Some New layouts

Hey Ya'll! SOrry I haven't updated sooner but I have had a nasty upper respiratory infection and have been on some super strong antibiotics. They have made me so nauseas and I haven't felt like doing much. Yesterday and today I have finally felt like scrapbooking and doing some things around the house.but in addition to the sinus infection, I took a fallthis past Saturday night. I was in the tub And just before we had eaten Tsjuan (i probably spelled that wrong) John and Bella got sushi and I got hibachi. Well when I got mine somekinda liquid was all over the lid. I did fine ( Im horribly allergic to seafood and mushrooms and they had gotten both) well I went to take a bath immediately after I ate. while I was sitting in the tub my throat got kinda itchy and phlemy. I figured it was nothing but was gonna take some benadryl just to be on the safe side. so I called to John to bring me some benadryl. Nothing. I called even louder. nothing so I tried to get up.. well my water was pretty warm and I got my feet under me and my legs went numb and I fell backwards in the tub. I landed on my right side. hitting my hip first and my ankle behind me and my head (the hardest part of me) and my wrist was curled. there was just a little water in the tub thank God. I layed there for a second thinking he had heard me fall cause all the shampoo bottles fell and made a unearthly racket and my big butt falling in that tub made plenty of noise. but no.. nothing. I thought well good lord Im glad Im not unconscious. so I yelled his name again. NOTHING!! so finally I got seated upright AND I SCREAMED WITH ALL THAT WAS IN ME tears and everything JOOOHNN HELLLP MEEE! he said JUST A MINUTE! he came back ther what is wrong. I said Ive been calling you I need some benadryl and I fell. He said omgosh good lord are you ok.and he checked me out. nothing was broke he said I would have some pretty bruises there were alread red places. I was just a crying. I was overwhelmed. I had not even taken my bath yet. He fussed because hot water is a no no for MS patients I told him I run cold water before I get out but I was trying to get out to get me some benadryl. He understood annd said " Its alright now" Its over. you are going to be ok. he ran me somme luke warm water and I took my bath and washed my hair carefully. He was in there every 10 minutes checking on me. Making sure I was breathing ok and havent passed out due to the benadryl. I did fine. I ran cold water and got out of the tub fine. it was just the warm water had numbed my legs that made me fall. I know better. He gave me a lecture about warm water and not having my phone back there to get his attention (it was charging the battery was almost dead ) he hugged me and said " Im glad you are ok, Don't scare me like that" I told him I was a little afraid myself haha. so that was the excitement at out house. Here is my public service announcement. ESPECIALLY with winter coming and cooler weather. If you have multiple sclerosis be aware just how warm your bath water or shower water is. it can get too warm quickly and you loose the feeling in your legs and fall.. I know it happened to me. ok so on to some scrappiness. These arent real fancy pages. I was kinda in a lul and trying to find my MOJO. I hope you enjoy looking at these. again theyre not to fancy. The first one is the last of her Senior casual photos. I have loved scrapping these pictures. She did so good taking these pictures and I could hardly pick a favorite. Even the ones that were not my favorites turned out to be great layouts.

Sorry the photo is a little crooked. I was half awake and had a half a cup of coffee when I photographed these.

I left room on this one to put her name. I know her name but not exactly how they spell it. her name is Rosey but it could be spelled IE or EY or Y see what I mean, so when Bella gets home I will put it on there and update it. she is the cutest little thing. All the seniors get a kindergarten buddy.

Again sorry for the glare. I love this page. It shows some of her best smiles. I wanted so many 5x7s of these pictures to frame but I know I cant do them all. and guess what? Her professional senior portraits came in yesterday! OH My GOSH They are so beautiful. I really want a great big one to go over my fire place of her drape picture its so good. BUt they want a ridiculous amount of money for it and that doesnt include the frame! it is extra! I dont have that kinda money. so we got the usual 8x10 we got a small package with hopefully enough wallet for family and it was 165 dollars. I was shocked. pictures are expensive. i was wishing my awesome photographer neighbor had not left the photography business!!! Ivee learned though because of my wedding not to scrimp on pictures (our wedding pictures were horrible) the ones my sister in love took were better and that was just a few. but Im happy to have those. Well Im going to be scrapping today. Today is My mother in loves birthday. I miss her so much. she meant so much to me. i miss her.I know John and especially Bella miss her. so Im trying not to be sad because I know she is in Heaven better off than all of us. Im praying for JOhn and Liz and zach and greyson and Bella (her grand babies ) today that it is a little easier knowing she is in heaven singing with the angels and rocking the babies. I know I will see her again. I post this for Bella I made this layout quit a while before her death. whenBella was little of things I wanted Bella to take in of her Nana and always remember about her

The journaling reads:Bella and Nana ( I don't ever forget (right now) how good she smells, her snuggles,cuddles, and kisses, her wonderful generous giving nature, how beautiful she is inside and out, but most of all how much she absolutely ADORES... YOU!!!! Happy Birthday In Heaven Nana!! we love you and we miss you terribly!

