Friday, December 15, 2006

December 15,2006

Wow...can't believe we are almost to the end of the year. In some ways it seems like it has flown by and in otherway it has been just a blur!! I guess that is saying the same thing but when I say blur I mean I don't remember what happened on what day......it just happened and life went on.

The last few week have been okay I guess, I've had swelling all thru my body and the doctors say it is leaky valves in the veins allowing blood not to flow right and so it collects. Mostly in the lower parts of the body but have it even in the face and chest and arms. They have taken x-rays when I was in for asthma and for the swelling and said there was no collection in lungs or around heart so that is a good thing!!

I got the okay for the gastric bypass surgery.....I have to have the psych evaluation and the class down with their people then I will be ready, so it should be about the middle or end of January when I get it done I imagine. In the meantime I will continue to see podiatry clinic and also go get results of tests done for neurology. Idon't really feel bad right now just hurt with the swelling as it has places like my feet, especially on the very top of my feet , stretched tight enough it is very sore to even touch. I wonder about nerves from the way it feels.

I haven't done really any sewing or hobbies lately, just felt like I needed a walk away for awhile. However, was able to bein and finished up using paint and stamps and got the grandkids names on stockings and placemats for them this year. Funds were pretty small but was able to pick up things that can use to fill those stockings and was able to get each one their own place settingincluding dish,bowl,silverware,glass,and placemat. Each is different and that should help, hopefully, with no fights over who's is who's. Mikey's is Thomas the trains, Jerrica's is the Princess, Julie's is Dora's, and for the 2 oldest kids I got Alexis a red set and Dallas a blue set.
Then I have been picking up just small things to add to the stockings over the last 4 months as I have seen it.

Maybe once I have the surgery I will have more energy and can get more done......I certainly would love to have that happen.

Monday, October 02, 2006

Sunday, October 01, 2006

10/1/06 A Quiet Sunday

Hello to all
Today has been a rather quiet Sunday here. I slept in but still had to get on up this morning and take a run in to store and get my meds. My daughter let me borrow her car, she was probably still asleep and didn't even know I was gone!! I ran to get a black print cartridge from Wally World and the Meds plus cereal and milk from HyVee's and was back before the Foot ball game started where the Chiefs WON.....oooppppssss hang on have to add paper to printer!!

Okay, that should solve it for a short time......I am having to make copies of some papers for Legal Aid. I am having a problem thru Social Security and have had to involve Legal Aid and they need copies of my papers so rather than go make copies when i have a scanner, thanks to Mom and Dad Wood!!, it just makes more sense to do it this way. I was in need of a black cartridge anyway, kept getting a couple notices everytime i printed that it was going out. Just needed it to last a bit longer until some bucks came in from somewhere. Well, 12 more pages to go it says......

Not sure how this will work out but I surley can not afford to have them take out any more money out of my measly sum I get now, it just isn't enough for me to live on and it is rather depressing but, I try to remember who is in control and put my eye and trust back in on and in Gods hands, that is so very hard to do but I have done it all my life, especially my married life. Somehow it just seems harder this time, maybe because I'm just having to do it for me and not keep up faith and a front at all times especially for the kids this time. I am more alone this time, actually spending time by myself. In a lot of ways I have enjoyed it cause I have never ever had it where I didn't have to be or do for others at certain times.....

Spent time with my Grandkids at least the youngest 3 on Sat. The oldest and youngest were both not feeling real well. When Michael comes and snuggles up in my arms and wants to go to sleep, keeping in mind his mom had given him some Benedryl, but he usually just finds a pillow and plops on the floor.Then Jerrica the oldest kept fussing with the blanket she was trying to fix for her as she wanted to lay down on the floor. She had found a small bunny like her bunny she sleeps with in the toy box but every time she moved the blanket did too and it would upset her and when I tried to work with her she was crying and whinning when she'd say a word and i couldn't understand the word......Nana lost her cool which of course sent her into major tears!! So I went back into the hobby room trying to think it thru, even called my daughter because she is so much like her when it comes to textile feelings, you know, when things don't feel right to ya? Then I thought about how Brie use to be about being tucked in.....even my son the kids dad was like that when he was real young.....except for 1 foot had to be hanging out!! So since my daughter didn't answer, I headed back in and was going to suggest to Jerrica maybe she would be happier on the couch where Nana could tuck her in....but she had already figured that out and was working her way up there and we got her up there , said our sorries, got hugs and kisses and had her comfy, brother asleep and one to go!!!

Boy was I dreaming, Julie is a go getter, she can be yawning her head off, and she was, but she will keep on....... so about a half hour later, not sure if they got a second wind and woke brother up or brother woke up and they got a second wind but that was the end of my quiet time until they left about 3:30pm. I layed down to rest about 4pm and woke up about 11pm. Then I slept all night after I went to sleep again after midnight and woke about 10am.

Well, the printing is done and my fibro is screaming from all the extra typing tonight, so guess it is time for meds and bed!!

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

09/12/06

Well, I should be in bed and asleep.......but just can't sleep yet. Have court a little later this this morning and just can't bring myself to sleep yet. Not really worried because I know I am in the right, I did nothing wrong to cause this to happen. Even though I know there will be all kinds of people around I still find myself unsure about Scotts actions. I have'nt seen him since he left for work on the 1st of Sept..

Been working on seperating things and trying to get my things packed a little at a time. I know that since my appointments for Columbia have been postponed till next month and my ENT untill Dec that I will need to make time for the downtime that is sooo needed with my Fibro.....I have really been pushing it and not allowing it to happen and if I don't give in soon it is just going to take it's time whether I let it or not. When that happens it is always worse!!

I'm also going to take time here in a couple weeks to make some Christmas stockings. Brie and I have things for the younger girls and I need to go get one of the things i found for Alexia before it disappears. Then need to find more for hers and for the boys stockings. Of course the boys are always good with cars, Dallas with Matchbox and Michael with something a bit bigger for now. By doing it the way we have been doing it is so much easier and cheaper but as they get older it will change I suppose.....look at Alexia.

