It has finally come...the day one of my daughters need to have a surgery. Part of me hoped I would never have to deal with it, but the other part of me never really thought about that day coming and so soon.
I had a slight scare when Kaelyn broke her arm... in that she could possibly get a surgery to fix it depending if pushing it back in place didn't work. Thank God it worked. Which brings up another scare of when your child breaks a bone. So I guess I have 2 scares on my list that I've now already encountered. Whew... this kid is working me.
I'll start with the arm. Kaelyn was playing on the couch and ended up falling on the tile floor. She told us she was being Superman, although I secretly knew she was being Spiderman, but kept getting it wrong. (They had just gotten some Spiderman toys from McD's, so I knew.) Anyways, she ended up breaking her arm in 2 different spots. The doctor (a phenomenal one at that) had to push it back in place. Now by this point Kaelyn was acting completely fine. She had broken it the night before and hadn't cried that much. She listened to everything the doctor said and then he just pushed it back in. Now I almost lost it then. I was fine and concerned about it all, but when I saw her face change after he pushed it... whew... that was hard. I had to hold it together for her sake, but I just can't imagine. I've never broken a bone. She was one tough cookie and wanted to play later that day... and the next.
Now onto the surgery.
Kaelyn goes to her 5 year check up and her awesome doctor, Dr. Kate, immediately notices her GIANT tonsils and realizes all these patterns Kaelyn have been portraying for some time, and it all makes sense now. I had no clue that tonsils could cause so many problems, so I never noticed.
We then visit the ENT doctor and immediately he says that she needs surgery, by just listening to her breathe. I'm perfectly fine at that point and in also knowing that this could honestly help her in many ways.
After it starts sinking in... I realize how much harder it is to watch your children have surgery and hearing that they need it.
In case you didn't know... I was born with a cleft lip and palate and I've had plenty of surgeries... I don't know the exact count, but I believe its around 12... I'm really not sure anymore. In any case, its a lot. My first surgery was at 3 months. I understand surgeries very well and I've always just dealt with them with an attitude that I would be fine and conquer them.
Yet now that I know my daughter needs a surgery... that's a whole lot scarier. I'm now getting a taste of how my mom felt.
I must say that I have so much respect for my mom and what she had to go through. She's an amazing mom and woman. She has always been my rock, my best friend, and the person to show me the right way. I can't imagine how she watched her child have surgeries... I know that she must have reassured herself that it would help me, but watching your baby cry because of surgery is heartbreaking. A tiny baby can't understand why they can't eat due to surgery or why they hurt due to surgery. I agonize over such a thought and I haven't even gone through that. So to all you moms and dads who must watch your children go through countless surgeries, my heart goes out to you, because I do understand to some level what you're going through.
I pray that I never find my self in the position of watching one of my children go through an illness or countless surgeries, but I know I have support and I know have God with me to push me on.
Back to Kaelyn... She did absolutely amazing with surgery. I told my husband and my mom that she must have inherited that from me. :) She truly was a trooper.
I didn't cry at all during it. I think part of that is my instinct to not give in to tears in the midst of a scary situation. Such as... in the midst of surgeries I refused to cry most of the time, because it was pointless... it didn't help me, so I would suck it up and let the doctors do their job. I will say that I did develop a phobia of doctors when I was younger, though. When I had braces or when I go to the doctor and they have to do something that could hurt... I refuse to complain and allow them to do their job. I just breathe through it and trust God that I'm going to be ok.
I could see my self in Kaelyn. She just listened to the doctors and didn't get scared when they rolled her back. I even took a picture! and she was completely fine. When she woke up, she didn't even cry. She fussed for just a bit, but listened to everyone. By the end of the day, she was already talking and moving around a bit. The next day she was bouncing around. My girl is such a trooper and I couldn't be more proud. Thank you, Jesus, for instilling that in her, because if she had freaked out on me and was scared... I would have cried. She was amazing and on the mend.
She's doing great... a little upset that she can't eat certain foods, but she does well excepting the stuff she can eat. She upset that she has to miss school... big time. But overall, she's pretty much normal. Sore throat, but she just deals with it. :) I'm a proud mommy.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Horrible day!
Over the weekend I enjoyed a wonderful day with my girls at a local pumpkin patch! Took a lot of pictures and loved every bit of it with them. This was all on Saturday... and let me just say I had some gorgeous pictures of my girls. So onto Sunday...
