A little of this and that

Gabby is still recovering from getting her wisdom teeth out.
I am still laughing at her statements when she was in recovery.
She has been on a codeine high since yesterday and is seeming to enjoy it.
We will let her enjoy it for another day and then cut her off.
She will need to function in school on Monday!

I made a quick trip into work today to decorate a cake
(because I was with Gabby all day yesterday)
When I got home I washed Bill's car because it was a mess and we had a funeral to go to.
Bill's Aunt Florence went home to meet Jesus on Wednesday at the sweet age of 90. She went to sleep in her room and woke up to see Jesus. Isn't that an awesome way to die?
(not trying to be insensitive here!)
Her funeral was a wonderful celebration of her life.

When we got home we started working on our taxes and got them all done.
We are excited that we will get enough back to cover half of our property taxes.
GGGGGRRRRRR!
I hate the government using our money!
They are so irresponsible with it!!

The cold outside just makes me want to curl up in bed and sleep the rest of winter away. It was sunny today which we really enjoyed but that always means cold temps for us in the winter. It has me shivering and I'm downstairs with our little space heater on :}

Yesterday, there was a drug bust at school.
We are in a mostly upper middle class district with a wide range of kids (some kids with parents barely scraping by and some kids whose parents are both doctors).
With that comes the kids raiding mom and dad's medicine cabinet in search of drugs that they can sell and/or take. Unfortunately, the kids were all freshman and they are blaming everyone but themselves for the problem. They had the guts to post stuff on Facebook about knowing who their real friends are. And basically blaming whoever told on them. Yes, this is the generation they grew up in. It is never their fault and someone else is always to blame.
I simply told my girls (all three of them) that if they ever got in that kind of trouble at school that we would be homeschooling them and they wouldn't be able to go to the bathroom by themselves until they moved out of the house.
Yes, I like to put the fear of "MOM" into them every once in a while!

By the way, the contacts aren't working out.
Every time I put them in, my eyes start to itch and I have to take them out an hour later.
Guess I'll just have to use reading glasses for awhile.
At least I have not purchased a whole years worth of contacts yet!

Tomorrow will bring church and working on my bible study for Tuesday's class.
I am in a Precept class in the Old Testament. I love Precepts and am enjoying the Kings study. King Solomon was one wise dude!

Time for me to check on Gabs and get ready for bed.

Hugs!

The Eyes have it!

This week has been a bit crazy.

Aren't they all?!

Last Friday I took the girls to get their eyes checked.

Abby's new glasses will be in on Friday.
Gabby has yet another double eye infection.
So she could not get her eyes checked
AND
she can't wear her contacts.

The problem.....
the place we used to go never showed her how to take care of her contacts.
She doesn't change the solution in her contact case.
EEEEEWWWWWW!
I would have thought this would be a natural thing to do but apparently not because another girl at school is having the same issues.

Our old eye doctor annoyed me the last time we went in and I decided I would not go back. He was ALWAYS right and whatever I said was wrong. "She had pink eye" "No she didn't" "If she didn't have pink eye then why did the medicine her peditrician put her on take care of the problem" "Well it was an antibiotic I'm sure but she didn't have pink eye"
To quote my kids.....
WHATEVER!

Anyway, he refuses to give our new doctor our records.
That is another story for another time.
I'll be paying them a visit and I will be getting our records even if I have to raise my voice!
ahem.....

Gabby had a recheck on Tuesday and I had to get my eyes checked.
I have been having some trouble the last few months.
It seems that my arms aren't long enough :}

My new doctor suggested that I not buy a new pair of glasses but instead keep the pair I had and purchase a pair of reading glasses. He also suggested contacts would be more convenient. So for the first time in my life, I am wearing contacts.
Today was my first day wearing them.
I did pretty good getting them in and out.
My eyes did get a bit itchy about noon but I kept them in and will decided by next Tuesday if it is something that I want to deal with. How sad is it that I will resort to anything to keep from showing my age :}

We were back to the doctor today to recheck the eyes and he prescribed her a steroid to go along with the antibiotic. He wanted to see her again on Friday but she is getting her wisdom teeth out (heaven help us!) so she will not be in any shape to go to the eye doctor. He is going to call us to see how she is doing! How is that for service??
He will see her next Tuesday and hopefully she will look much better.

I have had to cram my work days as full as possible to keep from going in on Friday. Yesterday I built all the cakes I need for the week and today and I decorated as much as I could. Tomorrow we will make cupcakes, ice cream sandwiches (NEW ITEM ALERT!) and will finished decorating 4 cakes and 2 pies. They have a new ice cream so for those of you that love dark chocolate they have come out with Dark Chocolate Strawberry ice cream. I am not a dark chocolate lover so it is not my favorite but it will be good to see how it goes over!

Psych is on so I gotta run!

Hugs :}