so that I could get ready for Madison’s appointment with the pediatric plastic surgeon.  She had to be in at 8:30 so we could have her ears checked again to determine if she will need ear tubes, and to discuss laser surgery for her birthmark and having her [...]

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Relaxation?

Kelly, Patrick, and Joshua were talking during lunch today and I got the best laugh out of their conversation.  Kelly started off by saying she didn’t want to be a mom because she doesn’t want the doctor to “take the baby out of her tummy.”  Apparently, at the tender age of 5, she already understands [...]

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“Home”

We made it home from the beach Monday.  What a great get away.  It was so worth the long drive there and back, but I’m afraid it revived my love for the south in a way I’d forgotten.  Now I’m feeling homesick.
I’m feeling discontent right now.  I think a lot of it is just adjusting [...]

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Birth Story, Part 2

After taking some time to monitoring the baby, I was allowed to take the monitor and spandex belt off.  If I remember right, we were still being monitored when my doula arrived and boy was I relieved.  She told me my other doula was going to try to come, but her kids were very sick.  [...]

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Because, I am crazy!

My husband can be a spontaneous man and sometimes…sometimes he makes me crazy with the pressure of making a last-minute, spur of the moment decision like the one he threw at me last night.  He was browsing the internet as we were supposed to be heading upstairs for bed.  It was late.  He had to get [...]

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