An evening well spent

I just spent the evening with The Phantom of the Opera. I really need to break down and buy this movie. I am sure the ladies at the library are beginning to worry about me. I have checked it out several times and rented it from Netflix once. I can't help it I love musicals, I love Gerard Butler and I love the story of the Phantom.

What was fun this time was that along with Poogie who always watches it with me, TT found it interesting and ended up watching the whole thing. I downloaded some of the music last night on itunes but I just need to get the whole soundtrack.

If only this three day weekend coming up would last for about a week so I could get some rest and take care of my aching neck. I guess I will settle for three days with the Phantom.

Second week of ballet..

And everything is going good. Poogie really loves both classes. The acrobatic class is really interesting to her because the Olympic gymnastics got her fired up for it. There are two homeschoolers in her class and maybe more. I met two of the moms so far and they are really nice.

It makes a difference this year that she has a main teacher as an instructor. In years past at her other school students taught her class. They were sweet girls who were great dancers, but they did not have the control and discipline over the students. Poogie loves her teacher she is strict but fun.

We worked on catching up with school lessons today. Poogie got caught up in about an hour, TT took a little more time but not much. I have been switching around some of his lessons. For example, last year for German he worked through the lesson on line and then we would read through the conversation together. I have now added that he has to translate a written form of the conversation from German to English. He did well with it today. I may add more work later.

Tomorrow I have more physical therapy. Hopefully, after these three weeks maybe it will be over. I am already tired of making the drive to town everyday.

Back to Normal?

I'm not sure what normal is anymore but we are going to try to get things as normal as possible around here. Tomorrow we will get back to regular school work with full lessons and time for each of the kids. With all this PT and doctor visits we have been doing what we can when we can.

No, MRI tomorrow!! My doctor decided that since I have had such a good weekend that we can wait to see how I improve with PT. That was fine with me.

I have been working on plans for a fun human body unit coming up. I wanted to do this unit because it will include both TT and Poogie. I purchased a fun book to go along with the unit and have found some fun movies and books to accompany it too.

After I complete planning it I want to work on my Civil War unit for TT. I'm not sure which month we will study it but it is one thing that he asked to study in depth this year. I can plan several field trips to go along with it since we live among a lot of Civil War historical sites.

Today I purchased the supplies for TT's new art class at the Y. Thanks to the supply list I received from my friend Kelli at New Mercies Every Day. Thank you again!! TT is so excited. From what I have heard it will be a real art class, no arts and crafts stuff. He can't wait till next Tuesday.

Well, ya'll I'm tired. Think I will turn in early tonight.

Update of the week

Here is a pic of me and my wonderful dentist Dr. P and the greatest dental tech. in the world. I finally completed my long dental journey and had to take a pic to commemorate the moment. I don't look as great as I would have liked. At the time of the pic I had been in and out of the dentist chair for 6 hours, I was tired. Plus, I had the added fun of my shoulder killing me. I hope to post a better pic. My new hair style is a lot cuter than it looks here. I really like it.




As I said yesterday my hubby took me on a scrapbook shopping spree in Memphis. I purchased several types of papers that I have been wanting. The cute travel paper was the reason I went to this store in the first place. One of my scrapbooking buddies had purchased it previously and I fell in love with it.



I also bought some great embellishments and stamps that I have been wanting. My favorite was the 7 Gypsies round self-inking stamp. I have been wanting one for a while. I found some great Heidi Swapp photo corners on clearance and some cute clear stamps. All in all I was happy with my purchases and couldn't wait to start scappin today.




Now on to next week. My neck is feeling much better I may not even need to get the MRI, we will see. I hope to get back on track with school and housework too.

Finally some relief

As of Friday I thought that the situation with my neck wasn't ever going to get better. I had a long rough night Thursday, and so I had to go to my doctor's appointment Friday even more exhausted than I wanted to be. The joke was kind of on me.

The doctor looked over my PT chart and asked me a few questions that I answered very honestly and directly. He found the fact that I was hurting so much at night but not during the day a problem. He decided to order a MRI. I tried to explain that I hadn't slept more than 2 hours a night except for one night I got 4 hours in the last 10 days. He didn't see how that would effect the amount of pain I was having. He also thought that I should be able to sleep without help of pain medication, some Advil would work. Hmm, where have I heard that before.

