Good things do happen to good people.

My best friend Christie had an unfortunate thing happen to her. On July 4th,2007 there had been some pretty heavy rain in our area. Christie, along with 20+ families had to face the devastating effects that the rain brought early that morning. Like so many people Christie woke up to find her basement flooded with water.
I find it hard to understand why this happen to all of these families. They are all located on top of a hill so the water should have traveled down the hill instead of in their basements. I also noticed the road construction that had been going on right next to her home. They were supposed to be resurfacing the top of the street. I noticed the day before the big storm that the construction company's crew members had torn apart the storm drains and were doing some kind of work on them. All I know is that the letter that all the residents received before the road work stated that the work should take approx. 1wk. It has been over a month. To our surprise we found out that there was alot of debris in the storm drains all along the road being worked on, stuff that shouldn't have been there in the 1st place. I asked her in all of the years that she lived in her house did it ever flood at all? She said no. So I told her that it might not just be an act of nature, that someone else might be to blame. For example the construction company or even the City. As it turns out her neighbors all feel the same too.
Poor Christie, she had the worst of it in her basement. She got over 4ft. of water in her basement. All of her personal items and pictures she was saving were all ruined. Stuff that you just can't replace. Baby photos, cherished pictures, memories from the last 15yrs of her life ruined, gone. Washer, Dryer gone. Everything down there just completely destroyed.
Since that devastating day she has been a complete wreck. She has no way of really getting back what she lost. She rents the house she lives in and the landlord didn't have flood coverage included in the house's insurance. So Christie can't even get compensated for her loss. I really feel that it was the construction companies fault for every ones damage. I hope she gets something from all of this. She is a single mother trying to make it on her own and raise a wonderful little boy who doesn't understand why some of his toys and clothes got ruined. This has been such a difficult time for her and her son, and it really has taken a toll on them. She had to miss a lot of work in order to clean out the basement for the landlord, who of all people only made things worse for her. At one point the landlord said that she should not of had so much stuff in the basement. She was very upset with Christie because there was so much stuff that the landlord had to pay to have a special removal. She was in such a hurry to clean up the stuff and get rid of it that she started throwing Christies stuff out even the stuff that was salvageable. She even had the nerve to curse her out and disrespect Christie, and tell her she had to move. I understand the landlord's frustration with everything, but Christie lost more stuff, than the landlord, things nobody can replace. Eventually the landlord apologized for her own actions but it doesn't take back the mental anguish that she bestowed on her. Christie didn't deserve to be treated so cruelly. She was so depressed that she actually thought about taking her own life. With the loss of her belongings and the mental anguish, it was all becoming too much to handle. I did my best to be there for her in her time of need, I wanted to help out more, but she wouldn't let me since I'm pregnant. I did made it a point to be there for her,and to try and lift her spirits and keep her mind off of the bad thoughts. I feel like I helped. Today Christie was very depressed because she has exhausted all of her savings and was finding it hard to make ends meet, but out of the blue an angel came to her rescue and helped her in a way I could not. She received a phone call from the Dispatch, a local newspaper company and they told her that a man heard about her story and wanted to help her specifically. He gave a cash donation and told her that he hopes it helps her until she gets something from the insurance company either from the construction company or the city or both. Only time will tell, she may not get nothing. He wanted to remain anonymous, I believe that the bank said that if she wanted to thank this mystery she could give it to them and they would see to it that he received her appreciation and thanks.
She never expected that anyone would help her and she never asked for any charity of any kind, but this donation couldn't have come at a better time for her and her son, it will help her tremendously. She received $500. from this person and is eternally grateful. She wishes that she could meet this person, to tell him face to face how much he just helped her and her son. Since she can't she will send him her thanks, she respects his need for privacy. I'm just so happy that there are people out there like this person willing to give what they can to help someone out in their time of need. If anybody needed the help the most it was Christie. I wish I could thank him as well, he helped in a way that I couldn't and I am grateful too.
So if your out there and you happen to read my blog then you know who you are and we send our thanks and appreciation out to you. Thanks for your help, you made such an incredible difference. Words can't truly explain how thankful they are.

