&t The Taylor Family: July 2008

Sunday, July 27

So Sick

It started Sunday night last week when I told Peter my throat was hurting a little bit. I woke up at 2 AM on Monday with a pain so bad it woke me up. My tossing and turning woke up Peter who asked what he could do for me but being pregnant there isn't much help out there. Being as wonderful as he is, he got up and made me hot tea with honey and lemon and after drinking that down I did get back to sleep but not for too long. I woke up several times during the night and the next day I woke up and got ready for work. When I walked into the office I went to see my Sergeant and he told me to go home and take care of the baby. I didn't argue and went home to more hot tea, chicken soup, and lots of sleep. I got up enough strength to go to work Tuesday, I didn't want to take any more time off and I needed to make up the hours I missed so they didn't come out of the Comp Time I have been saving up for my maternity leave. I went home after my 8 hours on Tuesday and again on Wednesday. My throat was feeling better but I had the worst cold I have ever had. I had severe congestion and my sinus were so blocked my cheekbones hurt. I finished off the week with 10.5 hours OT-8 hours going to my missed day Monday and 2.5 hours to bank. I also finished my summer semester, finally!! SO glad that's over. I ended with a 97% so I was happy to keep my 4.0 GPA even though I felt like I was on my death bed. I went into work on Saturday planning to do an 8 hour time for my OT, but ended up going home after 5.5 having gotten almost nothing done. I went home and went to bed for 3 hours before getting up for dinner and then went back to bed until this morning. Got up and thought about sleeping through church but decided I wouldn't really get any more sleep and went to church with the family. Usually after lunch I start to feel better and I feel the best at night although I am still coughing. When I go to sleep and get up it starts all over again and the mornings are by far the worst. Hopefully this week long sickness is on it's way out and I can back to living normally, without constant pain and coughing. Lord knows I've gone through enough tissues this week to take out half a rain forest. Time for bed, we will see what the morning brings.

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Sunday, July 20

Playing with Doh

After church Daddy had to go out to some guitar thing and provide set ups and what not so the girls took a nap while I cleaned the house and such. That didn't take too long and pretty soon the girls were up and wanting to have some fun. I pulled out the Play-Doh that has been in the closet for a while and we set to work making all sorts of animals, flowers, and other silly colorful things. I made a big snake and the girls named it after the snake they played with when Peter's customer brought it over. He had just brought it over again yesterday so it was fresh in their minds. The clean up was pretty easy and Abbi did a great job separating the huge pile of colors she had made from her animals.

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Saturday, July 19

Just for fun

One of the toys that the girls got for their birthday was this Craylola sprayer thing. They really wanted to give it a try and since I had picked up some batteries for it a couple days ago I decided today was as good as any. The package claimed to be "mess free" but I knew better and decided to try it out outside. The girls had fun spraying and coloring and using the stencils then seeing the final results. They didn't want to stop but we had to eat lunch I needed to finish my homework.

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Friday, July 18

die Aufladung

My Sergeant set up a dinner for CID (criminal Investigations Division) so all of us could go out and have a good time outside of work. He made reservations at The Willow Tree, a German restaurant downtown Sanford. It was rated the #1 German restaurant in FL a while back. It was our first time there and though I am hesitant to try new things I enjoyed my meal and ate the entire dish. Sometime during the dinner the owner of the restaurant brought of a glass boot with 2 liters of German beer in it. My Sergeant told us the rules of "if you don't want any just pass it on, but it can't touch the table until the beer is gone." Peter and I aren't big beer drinkers so I was happy to have an excuse not to drink. Peter tried it the first time it went around but didn't enjoy it enough to take much more. I had to get a picture because I thought it was really funny. The dinner was great and very enjoyable, afterwards we went down to a local bar (smoke-free) and the investigators and the rest of them drank some more. We left shortly after that and picked up the girls from Miss Kim's before heading home.

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Thursday, July 17

Update on Donna

Hi As you know , or not know, Donna went back to the treatment center on Monday and it has been rough. Yesterday they had to suspend one of her treatments as her cretin (?) level and her kidney functions were iffy. She wasn't eating much and today they changed her menu so she had a reasonable breakfast.

Her kidney functions are now acceptable and they resumed treatments . She convulsed after each of them but they were not of long duration. So we are in a forward movement now and will overcome any detours or potholes. This is thru the power of prayer , a loving Father and your care and concern. Thank you all IHN

Claire

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Wednesday, July 16

She's Five!!

