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d that they are really hard to move so we already know that we will have to leave it when we move but that s okay with us i love this apartment i will post pictures very soon we still have boxes piled up and i don t have anything on the walls yet we will sleep here for the first time tomorrow night bigger smile posted by vicky at 4 57 pm no comments wednesday august 01 2012 moving can be an adventure we put our house on the market about four months ago and when we got an offer recently i thought this is a good offer we need to accept it dan had a different response since we just put on completely new roof we need to send back a counter offer that put the price back to our original full asking price i could see why he thought that but i also realized that we would probably lose the sale boy was i wrong they accepted our counter offer and we have now passed the inspection we are almost home free we still have the appraisal to wait on before we can begin the final preparations for moving we already have an apartment assigned to us on campus nearby it s a an 1100 sq feet two bedrooms two full baths and it s a ground floor unit it s a brand new building in fact it s scheduled to be ready by about august 15th the closing date for our house is august 21 and i have to admit that this is a bit close for my comfort i am hoping that our house closes a bit late so we have a little more breathing room i m trying not to stress about this after all this is an adventure if the apartment is ready early there won t be anything to worry about if not there may be other options available that i m not yet aware of i am very excited about moving i have wanted to downsize for several years now and i have been in the process of sorting through items and getting ready we have been packing for the last week and went furniture shopping yesterday we are buying new furniture i am excited and at the same time a little nervous i walked around for several hours looking at so many styles of furniture and had no idea what i really like also it s hard to picture how the furniture will look in an apartment i have never seen we do have a floor plan but that doesn t really help me a lot as far as picking out the furniture we are getting a king bed for our room and a queen set for the guest room we ll still have an inflatable double mattress so that makes enough sleeping arrangements for the kids so they can still stay with us when they come to town well that s all for now i ll update in a few days when i know more posted by vicky at 7 37 pm no comments monday april 30 2012 before and after adhd i ve suspected that i had adhd for many years from my perspective my mind has been racing for many years and i found myself flitting like a butterfly from one project to another while never finishing any of them when i was working my office was filled with piles of partially completed projects when my office space increased the number of piles multiplied i wanted to be different i tried to be different but instead i continued along the same path i periodically made progress in some areas and fell behind in others it wasn t a matter of time it was focus often i didn t have enough time but even when i did i didn t have enough focus because i was a conscientious employee i worked hard to do my job mainly to meet the needs of my students then came the arrival of high blood pressure medications a pleasant byproduct has been a lessening of my adhd symptoms i find myself able to focus initially my mind was slowed too much keeping me from being able to accomplish anything i didn t like the feeling in fact i wanted to stop taking the medication after about three weeks my mind began to clear and i have found that my focus is so much better adhd is not about will power it is about an inability to regulate focus i much prefer being able to focus even if my mind is occasionally foggy i am able to listen to a conversation without my mind racing due to every little distraction in my environment i am able to listen to a sermon without my mind racing due to every little distraction in my environment i have focus i know that it is difficult to choose just the right dose for bp medications or adhd but i am staying with them they will keep me healthier in the long run and i like being able to focus this experience has caused me to think a lot about children with adhd it s helped me to understand what it s like in a more concrete way now that i have experienced the before and after it has not helped me know whether it s better to medicate a child there are so many issues involved with adhd medication that i don t know about there are also many degrees of adhd and every child is unique posted by vicky at 7 47 am no comments sunday april 15 2012 so many ideas so little time i have so many things i want to talk about but so few minutes of clarity that is my dilemma clarity not time it turns out that i have high blood pressure and yes my children it is genetic so you need to be aware in a few decades the medications i am on are all low dose but they still cause me to feel drugged confused disoriented overtired i have started feeling better within the last few days sometimes for a few hours at a time sometimes more i have confidence in my family doctor and i predict that within a few weeks i will be feeling better than i have in decades imagine that better than i have felt in decades that s longer than some of you have been adults it s an awesome thing to look forward to i have had lots of time to think but little energy for concentration and i keep hearing this little jingle in my head high blood pressure the silent killer that makes me so thankful for medications that can help i am also so thankful that i am otherwise healthy as my head clears i have lots of thoughts to share posts to come budding photographer mimi and nanna hit birmingham spring sing visit selling our house dar posted by vicky at 2 23 pm no comments saturday december 31 2011 christmas in texas like i said in my last post the best part of christmas is spending it with family we got home from birmingham on friday and i was on a flight to ft worth at 8 00 saturday morning because i didn t want to wait until monday dan had made a commitment to preach on sunday so he drove down on monday i was looking forward to time with the boys and i wanted to meet the girls that lived with michael and jennifer the girls had all left for family visits and would start coming back on monday i have so many new things to tell that i almost don t where to start this was my first visit to their new home and wow the house is huge and jennifer has decorated it beautifully the kitchen has two large refrigerators two ovens a giant icemaker and a drinking fountain when i first saw the icemaker i thought it was a trash compactor because it s about that size this is a picture of the kitchen with some jennifer s family when they came over christmas day i see bennett s birthday balloon is still holding it s own near the ceiling the picture above doesn t capture how long the counter is check out the drinking fountain at the end of the counter i ll get back to the house later doesn t jasper look just like his daddy bennett looks very much like his mommy talking larry was a big hit with both boys just as it was with rachel s boys i think of the four boys ethan and jasper got the most joy from it i didn t have my big camera handy but i took a couple of photos with my phone jasper s favorite