A hurricane and some new layouts

I have made some new pages this week. I have another I just need to put a title on. I hope to do that today so I will post that tomorrow. I've been really tired and achey with this cold weather after Hurricane Zeta. We were fortunate though, our power flickered a lot and surged, but it never went out.(unless it went off and on while I was sleeping) but our internet and tv went out. I used Data to get online and check on my cousin Angela, she is in Louisiana and I worry about her, because she is alone. So far so good. I scrapped most of the night of the hurricane before the power started surging. I was scared my lights were gonna burst, so I came in here with John. I unplugged my cricut and the laptop and my phone (it was charged up anyway, I didnt need it plugged in) The next day I was scrapping and I went to use my cricut. I got on the laptop to cut my title and I sat there clicking on the mouse and finally rembembered oh yah! Ding Dong! Internet is out. It finally came back on but I still havent cut my title. oh well, maybe I will today.

Here is the left side of a double page layout. Ill just tell you all of the journaling on both pages at one time afterwards. It's sweet. Bless JOhns heart.

This is the right side. The Journaling says: This is what I call a “necessary” layout. It’s time with her daddy doing things that I just happened to get a picture of. And I just felt it necessary to scrap. It’s 2 pages..sorry for the glare. One day l will find a place that doesn’t do that. It says “making posters for Homecoming with Dad” The Journaling reads: 1st page: Bella was on the Homecoming committee to decorAte for Homecoming that included making the hallway poster's. She painted this one in the garage and then when it got night time so she painted it on the dining room table. She drew and colored all these little kids or shall I say “Teenagers” and she cut the heads out. The faces of her classmates out of pictures. She started gluing them onto the bodies of the “Teenager cartoons” She then suckered. I mean talked her daddy into doing the rest of them. Page 2 journaling: Yes, he fussed about it as he always does but he did a good job and it was something for his daughter. So you know he would do it. I can’t remember the exact number of them all , but I believe it was around 60. They looked so cute on the poster. She did a great job on this. Her daddy did too. Their teamwork was great. This was the senior poster for 2020 (Seniors of 2021). Homecoming went off well. They did it different this year without a dance. The school rented out the movie theater and showed “Jurassic Park” At least they got to do something for Homecoming instead of it being cancelled. I think they had a good time for this being their last Homecoming. Here is another Homecoming page:

I liked the purple it matched her dress and really made it stand out. She loved her dress. Got a fantastic deal on it. I am so proud of my girl.

Here is the last one for today. Laughter. The font is Bittermilk for the title. (I had a lot of people asking me) I fussy cut all of those flowers out of a piece of Karen Foster paper. Then put little bling on the inside of them. I love this picture of her. I have it in black and white also. Its not a big photo though I don't think. I think its just a 4x6. I am loving scrapping all these casual senior photos. so much fun. such good pictures. I have more pictures of her Senior activities to scrap! So I will be online later scrapping away. I hope you have a beautiful Sunday. It is sunshiney and beautiful outside but cold. I opted for another cup of coffee this morning just because I was cold. online church was good this morning at Dayspring. He talked about Divorce. It wasnt the fire and brimstone I was expecting but he told the truth according to the word. He spoke a little on forgiveness. I have a link to Dayspring over on the side there. You can find the sermons under the sermons link (I think its a picture) OK Im off to find a snack hope you have a great day!

Last night I got so frustrated. I couldn't find a black fine tip pen and I knew I had some. Finally I asked Bella and she produced 2 of them. I should have figured haha. Any way this morning I used one of them to darken in the back ground behind my title on the "I Hope You Dance" layout. It looks so much better I think. You can see the title now.

I hope you enjoy it. I made another layout this morning, but the glue is still wet and visible. SO I will wait till tonight to photo it. I have chat and scrap online with Bash your stash. I hope to get a couple of layouts made. I will post them tomorrow if I get any done. check back tonight or tomorrow for more. OH we have that pesky tropical storm coming. Hopefully I will have internet and power. The generator man hasn't come to look at out generator yet. Im hoping it isnt a serious problem that is going to be expensive. oh well. Maybe this storm will just be rain. see ya tomorrow, take care!

