I just don't know what to think. I mean, I keep looking at weatherchannel.com and CNN and the weather channel on TV and they are for sure saying this is gonna be a big storm. Then I listen to what people here in Philadelphia, so far away from where Katrina came upon land, went through when she did, I just don't know what to think.
I can tell you that according to what I'm reading and watching, New Orleans is NOT playing around this time. They are saying looters will go straight to the Big House right into the general population there. They are saying those that don't get out will be left behind, no federal assistance to get out. The Super Dome will not be open. Just a mandatory evacuation that says get out and you better dang well better do it.
I guess my friends and family in Alabama are safe and sound since we got nothing from Katrina there when she came through. But it ain't looking good for the home teams here in Mississippi and Lousianna.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Dum Di Dum....
We have a name for this sweet baby girl! Let me preface this blog post by saying that I made it through the K's of the baby name book that Sid's cousin Amy gave us. But none of those names we read there really stuck for either one of us. Since this is probably the only child that Sid and I will have, rather she had been a boy or girl, I wanted a name that meant something to both of us, a family name if you will. And I didn't want some cute little name for a new born that would be dumb when she became a smart, educated, first-class little lady that we pray and hope she will aspire to be. From the beginning I knew I wanted to use Ellen as the middle name, which is Maggie's middle name. (my baby sister, for those of you who might not know) We had originally talked about Sidney Ellen, but Sid and I both felt like she'd end up being called Sid and one Sid is enough.
So....one day my dad mentioned that his grandfather's name, my Pap-paw Self's daddy, who is my great grandfather, was John Bailey and Sid and I both instantly liked that. So we thought about Bailey for several weeks and in the meantime, I came up with Annemarie Ellen. My middle name is Anne, mom's middle name is Marie, and Maggie's middle name is Ellen. But Sid didn't really like Annemarie Ellen Whitehead, he said it was too long and it sounded like too many names. Maggie agreed with him. So I finally told Sid that I liked them both and gave him the option and he decided he liked Bailey Ellen. He's called the baby Bailey several time in conversation, which is more than I could bring myself to do, so last night I quizzed him, and indeed he is serious about liking the name Bailey.
So....Bailey Ellen Whitehead she will be. I hope she likes her name. And it's sweet to hear Sid call her Bailey.
This brings me to my second thought....Mom got a new sewing/monograming machine that she's been going to classes in Homewood for so she can learn how to use it. She says she bought tons of things to monogram but she'd just have to put Baby Girl Whitehead on everything since we couldn't come up with a name. I asked for advice on which did she like, but I don't guess she wanted to influence our decesion so she didn't comment. But Mom, now, you have no excuse. We have a name and initials and Bailey can't wait to see what her Mimi can do!!!!
We shall not leave Bailey's Poppy T out of the post either. He has a new guitar that Mom got him and had his first guitar lesson today. When I called to see if he learned how to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, he said all he learned today was that he had the guitar strap on backwards. I, of course, found this hilarious. But I think it's so awesome that Mom got him a guitar and he's actually interested in learning how to play. Maybe he'll play us a song at Bailey's baptism or something. Or maybe I should shoot for Happy Birthday at her 1st Birthday Party. What do you think Poppy T???
And since this post has turned into a novel, what about Gustav? It appears that after people here have gone through Katrina, they aren't playing around with this hurricane. I've never been through one before so I don't really know how to react or feel. I know I had tons of questions at the daycare about what we will do, but I don't really know what we will do. I guess we'll have to wait and see but the situation isn't looking good for Mississipi, Lousianna, and Texas. And how those little islands and Cuba continue to take hits like they do form these storms and survive is beyond me. It's scary, if you stop to let yourself dwell too long on the subject.
