Bragging Momment or Venting. Maybe Both

So I'm officially full swing into the Medical Transcription portion of my course where there is no more reading and all quizzes. And not just multiple choice quizzes. While I do have one of those after each chapter, the main focus is dictations that are timed and then have to be submitted for grade. UGH it's been a stressful pain to say the lease. So far I've submitted two transcriptions and passed with a 82 and 83. That's good considering I only have to test at 70%. Is it low, of course but passing is passing at this point. Especially since I do not care for this course any longer at all and have decided it's not what I choose to make my career in. I took my first midterm today and made a 96. I missed two stupid questions from my own error. Again at this point passing is passing. I am now on the second half of the midterm and whoever thought up this test is crazy. I have to transcribe dictations, corrections, format and all in 16 minutes. Imagine reading an entire health record of an operative procedure and then having to retype it only by a docs voice telling you the chart. That's what I'm doing. Oh have I mentioned there are three of those for my 16 minute time period? Gonna be a blast I tell ya. NOT!

STRESSED!

Just thought if I put it down it would eliminate some stress. Obviously not working :(

Pima County Fair

We attempted to take the kids to the Pima County Fair today. The weather had other plans for us. After seeing the dark cloudy skys we decided against our better judgment to go anyways. We got there and as soon as we entered realized it was quite a bit colder than we thought. No biggie we just kept on going. We were pretty hungry so we stopped at one of the first places we came to and ordered some food. The wind picked up, and by the time we were done eating it was sprinkling. We walked around a little before Paul and I could no longer take it. The kids were cold, we were cold, it was sprinkling, time to cut our losses. So we loaded up and headed back home to where it is still raining as I type this. The kids and I took a nap and when we got up it was dinner time. We all ate dinner and then it was bath time All of us ended up going down fairly early.

Super Sad!

So I was reviewing my pictures after the party. I noticed a black spot on all my pictures. I assumed it was just my screen and that none of my pictures were really affected. I was wrong. Every single picture has a black spot on it. I am beyond bummed. More so about my pictures being ruined opposed to the broken camera. That can be fixed my pictures not so much as the spot is in all different areas so editing wouldn't work. :(

DM-50 and Pantano Stables

What a day! This morning we woke up and got ready to go to Pantano Stables. I have been wanting to take the kids there for the longest and the play group organized an outing to check it out. Of course they were letting all the little kids ride on the horses, but I opted to pass. 20.00 for one ride around the stable which came out to three minutes(yes I timed it) is just a little to steep for me. But, I thought it would be fun to check out the horses and go support all the kid's friends who were riding. So we get there and we check out the horses, the first group took off on their ride, and then Justin was done. He was over all the kids, the people, the horses, everything. So we loaded up and headed to base. DM-50 was going on. It's a huge base pic-nic and Paul just happened to be entered in the car show. And, they even let him attend the event. The kids were so happy to get to see Paul and hang out with him. The pic-nic ended up being a ton on fun. I think had we got there any later I would have been overwhelmed with the amount of people. They had free food, free snow cones, cotton candy, 5 jump castles, a train ride, the fire engine, and best of all daddy. We started off at the car show, then had some lunch, grabbed a snow cone and headed back to the fire engine. The kids got to see a guy put on all the fire gear as quick as he could to make time. They enjoyed that. Then I took the kids for the train ride. Both were so excited, both couldn't wait, I put them both in, the train starts, Justin freaks out! So, I had to grab him and we stood off to the side watching Kailee have a blast. His whole reason for being scared? He wanted to sit with Kailee and not be alone. Poor guy. :( He really is attached to Kailee. Maybe a little too much. After Kailee got her ride I took them to get some cotton candy. We sat under a tree and just took the day in. It was quite a HOT one so after the cotton candy we headed out. Once home both kids took a nap while I cleaned some. I have soooo much still to do for Kailee's party. It just snuck up on me. After dinner I took the kids to our community park and let them run around. That was fun. :) Walked home and bathed both kiddos. I was in the middle of baking cup cakes when JP threw up in the hall way. Now he's not wanting to sleep and I have about 50 more cup cakes to make. :( Gonna be one long night.

National Frog month

So in honor of national frog month the kids and I headed over to Ruthie's for a play date. We made frogs out of green plates with their hands as the feet. Justin found a bucket of cars so he opted out of the craft but Kailee loved it. She's my crafty one. It was nice to get out of the house and meet up with some of the moms I haven't seen in a few weeks. Of course the kids loved seeing all their friends. They have become quite close to some of the kids. All the kids are super excited for Kailee's party on Sunday and the adults kept playing up the excitement as well. So Kailee is beyond excited. :)

Dum dee dum dee dum

Music time at Bookmans. The kids LOVE going here for music hour. Mr. Nature is so awesome with the kids. He gets there attention and keeps it the whole hour. Today is was more like drama hour but you know there was more kids there than I have seen previously. A bunch of the younger ones had meltdowns and sharing issues but thankfully my two enjoyed themselves. Justin still gets overwhelmed with all the noise and the size of the group but he sat by me and enjoyed being by himself. Kailee really got in to it this time. She actually sang the songs and danced her wriggles out. Had all sorts of suggestions for Mr. Nature and he loved it. After wards we looked around at all the books and cds. Played with the stuffed animals, talked Kailee out of a billion. She has such a thing for "people" as she calls stuffed animals. Justin was hungry so we headed over to the Mc Ds by the house with Tanya and James. The kids ate and played while we sat and chit chatted. We stayed right up until nap time. Came home and both kiddos napped and now I'm attempting to figure out my
computer issues.

Birthday Party

Birthdays are so much fun! We've had the opportunity to go to quite a few since joining the play group. All the kids have so much fun and my kids are slowly warming up to them and learning more about what to do at them. They are usually the shy kids who stay behind while all the other kids grab as much candy as they can or choose to stay out of bouncy castles until they clear out. They are learning though. Today was Angela's 5th birthday party and she had a super hero party. The kids are having a hard time adjusting to all the birthday parties. They get pretty overwhelmed with all the kids, family, activities, and noise. They did pretty well this time. They had a blast in the jump castle. Loved the cake and slushies and socializing with their friends. It was perfect weather, not too hot, not too windy, not cold at all. ANd most of all tons of fun!