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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Crazy Week
This past week has been a little hectic. Seems like I'm going in circles at times...
My daughter Kayli got sick suddenly last week...I took her to the emergency room here in Sulphur Springs and spent the first half of Monday with her in the ER. They say she may have had a seizure...Her head was hurting and her arms and hands were numb...They told her to follow up with a neurologist.
I have had a few issues with my health going on. For starters I have gained way too much weight and it is causing other underlining problems. My blood pressure has been staying high. It was 170/105 when I went to the doctor Tuesday. My ankles and feet have been swelling and that has been really getting on my nerves! So I got a prescription for BP with a diuretic.
I have also had a cough for about 6 months...My allergies have been horrible! The doc gave me shot for the allergies and I can already feel a huge difference. My cough is almost gone completely...and is getting better each day. So I am thankful for that. :)
I also joined a gym this week and have started walking and riding the bike...It can't hurt...
My goal is to lose some weight and get healthier...I have come to realize that I'm no spring chick anymore and I will never be a size 8 again...but I hope to feel better and live a lot longer!! Hey fat people need love too... :)
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Another day nearly gone...
Brendan is heating up left over chicken stew and baking some crescents because I'm not cooking tonight. He is having to fend for himself.
Kayli is on the sofa watching Twilight for the second time this week and Kam is on my the sofa sound asleep...
Speaking of Kamberlyn...She has been a little ring-tale-tooter today! She wouldn't eat her lunch...snuck a bag of shredded cheese into the living room and dumped it onto the floor and then colored all over my sofa again! Only she used a crayon this time!
My sofa has to be the cleanest sofa in Sulphur Springs because I have had to scrub it clean twice this week!
As far as the cheese on the floor...I brought the vacuum cleaner into the the living room and let Kamberlyn do the vacuuming. A lot of good that does...because she loves to vacuum with the big vacuum!
For those of you that don't know, I watch my daughter's child while she is working. We have been having a battle of the wills...She is just so sweet and lovable that I can barely keep a straight face when I am getting on to her. She knows this!
When I do get on to her, she cries and says "I want my Paw Paw!" She cracks me up! What she doesn't know is that if she actually wrote on her Paw Paw's sofa....He would probably have a coronary. For real! :)
I wouldn't trade her for her weight in gold...I know there will come a day when I miss this.
A Little About Me
Let me introduce myself...My name is Dorcas Lee Acker Dodd Vittatoe.
My first name came from the Bible: Acts 9:36. Dorcas is Greek and means 'a gazelle'. My mother has a first cousin named Dorcas but she claims that she didn't name me after her. Soooo I guess Dorcas in the Bible gets all the credit.
My mother had a sister named Ruby Lee and I am told that I am named after her.
Acker is German and is my father's family name.
Dodd is my first husband's family name and Vittatoe is my second husband's family name.
So there you go...The history of my name. :)
I was born August 14th 1963 in Klondike Texas which is a very small community about 10 miles west of Cooper Texas.
My mother told me that men were hammering the hinges on the doors of the hospital when I was born. The hospital was brand new and obviously not completed at the time of my birth! I'm also told (by my mother) that the doctor (Dr. Wintermute) came in from a cow pasture with manure on his boots and was smoking a cigar while he delivered me! She says that she was praying and the doctor was cursing....What a way to come into the world! To this day I can't stand the smell of manure or cigars!
My parents were divorced before I was born and remarried afterwards. They divorced again a few years later. My mother is Nannie (Nancy) Lou Gillham Acker and my father was Owen Clate (Clatie) Acker. My father was never a father to me and my mother raised me and my brother and sister alone.
My sister Sherri Dawn was born Jan. 13th 1070 and my brother Daniel Clate was born Oct. 9th 1971.
I named Sherri and Daniel their first names and Momma gave them their second names..and I suppose the one thing I can say that we got from our father was his name.
I grew up (for the most part) in Cooper Texas although my mother and I did live in the Dallas area during the years before I started school. We also lived in Commerce for about six months during the third grade. That was the year Sherri was born.
By the time Daniel was born we were back in Cooper living with my grandparents, Morris and Ellie Gillham.
Needless to say my early childhood was tumultuous. My father was abusive and my mother, being raised in an era where domestic abuse was common had a hard time getting out of the relationship. She also was under the misguided opinion that she had to stay in the marriage and/or never marry again.
So as to not bore anyone further I'm going to end this blog for now....and may pick up at another time.
If anyone has any memories of me as a child please feel free to comment...I would love to hear from you...
