Congratulations!

On Wednesday night the Sherman Lady Wildcats beat the Clymer Lady Pirates. I am excited to say they played really well and it felt good to watch them win. They play again on Saturday afternoon against another rival team the Ripley Lady Eagles. They beat them twice this season already and so this time will be harder. Didn't you find that when you played a team for the third time in the season that it was the hardest game ever. Also being a part of playoffs with a single elimination its important for both the teams. I think I kind of live vicariously through these girls because I miss competitive sports. I am not sure how many people out there played sports in High School or college but I did in both and I miss it. So its fun to go to these games and root for the girls and boys I know and hope they do well and wish I was out there playing with them. Besides I wish I had my high school body back instead of a body after three kids, you girls out there know what I mean! Anyway I am going to the game this weekend with my Sherman gear on and my kids dressed in the sweatshirts with the basketball teams picture on it. Sherman's got game so...let's go wilscats!

What is it about Basketball?

I didn't play basketball to much while growing up. You have to put a lot of commitment into the sport to be any good at it. I didn't truly understand how the game was played until I was in college either. Then after Tim and I were married and moved back to Sherman I realized something there are towns that live for basketball season. Sherman and towns areound are that kind of town. The whole town shows up at games regular season and playoffs, it doesn't mattter. I got into basketball big time with the town. It helps that I know all the kids that play. Its one thing to cheer for your favorit NFL team, which don't get me wrong I am a huge Steeler fan, but these kids I know personally. You should see what the gym is like after the games most people wait until after teh kids shake hands and then go over and talk to the players its a big event a basketball game. The game could be over by 8 but you are still at the gym at 9 because you have so many poeple to talk to. Tonight the Sherman Wildcat High School girls are playing in a playoff game verses one of their arch rivals the Clymer Pirates. (Just for you to know its not just a high school rivalry but a town rivalry. Those in Sherman think those in Clymer are crazy and the same goes for those in Clymer thinking those in Sherman are crazy. Its like that Dr. Seuss book I can't think of the title now but the butter side up vs. the butter side down book, if you know the name let me know.) This will be the third time these two teams have faced this year. Now they have played a ton over the last few years and will face many more times but this playoff game is important. Sherman won the first game and then Clymer won the second. Its payback time its time for Sherman to shine. We are the better team by far we let them get in our head when we played at their home court and they should not have won but we never came out ready. So tonight is our time to shine this group of girls has been playing together since they were in elementary school. They are predicted to go to States and play for the Class D Championship but do you put that on them when they are only in the semi-finals of their division? Any way Sarah and Derek are wearing their Sherman sweatshirts and Nathan has on his blue and gold. I have not decided what I am going to wear beyond the fact that I have gold and blue beads and gold tassels that I have to wear. I told one of the girls that I would always wear the tassels and so I will not break that promise. I love these girls and I really hope they do well tonight so that they can continue on this weekend and go to States. GO WILDCATS!!

Where do you shop?

Okay so for months I couldn't go shopping, I was pregnant and was just happy wearing maternity clothes. Than there is the after baby weight and until you lost that you can't really go shopping and enjoy it because you just feel fat. After baby weight is a good excuse but its still not fun! Now I am ready to shopping and I can't find anything. I look and look but am in a really weird place. Where do those of us who are 30 go shopping? I don't want to look like I am still trying to be a teenager or even a college student. I am a mom of three who works with teenagers I like to be in style but again I want to look my age. So where do you shop? Christopher and Banks is too old, Aeropostale is too young. Gap is expensive and there are so many places to go in the department store I don't even know where to begin. So any advice out there just let me know where do you shop?

What a relief

N is doing so much better now. The Dr. I go to is a very good Dr. he is on the most cautious side of life so he tested N for RSV and then treated him for it anyway. We have a nebulizer with albuterol also he is on amoxicillin for the next ten days which I am so relieved about. I had a real emotional day on Wednesday finding out that N potentially had RSV. I guess it was a mix of dealing with the cold and flu season you know. Up nights when you aren't used to that. Taking care of your baby and other two children through the day. N is such a great baby but he was only happy while he was being held over the weekend, due to how sick he was. Also Derek got sick on Wednesday night so couldn't go to school on Thursday or Friday, the nurse from school had sent home a note to please keep your kids home 48 if they throw up, then we had the weekend where N got sick. To top off the fun the school was closed both Monday and Tuesday for Presidents Holiday. Wow what a lot of time to spend with sick kids. So although I was a bit dramatic and stressed on Wednesday life has gotten much better in the last days. I had to give N a nebulizer treatment at the Dr.'s office and it was truly awful he screamed bloody murder the entire time. Well I was really nervous that all treatments would be like that, but praise the Lord N happens to enjoy his treatments now. He feels much better after them also, so the medicine is working. We got good news today too that N did not have RSV it was just that the virus had turned bacterial and that was what was causing his discomfort and the medicine he is on right now helps with him to not be contagious and also getting healthy. Like I have heard so much its the worst year for the cold and flu season but you can beat it with rest, and fluids, and medicine. Thank you to all of you who prayer for N and I in these last days we really appreciated it.

How do you know?

You know when your child gets a cold how do you know its serious or not? Right now I am dealing with indecision. I think most days I am a pretty good mom, not perfect by any means but I really do try to do right by my kids. Today I am taking Nathan my four month old baby boy to the Dr. He has had a cold since I took him to his four month check up on the 5th of Feb. but the Dr. said it was nothing them but now I am afraid. What if its more than just the cold should I have caught it sooner. Who knows? My whole family has had the flu Derek last Thursday, Tim and I over the weekend but Nathan's is serious. Someone said the word pnemonia too me and that frightens me. I know I should not worry and its almost 2 when we go to the Dr. I admit though I am a product of an over active imagination. I have always had real fear about having one of my children die. I know God has a will a plan and a purpose praise him that he does. I pray he takes away my fears and helps me be the best mom to my kids. I just need to remember a mom's intuition is usually right and that until now I didn't need to take him to the Dr.