URGENT - Prayer Request............please.

There is a family over in China right now, who needs prayer immediately! They have just met their daughter for the very first time and she is in the hospital with a pulse ox of only 60% to 90%!!!! They will not allow the family to take her from the hospital right now......for obvious reasons. The Orphanage director is working with the family to EXPEDITE all the necessary paperwork to get that little girl HOME NOW! The doctor in the hospital isn't cooperating with the family. It's heartbreaking!!!

ANYONE who has adopted from China KNOWS once you get your child home, things are much better! Please, please pray!!!!

The mom asks that we pray to EXPEDITE everything for their daughter. (ie, the visa, the photos of the family, all paperwork) and for the health of An Yanwen *her daughter* and for her pulse ox to stay up so they can fly her here to the states!!

Their adoption agency isn't exactly helpful, which is a huge shame! *mumbling under my breath because I know who it is*

PLEASE, PLEASE say a prayer for this little girl and her family! God CAN and WILL move mountains for HIS sake! AMEN!

Momma Kooky

Hanna's gone.........Gearing up for Rebecca's Birthday Party.

We got alot of rain, heavy rain and alot of wind and that was it. Nothing more. Thank you Lord. No flooding here at the house or our immediate road. To that we say, ya hoo!

Now, on to more important things. Rebecca's birthday party is coming up. I should be Crazy momma at the moment. I have a few things already. Got the pinata. That is a MUST! Her theme this year is TINKERBELL. That's what she wanted. Do you know how hard it is to find certain Tinkerbell things?!! There isn't alot of stuff. I've been looking in alot of places. We have invited alot of adults and alot of kids. It will be pure chaos, I'm sure, but hey, it's only for 2 or 3 hours. I'm good at wrangling the kids in for games and Mickey Mouse Bingo. Besides, the kids actually win gifts too. They love that. Mind you, it's nothing extravagant.........but hey, the kids love them! ;o)

I've got to order the cake this weekend. I can't believe the "holidays" are upon us! It's unreal. Matthew has already told me that he wants a CARS themed party. Should be interesting.

Matthew and Rebecca started a new daycare today. A lady from our church who runs a Christian daycare. They did really well. Kinda surprised me, yes, I do have to say that, but other than that, I was pleased. They did shapes, colors, and practiced the alphabet (writing). Matthew is right handed. Rebecca is left handed. OH YEAH....speaking of Rebecca. She wants to play soccer. We bought her shields, an age appropriated ball, cones, etc. She's cute. She's solid though. If you get in her way, I'm sure she'd plow you over. We'll see.

Ok, someone needs to say this............Do you know there is only LESS than 4 months left until CHRISTMAS!!!!!!?????? OH BOY! Bring on the snow.

Momma Kooky

Hanna's coming!

Ok, here at home we are battening down everything we own. Tropical Storm/Hurricane Hanna is coming. They tell us there will be over 60 mph winds, over 4 inches of rain in a very short period of time and lots and lots of power outages.

Crazy Daddy is leaving work early to make sure things are good at home and I am leaving work early and will be home to make sure we have batteries, flashlights, candles, etc. Should be interesting to let the dog outside in all that mess. Poor thing. Charlie, our 100 pound puppy dog, doesn't like the rain either! Ha!

Keep the eastern seaboard in your prayers please..........might be a tough night for us. I hope not. No trees to fall, nothing hitting the house, like Hurricane Isabel did 5 year ago, to us.

Momma Kooky

WOW, is the presidential race heatin' up or WHAT?!

I saw the first woman who took the vice president nomination last night and was like, OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!! She is full of spitfire, full of what I stand for, full of being what I am, A PTA mom, a HOCKEY mom, a mom who is NORMAL, a woman who is NORMAL, a woman who........came out fighting in a VERY, VERY, VERY filled "good ole boy's" world. I say we need some freshness in Washington...........I was in awe of her speech last night. As far as some women who I was talking with in the past couple of days, apparently they are "mad" that Sarah Palin came onboard with McCain because Hilary lost. SO WHAT!?!?!?! Get over it. That's exactly what I told them. She's history! Yes she had alot of delegates, but she lost. If you think about it, you know why she lost. But to me, God forbid, if something ever happened to the presidential elected, you have Biden and Palin. HE- LLO!!!!!!!!!!! Biden has been in Washington for HOW LONG?! DOING WHAT?????? And still done WHAT???????? Puhleeze! Nothing will be new with him. NOTHING. But..........bring in Palin and you have newness, a freshness that Washington hasn't had before. WHICH IS A GOOD THING! I'm personally tired of the same ole, same ole. I'm just praying............Praying can do ALOT! This country needs true, abiding, FAITHFUL, INTEGRITY FILLED, NON-LYING, NON-CHEATING, men and women who are willing to stand up for what is right. (Even when you are going against the majority!) MK

P.S. Thank you Shirley for the Awesome Woman video.

