Peanut Free Zone

Do you know someone that has an allergy to peanuts? I am highly allergic to peanuts but when I was growing up it wasnt that common. I use to think I was the only one. Now a days you have at least 4 or 5 kids per a class room that has an allergy to peanuts. I was one of those kids that had to carry an epipen on me at all times...I am one to ingest a nut and my throat will immediately start closing. Kaylyn however, is allergic but her's isnt as severe as mine. When she eats a nut her mouth within about 10-15 mins will break out in a rash around her mouth & lips. I hate for her to have that but I am glad it isnt as severe as mine.

I was watching the news last night and saw a segment on a mother that came up with an awesome idea. Her daughter is allergic to highly peanuts and she wears a bracelet but wanted it to be known that her child is highly allergic to peanuts. She came up with this awesome tattoo idea...its like a temporary tattoo that goes on but doesnt wash away easily with water. So its stays on a little longer than normal temporary tattoos. How cool is that?

The Treasure Box

So I mentioned in this post that Kaylyn has a bit of a talking problem. Twice last week I got a note sent home or really just a marking in her folder that she talks to much. So Friday I was in line to pick her up and I spotted her. She looked ok but when she got in the car she just started crying. I knew that meant she got in trouble today at school. She was telling me that she couldnt go in the treasure box. So I told her she didnt deserve to because she didnt listen to Mrs. Lucas (her teacher). The Treasure Box is something earned and that hopefully next week she will remember this incident and behave next week.

However, when I pulled out her folder she had a smiley face for that day. So with that I dont know why she was freaking out. However, after thinking about it I am assuming that if you get a "note" sent home once that week then you lose your chance with the Treasure Box. I am going to tell you that is going to be hard for Kaylyn. I hope she can do it but I know her...it will kill her not to talk. So that leaves me wondering if she will ever get to "pick" something out of the Treasure Box.

Am I bad to think that of my child?

Catching Up

As you can tell I still dont have a schedule. I try to catch up on my blog reading every night but sometimes its every other night. It's been a little hectic lately with Kevin working nights. He loves working nights but I hate it. It seems that even though he "is" home during the day I never see him. He is always sleeping. And I know its hard to work nights because it takes a lot out of you but I hate it when he sleeps all the time...I'm not demanding or anything. He should be done with nights by Tuesday...lets hope so.

Kevin's grandfather is doing pretty well. He scared the whole family especially since the doctor told the family we need to tell him good-bye because he wouldnt make it the next 48 hours. However, it seemed he had some type of infection and with heavy antibiotics he is pretty much better. He has been fever free since Friday and there are talks of him being released from the hospital on Tuesday. Let's hope!

As for me...well I am still enjoying not working! I am doing fairly well with my Mary Kay business too! It seems to be helping out some. I have been volunteering at Kaylyn's school some and meeting other women. Kind of excited about that. I have also been walking alot this past week. When I drop Kaylyn off in the mornings I have been going to the track and walking. It's a fairly decent size track but I dont know the exact length of it. I think 4 times around equals a mile but I am not competely sure. I have been averaging about 12 laps around so in my head I think I am walking about 3 miles a day. My goal is to lose 10 lbs in September. I have way more than 10 to go but I find I work better with smaller goals so that is my goal for September.

So I think I have you all caught up on me for the last week. I hope everyone has a great Monday!

You have to be quiet!

I was a very shy child...still am a very shy person, until you get to know me that is! So when I say that Kaylyn is the complete opposite I mean it. I never got in trouble at school...I was always terrified to get in trouble. Not Kaylyn...it seems that she like to talk... alot! I went to have lunch with her on Tuesday and had to tell her at least 5 times "Kaylyn, sit down and eat...stop talking!" That same day I got a note from the teacher saying Kaylyn talks way too much! It seems that she can not be quiet. She has to talk...and I thought it was just me but man that child can talk! So we are tying to get her to understand there is a time to talk and a time to be quiet.

However, yesterday we got another note saying that she talked during circle time and in the hallway. So last night she went to bed early with no tv...I talked to her this morning as I dropped her off and reminded her that she has to keep her mouth shut when the teacher says so! Hopefully today we will have no note! We will wait and see!

Top Ten Thursday

I came across Top Ten Thursday over at Sara's blog. I have seen it before but have never joined in. Today I thought I would. Sara blogged about her Top Ten New Blogs but I think I am going to stay with my Top Ten favorite blogs. These are blogs that whenever I log in I go directly to their blogs to check out what is going on.

1. Aunt of 14-Nikki, I absolutely adore Nikki. She and I have become really good friends over the last couple of months. I talk to her at least 3-4 times a week via text. Even though she is miles away I have a close bond with her!
2. Serenity-I just love Serenity. I talk to her weekly too. And hopefully I will get to meet her next month! I am so excited about this I hope this works out for the both of us!
3. Ace-love me some Ace! She is always there to lift my spirits! Her and I email alot back and forth. She just got a temp job and I am praying for her!
4. Tinika-did my beautiful blog design. She is the sweetest and so creative!
5. Jenn(ifer)-recently got a new job so isnt able to blog alot but we stay in touch through myspace:)
6. Sara-she keeps me laughing.
7. Erin-I can relate to Erin so much. She has been a great blog friend!
8. Jill-I love reading her posts! She is such a warm-beautiful person!
9. Kekibird-is a new blog that I recently started reading but I feel so connected to her. She is so sweet!
10. Michelle- I can relate to her because up until about 3 wks ago I was a working full time mother.

