Prayers for my little brother, Jimmie and my Mom

Hi Abba. I'd like to lift up my little brother, Jimmie to you. He broke his leg the week before last and they've had him in a cast. He went back to the doctor today to get the new cast and they want to do surgery on Friday now. Jimmie is nervous as he's never had surgery or anything before. My Mom is nervous because it's surgery and this is her baby. She also made mention that she was going to try to move her doctor's appt that she had coming up next week because she didn't know how well Jimmie was going to be doing, but I told her that I'd go and sit with Jimmie...she's not cancelling her doctor's appt. She's been having weird pains for a few months in one side of her back in the kidney area and when we talked about it a couple of month's ago, I told her she needed to get her butt into the doctor. She's made excuses about maybe it's just dehydration or she needs to drink more water. She wanted to see if it got better over time. It just came up again a couple of weeks ago and I told her that she needed to be seen about it and have some tests done. So, when I found out that she had made the appt, but now was thinking about moving it, I wasn't going to let her do it. I pray that nothing serious is wrong and that it's something that can be treated easily. I get scared just thinking about it. Please cover our family with your blessings, Abba.

The peanut is back at school...

The doctor said she could go back to school today as long as she still wasn't running a fever. She still felt a little warm to me, but the thermometer gave her a normal temp. She said her throat still hurt, but that she wanted to go to school. We got her antibiotics and motrin down her and she drank a few sips of gatorade. I think if it wasn't the last couple days of school, I would have kept her home one more day. I just don't want her to miss the last couple of days of school. She only goes for a full day tomorrow and then a half day on Thursday and she's done. I can't believe that she's officially going to be a first grader.

We went and signed her up last week for Brownies/Girl Scouts and on Saturday morning we went and signed her up for Pee Wee Cheerleading. Andy was kinda miffed at how expensive it was to sign her up and we still have her uniform to buy. It was just an expense that caught us off guard since we didn't realize that there was a fee to sign her up, but I told him that when you look at all what it covers...I can understand why it's so much. He got over it pretty quickly...we had the money to pay for it...he just had to revamp the budget to show it. He thought though that I was just signing her up for so much stuff that she was going to be busy. I told him that it's only 3 things since she still goes to Gymnastics once a week. I'd rather have her be involved in good things rather than get bored and get involved in the wrong things throughout school. I remember doing Brownies when I was a kid and it's something she wants to do. The cheerleading is something that she's begged to be able to do ever since we moved down here. She's definitely got lots of energy and I think she'll not only make a cute cheerleader, but a good one.

Blueberry White Tea

is my new passion. :-) Deidra's home from school...I just took her to the doctor. Poor honey has strep throat and a touch of the flu. She's also on the verge of being dehydrated. My ears are bothering me and my throat is scratchy so it wouldn't surprise me if I'm the next one to come down with this. While I was getting all of Deidra's stuff at the pharmacy...her amoxycillin, more motrin and tylenol, pedialyte, ice cream, Sprite, and popsicles, I decided that I needed to get some Arizona blueberry white tea since it had "antioxidant" on the label. It is delicious and reminds me of the tea that I always get when I go to Chili's. I think I'm going to e-mail Andy to go pick me up a couple more bottles on the way home from work. This stuff is delish!