My first name came from the Bible: Acts 9:36. Dorcas is Greek and means 'a gazelle'. My mother has a first cousin named Dorcas but she claims that she didn't name me after her. Soooo I guess Dorcas in the Bible gets all the credit.
My mother had a sister named Ruby Lee and I am told that I am named after her.
Acker is German and is my father's family name.
Dodd is my first husband's family name and Vittatoe is my second husband's family name.
So there you go...The history of my name. :)
I was born August 14th 1963 in Klondike Texas which is a very small community about 10 miles west of Cooper Texas.
My mother told me that men were hammering the hinges on the doors of the hospital when I was born. The hospital was brand new and obviously not completed at the time of my birth! I'm also told (by my mother) that the doctor (Dr. Wintermute) came in from a cow pasture with manure on his boots and was smoking a cigar while he delivered me! She says that she was praying and the doctor was cursing....What a way to come into the world! To this day I can't stand the smell of manure or cigars!
My parents were divorced before I was born and remarried afterwards. They divorced again a few years later. My mother is Nannie (Nancy) Lou Gillham Acker and my father was Owen Clate (Clatie) Acker. My father was never a father to me and my mother raised me and my brother and sister alone.
My sister Sherri Dawn was born Jan. 13th 1070 and my brother Daniel Clate was born Oct. 9th 1971.
I named Sherri and Daniel their first names and Momma gave them their second names..and I suppose the one thing I can say that we got from our father was his name.
I grew up (for the most part) in Cooper Texas although my mother and I did live in the Dallas area during the years before I started school. We also lived in Commerce for about six months during the third grade. That was the year Sherri was born.
By the time Daniel was born we were back in Cooper living with my grandparents, Morris and Ellie Gillham.
Needless to say my early childhood was tumultuous. My father was abusive and my mother, being raised in an era where domestic abuse was common had a hard time getting out of the relationship. She also was under the misguided opinion that she had to stay in the marriage and/or never marry again.
So as to not bore anyone further I'm going to end this blog for now....and may pick up at another time.
If anyone has any memories of me as a child please feel free to comment...I would love to hear from you...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Decided to start a blog of sorts...record the daily happenings of my random life. For the most part, my life is simple almost to the point of boredom.
Awoke this morning with a sinus headache feeling like I should get back into bed and sleep...
Brendan had left for school around 7:20am. I barely remember sitting up in my bed long enough to give him $5 from my purse...
Kayli came over around 8:30 with Kamberlyn. I laid down on the couch while Kayli heated up egg and cheese burritos for our breakfast.
After I had been up for a few minutes I started to feel a little better. Got on Facebook for a while and learned that an old school mate's mother passed away early in the morning/night.
Watched some t.v. with Kayli.
Kamberlyn decided for the first time and (hopefully) the last, to mark on my sofa with a pen! She looked at me and said "Look". She had marked all over my sofa. It is a large square sectional and every seat was marked on. I couldn't believe she had done it! She wasn't happy with my response...
Kayli discovered that my heater was blowing cool air so I called Rick (the manager) to let him know. Terry (the maintenance guy) came within a few minutes and fixed it. A wire had burned out. This is the second time that it has happened. Makes me wonder...
That is just about the jest of my day.
Brendan came home from school upset with some guy on the bus that has been a jerk.
My mother came by and picked Brendan up from church around 7:15.
That pretty much sums up my day....
Until next time...
Awoke this morning with a sinus headache feeling like I should get back into bed and sleep...
Brendan had left for school around 7:20am. I barely remember sitting up in my bed long enough to give him $5 from my purse...
Kayli came over around 8:30 with Kamberlyn. I laid down on the couch while Kayli heated up egg and cheese burritos for our breakfast.
After I had been up for a few minutes I started to feel a little better. Got on Facebook for a while and learned that an old school mate's mother passed away early in the morning/night.
Watched some t.v. with Kayli.
Kamberlyn decided for the first time and (hopefully) the last, to mark on my sofa with a pen! She looked at me and said "Look". She had marked all over my sofa. It is a large square sectional and every seat was marked on. I couldn't believe she had done it! She wasn't happy with my response...
Kayli discovered that my heater was blowing cool air so I called Rick (the manager) to let him know. Terry (the maintenance guy) came within a few minutes and fixed it. A wire had burned out. This is the second time that it has happened. Makes me wonder...
That is just about the jest of my day.
Brendan came home from school upset with some guy on the bus that has been a jerk.
My mother came by and picked Brendan up from church around 7:15.
That pretty much sums up my day....
Until next time...
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