Moving my blog again

I’m going back to Blogger. It’s just easier to maintain. So please change your bookmarks and visit me there! Thanks!

A DVD giveaway for your Princess

I just wanted to pop on here to help promote the contest over at Harmony in Motion. She is giving away a Plantinum Edition, 2-Disc Special Edition DVD of Cinderella! Who wouldn’t love that??? So stop by and enter! Good luck!

On another onote, I am thinking of reviving my blog. So check back soon! (I know, I keep saying that. But I really mean it!) 🙂

Gluten Free Giveaway!

Click the link below to enter a contest to win a Betty Crocker GF Cake/Cookie/Brownie Mix package! We have tried the cake and cookie mixes and they are really yummy! 🙂

Betty Crocker Giveway

This post is brought to you by the number 8

Becki gave me a reason to write today. I needed something to get my blog going once again, so thanks Becki! Ok, here we go…..

 

8 THINGS I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO:

• Scott finishing school in 6 months
• Me starting school in September
• Scott getting a new, much better job
• Us moving into our own house
• Our JDRF Walk  in October (Threw that one in there. Hey! We need donations!)
• Seeing my family in CA
• Taking the girls to the American Girl Store in Chicago
• New medical insurance so we can finally get the CGMS for Hayleigh
   

 

8 THINGS I DID YESTERDAY:

•  Laundry
• Dishes
• Made GF blueberry muffins
• Scanned 103 old pictures to share with Stephen
• Played “Beauty Salon” with the girls. They put a banana clip in my hair. Seriously. We have one!
• Went to Michael’s to try and find a Princess cake pan for Allie’s birthday. They didn’t have one. 😦
• Tried (and am STILL trying) to learn how to Smudge Paint in Photoshop
• Went for our late nightly walk with Scott and Roxy

 

8 THINGS I WISH I COULD DO:

 

• Find a cure for Type 1 (and Celiac and HHT)
• Get people to understand what Type 1 is all about so I can stop hearing stupid comments
• Go home (to AZ)
• Eat whatever I want without gaining weight
• Go on a Disney Cruise with Scott and the kids
• See my family in CA NOW!
• Take much better photos
• Be able to focus on things

 

8 SHOWS I WATCH:

 

• Grey’s Anatomy
• Desperate Houswives
• Army Wives
• Friends reruns
• Golden Girls reruns (no laughing please)
• Phineas and Ferb (With the kids. Yeah. That’s right. With the kids.)
• Little House on the Prairie
• I love Lucy
   

8 FAVORITE FOODS:

 

• My moms lasagna
• My moms chicken casserole
• My moms Jello Cake
• Grilled chicken Caesar salad
• Spinach Artichoke dip from Red Robin
• Whiskey River BBQ wrap from Red Robin
• MIL’s Strawberry Cake
• FIL’s Turkey Dressing

 

8 PLACES I’D LIKE TO TRAVEL:

 

• CA to see my family
• OH, PA and WI to see 3 of my favorite friends
• Disneyworld
• Vermont
• England
• France
• Italy
• AZ to stay there
  

8 PEOPLE I’VE TAGGED:

 

• Scott
• Chasing Numbers
• Candy Hearts
• Beautifully Unique
• Don’t Take the Repeats
• Ranting Radish
• Organized Chaos
• Two Lines on a Stick

I’m a terrible blogger

I’ve been neglecting my blog for months now but every day something happens and I think “I should blog about that!”

I haven’t, though, but now I want to start again. So, I will be trying to revive my blog with some interesting stories soon. So stick with me! (If anyone is still here. lol)

Those 3 little words

“Mommy I pooped!” I heard Allie yell from the bathroom. I didn’t even know she had went in there let alone went potty by herself. But she did!

I never thought hearing those words would bring tears to my eyes. But when you are on day 4 of potty training an extremely stubborn 2 year old, those words can definitely make you emotional.

She has been doing extremely well with it. Much better than I thought she would be at this point. We have been able to go places with her not wearing a diaper and she’ll tell me if she has to go while we are out. This is much easier than I thought it would be.

Today we are going to Target to get her some new “big girls underwear”. This is definitely an exciting day for both of us.

Now to work on that darn pacifier habit…..

The Great Procrastinator

Once again I waited too long and missed out on something great. A couple of months back I found out about a conference that I really wanted to go to. It was a 3 day conference in Chicago. I would have no problem getting there. However, I would have an issue paying the $300 it costs to attend.

A couple of weeks ago a friend told me about a scholarship I could apply for. If chosen, my family and I could attend the conference for free! All I had to do was fill out a questionnaire telling about our family, what we have done to help in the diabetes community and why we deserved the scholarship. THIS was something I could do.

But I got busy. Busy with Drs. appointments. Busy with the kids and school. Busy signing up for college. Just busy. And I put it off.

Then I realized that the deadline was coming up. In TWO days. So, Scott and I got to work on it and we did a pretty good job. I thought it was good enough to at least be considered. So we got it ready to go. We also needed to attach our 2007 tax forms. No problem. And our 2007 W2. Darn it. PROBLEM!

