Better late than never...

Last week Ethan's team was in the running for their leagues championship game. They were playing the Red Socks and in the 3rd inning it was tied 3-3. It was a pitching dual, both teams were pitching great! Now, these boys usually only get in 5 maybe 6 innings in an hour and a half and that's only with quick innings. This game went almost 9 innings! In the bottom of the 8th inning, there were 2 outs and bases were loaded. Ethan gets up to bat, he watches 2 balls and a strike go by. The next pitch he swings and the ball goes rocketing out to center field with no chance of being caught! They won 4-3!!!! The next day was the championship game against the Orioles. They played great but, ended up losing 9-7. All in all Ethan's first season in the majors was a great experience, his team took 1st in league play and 2nd in the tournament. Not a bad season at all!!!

Makenna had a tournament during the same time. Her team has not placed in a tournament yet this year, which is not what she's used to. Her team picked up a pitcher who did an awesome job and helped them out in the championship game. Again with the tied games! Her games are only 70 minutes long, which only gets in a good 3 inning game. They were tied 5-5 after 70 minutes. Now softball is not like baseball in that girls don't keep playing until there is a winner. We have a stupid international tie breaker rule. You put your last out on 2nd base and play the inning from there. We gave up 3 runs, switch, and we got back our 3 runs. Now we are tied again only 8-8 this time. Well, now you put a runner on 3rd and 2nd. Our girls held them to no runs. We get up and they held us, their catcher wasn't letting anything get by her so we could steal home. They ENDED THE GAME!!!! How do you end a tournament game in a tie?! Men made up these stupid idiotic rules, if a woman had come up with rules we would continue to play until someone scored and actually won the game! So, because the team we tied with beat the team we lost to we came in 2nd. The girls actually played like a team and they deserved to place in this tournament. They played great!

All in all it was a super weekend of ball!

Mother's Day....

Is a very bitter-sweet day for me. I have been blessed by God with 6 beautiful children. I believe you have the children you are supposed to have. I have 3 great kids that were given birth by 3 different women who were gracious enough to allow me to become their children's mother. They gave up the opportunity to see and have what I have in Christian, Ethan and Makenna and allowed me to have them. How do you thank someone for that? Can you ever say enough "thank you's"? Then I have 3 beautiful children that God blessed me with all at once, Avery, Grace and Noah. Although they were taken before I was ready for them to go, I was still able to have a lifetime of happiness and love in the few short months I had them in my life. Do I love Mother's Day and the joy being a mother has given me? ABSOLUTELY! Does Mother's Day make me sad at the same time? ABSOLUTELY! I love and miss my kids all at the same time. Not to mention I haven't spent a Mother's Day with my own mother in 18 years, living so far away from my family makes lots of holiday's bitter-sweet in my life.

menagerie of stuff...

Lets see where to start... I am almost 2 weeks post-op and so far I am very pleased with my recovery. My family was about good for 3 days of taking care of me and come to think about it I slept for those 3 days. They will help now if I ask, but they aren't falling all over themselves to help mom! I've cut down on the pain pills, so my spelling should be better! LOL!!

May 4th was my 40th birthday. To Eric, a birthday is just another day, so he never goes all out for anyones birthday. Makenna had a 3 hour practice, then she played pick-up for another team. Needless to say I spent my birthday at the ballpark however, there is no place I would rather spend my birthday!!!! Makenna did what she was supposed to as a pick up player and played well. The poor thing was so tired!! She worked hard during her own practice and then plaed 2 games on someone elses team. I think that last game she actually fell asleep standing up in left field! It was just a good thing no ball came to her and the 3rd baseman didn't miss any balls.

Makenna has been made team captain for her travel team. Right now she is co-captain but, in the fall she will be all alone. Last night was the first game as co-captain and Eric and I were quite disappointed in her attitude. They were losing and in the 4th inning she just gave up. On the way home, with tears flowing, we had a discussion about what it means to be a team captain! Hopefully there will be no more giving up on her team!

We have one free day this week, friday night. If I could sit for any length of time I would kidnap my husband and make him take me on a date, but my can't just can't do that as of yet.

