Sweet Father's Day craft story

This morning we made cards for DH for Father's Day. I traced my little ones hands in their own little cards, wrote Happy Father's Day on them and handed the markers over to the kids.

L made squiggles and scribbles on hers. J asked me to draw a big heart on the back, then he had me draw a little heart inside the big heart. When it was done he announced: Perfect! Daddy's big heart and J's little heart inside.

Awww, so sweet!

Missing my doggies

The summer weather is here at last. My windows are wide open to let in any tiny bit of moving air to be had. I hear more clearly the woofs and yaps of the neighbourhood pooches. It makes me miss my dogs a lot. I miss their wet noses pressing on my cheek at 8am to rouse my out of my slumber and get them some kibble. I miss the cuddles, long walks and their sweet faces.

Today in the news...

more stories that make me sad and enraged at the same time.

I cannot believe what this world is coming to. It seems that whenever I sign on and read up on what's going on in the world I just end up with a lump in my throat and a pit in my stomach that I, as an individual, am so helpless to do anything about it all.

What makes it all so much more distressing is that it seems that not enough is being done to protect our way of life and freedoms from being erroded and degraded. I worry about what the future holds, especially for our children.

All of it just makes me want to vomit.

Well, that was scary!

Thursday night just after DH left to go back to work I was getting dinner ready (BBQ'ing in the backyard) when all of a sudden I got the most excruciating pain in my right side. I could hardly stand, I couldn't catch my breath for a minute and was doubled over in pain. I waited a few minutes to see if it would pass...it didn't. I called DH in a panic. He called him Mom who was teaching a lesson in her piano room downstairs. She came running up, had her student stay with J&L for a few minutes and took me to the hospital. The pain was unreal and the severe pain lasted about an hour. I got seen immediately at emerg. DH arrived within the hour and we were both scared and worried. They did a full work up incl bloodwork, x-rays and a pelvic exam. Lying down helped a lot and while I was there I started feeling better and the pain lessened substantially.

The only thing they could find was that my c.olon was quite full. Turns out I was just having bad c.onstipation pains - how embarassing. The Dr said, better to be embarassed than die from a ruptured appendix, which is what he thought it might be...

I think the new prenatals (cheaper) I bought last week caused it b/c I just started taking them recently...I think they have a lot more iron in them that the other ones I was taking. I stopped taking them Friday and have increasingly been feeling better and better. I still have some cramping but nothing scary now.

Scares like that sure put things in perspective. The whole time I was in the hospital I just wanted to go home and have dinner with my kids and tuck them in their beds. It made me appreciate even more how lucky I am to be healthy.