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Fair Day

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Today was Kids day at the county fair. Kathleen got to go twice. She went with the her preschool class this afternoon and we took them after Shea got home from work. We went mostly for the gumbo, it’s a once a year treat we get. It was good to not have to cook tonight.

Then we went on rides. First off was the slide. Then the roller coaster for little ones, then the cars that go around a track slowly. And finally the strawberry tilt-a-whirl that I went on with the girls. I could have done with out the tilt-a-whirl, my stomach was not happy.

But I do have a funny story about the tilt-a-whirl. It was one of those ones where you have to turn it yourself, well it was me and 4 other little kids. Sammi decided that while we had a good spin on it NOT to let go as she was helping. So she scotted over two other kids seats on their laps until I was able to unlatch her from the wheel and sit next to me. It was kinda funny, dangerous, but she didn’t get hurt no big deal.

We had a good time, saw a very little pony and the cows, goats and chickens and the lone pig named Lunch. We got them some real Italian Ices and then left to go home. We didn’t have as big of a fit as last year, but there was still minor temper tantrums over leaving.

We have another eventful day tomorrow, with hair cuts, maybe the crop maze and then to Jacob’s Pumpkin Carving Party at 6pm. Will be a very long day tomorrow, hopefully the girls sleep well tonight.

Circus!

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Shea’s folks got some free children’s ticket for the circus in the mail and one adult free ticket, so yesterday after Shea got home from work we hauled the girls out for a surprise. We went to the circus for $24 dollars for seats and $50 bucks on junk (and dinner and more on food afterward).

We left the house after Shea’s house, bought our tickets then went into the fall to eat it was either Pizza or Chicken. The chicken line was long and the pizza didn’t have enough out so we had to wait, but we each had a slice of New York Style Pizza, and Shea and I got another pepperoni piece when it came out as we were still hungry.

Then we went to the circus proper. The girls road a camel – $5 each. We got a drink and cotten candy – $5 each. The girls got a light stick which is pretty cool for $8 each. They were disappointed when we ran out of cash lol.

We watched only half of the show, but we got to see the big cats and the trapeze – some clown acts and the ring/swing act oh yes and the camel/zebra/llama/pony act. The girls enjoyed it. We could have stayed for the full show the girls would have liked it but it was getting late and we were all still a bit hungry. So we left and stopped at Hardee’s to grab something for the ride home.

All in all an expensive night out, but fun was had so it’s all good. I thank my in-laws for the help with funds and the tickets, they really helped – other wise it would have been $17/adult and $12/kid.

I have some pictures I’ll get up as soon as I clean them up as it was dark in the tent.

Not All A Cold – Allergies & New Job

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A while back I had a cold, for a very long time it seemed. It turned out it wasn’t all a cold. When I was sick I started taking Thera-flu, and when I took it at night it interacted oddly with the Zyrtec, so I stopped taking my allergy meds while I was sick. Probably wasn’t a great thing to do. I think I got over my cold sooner than I thought, probably long before I went to the doctor to get on antibiotics.

I took the Zyrtec and low and behold my symptoms became manageable and not nearly so bothersome. I don’t think I needed the antibiotics at all.

But everything seems to be back to normal for me.

I will get some pics up of the new hair cut soon. Just need to remember to take some decent pictures. Took some myself today but I don’t really like them so I hope to have Shea take some at some point.

And on another note, Shea got a new job. He’ll be working at Trinity over in Gulfport, it’s a longer drive so it’s going to be an adjustment, but hopefully it’ll be much better than over at Signal. It’s also more hours, good on the pay check but hopefully not too hard on Shea. Two good things about this new job is it’s inside and it’s safer even if that just correlates to how high Shea has to climb up things. Insurance sucks, but we’ll see. If Shea likes the company he might switch to Trinity (if their insurance is better) instead of the contractor he’s currently with. So we’ll see.

Updates

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Well, there are a few updates to go through that I’ve yet to post.

I have heard back from only one of the several applications I sent out thus far. All the others are still out there. I did manage to get find a number for one that I wanted to call. And I’ll look into the others I have out as well. I am not sure what all I applied for now so I’ll have to hope they sent me something in automated reply so I can follow up exactly lol.

I am still sick. My voice is thankfully better, but I have a lingering cough and sinus issues. I’ll probably have this for a while, I almost always do. The girls are sick with something too probably the same thing I have, nasal issues and a cough. Kathleen was complaining about her ears hurting I hope that it doesn’t require going to the doctor’s office. Poor Kitten is having issues with her voice too.

Shea got the bugger too but he seems to be doing better. He went to the doctor and he got antibotics and a decongestant pill. Hopefully that’ll fix him up nice and good lol.

