RE: Kate's Saturday

[Guest guest]

Kate,

I smiled when I read about how your 4 kids

go through 2 gallons a milk a week. It brought memories of when all 4 of mine

stilled lived at home. We went through 8 gallons a week. I am so glad it was

only $2 a gallon then not the $4 it is now. Having three teenage boys at once

can really wipe out the food budget J

Connie

From: MSersLife [mailto:MSersLife ] On Behalf Of Kate Rothschild

Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007

10:49 AM

To: MSersLife

Subject: Re: Saturday at

Pegi's; a response, and Kate's Sat.

Pegi...wow, this is some email! I love that you have

a sunroom/gym. I've been wanting to add one of those on as well. I originally

wanted an Endless Pool--do you know what those are? Now that my town has built

a huge pool, I could keep the cost down by just having a Four Seasons sunroom,

and making it smaller than the original idea. Did you have your sunroom built

on, or was it part of your house? I have a recumbent exercise bike, as well as

a really good Landice treadmill. I have handweights and a yoga mat as well. My

dream is to add on a 12 x 15' sunroom, so I can get the recumbent out of my

Family room, and the huge treadmill out of my living room! It would be awesome

to have a room as an exercise room!

I'm being a bit of a slug getting my day

started; slept til 9am! I'm not feeling terrific, and am having a fair amount

of eye pain, coupled with bladder junk and vertigo stuff...My kids and I are

going to head down to the Farmer's Market and see what sorts of fresh local

veggies and fruit they might have. Later, we are going to go on about a 7 mile

bike ride with my sister to go to another fruit/veggie stand.

Have you had times when you've needed a scooter? I

think it's great your parents know about your MS--my parents don't know. They are

83 and 84, and live in Assisted living down in PA. My mom gets too stressed

with bad news, so my sis and I decided not to tell.

I worry about your feeling that you need to get to

work to help with finances. I am in the same boat, but thankfully have awesome

insurance that picks up most everything. But with 4 kids still at home--we used

to go through a gallon of milk in about a week or 10 days--now we go through 2

gallons in a week. They are growing; eating more; needing clothes of course,

etc. I feel I'm not pulling my weight at all in terms of bringing in money.

Right now, it is only $45 for 3 hours I do for a Bible class for 2 and 3 yr

olds at my church once a wk. It helps a bit with groceries, but not a whole

lot!

I hope the rest of your day is well...I need to get

going with mine! love, kate Saturday

at Pegi's

Last night I had some

sort of beginning of a cramp, but dh laid hands on me and I prayed too and it

went away. It took a long time to fall back asleep and of course I lay

awake thinking and crying about all this 'stuff'. It is so hard to

control your mind, isn't it?

After we got up and

read the paper we went bike riding, there were yard sales out like dandelions

in the spring. Hubby bought me an elliptical trainer for $20! It is

in our sunroom/gym right now. Also my scooter is being delivered from the

family that borrowed it. A young man with Fredrick's Ataxia used it for a

while, but it is just too big for his home right now, so he is giving it back.

It will sit in the sunroom waiting for the day I may need it. My mom paid

$3000+ for the thing so I am glad to have it if I ever should need it.

is off at work.

He started his part-time job of delivering pizzas today. He also works

full-time and does part-time ministry/computer work so he really had three

paying jobs now. had a friend over and there will be another one

coming later this afternoon. So she is in girlfriend heaven. ANYONE who

says homeschooled kids are not 'socialized' never actually met a homeschooled

kid I do believe.

I called about working

as a caregiver part-time from a couple at church that are starting a homecare

business. He said he was just wondering if he should call me or not.

I told him I was stronger now and ready to go, so in a couple of weeks he said

he should have his business up and running. I hope it all pans out so I

can help pay for some of the massive medical bills we are having. I have

had over $40,000 in MRIs over the past seven weeks alone, not to mention all

the labs, x-rays, three doctors, lumbar puncture and other assorted things that

have happened. I am trying to 'just believe' and put things on the

shelf and just take one day/moment/minute at a time and thank God that I am

still able to walk/see/take care of myself.

Hope you all are

having wonderful days!

Love, Pegi

When your enemy is

staying up all night plotting your destruction, remember your King never

sleeps.

Tommy Tenney