I wake up and head to church and we talked about a break in that happened there, and spoke of forgiveness to that person. My mom and I and of course, the girls, go to Zaxby's and it was packed. A bigger booth opened up across from us and we decide to switch to it, in the time we made it over there it turns out someone decided to steal my phone. I realize within minutes that its gone and I start freaking out. Then it hits me that I didn't misplace it and the tears start to come. Now I could care less about my actual phone, but I do care about all those beautiful pictures of my girls that are now completely gone. I didn't have them backed up on anything, so they're just gone. I wish I had understood that better, but unfortunately I didn't.
The weird thing is that my phone was immediately shut off by whoever took it. So I was pretty depressed about it the whole day! I have to keep reminding myself that I have the real deal with me all the time, but who wouldn't be heartbroken over that? I was just so darn excited about those pictures.
So I changed all my passwords that day and then found an app Monday morning that can download if someone turns my phone on. This app can help locate it and do some other things, maybe even help me get my pics off of it. I just wish it would get turned on, so I could find out if it would work.
I know that my phone is most likely long gone, but I can't help but hope that it will come back to me someone. Maybe someone will have a change of heart and try and return it, or maybe this app will work and I can get my pics. I keep praying about it and visited pawn shops today. They said I could fill out a police report, but I'm not sure how much that will help, if most likely they'll find it with all the pics already gone...
I just wish I understood why someone would do this and what all this means. The person immediately shut it off and hasn't used it for anything and it stills goes to my voicemail. hmmmm...
I guess God just had to test me with my forgiveness... :)
I'm still sad and thinking in my head I wish I had done this or I wish I hadn't done that... Honestly I just have to constantly remind myself that its ok, my kids are ok, I'm ok, and life will go on. I do forgive the person and haven't put much thought in how I think about them... I just wish they'd give it back. So interesting weekend... still praying, though.
I wake up and head to church and we talked about a break in that happened there, and spoke of forgiveness to that person. My mom and I and of course, the girls, go to Zaxby's and it was packed. A bigger booth opened up across from us and we decide to switch to it, in the time we made it over there it turns out someone decided to steal my phone. I realize within minutes that its gone and I start freaking out. Then it hits me that I didn't misplace it and the tears start to come. Now I could care less about my actual phone, but I do care about all those beautiful pictures of my girls that are now completely gone. I didn't have them backed up on anything, so they're just gone. I wish I had understood that better, but unfortunately I didn't.
The weird thing is that my phone was immediately shut off by whoever took it. So I was pretty depressed about it the whole day! I have to keep reminding myself that I have the real deal with me all the time, but who wouldn't be heartbroken over that? I was just so darn excited about those pictures.
So I changed all my passwords that day and then found an app Monday morning that can download if someone turns my phone on. This app can help locate it and do some other things, maybe even help me get my pics off of it. I just wish it would get turned on, so I could find out if it would work.
I know that my phone is most likely long gone, but I can't help but hope that it will come back to me someone. Maybe someone will have a change of heart and try and return it, or maybe this app will work and I can get my pics. I keep praying about it and visited pawn shops today. They said I could fill out a police report, but I'm not sure how much that will help, if most likely they'll find it with all the pics already gone...
I just wish I understood why someone would do this and what all this means. The person immediately shut it off and hasn't used it for anything and it stills goes to my voicemail. hmmmm...
I guess God just had to test me with my forgiveness... :)
I'm still sad and thinking in my head I wish I had done this or I wish I hadn't done that... Honestly I just have to constantly remind myself that its ok, my kids are ok, I'm ok, and life will go on. I do forgive the person and haven't put much thought in how I think about them... I just wish they'd give it back. So interesting weekend... still praying, though.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
FROZEN Party!
Now is the time for my FROZEN post about the party! I loved planning and doing this party, so I wanted to share it with others for ideas.
My 2 older girls' birthdays are a little bit less than a month a part, so I have one party for them. I knew I wanted to do a FROZEN party, so as I started thinking on what I wanted to do... I thought watching the movie outside would be awesome!! I began the fun and started searching on what I wanted to get for the party. I will tell you what I did and try to provide a link for all of it. :) I hope you like my ideas and I can help you with your party planning.