Because we just moved here a few weeks ago, 90% of our stuff is in storage. And somehwere in that big storage room is a box. And somewhere in that box is Scott’s 2007 W2.

We just didn’t have time to go look. By the time I realized where it was, we would have had hours to find it and get the paperwork in the mail to be postmarked by March 15th. So, it didn’t happen.

Sadly, right now, an extra $300 is not in our budget to go to this conference. Even more upsetting is this is the last year they will be in Chicago for a few years at least.

So, lesson learned. I need to get it together and give myself a little more time to do things. I have been a procrastinator my entire life. So that’s a habit that will be hard to break. But I will work on it.

 

Tomorrow. 😉

Happy Blogoversary tooo meeee!

I totally forgot, honestly. But I saw it when I came on here today. 2 years ago I started this blog. 2 years worth of rambling on about pretty much nothing. But it’s been therapeutic. And I can share phtos of my kids!

Of course I have been blogging much longer than 2 years. I started Hayleighbug’s Health Journal in January of 2005. Then I moved on to here.

After my long break, I seem to have lost some readers. But hopefully you guys will come back! I promise I will keep up now. And hopefully soon I’ll have something interesting to say. lol

Friday the 13th couldn’t be as bad as today

At least I hope not.

The day started out rough. Thanks to the stupid pediatrician’s office, Jordan ran out of his ADHD meds 2 days ago and although they said they mailed the prescription out a week ago, it is still not here! (I am STILL trying to get their help with this screw up) Anyway, I had to follow him around this morning giving him exact instructions on what to do. It was frustrating for me, but at the same time I felt sorry for him because he can’t help it.

After we got the 2 older kids off to school, I went over to the college to talk to an academic counselor. The counselor wasn’t as helpful as I needed him to be, but I got enough info to get me started. I just applied for a student loan and will hopefully hear back soon. Tuesday is orientation and after that I take a placement test. I also need to get my transcripts to them. After that, I sign up for the summer courses and on June 8th I start college again! It has been 11 years but I think I can do it. Especially knowing that in the end, I will have my Nursing Degree and will be doing something I know I will love.

After that was Hayleigh’s endocrinology appointment. I was a little nervous meeting this new Dr. I am always nervous meeting new Drs for Hayleigh. I hate change.  but after meeting him I was SO happy we chose him. He is awesome! Definitely the kind of Dr. you want working with your child. He took his time with us and answered all of my questions. He was really great and he didn’t make me feel bad for Hayleigh’s previous A1C (like the last Dr. did) The only bad thing to come out of that appointment was that Hayleigh seems to have an enlarged thyroid. Saturday morning I have to take her in for (fasting) lab work. Hopefully I’ll get the results back soon. I’m hoping and praying she doesn’t have a thyroid disorder. My poor girl has enough to deal with.

While at the appointment, I could have been given the  “Worst Mom Award”. I never leave the house without Hayleigh’s supplies. I had everything with me but for some reason when we got out of the car, I only grabbed her meter. Wouldn’t you know while we were in the room talking with the nurse, Hayleigh went low. I then realized I left her glucose tablets in the car. *sigh* The nurse was very nice about it and ran and got some for me, but I still felt horrible being so unprepared. Thankfully she didn’t make me feel bad about it.

Add to all of this, I was just informed that the only diabetic supply company who takes our insurance is Medtronic. We have had some billing issues with them in the past and I was on the phone with them the rest of the afternoon trying to straighten things out. Until we do, we can’t order any supplies and right now she is running very low. The whole thing is a huge, stressful, super expensive mess. I’m calling them again tomorrow to try and work something out. Hopefully we can get this all fixed.

So now I am on my way to bed. I am exhausted after the day I had and I have to get up early for another Drs. appointment tomorrow for Kailyn. She is late for her 5 year check and tomorrow she will be getting her shots so she can enter Kindergarten in the fall. So wish us luck, She will NOT be too happy about this!

A little worried

I made an appointment for Hayleigh to see her new Pediatric Endocrinologist. Apparently most of the kids in the school district who have Type 1 see this endo (maybe he’s the only one close by?) so he was recommended by the school nurse. I wanted to go to the children’s hospital in Madison for all of her specialist visits, but insurance won’t let us do that right now. Maybe when we get the new insurance in 6 months. We’ll see.

Anyway, they called today to set up the appointment. The receptionist had a few questions:

“Is Hayleigh diabetic?”

Yes

“Type 1 or Type 2?”

Type 1

“How long ago was she diagnosed?”

4 years

“Is she on medication for it?”

Ye….Umm….what??? Of course she is on “medication” for it! How could she NOT be? (No, I didn’t say that out loud, but I wanted to)

I guess this is just a standard question? I don’t know. But it made me a little nervous. Let’s hope the actual endocrinologist has a better understanding of Type 1 Diabetes than his receptionist does.