New Layouts

Hey there! I joined an online crop this weekend. I may go today for a bit. Im tired. BUT, I have some more pages I want to do. I find when I am tired though I don't do as good of a job on them and they turn out messy. so we shall see. John was up early this morning and finished smoking a pork butt for us and for some dear friends of ours and cooked some corn on the cob and baked beans and cole slaw to go with it. I love that smoker I am so glad he got it! Here is the first page I did:

This is one of Bella's casual Graduation pictures she had made on a rooftop in Downtown Mobile, right at the golden hour of sunset. I think they turned out so good. I asked on this group I am a member of and just love (scrapbooking the day away) for title suggestions and a lady on there suggested "Lovely" and it hit me right then that I wanted to do "Isn't she lovely" I got a lot of title Ideas for many other pages I will be making with those photos (I have a lot)I love those ladies so inspirational and always helpful. Here is another page I used one of their title suggestions for this "Isn't she lovely" page on this one, It fit so much better!

The challenge was to use circles and dots. half and half on your page. I think I used enough circles and dots. The title is kinda dark. I was outlining it to make it stand out and my pen died on me. I need to get me another one quick! Mary Ann put it on the Friends of Mobiles Fabulous Flamingos page also. (the group I scrap/crop with once a month) These pictures, I was not sure of at first and them by themselves I just was not crazy about. but when I put them together and with the dance title OH I just loved it. The pictures were perfect for this title. Im glad I printed them.

Bella got to experience Homecoming this year, but it was different. The school didn't have a dance like usual. The school rented out a movie theater and watched the latest Jurassic Park movie. Then this group of kids got together afterwards and went to cracker barrel. She said she had a great time and she took several sets of photos for me to scrapbook! sorry for the glare! It was getting dark and my kitchen has a flourescent light. I didn't use a lot of layers or patterned papers with this layout because there are a lot of people in the photos. *That is my rule of thumb. If the photo is busy use less busy papers. If the picture is just a single person and not busy I can use more vibrant, busy paper. Here is the last one:

These pictures are so fun! I had to cut them down though to get them all on there. This was dress up week spirit week of Homecoming. They had so much fun. THe challenge was to use twine, fibers or ribbon. I used ribbon at the bottom of my page. I have another couple of Homecoming layouts to make. We will see if I do them today. I may just rest. Im tired. I hope you have a good day and if you get the chance, do something creative!

HEY YALL! Today I am going to share a more advanced way of making embellishments. I'm going to be making it with you so bare with me. 1) first I am going to go through my scrap box and find me a scrap piece of cardstock I like. This will be the base of our embellishment. SO, we are going to be covering over this so it really doesn't matter what color you , just as long as it isn't wrinkled or bent..

This is my background cardstock I will be punching. This is the punch I will be using. Now I KNOW everyone doesn't have this punch. So you may improvise by using a rectangle, a tag, a circle or square. Just any shape you would like to. I love this punch for making embellishments though. It is just big enough. Im not saying go buy it. I don't know if they even sell it anymore. This came from my mom's stash when she went into assisted living. Thanks MOM! IT appears to be a label. It is a Stamping UP punch. SO if you are interested in getting it you may contact your Stamping up dealer for more info.

Here is the background paper (that we will be covering up!) punched out.

Next we want to pick out our paper to cover our cardstock as the back ground paper of our embellishment. Chances are we may only see a trace of this paper but we still put it down in case some of it comes through. Some suggestions: You may have a layout or card you are working on you wanna match, or you may wanna make holiday embellishment to go with Halloween, Thanksgiving or upcoming Christmas. IF you just wanna play and make some thing to practice on that's ok too. I start with looking through my scraps bin and see if there is anything in there I want to use. (unless I am matching a project) find you several scraps that will go together. (at least 3) They don't have to match exactly but the more they blend or match the better. Here is what I have chosen from my scrap box.

Now I will pick one to be my background sheet and punch the label punch out with it and adhere it to the cardstock. It should look like this (or whatever shape your using.)

Next we are going to cut 2 little flags. I hope you picked out 2 more patterned papers that match or blend. IF not do that now, then meet me back right here. First Flag:

I cut it 1 and 1\2 inches long and 1\2 inches wide. Now Im gonna cut a small cut with the tip of my scissors up the bottom then diagonally on each side to make the flag tips.

then make the diagonal cuts from each side.

Make the same diagonal cut on the opposite side.