Kathleen has school pictures on Sept 14th, she’s suppose to wear fall attire, what the heck is fall attiire? I just hope I can pull something together for then. Right now most her clothes are spring/summerish. I’m sure I can make a dress fall by adding a shirt underneath, but I don’t really have any fall type colors for her. Yellow maybe, but it’s kinda dingy from two summers worth of kid dirt lol.

I’m having regular headaches again. I now know where most of them originate from, or at least I know what the left side headaches are from. I try not to take my migraine meds for them but alot of the time that’s all that really works. Ice, heat, Flex All with a massage vibrator thing to push and poke at the injured areas. It helps as long as I keep doing it. Hot showers help. There is a lot that helps but there is nothing that can heal this, or make them go away completely. The best thing is the massage thing, but it’s hard to do myself, and it’s hard to tell Shea where it needs to be done to get the best benefit from. At least they aren’t brain issues or anything like that. While they are annoying at least I have a cause for them in most cases. It’s all the other times I am not always sure, but these ones on the left side when they reach down to my neck are all about scar tissue.

I’m better, Shea’s not

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Well I’m feeling much better today. I have a headache but that really is nothing to worry over as it’s not making it impossible to work yet. But Shea has what I had yesterday on top of his eye still bothering him, tho I hope the latter is better.

One thing I’m beginning to realize is Kitten is not a morning person. It takes about ten miniutes to coax her out of bed and into the shower in the morning. Then it’s a fight in the shower lol. It’s good we don’t always have a shower, tho she will continue to get up at 6:30a regardless, it’s easier to get her moving for school with an hour wait instead of half an hour.

Sammi didn’t throw a fit today when we left. She wanted to color, so I told her we’d color at school, but by the time we got home she’d already forgotten about it. She wanted Kitkat but she’s understanding she’ll be home later.

We are off to take Shea to the doctor, and I’ll pick the kiddo up if he’s still in there when we need to get her and we’ll all come back to get Daddy.

Good Weekend kinda

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Friday Kathleen went to school with no issues. Tho she did come home and get sick again not sure what that was about.

Saturday we did the usual. We were suppose to go up to Lucedale to help with some plumbing for a friend of ours but our plans changed Thursdayish with the information that McL was going to be at Shea’s parents house. So we had to cancel on that as it was not a trip we wanted to make two days in a row.

Sunday we went up to Shea’s parents house, I had to drive Shea’s eye was particularly bothering him a lot more than it had been before. The girls and I went to church, and the girls went to Sunday School. I went to Sam and Joyce’s and we waited for everyone to show up. McL showed up around 11:15 or so and we spent the time together with the whole family. The girls really enjoyed their time with their brother. And I hope he enjoyed his time with them, they get to see each other so little it’s really nice for them to get to play together.

But Sunday wasn’t a good day for me either, I didn’t feel 100% most of the day, but it wasn’t until the night that things went for the worst, I got the same thing Kathleen had. What’s bad is I still have it today and have only really eaten crackers and drank ginger ale today. I’m exhausted and I have so much to do. Hopefully I can get some of it done.

Kathleen went to school and enjoyed it, she didn’t even fuss at all when I had to leave. She’s starting to really like it I think. Yay for her.

Day Two + Visitor

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Day two of preschool is going pretty well – except for the fact that I don’t feel good. My head and stomach aren’t feeling too hot, not sure if it’s the heat or something else. My allergies were a bit heavy last night so I don’t know, and on top of that I didn’t sleep well.

Kathleen didn’t really want to go, but she seemed pretty happy once we got there and I got a preview of what it could be like. One of the little girls in Kathleen’s class showed up at the same time and she didn’t want to leave her dad. She cried and screamed but I asked Kathleen if she wanted to help her, so she went pretty easily. I am glad we don’t have that, even Sammi doesn’t do that when we leave. She did of course cry and she was very clinging, meaning I’ve just now gotten some un-cling time from the kiddo. She’s wanted me to watch Phineas and Ferb with her and I did, now she’s happily playing her art game again. She doesn’t get to do this very often so she’s having a good time.

Kathleen is going on a field trip today. They didn’t get me the paperwork to let her go until this morning but I have no problem they are just going down the road to the old high school gym to play for an hour or so. I hope she has fun.

Last night after we got back from helping Shea’s parents load some things into their truck from Aunt Johnette’s house we had a visitor stop by. The door bell rang and I just figured it was Shea’s folks, we or they had forgotten something. But it wasn’t when I opened the door McL was standing there. I gave him a hug and invited him in and we went into the back of the house – where it’s cooler.

We talked about the situation with him and his wife and son. We offered moral support and told him if he needed a place for Gabe we were willing to help while he was in the army until he could do it himself. He joined WoW but couldn’t seem to get into things so I helped him buy his full subscription and hopefully we’ll be able to help him out in his game time.

I am thankful that he has some good friends that stopped him from doing something he shouldn’t. They are good friends and I’m glad they are supporting him. He has some good support and that’s going to be key I think.

