Birthday Parties

My mom and dad will be over this weekend. We haven't seen them since Christmas. We will be celebrating Birthdays this weekend. Dad and Eddie will be installing an Owl box in our backyard. We have a barn owl that is currently living in the back yonder in the trees. We would like him to make his new home in the box that dad has made for them. My dad has an owl box on there property out in Anza. He has seen 4 families of owls be born. They are on 20 acres over looking the valley. Although, we are suppose to have rain, I hope it doesn't come on Saturday. We also have a lot of yard work to do and we need to get it down before the rains.

Saturday Doctor Visit

We ended up taking little Ryan to the Doctor's Saturday morning. He has had this on going caugh, head congestion and off and on a runny nose. On Friday I noticed some raised bumps on the back of his tongue. The doctor's weren't answering there phones, so we decided to just drive down and try to get in. We were able to see the doctor at 10:40am that morning. The doctor observed Ryan. Did all the normal checks and said he is FINE! There is alot of this allergy stuff going around and he is just affected by it. Keep the Zyrtec and the Dimetapp in him. He will be fine. I questioned the ears. and the doc said, WOW, they look good. I said, "Yeah they better after 2 double ear surgeries and Adnoids, I would hope so!" She sent us on our way and we continued our weekend. We ended up staying home on Sunday from church because Ryan wasn't up too par. Come Tuesday Eddie stayed home with Ryan and took him to our Peditrician. It appears Ryan has a really bad double ear infection and Pink Eye. You have got to be kidding? The thing that has upset me is: On the weekends, they are not only charging the $20.00 co-pay, but also an additional $25.00 for a Weekend visit. Then another co-pay to have the pedetrician to tell us exactly what is wrong, plus his prescriptions. The pedetrician said, " The Saturday doctor obviously overlooked everything!" A double ear infection doesn't happen over night, especially this bad! It isn't like we had the extra money for the doctor's. I am just glad that we found out the issue. The bad thing is, Ryan has a high tolerance for pain and very seldom runs a fever. So, I didn't even think about an ear infection, because he hasn't had one since his tubes fell out, over 1 year ago. Go figure. It is now Thursday and I sent him to school this morning. He is so excited to be back. He will be turning 5 on the 15th of March. Then we have to go on the 22nd for his 5 year physical. :-(

WEDDING

So many emotions and too many Politics. This is the reasoning why Eddie and I had originally choose not to attend his oldest brothers Wedding. With all the crap that went on between the step daughter and our son Danny, I thought it would be best NOT to attend the wedding. I will not go into details about the Danny issue. I am not trying to protect him, but we are his parents and I believe that it takes two to tangle. It was a Friday, the week before the wedding and my husband mentioned that he wanted to take the time to place flowers on Dad's graveside the weekend of Johnny's wedding. I know I need to support my husband, but I thought we had agreed not to attend the Wedding? Right then the phone rang and it was our new sister-in-law. She needed to ask if Tammy would be so kind and take the photographs for the wedding. Eddie in the back ground is handing me the phone and nodding his head up and down. I felt obligated at this time to say YES. After all, this is our newest family memeber. Besides whatever happened between her daughter and Danny needed to go in the past. So, I put aside the differences and gladly accepted. We had a great time! It rained in and out all weekend. The wedding was inside afterall. We did have the opportunity to see Dad. We baked him Brownies and left him some next to his toombestone. We hit snow and slush through the grapevine on our way home. We are glad that we did make the decision to go to the Wedding. Mom was very excited to see us. We kept the kids at our dear friend's house in Ramona for the weekend getaway. I would upload photos, but I am still learning this photo thing. I really like the cascade of photographs, but can't seem to figure out way my template doesn't offer such thing.

Beautiful Day, in Pain

It is President's Day and we are off to Sea World! What a gorgeous day it is going to be today! The Benedryl has kicked in and I am still awake. Yeah! This is a good thing. My body must be getting use to the medication. Then....I fell asleep on the way down. Hmmm., I guess it is still making me droggy. As we pulled into the parking stall of Sea World, I woke up and relized I couldn't move my lower portion of my body. Perhaps it was alseep? No, there was an aching pain coming from my lower back. Oh, goodness what have I done now? I managed to get myself out of the car, but just for a short period of time, before I almost calapsed to the ground. For some reason, I have pulled something in my lower back. Well, I decided to try to start our day at the park. What a gorgeous day it was. I was doing OK, as long as I stood and didn't sit down. I made it through to 1pm and then we went home. I am still in pain and am not sure what happened. It seems to be tied into the tail bone area. Not sure if it is related to when I severed the tail bone during Ryan's birth. Ocassionally the pain strikes back up, but nothing this severe. So, it looks like I won't be going to bible study tonight. I have taken some Mortin, but it hasn't even taken the edge off. Wish I had another day off, to rest.

SHOES

I have always been the type to go cheap when purchasing any kind of shoes. It wasn't until about 2 years ago, that I learned that you need to take care of your feet. The doctor diagnoised me with Sesamoiditis on my left foot. Sesamoiditis is a common ailment that affects the forefoot, typically in young people who engage in physical activity like running or dancing. It is a form of Tendinitis. At this time is when I relized that I need to start taking care of my feet. So I finally broke down and baught my fist expensive pair of shoes, New Balance. I took them to the doctor where he placed in a special arch support to help with my Sesamoids. I had to wear these shoes for 6 months straight. And for future wear, to purchase more shoes that would correct my feet as I walk. In the meantime, I was thinking of the boys and how they go through shoes so fast. There for awhile I was buying shoes every 60 days for Ryan. Man, How can a little boy be so hard on shoes? Well, we purchased some Nikes and they lasted a good 8 months. It was time to purchase a new pair and this time Eddie picked out the set of Nikes. They lasted only 3 months. I indicated to him, we need to go back and purchse the same style we baught him the first time. So, we did $45.00 a pair. We just purchased them on January 17th and they are completely shot!!!!!!!! I spoke with a friend who does shoe repair and he said it would be a mininum of $15.00 just to look at them. Tammy you need to take them back and let the store know. So today, we drove to Sports Authority, handed the lady the box of VERY USED shoes and gave her my receipt. Eddie said, as she opened the box..."Mam, those shoes are less than 1 month old" She looks down and Ryan and says, WOW, you must be hard on shoes. Ryan said, No they just fell apart and I didn't do anything! The lady gladly exchanged them and this time we did not go with Nike, We baught Sketchers. They shoe is called the un-distructable shoe. I Love it. So, we will see how long these ones last. $50.00 later.

