"Each Morning When I open my eyes i say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasnt arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
Groucho Marx

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

We Are Clear!

As of yesterday the MRSA is clear, but the sores are still there, and will prob leave a nice scar lol !! Unfortunatley we are ALL = meaning, Logan, Myself, Christopher, my Mom, Dad, Sister & His Mom, and Dad, are having to do this whole clense thing for a whole month, meaning we have to take a shower with a cup of bleach and water mixed together once a week and rub this cream around the tip of our nose (which is where the MRSA is more likely to live) twice a day for 10 days (BLAH!)and also wash sheets, and towels, and pajamas once a week (which we already do), but its crazy how much this thing has taken a hold of our house and our lives. Im am just so glad that he is doing much much better! The infectious disease doctor did say though that he is suseptible to getting it back, just to keep a good watch on him. She also said that she doesnt want him to go back to daycare for another month, so its just him and his daddy till then.
On another note, I went and weighed myself while we were there at the doctors office and I weighed 129lbs!! Thats about 34lbs that i have lost since I had Logan...19 months ago! lol Hoping to keep it off! Anyways, not much to blog about today, but hoping to have a calm week soon to catch you all up on everything else going on in our lives! :)

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

New Products!

Just a quick update, he is now offically out of daycare, and staying with his daddy some days and other days with my parents. They gave us a cream to put on Logan's open wounds and they gave us a really really strong antbiotic that hopefully helps, If that doesnt work within a week they will be admitting him into the hospital. I cant thank you enough for everyones thoughts, prayers, and concerns it means so much to me/us!

I figured the last blog was kind of deep lol so I thought I would put something fresh and fun on here. I joined Groupon a couple of months ago, and hadnt really seen many deals which fit me or my family, but then I saw one for the Body Shop and HAD to buy it! (they have some great deals, and if you havent joined yet, you totally should) Anyways, the deal was you buy it for $20.00 and get to spend $45.00 in store. because I LOVE Body Shop products! When i went in they were having a deal buy 3 get 2 free OR buy 2 get 1 free, so I of course jumped right on it. I recently bought my face products from there and couldnt have asked for anything better. So here are some of the things I recently bought at The Body Shop, using my Groupon! :)


This smells amazing!


I also bought the body polish in Strawberry as well, but this is the only picture of the polish i could find. Its just like a scrub!


Thanks to my friend Cassie, I decided to get this Makeup Remover!


This Clay Mask if part of my skin regimen that I use every night! Its Seaweed, and this is the Inoic Clay Mask for combination/oily skin

and last but not least, I got this... which is great for fever blisters!


Plus on top of all of this I got two free samples of:

which is a white floral fragance! It smells so good and I cannot wait to use it, and I also got a sample of this wonderful stuff:

Prayers Please!!!!

sorry it has been so long since i have last blogged. It has been a crazy roller coaster of a ride these past couple of weeks/ days!! The past couple of weeks Logan was diagnosed with MRSA in his ears. Which he got from having tubes put into his ears! It has a very strong resistance against most antibiotics and is extremely hard to get rid of.
Well sometime last week these spots/sores started popping up all over Logan. At first I thought it could be Chicken Pox because they had an out break at his daycare,

These were ALL over his body!
but after having Christopher and my Dad look at them, they thought that it could have been flea bites from when we had dog sat my parents dog. Took him to the doctor to have them looked at, and the Dr. seemed to have agreed that is what is was. So she gave us a cream and told us to rub it all over his body and they should go away within a couple of days... didnt work.! So last night, i noticed that he was having trouble sitting down and only wanted to be held. When i went to go and give him a bath he wouldnt sit in the water, and just laid on his belly! That's when i saw this HUGE knot on his bottom. I figured he had just fell and maybe bruised it somehow. Well afterwards i was rubbing lotion on him when i accidentally scrached one of the sores on his back and while he screamed to the top of his lungs i noticed that all of this puss was coming out, i mean more than you could ever believe. (Sorry if that grossed anyone out). I put peroxide on it and then he immediately fell asleep. Well this morning he had a little fever, but I gave him some Tylenol and figured he was okay to go to daycare. As soon as I got to work i get a phone call from his daycare saying that the knot on his bottom has turned into a huge sore like the ones all over his body, and she mentions that maybe it is the MRSA. So of course I freak. I called Christopher, and couldnt get in touch with him, so i call my mom (Who is AMAZING by the way) and she went to pick him up and took him to the doctor for me. They confirm that it is MRSA and said that they will be getting in touch with the infectious disease doctor, and seeing what they think we should do next. She did mention that he might have to be put in the hospital for this. So that is where we are as of right now.... my poor baby boy :( I hate that all of this is happening to him. I would take the pain in a heart beat if i could. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pray for our family and especially Logan. MRSA is not an infection that you want to play around with, like I mentioned in a blog before my grandma had it before she died and it was just horrible. I posted a picture below of what it looks like now, and for people that have a weak stomach please dont look. But I want you guys to know how bad this truly is, and how bad it can get. I will keep everyone updated. Thank you so much for all of your thoughts and prayers!