Well mine is a little crooked but it gives it character. oh well. We are going to cut another one at 1 inch long and 1\2 inch wide out of the other patterned paper that you picked out. Do it just like the first one.

When You finish it should look something like this. Now we are going to glue (just the top edges )down to the back ground. *****READ FIRST BEFORE YOU GLUE!!!!! Your gonna glue JUST THE TOP EDGE about 1\4 the way down ONLY for the LONGEST one first!!!

YOur gonna apply the tag to the far right at the bottom ( the top part you glued will go on the bottom right) majority will be hanging off the label or whatever shape your using. see, look!

Next we are gonna do the same thing with the second flag but we are gonna over lap it some onto the first flag!

well mine is a little crooked but thats ok. Next is an optional thing. IF you have a stapler or a Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher. Im gonna staple on the two tags.

I put two right on where they overlap. IF you don't have a stapler that is fine you don't have to do that. Its just to add some extra umph!to it. next I think we will add a flower. pink or purple? lets see what I have. Oh I think this lavender ( Violet) one is prettier than the pink or the darker purple. I had some smaller lavender but they just looked lost on there. This one I believe will be perfect. You can use anything you want. It doesn't have to be a flower I just thought with this pretty paper a flower would be perfect. You could use a sticker (I always back my stickers with cardstock before I put them on. Its ok if a sticker hangs off as long as you back it with cardstock. for that reason I use white scrap cardstock or a matching color. You could use a button, be sure you put thread through your button. there's nothing much that drives me more crazy than a naked button on a project and yes I admit I used to do it! You can use any type of embellishment you want to use. Im going to glue this flower down.

ok, Next I think we will add some bling! In looking for some purple bling I discovered I have an overwhelming amount of BLUE bling! I didnt think I had any so I have been buying it to go with Bella's senior pictures. I think I can stop the crusade to buy all the blue bling now! I think I have a huge portion of it. ok this bling is not as big as I wanted it to be so I think I will do 2 rows with it.

We are almost done. Stay with me now. Next we can add a piece of Washi tape or ribbon to the space above the bling (you see why i wanted to add 2 rows?) I wish it was bigger. Let me look at my washi tape first. I found a purpley Blingy washi tape I like. I think I will use it. Yall have to see this!

So what do you think? If you don't like bling you can use other stuff like stamps on cardstock, ribbon, or plain washi tape. you may interchange this out anyway you can imagine. please share your ideas and designs with me! Id love to see them. I hope this was easy enough to follow along. I tried to make it easy. It's all up to you from here. Use your creativity and imagination and make some fun embellishments. YOu can look on youtube and pinterest under DIY EMBELLISHMENTS and HANDMADE EMBELLISHMENTS and see more examples of embellishments but there are not many tutorials on how to make them.

Handmade Embellishments

This is the embellishment I chose to make a tutorial of, Because it is easy to interchange everything for your own personal scrapbook stash. * The tan is just a sheet of scrapbook paper to make it easier to see the embellishment I put behind it. It is not part of the embellishment. This particular line is by NIkki Sivils line called " Its Raining Its Pouring" I dont know if you can even get it anymore. This is VERY old paper from my scraps that I had rescued because I loved it I thought I could make cards or something with it. Its perfect for embellishments. I love this paper all I have are scraps. It is just so adorable. You may use whatever you have on hand to make your embellishment. Maybe something to match a project you're working on, or something you like you know you will use on a scrapbook page or card soon. You can make your embellishment as fancy or as clean and simple as you want. You see I went for clean and simple. YES!! I KNOW HOW to do clean and simple! shocking I know!

Punch a circle (or whatever shape you desire, a square, a smaller circle or larger circle, a tag, a rectangle. Use what you have) my circle is 1 and 3\4, onto cardstock (it can be scrap cardstock of any color, you wont see but the back and it will be adhered down) Then punch your back ground paper use the same punch and adhere ( (I didn't use glue so it wouldn't ruffle I used double sided tape) it to the punched out cardstock. glue them to cardstock then glue them tor glue I prefer double sided tape for the back gound) to your background paper. WHY adhere them to cardstock? It gives them more stability and strength. IF any of it were to be hanging off the back ground it would stay crisp longer..

Fussy cut your next image or just cut depending on your image, out and adhere it onto cardstock. Glue it onto your back ground of your embellishment. I cut these boots out individually so I would have more room to play with them instead of just putting them there. I could put them a little off from each other or side by side or diagnal. play with your image for the most creative looks.