Finally, my hubby spoke up and bluntly told the man that I needed sleep before I fell out. A person can only go so long without sleep. He finally gave me the same thing that the doctor had prescribed at the clinic last week and a sleeping pill. Not just any sleeping pill but one that has been found to be highly addictive. I passed on mixing a sleeping pill with a pain pill. I knew that without the pain I could sleep. And sleep I did last night I slept a little over 6 hours last night!!

I felt much better today. In fact my hubby took me to Memphis to scrapbook shop and eat at Hooter's ( I know, I know but I love, love, love their boneless chicken wings). I felt pretty good just a little tired. It felt so good to get out and be normal again.

Tomorrow I plan on doing my school lesson plans in the morning and spending the rest of the day scrapbooking. Maybe with a little nap thrown in there somewhere.

I have to decide now if I need to go through with the MRI. I know it would be better to be safe and see what the cause of my pain is, but I dread how much they cost. We have to meet our high deductible before our insurance pays so if I do get it we may not get to take our trip to the mountains this year. I was really looking forward to it. Then again it may all work out.

And it's only Tuesday...

That is what I was thinking this morning on my way to have one of many physical therapy sessions. It seems that my life has went from busy to out of control. Lets rewind and see how I accomplished this.

As I posted last week I hurt my neck. Friday my hubby came home from his trip and took me to a specialists who recommended some meds and that I start PT. If that doesn't work then its MRI's and more tests. I made it through the weekend feeling better. The meds were working on the swelling in my neck and shoulder. However I woke up Monday a little sore. Then, I spent 6 hours at my dentist getting my permanent bridge put into place. It had to be adjusted and such so it took a long time. We spent most of that time sitting and waiting. Needless to say it made my ache in my neck worse and this morning it hurt as bad as it did last week.

I thought all was lost, like Nastia Liukin's gold medal on the uneven bars. Thank goodness for physical therapists. They put me through some work and I ended up feeling better than I had since this all began. I go everyday for the rest of the week and then my doctor will decide Friday if I get to keep going or have the tests. I hope it is PT.

Tonight was Poogie's first ballet/acrobatics class at her new school. I have to say I was nervous. I was worried she wouldn't like it. But as usual I was worried for nothing. She loved it. She has a good class with at least one other homeschooler and her teacher is a homeschooler. It is great to have other homeschool moms at these kind of activities too. I took a photo of her as I always do on her first night. I will post it soon along with a photo of my new smile.

The only real negative this week has been that we are not accomplishing as much as I would like in school. TT is doing all the work he can do independently, which is quite a bit. I hope to make up what we have missed tomorrow and Thursday. We are going to start a fun science unit on genetics. I found a cute Punnett Square activity with Sponge Bob of all things. I will post the link for it later this week, it is cute.

Well, I guess I need to rest my neck and beg my sweetie to rub my poor tired muscles. Bless his heart he could win a gold medal in the back massage competition after this last week. He's the best.

We're still here

The last nine days have been busy. Last week we spent most days on the road at the dentist office, at play dates or running errands for my mother.

We hoped that this week would be a peaceful easy going one, NOT! It all started Monday. We spent the day in town getting Poogies ballet apparel, finished the day with school at home. Monday night my FIL fell outside his back door and broke his femur in 3 places. Now he is in the hospital and had surgery the next day. My hubby had to leave Tuesday, during all this, on a trip for work.

On top of that I wake up Tuesday with my neck, right shoulder and right arm killing me. The pain was so intense I couldn't see straight. So I go to see my Chiropractor and he does the normal stuff that usually makes my neck and shoulder feel better. This time it made it worse. I can't sleep, sit or move without intense bone chilling pain.

I gave in Thurs. and went to a local acute care facility for hopefully some relief. The doctor pretty much mocked me and told me to take some Advil and I would be fine. Needless to say I got alittle ill with his attitude. Here he is telling me to just sleep in such and such position, take a hot shower and take a few advil and I would be fine. Like I haven't already tried all that! I hadn't slept in two days at this point. He didn't really care. When I asked for something for the pain just so I could sleep a few hours he pretty much told me he didn't think I needed it. He finally gave me some low, low dosage Tylenol with codeine. I can't really tell I've taken anything.

