Property Of Mike Jorgensen

Well, I obviously made it out of surgery alive. We had to be at the surgery center in St. George at 7:30 Wednesday morning. That means we left here at 5:15. That's super early. I hate mornings. We got there and checked in. They took me to the back to get me changed into a gown and put in my IV. The nurse was super nice and actually listened when I told her I have a ton of valves in my veins. She numbed my hand before she placed the IV. It only took her one try, it usually takes them at least 2 sticks to get it. Once the IV was in they went and got Mike to sit with me. He came in and eased my nerves with laughter. He wrote Property of Mike Jorgensen on my upper thigh. I guess he wanted them to know where I belong. They gave me a bunch of anti nausea medicine and then the anesthetic. I vaguely remember being wheeled into the OR and being strapped to the table but that's it until I woke up. There wasn't much pain but I was super nauseous. Apparently they didn't give me enough of the anti nausea meds. I felt well enough to walk to the truck and we were back on the road by 11:00 and home by 1:30. I slept most of the way home. I was still pretty nauseous. Worst feeling ever if you ask me.
There hasn't been a whole lot of pain. My shoulders and incision sites hurt the most. My shoulders hurt from the gas they used to move all my internal organs up and out of the way. They are starting to feel much better now and I have folded and put away all the laundry Mike has done the last couple days. He's been so good to get things taken care of around here. He even vacuumed the laundry room and our bedroom. I couldn't have asked for a better husband.

A bit of a change.

Every year I wait until the last minute to get Christmas done. I decided that last year was going to be the end of that. I started thinking about Christmas gifts in July this year. I already have some completed and sent off to the recipients. I only have a few more things to do to finish up extended family gifts. I know what the kids are getting I just have to buy them and Mike already got his present. I found an old school Nintendo and a bunch of games. I tried to surprise him with it, but he's friends with the guy I bought it from. Steve can't keep a secret and neither can I. 

I also just ordered my Christmas cards. Every year I tell myself I am going to send out Christmas cards and just never get around to it. If I don't have your address and you would like one of my beautiful cards shoot me an e-mail with the address and I will do my best to get you one. I don't make promises though.

Mike finally brought his metal stamps home so I can get my giveaway necklaces done. I will have them in the mail next week. Thank you all again for entering. I might be doing more giveaways. I'm working on some fun new crafts and if they are easy enough I will give some away. Check back to see...

Jercie's Birthday Post...

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Lucky Number 7

Where does the time go? Seriously. I have been sitting here looking through pictures of Jercie to make her slideshow. I can't believe how quickly the last 7 years have flown by. It seems, though, that some years flew a little faster than others, if you know what I mean. Jercie has always been a very loving little girl. She needs a lot of love and a lot of attention. If she doesn't get it she lets you know in her own little way. She is also ready and willing to give all of her love and attention to anyone that might need it. She is hilarious. She makes me laugh all the time. She will do almost anything to get a laugh too. Her jokes make absolutely no sense, but make you laugh anyway. Ask her to tell you a joke sometime, I dare you. She is independent too. She likes to do things on her own even if it means making mistakes. She is a little smarty pants too. She is doing really well in school and requires little to no help in reading. She is also extremely sensitive. Her feelings get hurt pretty easily. I think it goes back to her  being so loving and needing so much love. She gives everything she has to any relationship she has and so her heart is easily broken. I love that about her. Who am I kidding? I love everything about her. Even the things that drive me crazy, because without that she wouldn't be Jercie.

Last night on the way to dance class this was our conversation.
Jercie: Mom we don't get to listen to rock and roll at my school.
Me: Well what kind of music do you listen to?
Jercie: Kid music and some really lame lame music.
Me: Lame music? What's lame music?
Jercie: I don't know it's from the 80's or something.
So then I made her listen to 80's music the rest of the way to dance and all the way home.
I had to throw that in so I wouldn't forget it!

