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Just another day in the Driggers’ Household…

September 10, 2012 by Kat 1 Comment

Hi everybody!  Long time no see, right?  I don’t have a special reason for blogging today, I just had a few minutes (well I TOOK a few minutes) and thought I’d say hello and let you all know I’m still around.

Life here is good, could be worse, could be better but that’s the way it goes right?  On the good news front, Tyler is doing well in school so far (it’s his 4th day LOL) and Justin has a huge milestone to celebrate.  He is SEVEN months clean and sober!  Woot Woot!  Way to go Justin!  I am so proud of him and so grateful to God for giving him a second chance since we almost lost him last January.  Those of you who follow my blog or YouTube channel will remember how horrible that was and how far he has come!  I give all the glory to God (and a great deal of thanks to my parents for getting him on the suboxone program that helped him get sober!). Your continued prayers are invited and appreciated because I really do think that makes a difference!  He has a long road ahead of him but at least he’s on the right road now!

As far as me, I’ve been really busy with the new store for Kat Scrappiness (Scrapbooking Superstore) and have been battling some health problems (secretly until now).  The chronic pain and fatigue I deal with on a daily basis is just too much sometimes and depression starts to set in.   You know the saying, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired”… well, that’s how I feel.  There is SO MUCH I want to do and some days it is just way too much for me.  But since there is nothing I can do about it, I pray and hope for a better day tomorrow.  What else can I do right

My granddad just celebrated the one year anniversary of when he and my new step-grand mom met.  They’ve been married for several months now but they celebrate everything because they are so in love and happy.  I’ve never seen two people more in love.  Sometimes it bothers me just a little bit because I think of my grand mom and miss her (and seeing my grand mom and granddad together),  but then I realize that she would probably be happy to see him so happy.  And heck, he deserves it.  That man is a treasure to all that meet him!  He just had some more skin cancers removed from his face but other than that he’s doing pretty well.

My mom is now taking medication for her newly diagnosed Parkinson’s disease.  She hasn’t noticed any changes yet, most of the good changes she noticed came from when she stopped taking a medication called Seroquel which she took as a sleeping aid for quite some time.  Some of the side effects of Seroquel can mimic or make Parkinson’s symptoms worse and that’s what happened with her.  Once she stopped taking it, several of her issues got better.  Her biggest problems now are that she can no longer write (her writing is so tiny that nobody can read it), and her balance and small steps.  She sometimes tells her legs to go and her knees listen but her feet stick to the ground, we laugh about it when we can cause her little knees will be moving but her feet won’t go.  We laugh to keep from crying sometimes, I think…

Abby is doing just fine, just being a happy, silly BIG dog.  She goes for her bath in a couple of days and I can’t wait!  She’s so much fun to pet and snuggle with when she’s clean.  When she’s not, you have to fight her off because she ALWAYS wants to be loved and petted LOL   Since Ginger’s passing, Abby has made my bed, her bed.  At first I didn’t have the heart to tell her to get down because she was so sad without Ginger but now she’s used to it (she is laying stretched out across the width of my bed on her back with her tummy and feet in the air as I type this LOL) and I worry because when the rain starts for the winter, I will have 140 pounds of wet, muddy fur on my bed all the time and I don’t know how to teach her to stay off the bed when she’s wet because she doesn’t know wet from dry LOL  Anyone have any suggestions?

I haven’t done a lot with my embellishment business lately because my scrapbooking store has pretty much taken over every minute of every day since I started it.  I really miss it though so I’m going to try to find a way to do them both.  I really need to have a creative outlet on a regular basis.  It really seems to make a difference in my life when I stop creating things.

Well speaking of the scrapbooking store, I have to get back to work, I’ve got two huge boxes of goodies that came in today and I need to go unpack, inventory and repackage them up to ship out!  Thanks for stopping by today and thank you for subscribing to my blog.  I really am going to make an effort to update it more often 🙂  Hopefully, I’ll be able to post more scrapbooking stuff soon!  In the meantime, if you ever want to know what’s going on or what’s new with Kat Scrappiness, visit our blog.  I update that almost daily!

Have a good week everyone!

 

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  1. Kimmer (Momma Rock) says

    September 23, 2012 at 10:20 am

    Howdy, I found you via Creating the Crafty Life website. I found out I already am a subscriber to your You Tube channel. What a small world!
    I will now add you to my blog roll.
    Take care ‘n see ya ’round!
    ~~~momma rock

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