Little Sis

I have lost half of my brain cells…

May 23, 2013 by Jennifer 4 Comments

I am here to clean the air and say that half of my brain cells are gone. Admission sets you free right?

I can no longer pretend that I remember everything. Point in check with this morning’s conversation:

Madisyn: Mom, you can’t remember. Where is your phone?
Me: Why?
Madisyn: Because, I am going to set reminders on your phone.
Me: haha!!!

My child has spilled it to the world that her mom cannot remember anything. Honestly, I am not sure where my memory went but it is not here. Once I had my girls, my memory just got lost. Someone can tell me something and then 10 minutes later if I didn’t write it down, I am scratching my head trying to remember what they said?

Exams at school, the information will stay in my brain… but everyday life situations, I cannot remember anything. I use to lose my glasses all the time when I would take them off at night but now I have resolved that problem. The glasses go under my pillow every single night.

Maybe the gray hairs popping up on my head are destroying my memory further since my youngest L let it be known about my gray hairs.

Lyndsee: Mom let’s play I spy.
Me: Ok, sure! I spy something gray.
Lyndsee: Your hair.
Me: What?!

I love my girls. They will keep me in line for sure.

Take This Inflatable Car Seat With You Everywhere {Giveaway}

April 23, 2013 by Jennifer 15 Comments

Going on a family vacation on an airplane?

Child going to after school activities?

Child heading to the grandparents house for the night?

One of the first thoughts that goes through your head is – Let me get his/her booster seat! You no longer have to worry about getting the booster seat out of your car with the BubbleBum Inflatable Booster Seat. This is such an cost-effective, portable, foldable and loveable booster seat. As you can see from the picture above, L absolutely loves this booster seat. It is so convenient for us when she is riding car pool with another parent or going to town with my step-daughter or riding with someone to a kid’s church event.

BubbleBum was founded by Safekids USA Certified CPST Grainne Kelly from Northern Ireland who, like many other parents, was appalled by the lack of car booster seats available from car rental desks even when booked in advance.

She believes that every child deserves to be protected. Through her research she discovered that some of the main barriers for use of boosters and the lack of information or education available to parents along with the inconvenience of the conventional rigid designs and resistance of children to use a “baby seat”.

As a mother of two, Grainne set out to solve this problem while working closely with her children and the children of local schools.

The feedback from a child that now uses our product was priceless! The children helped with the “cheeky” name and the funky color and design, giving reasons about what they like about BubbleBum as opposed to existing rigid boosters:-

They found it easier to carry as it is lightweight and compact.

They were not embarrassed to bring it to school in their backpack, it was cool!

It was more comfortable than the conventional rigid options already on the market

They liked the fact that it was for “big kids”

BubbleBum removed the barrier to entry from children and the inconvenience factor as it is so easy to inflate and deflate for storage. Now Grandmas and sitters can carry one with ease in the glovebox or simply in their purse.

When the seat first arrived for us to review, my first thought was it would be hard to inflate. It inflates in maybe 30 seconds flat. It is that easy. It comes in a very convenient bag to store so it easily transitions with the child from place to place. The size puts L at the right height for her seat belt to hit in the right place. This won me over with safety. The seat is for kids 4 – 11. The booster seat does come with extra shoulder straps to help position your child just right.

It is very hip as well with other kids. All of L’s friends have commented on the seat and want one. Too cute! The car seat is available at Target stores all across the country as well as online order from the BubbleBum website.

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Disclosure: I was provided a BubbleBum booster seat in order to facilitate this review. All thoughts and opinions are of my own.

Out of the mouth of babes… L sharing her faith!

March 4, 2013 by Jennifer 3 Comments

As you all know, L spent a week in the hospital last month. We have a family private page set up on Facebook. I logged in after she was released and my eyes were greeted with this update:

I’m out of the hospital so I am feeling all better today so keep being kind to anyone people who are sick people who are lost to just make god help you no mater what so every one keep up the good work.

The tears immediately started forming in my eyes. This update came just after we had made a stop at Wal-Mart. M’s dance teacher had come up to us at the store and asked how L was feeling. L proceeded to tell her that the Pastor had rubbed oil on her forehead and prayed over her. “This had helped heal her body” stated L.

