well the actual move is done now it is time to settle in. unpacking is the worst part, where to put things how we want things to look all that stuff. I have owned the house we moved into since 1999. we tried to sell it for the last 2 years unsuccessfully, the last 2 were for contract for deed. so I have a rough idea of where things fit and look right but it isnt helping much. I was amazed that Samantha remembered this house even though it looks different than the last time she was in it. she remembered where her bedroom was and the bathroom. She said she like this house better because now she can be a "skating ballerina princess" it has all hardwood floors which are great for sliding around on in your socks. Bubba Jo is in the exploring stage, but he seams to like that all his trucks go much farther in the floor than in the old house. Jericho sounds like about 20 tap dancers now live with us (toenails on hardwood). it is growing on Julie, she brought me about 20 paint swatches and many suggestions on what would look best. It is about 3 blocks away from Kim the kids mom so that makes things nice. the only down fall is that it is farther away from work. but i think that is a small price to pay if everything else fit well. and their are 2 guys i work with here in Gillespie so we have started a car pool. all in all things are going well and the mountain of boxes is shrinking. Bless all of you
Mic
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
5 jobs 2 people
Yes i know that is a weird title but i will explain. Julie and I were talking about our lives at this moment and where they are going. The 2 people are Julie and myself she has me beat she currently has 3, BJ's Salon in Springfield, Cracker Barrel, and she also does her hair thing for about 10 people per week hear in town. I only have 2 I am an Insurance agent, and starting Thursday of this week I am starting at Wright automotive in Hillsboro. While doing this their are the kid, the rest of life, and remembering what each other look like without having to look at a picture to remember. Now here is why we are doing this, Because we made poor decisions in the past and now have to pay for it. Thankfully we pulled our heads out of our nether regions before things were really bad. So instead of dragging that debt with us for the rest of our lives costing us much much more we have decided to bite the bullet now and get everything paid off and move on smarter people. As our talk continued we put together a set of goals first to free Julie from having to do anything but hair. after that we will make decisions on what the next chapter of our lives has to hold. So if anyone wants or needs a hair cut, waited on, a car, or insurance just let Julie or I know. Thankfully the Lord has blessed us with the ability to do all of this and also be involved in church functions, spend time with friends and family and keep our sanity. It shows me how big God is and what an amazing time manager he is. God works with all his children in all the world and still has time to talk to just me and never complains. WOW that is huge. Thanks for listening. Bless you all
Mic
Mic
Monday, March 17, 2008
crazy week
We are in for a crazy week and me being an absolute procrastinator just is not going to work this time. We are moving back to Gillespie, I am starting a second job, Easter, Julie working 2 jobs , the kids wow lot of stuff. By the grace of god and Julie's meticulous planning it will all go of without a hitch. Just pray for us to have patients with each other and follow our plan. have a great night all.
Mic
Mic
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Giving
Today I got a phone call from Julie. It was the normal call we have everyday, what does your day look like? She says she and Ashley are going to give blood today, Julie has never given before. I said you know what i have not given in a while I should go with you. That was one of those decisions that 30 sec later your like why did i just do that. well no backing out now right, I know giving blood is important and it is something that i have done many times. But I hate it and would rather not but if i were in a situation where i needed blood the i hope someone gave lately. That is the only reason that gets me through it. so we arrived, get checked in, and have a seat. Ashley gets called first (she was the one with the idea to donate in the first place) then Julie. Ashley walks out from the little curtain and says nope not today iron to low. next they call me in I have a great conversation with a very nice volunteer everything checks out and we are off to the chair. I pass Julie as i go to my selected spot sit down and look over and she don't look to good, they get her stuck and start the draw. Then her machine starts beeping, and beeping. meanwhile i get put through the same process. I hate getting stuck even if it is for a good cause. as i sit and listen to Julie's machine beeping and watching people go over and attend to her they finally make the decision to pull it. She gave half a bag. next time i look over they have her laied down flat asking if she is ok. (i kinda giggle after i know she is ok) So now i am thinking the person who brought up the idea didn't get stuck at all the one who conned me into it only filled half a bag and here i am with a needle in my arm. So they pull mine out cover the gaping hole in my arm (i know i am exaggerating) and take my donation to the people by the coolers. now this has never happened to me before but things started getting hot, i start sweating, little stars are flashing in front of my eyes. ohh yeah I was going down, but of course i wasn't going to interrupt the volunteers to say anything i could just wait it out. well needless to say the look on the lady's face when she turned around told me i didn't need to say much she knew what was happening. "do you feel alright" my answer "nope" so next came the whole lying down cold rags you know the drill. all in all it was an eventful experience, everyone is just fine, and i am glad i gave. hopefully next time i wont see stars as a reward.
