ok Im really back this time....I swear

KC, Mom, & I left Wednesday night for a family reunion in Aliceville, Alabama. We went there back in March, but this time we got to see about 200 family members from all over. I also volunteered to coordinate a family cookbook, wait I volunteered? I never do stuff like this, what was I thinking? I made a special email for family to send recipes to, and I got over 20 recipes at the reunion already! This should be a fun project, and I have a entire year to work on it so thats a plus. Feel free to give me your favorite recipes also. This was KCs first reunion and it was so neat taking my son to a place I in a sense grew up. We then rushed back Sunday so Mom could be at work Monday, we got home after 2am and let me tell you it was a long car ride. My Mom is not a good traveler and after about the 9th hour we decided it would be best to not speak. Im used to it so its just better that way. I love my Mom to pieces but shes set in her ways. Thank goodness for dvds because poor KC wouldnt have made it otherwise, he watched Oswald, Clifford, Wonder Pets, and Fraggle Rock and he was out by 9:30pm and we were only past Tallahassee. Monday was spent cleaning up my disaster of a house my Hubby left me, doing laundry, and sleeping!

Today, well today KC started preschool! Im a little freaked out but not to bad, hes only going 2 half days a week from 8-12. I dont have alot of friends with younger kids, so I thought it would be go for him to socialize with other kids his age and learn new things. I struggled to find the right place for him for a few months because its hard leaving him with someone I have no clue about. I found a place close where I actually knew some of the people working their from high school and it made me feel at ease. KC is not a morning person (he takes after his mama I think) so I thought waking him up would be a process but he was fine. I also thought being a so called mamas boy he would not want to stay, but I was wrong on that too. He went right in, came back and gave me a smooch and said bye bye, bye bye. Wow! Take that mama! I came back to pick him up and they said he did so good! They said he follows directions and listens so well already, and I must say it made me feel pretty darn good. I hope Thursday goes just as smooth, but I think hes really going to adjust ok.

It my now extra free 8 hours a week I will be joining a gym, getting a personal trainer, and signing up for some sort of school. Im thinking of getting a surgical tech certificate or something medical where I can work in the hospital. I have always been a creature of the night, so Id really like to work night shift so my daily schedule doesnt change to much. Im just thinking about all this, I havent made any decisions yet but I know I want to do something.

Hubbys treatments having been ok, hes done 3, so now 3 to go. Last week they postponed it a week becuase they were thinking he was starting a infection becuase of some burning he had so hes back on for this Friday. In the last month we have learned of 3 other family members and friends who are also battling various cancers. Our close friend whose in his late 50's discovered he has stage 4 bone cancer in his jaw, and also several lymphnodes. He is also going to Moffitt, and he may be starting chemo and radiation first, or may have surgery first to remove his jawbone and lymphnodes. While at Hubbys treatment, I saw a family friend who used to work for my grandparents business and he has stage 3 colon cancer. He was there getting his chemo treatments and he has 6-8 weeks of that and he will then have surgery to remove part of his colon. And also while in AL one of my Pops cousins, (my 4th or 5th cousin) recently had gastric bypass and lost alot of weight, and discovered he had enlarged lypmhnodes so went to get it checked and he was told he had cancer and he is getting treatment at a cancer center in Auburn. Its just astounding to knew first hand so many people going through this disease. Its really not fair! Please say a pray for those you know, and may not know dealing with cancer.

Thanks for sticking around! :-)


Here is KCs first day today

KC & my SILs nephew

KC & Mrs Donna

Im baaaaaack!

Not fully functional yet, but alot better off than I was this time yesterday.
I will be updating this week!

MIA

I am over my laptop situation so I have not been able to post or do a whole lot of reading here lately, it just takes to long to open anything. Im also too broke to go pick up a fancy schmancy new one so please bear with me. On a lighter note KC is starting preschool on June 8th for half days starting out on Tuesdays & Thursdays. Im really excited for him, I know hes going to learn so much & have so much fun. I know the director and a couple of the girls that work there so I feel alot better about him going there. I checked out several other places but its so hard to leave him with someone I have not a clue about. I went and checked out licenses and did as much research as I could but at the end of the day how do you choose? KC was right at home when we went to visit and he could not have cared if I was there or not, he was loving it.

