Just a quickie!

'Cause my back is bloody killing me!!

beginning of August got back ache - 1 week later finally broke down went to the Doc's - he said I had a 'Bulging Disc'! Got meds - pain went away to a degree - the shooting pains down my legs certainly stopped for the most part - but yet I still today get a lot of discomfort and if I sit in a chair too long I get all stuck and bent up. This chair - the computer chair - is one of the worst - if I sit for too long - ie more than 10 mins or so - I need to lay on the floor or bed just to straighten out and recover. Needless to say just checking Where's George, t's blog and writing this is well over my limit!

I am considering going back to the docs real soon - just been busy with school - boys dentist appointments and everything else life has to throw at me.

Maybe a specialist bone and joint clinic this time - but I have to make sure the insurance covers it! *sigh*

Well I'm going before I end up laid up all afternoon!

Back later!

Birthday Cake & Heat 'n' Humidity!

My #3's chocolate fishie cake!

Chocolate cake, vanilla icing and Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate M&M's for decoration (the scales)!

#3's birthday was on the 14th but we celebrated on the 15th so everyone could attend and no one was rushed to get home from work.





His presents included a 3 wheel scooter, push along - not electric - and a fish tank. #3 loves fish and on Sunday we let him pick out his very own goldfish! It's a Black Moor! He's enjoying it a lot - likes to feed it (supervised of course) and watch it swim.



The weather is crazy - how about this heat?!! If I hear one more person as me "Is it hot enough for you?" I think I will scream!!!LOL!!

Right now according to NOAA - we're sitting at 94oF but the 'heat index' is sitting at 106oF! Sheesh........way too hot! This week I have let the boys play outside until 11am and then they come in and don't go back out until after tea-time when the sun is on its way down. Even so at 11am they come in red, hot and sweaty - even with plenty of water breaks.

I've never liked the heat in this country - in the UK it would get up to the high 80's - maybe low 90's for a few days in the middle of summer - of course the UK isn't big on A/C so these temps feel hot BUT they only lasted for about 6-8 weeks tops.

Then you've got humidity...........you welcome the odd storm that comes through because things cool down briefly - but once the rain stops and the heat picks back up things are unbearably humid for a couple of days or more. Oppressive!

This week - I've done my shopping in the evening - leaving the kids at home with Hubby - saves us going out in the heat and saves a bit of fuel too - which my goodness seems like it will never go down in cost. Tonight we're going out to eat with MIL - I promise to be on my best behaviour! This weekend we have to clear out our bedroom - we went ahead and brought a new bedroom suite - I can't wait to have something nice in there - it's a real treat!! BUT it's going to be a lot of work - our bedroom seems to have always been a dumping ground for everything we had no other place for! Being a couple of Pack Rats we also have a lot of stuff we really shouldn't have kept - so we look forward to trips to the garbage, trips to goodwill and maybe make a pile to sell on eBay! Hopefully sell a few things to help pay for the bedroom suite!! That'd be nice!

Better go - dryer finished again! More laundry to fold!!

Back later!

Happy Birthday my little one.

My #3 is now 4 - well actually I've still got another 2 3/4 hours before his actual birth time - but hey who's counting!

I still have heaps of housework to do - but all I seem to be able to do is spend time with my boys and hug on them - no harm in that right!!







The air is thick with the smell of birthday cake - #3 wanted a chocolate cake - something that looks like a fish! I will try my best - it won't be decorated until tomorrow morning.

We will be having presents, cake & ice cream tomorrow. One good thing is MIL will be coming by herself - her husband has to work - shame!! LOL!!!



Back later!

Best wishes - proud mother of 3 BIG boys!

Tuesday 11 July .....

Happens to be the 13th anniversary of Hubby and I getting engaged. A good milestone!

This afternoon's lunchtime TV was Deep Space Nine. Episode I'd forgotten about even though I really enjoy it. 'In The Cards' - an episode where Jake and Nog attempt to get a baseball card for Capt. Sisko and in the process have to perform tasks and favours for a lot of other people. The only person who wasn't happy at the end was Leeta because she ended up without Kukulaka (Dr. Bashir's teddy bear!) A heart warming episode which of course is just before the Cardassians and Dominion take back DS9 - the start of the war.

Laundry treasures: The things you find in the washing machine. None of the dreaded tissues today - that will happen once or twice come winter! Even though I check pockets before things go in the wash I still find things - go figure - in yesterday's wash I found:

• A button from #3's shorts - will be sewn back on before ironing
• A 'Battleship' peg - *Miss*
• 13 cents - Dime + 3 pennies (my wages for doing the washing I suppose!)

Recent trip to the Space & Rocket Center:

Saturn I & Saturn V (replica) in the background, the Saturn V was much bigger just a lot further away!



















Field of Rockets: Featuring (and forgive me if I'm off a little) Jupiter rocket, Juno 11, Redstone Engine & rocket, Jupiter C Rocket.





A most impressive sight to be sure!

Where were you?

We recently tuned in to our HD channel HDNet and watched the launch of the space shuttle - WOW that was such an amazing sight - one day I hope to see that in real life - although being in HD with surround sound it was pretty darn close!! We had tuned in the previous two launch day attempts only to be disappointed when it was postponed - maybe disappointed was a bit strong, I really did enjoy watching and listening to all the preparations etc. Our whole family including the three year old were glued to it watching the rockets ignite, it take off from the ground, seeing it break the sound barrier, all those different camera angles - including the cameras attached to the fuel tanks.........simply amazing! I won't forget that in a while! My #3 wants to be an astronaut.......maybe one day who knows! Maybe one day I'll go to space - but I'd be pretty old I suppose.....hey it could happen.....I'd be like Bones (rest his soul) tottering along the corridors of the Enterprise at a grand old age of 137!! Well, maybe not!