Next,This patterned paper used to have the larger text "Playing in the rain" on it. But, I cut it out to go on my embellishment. You don't have to put a title or words on yours. You can put bling, buttons, ribbon, washi tape, stamp an image onto cardstock and put it there, use a different embellishment or cut something out of patterned paper. You will notice I didn't ink my edges on this. I usually ink my edges with " Vintage Photo Distress stain" but I didn't feel this project needed it. Here is the finished product!! show me what you made! I would love to see it! there are no mistakes remember just creative branches in which to place embellishments! haha! ( Thats why my pages have so many embellishments on them! NOw you know my secret hahah!

*I hope you found this tutorial helpful. I welcome your feedback. I will post a more challenging one tomorrow and make it with you! Until then I hope you have a marvelous day and Happy scrapping!

Happy NEW YEAR!!

Happy New Year everybody! I hope you had a great time New Years Eve counting down to 2020!

Me? Oh John and I stayed in and I scrapbooked a little, then watched Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve. I actually knew a few of the singers on there. Then at midnight BAM! I turned the big 50!

My tummy felt a little off New years eve morning but I didn't think anything of it. Probably the coffee. New Years Day it was evident something was wrong. I was convinced it was the new coffee. 

We had big plans for that night with our Small Group from church. I really didn't, I w want stomach issues to mess up our plans. SO, I watched the Rose parade, watched the AUBURN game ( they didnt win for my birthday but only lost by one touchdown) I wasnt real upset. 

oh back up! that morning John told me to stay in the back of the house. He would let me know when I could come to the kitchen. well that lasted a little while then I got fidgety.so he hurried haha.

He got me 

Beautiful flowers and a sweet sweet card and a birthday cake to take to the dinner party tonight!

He did good! started my morning off great. until I drank coffee and ate cinnamon rolls and got an upset tummy, I thought for sure it was the new coffee.. nope!

Well time came for dinner and I was feeling OK, not great but not really bad but I had not eaten anything since the coffee,cinnamon roll incedent.

We had the dinner at San Miguels mexican restaurant.It was so good.

We had 15 friends there in all. We had a great time.

We were sitting there and out came the staff with this huge hat and they stuck it on my head and a spoon full of whip cream they stuck on my nose and sang Happy Birthday to me in spanish.

Ill post those pictures later my battery is going dead.

I ate and had fun and then we cut the cake. I had about 3 bites of cake and started feeling nauseated.

I told John we need to get to the house.

so we gathered up everything (I got some nice gifts Thank you again!)

and what was left of the cake, and made a quick exit (sorry yall)

I barely made it home before I got sick.

I spent the rest of  my Birthday eating saltines and sprite and laying in the recliner. The next day was more of the same.

Finally today I feel some better. I ate some campbells chicken noodle soup and it was so good.

I hope this isn't a sign how 2020 is going to be! I hope it is going to be much better than this.

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and yours and I hope you have a great start off to 2020!

So, I'm starting my blog back up...

I know I know, blogs aren't popular any more, but I have my reasons. I want to keep up with my  Treatments that are new, the side effects and progression, victories and setbacks so I can see how far I have come and can show my dr.. I also want to share my scrapbook pages with my family and family pictures that I don't put on face book. (MY mom doesn't have Facebook) I also like uploading pictures Id like to print to scrapbook, I enjoy looking back on this blog at Bella's years of growing u p and I thought why did I stop!! Facebook.. I didn't stop scrapbooking. she has tons of albums. Her life is well documented. This will make you mad. IM current in my scrapbooking also. Like I'm scrapping the right now the things that are happening in her life within the past 6 months.. see I told you it would make you mad. BUT I HAVE 1 CHILD. most of you that scrap have several children you are scrapbooking for so give yourself a break.

IM going to start this first post out with my first half treatments of ocrevus and what side effects and things I noticed.. If you get bored I totally understand. But you may find some funny things in there. This is me we are talking about.

I was taking a drug called Tysabri. I really liked it except the screaming headache that NOTHING would get rid of for 2 days after my treatment. BUT, I figured, 2 days sacrificed for a month of feeling good was worth it. on the injections I felt horrible everyday like I had the flu and was tired and miserable, achey, depressed, muscle aches and stayed in bed all day because I didn't feel good.

They do a test on you every so often called the JCV test (stands for John Cunningham Virus) if you test positive and keep taking the treatment causing the positive JCV test long enough you can get PML (don't ask me to spell the name of that disease please!) It is a disease of the Brain that is 9 out of 10 times fatal and the 1% it isn't fatal you are just incapacitated. The normal test result that they take you off Tysabri for JCV is 0.4%. My test result was 3.8% Needless to say my dr was freaking out trying to get me on the phone. We canceled my next Tysabri appointment and I came into the office to discuss my "Options" which there really weren't any.. I could take Ocrevus.

