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I made that hat!


Hi Ya'll. So trick or treat is over. It was fun. Adam, Tiersa and The Mac came up. Jase, Meg, Jer, Grace and Jim were here too!. Jed did not dress up but he did walk with Meg Jer and Jase for a little while. Jase declared after about 20 mins that " I am done with this". So they came back to the porch to hang out! It was crazy here! Dan said hi to everyone then retreated up stairs. I guess we all are just too much. Oh Well. We had more trick or treaters than I thought we would with the rain. The church across the street did their yearly thing of free hot dogs and hot cider...that is Jed's fave part of Halloween! I think the people hanging at my house took full advantage! It was great for me it was like having a mini party and I didn't have to supply the food!
The Mac was a cupcake!!! and Adam made tiersa an apron that said " I make cupcakes". Livi-mac even had a wooden spoon that she carried everywhere!!! Funny and so cute. Jase was " I am NOT a frog I am a turtle" and he was very cute. He was also completely thrilled to dig into the candy bowl...over and over and over! We all took full advantage of the candy bowl! What we do have left over I am sending to State College tomorrow so Savannah can give it to the kids up there. It has to get out of here!
Jed leaves tomorrow for State College. Pappaw is running in the THON 5K. Maybe next year I will run??? I don't know. We shall see.
So that's what's up here.
Next year we will do this all again but I have decided that the adults will have "beverages" to enjoy while the kids eat the candy!
Love
J & K

Hi, so no school today. The raking he helped with yesterday must have done him in. He also said his belly was burning. I tried most of the morning to get him up...he finally made it about 2pm. We carved some pumpkins, made turkey burgers, he walked on the treadmill for 5 mins and talked to Mommo who stopped by for a visit. Now he is in his room "resting". I have no idea how long it will take for him to build up any strength. I have to go to work in a month or so and there is no way he will be in school all day everyday by then. I have to figure out all the scheduling details so he is confident that someone can come get him right away if he feels bad. I don't want him to worry that he will be stuck there if he needs to come home. Think they will let me start work at 9:15 and end at 3? I wish, then I could be here while he gets ready for school and drop him off & be back to pick him up..well once he starts going all day. I hate the schedul stuff! I just want to be able to do it all myself. Oh well.
SOOO anyway. Tomorrow is trick or treat and Sunday Jed is going to State College with nana and Pappaw for the THON 5K.
So that's whats up here
Love Jed and Kristin

Hey. Jed made it to school today and will be going again in the morning. I think the change in meds is helping the acid in his stomach. Not much else new. he is getting a snack and then we are off to bed.
I found out today they are laying off approx 400 more people....I am around 450. Getting close. I guess no matter what is going on with Jed and school I have to go to work after Thanksgiving. I will just have to figure out how and where and who and when for his half days and such. I need to make sure I get in my 18 weeks before they get rid of me so I can collect unemployment. I know I should be planning and getting stuff in order, I should have been doing that for the past year I guess. I have no clue what I will do. I think mom and Danny are going to be ok, they have more seniority than me.
whatever happens I will figure it out!
Jed is well, Savannah is feeling better so it's all good.
Love Jed and Kristin

Hey ya'll. Jed is home again today. After a few emails back and forth his nurse decided to up his zantac dose and add previcid. He took his first dose last night. I figured I would give him another day for the burning in his stomach to ease up. The teacher will be here tonight though. Also there are so many kids out sick it freaks me out a little to send him in there. Ok, ok, there is one more thing.....at 6:30 this morning when I normally get up it was so gross out I made the executive decision that we should sleep in. So it was a combination of things that are keeping us home today. We do have to go get some pumpkins to carve for Saturday and we need candy. I have not gotten any candy yet because last year I got it early and ate an entire bag of little snickers before trick or treat day. This year I am trying to limit myself to just one day of indulgence instead of all week!
I did find a great way to lose 8 lbs over night....buy a new scale!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone is always complaining (Savannah) that our scale is not right. 8-10 lbs over and sometimes you can gain 5 lbs in a day on that one. So I broke down and bought a new scale. Well eureka, I have been trying forever to see a certain number (not saying what it was) well I got on the new scale and I fell right past it!! Whoohoo, maybe I will go buy another new scale, wonder if it would work again? Everyone is happy with the new scale....Jed of course does not care, he is 5'1" and weighs about 85lbs. I want to fatten him up but we also have to be careful as cancer kids have a tendency to be over weight later in life. So we definitely have to keep watch on how he eats. He had fish the other night and because he spends so much time with me he actually reads food labels. Unlike his sister who gets ticked when I tell her to read the label of what she is eating!
This weather is so gross, I want to go back to bed but I will feel too guilty. I guess I am headed to the treadmill. Me, the work-out goddess (joke) can run 8 mins of my 30 mins on the treadmill. It is sad how proud I am of my 8 mins. Oh, & I can't actually do the 8 mins all together!!! that is spread out over the 30. Maybe in a year I can run the whole 2 miles...I think not. did I already talk about all of this? I can't remember. My brain is fried. Yesterday Jed asked for a mug of dried cereal and a glass of milk. I put the cereal in the mug and pured the milk on top of it. When I handed it to him he looked at me like I was crazy...hello, I think wanting them separated is nuts. This morning I turned on the coffee maker and put a juice glass under it for the coffee to drip into. Cracked the glass. I could not find the salt half the day yesterday...I put it in the fridge. After we left my Dr. appointment yesterday the whole way home I was thinking about how I had to stop at CVS and pick up Jed's prescription...thought about it all the way to the driveway and into the kitchen. I even looked in my bag to get the prescription out...I never stopped to pick it up. These are just a few small examples of my daily confused life. Jed gets a huge kick out of it. Me, not so much. Thank goodness the kids are old enough that I can't really lose them anywhere.
Gotta go.
Love Jed and Kristin

Jed stayed until noon. We went to lunch and he was talking about staying all day tomorrow. I said no way, the last time he stayed all day it wore him out so much he was out for over a week. But that idea has hit the skids because now he is sick! I had to cancel the teacher tonight. No Halloween parade for us this evening. Hopefully he is just over tired and will be better in the morning. Knowing Jed he will suddenly feel terrific at 8pm when the parade starts! Oh well, no teacher, no parade!
i will keep you posted
Love Jed and Kristin

Jed is at school!!!!!!!!!!!!