I dont know when my laptop will be back from Best Buy, but I hope its sooner than later cause this thing is killing me!

Hubby has his first BCG treatment on Friday, I know that we will not be doing much for the holiday weekend with all of that going on.
Please say a prayer for him if you remember.

Hubby Update

Hubby's Dr. appointment went well this week, not bad news but not great news either. The tumors removed were all non-malignant growth tumors so no chemo & no radiation. His Dr. is pretty concerned about how quickly the tumors returned, & how agressive they were in covering the whole bladder. He wants to keep a very close eye on this because he doesnt want it to move outside his bladder or worse to other organs and possibly become malignant. He stressed the importance of Hubby losing weight & being more healthy should he need to have surgery for a bladder replacement. So, the plan for now is Hubby has to do 6 weeks of BCG treatments, and then surgery again in August. He hates hates hates the BCG treatments, and without having done it myself I would have to agree! The surgery in August is just bypassing a step in doing a cystoscopy. Instead of doing the cysto to look inside his bladder to see if he has any new tumors, he will be put under so if they see any they can go ahead and remove them all in one step. Hubby doesnt like this idea at all, he hates all this stuff and even though hes had this for 10 years now he still has not been able to grasp and accept it. Its gonna be a rough few months for sure. Hubby has done BCG treatments several times before and they were no success, so he doesnt see the point in doing them again. The time when he did have a good report he was drinking this stuff my aunt got snagged into called Mona Vie. I dont believe in a miracle cure in a bottle, but we are going to try it again & see what happens this go around.

We will find out this week when the treatments are to start. This is going to be a rough Summer! I wanted to post this picture, its on the building its says "to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer."

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to my Mom, Nan, MIL, and all you special Moms out there. I hope everyone has a wonderful day!



HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Wordless Wednesday

This is what KC looked like last night after he & Hubby came home from visiting some neighbors.

The early bird gets the.....STARBUCKS!

Yawwwwwwwwwwn! I got woke up this morning at 5am by my dog Bambi having a seizure. After I couldnt go back to sleep I decided to run grab me a Starbucks before anyone started waking up. MMMMmmmm Iced Marble Mocha Macchiato my favorite! Venti, Thank you I feel like get alot accomplished on a Saturday. Bambi is ok now, had a few more in between then and 11am nothing out of the ordinary for her. It seems like thats all I do anymore is take care of someone whether its Hubby, or KC, and now Bambi someone is this house always has some sort of ailment.

Monday, we went to a nearby park that has its own spring (swimming hole). Its about 15 minutes away, and I havent been there since I was probably about 15 years old. The water is blue as ever and freezing. It costs $1.00 to get in and you can swim all day. We went early, and while we were there there were only maybe 6 other people. I know once school lets out we wont have the whole place to ourselves like that, but it was nice. Especially since I didnt shave my legs or pits before we left...haha! Gross I know, but hey it was a spur of the moment idea.

The Hubby is good, (thanks to everyone for checking on him) hes been taking it easy still and this Monday we go for a post-op check up and the pathology reports. I mentioned way back here about him playing the bass (guitar), and thats what hes been spending alot of his time doing. He went to the music store and bought new strings, and he also bought one of the teach your self how to play instructional dvds. He planted himself in front of the tv in our bedroom with this guitar, and mini amp & started jamming out. I wanted to stab myself in the ears!! Its the same beats over & over & over & you get the drift! Then he would rewind and play along again & again. After he thought he had mastered a part hed then yell out "Listen to this, babe". How could I not hear it already? Im sure I could stand in the yard & still hear it. Atleast hes passing the time in some way, Id prefer a weeded flower bed, or edged driveway but ehh he did just have surgery 2 1/2 weeks ago so I will roll with it. Hes back to work on Tuesday anyways so he better enjoy it while he can!

We are having a clean up weekend in the house because I have been lazy over the last few weeks. Its supposed to hit 90 today so we'll more than be out sunning by KC's baby pool later on.

Heres a few photos of KC at the spring on Monday, I didnt get that many because I was in the water most of the time.
Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!