Ocrevus Is a rather new drug but they have seen a lot of success putting MS sufferers into remission with it. That sounded good to me where do I sign up!

well we had to jump through the hoops and red tape and blah blah blah blah finance and insurance then grants because this treatment is .. You ready for this? 80 ish thousand dollars PER treatment. thats not per year thats each time I get a treatment. geesh!

so we went through alll the Grant funding and got approved THANK YOU JESUS!!

Finally its my first day I am getting 1/2 dose my first time. This is at the same infusion center, same nurses everything that I had with Tysabri Just different medication. 

My husband John can't stay with me he has to work so a dear friend Tara from our Wednesday night small group class at Church said she would come sit with me and keep me company (and make sure they are on top of things) besides I'm going to be there 5 hours. 

                                                                   My Friend Tara and Me. 

She gets there, we get settled, they get my iv in first try!! Everything is a go we are ready for this!

They give me a steroid shot in my iv line before the treatment to help with side effects as well as benadryl and some tylenol. I start to feel woozy but have a horrible taste in my mouth from the steroids and the saline.

                      I couldnt find my picture of the Ocrevus infusion so this is Tysabri. You get the Idea.

They hook me up to the Ocrevus everything is going smoothly till about halfway through. I start losing my voice and my eyes start swelling shut. my neck starts swelling. a second later it was obvious my throat was closing. The nurse had put me right by her desk (I always reacted in hives and itching to the Tysabri so she figured Id do the same to Ocrevus) she came running over there and salined me and hit me with another steroid shot, directly in my iv line then another saline. She said she was gonna "call the dr first but throat closing warrants immediate action he will understand." I started laughing, thinking yeah I hope so!!!

I could feel the swelling going down  and I was ok in a few minutes. she kept checking on me through out the rest of the treatment. I was still coughing and raspy and she didn't like it so she gave me another half of the steroids (she called the dr first) and a benadryl. Yes I was so out of it. Jittery but tired.  John made it up there to take me home and I slept the rest of the afternoon. That night after I woke up I had HORRIFIC Indigestion and stomach cramps. I called in and they said to take the maximum dosage of antacids  I was nauseas too so he said to take phenegren ( I had some still from before) and to lay on my left side. He said to try to drink some sprite or ginger ale as much as I can but a little at a time and some saltine crackers would help. I knew I wouldn't be able to eat those crackers so I drank the sprite took the meds and laid on my left side and went to sleep. 

I felt better the next day. I was really tired but that was all. I felt ok.

2 weeks later (this past Thursday) June 20 I had my 2nd half infusion. Everything went just like before. everything was going good Tara was there with me. John was working in Florida. I was sitting by the nurses desk, ONly todaywe were  the only ones in there!!! kinda creepy. It was so quiet. But Tara and I kept giggling and making racket. I did ok till half way through the treatment. Then my voice went raspy and my eyes swoll up and my throat tried to close. It wasn't as bad this time but it was the same way as the time before. The nurse was right there with a steroid shot and gave it to me in the iv line and just like before.  The swelling went down and I felt fine again. John didn't get there in time to take me home (he didn"t think he would) sooo Tara and I went to chicken salad Chick and we ATEEEEEEEE! all those steroids made me hungry! but by the time I was finished eating, I was exhausted and my head was hurting a little bit and I had no ibuprofen or tylenol on me. so she drove me home. I so appreciated that! It wasn't that long maybe 30 to 40 minutes John got home after that. I was snoozing in my recliner. (I got him chicken salad chick too so didn't have to cook supper Bella was gone on her missions trip to Atlanta) 

I didn't have the bad indigestion because I took the maximuim dose of the antacids before my treatment this time. I slept a lot. The next day my stomach hurt. John had gotten these antacids with cooling effect in them??? ughmm no. I took the last of my regular ones before my treatment, OMG those menthol cooling effects things made me throw up so bad. Then he made me eat tums and not the fruity flavors, the chalky white ones which I was gagging on that. I begged him to go to the store and get me some more plain antacids. He finally did today after I threw them up again and I was in tears my stomach hurt so bad. so now I know when I first get up take the antacids and when I go to bed at night Take the antacids so I wont hurt. and drink drink drink lots of water with them. 

The only other unusual thing I have noticed is today at church we were in worship service we had sang 3 songs and it was time for the offertory prayer (we were still standing for the prayer) my knees got weak and buckled and I had to sit down. I had no choice I was falling so I went with it and sat down in the chair..john was holding my hand or I would have lost my balance.