First I needed to plan on what I was going to use for the movie. Now first I'll say that the pictures show the big screen, surround system, and a very nice projector for the movie. I didn't plan on having all that, but my step-dad stepped up the game for his granddaughters and borrowed all this stuff to make the movie amazing.
I bought this projector, Cheap projector, and it worked really well. It would definitely need to be dark to see it well, but the projector worked well enough for what I wanted. It wasn't excellent, but that's what I paid for; I wasn't planning on spending a crazy amount on a projector. I did actually set up the projector and played the movie and my kids would have been perfectly find with that. I used a white shower liner as the screen. I found a little speaker system to try and hook into it, so if you wanted to use this for a party, I would add louder speakers to it.
I wanted to have popcorn, but with an old style popping machine. I believe those are like $100 at Big Lots, but I borrowed mine from someone else. Honestly we didn't eat a lot of popcorn because my husband got pizza, so that would work as well.
For directions I used white Christmas lights. I put some in the trees at the playground, because I knew kids would most likely get up and play. We also had some snowflake lights, so I used those as well.
I went onto Amazon and got a clear snowflake tablecloth to put over a blue one. I bought FROZEN balloons on Amazon, so go and check out the different ones. You can also get balloons at Party City as well as the FROZEN scene to put on the wall.
Now onto the cake! My mom and I decided to make their cake this year because I saw a post on pinterest of a cake that I wanted. I decided that I would tackle this cake!
First with the flavor of the cake. We did chocolate and strawberry cakes. Now with the chocolate... it didn't turn out as well, so you'll have to search out your own recipe for it or use box cake. I found this recipe for the strawberry cake. This cake was amazing and we had no problems making it! I definitely recommend it.
For the icing and fondant recipe, we used this site, which we loved both of the recipes. For the Buttercream recipe, I ended up putting in a whole stick of crisco and it still tasted great, but I wonder if it caused it to be a little more yellow. I'll have to test that in the future. For the fondant recipe, I recommend that you add your gel for the color right after you melt the marshmallows, its much easier! Now fondant is hard work, so be prepared for some pain as you work it in.
I bought the rock candy off Amazon, but I did see some at Party City. For the white trees I got sugar cones and painted melted white chocolate on them. By the way, Delicious! We just used those white chocolate candies on the cake making aisle at Walmart. For the sprinkles, you'll have to check out different stores for what you want. I visited AC Moore, Walmart, and Hobby Lobby. You can get those ball candies at Walmart on the cake making aisle.
I used this winter cake kit, that I got at Walmart in the clearance aisle for $8. Maybe you could find it again. That link shows it at Target. If you go to Walmart to the cake making aisle, you can find other tips for icing. I used metal ones, which are supposed to do better. I'm sure you can find fondant snowflake pushers on Amazon or other stores, like AC Moore. I got the stairs off of Amazon. I bought the figure set on the Disney Store, it goes in and our of stock, but you can find a figure set at other stores or online.
As for food, my husband got pizza, but we also had snacks, such as stuff to 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"
As for the punch we used this punch recipe.
The party looked like this:
As for the invitations , click on that site and I downloaded them by using photobucket. I didn't have a program to edit the pictures, so I opened them in paint and edited them that way.
I think that's all we did and if you have any questions, feel free and ask! I hope you enjoy and get great ideas! Definitely go to pinterest and type in FROZEN to get more ideas!
THANKS!
My Girls absolutely loved the party, so I'm glad I did it! Hope you enjoy!
My 2 older girls' birthdays are a little bit less than a month a part, so I have one party for them. I knew I wanted to do a FROZEN party, so as I started thinking on what I wanted to do... I thought watching the movie outside would be awesome!! I began the fun and started searching on what I wanted to get for the party. I will tell you what I did and try to provide a link for all of it. :) I hope you like my ideas and I can help you with your party planning.
First I needed to plan on what I was going to use for the movie. Now first I'll say that the pictures show the big screen, surround system, and a very nice projector for the movie. I didn't plan on having all that, but my step-dad stepped up the game for his granddaughters and borrowed all this stuff to make the movie amazing.
I bought this projector, Cheap projector, and it worked really well. It would definitely need to be dark to see it well, but the projector worked well enough for what I wanted. It wasn't excellent, but that's what I paid for; I wasn't planning on spending a crazy amount on a projector. I did actually set up the projector and played the movie and my kids would have been perfectly find with that. I used a white shower liner as the screen. I found a little speaker system to try and hook into it, so if you wanted to use this for a party, I would add louder speakers to it.