Surgery

Since my card reader isn't working I can't post any pictures so I will just have to tell you what's been going on. Kaia has this thing for horses. She calls them neigh neighs. We got her a stuffed horse at the St. Jude's benefit my parents do in May. Ever since then she has been obsessed. Mike got her a stick horse at the dollar store the other day and it has been everywhere with her. I had completely forgotten about the horse Grandma Annette and Papa Gary got Jercie for Christmas one year. Until the other day. I dug it out of my closet and gave it to Kaia. She rode it for like an hour nonstop. She loves it. She is also talking a lot more. She is attached to Daddy anytime he is home.
We got our flu shots on Friday. Well everybody but Mike, he doesn't believe in them. The kids also got their H1N1 shots. On Friday night Blaze started getting a fever. He had one until this morning and now he's coughing. I am still hoping it's just from the shot. I guess if he's not better by tomorrow I will take him in.
Jercie's birthday is coming up next Wednesday. We got her a new bike. Mike couldn't wait to give it to her so she's already ridden it up and down the sidewalk and gotten a flat tire. Gotta love puncture weeds. My nephew Alexander is having surgery on her birthday at Primary Children's so we are going to take all the kids to the zoo on Tuesday. It will be good to see everybody.
I went to the doctor yesterday and scheduled a minor surgery for the 25th. Yes, that is the day before Thanksgiving. It was the best time for us to do it though with Mike's schedule. And they only do surgeries on Wednesday. I will be having an endometrial ablation. I am a little scared and a little sad about it. This means that any chance of me ever having a baby again is lost. I'm okay with it really, but it's sad all the same. As long as it fixes the problem. My only other option is a hysterectomy and I absolutely don't want to do that!
Mike has mostly just been working. If he's not at the mine he's doing one side job or another. It will be nice since Christmas is coming soon. In fact he has to go rough one of the guys up today that he did a job for. He was supposed to get paid a week ago and we haven't heard from them. Hopefully they pay soon.
So there is the update on us.

The Haunting...

Halloween has finally come and gone. I have been hearing about and planning Halloween costumes for what seems like forever. I made Jercie and Kaia's costumes and bought Blaze's. He wanted to be Robin from Teen Titans. I ordered the costume on the 24th. I figured that was plenty of time  to get it here. I wasn't sure if the preschool was going to do a Halloween party or not, but was secretly hoping they wouldn't. Well, on Tuesday I got a note telling me to send Blaze in his costume to school on Wednesday. WHAT?!?! One day notice? Are you kidding me? Robin still wasn't here so I asked my mom to go and find something for Blaze to wear. She found a Duke costume. Duke is a G.I. Joe for those of you who have been hiding under a rock. He was pretty stoked about it. I asked if he still wanted to be Robin and he said no. Fast forward to yesterday morning when the Robin costume finally showed up. That's right, it didn't get here until Halloween morning. Now Blaze wants to be Robin. I decided that I wasn't going to spend over $50 for Blaze's costumes, so Robin is going back. Needless to say, Blaze was ticked. He cried and told me I was mean. I finally had had enough. I told him that he had 2 choices, he could cry and not go trick or treating or he could suck it up and dress up as G.I. Joe and get some candy. He chose the latter. Thank goodness. Here he is all dressed up and looking AWESOME!!

Jercie got to dress up twice as well. She was a vampire fairy. She was just going to be a vampire, then she was inspired and decided to add the fairy into it. It's pretty original and it turned out pretty good if I do say so myself. I made the tutu and just added little bits and pieces of other things to it. I was so proud of her hair, and she cried when she saw it. I told her that if she was going to throw a fit I wasn't going to do anything for Halloween next year. She finally got over it and let me paint her face and add some sweet teeth marks to her neck.

And then there was Kaia. Last year I saw this idea, but had already bought her Marie costume so I filed it away for this year. I made her tutu, added leaves to her halo and wings, and put some cocoa powder on her knees and elbows (though you can't see that part). Can you guess what she was?

She was a fallen angel. I also dusted her face with cocoa powder, but you can't see that either. She got into the candy as soon as we got down to the trunk or treat so her face was plenty dirty by the time we left.

We had fun, but I sure am glad it's over.