Bless all of you
Mic
Bless all of you
Mic
Monday, March 10, 2008
The Flu
The flu has struck the Jensen home in full force. I know it is not funny but it is almost adorable, Sam will not travel anywhere with out her "puke bowl". She is carrying it from room to room and when she walks 5 feet from it she has to announce to everyone "ohh ohh wait i forgot my puke bowl". As for Bubba Jo the only warning we receive from him before the fun starts is he franticly signs all done which for him is the waiving of his hands in front of him which makes it difficult to "catch" what happens next. The only good thing about both of them being sick is they both turn in to daddy snugglers and cuddlers. Sick or not thats one of my favorite parts of being a dad. Just a quick question why ohh why as parents do we insist on catching with our bare hands what ever comes out of our children, knowing what is coming is bad very bad.
Sleep tight all, Bless all of you
Mic
Sleep tight all, Bless all of you
Mic
Friday, March 7, 2008
A Frustrating Week with a hopefull ending.
This week was a very frustrating week for the Jensen family. It was filled with a few more doctor appts. for Bubba Jo. First one was on Monday in Springfield and was one of the most frustrating Doctor visits we have ever had. It was with a Developmental ped. It started out as any other, the normal questions we have grown use to. Next a half hour of play evaluation session which is controlled play for him. It is a way to evaluate his abilities to do simple tasks, the tasks get increasingly harder and more tedious. Well for Bub sadly this is old hat for him because of all the times he has been asked to do them. His fine motor skills are very good he his gross motor not so much and his speech has not improved much. So now Kimberly ( the kids mom ) and i are waiting for the worst part of the whole process and that is the results of the evaluation.
The frustration with the doctor started instantly for me, Her first comment was "in my field i like to be wrong" and i thought WHAT? where is this going. then the bomb hit, Bubba has the diagnosis of sever mental retardation. Then she proceeded to tell us how he would never communicate eather with speech or with sign. Then i thought in my head wait he already does sign not much but he does (more frustration) . Next she explained that how he is walking is the not going to get better for the rest of his life. inside my head agin i went WAIT he has only been walking for 3 months, and has progressed very quickly in that area. (even more frustration). At this point I am having a very hard time comprehending anything that is coming out of this doctors mouth due my temper being gone! Kimberly was a wreck trying to wrap her head around all of it. all we want to do is just get out of their. and the kicker is the ending She said "I was so impressed at his ability to do the tasks he was asked to do most kids his age i see cant do them". THEN WHY DID I HAVE TO JUST SIT HERE AND LISTEN TO EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID AND HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH YOUR DIAGNOSIS???? At this point i was done i couldn't think i couldn't talk i was just plain mad. she ended with "I'm sorry you are having to deal with a child like this" I flat out flipped out and said what? Kim knew this was bad. Kim looked at me and said "think of you son and your god". Man that woman has learned how to stop me in my tracks. I turned and looked at the doctor who looked a little scared at this point and said " i am not sorry I was blessed with this child and i could not be more proud of him and his accomplishments". she tried to say something but Kim stopped her and said I believe this conversation is over we will show ourselves out.
The long car ride home was ended well Kim and i prayed the min. we were settled in the car and then we started talking about the whole diagnosis. The diagnosis is not what bothers us it is the fact that we are expected to just stop trying and just live with what we have. Our family is not capable of doing that we have to keep trying new thing and do what is best. So when we got back to town we decided to just table that doc appt and move on to the next. we had another appt scheduled with another developmental ped in st louis for Wednesday.
On Wednesday we headed to cardinal glenon hospital but someone missed something and the appt was canceled so we rescheduled for Friday. This was not a big deal , we have been through many appts. at Cardinal and never once had a problem they were great about it . so no big deal Kim the kids and i went to lunch instead.