Please no fluey kids near him!

Hi. Yesterday was a monsoon! I cannot believe how hard it rained. Jed ended up going to the movies with his father and their family. His big thing about the movies is the popcorn...he didn't get any yesterday so Danny is taking him back to the movies today, not to see a movie, just to get popcorn! Weird kid. When he came home he went right up and brought money down and asked me to call and order pizza! He was starving. Danny and I headed out yesterday with all intentions of going to the music festival, but when the sky opened up we went to Westgate for veggie subs instead! Then we came home and watched Penn State squish Mich., beautiful. The Althoff's decided not to go to camp...wise move! I think they would have floated away!
Savannah is on antibiotics, she has a double ear infection and a sinus infection. But she was at Central Market yesterday at 5:30am to can for THON. She said people were rude and another group ended up being there ( a mistake in the market manager's planning) so she had to split the $ in the spirit of THON! Today she is headed out to Rt 30 and George st. ( if she feels ok) Brent aka Crooked from Acacia will be at the intersection of Camp Betty Washington rd and Mt Rose ave. Even if you see someone that is not "ours" feel free to empty the change you collect in your car into their cans!
I guess that's it. I have no clue what I am doing today. I hope at some point to drive by and give Brent some cookies, maybe go visit my Gram, give her cookies too.
I made cookies during halftime yesterday. I completely blew my diet yesterday, between the veggie cheese subs with onion rings and then chocolate chip cookies, I pretty much canceled out all the hard work from the week before. Time to start over...:( Wish I could wake up 20 lbs lighter!!!!
Oh and can I just say, as I sit here and watch meet the press,Dick Cheney-SHUT UP.
ok thanks
That's all for now. Gotta get Jed up and feed him. He ate 1 piece of pizza from the one he ordered last night, I think he is thinner now than he has ever been. Looks like a little stick. He gets tired just from coming down the stairs. Wish my Gram B was still cooking, I'd take him to her, she can fatten up anyone!!!! Trust me!

OH Yeah...the big news, now that Jed is finished with treatment...ground breaking for the new free standing Hershey Medical Center Children's Hospital is happening on Nov. 13th! Jed and I are going to help hand out programs to the big wigs. Savannah said " They are making the cancer kids work? Shouldn't they be honored guests?!!!" We don't care though we are just happy it is finally happening...(now that we are finished). Better than never!
Love Jed and Kristin
Hi to our friends in Texas....Thomas and Lisa, SO glad you are home..

Hey all. So the little walk and scooter adventure Jed took with us did him in for 2 days! He was so sore and stiff he could hardly move. We all, including Jed, need to remember that it will be a VERY long time before he is back to normal. Actually we have no idea what Jed's "normal" is! Even that short walk was WAY too much. He is better today. He went with me to get my tattoo, and then he had school this evening.
I am in no hurry to send him back to school though. They have been averaging 4-6 kids out per day in his class due to illness. What is going to happen when it really gets cold and flu season is REALLY here? Anyway I am waiting until at least Monday to send him in.
Yesterday I pulled up all my tomatoes and peppers and stuff....so sad. I am not happy that winter is coming.

summer, beautiful and green..............................winter, cold, brown & gray
oh well, I can't change it I guess at some point I will have to just accept it...uugghh.
anyway, that's the excitement here at the Buckley-Smith-Slatton abode.
Saturday we are to go to the Althoff's camp, I am hoping for nice weather. Maybe the rain will just go away. There is a music festival we were going to go to but Jed really wants to go see the Althoffs at camp so that is where we are going. I like to go too.....smoores! YUM I have made it 4 days on weight watchers and I am thinking of smoores already! There is probably no hope for me!
Gram is doing well. She had in-home care for the 1st 24 hrs after she got home but insisted on being alone after that! But the fact that she lives in Country Meadows really makes things easier, all she has to do is ring her bell if she needs help. She said her dinner table is cursed, "3 people in the hospital and 1 person died". Well Gram the one that died was in her 90s and the rest are in their late 80s so I don't think the table is cursed I think the people are just old.....it is an old people home!!!! I know sounds cold but it's true!
Savannah is feeling a little better, she is at the homecoming parade tonight. I guess she is not going with her "boy" to his homecoming..I forgot to ask!
Ok, that's all for now
Love Jed and Kristin

Hi, just wanted to share this article....very important.
My son has cancer and cannot go to day care because of unvaccinated children.
http://www.slate.com/id/2232977/

Hey,
Home from clinic. Jed's counts are GREAT!!!! He is still really tired and stiff but hey, that's not too bad! We went to lunch and he ate half a huge burger and then he scootered with G and I while we walked ( a short walk). November 6th is the big day (another one) Jed gets his port out that day. One more step in Jed's new life!!! As soon as he is up to it he is headed back to school for a couple of hours a day.
My gram comes home from the hospital tonight. She just had a kidney out out Friday night, is 86 and she is coming home already!!! Amazing
Savannah is sick..yuck. Not the flu, just a head cold ...thank goodness.
That's all for now!
Love J & K