Second and Probably Not The Last

Date: March 3, 2009

Time: Approximately 7:30 pm (EST)

Incident: Small male child doing "rolls" on bed. Wonderful straight rolls on the bed. All of a sudden child rolls off of bed...jumps up SCREAMING! A little blood. Mother remains calm as this is one rowdy little child who seems to bump his mouth more often than not. Heads to bathroom to clean up. Gets wet cloth to wipe up blood. Mother nearly passes out! Child's lip is hanging with a deep gash! Jumps up, runs out the door to nearest ER.

Ah yes, this is a brief description of my Tuesday evening. Poor Boogie sliced his lip. Required 2 stitches and the little fellow wasn't numb! Sounds hideous, and it was! However, my sweet baby boy is allergic to lidocaine and the local hospital had nothing else. He screamed for me then for our tiny little lamb pup TEDDY! Once the sewing stopped and he could get up, he was fine. He even enjoyed a free Slurpee compliments of Mr. 7-11 after hearing about his incident.

This is incident is pretty terrible, but my baby is fine, and even though we were in the ER waiting for stitches, I couldn't help but think of how dirty we looked! My child had been running around playing all day and had just eaten a bowl of ice cream which he had all over his shirt when the accident occured. I had on my pajamas and my shirt was covered in blood. I put on the first pair of shoes that were nearest which happened to be a pair of dirty, 3 size too small flip flops that are about 4 years old! Call me superficial if you will, but it is the golden rule that you go to the doctor clean!! They might not call Child Protection on me for my kid's lip, but they sure might for our attire! GAH! I'm embarassed! Not to mention that I looked like death because I had been up the previous 36 hours or so working on a group project that deserves it's own blog.

I have a small feeling that I am not the only parent, or person for that matter, to have to run into the ER looking their best! My Boogie is fine and stitches should be out in about 4 days, and that's all that matters!

Cue Mission (im)Possible Music

I started working out this week! WooHoo! I want to lose 50 pounds and I will do it! I'm also going to start my own version of The South Beach Diet. Google it because I don't feel like linking. Reason: I'm on my "netbook" While it is cute and charming, it is tres difficile sometimes to use. The Internet pages navigate backwards unexpectedly and my fingers are often on the wrong keys. Those are simple adjustments that I, the user, can fix.

My son's father moved back to town Sunday. He has been out of state for 6 years working. He didn't see my OUR son until yesterday, Thursday, and that was only by fluke. I really don't understand this. I would love to be able to spend every waking moment with my son. I don't understand why his father wouldn't feel the same way. Oh well! God will take care of us! I know this may sound terrible, but I sometimes wish that Boogie's paternal grandmother wasn't so good to him. That way there would be no strings and he and I could be on our merry way--Selfish I know, but it would make my life easier....

Which brings me to the reason for blogging. I know I banned myself from ranting and raving from my every day, but C'mon! This is the only place for me to legally do this without getting looked down upon etc. So here goes:

I'M LONELY!! I know that God loves me and He and Jesus are all I'm supposed to need, but I AM VENTING ABOUT LONELINESS IN A BLOG for crying out loud! Disclaimer: I understand that I am going through a "night season" right now and that God wants me to rely totally on Him. God I DO! But could you please reach down with your giant arms and give me a hug! This is the loneliness that I need to conquer. I have never been a "needy" woman. You know what I'm talking about, don't act like you don't! haha And I know this is only a short season, God already said so, but there is only so much social interaction I can get from a 2-year-old. Especially one who went to bed at 730!

I'm pretty sure that this is all spawned by Micah's dad and realizing that he and I are on 2 different wavelengths which I am perfectly fine with and Mom-101's blog post about Facebook and reuniting with her high school best friend. I MISS MY HIGH SCHOOL BEST FRIEND. He was the best. We kept each other entertained. We could sit and watch movies and just be dumb for hours. We told each other we would marry one another if we had no companion by a certain age. Quite frankly, I do miss him! I miss a lot of my friends from the simpler times. Not that I want to go back to that, but it would be nice to have COMPANIONSHIP. I can't tell you that last time I went out on a Friday evening just to be out with friends. I don't go to bars or clubs, but I like to bowl and go to the movies.

My friend said today that when God changes a season, He shifts everything around. My world has been totally flipped. To God: I love you with all of my heart. You are my everything! However, you know that sometimes I grow weary in this walk with you, so please could you take away my weariness and fill the void with you. Forgive me for seeming selfish, but I thank you that I can be honest with you, even if it is in a blog. I know that this is only temporary, and I can look back and laugh. I love you Lord! AMEN!

PS I'm sure this blog post has nothing to do with my (almost) quarter life crisis and the fact that I enter the real world in T-3 months....

