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Have you ever had a concussion?  I never have that is until Sunday!  It was never diagnosed BUT I had all the symptoms.  A nurse in our church was very concerned.

This is how my Sunday morning went. 

I got up an hour later than I wanted to.  It was a VERY late night for us the night before  So I was feeling quite sluggish!
I put pasta in a pot to cook for the fellowship dinner that was after church.  After that I got myself dressed.   Hair and make up done.  Now on to the kiddos.  Tornado, lady Bug and Weasel.   Check .  Oh no where is weasels dress shoes?  Oh well he was almost grown out of them anyway.  Onto l Little Bean.  I pulled a dress shirt and dress Pants out of the closet. Checked time still doing great.   I took a long look at Little beans dress pants.  Yep they will look like capris on the boy.  Well i have to go to the storage in the basement anyway I’ll just pull the bin of 12 month clothes while I’m getting weasel the next size shoes.  I stop by the kitchen and turn off the stove Pasta cooked.  Will be back in a minute to drain it.

Grab key for the storage room under the stairs.  Go down the stairs , popped the lock, discovered no light.  HMMMM? Oh well!
I immediately found the 12 month clothing bin plus the extra bag.  But what about the shoe bag?  Where did hubby put it?  So at this point I am at the lowest part of the stairs.  . AHH found it But it’s stuck.!  Oh Drat.  So I pull and tug.  Finally It comes o0ut.

I start to  back out of my very confined space and I stand up…CRACK.  blackness followed by stars.  I whomped my head on the  second stair Up.  I grabbed all the stuff I collected and went up stairs.  When I got to the top of the stairs this not so good feeling swept over me.  It’s kinds hard to explain at this point.  drowsiness, queezy, confusion, a warm fuzzy feeling.  Like i was a fog What was happening?

I sat on the couch and began looking for  shoes for Weasel.  Done….Now what was I doing?  Ummm Oh yeah clothes for little Bean.   CHECK….What’s next.?  At this point Hubby walks in the room.
 Are you Okay?
 Yeah.  I think so.
 What did you do.
 I hit my head.
 How’d you do that.
 I stood up straight. 
Oh I did that not too long ago it doesn’t feel very good.
I don’t even have a bump., my head doesn’t even hurt!
Can you tell me what I have to do next?

Did you finish the Pasta Salad.?
OH YEAH the pasta Salad!.
DRAINED.  now what?  OLIVES , PEPPERONI, CHEESE.

So I stood there…now it was all finished.   No wait I am forgetting something?  what was it?  ..Oh well I will put the lid on it…OH WAIT. Italian dressing…..lid on.  Now to our plates silverware and cups.  UGH how many do I need? 

At this point I am getting slower and slower.  Like a slug.  I was really struggling finally Hubby saw I have having a hard time processing it all so he helped count  after all it was only to 5!!

By this point I have to be out the door.  AT least all the kids look very nice and I have all my stuff gathered together.  OH wait Little Bean will need to eat!  Back to the kitchen for food suitable for an 8 1/2  month old! 

Coat i need my coat.  I checked the bedroom, the furniture in the living room, the bedroom again?  Where’s my coat?  HMMM?
COAT CLOSET.  Go figure that’s where it is!

DIAPER BAG?  UMMM  notin the boys bedroom,
Not in our bedroom.  Not in the COAT CLOSET.  Think Mary Think?  Where were we this last week? 

Oh hubby is the diaper bag in the car
NO
Oh
HMMMM
I know the truck in the garage.
FOUND

Now in the car on the way to church.  2 Miles.
Needless to say the morning held some other moments that were confusing and so on.  .  I had to teach the ladies Sunday school class.  I had notes in front of me for which I was VERY thankful that I had written them out so detailed.  mi don’t normally do that.  I did fine teaching as long as I moved along fast. but on one occaision someone had a question which is normally fine and I completely lost my train of thought!   So then I finished….and got the kids from their Sunday school class rooms and went to the auditorium for church.  I had a hard time paying attention to my dear hubby But there were a couple of things that he said that really made sense and I couldn’t wait to share with him what I learned.  BUT you guessed it I FORGOT them ALL by the end of our day.

Then at the dinner I had all the kids with me at our table and one of the ladies came up and asked me…Can I help?
I was confused Help with what?  was my thought.  All four kids were accounted for and sitting patiently.   I looked around and realized we were the only ones sitting on this side of the fellowship hall.  Everyone else was up getting their food.

OH I guess I’ll wait for Hubby.
He’s busy talking with someone right now.  i don’t know how long he will be.
OH OKay Could you wait here with the kids and i’ll go get their food.
Sure

I got in line.   As long as I talked with people I was fine BUT when I had to stop and think I became confused.  The fact that I was getting tired quite fast at this point was not helping that either.

