We Made It Through..

spring break.  I did not enjoy getting up this morning at 615 to get everybody ready for school.  I'm certainly not enjoying doing my own school work.  I really do not enjoy this at all.  If I wasn't so set on improving our financial situation, I would quit.  That is how much I'm not enjoying school.  I don't even know what I want to do anyway.

I started taking Topamax last week, and that lasted for 4 days.  I couldn't handle the side effects.  They were awful.  I read somewhere that you have to give it a few weeks to build up in your system.  I couldn't even drive.  4 kids doesn't allow for it to build up in my system especially during the school year.  The tingling sensation in my face and hands was to the point where I wanted to claw at myself.  I felt like I was drunk.  I couldn't function.  It was awful.  The doctor told me to stop taking it because those were the symptoms at the lowest dose.  My mother informed me on Thursday that I looked horrible.  I felt like I looked.  It was a horrible experience.  The only thing good about Topamax was that I had zero appetite, and when I would eat I could only manage a few bites.  I lost 3 pounds in just a few days.  Sugar also tasted very nasty.  Still wasn't worth it to take it.

Yesterday was Ky-pie's 5th birthday.  I still can't believe she is 5.  She got some roller skates which is what she was wanting.  I made her a ladybug birthday cake.  Her "friends" birthday party is this Saturday.  That party I will be ordering her cake for.  I will not be making it.  Here is a picture of her cake.  I never said I was a cake decorator.

My aunt and uncle came over yesterday for Ky-pie's birthday, and we had homemade ice cream and birthday cake.  My dad was wanting some so bad that he used a hand crank one.  My dad is sitting on it while Ty turns the crank.  It actually turned out very well.

I have to go and pick up a cookie cake to take to school for Ky-pie for her birthday.  Her class doesn't eat cupcakes.  They lick off the icing, and she said she would prefer the cookie cake anyway.  I told her that I would do that after lunch.  

Just have to get through this week, and the rest of the school year will be pretty much down hill.  I think from what I could tell that they have 9 weeks left.  Only this week and I think 1 other week has 5 days that they will be attending.  April is shaping up to be a month with lots of off days for the boys.  I'm ready to get this year behind us and to hopefully start new and bright beginnings.  

Big Changes...

look like they are in our future.  Hubster went on his job interview in Austin on Saturday.  I'm guessing it went pretty well because they want him to come out to see the facilities that he would be working from and a final interview.  They are paying for 2 hotel rooms, gas, and meals for all of us to come with him.  We have never seen anything like this.  We are already starting to make plans about an imminent move.  I'm trying to figure out the school situation for the kids.  None of them want to go to public school.  I don't know what to tell them.  I don't want them to go to public school either.  I'm beside myself because TB is doing so great at the school he is in now, and I dread the thought of having to uproot him.  He has so many friends.  KB I don't mind uprooting as much.  He has such a hard time of it with the kids in his class.  KG is just starting school next year, so that isn't as much of a big deal either.  I just want them all to be happy.  I was TB's age when I was uprooted from a school I loved, and I hated my 8th grade year.  I cried nearly every day.  It got better in high school because we moved, and I ended up going to a private school.  I have so many friends where we live now, and I am going to have to start over.  I'm dreading it.  Hubster did decide to go ahead and drill where he is at now, so at least I can come home every month.

I saw a new neurologist yesterday, and I liked her.  She believes that everything is migraine related.  She does want me to have a sleep study done because she thinks that my being tired is a trigger for the migraines.  She also gave me a prescription to help prevent the migraines as well as medicine to combat them when I do have them.  I have to keep a journal of my headaches for the month.  She wants me to journal a pain scale, symptoms, and duration of each headache.  She was very easy to talk to, and she answered all of my questions.  Hubster and I both liked her.

I took the girls yesterday to Peter Piper's Pizza with some of the other kids and their moms from Kylee's class. They had a blast, and the pizza was pretty good too.  It was much better than Chuck-E-Cheese, and I think going there on a Wednesday afternoon for lunch is the perfect time to go.  The place wasn't crowded at all.  We had a free run of the place.  It was greatness.

Now off to send an email to the local Christian radio station.  KG informed me this morning that she thinks that they will tell her happy birthday on her birthday in a few weeks.  Here is hoping that I can get the email to them in time to fulfill a little girl's 5th birthday wish.