Namesake

I want this!

 Isn't it fitting for my blog?  Ü

 

So if anyone is dying to get it for me (for oh, you know, Mother's Day - hint hint), you are more than welcome to... Just go here: 

http://www.lifeisgood.com/womens-enjoy-the-ride-short-sleeve-crusher-tee/20968,default,pd.html?dwvar_20968_color=SFTPR&start=1890&cgid=womens-tops-ss_tee.

thankyouverymuch

The Eyes Have It

I picked up a new pair of contacts today. Logan, Bergen and I all had eye appointments a couple of weeks ago, and I decided to try wearing them again.  Logan got new glasses a few days after our appointments.  They have transition lenses and he is beyond thrilled!  And while Bergen doesn't need glasses now, she will need them later.  Apparently she is going to be nearsighted too.

So, I wore my new contacts for a few hours today and man, oh, man, did I like the way I could see in them!  I saw well far away and things were so much clearer than they are with my glasses.  Of course the glasses are my old prescription, but still.  I hope to be upgrading them soon.

Two things I'm not loving right now, but that are, and will be totally worth it anyway:

1. Having to work up to wearing these new contacts all day.  Although it shouldn't take long for my eyes to toughen up again.

2.  Having to have my "cheaters" handy all. the. time.   I may have to break down and get a chain to wear them on.  Oh joy.  Won't that be a good look for a mother of young children?

No matter, I am happy, happy, happy to be wearing contacts again.  Even if my wrinkles are a little more noticeable...

Tonsils. Who needs 'em?

Bergen has missed quite a bit of school this year. She'll get a sore throat on a Friday or Saturday, miss church 

on Sunday, and then school on Monday, Tuesday, and sometimes even Wednesday.  This has been happening every second or third week.  For months.  So we'll take her to the doctor, they'll do a strep test, and here's the kicker...  the test is always negative.

After so many missed school days I couldn't take it any longer.  I called our ENT and made and appointment.  Bergen knows this doctor well since she's had tubes put in her ears three times!, and her adenoids out with the last set. Of course she wasn't sick by the time we were able to get an appointment, but we went just the same.

When all was said and done, the doctor gave me his nurse's direct phone number and asked me to call it the next time Berg got sick.  The nurse would be sure to get her in.

I called.  He was on vacation.

The next time I called, he was in.  We saw him.

And even though my girlie didn't have strep (as usual), he decided she could definitely benefit from having her tonsils removed.  Too many illnesses can make a doctor come to that deduction.  (Yay.)  The problem?  It could take up to ten days for Bergen to heal after the surgery.  Which meant we could try to schedule it over spring break, or we could wait until summer break.  Either way we risked her missing more school. 

Craig and I decided we would like to have Bergen's tonsils out sooner rather than later.  So I made an appointment and we waited.  The great thing is that she didn't get sick again between her pre-op appointment and the scheduled surgery.  We were okay with that.

Spring Break couldn't come soon enough.  On Tuesday, March 26, 2013, Bergen had a tonsillectomy.  We made a big deal out of how many popsicles she would get to eat instead of focusing on the things she wouldn't be able to do and she was okay with that.  She even had a handful of visitors bearing gifts while she recovered. (Thank you friends!)  We all felt the love. 


Here is the patient right out of surgery.  Not a happy camper.  Until she got a couple of popsicles under her belt.

And here she is once we were home and she'd settled into her daddy's recliner for the afternoon.

We are SO glad this ordeal is over, and are hoping that Bergen will be well for a long time to come.  She's up and at 'em again, and we are very grateful to have our happy girl back!