Mr and Mrs Awesome

We did some ginger bread houses tonight. I'm so bad at getting the houses to actually stay together. Next year I'm buying the ones out together from Costco, that you just decorate!! Decorating them is super fun, but even more fun when decorating them didn't make the house collapse!  I mean we still had a good time, but there were some stressful moments!! Ginger bread houses are like sugar cookies. You get so excited to do them, and somehow forget about how much of a disaster the last time you tried was!! We'll still keep making sugar cookies and ginger bread houses though... I'm just going to make it much easier on ourselves next year! Buy the pre built houses at Costco right after Halloween, before they sell out!! Happy Holiday guys! I whine, and I wasn't the only one (at least not in my head haha)! But we had fun and laughed while we whined, and that's what matters!

 David had an idea for the elf on the shelf tonight... Oh boy did he have fun! Kahlan is going to freak out! I love that he's so involved in everything our kids care about! He's just such a good Dad. Haha he it's gonna have to put this back together tomorrow! Good thing he lives taking stuff apart and putting it back together 

I haven't seen a lot of opinion articles saying that we should throw our children's elf on the shelf in the trash in 2020. This is my reasoning for why I think that is the worst idea for your children.   My daughter is seven and she loves her elf on the shelf named Scarlett. Her elf has extended its family to include a stuffed Santa Claus named Santy as her husband, and a two of Kahlan's old toys as children they adopted.  Kahlan has wanted an elf on the shelf since before we could afford one. So a Santa Claus that I found at an outlet for $5 became her elf on the shelf a few years ago. Last year we could afford a real elf on the shelf, so we got one. When Scarlett appeared, Santee was also out as a decoration so Kahlan said oh my gosh he found a wife! Later during the season when her toys ended up near the elf on the shelf and Santee she suggested something that later ended up with me writing her a letter that they had adopted those as their children. The idea for her pr...

  I haven't posted updates since surgery cause I have been sick but knew everyone would be expecting news that I was all better. I myself was annoyed that I am not all better. I was right though. My liver is inflammed. I'm assuming it's the lupus and it's time to be back on those meds. They took me off them in Dec 2019 for kidney surgery, and then one of my Drs told me I probably never had lupus, so I didn't push getting back on the lupus meds after surgery. My Utah lupus Dr dropped me anyways at the end of Dec when I got Medicare. But maybe he's wrong. Lupus can cause liver issues. I am still waiting for the Dr who ran the tests to call and say what I should do about the liver numbers. I only saw them cause he finally checked them, and so then the results get released to the patient on the patient portal. My experience has given me reason to bet they call and say everything is good, if they do call. Hopefully I am wrong. Now that I'm back in Idaho though, I...

Lots has changed recently, but we're getting through it. The kids are doing online school from home at least until May 1st. David is working from home as well. With myself being in the category that would have complications, we're staying away from all potential exposures. My health took an unfortunate turn. I started being unable to eat or drink without extreme pain. Then I started not being able to keep the food and drink down at all. I knew I was getting dehydrated and felt weak. My Dr did labs and then ordered home iv treatments and an ng tube placed for enteral feeding. Being attached to the iv and ng tube all day has been pretty hard. It's kinda like you can't ignore you're sick (which is my typical attitude) when you need and machines to help with simple things like nutrition. I vented to my amazing sister in law though today, got my crying out and moved on with my day! It ended up not being so bad. Gratton gets his online school work ...

I'm very annoyed today. I've been in so much kidney pain today that I've been in bed almost all day. So i get frustrated and get up and do something and then the pain comes back and i go back to bed. Just had a panic attack about being in bed too much. Took my anxiety meds though and they should soon start working. Being sick is stupid. I hate it so much.  It's frustrating because how this started- it was just pregnancy gallstones. That's it! And the Drs missed it. And so I got pancreatitis, and they missed that too. Until my sister in law Kirstie finally took me to the ER ( she forced me) and I forcibly they do labs or SOMETHING, when I could tell the ER was about to write me off again. The ER notes show that he did indeed think I was exaggerating at first.  After I insisted he do something, like at least land, the Dr noticed my stomach was jaundiced. So he did the right labs and found my pancreatitis. Good thing for the labs cause even then the radiologist said th...

I got cast to be an extra for the beginning credits of the TV show Studio C for the next 2 seasons. That's how i hurt myself. 40 people is too many on an uneven skating rink, while looking out for the camera man! I even fell the least out of everyone! I only fell once! Just happened to fall the wrong way. Caught myself with my arms behind my back. Hyperextension plus too much pressure can apparently make you sprain the ligaments holding your clavicles to your sternum. Only freaking me would do that... they can't even find a Dr in Utah who treats that injury! So hopefully 9wks of rest will do it they say, and follow up with my pcp. 9 wks of not lifting and using my arms... I'm on day 3 and already failing at that. Luckily the pain puts me back in my place and back to bed. Just shaking my head here...