My big girl!

The Little One started Pre-K this past week, and I am so very thankful that she loves it! She was very nervous on the first day (as you can see from the pics) but she did great, and went in like a big girl! I took her to her class and she hung up her bookbag, walked in and said "Bye Mommy, Love you, see you soon" and that was it! I was more upset than she was, I think, but I adjusted well also and am so glad she has kids her age (and especially little girls) to play with. She seemed to enjoy it the first week and only had minor little spells of not wanting to go or not thinking it was fun.
The work she is bringing home is great, and she told my Dad when he asked if her work was hard at school "Uh, G-Daddy, you know it's just Pre-K!" like she is somehow above that level. That girl is so crazy & keeps us laughing all the time!
Here are some pics of my baby girl on the first day of school. I am honestly still trying to figure out how this day came so quickly. It seems like just yesterday she was a little baby and now she's almost 5...Wow! Time flies! :'-(

Can't you tell how nervous she was?

She is starting to look like such a "big girl" now and not my baby anymore!

You didn't think she would skip the diva pose, did you?

Walking in to her school!

Thank you Lord for a wonderful first week at school, I'm praying for many more!

Surgery Schmurgery!

This is going to be my new attitude...the doctor tells me they need to do surgery, I say "Sure, why not? It's what I do!"
I believe I mentioned a while back that the "girl doctor" found a really large cyst on one of my ovaries and decided it was imperative it be removed. Well, the ultrasound and CT Scan (that I got the bill for today...dear lord help me!) were about 3 weeks ago but the doctors seemed to think that I would know for certain if it burst on it's own because of it's size and I would be in massive pain.
Since that didn't happen, the surgery was continued last Monday. The Friday before was the pre-op appointments, and I was thinking it was a minor, no big deal surgery and then they started explaining that I could lose one or both of my ovaries when the cysts were removed if it was too difficult to cut around, or if they had attached to anything else, etc. I left thinking "Oh crap, what have I agreed to?"
Oh, let me not forget to tell you about the "bowel prep" I had to do before surgery all day Sunday which consisted of only clear liquids to drink and hard candy all day and then a bottle of Magnesium Citrate (major laxative action) in the evening...let's just say that was NOT a fun day. Period!
Anyway, Monday morning came and I went in for surgery. I had to wait for.e.ver. for the surgeon and I honestly thought my stomach was going to eat itself before they finally took me back at 12:45ish. After the surgery and I came to I asked my Mom how bad it was, just holding my breath for her to not say they took both my ovaries. She hesitantly tells me that the cysts seemed to have dissolved, everything looked completely normal!
I am SO incredibly thankful for that, don't get me wrong, things could've been SO very ugly, but I do wish the surgery wouldn't have happened. Well, now I have 2 new scars to add to my 'collection' I'm starting to look like a bad dissection job of a science experiment!
Anyway, the healing has been a little un-fun, but I know it would've been a lot worse if there was internal 'cutting' involved. Maybe, just maybe I won't have to do any more of that for a long time. Anesthesia takes weeks to get out of my system...or maybe that's just my excuse for being exhaustedly tired all the time!