Maybe I can start looking at the $1.00 section at Target and do a stocking for Mandy and Rusty too. Hadn't thought about that!! HHUUMMMMM ohhhh they have those silk looking little purses....maybe one of those would work in Alexia's stocking too. They had some that looked like carry out boxes and got Brie one for her birthday, just big enough for her wallet, cell phone and keys!!

Last night I got this really cute black cat ceramic, well they called it a halloween cookie jar, but I'm telling ya those cookies would have to be about 1/2 inch to get very many in there!!Not much bigger around then a coffee cup saucer and only about 4 inches tall!! I just think it makes a cute ceramic bowl.....maybe a good place to put my pennies in. I'd say a good candy dish but since I'm going to be and am even now trying to cut sugar out of my diet having a candy dish is not a good idea!!

Okay it is after 2AM, guess I will try again to go to bed and sleep.
Night All!!

Friday, September 08, 2006

09-08-06 Wow has it been that long!!

I knew it had been awhile but was suprised when i saw just how long it had been since I'd posted last!! Tomorrow is my baby girls birthday she will be ....28years old........how time does fly!!

This last week was not a very happy week for me, I had to have an ex parte issued and served to Scott, I have bruises. We go to court on Tues the 12th to see if it is to be a year long one or what. I also know that the police were talking to the prosecuting attorney about filing charges. My right arm, shoulder and collarbone are pretty sore still and may have to take them to the doctors yet.
I was asked what i was going to do and my answer has to be the same as it has been for some time now......one day at a time!!

With no car I have to rely on others to take me places so most of that will be Brie as she is the closes, and since she is off on Fridays that is when most of it will probably get done. I do have an appointment down in Columbia on the 25th and Brie is going to take that Monday off to take me. It is the first of the ones to get ready for the gastric bypass surgery so that i can loose the weight i need to lose and get healthier and get to feeling better. I am ready for that. I am tired of feeling so run down all the time and I really am ready for this life changing event in my life.

Okay, this one is short but need to get to sleep.

Friday, August 04, 2006

August 4, 2006 Scott's Latest Boats













The upper boat is the tow boat Scott is building.















This is the Steamer Side Wheeler, like the old ones that you see in the movies where they are gambling on the.....like Maverik.

August 4,2006 Time Flies

I believe the old saying is something like this....."Time flies when You are having fun.....", well guess what? Time flies even if your not having fun, or even if your just kind of not not paying much attention to what life is like and just living life one day at a time cause that is all thet can be done!!

I can't believe it has been that long since I last wrote in here. We've had our good days and our bads as everyone does. Our worst was the day our oldest grandson was court ordered given back to his abusive mother.....yes we could not believe it either!! A lot of anger went on here in this house hold and thanks to my mom, on the spiritual side of things and one of my best friends, Deb Hecht, who lives in Bellvue Neb talking me thru things,Deb on the practical and the possibilities legally, I finally got calmed down. There really isn't anything I can do as a grandparent but sit back and pray. Which is what we have done, we have prayed a hedge of protection around Dallas for no harm to come to him and then asked Gods will to be done and for the kids, My son and his wife, to have wisdom in the decisions they make. If so inclined we would appreciate everyone how agrees with us in Jesus name to do likewise believeing it will happen.

I did get a call tonight from my son asking me to be looking at my calender for not next week but the following week to see if we have appointments that week to let him know as he plans to go see Dallas that week, just before school will start.

I have kind of put most of my quilt things on hold for now.....I felt like I needed a change or something. So this week I started putting or finishing up some of the HO train buildings we have. Right now Scott has been working on his wooden boats.....I'll have to see if he has any recent pics of the 2 he has worked on this summer but he has been doing what looks like an old fashion steam boat with the side paddles......right now it is sitting as he tries to figure out how to do the paddles and connect and make them work......and do it all cheap!!

At preasent he is doing a tow boat! This is cool also as I watch pieces of wood become shapes like some of the finished boats I see pics of that he saves and has on his screen saver program. Sometimes you look at what he has and you just have to say(to yourself....not out load, no discouraging allowed!!) NO WAY!!! The he brings it in to show me what he has done or I'm sitting close by and watch as he adds here and bend boards there and glues(and holds it in plave with good old MASKING TAPE no less) takes the sander and sands off corners. Takes a small drill and starts with a small hole and because you don't want the hole too big, you wrap sandpaper around the handle of a paint brush and sand the hole a little bit at a time trying the piece every few stoles till it is just right, of course this also allows you to keep the hole round or start it toward an oval which fits the ability of removing the piece in the future if need be for repair work that sometimes has to happen in this area.

Now tell me are you as impressed as I have been with all of this?? All from planks, sheets and sticks of wood!! When I find the pics of what is done so far I will post what he has done.

Well, the pain meds seem to be kicking in again so guess I will head for bed, but before I do......My daughter Brie took a painting class this summer at the college where she works.....because she could and she loves art!! The first url will have the photo she took of herself and we are going to work on this one just a tad and i am having this one made big and put in my family pic wall for her recent pic.....I love it!! www.deviantart.com/deviation/35998613 any way the next url is the self portrait painting she did from it!! www.deviantart.com/deviation/36068016 The next url is her standing outside at the campus on the patio and what she saw(that is what they were told to paint) www.deviantart.com/deviation/35751998 and the the last one is actually a Christmas ornament we picked up several years ago, she got the dragon fly and i got my giraffe. www.deviantart.com/deviation/35538762

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

ONE HAPPY SUBMARINER, HIS BEST MATE and His SUBMARINE




How to have a ride in an Ambulance and spend 6 hours of your Afternoon in the ER.

