She Scores!!!!

Sorry about being a blog slacker lately but honestly it's totally my husbands fault!!!  My power cord for my laptop died weeks ago and despite my constant nagging my husband has yet to take action to resolve this little matter.  I would just take care of it myself but I don't really know where to get one.  Soon, I will just say the heck with it and buy a whole new laptop:)  Just sayin Daniel:)

It is soccer Season for Brynn.  She originally wasn't going to play this season but then her BFF Carley signed up so she wanted back in.  We are once again on Team Wolfpack (we love Coach Jamie and Coach Daddy) but this year we are sporting brand new team colors (think glow-in-the-dark green). 

Brynn had a really great first game.  She didn't score but she played really great.  She has gotten a LOT more agressive and was really going after the ball.  She almost scored twice. I'm glad she didn't score because Daddy wasn't able to come to that one.  I did tell both Brynn and Dan after that game that I bet she would score her first goal this season.  Scoring a goal is a really big deal to Brynn. In her first 3 seasons she did not get a goal in a game. She did make a couple in practice but she really wanted that gameday goal.  She missed her second game because she had just gotten her tonsils out (I will also blog about this if Dan ever gets my powercord) so she was super psyched up for her game this Saturday.

A couple of minutes into the game (or is supposed to be called a match?) one of Brynn's teammates took the ball all the way down to the goal but then a little boy got in front of that girl and it was Brynn who kicked it in.  SCORE!!!!   She turned around and looked for Coach Daddy.  It was almost like she wasn't really sure it happened.  He had a huge grin on his face and held out his arms and she went flying across the field to him.  Coach Daddy gave her a huge hug and swung her around.  What a moment!!!!  So proud!!! Colton, Poppop and I were sitting on the bleachers cheering our heads off (you would have thought that she just kicked the winning goal in the olympics).  My Mom and Stepdad were on their way to NC but the following text conversation then transpired:

Me:  Brynn just scored her first goal ever!!!!! (In case you haven't noticed I love exclamation points!)

Mom:  OMG!  Grandpa is so sad he missed it!  Tell her we are so proud of her!!

Me:  She just got a second one!!!!!

Mom:  Wow!  Send us a picture of the soccer star.

Me:  And a third!!!!!

Mom:  Is she excited?

Me:  4!!!

Me:  5!!!!

Me:  Wait the last one didn't count

Mom: Why didn't it count?

Me:  No clue.  (What happened was that Brynn and the other girl were both kicking the ball and they couldn't tell who actually did it so they gave credit to the other little girl who hadn't scored yet.  I loved that they handled it this way! So nice!)

Mom: OMG!  How does she keep scoring?!

Me:  I don't know but that will be the last one.  They are only letting her play defense now because she scored too many:)  (In this leauge when a kids scores a lot and the team is winning by a landslide they will pull the kid and allow them to only play defense.  The point is to give other kids a chance.  It's really nice.  A girl on Brynn's team had been pulled prior to Brynn which is part of the reason Brynn was able to score so much.  And after Brynn got pulled another girl went on to score 2 or 3 and a couple of the boys scored).

Mom:  Well that's not fair!  Isn't the whole point to score?!  Lol.

Mom:  Tell her we are so proud of her!

It was AMAZING!!!!  I could not have been prouder if she really did kick the winning olympic goal.  She also made some great plays on defense and was so proud of herself.  We celebrated with a big ice cream party. 

I will add pics soon...you know, if Dan ever gets my power cord:)

Big Giant News!

Before I get to the big giant news I just have to say...."ugh"!!!  I am so behind on the bloggity blog.  I have so many things to tell you about.  I just made a list of things that I want to blog about and I fear I will never catch up.  Life is crazy busy right now which just makes it that much harder to find time to blog and the further behind I get the less I went to blog at all because it's just overwhelming.  I could just skip a few topics but the whole point is to preserve the memories for my family so I'm just going to have to suck it up and get back to it!  Lol...Sorry, that is the end of my pointless rant.  Now for the Big Giant News...

OUR HOUSE IS UNDER CONTRACT!!!!!  There are still a million things that could go wrong and I tried really hard not to count my chickens before they hatch but...let's just say that I know exactly how many chickens I'm expecting and am going to be super disappointed if they don't all hatch!  Last week was the two year anniversary of our house being on the market so I think anyone in our shoes would have soaring high hopes.  We are going to be doing a ton of praying over the next few weeks that everything goes smoothly!  If everything goes as planned, we will go to settlement on November 1. Please, please, please let everything go smoothly!