Sid's gone to the races with his Dad and NeNe called to see if I was up for an outing, but I've enjoyed my day at home doing nothing. I wish I was in Alabama, I miss everyone so bad, but I just couldn't take the risk of spreading whatever this is all the way over there too. I'm sure Sid and I will get out and do something together either tomorrow or Monday. But for now, I have a new book, which my wonderful husband picked out for me at Wal-Mart earlier today. He's so good, he can even pick out books he knows I like to read. He did that AND made homemade fried apple pies this morning. What more could a girl want???
So....one day my dad mentioned that his grandfather's name, my Pap-paw Self's daddy, who is my great grandfather, was John Bailey and Sid and I both instantly liked that. So we thought about Bailey for several weeks and in the meantime, I came up with Annemarie Ellen. My middle name is Anne, mom's middle name is Marie, and Maggie's middle name is Ellen. But Sid didn't really like Annemarie Ellen Whitehead, he said it was too long and it sounded like too many names. Maggie agreed with him. So I finally told Sid that I liked them both and gave him the option and he decided he liked Bailey Ellen. He's called the baby Bailey several time in conversation, which is more than I could bring myself to do, so last night I quizzed him, and indeed he is serious about liking the name Bailey.
So....Bailey Ellen Whitehead she will be. I hope she likes her name. And it's sweet to hear Sid call her Bailey.
This brings me to my second thought....Mom got a new sewing/monograming machine that she's been going to classes in Homewood for so she can learn how to use it. She says she bought tons of things to monogram but she'd just have to put Baby Girl Whitehead on everything since we couldn't come up with a name. I asked for advice on which did she like, but I don't guess she wanted to influence our decesion so she didn't comment. But Mom, now, you have no excuse. We have a name and initials and Bailey can't wait to see what her Mimi can do!!!!
We shall not leave Bailey's Poppy T out of the post either. He has a new guitar that Mom got him and had his first guitar lesson today. When I called to see if he learned how to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, he said all he learned today was that he had the guitar strap on backwards. I, of course, found this hilarious. But I think it's so awesome that Mom got him a guitar and he's actually interested in learning how to play. Maybe he'll play us a song at Bailey's baptism or something. Or maybe I should shoot for Happy Birthday at her 1st Birthday Party. What do you think Poppy T???
And since this post has turned into a novel, what about Gustav? It appears that after people here have gone through Katrina, they aren't playing around with this hurricane. I've never been through one before so I don't really know how to react or feel. I know I had tons of questions at the daycare about what we will do, but I don't really know what we will do. I guess we'll have to wait and see but the situation isn't looking good for Mississipi, Lousianna, and Texas. And how those little islands and Cuba continue to take hits like they do form these storms and survive is beyond me. It's scary, if you stop to let yourself dwell too long on the subject.
Sid's gone to the races with his Dad and NeNe called to see if I was up for an outing, but I've enjoyed my day at home doing nothing. I wish I was in Alabama, I miss everyone so bad, but I just couldn't take the risk of spreading whatever this is all the way over there too. I'm sure Sid and I will get out and do something together either tomorrow or Monday. But for now, I have a new book, which my wonderful husband picked out for me at Wal-Mart earlier today. He's so good, he can even pick out books he knows I like to read. He did that AND made homemade fried apple pies this morning. What more could a girl want???
Friday, August 29, 2008
Just Barely
But I did pass the Praxis. That means that I am now Highly Qualified with a Master's Degree to teach Special Education in the state of Alabama. Not so sure about Mississippi, but once I get everything from Alabama, I'll submit it to the Mississippi State Department of Education and see what they have to say.
Shew!!!! That's just one more thing off my back. And boy am I glad.
Shew!!!! That's just one more thing off my back. And boy am I glad.
I Just Got Off The Phone
With the nurse at the OB office. The results won't be back until tomorrow which is a Saturday, which means I won't know what it is until Tuesday since Monday is a holiday. And in the meantime, we are apparently getting prepared to be blown away, so the results will probably be blown away and then so the saga continues......
Meanwhile, it's Friday and we are off on Monday, so it's a long weekend. Thank goodness. I'm gonna spray this place down with bleach and it'll get three longs days to kill what it needs to.