Well, yesterday really did start out pretty good, I took my daughter Brie to work and she needed to stop by Lowes to see if they could make keys for a new box that the Art Dept had and only one of the teachers and her had keys so far. Lowes said they thought the only one key they had was just a bit short and they would recommend the regular key co. here in town. Now you know most places like Lowes who are out for your business only do that IF they really do not believe they can help you. I like doing business with companies like that.

So Brie needs to get on to work, as she is also taking a painting class out at the college this summer also. So I volunteered to take her on to work and since i have to run an errand across from the Lock Doctors, I could have the keys made and bring them back out. So since I've taken classes out there and graduated from out there in '99 there are still a lot of people who know me and of course I had to go in and up stairs to get a Tax Free Exempt Letter, so everyone was in yesterday, well not everyone but it wasn't an in and out thing. Anyway I go get my errand run, get keys made and they even had to take some off of the key as it was too thick and he could tell. But he did a good job cause as soon as i got back we tried all the keys and they all worked!! There is sometimes you just have to go to the experts and not fool around.

I came on home, I had picked up some pop and had left 1 2ltre with Brie, brought the others home, went and checked the mail, got my Missouri Conservation Magazine and came on in. Got something to drink, Mt Dew of course, layed down on the bed and my husband and I were looking at the Conservation, his alarm went off letting him know it was time for him to begin to think about getting ready for work, he gets up, heads to shower, something is tickling my nose and all of a sudden I'm hollering......Scott, quick, find me a towel or something, my nose is bleeding and it is a gusher this time!! We mess with it for 10 min. and he is ready to take me into ER, then I begin to gag on it and he hits 911. They are telling him to have me do this and that and he telling them ....she's already doing it!!

At the ER, they have trouble getting it to stop too. The Paramedics had gotten it to ease way down by having me toblow out my nose and then very quickly they came in with a couple of good sprays of Nasonex something like that , it will shrink the vessles and help slow down the bleeding. I knew that, just didn't know how to do it....now I do!! Anyway, after many tries of the dr trying to put a patch on the bleeder, and the pulse knocking it back off he finally got the nurse ready and put the patch on, she held it on with a long handle of a q-tip while he slipped in a wad and inflatted it with saline to keep the patch in place and then we did a lot of praying for the next half hour that it would hold!!

I came on home and have been in bed as Instructed except to eat, it is awful hard to breath out of your mouth and eat or drink all at once. I go back into ER on Thursday evening/afternoon to get this removed, I just pray the patch stays on then too, if not I have to be transported down town Kansas City as they have an ENT dr on staff down there. I also have fears of this going against me for the Gastric Bypass surgery also. I've had to keep telling myself all day, you can't cry, it won't help the current situation!! but the tears do keep trying, very frustrating!! They kept thinking last night it was do to my blood pressure but my blood pressure has been great.....it was bad then because of my frustrations of what was happening and what was going on in my head.

Okay food break over, as soon as I put up the latest pics that my husband has scanned in today of our sub he has made and of us with it then it is back to bed.

Saturday, June 17, 2006

June 17, 2006 A major Change in my Life

Been a busy monthso far.

Scott and I went down to Jefferson City, Missouri to a seminar on the Bariatric Services thru MU., looking at the probability of having a gastric bypass surgery done on me. The Roux-en-Y Divided Gastric Bypass is the better one done that medicaid will allow and it is what I wanted done anyway.. It is not the answer to eveything I know that....I still may have to end up in a wheel chair because of the damage to joints, some of the is from arthuritis and I know I have fibromyalgia. I also know that it will involve a complete change in my life habits as far as eating but it will be a healthier life change and I have been dragging my feet doing that on a slow bases anyway.....this way i am just going faster, even now I am working on it and have made changes. I'm almost off of sweets and pop!! That is a MAJOR STEP FOR ME,they have been my downfall for years!! I have a peace about doing this and feel confident in my heart that it is the right thing for me. I will have a psychiatric and psychological evaluations to make sure that I am ready and that is okay too.

It is a LIFE TIME COMMITMENT and I plan to spend the rest of my life commited to making it not just a part of my life but my life style and living my life to the fullest and healthiest that i can.

Rusty's Family


Been a while but have good news.....my son Rusty got to take his wife and kids with him and on June 3rd, they went down to his oldst sons Dallas 6th birthday party. Dallas got to meet his brother Mikey and his 2 sisters Jerrica and Julie for the first time. He also at some point asked Mandy Rusty's wife to be his new mommy and told her he loved her!! I understand the nextday he had another big birthday party and he told everyone who would listen about his dad, his new mom and his brother and sisters!!For all of us this is a very BIG positive!! This weekend Dallas has come up and is at my sons home, they wanted to try this out and see how he does with it with all he has been thru, just not all together sure if he was ready to be away from Grma and Grpa yet.

Monday, May 22, 2006

Dallas Michael Wilson Rusty's Son


Well, on May 13, 2006 my son Rusty got to see his oldest son Dallas for the first time in 3 years and we got a pic of them together. He looks good considering all he has been thru. His last day of classes was Friday May19th. He had one special needs teacher that gave him an uncut decorative key when he had a good week and he was excited when he talked to Rusty on the phone this weekend as he got to bring his keys and keyring home with him. I think he had 6 or 7 keys on his ring but then he had a pretty rough time of it when they first got Dallas into classes in Warsaw after getting him out of his mothers care in January. He didn't care....he was excited cause he had keys of his OWN!!

Rusty does hope things will work out so they can go down maybe next weekend, he'd like to introduce Dallas ro his other brother and 2 sisters soon. Can't help but wonder how they will all eventually take to each other. There are six years difference in the boys ages, and both of the girls are trying to be leaders so we really wonder how this will fall together!!

