Leaving "Procedure Land" hopefully never to return for a long while

As my husband well stated, this month I've had a not-so-fun member pass to "Procedure Land". Today was the last of them, although it was technically June 1, but had been rescheduled from May 30th because my physician had been sick. I am really sick of having to see him. He's a nice guy, but a little too excited about looking at the insides of people's digestive tracts, if you know what I mean. The endoscopy wasn't too bad. If you ever have to choose between the four procedures I've understaken this month - that's actually the last one and the best one. I will spare you the details, just remember to contact me before having to do any of the LOVELY GI series of tests. I have a bunch of tips on how to get through them. So I will talk to my doc on Tues and hopefully have some kind of real answer to the real pain I've been having. In the meantime, bread is apparently a new enemy - it hasn't been my friend. Oh well, never really liked it anyway. I'll just have to stick with my really good friends: artichokes, olives (also matty's favorites, as mentioned below), milk shakes with protein powder, soups (although it is highly not a good idea to mix the vanilla flavored protein powder in with carrot or any other vegetable soup- UGH!), veggie burgers, spinach pasta, greek yogurt (from Trader Joes- it's so good. It tastes like sour cream with a touch of yogurt flavor) and nuts! Well I gotta get back to work. After Marky gets a chance to talk me through how to post pictures I'll wow you with the oh so talented and beautiful Matty and his magic in front of a lense! Stay tuned to see the cutest kid ever!

Just try and make me eat my vegetables

I tried to post a really funny picture of Matthew here, but it didn't work. So you'll have to imagine getting to see a silly pic of Matty refusing to eat his veggies. He's sort of a picky eater, but knows what he wants. I'll post another picture of him eating an artichoke. He likes those very much. And olives. He'll take a piece of pizza and pick off the olives and pass on the rest. Welll, I better stop talking about food. I can't have any today. Well, at least until after the endoscopy is over. That's at 11:30 today. Anyone reading this can pray for me. Thanks. Hopefully we'll know what's wrong with me soon. Like they haven't seen enough of my body to finally figure it out! Grandma is doing better. She will be able to put weight on her leg again in about a week and might be able to go back to her apartment soon. Hopefully. She said it's like prison in the nursing home. I brought her a bowl of spaghetti the other day. She enjoyed it very much. She started eating it faster especially after I told her what lunch was scheduled to be delivered - meatloaf and potatoes - the usual over there. I tasted some of her lunch at the last visit and didn't blame her for not eating and for losing her appetite. How is it that I can't eat today and I am writing this blog about food. Better stop. I'm gettting hungry by the letter.

Do you really want to know about our life? God is good and will get us through it all

In the last couple of weeks I've been preparing for 4 new students. getting my mailing list in order for the new CCLC newsletter, figuring out how to be a vegetarian while inventing new and improved pureed soups, milk shakes and smoothies, watching a fairly high maintainence, but adorable baby girl once a week, fielding calls about how grandma's doing and wishing I could visit her more than once a week, taking estimates for the new concrete on the patio, attending our mom's group, and preparing a resume for a Russian speaking co-worker of my mom's who is moving and asked me to help out - all on top of being a stay at home mom. Matty is such a blessing. He helps me out so much! With that SMILE!!! And just being wonderful adorable lovable him!

I am feeling better in my stomach. Became a vegetarian and still drinking a lot of liquid food. I'm scheduled for an endoscopy tomorrow but I don't know if I'll be able to since I now have a sore throat and cough - thought it was allergies - sinus and everything, but it's turned into worse. To top everything off - Matty has pink eye. We have to put drops in his eyes 4 times a day. We are having the work on our patio today, so he wouldn't be able to go outside anyway, so we'll keep him in all day and wrestle with him. I don't know if you've ever had to put drops in a little one's eyes - let alone, wipe the gook off. But OH MY- it's a struggle. Oh well. We'll all be stronger after this, huh? Chris is sick too. Lovely situation.