• Dec. 9, 2007
Praying For better Week!!!!
I am exhausted!!!!! I have had a bad weekend to say the least. Friday night, my 72 year old mom who lives next door to us, was walking down here to stay with our kids while me and DH went to the store to get some meds for his stomach. I was outside watching her walk down here and Ilooked down for a second and when I looked back up she was gone! I heard branches moving and I saw her trying to get up. She started saying her hand was hurt. As she got closer, Icould see the blood pouring out of her hand! She is on blood thinners due to open heart surgery this time last year. She had feel onto a stump of a small tree and had nearly cut half of her hand off!!! I called 911 and the ambulance came and got her. This was around 7 pm. She was at the ER until 2 am. My sick DH and all 4 of our kids were out riding around between 12 and 2 waiting to pick her up from the ER, because they kept telling me that she would be ready in 30 mins, but her blood pressure kept going up and down, so 30 mins. ended up turning into 2 hours. She got 46 stitches total, 20 some odd inside and 20 some odd outside! Anyways, we finally got to bed around 2:30 and was back up at 5:45 for my DH to go to work. I was give out all day and had to wait over and hour to get her scripts filled. She was in ALOT of pain and my mom is tough. She never complains about pain. Not even when she had her open heart surgery. But this she is complaing about. We had to go to the Funeral home last night because a dear friends grandfather died and when we got home and got everyone settled, I finally laid my head down around 12:30, only to have to get right back up with my son, who was having an asthma attack. I sat up with him all night on our loveseat and of course I had a horrible pain in my neck most of the day today from my head falling over when I would nod in and out of sleep. I am praying that tonight will be better and that we can all get some rest! But James asthma usually gets worse at night. So I am trying to prepare for another long night. I amtaking him to hte Doctor tommorrow and taking my mom to the orthopedic surgeon, because she tore alot of muscle in her hand and she will probably have to have surgery. Sorry to unload so much on you all, just keep me in your prayers!!!
Comments
• Dec. 9, 2007
Hi
Posted by Lachney1
Hi,
I'm sorry that you're weekend has been so rough. I'm glad that your mom is doing better. I have a daughter that has asthma, so I know what that's like. She's been on Singulair for a very long time and it's working beautifully. She was diagnosed with asthma at 8 months. She was on breathing treatments and all kinds of medicine. She has lots of allergies to, so we had to include all that medicine. Now, she is 9 years old and only taking Zyrtec and Singulair. When she gets congested, we give her a breathing treatment and that pretty much knocks all that stuff out. I hope that your doctor will be able to give your son some good medicine to help him.
I'm saying a prayer for you.
Blessings,
Penny
• Dec. 9, 2007
Curriculum Choice
Posted by Lachney1
I just noticed that you mentioned that you were going to start homeschooling. We have used a lot of curriculums and the best one that we have found so far is AmblesideOnline, which is Charlotte Mason. If you would like to look at it, you can go to www.amblesideonline.org, click on returned user and look at each year listed on the left hand side. The years are not grade levels. They recommend not starting a child on year 1, until at least a little over 6. It's where you or the child reads. These are some amazing books listed for these years. I did years 0 and 1 with my 9 year old, years 1 and 2 with my 11 year old and years 3 and 4 with my 15 year old. I'm currently doing year 3 with my 9 and 11 year olds and my oldest is doing year 5. Most of the books are found on the internet for free. Some of them you do have to buy and they aren't that expensive. This is our 9th year homeschooling and by far the best years, since we found Ambleside Online. There are also support groups on yahoo for this. My girls are learning about Shakespeare, different scientists, history, artists, composers, geography, nature study and so much more. I've learned a lot just from reading to them. I wish that I would have found AO a long, long time ago.
Hope this helps with your decision,
Penny
• Dec. 10, 2007
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Posted by Joycemarie
Hi, I just happened to find your blog, I am a friend of Penny...anyway...I second the Ambleside Online curriculum and there is another one too. www.oldfashionededucation.com both are mainly free and may help you get started.
Blessings,
Joyce