I had the 3 younger kids for about 6 or 7 hours each day on Sat and Sun, while their parent tried to get some of their things moved out of Mandys mom's house. It is a long story and not a very nice one as their family thinks of no one but them selves and are litteraly kicking Rusty Mandy and the kids out on the street, so Mandy's brother can move in.....yes you read it right, her mom rented the place out from under them to her brother!!! Brie came over on Sun and helped me some with the kids so we have a few new pics and will put up one of each kid maybe tomorrow later in the day after I turm them all into jpgs and name them but for now will try to get some more sleep.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

My very creative daughter....Brie


Now I can brag on my very creative daughter.....there really isn't much she hasn't tried that she hasn't accomplished in some form. It may not have finished the way she originally wanted it to, however, she has always been good about changing it into something she liked almost as good if not better. Up on occasion she has had a dud or 2 and has been frustrated for a short time but never for any length of time.

After her Advancement this year at the college and since with that advancement she recieved the benefit of free tuition, she has decided to take a few classes and work on her GPA as well as take some classes that she can just enjoy for a change.

Last week she was awarded a small cash award for one of her digital photos in a school booklet. Here is a url to that pic.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/28303558

Today however, was the art show at school, I try to go every year but just didn't feel like driving myself this year so guessed I wouldn't get to see it. However, at some point in the afternoon I get a phone call from Brie, first she was checking to see if certain people had made it down to go to see the art show cause she'd had to do another job and didn't see them. The hadn't so she was releived.....then she told me she had some really great news to tell me. Okay, what's up??

Her digital manipulation picture for digital art had been bought by the school from her for $250!!! She was very squeaky excited!! The funny part was that last night or the night before we had talked and she was joking and said wouldn't it be funny if one of her enteries like her Cinderella pic got bought by the school!! Then she said something about not holding her breath as that didn't seem to be the kind they looked for......you guessed it it was her Cinderella one that one!!

http://www.deviantart.com/view/31727422/

It's called After the Ball, now if your computer monitor is like mine...very old the pic might be too dark, it took her several trys to get it to print out light at the school but it is gorgeous and does have several thingd like shoes and mice/rats at the bottom. I am so proud of her, she has been doing this type of work for some time now. If you click on her name, then on the page that takes you to, click on gallery, it will load some of her pictures she has on this site, then there is a spot where it says next 24 at the bottom and you can click on it and see more. You can also go into google and just put in brie alsbury and several sites will come up where you can view some of her earlier work......can you tell I'm proud of her??

Okay....bedtime....Night All

I Believe I can Fly, She's still Singing it!



Back the first of February my niece Roxanne was in a helicopter crash on a training mission with the army as she is trained to be a medivac personel. She recieved a compression fracture of the spine which was the one thing we were the most concerned of. She has been doing, and not really paitiently, office duty for sometime now to let things heal up but now we will quote Roxanne... "I finally convinced them that I am not crazy, concussed, or fractured any longer (crazy took the longest) and so am not only flying again....I am also pulling duty already." Now when you see this pic you understand why I know it is the best thing for her to be back in the copter where she wants to be!!

Now here are one or 2 of the crash and you will know why we are grateful to the Lord for His wondeful Grace!!


This is what the copter they were riding in originally looked like before crash.



This is the actual site where the copter crashed by clicking on the smaller pic you can see where the tail made an indent very deep as it was the pivot point for even when the copter flipped over on it's side.





Thank You Lord!!

Monday, May 08, 2006

What a Wonderful Day this has been!!!

Dallas Michael




Today has been a good day!! My daughter in law called early today and was so excited I almost didn't recognise who it was. "You'll never guess who I just talked to and they are willing to let us see Dallas!!" Now let me explain this.....My son was married before and had a son that we have not seen for over 3 years now. Recently we found out that he had been taken from his mothers custody, and his grandparent who had always been enemies with my son, now had him in there home and we were trying to figure out how to get a loan to fight for Dallas as he didn't even know who we were and we didn't even know where he was for sure except supposedly down in the Warsaw area of Missouri. Well, today his other grandparents called my sons current wife and told them not to spend money they didn't need to as they were not going to try for legal custody, they just wanted guardianship for now and after what we found out Dallas has been thru and how much of a difference they have made in him since he was placed in their care, we are all in agreement that he is where he needed to be for now.

His mom and her boyfriend will both spend time in prison for the things they have done for this little boy. He is 5 yrs old and was beat by his mom with a belt and her boyfriend with his hand, He was sent to his room all the time, have no idea really about how they fed him but he was undernurished to the point his eyes were sunken in and black all around they said. He told his grma that his mom poured hot sauce down his throat when he said bad words. His mom and her mom use to chase him around with the sweeper and other appliances that made noises to get him to do what they wanted.
One place they had him at said his bowels had been backed up for 2 years!!!

But he is better now, he talked to his daddy last night asked his daddy when he was coming to see him. My son told me he talked to Dallas...no he was on the phone with Dallas for about 30 min. and Dallas did most of the talking!! Don't know who is looking forward to the weekend more Dallas or my son Rusty. I know we have all tried to find him and have waited a long time for this to happen, Just can't wait till it is my turn....this Nana use to have him every weekend and he will be 6 yrs old the day before my 1st wedding anniversary. Maybe shortly after that we can see him and finally become a part of his life again

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Easter 2006 Michael




Mikey and his daddy whispering "I loves you"



Mikey talking on his "phone"



Mikey and his train



Mikey's smile

Easter 2006 Julie



Julie discovers the eyes on the train


Julie's smile


Great Grandpa Wood and Julie fix Mrs. Potatohead

Easter 2006 Jerrica



Jerrica and her Mrs. Potatohead


Jerrica discovered the eyes move on trains


Jerrica and her SMILE

04-18-06 2 days after Easter

It has been awhile since I have really felt like being up much and really felt like adding to the blog. Between the stress of making decisions and weather changes over the last month or 2 I just haven't felt like doing much of anything. Then there are the meds that make me so sleepy .......well, enough of that.....right now it is letting the meds take hold again and the pain letting up and going back to bed here pretty quick.

