Spring cleaning. TO early???

WoW , it is last day of the month January. TIme does fly past quickly. Regina is up and is allready creating memories. She ran out of good stickers and now she is cutting pics out from magazines and cluing them to scrapbook. I guess we need to do some sticker shopping. lol

Gabriel is back in school and he was very lucky to get same teacher and kids he had before. I thought he will threw some horrible temper tantrum , but for my surprise he did not . Great going Gabriel.

AND I am living on a budget. I gave my husband all my credit cards and for return I got sertain amount cash, and now I have to live with that amount until january is over. I really needed to do something about my spending problem. Whenever I felt stressed I hit the stores and bought things I did not need. Of course I bought things I wanted but I did not NEED them. So now I can only buy things that I are NEEDED( food, food and more food). I hope it takes care of my spending problems. (WIsh me luck)

We did more cleaning today - this time we cleaned up drawers and organised our dvd/vhs/cd library/. We also are planning to clean up our closets. I have to threw away my FAT clothes. lol If I don't do that now, I have more reasons to eat , and before I know it I'll be back on size 22.( Yeap, 3,5 years ago that was my size ) Sounds fun ? huh?

Lazy me. :)

I am sorry for the lack on entries. . I have time but same time I dont. I have so much to do around the house and outside the house it is grazy. But it is really nice up here. Home sweeet home;)

We have been organizing and cleaning and messing up our house over and over again. Don't tell Regina and Gabriel, BUT we threw away about 5 garbage bags full of toys. I felt sad to threw some of the toys away but , they don't really play with most of the stuff anyway. I need space for new toys ;)

Regina is doing great. She keeps herself busy doing what she likes to do. Today she has been creating memories. She and Sija cut out pictures from old magazines and she clued them to her little book. Her apetite is getting greater and greater.m Her new favorite food is turkey sandwiches and Starbucks Sugar cookies. She also likes Wahoos kid bowls ( rice and beans ). She laughes more she is more active and she just loves being back home :)

Tomorrow I will take Gabriel back to preshool. He will pick up from where he left off :)

We are Home

Are you as exited as exited we are? Finally we are home. Home sweet Home.
Our flight was pretty good. Looong but good. No bumpy weather. Everything went really smooth. We did had to change our planes once, In Minneapolis. But no big deal. We had our tickets, and Memphis flight was on time. J
I hate airports. They make me so emotional. All the commotion that is going on in them. Everybody is in a hurry, mean, mad. It is just one of those places that causes stress. We did have little incident in Memphis airport. Everybody who knows me well enough , knows that my suitcases are always extra heavy. And most of the time I have been pretty lucky and avoided those 25 dollar fees , if bags are over 50 lbs. Well, today my bag weighed 67 lbs. ( 2 Reginas). They told me that they can do nothing about it and I have to pay that 25 dollar fee. Of course prior entering the airport I was in such a good mood because finally I am feeling soo light that I can go home. And let me also mention that I ONLY had one suitcase. If I had 2 suitcases weighing 30 lbs each there would not have been a problem at all. But since I crammed everything into one suitcase , big deal was made out of it. Finally they called St Jude and problem was taken care off. But of course my mood was ruined and I was in tears. ( airports tend to make me cry. I cry in every airport I enter)
Regina did really well during both flights. She ate a lot. She was snacking during both flights and even ate bunless turkey sandwich( that’s what she calls it) hehe .

Now I have to start organizing my house. Somebody wants to come and help me out.? Huh? One of the promises I made for new years was to get rid of all the junk( that I don’t need) , but I am packrat. I have to keep everything. And saying everything I mean EVERYTHING. I am trying to brake that bad habit and make my house clutter free. With that I hope I also reduce stress. And most importantly, If house is nice, clean and organized , I will know where everything is and I don’t have to worry about looking for stuff to the places where it is not.J So , send me some organizing vibes, or come and help me. ;)

My crew made home before me. They got home on Friday around 3 pm. So , Nick picked us up from airport and brought me beautfiul red tulips( I love tulips).
Right now it is 7.02 am in CA. Sun is shining, view from my vindow is so relaxing and peacful and everything is green. I love my home and family :)

Regina was ready to sleep alone in her room. She did not wake up once during the night. :) That's called growing up ( i guess ;)

AND- i kept one of my mini promises. When people asked me what is the first thing I do when I get home , I told them I take bath and light the candles I did it. I have to mention that My husband made bath ready for me :) OH, It felt sooo relaxing and wonderful. You have no Idea how much I missed taking bubble baths :)

"Gabes Corner" . My poor child. He is surraunded my suitcases . I guess when he grows up he will always travel "light". lol

By-By see you in CA

We are family. Here we are all together in front of Target House.