It was very good to see him and I hope we can spend more time with him before he goes back to Virgina to deal with his life and get back to work in the army. He got to spend time with the girls, Kathleen and him wrestled around for a while before we went looking for Mam and Pawpaw. He spent the night up there, we just don’t have a place for him with only living in two rooms and he’d be more comfortable up there. Hopefully he’ll come down later today. Maybe we can get him to stay to get the group together, we don’t know yet. Hopefully tho.

Far Away Family

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I never thought I’d say this now, since I’ve not been to Colorado in many many many years (my god almost 20 years – holy!), but I think I miss some of the good times back then.

For years in high school I missed Colorado, but mostly because I wasn’t with my friends, had to repeat classes I’d already taken and just wasn’t real happy about the move. I don’t regret the move now. I’m glad we moved, really glad we moved.

Now family is definitely in New York, yes in the town that I desperately wanted to get away from. It’s really funny how life changes and how things you took for granted come back to haunt you later. While I don’t miss the small town mentality per say, I do miss it in a way. But I do miss my family even those far far away whom I’m not likely to see much.

Colorado holds many good memories, and I’ve been reminded of some of them recently by finding a close cousin of mine on Facebook. We didn’t see each other more than a couple times of year because they lived up in the mountains. But we probably had some of the most fun times ever every summer when we did go to visit. We did a lot of camping with them, but I remember most was the horses and playing out in the woods surrounding their house.

I was only really ever close to three sets of cousins – the ones I just mention whom I’ve found most of on Facebook recently, another set of boys who we spent a lot of time – several times a year we saw each other, and then one cousin who lived with us for summers during the day, and came home with me during middle school. Other than that we didn’t see the rest of the family except during holidays and the like. But there are several on Facebook and I do like keeping up with them. But it’s hard to picture some of them with kids and such because when I left Colorado they were very little and it’s hard to get that out of your mind.

I miss my family, all of it. I’m glad I’ve got Shea and the girls with me and Shea’s family around me, but nothing beats having your own family around. With Facebook comes the happy times and the sad times when I can’t share in all the special events that I now get to see. But I wouldn’t change it because now I can at least feel some of the happy times through pictures and words shared by my family.

Love and Miss ya’ll.

Lost Loved Ones & Reunions

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Today was the Wilkerson-Wilkinson Family Reunion. I made a potato salad early this morning which started our already late start. Needless to say we didn’t get there very early like we were suppose to.

We had bad news once we arrived. Shea’s Aunt Johnnette hadn’t been doing well and was in the hospital. Shea’s Momma called earlier to tell him that and that she needed him but we didn’t get there to help much as we got a late start to our day to begin with. But when we got there I knew the news wasn’t good with Shea’s Momma in tears. Shea’s aunt passed away the day of the family reunion. It wasn’t a good day for that, but it was in a way as well. At least family was together to support the rest of the family. Aunt Johnette is in a better place and feeling tons better and we are all glad of that, but she will be missed dearly by all who knew her.

The girls had a good time, they colored and played with their cousins. They brought home balloons and butterflies. We brought home leftovers chicken and corn on the cob. I doubt the corn on the cob will last the night once the girls find out we have it lol. They love them some corn.

Needless to say today has been a rough and eventful day. I don’t have the energy to do DDR today. I will have to pick up again tomorrow, though I my just cut my weekends out all together as it’s harder to do that with Shea home and the girls home and I don’t get up quite so early in the morning.

Keep our family in your thoughts and prayers, we’ve a rough few days ahead of us as everything is prepared for Aunt Johnette’s memorial service. We will miss you Aunt Johnette!

The Beach Park and Fireworks

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Yesterday we went to the beach park. We rode around for a while looking for parking. We eventually found some near the park itself and we got out and took the girls to the playground. There was too many people and not enough police and neither Shea nor I felt comfortable.

We got back into the van with a dismayed child. But we hit Sonic and got drinks and ice cream and we went back down to the beach and found some parking in a vacant lot no where near the actual park. It was quiet and windy so it wasn’t hot to my liking.

We let the girls play in the sand for a little while, until Kathleen threw sand in Sammi’s eyes. So we went back to the car until the fireworks started. They watched the little ones people had going and were excited. By the time the big ones started they weren’t really interested. But we were far enough away they weren’t overly loud. Yay to that.

Food worked out well yesterday. I “marinated” my chicken in a brine solution – salt, water, some seasoned meat tenderizer, a little honey and a little vinegar. I wasn’t very familiar with my grill since I’ve not used it in a while, so I forgot which was hot and which was the cooler side. so my skin was a bit darker than I liked, but it turned out well. After it was mostly cooked I added the barbaque sauce and it was. The corn was wrapped in tinfoil with butter and put on the top rack of the grill. It was yummy. Potato salad was good too. The Watermelon was AWESOME!