stories of a real life wonder woman

This week I got to surprise my parents with the news that I hit a girl at a birthday party when I was in middle school. I could have sworn they knew because I always felt guilty and confessed when I did things that were wrong. It's always fun for me when I can surprise them, especially my mom cause she knows a lot about me. After I told them they both started laughing. Then mom made a great comment, she said "Ashley (my sister) hit boys when she was younger and evidently Abby hit girls." Now looking back I do think I could have handled the situation better. I didn't like something my friend at the time had said and it was concerning my brother Mikey. Hitting her was not the logical choice but the easy one. I have had a hard time controlling my anger at times and I have always been fiercely protective of the ones I love. And though I like that I am scrappy and that I fit Shakespeare's line from "Midsummer Night's Dream" that says "find though she...

After spending the day in the sun flying kites and chasing my nephews around I am a little sunburned but it feels pretty good. So update on the health - my surgery went well. No real problems. My doctor got all the polyps out in one surgery since he didn't have to worry about my hemoglobin. Someone asked us how many he removed and mom said, "I don't know he (the doctor) just said I removed one here and here and here and here and so on while pointing at a picture." The only problem was that I threw up a little when we went to Panera to get something to eat. It wasn't a big deal cause I threw up and then felt great and ate some lunch. Then while we were doing that mom was talking to dad about his possible surgery. That ended up happening on Tuesday and only took like five minutes. They just had to clean out the sore on dad's leg. He stayed in the hospital for a few days while they saw what kind of bacteria grew since it was infected. Dad got home on Thursday a...

Today may be a mismatch of different things. I wanted to mention about the day is that I was part of the most epiclly awkward hug ever today after church. Now I know that people think I am a hugger but I am really not a hugger at all. And Betty is not a hugger either. So two not huggers awkwardly hugging, it was weird and as mom said it was like it happened in slow-mo. I was so unsure about what Betty was doing as she was with my actions so we just had to commit to this awkward hug. At church I have been thinking about is how I love seeing all the great-grandparents with their great-grandkids. That has also become one of the things I love about my family. That my nephews get to know my grandparents. I think that my grandparents are the coolest and I think it is so fun that my nephews get know and be known by my grandparents. People at church and elsewhere have been asking me if I am nervous about surgery. I am not nervous about the surgery itself. I've had this surgery and mo...

You how like a month ago I had a months worth of homework done early? Yeah now I don't even want to do homework that is due this week. But I am blaming my sick stomach for that. There is nothing like an upset stomach to make me want to lie in bed all day. Nausea knocks me out every time. But I did end up getting a little bit of this weeks homework done today. And I am going to try to work on more after I post this. And then if I still am awake, which I most likely will be, I might try to convince myself to do some homework for next week. We will see what happens. This week I have been struggling with second guessing decisions I have made. Truthfully that is something I struggle with often. When I decided to move to Arizona for college I second guessed that a million and one ways even while I was there. I have second guessed this masters program endlessly even though it is obviously right for me. And I find myself second guessing other things all throughout the day. You see I am...