We had a wonderful day Sunday for Easter, Scotts parents had Scott, my daughter Brie and I, meet them at the Denny's here in town and we had dinner with them. Then we all met my son Rusty and his family back at our place and got to watch the kids play with the toys we had gotten them for Easter. Papa Scott and I, Nana, had gotten them trains from the Thomas the Train series, 3 different colors, 1 color for each kid. Then they each got a plastic boat to go with same color. The Aunt "Bee"(Brie) got the girs Mrs Potato Heads that had rabbit ears and a tail and rabbit slippers, then Mikey got a John Deer columbine tractor....plastic of course. The girls got some clips and ponytail holders also. But this is the first time Gr Grma and Gr Grpa Wood have had a chance to spend any time with the kids at all.

See when Scott married me almost a year ago he became an instant Grpa, without ever becoming a dad. But his parents also became instant Great Grandparents too!! They kind of liked that idea, especially Scotts Dad Kent. He and our Miss Jewels(Julie) hit it off real well Sunday, She let Gr Grpa do a lot of things for her and let him help her do things.

So now I will share some of the best of the pics with you all from Sunday. Meds are beginning to kick in.....so pic then off to bed.

Is My son Rusty Proud of His son Micheal or what?

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Stop the World I want to get off or at least slow down...

Life has been very busy these last few weeks even more so than usual. It is kind of like when you were a kid and the summer disappeared too fast? Well, that is kind of like the way my life has gone lately.

Some good news I got today was the nurse from the neurologist office called and said my taking the B-12 was doing the trick it was coming up and all the other blood test they ran looked good. AMEN! The new med she put me on I think is making a difference in the long run, it is suppose to help with all the spasms that I have at night, they are like restless leg syndrome, Scott says he sleeps better and that I don't keep him awake or wake him up in the night hardly ever now.

We just recently found out that there seems to be a problem in thesituation where my sons oldest son is at and DFS did not contact my son about it so I am trying to be the cheerleader/ sounding board for my son which is about all I can do. Since there are no more Grandparents rights I can't even go for my grandson!!So trying to have patience and wait this all out and that isn't easy!!

Well, it is almost midnight and I need to be able to get up in the morning....that is one of the things I am trying to work on changing, the time I take my meds so I can hopefully wake up of a morning. Hopefully it will come together eventually. Didn't wake up till 2pm the other day.....just slept hard clear thru!!

Say Good Night Kathryn....Good Night Kathryn

Hail stones from Storms that went thru on O3/12/06
































The 2 pics with hail stones on the table up against trains and tools used in hobbies were taken by my husband Scott. Then the other 2 pics with the hail stones being shown compared with a quarter were taken by my daughter Brie. Either way you go....we had some BIG HAIL STONES HIT and they left a lot of dents in our cars!!

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Fibromyalgia

I have been reading a new book I ordered thanks to one of the ladies on one of my groups. The author is a neighbor of hers and Believe me this woman seems to know what she is talking about! Some of the things I have read to Scott and afterwards he said when we got back home he wanted to look the place over and find the cameras they had hid and were watching us with to write this book!! The book"fibromyalgia: a comprehensive approach" by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson.

Actually I have read the book clear thru, patially read it thru(you know the parts where you go back and say ....wait did I read that right?) Now I am going through with my ink pen(since my highlighters are all dead) and marking things as I come to them this time, that I either want to remember or that I want to be able to go back and say....see I knew it was the fibro when I told you that before!! Then there are those where we have looked at them and re-read several times the first time going thru and said WOW.....didn't know that but it makes a lot of sense!!

Now don't get me wrong I'm not stupid and I realise with my age that some symptoms could be just from getting older but then again some of these symptoms have been with me too long to blame it on just getting older. I also have an answer for the Doctor who is always telling me that I'm always going to be depressed and i might as well learn to live with it and just keep taking the meds all the rest of my life!! Yes I may have moments, even weeks of some depression, but you show me someone who suffers from pain who dosen't suffer from depression!! I do not plan on staying in depression all my life, he makes it sound like I had just better plan on being a psycho case the rest of my life and I don't plan on that happening!!

In fact my regular Doctor and I had a good session the other day and the neurologist and I had a good session the day before, they both are thinking we are on the right track and are hoping to see changes soon. They took me off of Celebrex and gave me some new meds that we hope once I get up to the appropriate dose for me will stop the massive spasms and restless legs that I seem to have all over my body. Scott says some nights I almost knock him out of bed with the spasms and I have knocked him upside the head a few times. I had a really bad spasm last night that jerked my whole body and made my hip where I couldn't move it. All I could do was cry and Scott had to help me move the leg so the hip was back in place so it would ease up. When I finally was able to get up I was very cautious as i wasn't sure if the hip would hold me but I needed to get up and take some meds...bad!! My whole body has increasingly let me know how much of it was involved with the spasm.....it is going to be a very long day I have an idea on Wed March 1st.

Okay better head for bed again and try to get more sleep.

Monday, February 20, 2006

THE GRANDKIDS

Alexis-8yrs old, Jerrica-3 1/2 yrs old, Michael-1 yr old, Julie 2 1/2 yrs old
Aren't they cute and sweet looking!!

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Surviving yet another Valentines Day

Well, these last 2 weeks have been rough in a lot of ways.....On Feb 8th recieved word that my niece Roxanne who is in the Army was in a helicopter during a night training flight at Yakima Training Center, Washington. to quote her mom "Roxanne has a concussion and a compression fracture of the spine, whiplash and various technicolor bruises, cuts, nicks and scratches." That was a big scare but now it is still a concern as we know the compression fracture is at T7 of her spine which is just about the middle of the back!! Also it is hard on her as Roxanne is and always has been a very active person physically. The need to stay in Washington state till the investgation is over then they will be going back to Fort Drum in NewYork where they were stationed, and we will see what the Dr. there say about what needs to be done further.

