Stream of Consciousness

I need to finish the laundry...ughhhh, I hate the laundry.  And I need to clean the kitchen, wash the wine glasses.  Not in the mood to cook tonight, I wonder where we should go for dinner?  I really want to get working on pictures that need to be edited, and work on painting...and I have a gift I want to make. Wonder how late I'll stay up tonight,2,3,4...?  I must find the time to get the back office organized, it looks like Caroline blew through there....and let's not even think about her room.  HORRIBLE.  I wanna get everything out of her room so I can start the redo on it, which means I'll need more paint, a new fan, and to decide what I want to do with her floors...concrete for sure, pretty sure I'll paint them.  I see lots of bags for Goodwill in our future.  She never plays with anything in her room. Except for her dolls.  I'm giving it all away! hehehe, although she'll be glad to donate it.  She makes me so proud. I wanna go see Water for Elephants this weekend, the book was soooo good.  Then start on my stack of books to read, man I've been slacking.  So much to do and never enough time.  I need to start working on PTA stuff for the summer and fall.  We're getting 40 new families we need to make feel welcome.  And plans for the summer...ughhhh.  I just want 3 months off from work to try and get things done at home.  Almost time to start the weekend, which is great, but it also means I have to wait 3 more days till my dentist opens on Tuesday.  Until then I look like a circus freak with missing teeth.  Doesn't my dentist know how much I smile, I can't walk around until Tuesday with one of my front teeth missing!!!!!  Stupid teeth...I should've just had'em all pulled 3 years ago instead of root canals & crowns on my 6 front teeth.  Now I'm in pain, look stupid and have to suffer through this for days!!!  This stinks.  Which also means there will be no Mother's Day pics with Boog, because I'm darn sure not smiling for the camera right now.  And I sure wish I could just shut my mind down right now, it's just going, going, going...it's like it never stops.  I just need to not think for a few minutes.

Snaggle Tooth

I only wish I knew how this tooth stayed in her mouth.  It was hangin' on by a thread!

And then, the next morning she was eating her favored Cream of Wheat for breakfast when her head pops up and she says, "My tooth just fell out!  It's okay mom, it fell in my Cream of Wheat."  Gosh I love that girl!  So what does she do when I ask if I can take a picture?

Ohhhhhhhh...sweet Caroline...

10 Days Really?

These long lapses between posts are beginning to get more frequent...I promise I really will try to get better!  I have so much to say, but I just don't have enough time {no comments daddy!}!  Caroline has now lost her top 2 front teeth...ohhhh she's so darn cute!  I remember looking back at pictures of me at that stage and thinking, "aw...poor thing!", but maybe when it's your little one it's cute?  Not really sure, but I could just eat her up!

I've been working on a few custom orders over the past week, and I'll be putting the finishing touches on them tonight!  I love creating things, changing them, making them my own...or your own.  It totally feeds my creativity to sit down with a new project and get it done!

I'll try to catch up over the weekend!

Bad....

Yep, that's me. Bad. I can't believe it's been a week since I've posted! I promise to post some good stuff this week, I have lots to say, just haven't blogged it yet! Besides, I'm too tired and my tooth hurts too bad to post anything worth reading tonite!

Quick updates:

The school called me and said Caroline had some petechiea on her back...after she got hit in the back...nope, no petechiea she's fine!

I have a tooth that has been bugging me for a while now, but I just couldn't be bothered with going to the dentist...I'm paying for it now, serious pain tonight, and really red swollen gums. Pretty sure I have an abcess....why me? God did not bless me with good teeth! Here we go again...

Hubby has an interview on Thursday! I so hope he gets to move to this department, his boss now is such a jerk, and he's been there way too long to leave {15 years!}, so prayer for a good interview!

Okay, I'm off to bed...it's way past my 10pm bedtime! Good nite!

The Dentist Chair

Poor Honey. He got his 1st real taste of the dentist yesterday! When Dr. E walked in, he literally did a double take! He had the funniest look on his face, we confused him! It's always me in Dr. E's chair. But, Tab broke a tooth, and I was safe from the chair! They ended up starting a root canal on it. And yes, I'm mean and took pictures of him. But only because he constantly makes fun of me and my dental woes. Which, if you read about, are many.....ughhhh! So, needless to say, husband o mine has a small understanding of what I constantly go through. But, this is all he has to get done. He's never had a filling, just his wisdom teeth pulled. Oh how I wish that was the case for me!

But for now, I am going to go back to gloating that HE was in the chair this time and not me!

But I Talk Funny Now!

Well, I'm sad to say that Caroline has lost her first tooth. Why am I sad you ask? Because this is the last of the "baby". I know...I sound crazy, but think about it. She's reached every milestone, except for loosing her teeth. All of her cousins have, and her friends...but not her...until now.
For me this is the last "baby" thing about her. And I never thought her loosing a tooth would really make a difference to me. Boy was I shocked last night when I cried after she went to bed. And, of course, Tab was on the couch laughing at me.

