Getting ready

Well it's that time of year AGAIN.....school!! I will have a second grader and a kindergartner. HARD TO BELIEVE!! We have open house on Thursday night so we can meet our new teachers. Jadyn can hardly wait and every morning it's "Momma, is today the day we are going to school?" She has to wait just one more week. Jake is ready to see his buddies at school and doesn't seem to understand that he will have new buddies in his new class. I think he thinks the old class just moves up with you......

As if I haven't spent enough in school supplies for both of them, I still have to buy some new tennis shoes and a couple outfits. You can't go to school without new clothes right? Let me see what other changes will take place.....well, I will have new hours at work, 7am-3pm. This will give me time with my most precious gifts after school. Pray for daddy because he will have mornings with them and getting them off!!! I already know how that works; hopefully, he'll have better success. Getting ready for school is not quite what it used to be...I can still remember going myself. ;)

The Scare

It's saturday night, August 1st and my children went to their grandparents (my parent's house) for dinner and to see their cousins. Jason, his mom and I had planned to go to a wonderful steakhouse about 45 minutes from our house. About 2 miles from the Como, MS exit, my sister calls and asks "Is Jake overly dramatic when getting hurt?" I of course wanted to know what happened....to make a long story short: We turned right around and headed back to Olive Branch to my parents house to check on him. He and Will (my nephew) were jumping on the trampoline and Jake thought doing a handstand while Will was jumping would be a good idea. Needless to say, it caused him a neck injury. We took him to the pediatric urgent care, they immediately put him in a neck collar and took an x-ray. The staff felt it would be a better idea to transport him by ambulance to the children's hospital in Memphis so we were on our way........Jason and I were pretty calm but apparently scared. Watching them strap my lil man to a hard board, strapping his arms, legs down and taping his head to the board was nerve wracking enough. I began to shake....it never dawned on me that he could move one way with a fractured neck could leave him paralyzed....thank God at this time I wasn't thinking too hard!! I was more worried about having two vertebrae's fractured and having to have surgery. Of course, I began to pray and ask my Lord to protect my lil man and to give me, Jason, all of our family peace in the midst of the scare. When we got to the hosptial, they immediately took him to the triage area and began to evaluate him and get vitals. JAKE WAS SUCH A LIL TROOPER!!! He was even using his manners which made mom and dad gleam with joy. He never complained, whimpered, whined, griped, cried, or gave us any problems. He listened and did everything everyone told him. To make light of the situation, he kept shaking his head to answer all the questions being asked and we had to laugh because he just couldn't help it. The doctor came over to evaluate him literally from head to toe, she looked at the x-rays taken at the clinic and came over to tell us to "take a breath, I believe there are no fractures but I want to get a few more views to be completely sure." Praise the Lord there were NO FRACTURES!!!! A whiplash diagnosis it was.....It was quite a scare!!! We have a wonderful support group of family and friends that uplifted us in prayer and expressed lots of concern!!! :)

MY LIL MAN....

This is a funny story that I have to share. My son, Jake was playing basketball in the house last night. To be exact, he has an over the door basketball goal that he uses to throw his "Ole Miss" basketball which is the size of a cantelope. He threw it and needless to say it knocked off one of my ceramic decorative plaques off the wall and BROKE into a thousand pieces. My initial thought was "OMG, why is he clowning around again....way to go Jake!" THEN.....out of his precious little 7-year-old mouth came "WOW, didn't see that coming".........Jason and I both fell out laughing. Jake said "Now, that was funny" and I replied "No, it was funny what you said not funny what you did".....My Lil Man never ceases to amaze me..........