PPS: Shout out to Note Bene! I love your comments!

If You Don't Read Anything, You HAVE to At Least Read The Bold!

The Oath to not blog has been broken! I can't help it this is too funny not to share. My 2 girlfriends and I decided to venture out and take our children to Chuck E. Cheese for a day of fun.
Total Adults=3
Total Children= 4 and 1/3.
1 Girl aged 9
1 Boy aged 7
1 Boy aged 3
1 Boy 2 and 10/12
1 tiny fetus!
My friend, mother of Boys 7 and 3 just found out she is 6 weeks pregnant! Yay!

Apparently, after this bout of snowy weather and days out of school, everyone else had the same idea! The line to Chuck E Cheese was out the door and in the middle of the road! There is no way we would have made it in there. The place is bursting at the seams anyway because it is too tiny. Perhaps they should take over the Toys R Us next too. Besides, no one can afford to go there because they spend all of their money at Chuck's!

Spot #2 is the Grand Prix which also has a large arcade. This place was packed as well. There at least 4 birthday parties plus all of the suffer-ees of cabin fever. However, the layout is more spacious. Who would have thought $20 in tokens would go so far! ($20 each kid, but we all agreed next time $10 would do the job.)

Spot #3 is Maggie Moo's where mothers and children regained some energy.

Spot #4 Target. Which wasn't too bad. Except it took us 40 minutes to get out of the parking lot!! No exagerration. Disaster!! But it was worth it.

The ride home however was the best of the day by far. Cue 2 kids in carseat, 1 in middle seat, 2 adults up front.
2 adults in front-PASSENGER:23-year-old, single mother of 1. Saved 3 years. She has some experience of being "in the world."
DRIVER: 28-year-old mother of 2. Marriage since aged 19. In the ministry since 14. Was "in the world" for a while as a young adult. Knows some, but very modest. Blushes at the sound of the country song that talks about "picking off ticks after romping in the grass."
CUE 7-YEAR OLD IN BACKSEAT: "Mom!! I'm sooooooooooooo uncomfortable. I want to go home and just be in my underwearrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!
MOM: Me too, son. Me too.
7Y/O: When you're in your underwear, I can see your....................................uhm....HAIR!!!
CUE 5 SECOND THAT REALLY SEEMS LIKE 5 YEAR SILENCE..................................................................................................................................
CUE RIDICULOUSLY INSANE AMOUNT OF EMBARASSMENT LAUGHTER FROM BOTH MOTHERS!

It was great! So akward but what can ya do about it? Embrace it I guess. So we have officially crossed that line in friendship, where you're not just friends, but sisters. We're bound forever because I personally know way too much about my minister, spiritual mother, best friend, etc., that I ever care to know! LOL

We have also sworn each other to secrecy about that conversation, except I've shared it with you all in the blog world and Li--who won't tell anybody I know! lol

Barack Hussein Obama

To all those that sent the ominous chain letters and posted the numerous bulletins on Myspace about Barack Obama being the anti-Christ, and how he didn't wear the American flag lapel pin, or how he didn't recite the Pledge of Allegiance, or sing to the Star-Spangled Banner--I can only hope that you watched or were in attendance at today's inauguration. As he did all of those things, except maybe recite the Pledge of Allegiance. He also was sworn in on Abraham Lincoln's BIBLE, had 2 Christian ministers pray, and told at least one person "God Bless You."

Today I watched the inauguration in a Gino's pizza parlor. We were supposed to have a huge tv screen set up in a theater class room on campus, which is a great idea. Except, they wanted to stream from the Internet, and it was super slow because a gazillion other people throughout also wanted to stream live. Nothing like a chicken Philly, fries, and Barack Obama. I must say that the twinkle in America's eye has returned, and I am thankful! I don't think I have ever been more happy to say that today, I am proud to be an American! This is the start of a new beginning, and I'm excited to see what the future holds for our country!!

PS I *heart* Michelle Obama as well!

PPS I thought it was awesome that one of the first kids was recording her daddy on her Kodak digital camera.

PPPS My favorite line of the speech: "....know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy..."

Doing It WRONG!

I've had this blog since September. Apparently I'm doing it all wrong. No one wants a play-by-play of my day, life, etc. Most days I don't even want a play-by-play of my day! I've decided that I am in no way, shape, or form cut up for this cruel, cruel world of blogging! (joking) I won a writing contest in grade 5, and I think that was the year my writing side peeked. It has been a steady ride downhill ever since--aside from the research papers that I am required to write. So until my brain has a creative blogging renaissance, my blog will now be for me to enjoy all of your writings. I am a fan of free entertainment at someone else's expense--muhahahahahaha Kidding!

Peace kiddos!