Update

They released Savannah last night from the hospital. Believing she had a more intense seizure, they have increased her medication and she will be making a visit to her neuorologist on Monday.

Thank you to all of you who have kept her in your thoughts and prayers.

Savannah Marie

(tyler, joshua and savannah)

I ask for all of your prayers for my niece Savannah.

For those of you who don't know, my 4 year old niece Savannah, is the most beautiful, wonderful lovable little girl I know. Unfortunately, when she was born, there were complications, and she now suffers from the effects of those complications. She is almost blind in one eye and is on medication to prevent her from having seizures. With the exception of her somewhat delayed speech, you would never know that this child has had these issues, as she acts like your normal four year old.

I give 100% credit of her progress, to the love she receives from my brother and sister-in-law. God really knew what he was doing, when he gave Savannah the parents she has, because they give her such unconditional love that I truly believe she will overcome these obstacles.

Today, though, they have had a set back. After increasing her medication, due to more activity of seizures, from what I understand, Savannah lost use of her left side. My brother and his wife called 911 and they are now at the hospital. Hopefully soon we will know something.

It's hard being so far away from my family when things like this are going on. I want to jump on the next airplane to Syracuse and help them through this, but I know the best thing is not to overreact and wait until we find out what is going on and be strong.

So I ask all of you again, please keep Savannah in your thoughts and prayers.

Strange Day

Today, so far, has been a strange day...

Weird things were happening all over the place...

Clocks are showing different times everywhere. My computer, cell phone, home clock and tv are all showing different times...and I am not the only one. During a conference call, it seemed to be general consensus that from state to state we were all having time issues. Very interesting.

Tyler had pajama day at school today. It is very weird for me, to send my child to school in pajama bottoms and a t-shirt. Why would you want to wear pajamas to school any way? Actually, this morning, he was really upset that he had to change out of his pjs that he wore to bed last night, into new pj's that he would wear to school for the day. He couldn't understand, then again, neither could I.

Lastly, as I was watching the today show, there was an interesting story broadcast on a girl who has had hiccups for three weeks. Check it out.

Thank goodness it is Friday.

This Is Why I Moved to the South

Here is the weather forcast for Syracuse, NY (where I am originally from.)

A HEAVY SNOW WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING.
SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE HEAVIEST SNOW WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON. BANDS OF INTENSE SNOWFALL COULD PRODUCE ACCUMULATION RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL THIS AFTERNOON WILL RANGE FROM 6 TO 12 INCHES.

BY THE TIME THE STEADIER SNOW TAPERS OFF LATER THIS EVENING... AFTER ABOUT 10 PM...STORM TOTALS OF 15 TO 25 INCHES ARE EXPECTED.

...and people wonder why I moved to the south.?!?!

10 Good Things About The Flu

10. No one wants to come near you.

9. You can legally take sedatives.

8. You realize guests on daytime talk shows have worse lives than you do.

7. You get away with being rude, obnoxious and surly.

6. You can smell like a baboon's butt and nobody complains.

5. You can shlep about the house unwashed and in your housecoat all day.

4. No matter how bad you feel, it's still better than how you felt after last month's tequila 'n' gin party.

3. Brady Bunch re-runs.

2. Your dog is allowed on the bed.

1. You get to pass the virus on to those you really dislike.

The Flu, pt 2

If you remember, back at Christmas time, the flu hit our home. Tyler had been diagnosed three days before the Christmas and the rest of us were put on Tamiflu. Who would have thought that it would hit our household again? I guess, with our luck lately, I should have, but this time it was like a curve ball being thrown at me.

Well, Friday night, Joshua and I went to bed at 7:30pm (yes, I said 7:30pm,) but were woken up due to his extremely high temp (almost 104.) The rest of the night I tried to keep him comfortable as he kept hitting his head (I can only guess it was a headache,) while praying that we could get his temp down. Realizing I couldn't get his temperature below 102.3 degrees, I decided to take him in to the doctors on Saturday. Sure enough, flu test came back positive.

The rest of the day, Joshua would not leave me for anything. He had to lay on my chest as we all want our mommies when we don't feel good. By last night, he started to perk up.

After a semi-restful night of sleep, I have awoken with an extreme headache, and hope that I am not getting ready to experience the flu.

SNOW DAY!!!

Today, we were able to enjoy some actual winter weather. It wasn't like what we had a few weeks ago with icy conditions. This was big white snowflakes, snow ball fighting, snowman making, snow angel making conditions. By 9 am we had somewhere between 3-4 inches. I know that may not seem like a lot to some of you, but after living in the south for close to 10 years, this was a pretty good accumulation.


We knew first thing this morning that Tyler's school and Joshua's daycare would be closed, and I have to admit, I secretly (well maybe not so secretly) hoped that even my office would close due to the inclement weather. I felt like a 10 year old waiting to find out if I needed to get ready to go into the office. It brought back the memories and excitement of when I was a kid growing up in Upstate New York watching all of the school delays scroll on the television. If you live in an area that is prone to snow, you will understand what it is like to wake up early to see if you can go back to sleep. In the end our offices all across NC (and parts of SC) were closed which meant SNOW DAY for the whole family.

I will say as I reflect on the day with everyone home, staying in jammies most of the day, having muffins for breakfast, toasted cheese with tomato soup for lunch and hot chocolate just because, it was a great SNOW DAY.