Ice Cream Fun

chloe and I had so much fun making ice cream together and it was so Easy.. if you are looking for somthing simple to do with your little one I say give this one a try!

I got the reciepe from one of my favortie blogs Kevin and Amanda... to make the ice cream you just need heavy whipping cream and carination milk and add whatever extra flavors you want, Chloe and I added chocolate chips and natella= YUMMY:)

The frist step is to stirr the heavy cream into stiff peaks

Step 2 is mix your flavors into the carination milk

Step 3 fold the heavy cream into the carination milk and freeze for 6 hours

Step 4 clean your child:)

Step 5 enjoy your EASY, HOMEMADE ICE CREAM

Our Shriners Visit

Let me start by saying how awesome Tommy and Ray were. There motto was they were there to serve us on our entire trip. Anthony and I felt like it should have been the other way around, we should have been serving them. They were the frist impressions of what to expect from the Shriners and well they were amazing!

The hospital was above expectations as well as the doctors. We saw Dr. Jon Davis, he is head of staff and an pediatraic orthopedic surjean and was so nice and personable. We were very impressed by his approachable attitude and ability to communicate with us on our level. We have chosen to continue care for Chloe with the Shriners and later on another day share what was shared with us about expectations for Chloe's injury. For today I choose only to write on the positive.... I will say it is amazing how God has put people to help us on our journey and to put us in the right place at the right time and I feel this is where he is leading.

Sleepless nights

So we are packed to leave for Shiners in the morning and I should be sleeping. It is 1:34 am and I am watching some kids movie instead of sleeping. I just took a anxiteiy pill to help calm the nerves and hopefullly make me sleepy soon but until then I will write. I am lucky b/c I almost took a prescription diet pill instead which would not help me to sleep.. lol. Precrtiption speed would not be good. OK so I am not a drugie, really just overweight and a mom... so meds are in order. I think every omom I know is on some short of medication, I think it goes with the terrority. YOu have new worries when you become a mom, worries you did not think you would ever have and then add a special needs child to that and well I think it just doubles. So onto the Shinners, we have a doctors appointment on Wednesday morning and hope for some new good news! I will post more when we know.. until then I am going to try and sleep

I wish

Last night I went to the "Point of Grace and Mark Schultz" concert so my title comes from on the songs performed at the concert. This year I turned 35 and have come to making some life changes and so the the song " I wish" just says some of the things that I have been thinking about. I guess this year for me is about making sure my life is on the path that I would like for it to be on. I am in the early middle but really this is the time that defines who you are going to be. I think my 20's were for discovery and my 30's should be about directions. I don't exactly know where this is going or what I am saying. I feel like I am in the wilderness and just trying to figure out what my next step/path is. Maybe it is a step,....one at a time. All I know is I feel like I need to decide quick b/c life moves fast and is not slowing down,only speeding up.

starting over again

So I went to see Dr. Copper today, who is an amazing doctor. I love that he talks with you on a personal level and really talks with you. So Dr. Copper helps to make babies. I don't know what dream world I live in, but I thought when I was ready that it would be easier, since I have been this road before. I guess in my head we had the magicnumber, formula or pill to make me with baby like today. I am thinking this is not how it is going to be. We ar starting with step one, that being for me some weight loss, and then getting my cycles regular. From there I guess we move into timing, ovuation and other things. We will take it one day at a time, go figure my husband and I are having fights as soon as we start talking about making a baby. Not fighting about having a baby, just fighting. I think that fertility treatment should not be stressful but it is. I told the nurse today as I was leaving the office today that fertility was fun, she told me I should write a book. I think I will just blog about it... so come with me in my hope to make a baby!

Pizza and Ice Cream

I love Saturdays with Chloe. We usually have this day all to ourselves and we spend it doing nothing but watching cartoons, taking naps together and eating treats. It is our very one girl night. Tonight we watched "Nims Island" and ate pizza followed by Beyer's Triple Chocolate Ice Cream...yummy. OK, if you have not had this flavor it is so GOOD. We usually end this day with her watching her last cartoon snuggled in bed with me. It is in the moments that I forget about therapy, school, speech and just enjoy having my daughter a very typical child....

Great Expectations

I am not sure why I waited until this morning to discuss news from Chloe's teacher with Anthony. Mabybe it is because I did not want to speak it out loud. Mrs. Berber asked for us to make time for an updated IEP due to Chloe now getting services in school instead of home. Also, that goals were going to have to be reevualuated due to Chloe not meeting the ones that were orginally given. She stated that we would need to make the goals more appropraite meaning more simple. It is frustrating becasue Chloe's condition is so rare that we, as parents, have no idea what to expect. For example, if we had a child with downs, or Cerberal Palsy, we could at least have some idea, but even the specialized doctors that we see have very little answers. we are just encouraged that she is she making progress. Don't assume that I am complaining for I am greatful for our outgoing and fun child, but it would be nice to have some idea of what to expect for her..for us. So we take joy in the simple things she does,