Last night, Mary came home feeling pretty awful and had a 102 degree fever. She made a fairly miraculous recovery today. Her throat is quite sore, still, but her fever broke, and she claims she is feeling "94% better ( Read more... )

I am the mother of a high school graduate!


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Eighteen years!!! It has seriously been 18 years since we brought Mary into this world. She is now a beautiful, intelligent, passionate, stubborn, wonderful young lady. And yet--I still see my big girl baby love (she insisted we call her that) with a doobie (her word for a pacifier) in her mouth ( Read more... )

First and foremost, my grandmother is in the hospital again. She has been having a lot of mini strokes. At Thanksgiving, she looked across the table at me and looked like she was going to cry. I asked her what was wrong and she asked me who I was. She is disappearing. Anyway, her doctor has her in the hospital to try to stabilize her blood pressure ( Read more... )

I managed an entire 2 hours of sleep last night. Thus I am going to expect a C on my pharmacology exam, because I honestly don't even know what I answered. It was not my intention to go sleepless before an exam, but my body had other ideas. I was so tired after the test, I skipped General Pathology to come home and nap. I stayed in my bed in a dark ( Read more... )

Apparently you people are very hard to impress, because no one except my husband acknowledged my accomplishment yesterday in which I conquered my fear. (well, Dawn did in IM, so she gets a pass). No matter, I am proud of myself ( Read more... )

Mary had her navel pierced on Saturday.

That is all.

Yesterday, I drove Mary and her friend, Faith, out to Cades Cove in the Smokeys for an overnight camping trip. We tubed down the river in the afternoon, until a giant clap of thunder and a bolt of lightning had us scurry quickly out of the water. Fortunately, we were near our end point anyway, and didn't have to walk too far ( Read more... )

She feels she did about as well as she's done on the practice tests, and her scores on those would get her into Yale, so she's not too worried. I was surprised to hear they did not take the test via computer, so scores won't be reported for 3-7 weeks. My GRE score was available immediately ( Read more... )

It is dang early, and sane people should not be up at this hour. However, Mary has to get on a bus for Chattanooga this morning at 6:45 am for the state FBLA competition. She won the regional, and if she wins state, she will go to the nationals. I don't know if she'll receive anything other than a hearty congratulations, but it can't hurt her ( Read more... )