I wanted to have popcorn, but with an old style popping machine. I believe those are like $100 at Big Lots, but I borrowed mine from someone else. Honestly we didn't eat a lot of popcorn because my husband got pizza, so that would work as well.
For directions I used white Christmas lights. I put some in the trees at the playground, because I knew kids would most likely get up and play. We also had some snowflake lights, so I used those as well.
I went onto Amazon and got a clear snowflake tablecloth to put over a blue one. I bought FROZEN balloons on Amazon, so go and check out the different ones. You can also get balloons at Party City as well as the FROZEN scene to put on the wall.
Now onto the cake! My mom and I decided to make their cake this year because I saw a post on pinterest of a cake that I wanted. I decided that I would tackle this cake!
For the icing and fondant recipe, we used this site, which we loved both of the recipes. For the Buttercream recipe, I ended up putting in a whole stick of crisco and it still tasted great, but I wonder if it caused it to be a little more yellow. I'll have to test that in the future. For the fondant recipe, I recommend that you add your gel for the color right after you melt the marshmallows, its much easier! Now fondant is hard work, so be prepared for some pain as you work it in.
I bought the rock candy off Amazon, but I did see some at Party City. For the white trees I got sugar cones and painted melted white chocolate on them. By the way, Delicious! We just used those white chocolate candies on the cake making aisle at Walmart. For the sprinkles, you'll have to check out different stores for what you want. I visited AC Moore, Walmart, and Hobby Lobby. You can get those ball candies at Walmart on the cake making aisle.
I used this winter cake kit, that I got at Walmart in the clearance aisle for $8. Maybe you could find it again. That link shows it at Target. If you go to Walmart to the cake making aisle, you can find other tips for icing. I used metal ones, which are supposed to do better. I'm sure you can find fondant snowflake pushers on Amazon or other stores, like AC Moore. I got the stairs off of Amazon. I bought the figure set on the Disney Store, it goes in and our of stock, but you can find a figure set at other stores or online.
As for food, my husband got pizza, but we also had snacks, such as stuff to 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"
As for the punch we used this punch recipe.
The party looked like this:
THANKS!
My Girls absolutely loved the party, so I'm glad I did it! Hope you enjoy!
Friday, October 10, 2014
Another Go!
I've decided to give my blog another go! I just hope people will read it. Since I've started this blog I've reached the 5 year mark of being married to my wonderful husband! He also got a wonderful job that can better take care of our family! We now have 3 beautiful girls, 5, 3 (almost), and 7 months. My last post was about my second daughter being born, but now I have a third. I can't believe I have 3 girls now.
So recently I hosted my daughters birthday party. My oldest was born in September and the second was born in October, so we combined the birthday party! I always go overboard on how much I do and spend, so I might as well combine to cut costs. This year we did a FROZEN party! I plan on posting about my party to give ideas to others for their own. Last year we did My Little Pony, so I might post on that as well.
I want to share my mommy days with you all and share other things that I'm passionate about. I love to read, so I want to get involved in sharing books and hopefully get a blog going especially for that. I've also realized how creative I can be and that's inspired me to do this blog, but to maybe look into a different career for me. My mom and I made the girl's cake for their birthday and its was spectacular. Still have to work on recipes, but it really showed me how I need to find something to bring out my creative side more!
I hope you'll check out my posts in the future!
Bianca
So recently I hosted my daughters birthday party. My oldest was born in September and the second was born in October, so we combined the birthday party! I always go overboard on how much I do and spend, so I might as well combine to cut costs. This year we did a FROZEN party! I plan on posting about my party to give ideas to others for their own. Last year we did My Little Pony, so I might post on that as well.
I want to share my mommy days with you all and share other things that I'm passionate about. I love to read, so I want to get involved in sharing books and hopefully get a blog going especially for that. I've also realized how creative I can be and that's inspired me to do this blog, but to maybe look into a different career for me. My mom and I made the girl's cake for their birthday and its was spectacular. Still have to work on recipes, but it really showed me how I need to find something to bring out my creative side more!
I hope you'll check out my posts in the future!
Bianca
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