Computer HELL and DISNEY and a LOVELY spinal headache

Our computer crashed with some weird something or other and we have a hard drive failure. URGH. Thank GOD we bought the extended warranty! It's leaving today to go the the hard drive doctor so I'll be without it. So Call me if you need me. :-)

Next week, my father is taking me and my kids and my sister and her kids to DISNEY WORLD! WOOOO HOOOO! We are so excited...can't wait to see Grace and Mason's little faces! The cool thing is that we are staying in the same resort as two of our neighbors families and my other friend Tina and her family are going too! It's gonna be a blast! Poor Matt is staying home with the doggies. Winter is not a good time to vacation when you are one of the people who decide whether or not the roads are too dangerous due to snow or sleet for the kids to have school.

I had my second epidural injection earlier this week. What an adventure! The procedure itself was so much more smooth this time and much less painful. Afterwards I stood up and said something about how easy that was. Well...I spoke too soon because suddenly someone hit me in the base of my head/top of my neck with a baseball bat going ninety miles an hour! Well, not literally but it sure as HECK felt like it! Apparently I had something called a spontaneous spinal headache. Sounds like fun? The rapid drop in blood pressure was kinda nice considering my head and legs didn't feel like they were attached to my body. Could have been a semi fun ride minus the unbearable gnashing pain in my brain. They went right back in and did something called an epidural blood patch. Which basically means taking blood from your hands and putting it into the area where you had the epidural. When you have a spinal headache like that, your spinal fluid is leaking from your spine. It's normally a good idea to keep spinal fluid where it belongs...in the spine. So the blood patch will go into the area and stop up the hole where the fluid is leaking by clotting, like sticking your thumb in a hole in a dam. Pretty cool theory! It worked so that was awesome! Unfortunately, because of the blood pressure issue it took about forever (really) to get the 22 cc's of blood from my hands. I'm fine now and felt pretty good within an hour afterward. Good times for sure! :-) I just had to lay flat and drink LOTS of caffeine (HEY, Mr. Barista, can I have a grande skinny vanilla latte with 3 extra shots PLEASE!)

So I won't be here for a while...with out the computer, I can't really post! But hopefully when I get back it will be done and I'll have SUPER cute pics of the kids having a good ol' Mickey time! :-)

"Yes, I'm a complete and total ANGEL!"

Don't let this photo fool you. He looks: sweet, innocent, harmless. Cosmo looks like he's full of mischief chewing on Mr. Innocent Levi's ear. Macy is such a good sweet girl except for her moments of snobbish behavior where I swear you can practically see her roll her eyes at the idiotic antics of the two boys.

These two could not get into more trouble if they tried. TRUST ME! We all know or have known in the past, a couple young boys that attracted trouble like a big ol' magnet. Usually one of those boys attracted most of the trouble and the other one either just happened to be tagging along or went with the flow, right? Every Batman has their Robin. Well they are good guys so that's probably not a good analogy. You know what I mean though. Let's just get this out first. Levi IS THE TROUBLE MAGNET and Cosmo usually just tags along because trouble means fun and he doesn't want to miss any fun!

Here's a rundown of a bit of what the terrible twosome have been up to lately:
*chewed up a wooden hanger in the middle of the night that they somehow got off the bottom rack of our closet.
*Ate a matchbook style pack of emery boards. They'll feel great on the way out.
*Ingested the majority of a new pink pencil
*snagged a drumstick and covered it in grooves with their teeth. Maybe Matt can market that as a new gripping system for drummers.
*Polished off an entire plate of sugar cookies that Callie painstakingly made.
*Stretched out a pair of Peytons panties during a rigorous tug of war, they are so big now I could pretend they'd fit me.
*Covered my bedroom carpet in wonderful psychodelic pink swirls of fushia hair dye. Groovy baby!
*Spewed shampoo on my bedroom carpet after stealing the bottle out of the kids bathroom. But maybe they were trying to clean up the permanent hair dye!?
*Opened an entire pack of panty liners but brought one down to show me. How thoughtful!
*Ripped about 10 pages of my TWILIGHT MOVIE COMPANION that Tina gave me. I have to say this probably pissed me off the most!

I have a hard time staying mad at those cute faces. Maybe I'm just super tolerant. Or crazy :-)