Author: Andrea

It is so hard to be a single mom. Some people don’t understand that you have to stay home with a sick child. Because they themselves have a significate other to share the responsibility. But for me, I have no one else but me. My roommate helps out when she can. But in this circumstance, I had to stay home therefore making it tough at work the next day.

Genna woke up at 2am on Thursday morning with a migraine. Then about 20 minutes later the screaming increased but this time her ear was hurting. For those who know me, they know she just had surgery to fix her ear infection problem. So what can be causing the pain.

After 20 minutes of screaming I told her that we are going to the hospital. I can’t wait for the doctor’s office to open at 8am. She jumped off the bed and ran for the door. Ok, Mom are coming. Let’s GO NOW. Normally I would hit the ceiling for talking to me that way. This time I didn’t care. The look of fear in her eyes was enough for me.

The doctor was so sweet. He took very good care of her. She did have a migraine which they gave her some strong mediciation for it. But she also had swimmer’s ear. Ok, it is 30 degrees outside and bitter cold but yet she has swimmer’s ear. They said she probably got it while taking a shower.

But we came home at 4:30/5am. She was bouncing off the walls and I was totally exhausted. Being a single mom is not easy at all!!!

Ok, maybe not ice queen but I am just as proud. Genna had her first ice skating competition yesterday.

When she first started ice skating a year ago. I wanted her to learn the proper way to ice skate and not to compete. But her coach insisted that she try it. She thought she would be good enough. Well, my baby girl not only went through this, and by the way LOVED it…she received a silver medal in her division.

It was a close call between her and the gold medalist. She told me that she was nervous when she went to church that morning but when she stepped foot on the ice, she felt fine. She was poised, smiled, and kept her back straight.

EDIT by matthew: Formatted.

When I was in Utah last month, I told everyone that Genna was having surgery this week. Well, she had her adnoids taken out on Tuesday and she was a trooper. She did everything the doctor said and came out of it as well as can be expected.

BUT…while recooperating, she got some sort of infection or virus. I rushed her to the hospital last night. We didn’t get home until almost midnight. They thought she had viral menigities. I haven’t had much sleep, so please excuse me if I can’t seem to spell anything today. Well the procedure that they had to do to find out that she didn’t have it was a spinal tap. They gave her four doses of morphine and she feel asleep in the middle of the procedure. If nobody has had one before, it is as bad as it sounds. I was with her the whole time.

She is home with grandaddy today. She still has a fever but she says she feels better. Keep your fingers crossed that my baby is on the mend.

I saw this today on an email newsletter. Thought it was cute and you computers geeks might think it is good for a laugh:

Having recently survived (barely) an upgrade of the Windows XP software on my home PC, I began to wonder what might happen if Microsoft decided to go into the gardening business:

• 97 percent of all flowers, shrubs, trees, fertilizers, trowels, rakes, hoes, spades, lawn mowers, tillers, hoses, sprinklers, pots, fountains, patio blocks, landscape timbers, stepping stones, garden gnomes, and pink flamingos would be sold (or licensed) by Microsoft.
• The other three percent of gardening stuff would look really cool but cost twice as much.
• A Microsoft rake would work only on leaves from Microsoft trees.
• Whenever you planted a new Microsoft shrub, two other shrubs that had been thriving would suddenly die.
• Microsoft vines more than two years old would no longer be supported by Microsoft trellises.
• Plants would be called “software” and tools would be called “hardware.” Problems would be called “user error.”
• Before you could turn off a Microsoft string trimmer you would be asked, “Are you sure?”
• You could not divide a Microsoft perennial without violating copyright laws.
• You couldn’t purchase Microsoft grass seed without also purchasing 20 pounds of Microsoft lawn fertilizer.
• Microsoft’s All-America Selections for 2005 would come out in 2007.

EDIT by matthew: Fixed formatting, tpyo.