I'm not getting to go home like we'd planned for several weeks since I have this. I sure don't want to spread it all the way to Alabama. So we'll be here and hopefully get alot done around the house.
I hope everyone has a GREAT weekend!!!
Meanwhile, it's Friday and we are off on Monday, so it's a long weekend. Thank goodness. I'm gonna spray this place down with bleach and it'll get three longs days to kill what it needs to.
I'm not getting to go home like we'd planned for several weeks since I have this. I sure don't want to spread it all the way to Alabama. So we'll be here and hopefully get alot done around the house.
I hope everyone has a GREAT weekend!!!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Oh The Joys!!!
So last Sunday my right upper thigh started feeling a little tingly to the touch and I thought maybe some type of bump was popping up. On Monday, I told Sid it felt like I might have a rash there. On Tuesday it was very very painful and I got Sid to look at it, because of course I can't see that part of my leg, and he said it was sort of blistery looking it. We put some stuff on it (for diaper rash none the less) and a band-aide and I went on about my business. Through out last night, it woke me up several times and so this morning I decided to get a mirror and investigate. I was horrified with what I saw. The spot is about the size of a quarter and has about 20 little blistery heads on it, and it is VERY painful.
Now let me back-up, at the daycare, we've had one child with MRSA and a worker with staff all in the past two weeks. So I paniced. And went to my regualar doc here in Philly. She wouldn't see me because she said she wouldn't know what to do for it. ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? So I leave out headed to Meridian even though my OB's office wasn't yet answering the phone, I knew they take walk-ins til 10:00. On the way, at 9:00, I called and they FINALLY answered the phone. I asked if they were taking walk-ins and this is how the conversation played out: "What's wrong Mrs. Whitehead? OH I think I might have a staff infection. I have a place on my leg that is very painful and I've been exposed to staff. Ok, hold on, let me get the nurse. Holding..... Hello! This is Ben (the gay office manager). You think you have staff? We don't know what to do for you because you can't come in the office with staff. You will be putting other's at risk. (In my head I'm thinking "No sh**!!) But as calmly as I can I say "Well what do you want me to do if the regular doc won't see me and you don't want me in your office? And Ben says "I'm going to get the doc to call you right back. Are you at work? No I'm on the way to your office since you take walk-ins. Well we do, we just can't have you putting everyone else at risk. Ok, thank you! Good-Bye!
A few minutes later, the phone rings and it's the nurse. Our conversation goes like this: "Mrs. Whitehead, can you explain to me what your spot looks like. We're pretty sure it's staff because we know it's in the schools. Well, it looks like..blah blah blah. Ok, this is what I'm going to do, you call me back when you get here and I'll come out to your car and culture it. Well, I have to pull my pants down to show you where it is. Oh, ok, I see. Well, just call me and we'll bring you in through the back door. Ok, thank you, I'll see you in a minute.
So about 20 minutes later I get there and sure enough they bring me in the back door and she swabed the heck out of that place. I thought I was going to pass out it hurt so bad. I broke out into a sweat and my ears started ringing it hurt that bad. But she's pretty sure it's staff, although she did culture it for other stuff, too. I asked what the implications of this was for the baby and she didn't act like it was that big deal, but I'm a worrier and I think it is a big deal.
In the meantime, Sid said the next time he goes with me he's gonna give them a piece of his mind since they didn't even want me in the office. But I told him no, it really worked out better since I got to go in the back door and was seen right away and then they got me out of there. And I was half-way glad they reacted that way since I reacted that way over the child and worker with staff at the daycare. It made me feel better about my reactions.
Sylvia, the nurse who is a God-send and has helped me with all the nausea and migranes, said she'd call me Friday and we'd go from there. But that I'd have to go on antibiotics and that wouldn't hurt the baby. I'm gonna do some reading on this topic before I give in and take them, though!!!
Keep me in your prayers.