thing to do was the lightning button i had a great day with the boys on saturday they are both so affectionate and i received many hugs one of their favorite toys is a large train set with about 5 6 battery powered engines michael helps them build a huge track and then the action begins we all had a station at the bridge or several of the switches to make sure none of the engines collide it was a lot of fun saturday evening we went to jennifer s grandmother s house to celebrate with her dad s side of the family i had already met his brother and sister and jennifer s cousins we had a great chili and tamale dinner and dessert potluck i had a really nice time and they surprised me with gifts from mike and ellen and two other driggers since i wasn t exactly sure who to thank for the other two gifts i said since everyone here is a driggers and these two gifts are from the driggers thank you very much it was so sweet of them and the gifts were so thoughtful sunday morning was christmas and we went to jennifer s parents house for breakfast stockings are first and the boys went right for them michael s stocking had the cutest little finger lights the were fairly bright and each one fastened using velcro to his fingers i was again taken by surprise to find a gift filled stocking with my name on it the boys handed out all of the gifts and then everyone took turns opening presents michael had replaced the counter top on the island in their kitchen for jennifer s christmas present he decided to wrap up a piece of the same piece of wood he had used for the counter for her to open on christmas morning bennett got an angry bird which he really liked jasper wears daddy new hat and gets a ride after presents we went to church and then back to the cottage the boys went down for their naps and not long after jennifer s moms side of the family came over to celebrate they all brought food gifts and a good time we exchanged gifts played table games ate then went outside for kickball until dark i would say that a good time was had by all this room is one of the cottage living room areas it has a table set up for the potluck that day it is much larger than this picture shows this is another living room area which is also much larger than it looks in the picture this is a double table that looks like a very long table it s an open area with a counter space that separates it from the kitchen jasper is delivering a gift to his great grandparents bennett is listening intently to something that his uncle joe is telling him shortly after dark everyone left except mike and ellen they stayed and we played poker i learned a new game called gut it s my new favorite poker game the next day dan arrived in the early afternoon the boys were both excited to see him i had gone with michael to pick up cheyenne at the bus station after her family visit some of the girls are dropped off by their guardian and some are not we had fun with the boys for several hours and then we went out to eat at a place called ghengis grill it was great food and a fun place to eat the four of us played poker that night and introduced dan to the game gut the next morning we met michael and the boys for breakfast and then went back to the cottage two more girls came back from their family visits that day the three girls we met are very sweet and i am very glad i got to meet them this was our last day with the boys as on previous days we played with the trains a lot we both got lots of hugs when it was their bedtime we said our good byes we spent our evening playing poker again i think dan likes the new poker game as much as i do posted by vicky at 6 34 pm no comments christmas in birmingham the best part of christmas is spending time with family and we drove to birmingham for a few days for an early christmas with rachel marcus and the kids it was a shorter stay than usual but i enjoyed every minute we arrived in town about 1 30 pm and not long after we checked in to our hotel rachel brought the kids over for a swim the boys are amazing swimmers they are both able to swim on their own in the big pool as long as an adult is keeping an eye on them they both know how to dive but the pool is only about 5 feet at the deep end and doesn t allow diving rachel and dan enjoyed the hot tub while i enjoyed holding lydia dan spent a lot of time playing in the big pool with the boys too i never actually got in the water this time marcus was working so he met us afterward at jason s deli for dinner jason s deli has become of favorite of ours caleb tasted papa s toasted garlic bread and he loved it he kept saying i like this kind of bread and asking for more we all enjoyed ourselves as usual we all went back to their house for our christmas eve rachel had all the kids dressed in matching pajamas for some reason i only got a picture of ethan i wish i had photographed all three of them because they looked adorable that evening we all watched a video together it was a veggie tale about the origins of santa claus and the spirit of giving which the kids loved the kids were already ready for bed and very excited because the next morning was their christmas i don t remember who asked caleb if he was hoping to see santa claus but this was his response i don t just want to see santa claus i want to see him in his sleigh flying through the sky the kids went to bed and we had our traditional game of poker for the first time that i can remember i came out ahead i always enjoy poker win or lose but it was fun to win the next morning was so much fun watching the kids open their presents the boys handed out presents to everyone and took turns opening presents ethan loves costumes and had been hoping for western boots for months caleb was hoping for a discovery toys marble maze he also got a beginner erector set i ll be interested to see how he likes it after he tries it out they were my favorite thing to play with as a kid i discovered after looking back over my photos that i didn t get as many of lydia as i d hoped i guess that s because i spent more time holding and playing with her than using my camera after we had our christmas marcus had to go to work we spent the day playing with kids and i took a few more pictures rachel took the boys to the hotel again to swim with papa i stayed at the house with lydia that evening rachel got a sitter for the kids and the adults went to a fantastic restaurant i had never eaten french food before i ordered a fish entree and it was delicious when it came time for dessert dan and marcus declined so rachel and i split one i don t remember what it was called but it had chocolate and raspberries and was a very light but rich dessert our server brought four spoons and between the four of us it quickly disappeared we had to head home the next day so this was our only full day there we were all pretty tired so dan and i headed back to our hotel we made plans to return in the morning to play with the kids for a few hours before heading home i m so happy that i will be able to visit more often my next visit will be in march posted by vicky at 2 23 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom photography photography life to survive photography life is changing gastroparesis blog resources living well with gastroparesis the resource i wish i d had living with gastroparesis a gentle reminder about me vicky arkansas united states i am a wife mother and nanna to a beautiful baby girl and four handsome boys we 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