Last preparations...

Nick , Sija And Gabriel left to Ca this morning. Now it is only Me and Regina. :) I am doing my last packing and trying to fit all the stuff that is left here to one suitcase. lol I think I can do it. Regina is also packing her suitcase. She has packed and unpacked at least 10 times allready. lol. She is really, really exited to go back home and meet his old friends again. But so am I. I really want to go home and clean my house. I have not cleaned for 4 months, Sija( my sis) did all the cleaning here. :) She is cleaning maniac, she loves to clean (Just like my mom). I am more of a messmaker. I guess that is a nice balance ;)

I payed a quick visit to hospital today. I had to pick up letter that I will give Reginas doctor in CA, and I also got a CD with Latest MRI. I preffered to have the first MRI( where tumor was present), but I guess Valerie was to busy and forgot;). That is ok. I can always go back and ask for it. :o) Yes, her brain looks nice and clean :)

OK. Today is my last day online. If you want to reach me tomorrow please call me (949) 290 6958 .

I want to thank you all for being part of Reginas story. I will continue to write as often I get a chance. Don't forget to check for updates.

I know lot of you are checkin up on us. Please leave us a not that you where here spying on us. ;) We love hearing from you :)

U P D A T E

I happily announce that we fit all our stuff to our car. yeah. Car is fully packed. I am really glad that I don't have to ride back to ca.lol

Me and nick Went to Texas De Brazil ( restaurant) to have dinner. Food was amazing as always the best in Memphis( brazilian barbeque). Of course I had to eat tooo much, but it was worth it. Parmesan Chicken- the best
Bacon wrapped fillet Mignon- it just melted in my mouth- these were my favorites. But they serve around 15 different meats, and servers sircle from table to table to offer fresh meats whenever you are ready to eat.

Then they have salad/ cold bar. My favorite from there are smoked salmon, marinated jalapeno peppers with carlic, asparagus with strawberry vinnegrete, tomatoes with pesto sauce, sundried tomatoes, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, ... lets just say. I LIKE IT ALL. If you are not meat lover, you will be after visiting this place. MEAT just melts in your mouth- thats how good it is. :)

Nick went back to hotel and sija is out having some midnight fun ;) It is just me my kids and suitcases :D

Find Regina ;O)

One, two, Three and Here goes WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Line came out really well, Even the little clamp, that in many cases stays into vein , came out. :)

I remove dressing from Reginas line before Line " Remover" will do her magic. :)

One, two , three- AND PULLLLLLL.

Today was eventful day for us. Reginas line got pulled. She was such a big girl about it. Nurse came in, I removed dressing from line, nurse but on her blue clowes, counted to three and voilaa- out it was. It took only about 2 seconds and her line was out. She did tear up a little but did not start screaming or crying. I was amazed how well she did. She had to stay still for 10 minutes and then we left the hospital :) I have her line with me, it is in plastic bag.. I told Nick that I will frame it and hang it on Dining room wall. lololol

Regina is feeling really well now. She is really exited to go home. :O) I guess we all are.

Now I have to make sure she stayes dry for 2 days, and in 7 days she can take baths allready. :) SHe havent had a bath for 6 months. Don't get me wrong, she is all clean, besides baths there are other options keeping your kids clean ;)

Monday

I am counting days. I am. Today my dear husband will arrive and take my car back to CA. Sija and Gabriel will travel with him- GOOD LUCK. They will need that. Gabriel is little chatterbox and will keep them entertained during the trip. lololol

On Sunday( we are not here anymore), Goulds will come to Target house and bring full spa with them. moms will get massages, facials, haircuts, I think even hair colored. And Target house moms don't have to pay anything for it. :) They all deserve this kind of treat once in a while. :)

All Regina does is talks about her Best friend heather. So does gabriel. They are even packing their bags so when we finally go back home they are ready to leave for a sleepower. lol They are too funny.