Now let me back-up, at the daycare, we've had one child with MRSA and a worker with staff all in the past two weeks. So I paniced. And went to my regualar doc here in Philly. She wouldn't see me because she said she wouldn't know what to do for it. ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? So I leave out headed to Meridian even though my OB's office wasn't yet answering the phone, I knew they take walk-ins til 10:00. On the way, at 9:00, I called and they FINALLY answered the phone. I asked if they were taking walk-ins and this is how the conversation played out: "What's wrong Mrs. Whitehead? OH I think I might have a staff infection. I have a place on my leg that is very painful and I've been exposed to staff. Ok, hold on, let me get the nurse. Holding..... Hello! This is Ben (the gay office manager). You think you have staff? We don't know what to do for you because you can't come in the office with staff. You will be putting other's at risk. (In my head I'm thinking "No sh**!!) But as calmly as I can I say "Well what do you want me to do if the regular doc won't see me and you don't want me in your office? And Ben says "I'm going to get the doc to call you right back. Are you at work? No I'm on the way to your office since you take walk-ins. Well we do, we just can't have you putting everyone else at risk. Ok, thank you! Good-Bye!
A few minutes later, the phone rings and it's the nurse. Our conversation goes like this: "Mrs. Whitehead, can you explain to me what your spot looks like. We're pretty sure it's staff because we know it's in the schools. Well, it looks like..blah blah blah. Ok, this is what I'm going to do, you call me back when you get here and I'll come out to your car and culture it. Well, I have to pull my pants down to show you where it is. Oh, ok, I see. Well, just call me and we'll bring you in through the back door. Ok, thank you, I'll see you in a minute.
So about 20 minutes later I get there and sure enough they bring me in the back door and she swabed the heck out of that place. I thought I was going to pass out it hurt so bad. I broke out into a sweat and my ears started ringing it hurt that bad. But she's pretty sure it's staff, although she did culture it for other stuff, too. I asked what the implications of this was for the baby and she didn't act like it was that big deal, but I'm a worrier and I think it is a big deal.
In the meantime, Sid said the next time he goes with me he's gonna give them a piece of his mind since they didn't even want me in the office. But I told him no, it really worked out better since I got to go in the back door and was seen right away and then they got me out of there. And I was half-way glad they reacted that way since I reacted that way over the child and worker with staff at the daycare. It made me feel better about my reactions.
Sylvia, the nurse who is a God-send and has helped me with all the nausea and migranes, said she'd call me Friday and we'd go from there. But that I'd have to go on antibiotics and that wouldn't hurt the baby. I'm gonna do some reading on this topic before I give in and take them, though!!!
Keep me in your prayers.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
I Got To Post
The next few days so that I don't continue to blog less and less each month. I'll have to blog each day for the rest of the month for that not to happen. haha!
I wanted to share my cousin Robyn's blog to show off her sweet little boy, Cade Robert. He was baptized this past weekend in Alabama where they live. I'm showing off these pics for several different reasons: #1-I LOVE the banner that she says her church does for the baby #2-That's my pap-paw officiating the ceremony. He'll have another one to do around May, we like to keep him busy with his great grans. #3-Robyn's sister Kelley, my other cousin, made the cake that there is a pic of. I think it's just beautiful. Kelley went to culinary school after graduating from Auburn and has worked for Southern Living and for her grandmother who owns a German Bake Shop on Hwy 280. She always does a fab job with whatever she is doing, not to mention she has three little ones heself. Anyway, enjoy the pics! http://forresterfam.blogspot.com/
We've continued to have rain here in Philly for several days now. And I just read where Hurricane Gustav is now a Hurricane. Let's hope it doesn't head for Orange Beach and there aren't anymore deaths associated with these horrible storms. But Thank God for the rain!
The nausea is off and on. I was nauseated much of Sunday but never actually threw up and then yesterday morning I was up at 4 a.m. throwing up. So far today, I'm good, I just feel like there's a bowling ball in my tummy!
