Opal's Health Scare

I took Opal in to the vet yesterday when she wasn't feeling good and luckily my sister Lisa encouraged me to take her in! She just wasn't herself and I had a fear she was bleeding internally. After blood work, and xray and an ultrasound they discovered Opal has DIABETES! and her sugar was 500. Normal range 80 - 120. A little insulin and she greeted me like her old self this morning! Ahhhh. Thank goodness it wasn't internal bleeding.  Now my job is to watch her like a hawk and give her an insulin shot in the a.m. and p.m. so glad my baby girl is feeling better. 

Grasshopper Appetizer!

 Chapulines
Your choice of garlic lime or habanero sautéed grasshoppers. A traditional Mexican dish from the Aztec era.

most people would send a dish back if she found this on her plate!

Daron tried a nibble, I ate most of them and Addy looked at us like we had three heads! My sister Lisa refused which makes sense since she is vegetarian. I think Jen 2 threw up a little in her mouth when the plate arrived.  However, they did have another friend that met us for dinner and she shared them with me! 

February

One of our favorite visitors from France. 

Emily and Amberly joined us at the Best Friends Sledding Day!

Addy was mad because her tube didn't go fast enough.

Emily and Addy fueling up for the day.

What happened to January!?

Well this month seems to have flown by.  I have been volunteering in Addysons classroom the last hour of her school day.  It's been interesting to see how all the kids interact, to see how well many can read and write and do math!  I am planning an art show for my Friday Kids Art Discovery Class.  I took an adult art class yesterday on the basic and fundamentals of drawing.  It was a great refresher and nice to be a student for a change.  My Monday night Yoga classes are going well and my friend Char teaches an NLP and Faster EFT class before yoga.  They meld well together.  Google NLP and faster EFT to learn more.  Her class has really helped me rewire my way neural network. The one thought/emotion that was running for the past 4 or 5 years was "Am I going to have a migraine today?"  I took a section from an NLP site explaining a bit about neural networks. 

A neural network is a cluster of neurons connected together to form a "database" of encoded information such as thoughts, feelings, beliefs, programmed reactions, emotions and even physiological data.
Neural networks are the actual biological location of change. Change does not take place without re-wiring of existing neural connections or creating entirely new connections. This is why we literally "become" what we think about most of the time...
If we frequently ruminate about depressing thoughts, we are building a neurological data base for depression and experiencing everything that goes with it! 

Opal, Daron, Addy and her friend Cedar picking Jerusalem Artichokes

Rachel and I going to a bon fire near Colorado City

She had missed a part in the directions and we couldn't find the house!

Addy and her friend Samantha hiking

 

Samantha and Addy build a fairy garden

Another hike with Addy and Braxton building a fairy house

magical fairy house