Last night was our church's Fall Festival. Bethany went as "Belle" and she was such a pretty little thing. Hannah did her make-up and hair. She polished her nails too. She wore her little "tiarra" sp?? that she wore in Brooke's wedding. We had a little catastophe though in the process of getting ready. Hannah was curling her hair, and she jerked which caused Hannah to drop the curling iron and it burned the top of her shoulder. She was crying but trying not to cry because she didn't want the tears to ruin her make-up!!! Trying to be a lady even through the pain!!! Are we women vain or what???? Benjamin went as Spider Man. If I had put more thought into this, he could have gone as "The Beast". That would have been real cute.

Randy is in the woods today trying to bring us some meat home. I hope he gets one!!

Well, I'm fixing to go clean out Bethany's drawers and closets and get rid of some clothes. If any of you bloggers need some cute little girls clothes around size 3T to 4 or so, let me know.

..It's kind of depressing that I didn't get any comments yesterday after my banner 1st day, but I'll be o.k. I'll just copy the email that I sent out Wednesday concerning my daughter Paige so you will know what's going on with her and PLEASE keep her in your prayers. She has a disease called "Gastroparesis" which basically means stomach paralysis. Her stomach quit working a little over 3 years ago. That was the last time she had a "meal". She can only eat baby food now and even that is quite painful. She has 2 pacemakers inside of her. One is for her bladder which is working very well. The other one is for her stomach which isn't working very well. She has a section of ICC cells in her stomach that are completely dead which is why it isn't working like it should. Here is the update.

It's been a while since I gave an update on Paige. She went to Jackson and saw 2 Doctor's so I'll give a report from each.

Reproductive Specialist - things are improving in that area.

GI Doctor - about 6 months ago, we had her stomach pacemaker turned OFF. It was causing her so much pain. She said it felt like her insides were being ripped apart and like she was in surgery (cutting knife feeling) but she was awake. She said she would rather deal with worsening symptoms than with that kind of pain. We were constantly getting the settings on the pacemaker changed to try and make it better but it kept on shocking her and causing her all this pain. A couple of months ago, she had some tests done to see if there has been any improvement in her digestive system since it's been turned off. The Doctor informed us it has gotten much worse. Paige also said the pain is still there even though the pacemaker is turned off. So she agreed that since the pain is still there anyways and since things have gotten worse, she would would have it turned back ON. So as of now, the pacemaker is back ON at a very low setting. She will go back in December to have a lot of blood work done and also increase the voltage on the pacemaker if she does well. We were hoping and praying for a quick fix with this stomach pacemaker but the Doctor told us that in some cases it may take years before she feels any improvement. Even though she didn't FEEL any better with the pacemaker on, it did improve the motility of her stomach some.

So....please keep her on your prayer lists and continue to pray for her. She continues to have the 24/7 nausea, unable to eat, bloating, pain, migraines almost every day and unable to sleep at night.

Considering all these horrible things she has to deal with on a daily basis - she is going to Nursing School....making A's and B's....and I can't begin to tell you how proud we are of her. She is absolutely amazing and our hero!! She is such a fighter and isn't going to let this disease stop her from accomplishing her goals. Most of all we give God all the praise and glory for sustaining her and keeping her going. We can't explain it but are so thankful He is in control.

OOHHHH!!! I'm so excited!! I have 6 comments on my first blog. You all made my day - thank you!! Keep the comments coming.

I have spent the day in Jackson. Paige had 2 Doctor appointments today which I will talk about tomorrow. It's late and I'm fixing to go to bed. My Prince Charming and Aaron should be home from Jackson in about 30 minutes. He is taking pitching/fielding/hitting lessons in Jackson on Tuesday nights. Paige has Clinicals on Wednesday's which means she gets to work at the hospital and put her nursing education into practice. She has gone to the hospital to check her patients chart so she will know what she is dealing with tomorrow. She has to be at the hospital in the morning by 6:00 a.m. She is going to make such a caring nurse!! I know people are going to be blessed by her.

Well....when we got home from Jackson today which was at 8:30 p.m., our back door was WIDE open. It really scared us because your first thought is that somebody is in your house. We have a Sherrif that lives across the street so we drove over there. He wasn't home but his wife called him and told him to come check out our house. He came over along with another Sherrif. Randy was the last one to leave our house and apparently he locked the door but didn't shut it completely. It was windy today (and freezing cold) and our Jack Russell puppy who USED to be an inside dog and has been demoted to the outside, jumped on the door and let himself in. There were bird feathers all over our bedroom floor and I found Jack (our dog) in the living room with something in his mouth that he was trying to hide. It was a bird!!! I'm surprised he didn't tear anything else up. So that was our excitment for the evening. It was 60 degrees in the house so I had to cut the heat on.

Another highlight of our day was that our yard is all cleaned up now. We had about 6 huge trees fall in our yard during Hurricane Gustav. One of them hit our house and we have some house damage too. Anyways, we had to pay to get them all removed and as of today they are gone!!! YEA!!! We can see outside our front door once again.

Good night!!!

Brooke came to see us this weekend and did this all for me. I told her to put it in my "favorites" so I would know how to get to it - ha!!! I have no idea how to work this thing except to maybe do my posts. I gave her my password so she can change my settings around - no telling what she will do.

For those of you who don't know I'm a stay at home mother with 6 children now. One of them (Brooke) got married in July. I homeschooled Brooke (21) and Paige (19)( all the way to college. Brooke is now happily married to Chad who is a seminary student and flight instructor and she is working for a lawyer in Jackson. Paige is going to Alcorn School of Nursing and making A's and B's I'm so proud to say. I homeschooled Aaron (16)all the way to 9th grade where he is now attending Cathedral High School. He is a Junior now. He is smart and an awesome baseball player!! I homeschoold Daniel (14) all the way until this year. He is also attending Cathedral High School and is in the 9th grade. He is playing football and soccer. I am continuing to homeschool Hannah (12) who is in the 7th grade this year. She does ABEKA on the computer. She is a hoot. You would never know it because she is shy around people she doesn't know but she is absolutely hilarious. She takes ballet and will have the leading role in the Nutcraker in about a month. Please come out and see her!!! She is working so hard. My 2 youngest ones are Benjamin (7) and Bethany (5). They are just adorable!!! Benjamin loves sports - any and ALL sports and is really good at it. Bethany is called "Miss Priss" because that is exactly what she is - very prissy. As my older ones are growing up so fast on me, it's nice to have these 2 younger ones to still hold and cuddle. Well, that's about it on me.

Now....all you peoples and peepets.....please write me!!