Lazy Days

Well in the past few days I have been real lazy lately. I haven't really wanted to do any thing. I feel like such a bad parent. I have even bee slacking around the house. It's not bad but still I can do better. I am just so tired all of the time and I just sleep. I guess this is normal for when your pregnant, I just remember having more energy when I was pregnant with my daughter. I am not even that old. I am only 26 yrs. old. Well I haven't been sleeping that well, I feel like I should move my bed into my bathroom since I am in it practically 90% of the time. At least it feels that way. I am very thank full that my daughter has been so understanding with me. It is actually quite surprising since she is stuck inside most of the time and she is only 6yrs old. She does talk me into playing games with her since I won't let her play outside when I can't be out there to supervise her. She seems to think that she can play out there by herself, but I say no. Really she is still to young to be out by herself and have no adult supervision. My luck she would go home with a stranger if I wasn't out there with her. Or she would get beat up by the other kids because she has this I don't want to share thing with other peoples toys including her own toys. Well kids will be kids. So far this week I have been blessed with rain so she can't ask to play outside. I do plan on taking her out to the park and swimming this weekend so hopefully she won't be too disappointed in me. Well I will quit complaining and I will talk to you all later so in the mean time take care.

Boring weekend.

I had a pretty boring weekend, I really didn't do that much. I worked some extra hours but really I did nothing. My friend Brenda took me to see the Backwater Gamblers. It is a water show, where they do tricks on water skis. I didn't really get to enjoy it because I am not feeling the best. It's this whole pregnancy thing. I have a lot of pregnancy issues. Nothing serious just what you would expect and it is making me very uncomfortable. Tell you the truth I forgot what it felt like since it has been 7yrs since I have been pregnant. Hopefully I will feel better enough to do something fun with my daughter this week and this weekend. Well I don't really have much else to talk about that isn't complaining like a sissy. So until next time take care and have a good day.

Nothing new... maybe a little new.

I really don't have much to say. I had and ultrasound on 7-9-07, the baby is doing very well. It is just growing like it should be. I am almost 15 weeks pregnant with my second baby. I can feel it move too. All I feel is fluttering and little nudges from the inside, I can't wait until you can see it move through my abdomen. On a different subject my job at Lowe's is gone after the 13th, they are cutting hours and a lot of people are getting laid off. Well I am cool with it. I knew that the job was seasonal and that it can go at any time. I still have my other job at Help At Home Inc. All I need to do is just ask for more hours. I kept this job just for the whole lay off reason. I needed to stay employed continuously. Plus I didn't want to go through the whole rehire process and lose my pay that I earned over the years. I have been given more hours to start next week so I am glad that I won't be losing too much money. Well I will quit boring you all and I will talk to you all next time. So I hope that you have a wonderful day in the mean time.

My scary lunch encounter.

Today 2 of my friends and I went to the Olive Garden for lunch to eat their unlimited soup, salad and bread sticks. I had been begging my friends to go there for our work lunch for 2 weeks and we finally went. Everything was going great, our waitress was a little slow but she had a lot of other customers to tend to. I was eating the rest of my bread stick and I felt a hard crunch on my teeth. For a minute I thought that may be for some reason I might have chipped my tooth on the bread stick. Don't ask me why I thought this, I am pretty stupid when I am pregnant; well that is how I feel all of the time. Anyway I pull it out of my mouth and went to wipe it on one of my plates when it poked me almost cutting my finger. So I took a closer look and it and realized that it was a small piece of glass. So I left the table and went to one of the associates that seats you when you enter. They asked my where I was sitting and got the manager for me. While I was sitting and waiting I found another piece on the table with the crumbs from the bread sticks. I showed the manager both pieces, and I showed her which one I pulled from out of my mouth. She asked me if I got cut at all. I said no, but I kept feeling around in my mouth for more pieces and she would keep asking me if I got cut. I said I wonder how many pieces I might have ate before I found that one. One of my friends Christie said, Hey she is very concerned because she is pregnant. I said yes it's true and that can't be good if I ate any. The manager gave us all our lunch for free and she gave us new salad plates and me a $30 gift card. When I got my new plate I freaked out because I thought that there was more of the glass on my plate but my friend and the waiter told me that it was ice because they freeze their salad plates. Thank god it was just ice, I really couldn't eat much after that because I was too nervous and scared. It is just terrible that our lunch ended the way that it did, at least I didn't get hurt, and I hope that I didn't eat any more pieces without realizing because I don't want to hurt my unborn baby. I'm sure I'll be fine. Well until next time have a great day!