Happy Birthday Bryanna!! What a big girl I have, Bresa has been waiting for this day all year long. She has talked about it non-stop pretty much since Christmas last year. She already had the whole day planned out and asked me if I could take the day off work. I still have some PTO time so I decided to take today and the rest of the week off from work so we could go have some fun. Bresa decided she wanted to have a donut for breakfast so we got up and went out to Dunkin Donuts. After that I got the girls ready to go to the zoo (Bresa's choice), I had asked her friend from school, Hannah, to come along too so we picked her up on the way. We got to the zoo and the girls played in the Splash Ground area where we were met by Jake who had Kendrah along with her. Alright, a party! The girls had fun until lunch time and then after eating we headed off to see all the animals. We figured it would rain at some point but the clouds stayed away and it got pretty hot and sunny out. After we had exhausted all the sights we decided to head home and see Daddy (he had too much work to do to come with us). We found the rain on the way back to town and boy did we get wet. Oh well at least our day at the zoo was sunny. We had to pick up a couple things at the store so we stopped there and then headed home. Time for dinner and Bresa already told us she wanted a Mc Donald's Cheeseburger. Daddy took the girls to grab dinner while mommy took a little rest. What a big day but she is such a big girl so I guess it can't be any other way. Happy Birthday Bresa Brye we love you so much and we are so proud of the wonderful girl you are!!

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Saturday, July 12

GemFest

Every year there is this little convention type deal where a bunch of guitar players from all over come and hang out and listen to some live bands play. They look at cool guitars and buy t-shirts and talk guitar lingo. Peter went last year with Chris and showed off the red guitar that he had made for Chris a few years ago. Of course, everyone was impressed so this year Peter wanted to go and bring out some more of his work. He told one of the guys that puts the thing on that he was planning on coming and the guy made it a point to tell Peter that he would have a table for him to lay out his stuff. Chris was one of the performers asked to play and while he entertained us Peter set up his table and got lots attention. I don't think one person in the room was able to walk by Peter's guitars without stopping to drool and ask questions. We dropped the girls off at our friend, Val's house, and then went with Dan, he is the owner of the aqua headless bass (second one to the right) that Peter finished a couple months ago. In the pictures you can see Chris playing his latest Chellee Guitar with the green LED lights on, and the other is a photo of five of the latest creations from Peter's shop. All but one is sold and that is the second from the left that Peter made for himself. You can kind of see the last three guitars have LEDs lit up, red, aqua, and the last is green, if you click on the picture to enlarge it.

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Friday, July 11

SonWorld

All week long the girls went to Vacation Bible School at our church. The theme was SonWorld and on the last day they had a carnival with all sorts of fun games that the parents were invited to also. The girls had a great time all week and came home with all sorts of fun crafts and good knowledge. Friday night I only worked 2.5 hours of overtime so that I could go to the carnival with the girls and Daddy. The girls played just about every game, jumped in the bouncy houses, and even visited the petting zoo. We really enjoyed watching other people dunk our Pastor in the dunk-tank. There was free dinner and cotton candy and ice cream. Bresa was at the carnival too but she went off with Daddy when I remembered to get my camera out, so there are only pictures of Abbi.

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Friday, July 4

Happy Fourth!!

Last night Steve came over for dinner and spent the night, we had plans to get up early and go to Disney (something different). Well, we got up early but then learned that the parks were blacked out for the tickets we had. So we were up and dressed and ready to go and finally decided on doing some caching. I hadn't been caching in months so it was exciting to be able to add to my numbers. We loaded up some coordinate, the girl, their lunches, and some drinks and headed up 92 to the Daytona area. We did some great caching and I think I got about 23 for the day before we made it back home around 4:30. We got a bunch that I hadn't ever heard of since I've been out of the loop for a while. Steve got a few that I had already found too. We took Steve to my mom's to get the rest of his stuff so he could spend the night at our house again and leave for MD in the morning from our place. We stopped and ate dinner at the Ale House and watched fireworks on TV and then all the way home from the car. It was a good day and so nice to be off from work for a three day weekend. When we got home we talked for a bit but we were all so exhausted from the days events we went to bed and Steve left early to head home.

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Thursday, July 3

Update on Donna

First let me thank God and then I thank all of you for your prayers and support for Donna'
She has completed the first round of treatment and will be home tomorrow for a week before returning for round 2. The doctor told Donna and Dennis that she did very well , that most patients have to have the procedure suspended because they have such severe symptoms, usually heart, blood pressure related. Though she had side effects they were able to get them under control, some harder to combat than others.
Our continuing prayer is for the success of the treatment that it gets to the cancer cells and she achieves NED (no evidence of disease.
Praise the Lord
Claire

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