Anyway, got me to thinking how many 'world' events I could remember exactly where I was at the time. Seems like everyone in my parents generation can remember where they were when Kennedy got shot (both UK and USA) .........of course not me, not in my time. Have there been any 'big' events in my life time? Of course there have..........

Most obvious being 9/11.............I remember exactly where I was.....I had driven Hubby to work that morning and so was driving my #1 to Kindergarten when I heard on the radio about a 'bomb' blast at the World Trade Center - the radio station had people calling it in - it was new to the broadcaster - that station didn't do news - only rock music! By van the school is only 2 minutes from home - so I ushered #2 son into the bedroom to play with legos and then went straight to the TV - parked myself on the coffee table just in time to watch the second plane hit. Sheesh that was a helluva day. Do you remember how they used to have the death toll scrolling along ticker on the bottom of the news channels? It started out in the 10's of thousands only to go down and down over the following week - thank goodness of course that the death toll wasn't higher - but it shoves in your face how the news agencies exaggerate things.

My next two events - being from the UK are Royal family based.......I know where I was when Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson got married - doomed of course - now not together! They weren't high enough in the family to warranty a public holiday so there I was in a dental surgery office in Bury St. Edmunds getting a tooth pulled out!! I was put under with gas and I remember as I came to - the first thing the nurse told me was - Andrew and Fergie were married now!! Second Royal event was the accident causing Princess Diana's death in Paris. My #2 was about 4 weeks old then and still waking up for feedings every 1.5 - 2 hours! So I remember one feeding they announced the crash.......I went back to bed telling Hubby Diana had been in a crash - the next feeding she was in a hospital seriously injured. The next feeding after that I heard she was dead! I admit I was shocked....even though I've never been a follower of the Royals - I grew up with my mother doing so - she had books, teacups and thimbles etc!! I woke Hubby again when I went back to bed the third time - of course being American it didn't really phase him!!

That's about it for me.......Hubby can remember when John Lennon got shot and remember when the space shuttle Challenger exploded - the differences between UK and USA maybe - he told me how his whole school stopped to watch the Space Shuttle taking off - can you imagine having all those kiddies watching the launch only to have it explode right in front of their eyes.........shocking. I'm sure these events were covered by the BBC and ITV but it just wasn't something I dwelled on.

So how about you? Do you remember where you were when something big happened in the world?

Weekend was good - today is going to be a housework filled day - stopping for lunch and homeschooling for the boys. Highlight of this week will hopefully be the purchase of a new bedroom suite for us!! WOWWee - we may actually spend a little money on just us - how extravagant!

A week of reminiscing.

With my #3's birthday coming up quickly, next Friday he will be 4, I find myself thinking about my pregnancies and all the years since.......#3's due date is actually tomorrow - he was late - all my boys were late.......#1 & #2 were both four days late BUT #3 was 6 days late - guess he wanted to be different.

My thoughts this week in history:

1995: Weight 128lbs: Had some amazing leg cramps - they seem to mostly happen at night but for the rest of the nest day my legs ache like crazy. I'm dreading my boss's return from holiday - things have been so peaceful at work! His presence causes a lot of unnecessary stress! Belly = 36.5"!! Friends say all my extra weight is baby - apparently apart from my tummy I've gained no weight - and my belly isn't even big - they say! Friends up at the Grove held a baby shower for me - a lovely cake with a bear on it. We painted the walls of the nursery, the battle was long and hard but we won and it looks lovely now! We also brought a lovely set of drawers - the best piece of furniture in the whole house!!

1997: Weight: 143lbs + 39.5" below the belly button! I had an appointment with Jill, everything was okay with baby - the gap was smaller.....I'm 36 weeks pregnant and the baby's height is now up to 35 weeks! Hubby was off work for independence Day - the fireworks on Base were great. On the 5th and 6th we went to Cadbury World and Warwick Castle it was very exhausting but great fun - I'm so glad we got to relax and have fun as a family before the baby comes.


2002: Weight: 150lbs - On Sunday we BBQ'ed and made our usual call to the UK - after that we all got ready to Men In Black 2 at the movies - they had a preview of the new Star Trek movie - WOW: Dec 13! Can't wait! I had normal type contraction pains - nothing extra though so afterwards we walked around the nature park for a bit before coming home. Monday - DUE DATE: Lil' Fella not arrived yet. Took it easy today. It's payroll day for Hubby so it would have been bad timing anyway! Started sewing a new quilt - what have I done!!! Tuesday Doc's Appointment: Fingertip dilated - Non favourable cervix. Lil'Fella still a boy!!!! Fluids fine. Booked in Friday for another U/S! Wednesday - took a trip to Walmart! Just Hubby and me though so no stress!! Friday: Doc's Appointment: U/S - everything was fine: Non-Stress test caused me stress - but the baby was good!! Internal not so bad - no spotting this time. 1cm dilated. Saturday - lazy morning & afternoon. We went out for tea though @ Logans Roadhouse and went for a walk around the neighbourhood afterwards.

That meal at Logans was the last full meal I ate before #3 was born - I woke up the next morning with proper contractions - now that was a heck of a day. #3 was born in hospital, as were my first two - but unlike with my first two - I went to the hospital so late that there wasn't anytime to get any meds - so #3 was my only totally natural birth! WOW was the the scariest thing I've ever done in my life!!!LOL!!


My #3 - 24 hours old - he was a little jaundiced but he didn't need any medical help for it - we just let him nap by the window - getting a little indirect sunlight - it was gone very quickly.

My gosh it melts my heart to see these pictures - I'm quiet sure I don't know where the time has gone!

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