http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/ Karen's Kastle Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:10:02 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2006. Parenting Christianity http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/archive/19.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 06:07:18 GMT I know it will say Jan 15 because it actually is 1 am but as far as I am concerned it's still Saturday night. Today we celebrated Emma's 3rd birthday. I can't believe she is 3 already. I need to figure out how to post pictures on here.... Still cleaning out junk...seems like it will never end. Need to get to bed earlier than I have been...this is ridiculous!!! http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/comments?id=19 http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/archive/18.html Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:33:29 GMT Katie and I went to the eye dr. today. She is getting glasses. I hope she won't hate them too much and that they will help her. She has complained for a while about her eyes hurting when she reads. My eyes are worse but he said that with my glasses on I was self correcting so I don't need new lenses. Yippee!! Didn't want to spend money on glasses. Still working on the big clean out..I am getting tired of it. Need to finish soon. I bought The Chronicles of Narnia book (7 books in one) and the family guide to Lion, Witch and Wardrobe...Can't wait to start reading it. I think we'll do... (more) http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/comments?id=18 http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/archive/17.html Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:20:32 GMT I just realized that I never posted about Jenna's birth. Jenna Rae joined our family Sept. 24, 2005. She was born healthy and all my worries about the medications I was on during pregnancy were unfounded. Praise the Lord! Another update. My MIL is responding well to chemotherapy. She is still "terminal" but has lived for 6 months since her dx which is the upper end of what we had read for life expectancy for a person with her type of lung cancer. We continue to pray for a miracle. She does not feel well a lot of the time but we are thankful for the time that we have with her. http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/comments?id=17 http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/archive/16.html Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:09:42 GMT I have been cleaning out STUFF. We have accumulated so much in the last year. It seems as though I lose nearly a year when I have a baby. I don't really function when I am pregnant and getting things done with a newborn (and the holidays) is nearly impossible. This week I felt compelled to get rid of junk. The past few days I did a little work on my closet which is more of a storage room. I decided today that I needed to start at the top of the house and work down. So, today I worked with the older girls on their drawers and then in Erin and Rachel's bedroom. It's still not done! I... (more) http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/comments?id=16 http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/archive/15.html Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:32:36 GMT I have reached 38 weeks of pregnancy and I cannot wait to have this baby! I have had a miserable month including hospitilization for 4 nights for a kidney stone. OUCH! I am off the pain medicine but we are unsure if the stone has passed or if it's lurking somewhere waiting to bother me again. I have also started breaking out in hives again... it started after being on Macrobid for a week (just like in May) so I stopped taking it but I still get hives. HMMMM I wonder if it just triggers something in my body? My MIL is doing really well with her chemotherapy and we are happy to have... (more) http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/comments?id=15 http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/archive/14.html Wed, 10 Aug 2005 04:19:34 GMT I'm not really sure how so much time slips by so quickly. We have had a busy but different summer here this year. 4 weeks ago my mother in law was diagnosed with an aggressive form of lung cancer. She is undergoing chemo to possibly give her a few months to live. She is only 54 years old and it is truly heartbreaking. It has set the tone for the summer. We have mostly spent quiet days at home or swimming in her pool and visiting as often as possible. We did manage to get away for a few days but we did it for the kids..... I am now 33 weeks pregnant. I am extremely uncomfortable... (more) http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/comments?id=14 http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/archive/13.html Tue, 24 May 2005 16:43:42 GMT Clever title wouldn't you say? I haven't blogged in a while though I have been meaning to. I am hoping to get my thoughts together on parts 2 and 3 of Spunky's homeschooling questions that I started in my last entry. I am still suffering from hives and it is frustrating. I wish I knew what was causing them. I am just about ready to take my pills which I have been trying to avoid because they make me so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open. (Not that I mind taking a nap but I probably should do something besides sleep around here.) My #2 daughter, Erin, turned 11 on Sunday. We... (more) http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/comments?id=13 http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/archive/12.html Wed, 18 May 2005 23:14:04 GMT Spunky is blogging on Homeschool: Conviction or Preference? When I started homeschooling I only knew one other person that was doing it. I had a penpal in another state that introduced me to the idea and I started reading about it. I can't even truthfully remember what reasons I gave for wanting to homeschool at the time. Probably some academic and some not. I remember watching a neighbor girl get on the school bus before my oldest was old enough and feeling so sad about it and couldn't even imagine sending my daughter on the bus the next... (more) http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/comments?id=12 http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/archive/11.html Tue, 17 May 2005 19:09:57 GMT Well, not really...but our homeschool year is winding down and I can't wait for us to be finished and take our nice long summer break. I have been spending hours planning what to purchase for next year. I think it is my favorite part of homeschooling...planning. The big problem is narrowing it all down. I love so many of the things I see in the homeschooling catalogs. I wish I had attended a homeschool conference to see some things hands on...but another year....no conference. I have never been in the 7 years we have been homeschooling. I am sure I won't go next year either as Lord... (more) http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/comments?id=11 http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/archive/10.html Sun, 15 May 2005 14:52:41 GMT Yesterday I woke up with hives. I started being itchy a little on Friday night but didn't notice any welts. Since I had just finished taking a round of antibiotics I thought I must have a yeast infection on my skin. I have never had one like that before, but my best friend gets them that way so I called her to see how she treats it. I was so itchy I decided to take some Benadryl. By the time I got to Wal-Mart (I was going to get Monistat and Aveeno and a few groceries) most of the redness and itching was gone...hmmm...that didn't seem like a yeast infection. 4 hours later....I... (more) http://karendg8.blogdrive.com/comments?id=10