Friday back at Cardinal Glenon pretty much the same process with the tasks and the questions so then again sitting at a table across from 3 doctors starting to discus Bubba Jo. Again the diagnosis of MR but here is where things differed greatly from the expierance on Monday. they explained why. and here is why if Bub was to take an IQ test now he would score below 70 on the test which puts him in the MR range, the reason is that their are language, speech and comprehension questions on the IQ test which he can not do. OK now we are getting some where They told us that he is progressing very quickly in his walking seeing that he only started less than 3 months ago (in my head YEAH BUBBA!) they talked about how good his fine motor skills are (hooray for Bubba). And how great his social skills (YES BUBBA THE MAN) are and if any of you have ever meet my babies you know that they are social butterflies. They explained how they feel that he need more therapy in pt and speech. They gave us resources on who to talk to to get these in place. The more we talked to them the more I realized that the diagnosis of MR is a blessing because prior to a diagnosis he did not qualify for alot of programs and services. now he does Praise God.and they want to see us back in 6 months to evaluate and to give us more info on what direction to go. So to sum it up the week started out really bad and ended with a ton of hope and a direction we can go in. Praise God for that because that was exactly what we have been praying for. And let me just say that God made Bubba the amazing little guy he is for a reason and i will never question that I am very thankful that the Lord has blessed me with the 2 children he has. i am proud of them in every way and am very excited in what God has in store for this family. sorry it is so long but just had to vent.
The frustration with the doctor started instantly for me, Her first comment was "in my field i like to be wrong" and i thought WHAT? where is this going. then the bomb hit, Bubba has the diagnosis of sever mental retardation. Then she proceeded to tell us how he would never communicate eather with speech or with sign. Then i thought in my head wait he already does sign not much but he does (more frustration) . Next she explained that how he is walking is the not going to get better for the rest of his life. inside my head agin i went WAIT he has only been walking for 3 months, and has progressed very quickly in that area. (even more frustration). At this point I am having a very hard time comprehending anything that is coming out of this doctors mouth due my temper being gone! Kimberly was a wreck trying to wrap her head around all of it. all we want to do is just get out of their. and the kicker is the ending She said "I was so impressed at his ability to do the tasks he was asked to do most kids his age i see cant do them". THEN WHY DID I HAVE TO JUST SIT HERE AND LISTEN TO EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID AND HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH YOUR DIAGNOSIS???? At this point i was done i couldn't think i couldn't talk i was just plain mad. she ended with "I'm sorry you are having to deal with a child like this" I flat out flipped out and said what? Kim knew this was bad. Kim looked at me and said "think of you son and your god". Man that woman has learned how to stop me in my tracks. I turned and looked at the doctor who looked a little scared at this point and said " i am not sorry I was blessed with this child and i could not be more proud of him and his accomplishments". she tried to say something but Kim stopped her and said I believe this conversation is over we will show ourselves out.
The long car ride home was ended well Kim and i prayed the min. we were settled in the car and then we started talking about the whole diagnosis. The diagnosis is not what bothers us it is the fact that we are expected to just stop trying and just live with what we have. Our family is not capable of doing that we have to keep trying new thing and do what is best. So when we got back to town we decided to just table that doc appt and move on to the next. we had another appt scheduled with another developmental ped in st louis for Wednesday.
On Wednesday we headed to cardinal glenon hospital but someone missed something and the appt was canceled so we rescheduled for Friday. This was not a big deal , we have been through many appts. at Cardinal and never once had a problem they were great about it . so no big deal Kim the kids and i went to lunch instead.
Friday back at Cardinal Glenon pretty much the same process with the tasks and the questions so then again sitting at a table across from 3 doctors starting to discus Bubba Jo. Again the diagnosis of MR but here is where things differed greatly from the expierance on Monday. they explained why. and here is why if Bub was to take an IQ test now he would score below 70 on the test which puts him in the MR range, the reason is that their are language, speech and comprehension questions on the IQ test which he can not do. OK now we are getting some where They told us that he is progressing very quickly in his walking seeing that he only started less than 3 months ago (in my head YEAH BUBBA!) they talked about how good his fine motor skills are (hooray for Bubba). And how great his social skills (YES BUBBA THE MAN) are and if any of you have ever meet my babies you know that they are social butterflies. They explained how they feel that he need more therapy in pt and speech. They gave us resources on who to talk to to get these in place. The more we talked to them the more I realized that the diagnosis of MR is a blessing because prior to a diagnosis he did not qualify for alot of programs and services. now he does Praise God.and they want to see us back in 6 months to evaluate and to give us more info on what direction to go. So to sum it up the week started out really bad and ended with a ton of hope and a direction we can go in. Praise God for that because that was exactly what we have been praying for. And let me just say that God made Bubba the amazing little guy he is for a reason and i will never question that I am very thankful that the Lord has blessed me with the 2 children he has. i am proud of them in every way and am very excited in what God has in store for this family. sorry it is so long but just had to vent.
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