Three Day Weekend

Well, it is another Three Day Weekend for me! Yes! I fianlly told my boss that when school is closed, so am I. I can't afford to be paying a tuition bill monthly as well as a Daycare bill, when Eddie's pay was cut by 10% in January. She didn't argue, she agreed with me. It turned out that she was giving me 2 weeks of vacation each year that I only thought I had 1 week. So, I have made my plans to be off. If I am up too it and feeling a bit better, we are going to go to Sea World on Monday. We have season passes. Then I will be off all days during the Spring Break. Hopefully we will have some extra money to do something fun with the kids. Any ideas for cheap fun days????

The Attack of Flowers

Arrived Tuesday morning to work to be greeting by 3 beautiful floral arrangements and the aroma of candles throughout the office. No special occassion. We sometimes like to dress the office up to have that relaxed sensation. Well, I was too embarrassed to tell anyone that I can NOT DO FLOWERS. I searched high and low for my allergy pills. I didn't have any at work. And I had $0 to my name to goto the store to buy any and there was no way I could escape to go home, because we were very busy that day. By 5pm I could barley breath. I said, "OK, guys the flowers and the candles have to GO! I can't breath. I put all the flowers on the front porch and blew out the candles!" I left for the day and seeked my allergy pills. I believe it was too late. Woke up the next morning and my voice was completely gone. The office still stunk! It wasn't until Thusrday that I made an emergency visit to Dr. Ricci my doctor. I explained to him what happened and he insisted that I make arrangements to have my allergies tested again. By then, it turned into an infection in my throat. For those of you who know my mom, her allergies are now so bad, she has to carry an epi-pen with her at all times. I was just hoping that this time for me would not come so soon. So, I am on a "Z" pak and Benedryl. Doctor said to prepare for a physical that will also include an allergy test. Oh, here we go again with all those needles. Have any of you had an allergy test before? Well about 8 years ago, I did. They make you stop taking your allergy medicine for 2 weeks, then they do this chart, scratch test on your back. Well, I passed that test. Then they put the 121 needles up and down my arms. That procedure was more painful. I also passed that test. Then they sent me to the Lab for bllod which they said was more accurate. If it is more accurate, then why didn't we start with the Lab? Go figure. Then there was the breathing test. Which they attempted 4 times and each time I failed that test. They put me on all kinds of pills, in which non of them worked. I never went back and I treated it my own way at home. Well this time, I will request a new Doctor. I am too young for this. LOL

The Return to Ridgecrest

Well, what do you know...we went back to Ridgecrest last weekend, February 5th during that terrible storm. It was cheaper to rent a car than to take the Expedition. Saved alot of money in gas. Mom called and asked if Eddie was still riding the motorcycle and of course I said YES. This started a huge fight. Mom demanded Eddie come to Ridgecrest to pick up this car of hers. She is having visions of Eddie crashing on the bike. Of couse we dropped everything and went running. Then they called and said, we may not be there this weekend because if it rains we do not want to travel from Bakersfield to Ridgecrest and get stuck in the snow. I can totally understand, but we had already made arrangements with family and rented a rent-a-car. Either way, we were going. The storm wasn't that bad at all. This was suppose to be an up and down trip, but we ended up staying till Sunday morning. My Grandma was very excited to see the boys. We had a great time visiting. We didn't have a chance to visit the entire family. We spent most of our time helping to organize Mom Badgett at home. Because Dad did all the paperwork and bills, mom had no idea where anything was. WOW what an eye opener.

We are finally back home in Ramona. The trip up to Bakersfield was a nightmare. Must I remind you we had a total of 8 people in our Expedition. Of that 8, five were children ranging from the ages of 3, 4, 7 and two 20 year olds. I don't know who was worse the 3 and 4 year old or the 20 year olds. I must say the 20 year olds who should now better. It was a very long drive. I controllded myself the best I could but finally had to threaten to leave the 20 year olds on the side of the road. We finally arrived. Because of the "Danny situation" which I will NOT discuss, we had to stay at the hotel. We were not alloweed to be around the family. Or at least not DANNY. We had to leave Danny at the hotel most of the trip. So, then why did he come????? I am so glad the funeral is over and done with. The Badgett family surely can use some prayer in there lives. The oldest brother who is known as the perfect one, controls everything, all the way down to telling his mom what she should be doing. Lets say, I am glad to be home! As of today February 13th, 2010, mom is still in Bakersfield. She doesn't want to come home to stay. When she does it is for a short period of time only. The "Perfect" one has plans to move her to Bakersfield to reside. I know I live in Ramona, and there isn't much I can do from here to help. I just pray for all of them! I am just happy I stopped on the 2nd BOY. I feel for mom with 5 BOYS!

Services for John T. Badgett Sr.

Services for John T. Badgett will be held on Friday 10:15am at the Bakersfield National Cemetary in Arvin.