Linking up with Life After I "Dew" for So What Wednesday....

So What If

• I didnt shower last night ... I had a really LONG couple of days and jumping in the pool was good enough for me ... I will today!
• I was so upset last night that I just ate some blueberries and let Hubby fend for himself ...
• I let ALL three of our dogs in our bed with us. I am the one who doesnt have any space - not them : )
• I call myself Mommy and Hubby Daddy ... Hey we are to our pack of animals (we have numerous) ... One day it will be for a human child, God Willing ...
• I only have one more day of work before a 4 day weekend and I thought about calling out sick this morning ... It has been a VERY long couple of days :(

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If only I had seen it sooner!!!

I have been reading all of these posts about sick children, adults and everything in between ... I always send a prayer when I hear about it .. .but never quite expect it to be in my backyard .. literally ... One of my babies became VERY ill yesterday ... While my husband and I do not have any human babies yet, we have numerous furbabies ... three dogs, two horses, two goats and a cat to be precise ... Well one of my goats fell ill and suddenly ... Sunday night we was looking a little sleepy when I fed but he ate all of his grain, ba-ed his little ba and I thought oh he must have eaten too much I will check on him in the morning ... I walked out yesterday morning to find him hanging his head, drooling and starring off into wonderland ... NOT my normal goat .. especially not HIS normal behavior .. This goat is friendly and actually prefers to be in your lap than on the ground ... Annoyingly follows you around, eats whatever you may have in your hand edible or not ... picks at you until you give him his attention ... So anyway to see him so depressed was shocking ... I immediately called in an emergency call ... at 5AM mind you ... and awaited the vet ... my baby went down 15 minutes after the call ... like literally could no longer stand ... so again I sat with him and we waited and waited .. finally at 7AM the DR arrives ... We LOADED this goat with everythign and anything that could possibly fix him ... antibiotics, steriods, pain meds, fluids, electrolytes, vitamins ... everything but the kitchen sink ... I have been continuously loading him with all of the above, every 4 hours since ... He seemed to be doing a bit better yesterday but this morning has taken a turn for the worse!!! I can only HOPE and PRAY that the antibiotics kick in soon or by some miracle he makes a vast improvement today .. I cannot bear to see him suffering and not know what hurts still ... or where ... and the thought of having to decide when enough is enough tears me apart ... I know he is an animal to most, but to me ... he is one of my babies ... and I cannot bear to lose him ... especially at such a young age ... Should I have called Sunday night ... would that have fixed this ... the vet assures me that I caught is very early and that helps the prognosis .. but the disease he has contracted his often lethal ... so at this point we are praying we have done enough to turn this little guy back around ... Please pray for Cooley ... that he makes it through!

So What Wednesday

Today I am linking up with Shannon over at Life After I "Dew"

So What If--

• I quite havent figured out the picture function on this little blog. I will soon someday.
•  I am at work and have been for a couple of hours and have yet to return the gazillion phone messages, crazy people leave me at 10PM. Yes, I work alot - but not 24 hours a day!!
•  I have been trying to lose the same 10 lbs for about a year, it goes away, then comes back! Frustrating ...
•  I let my sister-in-law (she's young) paint me nails whatever color she wanted and now have neon yellow fingernails (I meant to take it off the next day, but just havent gotten around to it). I dont think my work appreciates it either (we are super conservative here).
• at the moment my bathing suit consists of a top from one and the bottoms from the other and they definatly do not match. They just feel good and cover me well so I wear them :)
•  I haven't done any excersizing in about three weeks. My sister was here visiting 3 weeks ago so I gave myself the ok to take a break, and have yet to go back! I will make it there.

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Family

I moved away from home when I started college, I am from the North (the WAY north) as in just barely a United States Citizen, and moved to the South, deep south as in Columbia, South Carolina. I know that isnt Georgia, but they definately have a southern way of life. The state flag was the confederate flag when I moved there. The culture shock was intense. I mean my high school graduation was a class of 80 MAYBE if no one was sick or on vacation. I knew EVERYONE and EVERYONE knew me ... So going to a Division I school was eye opening ... I LOVED it ... meeting new people, not knowing everyone I saw everyday ... after that it was too England ... again NEW people, lots of adventures ... a entire week's worth of blogging, then on to my new home state of Maryland ... I havent "lived" up North for YEARS .. a lot more than I want to count, more than will fit on two hands ... but I still call it H.O.M.E ... I still miss the crisp fall weather with all the colorful leaves, horseback riding through the mountains and seeing your breath, the warm summer days at the lake with the cooler evenings ... Getting up at dawn to go riding with my mom (sometime reluctantly but glad to be out there once I was up) ... It is still HOME .. and I dont get to go there very often ... With my work and my husband and all of our crittiers (another blog post) ... We are trying to get up there this summer and I am beyond excited to see my extended family (my cousin is getting married) ... my great grandmother (yes I think I am the only person I know who has a great grandmother and my brother and sisters kids have a great great grandmother) .. she is currently 96 (sorry gram if I am off by a year or two) ... and living alone, driving to bingo, and knitting up a storm ... And to sleep in my childhood bedroom... while I dont get up there often when I do, there is no other feeling in the world ...

To my family - I cannot WAIT to spend some time with you all!

Still Deciding ...

I am still on the fence about blogging ... I think it would be a great way to document a situation, like a wedding, a pregnancy, a babies first year... But at the moment I have NONE of that ... so I am not sure ... I may keep the blog and come back and start blogging when I do have one of those (which hopefully is soon :) ) but as of now .. I've got nothing!!

Giveaway!!! Adorable Baby Hats, and accessories!

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Thinking ...

I have been thinking about this blog ... do I want to continue ... or not ... I LOVE love reading other blogs. I anxiously await updates, regardless of what the update is -- if someone says come back tomorrow for an update, I am BACK ... I want that for THIS blog ... People who are interested .. So I will give it one more go ... Try blogging for a week ... and then see where we are ...

My life is super stressful right now, work is CRAZY, home is CRAZIER, and always thinking about budgets, budgetting and how much I want to SPEND ... ;) I guess that is just life though ...

On a side note, my nephew and sister have come and gone, and I already miss them tremendously! I will post about their visit soon!