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

My New Camera!!

This is my new camera that my Mother in Law just bought me!! Isnt she the best!!



Here are just a few pictures that I have taken with it so far...






This is the Stuff...

Lets just say this morning was a rough morning. Lost my keys, couldnt find my cell phone, i was running late, and still had to take Logan to daycare. Well, when I got into the car this song started playing and it fit my morning perfectly, so I just thought I would share and maybe it could help someone else's day!

Monday, April 4, 2011

The Dare Devil!

Just a little update on Logan.
His right ear has cleared up, but now the infection has seemed to go to his left ear! ... Yuck! His right ear has pretty much turned raw. I feel so bad for him! :( We take him back to the ENT this coming Wed. and we will figure out what to do from there, but thankfully, he is still acting like a normal kid.

This past Saturday we had a fun filled day! Saturday morning we went up to Eastside High School with his **MO MO** AKA Aunt Morgan, where they were having a "cruise in". They had lots of old cars, games, blow up slides, and food, but Logans favorite was the fire truck!







It was so windy, and bright outside though so we headed back to Nana & Papa's house for lunch and a nap. That night we took Logan to the Shrine Circus, where he was literally the Perfect Kid!!! He sat in my lap the whole time and watched in amazement of everything going on.

Then Sunday, when we went to my moms house for dinner, Logan was pretty much begging to go outside.

So I let him go outside for a little while where he was able to play with his new Tractor his Nana & Papa bought him. He's almost too big for it. lol

He has become such a little daredevil though...as you can see....
I see a lot of future trips to the ER for some reason lol.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Mother/Daughter Day

This past Friday was Mother/ Daughter Day!!!!! It was so much fun, and I completely surprised my mom which is exactly what I wanted to do. She has had such a rough time lately since both of my Grandparents died, so I wanted to do something really special for her that would boost her spirits, she is not only my mom, but my best friend that I would do absolutely anything for. I also wanted to make it a point that at every new stop I would give her a different bible verse and a picture with loved ones to help her through her discouragement. God has played a huge part in my life in the past two years, and I have found so many answers through prayer and reading my bible, and I knew that God would lead me to the bible verses that would help her. I wanted her to know that everything was going to be okay, and knew this would be a good way to do it.


This morning we went and ate at our Friday morning Breakfast place (Stax’s Original), and before we got out of the car I handed her a picture of her and my dad when they went to Frankie's Fun Park and on the back was this:

Psalms 55:22: Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.

We ended up taking Logan to breakfast because mom was having withdrawals from him, and wanted to spend some quality time with her favorite grandson. lol which actually, worked out perfect because Christopher had a job interview at Pepsi **prayers for that please**Afterwards, we dropped Logan off and headed towards Woodruff Road… Mom had no clue where she was going! It was so fun to see her excitement and urge to find out where we were headed. I finally pulled up to Urban Nirvana and told her that for her first surprise of the day she will be getting an hour long massage from Hanna (who I recommend to everyone), but of course, before she got out of the car I gave her another picture, but this time of her and I from my wedding, the bible verse on the back was:

Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”

Let me just go ahead and say, that I love Urban Nirvana! They have such a relaxing atmosphere and everyone there is just great! While my mom was back getting her massage I decided that I would try the Buff & Broze, which was incredible. They exfoliated my whole body, then I got into the shower and rinsed off, and afterwards she rubbed lotion all over my body that had a tint to it, so it was kind of like getting a spray tan/ but not really lol. It was so nice.

After our amazing time there, we left and had a small bite for lunch at Dukes Sandwhiches (YUM). The bible verse for our stop there was:

Romans 12:12 “Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.” The picture was of her and Logan from Easter.

We then headed off to our next surprise, where I took her to have a manicure and pedicure.

Philippians 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. The picture was of my mom and I back in the Summer I was pregnant.

We both had the deluxe pedicure and manicure, the only thing different was that it included the parrifin wax. We both did our nails a summer pink color and out we went to our next destination.


Next, we headed to Artistic Cutters where we saw Cynthia. who did our eyebrows. We both have bushy eyebrows so it was time for us to have them done.

After finishing there we realized that it was time for her to leave and pick my sister up from school and I needed to get back home to Logan, so that ended our Mother/Daughter day, but I left her with a picture of her and Logan at the beach and this bible verse.

John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

We had such a wonderful time, and it was so nice spending time together like we use to before things got so hectic. She is definitely someone I look up to, and I most definitely hope that I can be half the mom that she was to me.

(Thank you to my wonderful friend Lesa, who let me borrow her camera over the weekend)