Hey all!

Hope everyone had a great Cmas! We sure did but I'm always so bummed when it's over! Here are a couple pics of the girls at Gma Kathy's. Santa brought them both guitars! Watch out Hollywood! =) Carly has always loved guitars because her preschool special ed teacher use to play hers for Carly all the time and Carly LOVED it!!! So, she has loved them forever and is happy to have her very own. Katie loves hers too, although, she thought she would be able to sit down and play it so it sounded just like Hannah Montana! So guess what she wants now? Yep, guitar lessons! Maybe...we'll see. On a stamping note... now that Cmas is over and it has settled down, my stamp room looks like a bomb went off in it. I'd take a picture but I'm too embarrassed. Although all of you die hard stampers KNOW what I mean. Anyhoo, my camera is goofing up again so wouldn't be able to get the mementous disaster on camera...ugh. So, hopefully I'll get my camera figured out, get my disaster of a stamp room cleaned, and get some new creative masterpieces made up and posted! Until then have a great week! Happy stamping!

Happy Wednesday!

Well, I had to do a post of Carly! She had her 5th set of E-tubes placed in her ears yesterday and she looks just so rough today! There was a little complication with the surgery...she aspirated and they almost had to intubate her! (SCARY!) But, she relaxed enough with some heavy IV meds (normally an IV isn't even used) and now I just need to watch her closely for pneumonia. It's so hard to watch her go through something she doesn't understand. I think surgery (even a small one like this) is hard on any 6 year old but especially for an Autistic Child who just doesn't understand why. She kept saying "all done" and was trying to get up to leave. Poor thing! Craig was out of town so I went by myself and brought Katie along too as I couldn't ask daycare to take her at 0520 a.m. However, Katie had a lot of questions this time about Carly's surgery and what happens and why, so it was good for her to come along and see what it was all about. She's so good with her little sister - everyone commented on it -that and her dimples. The rest of the day was pretty much spent napping and laying around. Carly seems a little better tonight...she just looks so tough! Her hair hasn't been combed since yesterday early morning and her piggy tails are falling out BUT she was a little more peppy & smiley this evening so hopefully she'll do fine with no complications from the aspiration. The picture attached is kind of blurry but my camera is acting up. I also added my Cmas cards. I've made quite a few different ones this year...the red & green one are Kate & my favorite...Craig liked the black & white. It was kind of fun doing different ones - both were quick & easy - not too fancy. You'll have to wait and see what you get! =)