Call Me Grace

Being 8 months pregnant wasn't enough.... I had to make it even more difficult to get around. Now in a boot cast thing and with crutches, I'm almost pathetic.

So I was merely squatting down when HOLY COW I think I broke my foot! Okay, so I didn't know WHAT I did to it but it hurt badly. I popped a couple of Tylenol (only drugs I could have being preggers) and hoped for the best. A bit later, as it continued to change color, began to swell, and continued to hurt, I had to have hubby take a break from the taping a floating of the sheet rock to haul me off to the doc.

Unsure as to exactly WHAT I'd managed to do, I was sent for an x-ray. Fortunately, I didn't break anything. Just messed up a ligament or something they figure, likely re-ticking off an old track injury from eons ago. Put me in a walking cast and suggested I also use crutches.

HA HA HA....crutches... THAT was funny. Having never used crutches before AND being a huge 8 months pregnant with two toddlers running around, me and crutches didn't exactly get along very well. I tried using them a little but it was clear that by using crutches I'd only end up in an emergency room with some other injury. With that almost certain future in mind, I set the crutches aside and hopped and hobbled on my boot thing. Just call me Grace... most of my close friends who know me oh so well do. LOL

It has been two weeks since I hurt my foot and I'm very happy to say that I'm getting along great. Don't use the boot anymore (very uncomfortable) and move about pain free. Yippee.... Seriously though, to injure oneself while squatting down??? Good grief.

Snacktime

So our DD wanted a snack, specifically graham crackers with white icing. When she was told that we didn't have any white icing, she noted, "Well we have some chocolate icing. THAT would work. You HAVE to have icing with graham crackers!" So, chocolate icing on graham crackers she had. Maybe because it is a snack I had when I was kid, while I didn't taste one of the chocolate icing crackers, I still have to vote that white icing is yummier on graham crackers.

We Have a Room!

Many thanks to the guys who came over to spend part to all of their Saturday helping Ray get the sheet rock up in the bedroom and bathroom! What a wonderful, wonderful blessing! It is looking like a REAL room now!

Gonna Kill Me a Couple Dogs

It is a conspiracy and I'm sick and tired of it.

The dogs have taken to destroying my plants during the night. After having lost a few plants to their evilness awhile back, my plants began feeling safe again....until recently. The dogs have decided to completely maul the pots and the contents therein of several of my larger plants. While I'm trying to nurse some of them back from death, these stupid dogs have destroyed a beautiful large tree that I had, 2 azaleas, a palm tree, and my precious Japanese Maple.

They seem to dump the pot over, dig/bite out the plant itself and then either maul the pot, maul the plant, or maul both. Sadly, with the 3 digit temps we have been having here, these plants shrivel up and go to meet their maker fast...most times before I spot the mess and can get the plant back in some dirt.

AAAAUUURRRGHHHH!!!!

I KNEW I was hot...

...as in really hot and not just having one of my because-I'm-pregnant hot flashes. Apparently with all the remodeling dust we've been stirring up added to the normal gobs of dust we have around here, our air conditioning filter clogged up faster than usual and I mean CLOGGED UP. To make things more fun (not) it has been sooo humid. So when you mix the humidity and the completely clogged filter together you get an A/C unit that not only shut itself down but has a ton of ice on it.

Filter is changed and we're waiting for the thing to defrost (with a little help from the hair dryer) so we can once again have air beyond what the ceiling fans push around. I KNEW it was hot around here. I'd love to yap more but I need to go and sit myself directly under one of the ceiling fans before I melt away completely.

See, dear, there was a good reason for my cranky mood... hee hee

Camera Shy

Had to go in yesterday for an ultrasound to check on size of baby (he's normal) and wouldn't you know it but he was being camera shy. Extra frustrating in that our doc was giving us a 3D glimpse at baby. Reese Jackson James (what his name will be/is) was only interested in showing us his legs and feet. Occasionally, he'd bless us with a glimpse of an arm and had no problems showing off his boy stuff, but a head/face shot? NOT going to happen. Best we got was a little glimpse of his face along with his arm and leg. Still though, thought I'd share it with you...

We have a wall...

Slowly, but surely, we're getting the remodel done. Earlier this week we got the studs up for a wall! How exciting!!!!

Each day we get a little closer to being able to button this thing up. The waiting is SO hard. At least we are now putting things IN the room(s) vs. taking them out.