James 5:14 – Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

L was not focusing on her suffering in the hospital. She was focused on and so proud of how well our Pastor had helped heal her. There were times that I would sit and watch L in the hospital bed and would wonder what she was thinking? I know the good Lord up above was dealing with L’s heart through this entire time in the hospital. It shows through the Facebook update and what she told M’s dance teacher. Children are amazing and we can learn so much from them. Take time to slow down and listen to the words that come out of children’s mouths. Out of the mouths of babes….

We are back after 7 days in the hospital

February 18, 2013 by Jennifer 11 Comments

Have you seen Jen? She went missing in action. Oh snap! She is back. I will let her take it from here.

I am so sorry to be lacking on my posts here at One Moms World. Unfortunately, the stomach bug virus caused all kinds of complications and my sweet and precious L ended up in the hospital for 7 days. We were hospitalized Friday a week ago, and were able to go home that Sunday afternoon. Only things began going downhill fast and we ended up being hospitalized once again on Monday.

The nurses were so good to my daughter. They tried to make her smile and make her stay more bearable. This particular nurse let L listen to her own heartbeat. We did get a smile from her.

Technology proved to be the right dose of medicine.

I will admit, the pictures do break my heart. It was so hard to see her like this and was tearing my nerves all to pieces.

After IV’s, MRI, Electrocardiogram and lab tests, L was released from the hospital last Thursday. Thank goodness!

We were battling low sugar throughout her hospital stay. She is now on a hypoglycemic diet to maintain her sugar at a normal level. We will be following up with a cardiologist. Her MRI did show a spot on her brain. The radiologist feels like the spot was not a tumor. After consulting with a few doctors, we are going to wait for six months and see if the spot has grown before we seek further action. Of course, I am worried but we are praying that this spot will dissolve in Jesus name!

During L’s stay at the hospital, she was able to experience music therapy.

This was a local college student completing her graduate studies in music therapy. Music does so much for your soul, so naturally it really uplifted L’s spirit’s immediately.

It is amazing to sit and watch how well L responded to the therapy.

We are so glad to be home and ready to put this behind us. It was downright scary to see my daughter go through this and not really have a lot of reasons why? It was very hard to send her back to school today but I was assured by her teacher that she would watch her very closely.

Thank you all for understanding about the absence here. Look forward to lots of posts this week. God Bless!

Trying to transition from extended co-sleeping

January 31, 2013 by Jennifer Leave a Comment

The minute I became a mom, I was a full-fledged attachment mom. At the time, I did not realize my parenting style had a name. It did not become clearer until I was doing research online when my first-born M was an infant.

Family members and friends have sent subtle messages about my co-sleeping parenting style, but I always chose to ignore them. You and your husband define your parenting style. I never try to push my parenting style on to others, and I always appreciate the same in return.

With all of that being said, I know it is time to transition from extended co-sleeping. My girls are 8 and 10. M sleeps in her own bed with no problems. She does love to have L with her and we are trying to transition L. Every single time, I am ready to do the transition, L gets sick. Is the universe trying to tell me something? For the last week, cough and asthma issues have bothered L. As all asthma parents can tell you, it is so hard to see your child launch into a coughing fit and not be able to breathe. For a few months, I thought we may be growing out of asthma issues and only dealing with her allergy issues but I guess I can eat my words now. M pleaded with L to sleep with her last night and L quickly replied back

No, because mommy is my pal. I need to sleep with her.

She learned at an early age how to charm her way to my heart. As she drifted off to sleep last night, I was up on the laptop working. She kept on rattling when she was breathing. My mind starts to worry and I just sit there listening at her breathe. After a little bit, she seemed to do better so I wrapped my arms closely around her and drifted of to sleep. I felt like I was waking up every hour on hour checking on her. At one time, I didn’t hear her making a noise breathing. It was very quiet. I put my finger under her nose and put my hand on her back to ensure she was still breathing. I still wasn’t satisfied so I lifted her arm to see if she would move. She did and was none to happy with me. At 3am in the morning, the decision was made that it was just not the right time to transition from co-sleeping. We will wait till this asthma setback passes.

I really want to transition her so Hubby and I can have the bed by ourselves but this mother’s heart is just not ready. They are only little once right?

Little Sis

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