I'm a mom too!

We stayed home. I don't want to talk about it. We missed awards, prom, and Easter. :( May--still don't want to talk about it. Still sad. Every cancellation hits us in the gut. M's senior year all-state in Nov. was cancelled. We are devastated. Since I had physically go into work to clean out my classroom we loosened up shelter at home. M can see one friend. I visited four of my favorites, we had drinks socially distanced. The school year ended May 15. Strange times. We had a car parade for J's dance teacher. Dance costumes were picked up and altered. Still awaiting a socially distanced dance recital which I believe will happen in June. Things are opening up but people are supposed to socially distance. It doesn't look like they are. I am worried about this.  May 25-my parents are coming to town to stay. Mom lives 2 hrs. away and has an appointment at UNMC in the morning. 

Of course I've been posting and documenting. I am going to summarize and facebook purge right here. March 11 - My hubby's birthday. We went out to eat in our small town for little did we know our last family and meal out. Our school was on spring break. We did know what was coming. I had already cancelled a trip to see my parents that day. March 12 - We did go to the ortho, glad we got that in, I picked up a few groceries. Disneyland closes. March 13 - We got more purposeful with our social distancing, deciding not to go to the city for supper. A lot of processing was going on as shown as my facebook posts below from this date. Congrats  to M for receiving this award!! We were looking forward to celebrating this day on April 8.  😔 "On behalf of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, we regret to inform you that the 23rd annual Nebraska Young Artist Awards scheduled for April 8th has been CANCELLED due to the continuous and rapid spread of COVID-19. ...

Welp, we just got back from NYC and it was a great trip! I was excited but nervous to go with my family. Most things went smoothly and I'm looking forward to going again someday! There is soooo  much information out there and it can be overwhelming so I will just sum up how our trip went. Travel day or what I like to call as Day 0:  We arrived at Laguardia around 3:30. Took and took a taxi to our hotel at  https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/nyctm-fairfield-inn-and-suites-new-york-manhattan-fifth-avenue/  . I was very underwhelmed about our very basic hotel. It grew on me quickly  though because 1. It was tucked around the corner of 5th Ave. (read quiet) 2. With only 6 rooms on each floor it was cozy.  (and quiet) 3. The breakfast was great!  4. It was clean! I would give this hotel 4 stars and would definitely stay there again. We checked in and then started walking around. It was very overwhelming to get used to north, east, south, west and where ...

So today I entered another phase of my life. I have a middle schooler and a high schooler. I think I'm in shock, or sad, or proud, or happy. I really can't tell what all these feelings are but here I am. I am cutting watermelon in an empty house because I dropped the 11 year off at the pool with a friend and the 16 year is taking a nap because she is one busy teen. My family loves watermelon. Up to this point in my life I refused to buy watermelon because it is messy and I'm too busy to cut it up. Well now my 16 year old can drive to the store and buy her own watermelon (this is the 2nd one this week). She promised she would cut it up but she fell asleep. I however am sitting in this empty house (teen is here but it still feels empty) cutting up this damn watermelon because I have just entered this very bittersweet stage where I want to cut the watermelon because I can't nap with my teen or swim with my pre-teen. So what do I do? I cut the watermelon for them becaus...

So M has an all day event today. I took a personal day from work before the schedule was out. Her main event isn't until 4:30. She insisted that no parent goes to the 10:30 event. She was singing a song I've heard with 150 girls. I thought sweet, I don't want to spend the entire day an hour away either. I will enjoy my day, come to 4:30 event, get some R&R AND kill the mom thing. I'm amazing. 10:45 that morning the facebook posts start coming in while I was in my recliner playing candy crush. Oh here comes the mom guilt! So many thoughts ran through my mind. Gotta love facebook. Then I realized, that I am just a mom doing the mom thing my way. Three years ago I was fighting for my life, but also learning life lessons. I am here, I am great, and THIS is a wonderful thing. I am lucky to be doing this mom thing MY way. I need R&R to do this mom thing. Everything in moderation is MY way and that is OK. My girls are great despite my slacker momming. WE are OK. I enco...

Here is my brainstorming post about what I decided to do about it. I think I have it!  Sun.- Recipe options Chicken taco bowls Baked potatoes  Barbeque chicken  Stir fry Chicken and rice casserole  Megan's Pinterest Board-Easy recipes  Tacos Spaghetti  hot ham & cheese  Mon.- soup, sandwiches, fruit Tues. - Teacher service Tex-Mex Chicken casserole   Wed. - Subway Thurs.- Frozen mac and cheese Fri.- veggie pizza Sat.-???? Take all day to figure this out and end up with take-out 

1 week post gallbladder surgery update: Healing is going as expected, journaling details for my timehop. Day 1: Didn't get into surgery until 12:30, they kicked me out at 4:00. I was not ready, very sleepy and nauseated. Day 2: Happy that I felt like eating and feeling better than Friday evening. Day 3-5: Pain going down each day, pretty much gone by Day 5. What was left was if I stretched too far. Some sharp pains in the side but they aren't so bad. Day 6-7: Still taking it easy, careful not to stretch too far or sneeze. Digestion, not good but not bad either. Hopefully this continues to get better. Most of all this just happened so fast. I went from having some sharp pains around Christmas time, ultrasound, HIDA scan (that showed chronic gallbladder disease). Sharp pains mostly went away but surgery was scheduled so I went with it. Yes, surgery was easy compared to what I've been through but I'm still wondering if it was the...