Wish me luck!!!

I just volunteered to coach my youngest's basketball team. I will be teaching a bunch of 4th grade girls how to play. Now just where do I fit that into my already busy schedule? She is cheering too, so that is practice on Mondays & Tuesdays with games on Saturdays. I work both jobs on Fridays, so that day is out. Football games will be Saturday too, and once games start for bball- that will be Saturday mornings at 9am. I figured since my son's football coach is also coaching the 5th grade girls that I could coach & still watch Jarratt's games. I might have to miss a game or two of her cheering. It will all work out.

My Grandpa is in the hospital. I guess he took too much of his medication yesterday and then this morning, while already in the hospital, was having chest pains. I was told he will be okay, but will be in the hospital for a few days.

I love my Grandpa, I really do and I wouldn't trade him for anything. But sometimes he opens his mouth and the whole damn shoe factory goes flying in! Last night we stopped by to drop off a pineapple (my grandma loves fresh pineapples) and to say Hi. Grandpa was sleeping and Grandma asked me to go wake him (they are over 80 and not in the best of health). My oldest 2 follow me in there. Once he is awake he looks at me and tells me that I had scared the hell out of them (with the breast cancer scare- that my children know nothing about!) and then started to ask me questions about it. I prolly had a panicked look on my face, cuz my mind was racing on how I could stop him before he spilled the beans to my kids. I did get him off the subject and my kids haven't, yet anyways, asked me about it. I know I need to tell them before they hear it from someone else, but it's nothing for them to worry about cuz nothing is going to happen from it.

The class reunion is over. It went pretty good. I had quite a few people thank me for doing it. One other girl and I did all the prep work (I basically did most of it, she just helped with some of the little things), 3 other girls helped out with a few of the other stuff. We had about 20 or so of our classmates their plus their spouses and children. We used a laulu theme, had hula hoops, limbo, pineapple bowling, snow cones, soft served ice cream and we had 2 inflatable bouncy toys (does anyone remember the Moonwalk?) It was a huge hit! The reunion wrapped up around 9, then children were taken elsewhere and the adults met up in our hometown at the beer tent. There was a live band there that played our class song for us (Garth Brooks- Friends in Low Places). It was a lot of fun. I had too many beers in too short of a time frame, but had a ton of fun. Too bad class reunions only come around once every 5 years.

Sunday my youngest was baptised. Of course I cried. I do stuff like that when my kids do things. I'm a sap. After church we had lunch at my brother's house. He had to go cut hay from someone and while he was gone we (another couple, myself, my kids and a friend of my daughter's) got out the horses. Let me tell you this. Saddle horns are not all soft & squishy. They are hard. Very very hard. I was riding Walker and Ashley (my daughter's friend) was getting on Millie. Well, Mille decided that she needed to kick Walker in the butt with both of her hind feet. This caused Ashley to go flying and me too. I didn't see what exactly happened to Ash as I was trying hard not to hit the ground. I flew forward in my saddle- cuz that is the direction that Walker's rear was going- I ended up grabbing a fistful of mane with one hand and managed to get my other arm around Walker's neck. There I was, upside down clinging to a horse like a strange necklace. I did manage to right myself and get back in the saddle and seated on the horse the way I was supposed to and never once did I hit the ground or need someone to help me up. I was pretty proud of myself there. Now, 3 days later, I have a massive bruise on my left inner thigh from the saddle horn and last night I found another bruise on my side. I've decided that I don't really care for Walker or Millie much now. I'll stick to the other horse.

I brought my youngest to work with me today. I love her dearly, but she can drive me up a wall. She is being really good for me, but my office can get busy and she likes to ask questions and be the center of attention. Here she is, watching Buffy in the lobby, eating her candy corn from The Grand Rapids Popcorn Factory.

Yesterday after cheerleading practice, she somehow managed to shut her finger in the car door and it latched. We ended up spending an hour and a half in ER last night. There was a bad storm that came through as we were driving there and it knocked the power out throughout the entire town. We were not able to get x-rays done, so they just decided to treat her finger as if it were broken. She was in hystrics until after they numbed her finger. Then she was calm for like a second, looked at her finger and shouted "It's FAT!!!" She had us all rolling! Today it is much better, she can bend it now and use it like nothing happened. She is my accident prone child. Just 2 days ago she was getting something out of the freezer, a package of frozen steak fell out and landed on her head. Now she has a real pretty bruise on the side of her face. It looks like I beat the child!

Okay, it's 5 o'clock and I'm outta here!

Official Word!!!!


It's official. I have cysts, a cluster of cysts in the upper right quadrant of my right breast. At this time nothing is needed to be done, but at some point I could consider having them drained. I do have to go back to see the doctor in 3 months for a follow up. Seeing how caffeine affects them I am going to try to remove caffeine from my diet. I know that means no coke, no chocolate, no tea & no more yummy UV Bombs!

Wish me luck! I'm gonna need it.