Then Feb 14 has been a hard day for my family since 2000 when my sister Jane passed away from tongue cancer. Scott had even arranged for my Valentines to be on Monday the 13th so we could enjoy it. Now this year we have had another tragedy added to the Valentines Day and that is my cousin Mark in California, he and his wife Karen lost their oldest daughter Tiffany. It was thought that originally it was suicide but now it is uncertain until autopsy is finished.

I know I've been taught that God will not give us any more than we can handle as Christians but you wonder sometimes when things like this seem to pile up on you!! I've really wanted to sew or accomplish something over the last month or so but just have had no energy and with the arthur and fibro I have really been hurting. I did find a pamplet that I believe explains Fibromyalgia better than any I have seen so far If you know of someone who has fibro and want to help them it is worth reading!!

http://www.arc.org.uk/about_arth/booklets/6013/6013.htm

Well, it is almost 4am and we are up because the neighbors downstairs had their smoke alarms go off but fire department couldn't find anything. Now we have to begin to come down again so we can sleep again.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Very good first part of the week

First of all I should be in bed but tonight is one of those nights where I slept real hard for about an hour and now I'm wide awake!!

The weekend was looking like it was going to be rather dull. I did some cleaning, but for a change not in the hobbyroom. I was getting the rubbermaid/plastic bowls and containers back together where they belong and the doors where they will shut again......you know, that forever battle, where you say I am smarter than the plastic ware.....I will win!! It's amazing how once you go around the kitchen and find all the pieces, what a difference it makes in the looks of the kitchen clutter!! Then it just took some minor putting up of things and you could actually find cabinet tops in our small kitchen again......wow!!

I also got the coffee pot that my mom had brought to me that my dads mom had given them as a wedding gift, washed up and ready to use. It is old fashion compared to the ones now!! I nor Scott drink coffee but with it being ceramic I believe that I can use it to hold hot water for tea......now I will get in and make me a tea cozy for it then I can use it in the hobbyroom when I'm in there.

On Sunday I had several goals and it was very hard to stay on just one cause I kept having to get into the closet to put up things or get out things and I needed to actually go deeper into the closet stuff and get my small bookcase out to use in my bedroom. BUT....I needed to get certain things together with other things that were already in containers that were in the closet so I could get up to the computer and sewing machine here in the hobbyroom. I hate it when it is hard to decide which needs to be done first!!

Well, my son called and said he and family would be by sometime afternoon or evening so I thought.....okay I will get into the closet and get that done so i can get things put back into the closet before the kids get here. Then I find out that only the youngest, Michael is coming, he just turned 1 the first of Feb. Okay not problem He won't matter as much if I have to I can shove things in my bedroom.

WRONG.....when I hear them coming up the stairs I hear the girls talking so it is hurry hurry and stuff things back into the closet.....infact while the kids are knocking and hollering Nana, I'm hollering back Just a minute and having to get things in the closet so I can even get to the door!! But that's okay it all went in and I got my hugs and a bigger suprise as my daughter had come home at the same time they were coming in so I got to see both of my kids as well as my grandkids. YEA!!!

Rusty was doing some electical work for us so he started that while the kids ate the chicky nuggets they's brought with them and frenfries. Then we talked and played. Mandy my sons wife helped with the kids some and "helped" my son some. BUT.......they had also brought me pictures of all the kids that are around here!! So as soon as I can get it scanned I have a new pic to put up of Grand kids. We have Alexis(Mandy's 8yr old) Jerrica 31/2 yrs old, Michael 1yr old and Julie 21/2 yrs old. Very good pic of the kids, I am very happy to get a recent one.

Before they left I had my son see if he could get the knot out of my back so my rib would go back into place, which involves me laying on the floor and him having to do a lot of rubbing and massaging. The kids have never been around when he has had to do this before we realised that night......boy did he have help!! I think I felt everyone of the kids rubbing at some point!! The funniest was however, when Julie the very bold "tank" of the group got down almost on her head and pulled my hair back and said.....whacha doin Nana? We got to laughing so much it was hard to finish!! Her nose was almost on my nose and I could see her feet but she was almost on her head, and the biggest grin you can imagine!!

Okay time to get off and try to sleep....

Monday, February 06, 2006

Another Clean up Weekend

This last weekend was a clean up weekend. Scott worked so I worked on my part of the hobbyroom.Ya know how you can have things in a "neat" pile and all of a sudden something happens and you have an avalanche? I just do not understand how that happend, I mean after all the pile was only about 2 foot high and had books, material and a plastic bag or 2 in it! So I can now see the top of the sewing machine, most of the counter here and the floor in front of all of this is almost there. Actually the floor will be done as soon as I put up some of the small containers that are used like when I'm going somewhere and need small containers with handles on them.....thank you Rubbermaid and Sterilite.

I had also picked up some other beads and things for embellishments so found homes for them. My mom had given us some small glass bottles, you know the ones that you get when you get a gift with several different jellies in them......hey it works. Now that I have a surface to work on again I hope to begin a couple of projects, and how fast they get done or how much they get worked on will depend on how this spell fibromyalgia continues this time. Right now I have it switching sides, it use to bother just my left sidebut now it is beginning in the right side, starting as the otherside did in the neck and shoulder.

Monday, January 30, 2006

Well, another weekend over!!

I like my weekends most of the time, this weekend was no exception. Scott did have to work this weekend, I didn't like that but hey, we will live thru it!!Hopefully it will only last another week or so while they are training the other person for closing of the store at night.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

A really good day on Friday

Friday has been a very good day, Scotts parents came down from up north and took us out to lunch. We always have such a good time and get caught up on the news on them,Grma and Uncle Alan and Aunt Susan. We went back to our place so we could quickly show them some things like my Tea Totes I'd recieved and my Magic Wands.

