Halloween Cont’d

Posted on November 3, 2009 by thebluehutch

Did you realize Halloween was a full moon night? It was. Little pointed it out to me while we were trick-or-treating. An orderly in the ER mentioned it again later that night.

Yep. ER. Later that night.

About 11:30PM a pain popped into the back of my neck and quickly spread throughout my entire head. I have never felt pain like that; I couldn’t hear. Multiple Tylenol did nothing. After an hour of nervously watching me try to find a comfortable position while holding my head and moaning, Honey called the doctor and they said the hospital was our destination.

Next decision was who to call to stay with the kids. I HATE living far from family! We called our sitter/friend, Anna, but she didn’t answer her phone. My friend Jean has been having back trouble and I figured there was a real shot she was already awake. Honey called her and she actually had just gotten up to read! My favorite part of this story is that I heard Honey say, “Jean, we need help. We need to go to the ER. . .” and then he said, “OK. Thank you so much.” See, that’s all Jean had to hear and she broke in with, “I’m on my way.”

So, 3.5 hours, an IV, cat scan, and nice dose of morphine later, we were sent home. I have had a headache ever since but no explanation for the pain. Kinda felt stupid to tell you the truth. Still, I have never felt anything like that and my sweet Honey insists he would take me again in a heart beat. He was really worried about me.

My mom comes today. She can’t get here fast enough in my mind!

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Halloween – The Darlings

Posted on November 1, 2009 by thebluehutch
We had so much fun Saturday night. The kids watched 15 minutes of Peter Pan to get in the mood for the big dress up and it was just what KB needed to understand who she was supposed to be. She was VERY into it the rest of the night. Actually, all of our kids were – Bubba was in character until his hat came off and he poured out his candy bag. He called his sisters “Wendy” and “Michael” all evening – adorable.
We don’t live in a neighborhood so we decided to drive to a few different friends’ homes and trick-or-treat in one of their neighborhoods. We stopped at Mr. Needler’s and no one was home. We stopped to see Mrs. Cindy but she was in the shower. Thankfully, Mr. and Mrs. Bronson were home so Little got to say “Trick or Treat” and hold out her bag. We had been going over the routine with the kids in the car, “You push the button ONE TIME (door bell), you say Trick or Treat, stay outside the house, open your bag, and remember to say thank you.” Well, the Bronsons were standing outside and after letting the kids tell who they were commented, “Oh come in! Come in!” and took us in the house. Bubba was so confused. He looked at the door bell and then up at me and said, “Do I push it now mama?”

The Bronsons live in a gorgeous neighborhood with lots of kids and great sidewalks, so we joined in the fun there. The kids did great. KB looked hopefully for dogs at every house. Bubba walked through the routine at each door. Little chatted with the home owner about any number of things (“Sir, what are you dressed as?” and “Do you have on a Minnie Mouse dress, ma’am?” and my favorite, “Ma’am, do you have toys upstairs to play with?”)

When we got home, everyone poured out their goodies and got to pick one to eat before heading to bed. Everyone picked a box of DOTS and enjoyed every chew. The whole experience was delightful.

Who would have know that Jean Bronson would play a bigger role in our evening – a portion of the day that was the antithesis of delight. Stay tuned for that story. (Mwaaa–aaa–aaaaaa!)

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My Drawers – Wrapping it Up

Posted on October 31, 2009 by thebluehutch

So I committed to five drawers and today I deliver the last two!

Blue Hutch – Bottom Drawer
Contents:
Pencil Case with 10 pens
Unopened pack of 6 retractable pens
Pencil Case with 3 pairs of kids scissors
Pencil Case with colored pencils
2 empty Pencil Cases
2 empty crayon rolls
1 half empty crayon roll
Snip Snip workbook
Let’s Color book
Let’s Color More book
CD player
Country mix CD
flash cards – colors
green tractor
6 Dilly dot markers
1st Book of Questions and Answers
1st Book of Memory Verses
bag of command strips/hooks
Tempura paint – white, yellow, green, orange
dictionary (for Scrabble)
tripod
sponge painters
pencil case holding the 30 sparkle stickers from the top drawer
2 markers
2 broken colored pencils
2 broken crayons
3 kid CDs
2 cans of silly string
small stack of drawing paper
and
one of those capsule thingys that you drop in water and it turns into a farm animal
FOR PETE’S SAKE!!!
I didn’t take a before picture of the other drawer because I cleaned it by accident. It had craft stuff in it too and so I cleaned it out and combined the drawers.
Contents:
too many pieces of contruction paper – most were torn, wrinkled, ridiculous
6 coloring books
3 pairs of kid scissors
1 fold up potty seat (WHAT??)
1 pencil case (I know, I know)
3 packs of flashcards
2 stray crayons
1 dry color wonder marker
basketball photo album with family’s faces
2 “handy dandy notebooks” from Bub’s birthday party
Results:
Most of this stuff needs to go somewhere else but I’m not sure where . . . yet. The possibility of an empty drawer is a bit scary.
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