Happy birthday Dad

My mom and I went to say happy birthday to my dad. He would have been 62. It's hard to believe it has been almost 8 years as I can still hear his voice.

How do you know?

When to go to your child in the middle of the night. Now this should be a simple answer but one of mine talks in his sleep.

I woke up thinking I heard something. I was right. I kept hearing over and over "I need a hankie". It was so quiet I had to turn the volume up all the way on the monitor. Usually a sign he is asleep if he is that quiet. Then he got louder and upset. I grabbed a hankie and went in. Nope he was just upset in his sleep. I figured this out AFTER I got him up. Yikes. Never wake a sleep walked or talker. Trust me. His poor little heart was beating so fast.

I finally just got him back down. The only up side is at least he has a dry diaper now.

I survived my PechaKucha

Well my first presentation on my thesis is done. One more to go. Oh and I need to finish the paper too :)

My advisor said it best last night " when people start this class their lives turn upside down everywhere". Oh how true!

Since starting this class my uncle has had a heart attack, I take him to all his appointments, I had my endoscopy and biopsies, my babysitter has moved on with her new job, my back up sitter is busy with new jobs too, we figured out my grandma has Alzheimer's, and I am hoping that is it!

I literally have Fridays to write this thing. I have created a hideout in our basement to write. The problem is the other two days a week the kids are in school and by the time I drop them off and get groceries it's time to pick them up. I have decided to not hit the gym for a bit (I can't without someone watching the kids where I go) and to back off running. I am hoping to get a lot more done in the next two weeks but I have more reading to do. After that I am hoping life can get back to normal.

I did forget, I am starting another class next week. The end is in sight.
I cannot wait until I am done.

Some results more to come

Well it turns out I have crazy reflux (this I knew), I had to have my esophagus stretched as it had narrowed ( my grandma has had to have this a few times too) had a few esophageal polyps removed and biopsies along with a few other biopsies.

My options have come down to surgery or keep taking drugs for it. I am sticking with the drugs until they come up with a better surgical answer as the complication and resolution rates are not great

And now I wait 2 weeks for the rest of. My results. Since having this done my reflux is about 50 times worse today and I can't eat. Oh we'll.

Now it's off to sleep in my still loopy state.

Tomorrow it is

Hopefully I will come home after my upper endoscopy knowing why I have such awful reflux. Stress, hernia, two-two year olds :)

I know stress is a factor. My uncle called me regarding all of his health insurance issues and now I will be spending my Thursday at a finance guy and tax guys office trying to help him figure this out. I should be finishing my PechaKucha presentation but that will just have to wait until night or I will wing it. I know my topic so that isn't the issue. I like to go in prepared. All of this gave me immediate heartburn.

Now off to sleep and no coffee in the morning. Torture!

I just have to laugh

At 3am. Both kids are up. Danyal is not happy and Sara has her kitties and the snowman all talking to each other. I have to say watching it on the monitor is pretty funny.

Here is to 3am laughs.

How to annoy your brother

It always cracks me up that they want to be near each other but can annoy the living daylights out of each other. Sara decided to play in a mat from when she was a baby oh it took me back!