Boys, go far, far away from this one. In fact, I’m going to make everyone click so they have to work to read this one.
what i did today
Chapman Tragedy
If you haven’t heard, Steven Curtis Chapman’s daughter Maria was struck and killed by a car in their driveway. Please pray for the family. I can’t imagine. Send condolences here.
The List DVD Giveaway
By the way, we put up our first DVD giveaway on my OTH Blog for The List if anyone is interested, you just have to leave a comment.
Day 8
The Hilarie news notwithstanding, today was NOT a great day. My antibiotic made me sick all day. I had to take Emma to get her filling today and I even had to get the assistant to get me a Dr. Pepper and Pringle’s because I felt so sick. I think they were afraid I was going to pass out.
Speaking of her filling, Emma did SO GREAT. The laughing gas however did NOT have a calming affect. She was bouncing her legs on the chair and literally jumping up and down while we were leaving. For some reason, I’m not surprised. She did really well with the dentist though. She was really still and didn’t cry one bit. I don’t think she knew what to do with her numb lip though. She kept telling me it felt funny.
I spent most of the rest of the afternoon and evening lying down. I didn’t even go to bible study or church. The nausea would come in waves and I’d simply have to lie down and it would settle. I made sure to eat a granola bar just now though and plan to head straight to bed so I don’t have to deal with it through the night hopefully. The good news is the lump seems to have gone down some. Keep praying it makes it go away!
More WOAH OTH News
OK, last week I was so excited several reps had contacted me directly about info for my One Tree Hill Blog site. Well..let me tell you what happened to.day. The same rep for the movie The List who had given us 5 DVDs to giveaway asked me today if I would be interested in INTERVIEWING HILARIE BURTON about the movie. My response was um…YEAH!!!!
I called Heather and literally screamed on the phone! What in the world am I going to ask her? Yeah, the movie questions are pretty easy..what’s the movie about? What’s your character like? etc but of course I want to know if I can ask questions about One Tree Hill and if I can in fact do that, I’m assuming I only get a couple and what in the world do I ask significant enough in 2 or 3 questions? I’m sure I could talk all night about One Tree Hill, especially with Hilarie but how do I pare it down to a few questions if in fact I can ask any at all? And I know nothing about interviewing anybody about anything! I think I might remember practicing interviewing Abe Lincoln in middle school or something?!
Wow, I’m flabbergasted I was even asked but so excited I might get the chance to do it. She responded and said I’m on “the list” and she’d keep me in the loop. I really hope this pans out because it would be SO COOL!
*freak out done, composing myself*
Day 6
Today was a pretty laid-back day.
The only thing out of the ordinary was Lexi’s first filling at the dentist. She didn’t like the laughing gas after a few seconds and kept saying “I’m done” but she was talked pretty easily into letting it sit there. We waited FOREVER for the dentist but she laid there while watching Diego. She did really good and never cried until the very end when they put the blue light on the tooth and for some reason THAT made her cry. It wasn’t hysterical..just sort of squirmy and scared. But that was the last step so it was all done really fast. She went hopping out to the waiting room telling S and Emma (did I mention SIL and S happen to have an appointment at the same time? I really felt like that was an answer to prayer…I was concerned yesterday about Emma seeing Lexi get hers done since Emma has to go Wednesday and in general what to do with Emma if Lexi freaked out. Emma tends to get upset if Lexi does) she had eaten Cotton Candy (the scent of her laughing gas). So I guess all is well. She got to eat right away so all was back to normal this afternoon. Just a trip to the grocery store, lots of watermelon and cooked cupcakes and then it was bedtime.
I’m smack-down in the middle of a bunch of season finales at the moment. Back to it…
Day 5
Yesterday my family and I spent an inordinate and wasteful amount of time watching Season 1 of One Tree Hill. After church and lunch, the girls went home with Scott’s sister so I headed to Mom’s after a CVS trip and we watched a few episodes. I headed out for church and came back for more episodes. One Tree Hill is like that though…it’s like one long running drama with no good episode to end on.
The kids fell asleep around 9:30 and we all just kept watching…almost until midnight!! The girls and I did something very unlike us and stayed the night. They were really knocked out by 10 so there was no real point in trying to get them strapped into car seats at that point.
But man, was it a tough night. I didn’t sleep well at all thanks to some caffeine and different surroundings as well as crying children. I might be working on five hours of sleep right now. We were up by 8 and out the door so I could get them home to get ready for school. That part actually worked out very nicely as the kids were wide awake and happy to get ready for school. We were early to school and I got a nice start on the day. But I’m going to be hating it by this afternoon.
By the way, we’ve heard from Scott in Turkey every day and he doesn’t give many details but he always says they’re doing well and he sounds good. Only four more days left!
Day 4
I had a really hard time waking up this morning but wake up I did since I knew my aunt and her family were wanting to leave by lunchtime. We got up and I’m glad b/c we spent time going to pick strawberries at a farm in town. It was a lovely day for it and I’ve been wanting to do it since it opened. I missed the girls not being there since they were at MIL’s house from their overnight stay but it was still nice.
After that, you won’t believe what Mom, Dad, Heather and I spent time doing until the girls got home?? Watching Season 1 of One Tree Hill!! I guess they finally wanted to figure out what all the hoopla was about. I had to leave to get the girls but they ended up watching 2 more episodes. I guess they like it though! All Mom will say is it’s DRAMA!
The kids and I went to a birthday party this afternoon. I totally forgot about it until an hour before so we stopped at Wal-Mart and headed over there. I really didn’t want to go much but I was pleasantly surprised at the party. They have a huge backyard and it was filled with all kind of little stations of things for the kids to do and of course their playground set. The girls stayed busy for 3 hours!
Most of the kids were from church so it was nice to visit with their parents and be outside on such a nice day.
This evening we ended up going BACK to Mom’s after I got the girls baths and put them in pj’s. We headed out for ice cream and then watched two more episodes of One Tree Hill. I guess Mom was getting pretty into it because she kicked me and the girls out so she could concentrate without their late-night craziness. LOL.
The kids were wiped out when we got home and went straight to bed. I’ve been trying to study for Sunday School but keep getting distracted. I’m really tired at this point and wish I would have prepared a little before this. It’s my procrastination kicking in. I guess I better hop off and get to it!