It was a great weekend...

Friday was KB's birthday party.  We had 3 boys come and spend the night.  Hubster and I took them to see Red Tails, but just as the movie started the projector broke.  We ended up with all of our money back plus 7 free tickets.  They could never get the projector to work.  We will go and see it another day.  Hubster took the boys to play mini-golf instead.  I sacrificed and stayed home while he took them.  They seemed to have a great time.  I know they did not go to sleep until around 530 on Saturday morning because I woke up to them being loud at that time.  I'm thinking that KB's 12th birthday was a success.

Saturday I started the day off with coffee at a friend's house.  She invited 3 of us over for some coffee sans kids.  Can we all just say...SIGH how nice!  It was a great way to start the morning.  I came home to Hubster feeding all of the children waffles.  (I knew that belgian waffle iron he got for Christmas was going to be a great idea.)  We did not do anything on Saturday.  We took KB out for dinner for his birthday with the family.  We went to what used to be our favorite Mexican food place.  We found out that the owner and his wife divorced two years ago.  I think she might have been the driving force behind the place.  The service was terrible.  The food was luke warm if not cold, and it did not taste as good as it used to.  We ended up with one meal free and 20% off the entire meal.  Needless to say, I doubt we ever go back.

Yesterday we went to the little bitty town I grew up in for my great uncle's 90th birthday, my great aunt's 85th birthday, and their 65th wedding anniversary.  I got to see my nephews and niece and my 3 great-niece's.  I have a great-niece that is 16 months old that reminds me so much of BG.  Her and I had a ball together.  I told my nephew that he was in for a treat with her.  We had a really great time seeing cousins we hadn't seen in years.  I'm so glad that we got to go, and that I felt pretty good all weekend.

This week is shaping up to be lots of fun.  I have to call and make doctor's appointments with my primary and my GYN.  Will get that done sometimes today hopefully.

Happy Birthday, KB!!!!

Today is KB's 12th birthday.  I went to the school today and ate lunch with him per his request.  Not very many 12 year old kids want to eat lunch with their parents.  He also wanted a cookie cake, so I stopped and got him one.  They had misspelled his name.  Thankfully it was an easy fix.  He has invited 4 boys over tomorrow night for a sleep over.  Hubster and I are going to take them to see Red Tails.  My parents are going to watch the girls for me while we take the boys to see the movie.

Not much to blog about.  Life is not exciting.  Still dealing with headaches that are horrible.  Feeling inadequate because the headaches are so bad.  The more I'm up and moving around, the worse they seem to get.  I'm counting down the days until I can go to the doctor and get them to check me out.

Sigh

I have been working on a headache of some sort for nearly every day for the past four weeks.  Today has been horrible with how bad it will hurt, and then it lets up.  I try to get as much done as I can while the head isn't pounding away like a sledge hammer is inside it.  The headaches are strange.  They are not a migraine because I can tell what a migraine is.  This isn't it.  These headaches come and go all day.  I can be fine one minute and wincing with pain the next.  I never know what symptoms might show with each headache.  It can be anything from just pain to tingling in my face, clogged ear feeling, medicine head feeling, jumbled up thoughts, to blurry vision.  All I know is that I'm starting to worry about them.  They are effecting my life.  Tuesday night my head was hurting enough that I couldn't concentrate.  I was having a hard time with getting things to make sense to me.  It was like my brain was jumbled up.  It was not a pleasant experience, and it was down right scary.  I refuse to drive out of town by myself or with just the kids because I don't know when one of these headaches will hit.  I do not like the feeling of not knowing where I am or what is going on.  We haven't made it to church in nearly two weeks because of the headaches.  When they hit, it wipes me out.  I was going to go to the doctor today, but our insurance does not start until February 1.  I will be going if the headaches still persist.  I also start the three weeks of tests that conclude with a biopsy on February 15.  I am ready to be normal again.

We had supper on Saturday night with another couple that we love dearly.  Her and I swear our husbands are kin.  They act so much alike it is scary.  They both pull some of the same stunts, and they both are as sweet as can be.  Don't mess with their family though.

I started back to school yesterday.  I'm still trying to get a feel of what I believe this semester will be like.  I'm having problems concentrating and following sometimes when the headaches start.

We have been talking about changing to a church that is nearer to home.  The boys have soundly objected to that, so I'm pretty sure we will keep going where we are.  I want to be happy at whatever church we happen to be at.  Right now Hubster and I seem to be both struggling with even going.  *See above about the two weeks of not being in church* It has nothing to do with the pastor either.  We love our pastor and his preaching.  It is the drive that is starting to get us.  I don't know what will end up happen, but I'm going to pray for God's guidance in this.

Besides the headache, life has been pretty dad gum terrific.  The kids are great.  The Hubster is great.  Things seem to be looking up.

January is nearly half-way over...

I can't believe it.  Where has the time gone?  Next week is the start of the spring semester for my college.  I just want to be done at this point, and I'm just now starting.  I still don't know what exactly I want to do.  I'm making contingency plans because it is so hard to get into nursing school.  I figure that I need to have a plan B, C, and D in place.  I'm not counting on that route working out all that well for me because of how hard it is to get in.  That will be okay though.  I'm thinking if that route doesn't work, I might go the route of physical therapy.  If that doesn't sound like fun, then I might just give education a go.

Hubster and I have decided that we will just stay in the house we are in probably.  We are hoping that within the next two years we can go from renting to own from the owner (who we know very well and believes our kids are her grandkids) to outright buying it from her with it being put in our name.  We need to get our credit cleaned up, and we are well on our way to getting there according to our last credit score pull.  In the meantime, we are going to start fixing it up the way we want to.  The first project will probably be the upstairs bathroom or the kitchen.  We are also wanting to do some radiant barrier in our attic.  We want to completely gut our kitchen and start over.  Right now it is a small eat in kitchen, and I want to change it from that to a bar area that we can eat at.  We have a large dining room that is not used.  We can start eating in there for "family" meals.

Hubster is liking his new job.  It seems to be working out very well for him.  I'm glad he is liking it so much.  The kids are doing great.  KB turns 12 in 17 days.  I can't believe I will have 2 junior high students next year.  That is not possible.  I can remember when they both started to school.  We are going to talk to the school that KG goes to.  We are hoping that might be willing to let BG start school a year early.  Her birthday falls on September 4, and you have to be  5 by September 1 to go to Kindergarten.  I'm hoping that they will let her start K-4 at 3 and K-5 at 4.  The teacher would be okay with BG starting school a year early.  If not, then she will just start when she is supposed to.