The Jones Girls

The triplets preschool had their open house tonight.   They had a bake sale fundraiser and I donated rice crispy treats with cute Nemo rings on them.   They were also serving tacos and quesadillas for dinner as a fundraiser.

We visited the classroom at about 7pm.   The room was decorated with all of the kids’ artwork in the theme of a carnival.   It was so fun to see the triplets crafts and artwork all around the room.  There were 2 other sets of twins, their mothers are friends of mine.   One of the twins’ mommies gave birth to her twins the day before I gave birth to the triplets and her room was next door to my room in the hospital.   So her twins birthday is August 10th.  She remembers me giving birth on August 11th because her dr., Dr. Rocca could not release her because he was in the OR doing my C-Section!!

I bought some yummy goodies from the bake sale and some tacos and quesedillas for all of us.   It was a cold night and perfect for the baked goods to comfort everyone.

Yesterday I baked a bundt cake with a cream cheese coconut center.   Today I frosted it and decorated it.  It came out really cute.  This is for today’s cake walk at the Spring Fling Carnival at Savannah’s school.  I also brought in cupcakes too.

Savannah had to get to school early today, at 8:00am.   Today is her field trip at Centennial Farms.   I didn’t win the drawing, but 2 mothers that do a ton of volunteering in the Kindy classroom won and I feel that they really deserved it.   Savannah was excited to go on the big yellow school bus.  

We had a rough start getting her ready for school though.  Savannah was all dressed and I have her a cup of milk to drink with breakfast.  Amanda had accidently bumped her cup, causing the milk to spill all over Savannah’s outfit that she had picked out the night before to wear to the farm today.  Let’s just say it didn’t go down well this morning.   Anyway, with a lot of disagreements, I finally got Savannah to wear something else.   We hightailed it to school.  I made her a special cheeseburger with Dorito chips and a juice box in a brown bag for her lunch today.   She loves her cheeseburgers.  I watched as she proudly marched with all of the other Kindy kids to the school bus.  They were all wearing cute blue sun visors given to them for their field trip.    She stepped up into the bus.  In my heart these steps were huge…steps from my little girl growing into a big girl.    I had a little tear at the corner of my eye…((sigh))

I purchased wrist bracelets for trhe girls to use for unlimited access to game booths and jumpy houses.  It should be a lot of fun!!

This morning I got up at 8am and had to rush around to get the triplets ready for preschool and Savannah ready to take with me to the La Habra Moms  Club meeting at 9:15am.    

Also, today I had planned a really fun snack for the kids.  They are going to make their own pizzas!!  I brought in English muffins, pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella and pepperoni.   The kids were totally ecstatic about the whole fun activity!!

I made it to the meeting a little late and very exhausted.  I forgot to bring the activities calendar for May, but I figured they would understand with the idea that I had just gotten out of the hospital.    I felt like I was running on 2 valves.

Then I took the girls to swimming lessons at 3:30pm.  Lots of work changing them into their bathing suits and then afterwards helping them get dressed in their clothes.

I was supposed to go to a Multiple Moms Night out tonight, but there is no possible way I can do it.  I am too wiped out.  Feel a little sore in the lower back today.  I hope I don’t have anymore attacks….

So I thought I was out of the woods…I was so wrong!!   At about 1:30pm today, after I picked up Savannah from school, that same pain was coming back.  Oh crap!!

I drove home and tried laying down.  The waves of pain were coming on like a vengeance.   At about 4pm I drove to Urgent Care.  They gave me a warm pack to put on my lower back.   It helped, I think… They had me waiting for over an hour and a half.  I left being very frustrated and not having any medical attention because there were some other cases that were pretty serious with lacerations that needed to be stitched which I totally understand.  

So the pain was subsiding so I thought, maybe I finally passed it.   After being home for about 1-1/2 hours, the pain was cranking up again.  I put a warm pack on my lower back and it sent me into serious convlustions of pain.  I was screaming.    I had to drive myself to ER while Cliff stayed home and watched the kids.    I had no other choice…no family here to help and all of my friends have kids and are unable to help me.

I checked in with ER and got in a room in about 1/2-+45 minutes.    They ordered an u/s, had me do a urinalysis and drew some blood.    The dr. thought it might be galls stones or kidney stones or even appendicitis. The u/s and tests would tell us what is going on hopefully.  Tests showed that I have traces of blood in my urine.   Ultrasound showed that I have urine back up into my kidney, but we couldn’t see a kidney stone which meant that there was not a kidney stone so enlarged that it was dislodged in my uretha and kidney…which is a good thing.    I also have an enlarged spleen (not sure if that is bad or what) and fatty deposits in my liver (mild case of fatty liver).    They told me that the fatty liver can be resolved by simply eating better, losing weight and doing exercise.    Also, drinking a 1/4 of lemon juice a day is good for kidneys, gall bladder, and liver.  So I will begin doing that as well as living a healthier lifestyle.

The pain subsided since 9:00pm and no more pain.  They gave me a special screen to pee through to try to catch the stone.   I got home from the ER at about 2am and fell asleep at about 3am.  Long night…

This morning the girls and I began cleaning out the front yard garden.   I am ashamed to say that I had fake flowers in our garden.    Even worse, they were faded and really ugly.    It took over an hour to clean up the garden.

This was the girls first time gardening and planting flowers in our front yard.  I showed them how to dig a hole in the ground, then place the flower in the hold, then cover the hold with dirt.   We planted about 12 flowers.  It looks so pretty!!

Then a few hours later, my right abdomen and right rear back was hurting,,,really bad.   It became waves of unbearable pain…worse than child labor pains.    I threw up, the pain was so bad.  I worked through it for about 5 hours and then it subsided.   Ugh…this was a horrible kidney stone causing me ugly pain…

This afternoon I took Savannah to her friend, Brooklyn’s 6th birthday.  It was a really fun carnival theme.   

Then, Savannah and I met Cliff and the triplets at Home Depot. The girls picked out flowers to plant in our front yard garden for tomorrow which is my Mother’s Day present.   Savannah picked out some pretty pink trumpet flowers.   Amanda picked out pretty little red flowers, Maryssa picked out pretty white lace flowers, and Miranda picket out pretty little pink flowers.

I drove the triplets home and Cliff took Savvy on an errand.    

After we got home, Cliff and Savvy showed up a while later with a HUGE flower arrangement and a really nice Mother’s Day card.  What a nice suprise!!

Savannah’s class will be doing a field trip next Friday at Centennial Farms in Irvine.   They want 2 parents to volunteer.    Usually many parents like to do this field trip so they do a drawing with all of the parents names (who have been livescanend) who want to go on the field trip.

So, today I got livescanned so my name could be put in the drawing.   I had to pick up paperwork from the school and take it down to this place where they do the livescan.   The state charges a fee of $30 and the livescan place charges $20..so it is pricey.  Luckily, I found out the school district picks up the tab for the livescan fee…woohoo!!   I had to fill out an application and get all sorts of finger and hand prints done today.

I was told that I only need to do the livescan once and it will be good for all fo the girls at school should I want to do any fieldtrips or anything that requires a safety clearance by the school.