I got back to the table and ate with the kids.  AHHHH the fog started to clear.  What did I eat for breakfast.  I am not so sure I do know hubby handed me something and I gobbled it down.  

So I made it through the afternoon service.  Home Nap…I slept a long time.  When I got up I still had that very fuzzy feeling but at least I could think a little better.  My sleep was not the greatest.  I kept startling awake But at least I got some sleep.  When I got up it was time to tackle some of the chaos that had happened that morning.  By the time I was finished starightening the living room I felt as though I were ready for another nap.  I fed little bean….ate something for dinner though I am not sure exactly what it was at this point.   Then I took weasel down to my craft room so I could make thank you cards for Christmas gifts.  All of that went really well.  By the end I was feeling much more tired.  I went upstairs did the dishes and went to read for a little bit.  By this time it is 11 30 pm.  I curled up in my nice warm sheets and went to bed.  I know a few times I woke up saying things that totally made no sense to hubby.  I was dreaming things and then woke up talking about them.  .  At one point I woke up yelling I smell something burning, I smell something burning.  I.  I opened my eyes and there was hubby standing in the middle of the room wide eyed. 
Nothings burning Mary.
 But But I smelled it.
Everything is okay go back to sleep.
ANDI did to.  I fell right back to sleep.  By Monday morning I felt just fine.  No lasting effects!

Now That was the first and hopefully the last time I ever experience such a “fun” little thing as that and MOST OF ALL Thank you Lord for watching over and protecting me!  You are an amazing God and the Great Physician!

As an adult I have a much bigger will than my duaghter’s..  As of today we are going through a real trial of her testing our boundaries.  Somehow and for some reason God has blessed us with three children who have extremely strong will.  This ine in particular has been having a tough time lately.  Mostly because she is SOOO particular!  

As parents it is vERY important to teach our children flexibilty.  I know that children need to be grounded into a routine and we as a pastor’s family try very hard to do that yet there are times it is imperetive that our kids need to be flexible.  On a whole all of our kids are pretty flexible.  For which I am VERY thankful But they have decided that they are going to test and see just how flexible our rules are.  She has been pushing the limits at 4 with cloths YES 4.  The thing is.  Mommy is a HUGE stickler on clothes, and the same goes with daddy.

But the biggest problem we have is FOOD.  Generally we don’t have picky eaters but for some reason she has decied she doesn’t like anything I fix.   So in the past if they don’t eat their food at a particular mean they will have it at the next meal.  Well over the last few days They all have been asking for their meals to be out away to the next one.   YESTerday she had to miss school due to feeling “sick”  I was just finishing with a stomach thing SOOOO We just assumed it was contagious and that she was getting it… Later it came out that she was just tellling us she wasn’t feeling well because she didn’t want to eat her food. 

Today has been the same story.  All she has eaten today was a bowl of cereal that she finished at Lunch and a partial bowl of soup she will finish tomorrow at breakfast.  She ad to miss AWANA tonight.  She missed out on a special dinner.  All becuase she won’t eat her food.  Tomorrowq will be another day…but tonight after hubby and the other two kids get home we are gonna have a family meeting about house rules and consequences.   I found this neat webite and hopefully in not too long I will have the oppertunity of showcasing them and writing about how it has helped our family!  

We’ll talk real soon!

The last time i wrote it was December 15th!  I can hardly believe that we have completely sailed through Christmas and New years.  Wow time flies when you are having fun.  OR as the case may be SICK.  For a month prior to the December 15th posting I had a cold that just would not go away.  We tried everything and it simply came down to getting an antibiotic I wish I had gone three weeks prior!!  Now as I am writing this I find myself completely queezy with some sort of stomach bug and praying very hard that no one else gets it in the house!

Hubby has been furiously typing a way at the laptop upstairs.  His first two chapters of his master’s thesis is due in the mail tomorrow morning. and NO he did not wait til the last minute to do it.  He is finishing up foot notes and editing! 

Little Bean lost a few ounces again last week at the Dr’s visit but they were not overly concerned since he had gained so much prior to that visit.  He has another weight check  next Monday!  He is getting so big.  He has gained two teeth in the last month.  He creeps everywhere and at an astonishing speed.  I do declare he is part puppy.  the way he chews and drools and growls!!!

I have been doing a lot of planning again.  It seems like that is all I do at the beginning of January.  Somehow I completely lost my calendar at the end of last year SOOO from October to the end of December I felt like I was flying in the dark But a new year has Dawned and I have decided to put my new calendar right into my planning notebook which I plan on writing a blog post about REAL soon. 

