Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday returns! This picture was taken on Kasey's last day as the girl's nanny. In case you can't tell, that's Megan with her. Leave a comment with the best caption. Be sure to read what everyone writes!

Wordless Wednesday

Yes, this is still my blog, I just changed things up a bit! Today is Wordless Wednesday. Check out the pic to the right that needs a caption. Leave a comment with your best idea.

Cryptic Speaking

Well, that last blog was a lot of fun but so many of you forgot to sign your name! It's no fun if you don't tell me who you are! And I am still trying to guess who sat in the parking lot and listened to Styx! Please tell!
One thing that Scott and I have always done around the kids is what we call "cryptic speaking". My Mom thinks it's pretty clever. Once the kids get old enough that we can't spell anymore, we have to talk above their heads. If you know Megan, you know we passed the cryptic stage a long time ago with her. Now Scott, Megan and I are using cryptic talk around Emily. I am trying to teach Megan how to do this. She is really good at interpreting though. For example, if we are talking about Emily, we will use "offspring", "sibling", "descendent", etc. "Eat" is usually "consume". "Buy" is always "purchase". Burger King might be "beef royalty". So if we are going to take Emily to Burger King, I might tell Megan "I am considering taking our offspring to Beef Royalty to consume poultry". Or "Your sibling will not accompany us to the retail outlets. Instead, she will experience a deep slumber". So tonight I'm wondering if anyone else does this and if so, give some examples of how you use cryptic speaking. Or just leave me a cryptic message. But please sign your name! Thanks!

I did NOT...

We're going to play a new game on this blog. I borrowed it from another blog I read. It goes like this:
Last night we went to the fair and I did NOT eat a pork steak sandwich, lemon shakeup, half of Emily's fries, half of Emily's hamburger and cheesecake on a stick. No, I would never eat that much fair food. This morning, I did NOT give my daughter a cup of coffee in an attempt to perk her up for swim practice. Today, I went to a yard sale and the lady was NOT selling laxatives and opened packaged of adult diapers, no, no one would do that, that would be insane. And for lunch today, I did NOT feed my children homemade fried cheese and chocolate crescent rolls, no I would never let them eat like that. And look on the sidebar- that is NOT another stray cat that needed a home. Scott would never let me bring home another animal. (Suzy and Paul, Scott said you would understand why he named this one Simone)
What have you NOT done lately? Leave me a comment.
Michele;

More of this and that...

I often think of things I want to write about on the blog but then I don't jot them down and they are lost. I am trying to compensate by writing everything down but I realized last week that writing doesn't help when the book gets lost too. I find myself repeating "I put it in a safe place" but a safe place doesn't help when you forget where safe is. Most days I am willing to admit that I have limitations but there are exceptions. Like the day I was driving to my friend Kelley P's house and I called Scott in tears and said "Kelley's street isn't where it used to be!"



I am not above begging for a hookup. Blake Shelton is coming to the ShowMe Center and if anyone out there has connections, I would give anything for a backstage pass, a hug, anything. If you know me, you know how much I love Blake Shelton. No sexier man has ever walked the planet. (Kasey is laughing and rolling her eyes, she just spent a year in this house listening to me talk about how amazing he is. Every time his video would come on CMT, I would collapse onto the couch. Oh, yeah, most of the time, I was already collapsed on the couch...)



Ok, now on to more serious things. My very good friend Kevin (vman) got some very bad news last week. His cancer has returned to his colon so now he has it in the colon, liver and lungs. If I had not been driving when he told me, I would have fallen to my knees. I have been so devastated by this. Kevin means so much to me, the thought of him having to go through surgery and more chemo again is just more than I can imagine. Kevin has had 20 rounds of chemo already. I am calling on everyone I know to pray for him and his wife Brenda.



I want to say Congratulations to my Mom!!! She has a clean colon! Way to go Mom! I love you!



Check out the new pics I have posted! Scroll down to see our prize-winning dog!



Thanks for checking in on me,

Love,

Michele;

So tired

Went to see my oncologist today. Platelets are still low. Dr. G thinks I may just have ITP (idiopathic thrombocytopenia). This means low platelets for unknown reasons. She wants to keep watching it. She wants me to go back and see neuro b/c I'm still having trouble with my memory. The anxiety is gone but I still have confusion. I told her it's like this- My anxiety is gone so when I wrecked my car I didn't cry, I just laughed. I am also extremely tired lately, so that's why this post is going to be short, I am so tired I just want to sleep. I have so many things I wanted to talk about but I just don't have it in me tonight. So I will try to post again this weekend.
Love you all,
Michele;

CT scan looks good

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My results from the CT scan are back and no sign of cancer! My platelets have dropped again just since last month. We are not sure why this is happening but I am going back to see Dr. G next week to discuss what to do. My hemacrit is also low, which explains why I have recently been napping every day, I am really tired. Next on the list is a colonoscopy and a pap smear, can you think of anything more pleasant???
Speaking of tired, I am going to go lay down before it's time to cook supper.
I'll write more later.
Love,
Michele;