While we were there my daughter Brie called and wanted to know if i wanted to go with her to the Nelson Art Gallery downtown on the Plaza. So she came by, it had been awhile since she'd seen "Grma and Grpa Wood" and they were glad to get a chance to see her and talk to her. We talked about helping Grpa with his computer that he went ahead and bought the part for and needs installed.

Brie and I left and went downtown at the same time they left, so it worked out great. It has been a couple years since i've been down to the Nelson and BOY HAVE THERE BEEN SOME CHANGES!!! They have really built on and they have an awesome parking garage....the skylights for the garage are actually in the large shallow pool out front of the Nelson......it is so cool to look up down in the garage knowing where they are located and see the water ripple!! It is also neat to look out over the pool and see the light areas knowing they are giving light down in the garage.

They are constanly changing the exhibits around adding new things and sometimes just bringing back some old things. My Aunt Evelyn tells me that if I ever see a small pic of a bunny with her name on it to ask if she can have it back!! When she was a little girl they use to exhibit a lot of the kids pictures from the schools and nearly all of the kids in her class got theirs back but she never did. It would be funny if it was still there some place after all these years.....that prob would have been upper 60's or early 70's years ago!!

After I got home I went on to Walmart and Michaels and picked up Wonder Under and PelTex, some lace and things like that till I used up the last of the Christmas money for this year. We'd just not been in any hurry, we knew it would be needed for something useful and this was it!!

Bedtime again.....Meds are kicking in.....Night all!!

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Can't believe it's been this long ago!!

Last week was a long and rough week. My husband was sick all week and home from work. You know I have no problems with people smoking if that is what they want to do.......but what does one do if they are allergic to cigarette smoke and it seeps into YOUR apartment from others apartments. The management is going to try to seal off our door area but this all seems to come up from the area around the furnace closet and the hotwater heater closet. But that is what happened and Scott was very ill all alst week with sinus problems and bleedingway up in his sinuses. He had to go on Antibiotics and one of the more exspensive sinus meds that we just can not afford to keep going. He went back to work this week and they switched his hours some and he is working days some and will be working on the weekend, makes it hard to plan when they keep messing with the schedule!!

I've gotten in both of my Fairie Wands......I'll try to get a pic of them soon and I've gotten all of my Tea Totes except 2 of them in the Tea Tote Swap in Fiber Art Traders. I just love all the different ways everyone has made their own patterns and all the different colors and materials and even fastening ideas they have used with this idea,Very creative group. My own daughter talked to me and wants me to make her and 2 of her co-workers ones like I made. That is a compliment when Your own daughter wants one, sure makes me feel good. Here is a pic of the ones I made


I've also been working on trying to relax a little more, this not going to bed until super late because I can't get the body to settle from spasms is getting very old!! So I am trying todo a little more relaxing by reading, and forcing myself to just relax some of the muscles that I know are involved during the day. Another thing I enjoy is playing with my little inside rock garden. Some of the things were mine and some came from my Grandma Coen's collection. Her and I had a lot of this type of things in common, the Gnome was her and she kept him in a Terrarium that I had given her for Christmas one year. I felt he needed to oversee my Rock Garden.





Okay, guess it is about time to try to get some sleep....maybe tomorrow I can get more done on the sewing.

Saturday, January 14, 2006

This is Baby Bubbybird


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Artist Trading Card Bubbybird


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This is Bubbybird


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Meet the Grans

The last 2 days have been very full.....not enough sleep, too much pain, then sleep when I'd rather be up doing things!! The Tea Totes were all in envelopes, Bubbybird cards put inside and sealed before going to be last night, also the Majic Wands were all in their tubes, addressed and ready to go out in the mail this morning. Of course after not feeling sleepy again last night and finally going to bed late when the alarm rang at 9AM I was beginning to sleep real goof.....why does that happen?? But got on up and got eveything together went to Post Office got everything tagged and weighted and off they went.
Then I went to Walmart and bought us a new set of sheets for the bed, we still hadn't used the gift card Scotts partent had given us for Christmas, so bought the sheets,also extra pillow cases and a ream of cardstock to use with the printer. Still have $8 and change left over!! Picked up some groceries and came on in. Was working on my emails when Brie called and wanted me to go with her to Blue Springs to a friends used book shop. The friend Beth had just recently bought in to the shop and we wanted to go and encourage also see what we could find. It just so happened that it was Beth's Saturday so we got to see her and Brie gave her a couple ideas she has seen cause believe me my daughter has a nose for used book stores.....if one is near .....SHE WILL FIND IT!!

I thought I should be a good Nana/Grandma and introduce my 3 grans that live close. Don't have a recent pic of the oldest one, nor has his mother seen fit to keep in touch with any of us.....just takes the child support!!
The oldes of the 3 here is Jerrica and she is 3yrs old at this time.She is long and lean like her daddy!!

Then there is Julie.....what do you say about our "Jewels" she is going to be a handful.....very stubborn, she already gets Jerrica down and sits on her when she is tired of Jerrica trying to push her around!! Julie is 2 and in a pair of shorts, tank top, white tennis shoes and socks she'd make a good model for the "sport girl". oh and add the curly blond hair that goes into a ponytail up high and has the little curls hanging down all around......when she will leave it up!! Usually just as soon as their mom gets out of site both girls reach up and pull their hair out of hairbands and rub their heads and sigh.


Then there is our little man Mikey....he is a go getter. He loves for you to tell him he can't do something......you know the routine....WATCH ME!!!! He will be a year old the first day of February!!Of course his favorite word at the top of his lungs is Dadadada until his daddy asks him what then he grins and acts shy!! WOW my son has 3 kids just like he was!!!


Well this is just a beginning......