Oh what a boring day.

Hello. Today has been very uneventful for me. Pretty much just blah. I went to my first job today and I took care of an elderly woman. All I do for this client is clean and talk to her. Since I only see her once a week we always have stuff to tell each other to catch up from our last visit. After my time ended with her I went to my other job where I work in the lawn and garden center at Lowes. For the most part is was boring and very hot. I got sick pretty quick, this is the part of pregnancy that I dislike oh so very much. I can't wait until I can feel the baby move. Any way back to the blah. I ended up spending most of my time trying to stay cool and keep from getting sick. My friend and co-worker did her best to assist me in staying cool. She bought me a big bottle of water and let me take a short breaks the break room where it is nicely air conditioned. My daughter had a better day than me. She got to go on a field trip with her day care center. They went to lake story and went swimming and had a picnic and just played. I would have loved to go with but of course I had to work. Kids have it so good. Well that's okay I plan on having a fun weekend, even if it rains all weekend we can still go to the YMCA and swim indoors. Well I am done boring everyone so until next time I hope you all have a wonderful day.

My Poor Baby! :(

On Friday 6-15-07 I recieved a phone call from the daycare center that my daughter attends. They told me that my daughter had an accident there, they said that she got hurt bad, but that it wasn't bad, but her injury was bad. Makes no sense I know. So I asked what happened. They told me that during play time outside she was playing on one of those flat scooters and went to take a dive on to it with her belly and missed the scooter. She went face first into the pavement and broke out half of her front tooth. They asked me if it was a baby tooth since she is 6yrs old. I said yes all of her front teeth are permanent teeth. Then they said to me well we are supposed to inform you when your child gets hurt and we aren't sure if you want to get her now or wait until your usual time to pick her up. What the heck why wouldn't I pick up my child. I broke a tooth like that as a child and it hurts very bad. Why would I make her suffer until I got off of work? So I went and got her and I hunted all over town to a Dentist that would accecpt my insurance and fix it that same day. So many offices close early on Fridays that you would be surprised. I found one and we have to do their walk in appointment where you sit and wait with no guarantee that you'll be seen. On the positive side they told me that children are consider priority and are bumped up the the top of the walk in list. She had to suffer for 3 hours before being seen and to top it off the accident happened at 10:15 am which is before lunch. I got her to the Dentist at 11am and they didn't take any walk ins until 11:30am. That left me with no time to try to give her anything. It wasn't like she would have been able to eat anything any way because the tooth she broke was one of the top middle teeth. They did give her some juice so that she would have something in her stomach before they fixed her tooth. They capped it and told me that when she gets older she will need a crown and in the mean time to keep an eye on the tooth to make sure that it doesn't turn gray, because that means that the tooth as died or is dying. If it does she will need to see a specialist and ect. ect. it will cost a lot of money since my insurance won't cover that procedure. They told me that it is very possible the tooth could die since it sustaned extensive trauma and the root isn't finished forming. Well I hope for the best and so far so good. So I hope that this is it for that tooth until she is old enough for a crown. I was told that I should wait until she turns 16 or 17yrs old. I hope that tooth will make it.
Until next time I hope you all have a wonderful day. :)