To Live is to Learn

Will update as my little garden gets go Hey all, got tomatoes transplanted into my garden today. 3 of the 5 should do well. The other two Eli got a hold of them and threw them on the ground out of their cups so we'll see if they survive. I planted zuchinis as well in bags this year are of it will work and take up less space in my raised bed. I will start hardening off my peppers tomorrow.  Eli dumping out mommys plants. Oops.  I will update as my little garden gets going. I've also done okay with my crochet squares. Got a little off schedule since I lost my hook for a day then was just too exhausted from kiddos not letting me sleep. But here they are finished the yellow flowers now working on the blue. One color down. Three to go. Stayed tuned. Goodnight. 

Hey all!  I may be doing awful at keeping up with this blog but I have kept up with my goal of one craft per month. Without further ado: January February  Working in March:   Making this for a friend and I'm so excited! I won't have it all done but I'll have all the squares done. All 126 of them! Okay that's enough for tonight. Goodnight all!

Bummer! It's been over a month since I last posted, ugh, how does that happen? Oh well, here is life right now. We'll start with Maggie, Maggie is in her final phase of treatment before she reaches maintenance. Maintenance is the phase of treatment we're told where life can begin to feel normal again. Maggie should be able to go to the nursery at church. Prayerfully I can return to my Bible study. I hope that I can resume my moms group as well. But all of this is contingent upon her reaching this phase. The phase of treatment she's in is called delayed intensification and so far it's pretty unpleasant. Maggie just finished her second round of steroids and this time she is craving constipating foods. It's nigh impossible to get a steroidal toddler to eat anything besides what she wants. So here we sit going on day three of crying and pain from constipation compounded by other medications giving her side effects it's been a pretty hard week. Prayerfully, sin...

"you mean this doesn't go on my head?" So I have been awful about updating about the kids. The last time I did was 3 months ago, oops. Life happens always but when your kid is in the hospital every couple weeks it takes it outta you and I'll be honest keeping up with this blog was last on my list. Without further ado...Maggie is 3! Wow! From her appearance she looks much like a little girl and less like a toddler. Not sure if that is cancer/chemo related or just the transition from 2-3. My sweet baby has gone through more in the last 6 months than I ever would have believed or wanted. She continues to chug along. She's gotten taller, her little hands together on her tippy toes can reach very far onto my counters. She is very capable and always has been but now she knows just how capable she can be. Her hair has begun to grow back and it's still red and her personality matches that fiery red hair. She's got sass already. Lord help me. She's...

Finished my garden plan diagram! Sorry, I'm a little excited about my summer garden. After last year, I'm going to grow my zucchini in garden bags to free up some space in my beds. I learned valuable lessons about sun direction and shading last year and so my tomatoes will be on the other side of my big bed. Hope it helps. Will also try to grow all my corn in my 4x4 bed. Started my seeds, waiting for them to sprout. That's enough for now.

Diagram coming soon, but I planted my the beginning of my summer garden yesterday. Can't wait for fresh grown tomatoes and peppers. Will post a picture and my diagram when they are finished. Working on a couple craft projects. Will post them when they are done. Also, it's day 12 and the kids are still doing well. Prayer is still very much appreciated. Goodnight.

Well, if you didn't know who I was before you probably do by now. This week began with a phone call Sunday night that would quarantine my kids for the next 2.5 weeks. My kids were exposed to measles at the PCH clinic last week. Which means in order to protect the rest of the world we will be keeping the kids contained until February 11th. I want to go on record to say for my interview with CNN I wish I had said things a little differently. I don't want to ever say things as harshly as I did on CNN. I do wish that the people who exposed my kids would have used better judgment and stayed home until after recently visiting measles capital of the world but they didn't and I didn't think to temper my words. So here goes...the truth...I've never let myself explore my honest opinion about vaccines. My husband is a pediatrician and I pick my battles in my marriage and that is one I wasn't willing to explore. I feared researching and not liking what I found then havi...