just another day....

Or so I thought. I should know better to think,lol. The day was going great, I had kids home because no school due to conferences. I had activities planned for the day and then it happened. the telephone rang and i was none the wiser and answered "hello". It was the nurse from brendas school. Sometimes I dont know how the conversation is gonna go so I always ask immediately, "how is brenda?" the nurse said she was calling to inform me that brenda had a petit mal seizure during physical therapy. At first I really didnt comprehend what she was saying and then it hit me. all i kept thinking is she has never had a seizure before what am i suppose to do? I can say when it comes to my kids i usually know what i'm doing, i know the next step that has to be taken whether its one i want to do or one i have to do. I was at a loss.
so much of a loss I listened to what the nurse had to say and then I hung up the phone. I sat and stared at the phone for a bit and realized I hung up without asking if she needed to be picked up. Then i had to call back and go through the front desk to locate the nurse. as it turns out the people in the office have never heard of that nurse before. I go on to tell them she is the ISP nurse and the lady said, "the what nurse? i dont think we have an extension for that class." the ISP class has been at del norte for two years now and they still dont know its there... At times like that I sure wish I was the type of person to say what is on my mind... finally they locate the unknown nurse and she said brenda was in a good mood dancing to jasons music. she rode the bus home and all was good. Last night i was researching petit mal on the internet and of course my worst fears were kinda confirmed. Looking back at the past 3 weeks i now believe yesterdays seizure wasnt the first one. I know God has taken care of brenda for all her life now so i truly believe he isnt gonna stop now. at first I asked god, dont you think she has enough issues/problems to deal with? i should know better then to question god but after all i'm only human. I will continue to pray for her and ask that they dont turn into grand mal seizures because that wouldnt be good.

Now onto other stuff. i caught joey asking helen to dance it was the cutest thing ever. i know even if she wouldve said no he was gonna dance with her anyway. they were spinning and going under each others arms and then they saw me and stopped.

the kids made cupcakes and each one had their very own job. as you can see helens first job was to put the liners in the pan. she was very good at it and took her job very serious.

joeys job was to put the butter in the mix. by the time it was his turn he had poked holes, ran a fork over it and eaten off of it but we had to use it because that was our only stick of butter.

as you can see nicholas took his job as serious as helen did.

that mixer looks huge when she is holding it. its a good thing i kept my hands on it when it was time for mixing.

by the time all 5 kids took their turn we had over mixed the batter. oh well...

the over mixed batter didnt seem to bother them much. jo tried to take some of the batter off her leg to lick it and she let him have it. "no mine!!!!" jo stepped back and that was that.

then it was time to fill em' up and bake em'. My house smelled so good while they were baking.

baking cupcakes all started because of a new book sunnie just got, pinkalicious. cute book! next time i think i will read a book on cleaning your room or being nice to your siblings,lol. everyone had a blast and thats all that matters, right? after the cupcakes were baked i let them frost them and put sprinkles.. there was no way i was gonna eat one just the thought of all those little, nose picking, butt scratching "cookers" (thats what jo says)

later that night after the cupcakes were long gone joey kept talking about them. "mmmmm, pupcakes make my tomach (stomach) feel handsome." then i had to ask how a stomach feels handsome so he changed it to feel good, good. joey did put the container of sprinkles away. can you see where he put them in the picture? if not, they are in his underwear. ugh! i tell you this kid is something else.