Worst. Day. Ever.

The best dog ever has left us.

it's been one of those weeks where you feel like a seam, slowly pulling apart, and it's all you can do to not unravel. then the tension is loosened and it's a mad scramble to pull yourself back together because you know it won't last. you do what you can to repair and brace yourself but you're tired... and you know it won't ever stop.

i've decided having your remains cremated can really be a troubling thing. i always thought i wanted to be burnt and sprinkled around places and travel the world via post as ground up bones... it's pretty selfish of me. with annas death i realized i don't know where her grave is, if she even has one. what if she was cremated? there's no where to ( Read more... )

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goons had chest pains a lot yesterday but she was wearing her monitor so hopefully we caught it on tape. today i need her to do a youtube of her playing violin. great grandpa had a stroke and she was planning on playing for him when we visited but i'm thinking maybe sooner is better than later. scott's doctor responded to his pleas for them to do ( Read more... )

and scott's in the hospital. :( appendicitis and possible chrons. apparently he's "special" because his blood work is all normal despite a raging infection.they don't want to operate because chrons inflamed tissue doesn't heal at all when cut. a simple 30 minute appendectomy could end up with him losing several feet of guts. so he's on antibiotics ( Read more... )

if you guessed that teenagers are smart enough to know better than to share hats, scarfs, and other possible lice bearing things with each other, you would be wrong. >:( after 9 hours of delousing, vacuuming, spraying, boiling, and washing i crawled into my half made bed last night only to over sleep in the am. how is it that i managed to go all ( Read more... )

ryans in her room scream singing soundgardens "live to rise"... and buying a house has never felt farther away ( Read more... )

Aaaand Melody had eaten the container of pink soap Scott left on the counter.

i was trying to go get goon to go do her homework because she was being all googely eyed about evil geniuses and how hot various ones are... i said "do evil geniuses want stupid girlfriends? no? then you'd better go get cracking on that." she stops and says "mom! i don't want to date an evil genius, i want to BE the evil genius. then i can have my ( Read more... )