Things have been busy around here lately. I'm still elbow deep in reviews, which I should be working on tonight but I'm beat. We went to the Rangers game yesterday & I got sunburned really bad even though I was wearing sunscreen. My daughter was wearing the same stuff I was and the only red on her is on the tips of her ears. My arms and shoulders aren't too bad, by my legs look awful. It hurts every time I get up and walk around. So, I've gotten nothing done today aside from limping around Walmart. I've got a few posts almost ready to go, so I'll get them up tomorrow. The main reason I'm so behind is that I've had several design commissions come in rapid succession. Up until this point, I haven't gotten a lot but now my business is picking up. It's really hard to judge when I'll get commission work & when I do get them they are very time consuming, so I think I'm going to start cutting back the amount of reviews I take in a month. The reviews have really taken over ...
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Our Nightmarish Week
I am terribly sorry about the lack of activity a past several day. It has been a very long week, consisting of 3 doctor visits, high fevers, and very little sleep. Everything started on Monday. My daughter had an appointment for her 4 year wellness check and shots. We had a bit of a runaround leading up to the appointment because our health insurance decided to drop our pediatrician from their coverage. We didn’t know until we were already at the office & was told that the cost for the appointment was going to be over $600 out of pocket. After spending days trying to get a new appointment & doctor, I was able to get her in at the Baylor Health Center in town. I wasn’t overly thrilled about taking her there due to issues my husband has had there in the past, but I figured that I could at least get her shots out of the way and then decided later if I wanted to keep taking her there. I took her up early Monday morning. Her check-up went well and she didn’t even cry ...
Wordless Wednesday 3/12
These are a few of the photos I took a few weekends ago at the Four Winds Renaissance Faire. Link up your Wordless Wednesday! ...
R.I.P William Scott Tanksley
The funeral for fallen Dallas firefighter William Scott Tanksley was held today. He was killed while on duty February 10. Since the funeral procession was going past the end of our street, I decided to walk down with my daughter and pay our respects. Most of our neighbors went as well. There were a lot of people out at the ends of the side streets as well, many of them holding up flags. ...
That Awkward Moment When…
...you receive a promo pack for a movie (aptly titled 'That Awkward Moment') and are not expecting to get drink stirrers with penises on them. Yeah. That made for fun times when my 3 year old saw them and asked me what they were. I told here they were trash & tossed them. If I had realized that they were going to be in the pack, I wouldn't have gotten it. Oh well. Another lesson on the importance of reading the fine print. ...
Milestones, Losses, and Moving Forward
I've been trying to get this written out for days now and I just haven't been able too. A lot has happened this year, mostly withing the last few weeks, and I just haven't felt like doing much of anything. But it's already two weeks into the new year, so it's time to get out of my funk and get back into the thick of things. I know that this is going to be a bit choppy, but I've been writing bits and pieces of it out over the past week or so. Milestones This year has been a lot of fun as far as milestones with our daughter. We managed potty training...somehow with help from grandma and a very large bag of gummy bears. She has also learned just about every three letter word she could possibly need to know for kindergarten and is now blasting through 4 and 5 letter works. She is also writing a heck of a lot better than I ever did when I firs started school. All in all, she is at the level of a 5 or 6 year old, aside from reading. I know that she can read, she just pretends ...