SMACK!

You know those V-8 commercials where someone smacks you on the forehead & reminds you that you could have had a V-8? Well, that would be me, about 9:30 this morning checking out at the market WITHOUT MY NEW REUSABLE BAGS. Dang it, change is hard! So, I COULD have helped save the world, but instead went home with another 8 plastic sacks. I feel like I should 'fess up to this seeing as how I was all high and mighty about it in my last post! So, we'll try again the next time. I'm determined to make this one small change!

Plastic Bags

This year on Earth Day the Whole Foods stores will stop using plastic bags altogether. Plastic sacks kill animals because when they eat them it messes them up badly, bags clog waterways, and may take up to 1000 years to break down. Imagine if every plastic bag you get you just piled into your child's crib, because that's pretty much what we are all doing, leaving our kids a world full of trash. This isn't just tree hugger whining, go ahead, do a few google searches and see for yourself. More than anything else they are just plain wasteful and unnecessary. If you are able to travel to Europe you will see that people often have sacks or little wheeled baskets that they take to the market, clearly it is just a matter of getting used to the idea and making a committment to change. So, I went ahead and bought ten reusable bags (only 99 cents each). If nothing else I can set a better example for my own children. I'm blogging here, not to toot my own horn, but so that I can be held accountable for my intentions.

Update on my tooth

For those of you with any interest in the saga of my oral surgery I thought I'd give an update on today's appointment. Just to summarize - my tooth was extracted in February and I was given a bone graft and a membrane was put in to keep the graft in place and keep foreign matter out of it. Today the membrane was finally removed and Dr. Jeffries stated that the bone graft has taken nicely, he said my healing was "ideal". Having the membrane out was only mildly horrific - they cut a slit and pull it out, rather like pulling a Kleenex from a box of tissue is how they described it. Anyway it isn't swollen but it does hurt and I'm back to eating mushy stuff for a while until the wound heals up. Happily, I have somewhat of a hiatus in procedures until late June when we will have x-rays taken to see how the jaw bone is doing. We are wanting it to be good and solid so that it can eventually hold the titanium screw. In case you are wondering, the bone graft was cadaverous bone and while he was removing the membrane the surgeon told me all about how cadaverous bone is harvested and prepared and how I shouldn't worry because people hardly ever get AIDS or hepatitis from bone grafts anymore. Hah, I bet everyone goes and like flosses and stuff after reading this! * Note, I totally just now (4/9) noticed that I wrote "bone graph" over and over in this post, clearly I meant GRAFT not graph! Hah! I MUST just love my job so much that I think about graphs all the time or something, anyway I've changed it.

Easter Photos

These photos are mostly from Easter. The ones at the end are especially for the Pences. They recently held a Sesame Street birthday party for their daughter Joanna and the party favors were these buckets (like Oscar the Grouch's trash can). These have given my children endless joy. Jacob pretends they are hot air ballon baskets and takes all his cars and friends for hot air ballon rides. And Bella puts them on her head. These buckets are played with DAILY and enjoyed by all! Thanks Pence's!!!

And P.S YES, I know, it's the 11 o'clock hour and I'm blogging and not at church. That would be because I have a sore throat and Bella's nose is still VERY icky, my poor girl, I just can't seem to get/keep her well these days. We are on day 6 of an antibiotic and if anything I think she is getting worse - my poor sweet baby, it is so sad.

Photos of the New House