Kidney Stones

Never a dull moment.  The Singer calls last night a little after 11 pm.  I can tell be the sound of her voice when she says "Mommmmm.."  I'm thinking, 'please don't let it be a car accident or something terrible."  And she proceeds to tell me she's in so much pain in her abdomen that she thinks she going to get sick to her stomach.  Do I think she should wait it out or go to the emergency room.  Really?  Her junior year in high school she got kidney stones during her 1st semester exams which continued to cause her pain all the way up to Christmas.  So is it the same kind of pain?  Yep.  Then go to the emergency room.  I tell her make sure someone else drives.  She then sounds indignant with an 'of course."  Hey, if you don't know to go the emergency room, can I be sure you don't know not to drive in so much pain?  5 hours later, with a diagnosis of kidney stones and pain meds and anti-nausea meds she was back in her dorm room.  I couldn't sleep until I heard all was okay.  Thank goodness she has such a wonderful roommate who took great care of her.  Awake at 8:30 this morning, I didn't get a whole lot of sleep.  And I have a long list of things to get done this weekend.  Such is life.  I'm just so relieved it isn't something worse.  Abdominal pain can be a whole host of problems.  Kidney stones are 'doable'.  And I can say that as someone who has had them.

I'm enjoying the beautiful weather and eating the lettuce and green peppers from my garden.  My cukes are coming along.  I have a few about 2 inches long.  I can't wait to eat them.  My roses are blooming.  My Fragrant Cloud has 10 buds.  3 of them should open today and then a few more for the next couple of days.

We went to University of Central Florida on Monday with the Imp.  It's on her top 2 list.  I'm not too sure.  It's not the university per se that has me concerned.  It's the fact that there are 56,000 students.  Yep 56 thousand!  The second largest university in the country.  It just seems like it would be so easy to get lost in the mix there.  Her other top choice is University of North Florida which will visit this summer since we really need an overnight  stay to go there.  Guess I'll be doing lots of praying over this 'cause there's really not a whole lot else to do.

The home school coop I teach for is having their parent meeting Monday night.  It's really a meeting where each teacher gets up and pitches their courses so parents will sign up their kids.  We get paid per student you want people to want your class.  I'm slated to teach US History (which I'm very excited about and have lots of ideas for) and public speaking (I'm thinking this could be really wonderful but I've got to do much more to create the curriculum, etc.)  I just got asked to teach this course a week ago so I've got to come up with the structure of the course and how I plan to attack it and then come up with a 5 minute or less presentation selling it.  Now if I'm teaching Public Speaking I'd better be able to sell the course with a public speech, right?  And finally I'm doing the drama club.  I'm in way over my head there...just because what I'll do with that depends greatly on the number of kids who sign up.  This weekend will be stressful as I do all this, but overall it's really all very good.  I'm glad I've got things to focus on and ways to stay involved.  The crochet club this year is making baby afghans for the local pregnancy center.  Each student is making granny squares and I'm crocheting them all together.  I think between the 7 or 8 members we will end up with 3 or 4 afghans.  After first semester just learning how to crochet, it was great to have a goal or mission this semester.

Better go get started on all of this.