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I feel like such a slacker but I have a good excuse.

I've been sick!

It's been almost two weeks of thinking that I might die before the doctor came up with a diagnosis that seems to be working.

This has been ongoing for a while but about 3 weeks ago I started to get more sick until I was no longer functioning. The doc ran several blood tests and everything came back negative, so he basically started treating my symptoms. I felt ill but I knew I wasn't sick.

My body was just freaking out.

He finally decided to treat me for fibromyalgia which if I understand it correctly is basically, something is wrong but it's not all these other things that we have test for so since there is nothing left to try let's call it this. Did that make any sense?

So, today I finally feel normal so I will probably NOT die! (Yes, there are people out there who dislike me enough right now to probably wish that last statement was not true but that's a story for another day.) That's the good news. The bad news is I am taking a handful of horse pills and which ones are making me better? Maybe they all are, maybe none of them are! Who knows? (One of them is a birth control pill which makes me sorta mad because I just tied my tubes so I won't have to take that little tiny thing ever again! GRRR!) I'm doing some research though and hoping to find my own answers and get this figured out. So, if you know anything about FIBROMYALGIA I am currently looking for information.

Moving on.

S is still in her class with her same teacher. Thank you for all of the advice. I have basically done nothing to improve the situation.

She has Thursday and Friday off this week because of inservice and then by next Tuesday we should know if the charter school has an opening for her. It's like this, they have 2 openings right now and she is #3 on the waiting list. They have until Monday to make a decision. So, we wait and pray that #1 or #2 are very happy with their current school arrangement, one of them declines and then we're up!

So, we are waiting....and praying....and waiting!!!!
I'm not a very patient person.


H started crawling this week! I thought he would love being able to move around. He doesn't! He cries all the time now. Not really sure what's going on. Probably has nothing to do with the fact that I have been totally ignoring him for 2 weeks, or that he just got his first 2 teeth last week or that he is also getting 2 more teeth or that he has not been sleeping well because he has a stuffy nose or that he got his 4 month shots the same day that I went in to the doctor (He's a little behind on the shots because I HATE GIVING SHOTS TO BABIES but I'm also too chicken not to. I'm not the bettin' kind. I always loose!)(Oh, and note to self...next time you feel deathly ill and you go to the doctor and he suggests that you catch up on you baby's shots during the same visit, JUST SAY NO!!! You can always come back. What's one more week when you're already 3 months behind! If you don't, the next few days may be kind of hard! )

A was the V.S. P. (very special person) for a week and a half at school (since this week was a half week). History lesson: We had a FHE on praying more for each others needs in our personal and family prayers. We then went around and suggested areas that we each may need extra prayers in. Some of the kids wanted help with understanding school, or making friends, or dealing with mean teachers:). When it was A's turn she asked that we pray for her to be V.S.P. at school next week. I tried to kindly explain that some things are maybe not as necessary to pray for since all the kids would get a turn and well, I sorta didn't really know what to say. She confidently said that that is what she would like us to pray for and that Jesus would answer her prayer. I went to bed that night praying not that she would be the V.S.P. but that her faith in prayers would not be destroyed. That following Friday, she proudly presented me with the forms to fill out and instructions about being the next class V.S.P. Not only was her pray answered on schedule but she got an extra 3 days that the other kids wouldn't get because her week was followed by a half week.

Yes! Heavenly Father sent me children "to lead me, to guide me and to walk beside me because I often loose my way. They teach me things that I need to know so that I may live with him again someday."(I am a Child of God, LDS Children's Hymn) And he sent me alot of children because he knew that I would need alot of chances to relearn the same gospel principles over and over and over....

AND ....

We are going on vacation for one day tomorrow because our family needs a vacation. The boys are skipping school tomorrow (I kept them home today also and we did nothing all day. It was so great! SHHH!) and we are going to stay in a hotel with a pool and free breakfast :) with some of my brothers and sisters and their kids! We have several rooms all together!

Can you say PARTY!!!!! We are so excited.

Actually, the reason for this decision of insanity is that my little sister is taking out her endowments tomorrow so we are going to support her in that but, since we have to make the trip anyways, let's make it something to remember!

Wish us luck!

It's going to be GREAT because I love Fall, I love going to Utah and seeing the Wasatch Mountains, I love BYU, I love Temple Square and I love General Conference Weekend!

Happy Conference Weekend!