Hopefully this stomach bug this will end as quickly as it has shown up and I will be able to blog more regularly!

Also I will be revisiting the Prayer plan for our husbands since I quickly discovered that my scheduled posting option wasn’t working and my website guru (HT) has fixed the problem!  (THANKS HT)  That will make it easier to stay current!  I will probably do it as a Valentines month theme!  Or maybe just the month of January!

So please stay tuned!    There will be many fun things to come Including a movie review and some other very fun stuff!

Have a great night and God Bless!

I have a seven moth old son we call him little bean….little bean in cute, funny and very active little boy.  What a joy he is…Yet my little man is not gaining weight.  He eats like a horse But at 4 months he just seemed to stop gaining weight.  At 6 months he weighed just the same as he did at 4 months….He was drinking 30-34 ounces of Formula  in a day..  He was a big puker too. So I tried Soy formulka.  he still spit up granted not as much BUT he screamed because his belly didn’t like the formula.

So the last three weeks has been a journey of a different diet.At 4 months oldhe stated eating cereal.  He loved it By six months old he was eating a box a day.  I was SOOOO thankful that I had a lot of leftover baby cereal from my other kids.  They also loved to eat BUT they didn’t eat as much cereal as WIC provided!

Even though he started on veggies at 6 months and was eating a ton of cereal in a day my little guy still hasn’t gained any weight.  Matter of fact he has lost weight.  He has weekly weigh in at the doctor’s office and has  had blood work done to test his thyroid.  NORMAL.  Nothing is making sense.
 
last week he was sick and had a sore throat and refused to eat.  Our Doctor was prepared to admit him to the hospetal BUT because he wouldn’t eat and was on an antibiotic the doc gave us one more week to try to fatten him up….

So come this Friday if my little guy hasn’t gained enough weight to suit the Doctor then he will be checked into the hospital for 3-5 days.  A new thing for me.  the only time my babies have been in the hospital has been when they are born

YIKES. i am tired….the biggest benefit for me today is two fold. a) the kids and I slept in until 8 am…I am usually up between 5 and 6 30! and B) I have absolutely NO WHERE TO DO TODAY!!! YAHOO.

Yesterday was an absolutely full day…it started at about 6…I had to get Tornado and Lady Bug out the door by 8 15 for school when daddy came home to pick them up….

The kids were not cooperative AT ALL it took the the better part of an hour to eat their bowls of cereal…My kids are usually great eaters BUT they were all over the place that morning…So I was feeding Little bean his bottle…Got the two oldest off to school then began the cooking.  I had to make Baked beans AND chili for a funeral dinner at church…Not to mention clean up the whole house in order for the baby sitter to come at1 30 so Hubby and I could go to the funeral

Since hubby did the funeral we had to be there early…So I did all the stuff necessary for the two dishes in the correct crockpots and called the lady who was going to pick them up….

Now to check on weasel!  He was being good watching Veggie tales in the basement and I would see him every 20 to 30 minutes asking for food.  11 30 Little Bean has been screaming ALL morning which is totally unlike his jovial little self SOOOO I had to vacuum holding him…dust holding him….then I fed him at 11 40…Hubby and the two older kids rolled in around  12 05 then I made lunch, rest of dishes….Got dressed for funeral did hair all that jazz…then the babysitter came…grief instructions…Found out later i forgot to tell her where the diapers were! 

Then off to funeral at 1 40
Funeral at 2
Went back to church to help with meal.  
LOTS of bustling around
330 people started arriving from the graveside service
Meal provided  items checked  So on…
440 food grabbed to eat
5 took gentleman home
5 10 went home made dinner for babysitter and her daughter and husband …we all had to be at AWANA back at church in an hour
6 00 pm…next baby sitter arrives to watch little bea we need to find shoes coats and cubbies vests and bags for AWANA
6 20 out the door for AWANA
625 at the church  for AWANA…Did I mention I was teaching Cubbies for the first time at our church and I had only had the material since the previous day
630 AWNA opening
815 AWNA OVER  (there was a lot of stuff in between But I am not sure I can remember it all)
845 HOME
talked with Baby sitter for about an hour…my brain officially shut down!
10 00 crashed on couch with Weasel insisting on playing with cars…I was too tired to care LOL
1100 BED
$ 30 AM Little Bean INSISTED  on being fed REALLY?? You have been done with night feeding for over 3 months now? Oh well Slept til 8 NO complaints..
THAT WAS MY DAY IN A NUTSHELL  AND VERY GLAD I DON NOT HAVE TO REPEAT IT AGAIN TODAY!

A great big THANK YOU for all of those who made yesterday go off without a hitch
And an even bigger thank you to the good LORD above who helped me keep my mind in tact!