I was so upset I could have beat the man senseless. I have been going to these same doctors for years and I am so tired of having to just about have a come apart before they take my situation seriously. It took me 2 years to get my doctor to send me to a specialist about my allergies. It was all in my head, just like my neck pain.

I just don't get it. They are suppose to be there to help you but they end up making you feel like a whiner and insane because you can't handle constant, overwhelming pain.

The specialist I seen today was much more sympathetic and started me on meds. to help with the swelling in my neck, shoulder and arm, plus some physical therapy to address the issue.

I hope this works. If not he said I will have to have some tests like MRI's and others to determine the source of the pain. Now I don't look forward to the tests but I am happy he takes my pain seriously and wants to determine the source to treat it.

I'm sorry I just had to share with someone. It has been a very frustrating, long week.

On the plus side I found out that our YMCA program is alive and well. Some of the unhappy parents decided to start their own program elsewhere, but the old one at the Y is still there. Most of TT and Poogie's friends will be returning to the Y which made them both very happy.

TT and Poogie may also begin taking martial arts classes this fall. I looked into them for TT and Poogie is interested also. I am excited for TT he has been wanting to take lessons for years.

Till later, have a great weekend.

My dental adventure continues...

I spent 3 hours in a dental chair today and I still don't have my permanent bridge. I had to have one tooth prepped for a crown. Then I had to have several impressions made using various types of foul tasting goo. Finally, they had to make a new temporary bridge for me to have until my new permanent one comes in.

I am so ready for this to be over. I wasn't home 5 hours and my temporary bridge came loose. I fixed it to make due until I can run by tomorrow afternoon so they can put it back in better. The temporary glue just doesn't want to work for me. Plus, I can't eat anything when my teeth are like this! It makes me grouchy.

After all this the day got even better, can you believe it? Yes, I found out today that the co-op that we have been attending at the local YMCA is no longer going to be meeting. This was not something we were expecting. To put a cherry on top of the cake we prepaid to hold our spot for the fall. Now I have to go and deal with them to try and get our money back. It is a long story, but to sum it up technically the program still exists and they have a no refund policy so it may be hard to get our money back. The program may still exist but it does not include the teachers who are part of our homeschool group. Ug, what a mess.

It was so hard to come home today and tell my kids that the YMCA program was no more. They were looking so forward to it. Our area doesn't really offer that much for homeschoolers, especially physical activities like swimming and P.E. The group of kids that attended the program were great and my kids were really beginning to form great friendships. Now I have to find another outlet for both of my kids, especially TT. Poogie has ballet and friendships from other functions. TT doesn't really have any interests that gets him out and about like the Y did. He really wants to take art classes, so that is something I will look into.

Tomorrow will be better.

Where have I been??

Last week was busy getting used to having school again. Then Saturday I picked up my copy of Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer and that was it. I read every single extra minute I could. I mean I did take my hubby shopping Saturday to pick out a gift for his birthday this week, but after several hours and many stores he couldn't find anything. We are thinking of going to Memphis this weekend to hopefully find something.

I finished Breaking Dawn last night after 11 p.m. It was exciting and sad because Meyer says it is the last in her Twilight series of books. I am happy to know how it ends but I have the same feeling I had after reading the last Harry Potter book, I will miss my friends. That is how I feel about my favorite characters in books, they are my friends.

I have also been reading alot about Ann Boleyn. I watch the movie, The Other Boleyn Girl, a few weeks ago and found it rather interesting. So I picked up the book at the library along with a biography about Ann. The book was much better than the movie. Today I picked up a book by Julia Fox, Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford. She was the wife of Ann's brother, George.

I have a habit of doing this. I find something interesting in a movie or online and I have to read everything I can find about it. My family finds it odd I think, but I love to learn about new things. I especially like to learn about history. I hope someday my children have a love for knowledge like mine.

Anywho, Poogie had to have two of her baby teeth pulled that were crowding her permanent teeth on Monday. She went through it great. The dentist thought she might be sore and have some swelling because the baby teeth had rather deep roots, but she didn't have a lick of trouble. I am glad she is a lot like me in the area healing well when it comes to dental issues. She also manages pain much better than her brother. I was so proud of how well she did during the ordeal.

Well, tomorrow is my day at the dentist. Hopefully by this time next week my dental issues will be over for a while. We'll see.