4 days post-op and

I'm feeling pretty great! I slept pretty much 24/7 until last night. I had an alarm set to wake myself every 4-6 hours to take my meds, but last night I decided I would try to sleep as long as I could without having to take anything. I took 2 Percocet and a muscle relaxant at 10:30 and slept until 6:00 when I woke up and really neeed something. I too the same amt. and tried to make the kids breakfast, where I tried to pass out twice, once they left I slept until 10:30. I took a walk up to the pool and back, showered and did my hair for the first time since Thurs. I decided to only take 1 percocet during the day when I needed it. I went to Kenna's game tonight and ended up overdue to Percocet and ended up needing 2! Tomorrow I'm going to try to make it up to the stop sign on my walk. I'm also going to try not to pass out in the morning, I have done it a few times since surgery and can't tell if it's a lack of food on my stomach and all the meds or something else. So, all in all I am very pleased with how my recovery is coming along so far!

Big Day!

Well, tomorrow is it! My back gets fixed....yay!!! I am trying too hydrate now cuz last night at work we couldn't get a vein to pop up, the last thing I need is someone digging around in my arm. My surgery is at 7:30am and I will stay the night, but home on Friday! I got my toes done today since I won't be able to bend over for weeks to tie my shoes, so it's flip flops and hooker toes for me! Eric likes them bright red! I'll be off work until July, but I won't be limping around anymore...at least after I start to heal and life can get back to normal. The other day Ethan told me he would be glad when I can ride my bike with him again....'bout broke my heart! I know this has been hard on the kids with me not being able to be as active with them as I used to be. Keep me in your prayers for a non-eventful surgery and quick healing.

Oh how good it feels!!!

Ok dirty minds, I'm talking about softball! Makenna had a 7 game guarantee tournament this past weekend. The first game was AWFUL! They played like doodie. After a little "discussion" with my child, she played like she actually knows how to play from then on. Sat they played 4 games, and lost them all. To say that it was frustrating watching them making mistake after mistake is an understatement. Come on, this is a TRAVEL TEAM and some girls either won't or can't catch a fly ball, or they let them roll between their legs, and EVEN jump over balls!!!! Now, my child is not without errors that's for sure, but she an one other girl made 7 out of the 11 runs scored on Sat. Sunday was better, they were winning the first game and then they fell apart and ended up going into international tie breaker and lost 8-9. Well, as you can imagine the coaches were a bit miffed at what was going on and let the girls have it! My thought was, it's about time! This is a team that is in 1st place in their regular season, only losing one game. Yet, when it comes to tournaments they (not all) look like a bunch of t-ball players! So, here they are 5 games in the hole and we are playing the team who has been our nemesis since Makenna has been playing travel ball. GREAT, the team she was on that was unstoppable could not beat them and now we are up against them and these girls have not won a game yet?! Well, I don't know which team showed up, but it wasn't the ones who just lost 5 games in a row!!! Kenna played short stop and DOMINATED the field!! It was like watching her back in 8U when all the balls came to her. In 10U she doesn't get a lot of action because most girls can't pull the ball like they could in 8U. She must have made 75% of the outs, it was GREAT!!!!!!! She said it felt so good getting all that action out there again. They ended up beating the Chill by one in 5 innings!!!! WOOHOO!!!! It was worth all the money spent just to have beat them. At the end of the game the other coach came over and asked if we used to be the Hot Shots (Makenna's old team)!! Oh how great is that!!! Kenna's bat died and she had to start using another, which she hit the mess out of the ball with. Among the numerous singles she hit, she hit a triple and a home run, to which I owe her $20 for! Now, I can argue that the home run was really an actual triple but, she was watching the play and when they over threw the pitcher she took off and made it home. Ummmm, no one sent her, she said she saw her chance and took it. I say she saw $$$$ signs and wanted it!!! LOL!! Either way, she played 6 great games and beat the team she has always been afraid to play!!! It doesn't get any better than that!!!

Pre-op done!

Well, my surgery is in just over 2 weeks away now. I am having it at my hospital and you would think that because I worked there I would get a little bump to the from right? NO!!! I sat in there for over 2 hours and that was AFTER my appointment with my Dr. I offered to have my blood drawn upstairs from one of the nurses I know, but they wouldn't let me do that either. What's the point of working in a hospital if you don't get any perks? I can't go on my floor and let them take care of me after surgery, everyone said absolutely not! Come on, all they have to do is make sure I don't have a fever and my incision looks good. We have surgical pts all the time, how different can it be? Heifer's! So, just because I work there doesn't mean I am not going to give the what-for about how long my pre-op took!!! I can get someone admitted, get their history, have them change into a gown, draw blood, start an IV with fluids going, have them fill out their "pink sheet", write an admission note AND do a vaginal exam in less than 30 minutes!!! Why did is take over 2 hours for all that to be done to me....minus the IV, change into a gown, admission note, oh and the vaginal exam! Only 8 more days to work before I have 3 months off.