I work the front desk in the lobby also and I wasn't able to stand up as much as I usually do. I had to sit down at the table there beside our desk. I was wobbly when I got up, BUT... It was hot in there. They open all the doors and there are doors on all sides and it gets hot when you get all the people in there and the doors open and its hot outside. so the heat was getting to me so that may have been the problem with the front desk part. I dunno about the worship service part it was cool in there, but I'm gonna make note of it and watch it. 

other than these awful stomach cramps and being tired I feel pretty good. NO horrible headache! and I don't have to do it again for 6 more MONTHS!!! WAHOOO!!!

Nancy

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so Do you have a happy place?

So most of you that know us, Know the situation we fight. MS. I am not going to harp on it dwell on it. There is not much to say that you all do not already know. We have good days, sometimes Great days. Good weeks those are amazing. We did good for a while through this winter. I deal with Shingles and NOT the kind on the roof. Sometimes I think those might be easier. Yes stress and infection bring them on. I have low immunity so we have to be careful. It is like a wolf in sheeps clothing. You think you are doing so well then BAM out of nowhere it will come up and tackle you and flatten you to the ground. That is kinda what we are dealing with right now. I am not saying that looking for pity or sympathy so nip that right now. This is NOT a bad case but It is leading to other things. The coughing and the excretion that keeps going down into my chest. YEs YES we are doing a million times 10 things for it. Staying in which I just was starting to get used to doing things. so Bummer. It is flu season so I should be used to this I suppose.

I sit and reflect through photos and just in my mind of the wonderful time we had at Disney. Bellas face seeing the Castle.Getting to meet Cinderella and her giving her the card she made for her. The genuine love from Cinderella given to her thanking her for making that card for her. ya I cried She had met cinderella the night before at cinderellas table. AND SHE REMEMBERED HER without us saying anything to remind her she had been there. (it was same one)

                                                           YES I cried my eyes out
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Getting Bippity Boppity Boutiqued, OH that was amazing. she will have to do this again (but we will bring the outfit and all just get her hair nails and make up) yikes! $$$ BUT we had to do it just once ya know!

                                                      SNOWING ON MAIN STREET!!


ONE OF THOUSANDS of my VERY FAVORITE MEMORIES of her PLAYING in the SNOW falling on Main street. IT was so beautiful. I have some others that are just precious!!

                                                  In front of the water falls at Our Hotel

   Coming back to see what they did with her babies haha  Love goofy fawning over her American Girl doll.

I will never forget these AMAZING people that made some of our Magical Wishes come true! What awesome people they are at Disney. I will never forget them As long as I ever live. I know my family won't either and WE appreciate everything they did. How little do they know just WHAT they did for us.

We never imagined what was about to happen in our family and this just was the icing on our Disney Cake.
No words or action could Thank them enough. They were heaven sent to make this (along with Brittney) the most magical thing we have ever done. we had no idea just how important this was.

SHE LOVED the seas with Nemo. Wished we could have spent more time here. BUT we will be going back SOOOOn... patience dear. Got to pay for everything that has happened. Then we will be there I PROMISE. 1 more time. We will be there.

She was so sick. Strep throat (we had no idea) whiney but still got smiles from her most FAVORITE of all since she was a baby... PIGLET. AND OH did he ever shower her with affection as soon as he found out HE was her very favorite. LIKE THE FAIRY GOD MOTHER... He is so not given the attention he deserves NEITHER is Eeyore!! EVERYONE wants Pooh and Tigger. Bella loves them too BUT PIGLET ... HE IS THE PIGGY FOR HER!
Eeyore... was NANA's Most favorire I cry looking at this photo.

She told him over and over how much he was her absolute favorite and how much she loved him. HE kissed her you could hear him and she just smiled and smiled. SHE GIGGLED like a little girl. SHe was soooo happy this day. I think she had more fun at this breakfast and at Cinderellas castle than at most anything we did. She lit up like a star. I just love these photos.


There are so many things that I loved about Disney. Too many to name. 

