Thirty something...not twenty something

Last Saturday one of my friends and I flew to Houston to see the final show of the Nickelback US tour. I was beyond excited as DD and I saw them earlier this year and they put on a show that was AWESOME!
We got to the hotel and opted to take the shuttle from the hotel to the concert, which turned out to be a good thing! Anyways, we get to the concert, get our garb (no pink nickelback thongs for these girls!) and head to our seats. My friend and I really get along well, we laughed the entire night. We were amazed by many things, we could've spent the entire night people watching and that would've been some good entertainment. So, after we get seated, these two REALLY young teenagers take their seats right next to me. The one next to me, turns to me and says, "Ma'am, how much did you pay for your tickets?" I nearly cried, I'm not ready to be ma'am....
We had so much fun! It was incredibly loud and my ears rang for 2 days...Saving Abel was pretty good...I wasn't too sure I was going to like Papa Roach, they started really hard and scary, but by the end (could've been some help from other things, too!), they were rocking it! Hinder was good. Austin (the lead singer) thinks he's hotter than he is, but that's ok! My boys from Nickelback rocked it! It was so much fun! Chad Kroeger is amazing! He was having so much fun! The guys even played "Friends in Low Places", it was so funny! But, by the end of the show, Chad was quite inebriated...coulda been all the Grey Goose and shots of Jagermeister...maybe?? I'm smitten with the drummer...Daniel Adair....woah...he's got it going on...in lots of ways...It could be said that I have a thing for rockers, although, I'm pretty sure I couldn't keep up with that lifestyle...not that I'd trade, I'm just sayin'.....
So, it literally took me 3 days to recover, not nearly as young and vibrant as I used to be... Back in the day, I could handle a concert on a school night and still get up and go to work the next day. Now, I need extra days to recover from a weekend concert, that's no fun!




Here are a few pictures...not so fabulous...but a good time anyway!

Not What I Was Hoping For...

As I am typing this, my sweet baby girl is sitting on my lap, having her second breathing treatment of the day. When we went to the pulmonologist last Monday, Sweet Pea had picked up cough and congestion that Turkey Butt brought home from school (BTW, he now has a full blown sinus infection). After lengthy discussions regarding her health right now, the fact that she is always on the verge of being sick when this is one of the most healthy times for MOST people, her health a month ago (an ear infection), and coming to the conclusion that she is her best when she has had a full course of antibiotics, it has been determined that we will be doing preventative antibiotic therapy from now until the end of the cold and flu season. This is really not the news that I thought we were going to hear, but it truly makes sense. Even though her immunity is better, her IgA levels (this is her first line of defense, the secretions in her nose and saliva that are supposed to fight off infections) are low. So, she still manages to come down with bacterial infections and spends most of the time on the fine line of being sick and well, but NEVER completely well. So, we started a full round of Zithromax to get her over her current infection and we will do breathing treatments 3 times daily until she has been symptom free for a week (which will be until next Friday). After that, we'll have to continue with Zithromax 3 times a week and breathing treatments 2 times a day until we make it through the winter sickness season. I am very nervous about all of this...I am worried about her building a resistance to antibiotics and the digestive issues that come from constantly being on antibiotics. Not to mention the fact that she has spent the last 4 months of her life inhaling Xopenex and Pulmicort on a regular basis...I just pray that this is the route we are meant to take and that the side-effects (both short term and long term) will be minimal. We've really tried to minimize her exposure to places where she could be exposed to germs. We don't go to church, we don't take her to the gym. I wipe everything down with antibacterial wipes before she uses things like highchairs and shopping carts. I don't know what else to do.
So, this is where we stand for now, praying that this is the route to take to keep my baby girl well....