Let me give you the skinny.

Her tooth has been loose for over a month now, so we have just been waiting for it to get really loose. While we were gone on the cruise, Caroline stayed with Ryan, Amy & Avery. One night the girls were taking a bath, and goofy Caroline had the wash cloth in her mouth, so...Avery decided to pull the wash cloth out. There were tears and a little blood, and a tooth that was really loose now! Poor kid! So they both had to tell me about it as soon as we walked in the door! She has been wiggling it all week in hopes that it would finally come out. Well last night she let me peek in her mouth to see that it was barely hanging on!

I got voted to pull it, husband is a wee bit squeamish with blood! Caroline was pleading with me not to pull her tooth, but y'all, it was seriously just barely hanging in there! I let her put a popsicle on her gums to "make it numb", and then I yanked that bad boy outta there. No, I'm not really that mean...I don't think! But I did pull her tooth. And you would have thought I was cutting her arm off. Of course less than 5 minutes later she was smiling while she ate her popsicle. After she was done, she kept saying, "great mom, now I talk funny"! Which of course was only because she kept pushing her tongue through the hole!

Poor kid, can you see the red streaks on her face and the wet spots on her shirt from crying?


Naturally this morning she was elated to find the tooth fairy had visited, and more than willing to show off her proud new smile!


She was so excited this morning that she had finally lost a tooth!

Dental Mayhem

Here is my latest update on the good ole teeth. If you read this post, you are pretty much up to date...until yesterday! I had to go back yesterday because I was dying {ok, not really, but I hurt like the dickens!!!} So he tells me that I still have a raging infection in my tooth that is making my ear hurt. Since I can't afford the $2200.00 price tag to fix these last 3 teeth just yet, he came up with another plan.

He drilled a very tiny hole in my tooth to relieve some of the pressure, and let it start draining {YUCK}. I am on yet another round of antibiotics for a week and go back next Friday for a Pulpotamy {and no I don't really understand what that is}, and then he will shave my tooth down so I can't bite with it.

All this so that I can avoid having the full blown root canal, and making my tooth too brittle to put the crown on in January. If this doesn't work, then I will be missing 3 teeth {all molars} on the upper left of my mouth! Just call me bubbette! Hope fully this will work so that I can have teeth to eat with and be completely pain free for once in the last 5 years!

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I may gone for the rest of the day, I am having an emergency dentist appointment in a few hours because I am in severe pain yet again! YUCK!!!!!!!!

So happy blogging everyone!

Pearly Whites

God did not bless me with healthy teeth. I have struggled for most of my life with all sorts of troubles regarding my teeth. My parents spent thousands of dollars on oral surgery, dental appointments, braces, cleanings, sealants, fillings, and crowns....only none of it seemed to hold {except the braces part}. For the past 7 years I have been struggling to keep my teeth healthy, to not much avail!

And yes, I am venting here {what better place}.

I have seen numerous dentists from Dallas to Waco, and no one has been able to REALLY help me until recently. Most of the dentists I have seen have passed most of my problems off as genetic, enamel deficiencies, and some even said the didn't know why. Its not because I have poor dental hygiene {I always receive great praise for my brushing and flossing skills!}.

Every dentist I have seen has said that I will not have any of my own teeth by the time I am 30 {oh....I am 30}, and most quotes have been around 30k to fix my teeth!!!! Do these people think that I am made of money? HA!

My new wonderful dentist is a true God send! He is amazing. On my 1st visit with him, he spent over 2 hours looking and x-raying, and taking inter-oral pictures so that he could devise a plan. Well, I do not have all of my God given teeth, but I still have a lot of them! Five are completely gone, if you want to count wisdom teeth too, that makes 9!!! So sad. And of my remaining 24 teeth, 10 of them are crowns!!!!! Which if you know anything about crowns a) they cost about a grand a pop, and b) it usually means a root canal came first! I've had 12...2 had to be re-done because the dentist botched the job and I was still in pain!

My bottom teeth are okay, mostly just some fillings. Its the top ones that don't seem to like my mouth as a residence.

All this to say that I have been in pain yet again for the past week. So, on Tuesday my sweet daddy is taking me to to dentist for more dental work. And yes, someone has to take me and hold my hand...they drug me heavily before I go, and there is always lots of tears and panic on my part. I have severe anxiety when going to the dentist.....gee, I wonder why?

Hopefully this will be close to the end of my dental woes....I already have some more serious dental work scheduled for January....that SHOULD be the end!

So please everyone, think happy thoughts and say some prayers that I will have a little peace on Tuesday!

And just for fun...I will show you some before and after pics of my teeth. And yes, this is slightly embarrasing for myself, but its the only way for you to truly understand my dental anguish!

I know this picture stinks,
but you can see all the dark spots where
my teeth just chipped away

On top of them breaking
they have always been yellow

The day after I got my first set of front crowns

Pardon my silly face
Caroline was sitting in my lap taking pictures of me
I wonder where she gets that?