Thursday, January 12, 2006

The soon to be newest members of our Family




Scott and I are both very thankful that we cannot have children at our age, neither of us can take much of the noise!! We make better grandparents at this age, we love our Grandkids but are very glad when it's time for them to go home!! Don't get us wrong if it ever comes to the point that we have to step up and help raise them.....WE WILL!! God will do the same as He is doing right now.....one day at a time He is providing!!

However, I jokingly have told Scott to expect the pitter patter of feet?? around as I can get them made up and these will become our children. So far I only have Jewells pattern and will get the other 2 in the next month or so as I can. Jewell is the baby troll, Gaylin is the baby Gargoyl and the twins are Judsi and Yopu and they are cave trolls. Aren't they cute? Now tell me aren't they the kind of a thing only a MOM could love!!hehehe

Another day....

I haven't accomplished much today as far as sewing is concerned. I once again found some more material to look thru and try to decide on a plan for the Monthly Fairie Godess. Maybe a step closer on that!! I had a lot of emails to go thru as I had left a lot last night .....BUT....I got some good sound sleep last night, very muchly needed!!

Scott dosen't usually go in until 3pm on Wed, so spent as much time as possible with him....mostly talking while we worked on hobbies and then while we sat in our room looking at his On30 Railroad things. He has done such a good job on them and when we took pics of his stuff on Sunday we had our first sighting of our resident Pixies in Period costumes. It was very cool to spot them there at the passenger station.

Today I got some pics taken and my daughter took the camera home to download the pics for me, I'll go over to her place tomorrow when I check mail to put them on my jump drive and see if I got any of the pictures of my rock garden to share or not.

I recieved 3 of the 10 Tea Totes I signed up to make and recieve in a swap on Fiber Art Traders. It is so neat to see each of the different ideas and the way everyone has made their own patterns for this swap. I also had a suprise that my daughter Brie told me she really liked the way mine turned out and would i make her one and one for a colleague at work.......of course I said yes!! So will try to do that this weekend, I guess classes start out at the college next week and she will be busy and won't see much of her for a couple weeks if everything goes as usual. She will be taking a couple classes this time as well as working out there this semester. One of the classes will be in her own lab....the computer Art lab. At least if there is a problem she will be there to fix it!!

Well, tonight is short, it is bed time for me, I want to get my Heart foundation wall hanging started tomorrow.....if things go right it should get most of the way done tomorrow I hope!! Hands and arms, don't fail me now!!hehehe

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Things work a lot better when you've had sleep!!

I did not sleep last night, I'm sure it was the storm coming in for one thing. Even with the pain pills and muscle relaxers I'd taken just could not get comfortable and of course about the time this morning when i was sleeping really good was when my husband Scott wanted to talk to me!! Oh well, that is the way it happens some days!! I got on up and have made myself stay up so hopefully I can sleep tonight, I've already had meds and hopefully what I'm feeling IS the meds taking hold and sleep IS on it's way.

I went thru several things today looking for some other material that I knew I had to make wings, have ideas for the Goddess of the month now and think I have a plan for the Day dreamer Fairie now. I have all of the Tea totes ready to go in envelopes but realised we have exactly 2 envelopes to our names.....we had planned to get the tomorrow when Scott gets paid but he was informed that the company that was doing their checks was making major mistakes so they have changes companies.....therefore checks will be in on Thursday.....they hope...instead of Wed, as planned!! I hate it when they mess with my plans!!

I wish it was still just my left side that was the painful side but the fibro is now progressing into the right.....so have been in a lot of pain today and have tried to get along without the pain meds as much as possible as it makes me so sleepy.....except at night when I really need it to!!Had to finally put the thumb brace on the left hand to stop the aching thru out the wrist , palm and up into the thumb area. It was bad enough it had caused me to loose grip on my glass of pop and spill it on the floor. I'm okay with the pain but when things like that happens it makes me angry because I have always had control issues and it means i am losing contol and I hate that!!!!!

My son is an electrician and he is planning to come in and replace all of our plugs as the 2 that the apartments replaces literally fell apart in their hands when they tried to take them apart. We'd have the maintenence here do it but everytime that guy enters our apartment we have dirt everywhere. He has no respect for other peoples carpets or anything......we had to literally lysol the tub last time he fixed the shower as he left terrible crude all over the bathtub as well as the floor!!What a mess, we were not happy campers! My son, Rusty has already pointed out some code violations but then when was the last time these apartments have seen an electrician?? I know the Apartments have been sold twice since we moved in back in 2000.....this time it is an individual who owns them and not a company like before.

Okay, I'm leaving a real mess between the computer and the sewing machine but ya know.....it will be there tomorrow to clean up and maybe I will get caught up on posts and get some sewing done too!! It is bedtime and that is where I am heading, maybe I can get to sleep before Scott starts snoring.....then i can stay asleep usually.

l8r all!!

Kathryn Wood


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Monday, January 09, 2006

First Post

Today I am jumping into something new for me but maybe it is something that will help me as I go along. I need to learn to be a little bit more bolder and open, but not to the point of spilling my gutts to everyone. I need to learn to express myself through word and through the art which I have inside of me.

I've always had a liking for the fantacy world, faries, trolls, pixies, dragons, gargoyls and things like this. I have joined a few online groups that are allowing and encouraging me to express myself through this avenue.
Wee Village http://www.future-heirlooms.com/
FairieGoddessMothers
www.lindampoole.com
Sundrop Design http://www.sundropdesigns.com

and then the group that includes this as well as other things is
Fiber Art Traders FiberArtTraders@yahoogroups.com

We just recently made Magic Wands with this group....Wow some wonderful talent in here. I really enjoy the "FAMILY" I feel with each of these groups. We share, we laugh, we cry, we worry about each other, we send out snail mail as well as emails to try to comfort and help each other along. Sometimes the families you pick are closer to you than the families you are born with!!
Okay enough for tonight need to begin to come down and get some sleep, Possible some snow tomorrow.