ANOTHER magical Wish. We had tried and tried. We were all on the phone night and day trying to get into this place to eat. NO DEAL it was booked solid. We checked for cancelations and got SERIOUSLY ARE YOU KIDDING? MR Brian with not even a finger lifted walked us up in there and We had a seat He told Bella to pick wherever she wanted to sit. What did she want to eat. she wanted to sit by the rose. So Guess where we sat.

you guessed it. By the rose. Every time the Rose chimed and it lightninged by the window THIS PICTURE:

                                                          Would  turn into the BEAST

                                   THE FOOD was SCRUMPTIOUS! Everything was amazing.
YA those were our desserts (that was mine in the middle)  THEY were DIVINE, The CHOCOLATE even had BE OUR GUEST in GOLD on it! I ate that chocolate too! hehe

 We also got to go to Belle's daddys house and I believe it was story Time with Belle. We got to PLAY with BELLE! HOW amazing is that. Another one of Ms Suzie and MR. Brians surprises for Bella.
She got to be  The Wardrobe. I am telling yall. IF YOU GET TO GO TO DISNEY. DO THIS if you have kids or not. IT IS WORTH the wait in line. (I am not going to tell you that we didn't wait in line though. which I am glad. It was warm and I was so exhausted)
This was the coolest thing going into her fathers work shop. PAY ATTENTION TO THE GREAT BIG MIRROR!!! all Im sayin.. can't get ANYTHING ELSE OUT OF ME nope not happenein'

THe surprises were never ceasing. They are the ones that BOOKED us into Crystal Palace as well. We couldn't get a reservation.  They went ABOVE and Beyond. Bella got her amazing wish (to eat at Be our guest and to Meet Belle) We all got to Eat at Crystal Palace Nana got to meet Eeyore her favorite. John got to see Tigger.  You saw my wish.

              I Think I cried so many tears. YES happy tears. Hard to explain Never thought we would be here.

 I got to meet the awesome Fairy God mother. My most favorite of all.. Bella got to see just about all she wanted to except a couple of the princesses and Tinkerbelle. she was hot about not getting to see the fairys. I told her she had to leave something for next time. BUT she was really upset about not getting to see Lambie at Holly Wood Studios. Introduce her LuLu To Lambie. But, . She got sick. so she didnt get to do all she wanted. But there is next time. I kept reminding her baby when you get sick you just cant do it all. This is a big place.  She was very upset.  I did my best to plan it so she could do a good bit. SHe loved magic kingdom and wanted to stay there the most. It is ok. I t hink again there is a reason for everything

MY most favorite thing about Disney.... Relearning that when you WISH BIG.. it can come true. take a chance you never know. I never in a million years expected this, asked for it or good gosh had a clue anything like this could happen. Sometimes you just have to sit back close your eyes and just THINK with your heart. Everything happens for a reason...   I know in my heart God knew what was about to happen and sent these angels to us. To make the most memories the most special memories that we could. We will never have another trip like this or more magical time like we did that week THings happened that I know won't ever again that I can't begin to explain.

ALWAYS my most favorite among favorite besides watching my little girl experience everything she did , reflecting on all these memories when I am having bad times like now and feeling just sick and horrible makes me smile. I have promised her we are going back. She is going to see Tinkerbelle and the ones she didn't get to meet. I am starting our list now. I won't forget our friends we made. I hope we get to see them again just for hugs!!!!!! Maybe a picture.  I will always get a photopass package. I will never regret it. If I had not. we wouldn't  have met these amazing angels.  There were so many others as well that brought happiness to us and helped us along the way.

AT The parades and The VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS party the wonderful ms Windy that was so kind to us Got us cookies and Hot Chocolate got us a GREAT place to be so my baby could see without mean people getting in front of her shoving her down. (YA really)
The photographer at Epcot that made us laugh so hard. While taking pictures.
main street Bakery laughing with nana and her scooter. I hope that place is there forever. I will always have those memories.
The emporium THAT PLACE HAS EVEEEEEEEEERYYYY THING

The sweet nurse that helped when Bella was so sick
The photo pass and Other Disney workers that came running when Bella SCREAMMMMMED at the top of her lungs (they thought if was she that was injured) when I zigged and Zagged to miss the kid and mom and LULU fell out of the front of my scooter and got a concussion to her head and needed bandaids and a tiara (thats what you do when a stuffed build a bear lamb gets a concussion and a little girl is screaming her head off that I KILLED HER I MUSHED HER HEAD SHE IS RUINED FOREVER)
ya we thank you and sorry for your shock and worry.



Watching this (below) with our  family and feeling tears roll down my cheek knowing how hard we worked to get to that moment because we NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS thought it would be possible. BUT we did it has to be the biggest best amazing memory of all though. Seeing her eyes light up and the WOWS did you SEEEE THAT ONE MOMMY and NANA LOOOOOK its pink its PINNNNKKK. I spent as much time watching her as I did the fireworks... LOVE my life my family more than stars up in that sky!

WISH BIG!

Nancy