Friday, May 31, 2013

My girl.

**For starters... THANK YOU, from the bottom of my soul for the sweetness that came from my last post. I was overwhelmed with the amount of love that came from all of you. Please continue to pray!!!


I cannot believe how big my baby is!!! Madelynn has officially wrapped up her year at CCS and is officially a Kindergartener!!! My heart has gone out to all parents who have children graduating high school this year........ or EVER.
I know.
I admit it.
Im a FREAK!!!
I dont handle this well.
Can you tell??
Im a severe sentimentalist... and I can't help it.



Her aspirations for this year did not change much... she still wants to be a Princess. :)

She got the "helping hands" award from her teacher this year. 

Melt my soullllll!!!!!!!

We are soo proud of her!!


She wrote out Thank You notes for her teachers this year. 




Saturday, May 25, 2013

Falling apart.

Im writing this post to ask for PRAYER! 
I 110%, whole heartily believe and trust in the power of Prayer. I've seen it to much to not believe in it. :)

I'm asking for prayer for myself. Over the past month, my health has gone downhill! Ive been having severe headaches/migraines for a little over a month now! Its been a loooong, depressing time for me, as such a thing can wear on a person mentally, as well as physically. Slowly, symptoms have started to get worse, including particular left eye pain/throbbing, forgetfulness, confusion, and severe lethargy.... so much so that about a week ago, when taking care of Payton in the middle of the night, and being completely out of it, I slipped coming down the stairs, severely bruised/possibly broke my tailbone and fell down the stairs, add that on top of my other issues, and my world has been rocked!

... and no, not in a good way. As you can only imagine, theres nothing good that comes from a tailbone injury and not being able to sit, at all, without severe, breath-taking-away pain. I've been laying in bed a lot the past few days!! My poor kids, and my poor house!! 

anyways.... so back to the headaches. I made an eye appointment, because 1- it was due time anyways, and 2- wearing glasses my whole life, I know thats a good starting place for headaches. My vision had changed rather drastically... therefore the Dr. wanted me to get new glasses and THEN see where the headaches take us. 

I got my new glasses and the headaches didn't stop, matter of fact, they got worse, including worsened symptoms, and now, wonky vision.

Luckily I had a Doctors appointment with a MD a week later, just to get established in with him, so I knew I was gonna talk to him about the headaches as well. When I saw him, he agreed with the eye DR. on waiting to see if the new prescription helped. 
BUT- he referred me to a neurologist for my carpel tunnel (which is another issue for another post) and I knew that that was 1 person that would hear me out a tad more than the other 2 Doctors had. 

....and that she did!! She did a few tests on me, and determined that along with all my strange symptoms, loss of menstrual cycle, unexplained weight gain, that  I also have loss of peripheral vision in my left eye. The eye that has been bothering me severely!! This all lead her to think that I possibly have a Pituitary Tumor, which is just as it sounds, a tumor in the brain, on the pituitary gland.

In the next couple weeks, I will have an MRI on my brain, and I'm praying the Lords will be done, praying for peace in my soul during a not so peaceful time. Strength for Nat, and myself as we go through this together. (Lord knows I couldn't go through this without a strong fella like him by my side.) 
Please keep our family in your thoughts and prayers!! 
These poor kids have been dealing with a sad mama thats in a lot of pain and not able to do much for them!!!


The Dawn

 I sent my 13 year old to 7th grade, my 12 year old to 5th grade, my 11 year old to 4th grade, and my 4 year old to pre-k4. After 13 years o...