Well the cookie dough fundraiser starts tomorrow so I've got to try and figure out my head from a whole in the ground-which way is up-so I can get this thing kicked off. Wish me luck. They tell me the daycare usually makes about $3000 off the fundraiser and it is much needed.
Oh and by the way, for those of you who know me well, check out some of these baby beds.....http://www.ababy.com/subcategory.asp?CategoryID=8 But you can't guess which one is my favorite. Not that we'd EVER spend this much money on a bed to use for 2 or less years, but there are one or two inparticular that fit right in with my antique-kind of style.
I wanted to share my cousin Robyn's blog to show off her sweet little boy, Cade Robert. He was baptized this past weekend in Alabama where they live. I'm showing off these pics for several different reasons: #1-I LOVE the banner that she says her church does for the baby #2-That's my pap-paw officiating the ceremony. He'll have another one to do around May, we like to keep him busy with his great grans. #3-Robyn's sister Kelley, my other cousin, made the cake that there is a pic of. I think it's just beautiful. Kelley went to culinary school after graduating from Auburn and has worked for Southern Living and for her grandmother who owns a German Bake Shop on Hwy 280. She always does a fab job with whatever she is doing, not to mention she has three little ones heself. Anyway, enjoy the pics! http://forresterfam.blogspot.com/
We've continued to have rain here in Philly for several days now. And I just read where Hurricane Gustav is now a Hurricane. Let's hope it doesn't head for Orange Beach and there aren't anymore deaths associated with these horrible storms. But Thank God for the rain!
The nausea is off and on. I was nauseated much of Sunday but never actually threw up and then yesterday morning I was up at 4 a.m. throwing up. So far today, I'm good, I just feel like there's a bowling ball in my tummy!
Well the cookie dough fundraiser starts tomorrow so I've got to try and figure out my head from a whole in the ground-which way is up-so I can get this thing kicked off. Wish me luck. They tell me the daycare usually makes about $3000 off the fundraiser and it is much needed.
Oh and by the way, for those of you who know me well, check out some of these baby beds.....http://www.ababy.com/subcategory.asp?CategoryID=8 But you can't guess which one is my favorite. Not that we'd EVER spend this much money on a bed to use for 2 or less years, but there are one or two inparticular that fit right in with my antique-kind of style.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Guess What???
I haven't had caffiene in two days. Can you believe it? Sid actually asked me yesterday if I was drinking any Dr. Pepper's these days. The answer is I'm not, all I've really had lately is a coke here and there. But even after being sick this last week, that want went away. Of course, I'm not drinking milk so mostly I'm drinking fruit juices and Sprite. I have learned to down some Sprite, which is still not real healthy due to the sugar in it I don't guess, but at least I don't have that DP IV hooked up anymore either.
It seems that Fay is making her way across Mississippi this weekend and on into tomorrow. Sid was thankful he didn't have to work this afternoon, he got drenched yesterday, and will probably get drenched tomorrow. But we've had lots of good rain fall, enough so that the ground is saturated and the pressure with the system has not been good for the head. But we are surviving. And enjoying the rainy Sunday. It's been an afternoon for Life Time movies for me and random TV for Sid since the race was on last night. I'm sure it will be an early bed night.
The baby moved around alot at church this morning. I think she likes the organ music because when it's playing is when she usually moves around the most during that hour. Hopefully that's a good sign.
It seems that Fay is making her way across Mississippi this weekend and on into tomorrow. Sid was thankful he didn't have to work this afternoon, he got drenched yesterday, and will probably get drenched tomorrow. But we've had lots of good rain fall, enough so that the ground is saturated and the pressure with the system has not been good for the head. But we are surviving. And enjoying the rainy Sunday. It's been an afternoon for Life Time movies for me and random TV for Sid since the race was on last night. I'm sure it will be an early bed night.
The baby moved around alot at church this morning. I think she likes the organ music because when it's playing is when she usually moves around the most during that hour. Hopefully that's a good sign.
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