Because we have just sort of accepted that the house is going to be on the market FOREVER, we have done nothing to prepare for this.  So...we are in the process of trying to find a place to live while we save money/build our house (even though we can't sign a lease until we know the sale is certain).  We have also started doing some sorting/packing of things that we really don't need (can't pack important things just in case the sale falls through).

I'm a planner and the uncertainity of this will probably make me insane (even more so than I am now!).  In the next 42 days our entire lives could change...or not.  Ahhhhh!

Okay, I'm going to get back to counting my chickens.  Please pray for us!!!

Irrational Mama Post

Disclaimer:  I am an emotional basket-case right now.  The death of a friend, watching two friends fight for their lives, huge personal and career decisions to be made, the start of a school year (including my girl deciding this morning that she no longer needs Mama to walk her to her classroom), getting my house ready for a bridal shower and pending surgeries for both kids are just a few of the thing weighing on my mind right now.  The below post is a total irrational Mama Moment.  In the grand scheme of things this is probably me making a mountain out of a mole hill but...I'm understandably incapable of rational thought at the moment.  Enjoy:)

Both of my babies are scheduled for surgery next week.  I'm totally bugging out...

Colton is having tubes put in his ears.  Not that I'm in anyway saying I'm stress free about this one but at least it's round three for this particular surgery (or round 4 if you count Brynn's too).  We pretty much know what to expect and dread (at the top of this list is the post-anesthesia rage that leaves my child in a total head-spinning gremlin kind of demeanor).  I feel prepared and am just praying that we don't have any complications like we did the first round.  However, if we do have complications this time, we have learned some valuable lessons along the way and will be much more equipped to handle the situation.

Brynn is having her tonsils and adenoids removed.  I'm in a total panic about this!!!  I realize (somewhere WAY in the back of my mind) that in the grand scheme of things this is a minor thing.  However, when it's your baby about to go through it...it doesn’t seem so minor.  Our pediatrician had warned us months ago that this was probably in Brynn's future due to back to back to back strep throat.  She kept treating her with higher doses of antibiotics and the strep just wasn't responding at all.  I think it was the 5th or 6th time that I had called her in as many weeks that she told us that we needed to see the ENT asap.  I probably should have seen the writing on the wall at this point but I was still hoping the ENT would wave a magic wand and we could avoid this whole tonsillectomy thing.

The ENT did not wave a magic wand that day.  He did however manage to scare the crap out of me.  Because of the constant infections Brynn's "healthy" tonsils now look something like this:


                                      Picture coming soon...stupid computer!


That is not a picture of Brynn.  Her tonsils actually look worse than that because hers are touching.  Because her tonsils are so swollen they are a hot bed for bacteria and they are causing some pretty serious sleep apnea.  This was no surprise to Dan and I because we hear her choking and coughing several times a night.  So, in non-medical terms, Brynn literally stops breathing several times a night because her tonsils are so swollen.  Obviously...not good.  In fact, because her sleep apnea is such a big issue Brynn will have to stay overnight in the hospital (most kids get to go home).  I didn't ask many questions about this. To be honest, I'm thrilled that she is going to stay overnight!  I feel much better knowing that there is going to be a doctor nearby for at least 24 hours.  Once, I get her home I'm on my own but while she is in the hospital and can ask questions and share concerns to my hearts content.

We were not thrilled but left the ENT feeling confident that a tonsillectomy was necessary and the right thing.  However, once we started talking to people about the surgery people started to tell us awful horror stories.  People have actually said things like, "That is the worst thing I have ever gone through",  "That is a REALLY tough surgery for a kid. You need to prepare yourself" and,  "OMG!  That is SO painful".  So...now I'm straight-up terrified.  I don't think people were actually trying to scare me as much as prepare me but come on people sometimes...ignorance is bliss!!!

So how does a terrified Mama explain a tonsil and adenoidectomy to a very intuitive five year old?  I have NO clue?!?!  I want to be honest with her in a non-scary kind of way but I've never been through this so I really don't know.  I purchased a book to help out but it talks about "a magic mask that gives you happy air and makes you go to sleep" and states that "The best thing about getting your tonsils out is that you can only do it once.  Uhhhh...sorry, but that seems a little scary not to mention misleading!!

At this point we have told her as little as possible (remember...ignorance is sometimes bliss) and really talked up the all-you-can eat ice pops and ice cream.

I hate this, I feel scared, I feel totally helpless...I want to take my babies, run away and hide our heads in the sand!

September 12th is surgery day for both kids.  Prayers for all of us would be greatly appreciated!!  I wonder if they could let me take a hit from that magic mask?