Monsters & Aliens and other stuff

So we took Mad Hatter to see Monsters and Aliens today. What a cute movie. I'm surprised Mad Hatter sat through the entire thing. Must have been the Milk Duds and popcorn!! She was sitting between Soldier and I and the moved on the other side of me with her blanket and then moved one more seat down. Why do you ask? Because Mad Hatter is a thumb sucker. We are trying to help break the habit. She wanted to suck her thumb and sitting to close to us was not allowing her to do so. Chunky was hanging with the g-parents and having a good time.

The other stuff....Jamie is moving forward with her transplant stuff. That will all happen at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She started making calls yesterday and is waiting on callbacks with next steps. She sees her urologist the 31st I think for a one month visit. Her creatine has been slowly increasing. Normal is under 1.0. As of Wednesday or Thursday it was 3.6. Up 0.1 from 3 1/2 weeks ago. She's also asymptomatic so that's a little reassuring (I think).

Soldier and I had the talk about his thoughts on me donating a kidney. He said that he'd rather me not do it, but ultimately it is my decision and he will support me no matter what. I respect his position and I'm scared I may be making the wrong decision.

We are supposed to be getting snow. It's the end of March. That is not OK. Soldier spent a small fortune last weekend on new saplings and shrubs. We've planted everything and were fortunate that the week was a mix of warm and drizzly. Snow is not OK. At all.

Because my HTML writing skills are not what they once were, here is the link to follow along with the progress of Baby Stellan. I was introduced to this blog via another blog I follow.

http://www.mycharmingkids.net/

Please keep this family and sweet baby in your thoughts.

And so it starts.......

So I guess this is where it starts. Where all blogs start. At the beginning. It's possible that I should have started this a long time ago (like 5 years ago), but who has time? After becoming a follower of three blogs, I figured it's time. Sure, everyone is on Facebook or MySpace, but I think I need more of an outlet.

Do I have lots of backstory? I sure do, but I don't have the stamina to put it all out there. I will give a brief rundown.

July 1992 (Jamie help me here) - Jamie was hospitalized and had a kidney removed. Two weeks after my birthday. It was one of the scariest times of my life.

July 1999, my older brother was killed in a car accident. He had turned 26 that January. I had turned 25 two weeks before he died. Almost 4 years to the day before the day Jason died, my nephew, Jason's son, died of SIDS. July is not a great month. We are having a big 10 year blow out in Jason's memory over the 4th of July at Mom & Dad's farm in Iowa.

October 1999, I met Brent. Our first date was November 8th. It was a Monday. I wore a navy blue suit (he picked me up at work). He wore a tan and ivory gingham dress shirt and khaki's. And Doc Marten's. I knew the moment I saw him that I was going to marry him.

June 2000, we bought our house. It's a 3 bedroom, 2 bath ranch. So much work, love, hate and memories are in this house.

April 2003, Brent and I got married. It was beautiful. I didn't love my dress tho.

May 2004, Mad Hatter was born. Labor and delivery was so easy I couldn't wait to do it again. She was a great baby. Now, she's almost 5 going on 16.

May 2006, my mom had a stroke. I cried like a baby at work. Thankfully the damage wasn't bad.

February 2007, Chunky Love was born. Labor and delivery....labor sucked big donkey. Delivery....meh. I had large quanities of drug in my epidural, I felt nothing. Couldn't walk for about 6 hours. He was a good baby. Was a puker until 9 months, stitches at 10 months and constantly covered in bumps and bruises. He thinks he's 10.

March 2009, Jamie just called me. She's moving forward with her kidney transplant. How I hoped it was a fluke. How I hoped that it would just go away and this would never happen. And I locked my keys in the car last night. I don't know where the spare key is. Damn