Sunday- nothing exiting

Carol- I have been thinking a lot about you. I hope snow does not block you going out and doing things you love doing. I wish I could send you some good weather vibes to NY, but weather here in memphis is C O L D and windy. I think I forgot to mention to you that Regina was very happy to receive packs from you. SHe has been coloring and drawing pics . Everybody is amazed how well she colors. I think she even colors better than me. :D

Today I went to Michaels graft store. I just love going there. Right now they are getting all the Valentines Day and St Patricks day stuff up. I love valentines day :D

Regina is doing ok. I think her cold is getting little worse because she tells me that she can not swollow food because it hurts. :( But she tries. :)

Most of my stuff is packed and ready to leave memphis. 5 more days. Oh man. Times goes by so slow now. lol I was surprised how fast these 5 months passed and now I can not wait until these final days pass by. Oh I am so unpatient.

Beth and Heather- Regina told me that she also is very exited to go back and meet Heather. She sayed that she will pack her suitcase and move to heathers place for a while. lol I guess that FOR A WHILE means sleepover. Trust me, Regina is ready to have some Girl fun. Only thing I am little worried is that She is Spoiled to rotten here, and has little attitude problems. I hope that HEather will teach her how to behave well and not argue about every little thing :D

FOOD IS GOOD

Tonigh was the night that The Pittmans cooked dinner in RMH. Oh man. Before I went there with kids I promised myself that I only eat a little. YEAH< RIGHT. You just can not eat little because food they make is just toooo good. Vegetable casserole, sweet potato dish, grilled chicken breast and legs, hamburgers, corn salad....... and more and more and more......
Before we started this whole ST JUDE experiense I was vegetarian. BUT , you just can not be vegetarian in MEMPHIS. At least not me. I have to experiense this whole new unhealty way of staying healthy. Do I make any sense now? lol

Anyway- food was excellent, desserts were good and kids behaved really well. I feel full and happy today.

Did you guys know that Memphis is unhealtiest city in USA and besides that , rated fourth fattest city in usa( meaning overweight ). And I so understand why it is like the way it is.

Regina taking a brake from walking. :)

I dream......

There is nothing much to report. We did not have to go to St Jude today. Instead we just went out and enjoyed good weather until both kids started acting up. ( about hour). Regina is doing pretty well. Her runny nose is getting more runny. I guess she has to be but back on some new antibiotics, because the ones she just finished are doing nothing to make her feel better.
Lot of the kids are down with colds and sinus problems so I think maybe Regina cought something from somebody in the hospital. Her apetite is still very weird. Things she liked yesterday make her sick today and things she liked today will make her gag tomorrow. She is off the TPN and now we have to really , really encourage her to eat as much as possible.

We are getting more and more exited about leaving to CA. First thing I will do is take a looooong bath and burn candles--- AND buy some fresh REAL flowers. I havent had a bath for 4,5 months. I so need one now!! I also have to get some baths salts- lavender, eucalypt, peppermint, lemon. And New candles of course and manicure, and pedicure. I am so ready to leave this place.
I don't mind living in Target house, but I miss all the things I used to do and I took for granted. Now everything I don't have here seems so much more luxorius.

OK. Here I go again talking about myself. But there is really nothing else to report. :)

Who's this girl ????

Just minutes before her MRI.

I am doing my Happy Chicken dance. :D:D:

First I want to apologize for not updating yesterday, but nothing interesting happened;)

Today I have the best news for you. REGINAS SCANS WERE CLEAN :D SPARKLING CLEAN. What a feeling. I feel like a mountan has lifted from my shoulders and I can finally breath:)

Regina is feeling great. She has been singing and dancing . She had lumbar puncture done, but after anestesia wore off , she was up and playing. She is very exited about us going home and her feeling better and better every day :) YEAh, that's my girl.


AND--------- I finally got my wish. On Tuesday Reginas line will be removed. YES. I was so scared to bring up the subject today. I knew what the answer was going to be. NO. But after I explained him and valerie why line has to be removed, they both agreed and on Tuesday Regina is going to be freeeeee. :))))) I am so happy with Reginas progress.

Thanks to Dr Gajjar and his dedicated staff and research plan, to B clinic , Regina is here with us and Ready to take next big step in this wonderful life. I am speachless. Speachless in a good way :)