introduction

[Guest guest]

Hello all, I am Spilios from Ohio. Here’s my intro:

(This is for Tim)

I married my husband at 19 (what was I thinking?-Yes, I was one hot

chick-could you blame my hubby?) anyway we had our first baby when I was 22

which is Myah, who has DS. She just turned 4 on Tuesday. She was born with

ASD, VSD and PDA, which all resolved on their own with no surgery. She had

duodenal atresia which required a repair at 1 day old. She came home from

the hospital at 6 days old. She had an incisional hernia from that surgery.

She has had 4 sets of ear tubes, T & A removed, bronchoscopy, and just last

month her tear ducts opened. Well, with all of that said she is pretty

healthy and fairs pretty well. She goes to MRDD school 4 days a week all day

and on Wednesday (her day off school) goes to horse-back riding lessons. She

recently conquered potty training and is moving along quite well with her

speech.

In September we had our second child, Shianne. She is beautiful (how could

she not be?lol) and has a wonderful personality. We laugh because she is

smaller than Myah was and has these little stumpy short legs like Myah was

supposed to have, but did not get. Lol She went to the doc for a cough and

fever on Monday and we are happy to announce that she made it onto the

growth chart. Lol This is not surprising because my dad is part leprechaun

and the whole fam damily is really small.

I work at a medical billing company as a client representative which means

that I meet with doctors and explain to them why they are not making the

money they desire and how to make more. Lol Upon my return back to work on

Monday (after my 4 month maternity leave) I am supposed to have a job change

to director of client relations. We’ll see how that goes…lol

My hubby works at a health insurance company and is in school for Microsoft

Networking. We are in the process of buying land and building a house. We

are trying to improve our current house as much as possible for a higher

selling price. This meant that the day after Christmas we sanded and

refinished our wood floors which cover the entire downstairs. To do this we

left the kids at my moms on Christmas, went home, took the tree down along

with all the decorations, and packed everything else into the kitchen. The

first day my husband and a friend worked 16 hours and probably 12 the second

day. Then the next day I spent 16 hours cleaning up the 4 inches of sawdust

there was on everything including all the walls. The brilliant men didn’t

block off the doorway into the kitchen which meant the stuff we moved into

the kitchen for a safe-haven was covered w/dust. The other brilliant

man-minded thing was to pile the saw dust right outside the door on the

driveway. This was quite convenient for the visitors walking up the drive to

Myah’s b-day party. Lol When I asked what they were thinking I got a blank

stare-imagine that.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas. Remember to pray for those who were

victims of the Tsunami.