So that is my top 10...hop over to Sara's blog to see her's as well as many others!

What a week!

It has been a very busy and somewhat bad week! First of all to catch up on my weekend check out this post on Kaylyn. However, it all really started Wednesday. I went to lunch with an old friend. I actually had a good time. This old friend I dont think I have ever mentioned here on my blog but I will dedicate a post to her one day. Anyway, the lunch was good and we are probably going to do lunch again sometime next week. However, during lunch I got a text from Kevin letting me know that my MIL had to put her dog to sleep that day. This dog "Ginger" is no regular dog. Ginger lived a very long and spoiled life...she was almost 16 years old. However, she has been getting sicker over the last couple of months. Her kidneys havent been functioning correctly over the last couple of weeks so my MIL would take her to the vet on Mon, Wed, & Friday's to pump fluids in her to help her kidneys. For a little while this worked. Ginger would get home and be her own spunky little self. But over the last 2 weeks or so she pretty much went downhill. She pretty much stopped eating, she could barely walk, and she was losing her eyesight & hearing.

So on Wednesday the decision was made to put her to sleep....for good. My MIL is very much an animal person...mainly a dog person. She was so upset and had every right to be. She is very attached to her dogs...she had 4 now we are down to 2. My husband said to leave her alone and within a couple of days she would be fine. Apparently they have had several dogs and when they pass on she gets really upset and needs her time. So we gave her her time. We still havent told Kaylyn...we will but we feel if we do it now then she will want to go over there and well everyone would be that more upset.

So Kaylyn has been over to the inlaws since Tuesday which is a long time since we normally see them at least every other day. However, we have talked to my MIL since but we dont bring up "that" subject for now. So last night we were in the ER with Kaylyn (see this post) and my MIL called me. I answered and I could tell she was upset. She then told me her father (who lives in Georgia, 5 hours away) was found this morning (Saturday) unresponsive and is now in the hopsital. His eyes are open but he isnt responsive. They are not sure if he will make it through the night. So she was getting ready to head out but wanted to talk to Kevin about a few things. So we were actually leaving the ER when she called so I just took Kaylyn home and sent Kevin over to her house to talk to her and see what needed to be done. When he got home he informed me of the other dogs and that she would be leaving first thing this morning and that if he does pass then my FIL would head on down there with one dog and then when we head over there we would take the other dog with us.

So now we are have a waiting game. I havent heard anything this morning...good or bad. Kevin has already let his work know what is going on incase we do have to leave. Kevin of course is really upset and well as I but Kaylyn still really doesnt understand the whole thing. So like I said its a waiting game now. Please say a prayer for Kevin's family.

Sick Again

One week into school and Kaylyn is sick. She came home from school on Thursday and she looked really tired so that alarmed me. When we got home I looked her over and could tell in her eyes she wasnt feeling well. I asked her about it and she said that she wanted to lay down for a little while. I knew then she was sick because she never lays down for any reason! I felt her head and sure enough she had a fever. I got the thermometer out to confirm this. Yup, a low grade fever. Within an hour or so she developed a cough.

I knew with the fever she shouldnt go to school the next day so I sent her teacher a quick email to let her know that Kaylyn would be out on Friday. She coughed all Friday night. We gave her two different cough syrups through out the night and nothing seemed to help. She woke up around 5:30am coughing so much that she threw up all over herself and her bed. Kevin and I got it all cleaned up including her and settled her down and she went right back to sleep. Bless her heart she was so tired. I knew I wasnt going into the weekend like this so I set my alarm for 8 and made sure I called and got her an appt with the doctor.

They only had an 9:30 & 2:00 appt so we took the 2 since she was still sleeping and seemed to have stop coughing for a bit. She got up around 10 and we just laid around the living room watching Wall-E for most of the morning. We met Kevin for lunch since he had to work and once again I knew she was sick when she passed up McDonald's. She would eat McDonald's 3 times a day if I would let her!

At the doctors office he checked her over pretty good and then ordered a finger prick. After her labs came back he diagnosed her with Microplasma aka Walking Pneumonia. This is twice this year she has had that...which makes me wonder once you get it are you more succeptable of getting it again? He prescribed her an antibiotic and sent us on the way.

She was great Friday night execpt for the low grade fever. She pretty much slept through the night. However, Saturday afternoon I noticed her struggling to catch her breath so I was a little alarmed. I called the nurse and told her what was going on. I am asthmatic myself so I could tell she was wheezing and I told all of this to the nurse. She told me to go ahead and give her 2 puffs of my inhaler and head on to the ER...it seems she would need a breathing treatment or two. So I did this and off we went to the ER. I called Kevin and he met me at ER. Once there she was fine...I'm not kidding you either! She was literally bouncing off the walls. I knew then that the steroid in the inhaler was "working" and making her very hyper. We got called back and the doctor there looked her over and said she was fine. She was moving air 100% and she was no longer wheezing. He said that if this happens again give her the inhaler and if she isnt better in 30 mins or so then come back to the ER.

Last night she was fine throughout the night as well. Then today she has that cough but seems to be breathing just fine. Hopefully the worse has passed and she will be fine by tomorrow.