Well, it's Thursday, do you know what's for dinner? (Just a mom ranting a tad)

Heck, I barely know what I'm doing in the next five minutes much less what the family will have for dinner. LOL.....Life is definitely hectic with 2 toddlers. Well, I guess you can't say Rebecca is a toddler anymore, can you? She is just under 1 month to be 5 years old! FIVE people. Going on 25! Easy! I tell you, I thank God for hair coloring because she will be the reason my whole hair coloring would be grey if I didn't color it. Let me tell you what she did just yesterday, shall I?

She was playing at daycare. Decided to climb a tree. Apparently a larger tree. She got so far off the ground, high enough, that she slid down out of the tree. She ended up getting a piece of bark stuck in her fleshy part of her palm of her hand. (left one) She's left handed. Of course, that's the hand she got. Where's daycare personnel you might be saying? *mom wanted to know that too* Funny, nothing was said about where they were. That's why they are MOVING to another daycare end of next week. Anyway, they cleaned up her hand. End of story, right? Um, wrong. She wakes up today and it's big, red, yucky looking, and it hurts. Go figure.

Moral of the story? KIDS! Grey hair. I'm convinced they go hand-in-hand!!! (I'll prove it to you if you'd like.) Matthew? Where is he in all this? Just watching. ROFL Watching his sister do things she ought not to, but does them anyway. Gotta love my Matthew. He's the thinker! He sees Rebecca get in trouble and he knows, instinctively, not to do what she just did. You'd think that would sink into Becca's world. *it hasn't yet*

Interesting, I tell you. Never a dull moment. NEVER. Sometimes you just need those "Calgon, take me away" kind of days, huh?! I'd love one of those about now. OH, and if you haven't heard..........Rebecca would GLADLY take 5 to 10 minutes to tell you about her PARTY she is having. (in about a month) The big 5! Oh boy!! A house full of kids! Oh boy! Oh brother.............*s*

Am I sarcastic today? OH YEAH. Do I have a good reason to be? Yeah, maybe a little. Oh well......and how's YOUR day been today?!?! LOL

Momma Kooky

God is working! He's still working! God is working even now!

I love that song! After yesterday? I KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that God's working a miracle in my Matthew! It's sooooooooooooo cool to see! Woo, it should give you the shivers as it does me!

Yesterday we went to Children's for Matthew's follow-up on his hearing. He had failed two hearing tests and was preliminarily losing his hearing in his left ear. WELL GUESS WHAT!?!?!??!?! Not only did he fail a THIRD hearing test, which in this case is OK for now. His hearing is STABLE. No more hearing loss. In fact? His left ear is now hearing lower frequencies! AND........his right ear is (or has been) compensating for the loss in the left ear and is highly more sensitive to sounds because he did WONDERFUL with his right ear. The left ear is still not quite there, but it's improved!

The doctor said she truly believes that the tubes are helping him. Slowly, but surely. The only bad part about yesterday is that she had to clean Matthew's right ear to even see the green tube that was still there since February! hehehe...*s* OH MY DID HE NOT LIKE THAT ONE! We are not talking just a q-tip either. More like long little scissor looking things that cut away wax and removes it. Daddy had to hold him down and a nurse hold his head completely still while they did that. HE DID NOT LIKE THAT ONE BIT! He did ok though. Just tears and crying. No screaming, at least not like his sister has done on MANY, MANY, MANY occasions for shots and things. *shaking head*

So, is this a miracle? YOU BETCHA! Is God restoring his hearing? I do believe so, yes. Are his ears not developed like they should be? No, they aren't. BUT, as long as all the mechanisms are working to hearing, you should be able to hear. Are mom and dad happy campers?! OH YES!

One kinda on the down side of things is Matthew's pronounciation of words has taken a hit. He's starting to studder and get "stuck" on words. His rate of growth in saying harder words has definitely slowed down. We were told that this is most likely normal, but to keep an eye on it. We will definitely be telling his speech therapist about this! He will start speech therapy in September or the end of August, not sure which. We are waiting to hear from them as the school year commences once again.

SO YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH for Matthew!!!! Woo Hoo..................

Momma Kooky

Sometimes life hands you lemons, again..........

Well, it was December 2005 when I was found out to have Type II diabetes. I was taking just oral meds. They were working pretty well until this morning. I woke up and my left eye was blurry, my head was splitting and three fingers on my right hand were numb. I knew something was up! I went to work. What could I do? I felt ok for the most part. I got to work. Had taken my sugar levels 3 times before I got to work. 204, 208, 253...........after that last number? I knew I was in trouble.

I went to the nurse at our work and asked if they had any Ketostix (to measure if my body was turning against me......in other words, when your sugar is so high that your body starts to eat your fat cells and muscle cells). Well, guess what? Yep, I had traces of ketones. *Lucky me* not!

Off to the doctor I went. End result? I now take Byetta, along with my oral meds. Will make life interesting, that's for sure. Byetta is like insulin, but not quite insulin. If you want to know more, www.byetta.com.

I'm ok. Just needed some more help. So, wherever I go, wherever I eat, yeah, you'll see me pull out my pen and stick myself. I'm already over that fact, hopefully everyone around me will be too. :o)

It's really crappy to be a diabetic, but at least I'm alive and there are treatments for me!!! I say AMEN to that. Thank you Lord!!!!!

Momma Kooky