CMG RIP

Well its been a really bad time here in the Gawthrop house,
Last month Jon's mom Died suddenly on march 14Th it appears that she suffered a mini stroke at home and on the way to the hospital she had 2 Heart attacks when arriving to the hospital she was pronounced DOA (Dead on arrival) the Dr's and nurses at St. Joe's on her for 33 minutes trying to bring her back. And id like to thank those who tried their best to bring back Mom you know usually medical staff stop working on someone after 10 minutes but this Dr. Worked her for 23 minutes more then he usually works on patients. So thank you St. Joe's for all that you tried and also to HVA who tried to get her their safely and vastly. One thing i can say is man how precious is Life and family. But knowing that she got to see the Famous White light and feel no pain what so ever i can honestly say she still makes it known to us that she is with us, not physically but spiritually and not a day will go by where we don't wonder what she is doing up above. You know when people leave in a hurry and we never get to say good bye we always seem to feel horrible but in my early years at 17 my mom has passed away with stage 4 cancer and she always told me that we are never to say good bye its Ill see you later? well I truly believe that now as i have gotten older but 1 question That took me by surprise was our oldest son Blake had asked me now that grandma is dead where did she go and how did she do that so i found a video on you tube showing ND near death experiences and i told him that grandmas spirit left her body and went up to the lord. in this video it show how a persons spirit hangs around tell its time before the go to heaven. i also told him that our bodies are a shell like a snake sheds its skin and then its a new snake well when we die our shell (body) is left here and our spirit enters a new life in heaven with the lord. check out this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFkwmck1IhY

all i can say is RIP CMG
Catherine Marie Gawthrop
Aug 14Th 1951-March 14Th 2009
with lots of love and missed hugs and kisses
from all 14 of your Grandchildren
Never a good bye but we will see you again someday.
Love All of your kids and Grand kids.

Upside Down inside out we are just a little bit tired.

Sorry to all of our fellow friends in the world of Blogging we have had a horrible and i mean Horrible 3 months, i have been suffering with Back pain for the last 5 years and the docs have had me on pain meds and anti inlamitory meds and still no relief and its getting worse. I Really need to have back surgey the docs think this would be the best thing for me but How? and When? and will my house still be standing as i recover, now i dont know about you other bloggers out there but Jon I love you, but um You just can't Multi task like I can and im worried will he be able to handel all 3 boys ranging in age from 5, 3, and 1. trust me there are days i don't even know how i do it. Anyone have any advice what i should do perhaps, prepare meals that Jon can just reheat, and serve. What are some great recipes to make and freeze while on a budget. im on a mission to have All the recipes i can so by june 20th when my kids are out of school i can have surgery while on summer break.
to make it a little easy on Jon so he wont have to worry about school. so any recipe ideas feel free to send em to me via email at sonyagaw7@hotmail.com
in subject line put food for recovery.
ty so much to all our friend here at little jaden big world.
you mean the world to us.

OH Christmas tree Oh Christmas tree.......

Well we put up our tree friday night and Man i never really thought it would be such a pain in the you know the rest this tree was easy to put up but the real problem, is keeping the the two toddlers out of it and pulling off the orniments you see the orniments were all over the tree top to bottom but everyday more from the bottom are going to the thop of the tree, i figured that this orniment deal would be resolved and nothing more for them to play with man I was wrong now its the lights they want to play with. My son Blake picked out the colors and i thought its just blue and silver what could draw them to wanting to play with the tree its not that exciting.
ill post pics soon. because tomorrows post will have more pics from our lpa xmas party.

A little HaLlOwEeN In the Gawthrop House....

Okay so how many of you Mommy's that are on her Blogging about our crazy but wonderful life as Mommy, bestfriend,manager, Advocate, Teacher, and so on, Have your kids in school getting ready for Halloween parties well Unfortunitly to report We aren't that Lucky because my kids school opt-out of Halloween parties because of other religous beliefs Come on how crazy has this world gotten, I remember growning up that as a child this was trudition to me at school we had holiday parties, then holiday then the Vacation from Holidays. But we didn't stop having Vacations but we can stop the parties to celebrate Kinda sounds stupid to me you know things weren't this bad in america as i was growning up and we did stop our kids from being kids we were tought that their are many different ppl in the world and just accept it don't push your belief off on others well why is my kids and my belifs being compermised because others don't celebrate, or don't believe damn this is supposed to America Freedom of speach freedom of religion but were not free, this is upposed to be a country of many nations combined but others come in and push their beliefs off on us
and where is that fair, we celebrate X-mas and i don't mind if the kid next to my kid in school celebrates chanakkah just tell me ill write a chanakkah Message on his bag or cup cake, or your child celebrates Romadon he/she can take it home when the are allowed to eat it. Damn We as parents are to busy pleasing our slefs and our beliefs on our kids let them be kids and enjoy life and later on down the road they can chose.what they want to believe and celebrate. So im gonna make cupcakes anyways and give them to the kids when they get off the Bus ON Halloween at the bus stop.
so thats how we are gonna a have a little halloween here at the Gawthrops's and of corse We Will be trick or treating.

Just when you thought........

You Know i just realized that in my days of recollection, I remember that i couldn't wait to graduate i hated morning classes, and Hated School to only some degree. only because it was full of what is known as Clicks, and jocks, and popular stuck up Brats that thought they were the best of the Best. Well i have realized that it doesn't end once you Graduate it is Society that condones to this behavior. Such as in work place, support groups, Churches, and your local Neighborhood where as Adults raising your children its just something that continues on generation after generation. Why i have no Idea we all want the same A happy healthy and well Family.
but we are always competing against one another when we should be competing against the other world countries, and our government to support our dreams and ideas But no we aren't we are to busy worrying if Our children can go to school in the best of the best and live in the biggest house drive the best cars. We really have lost the American Dream. we should be building our children's Pride on the content of the character, and instilling morals and values because i think a child with High Self esteem is richer then a child with no self esteem. That child with Higher self esteem will be a true member to our society. We are all different but all the same in many ways. No wonder our country is in debt. we have our morals, and priorities basically on the low end of our lives. You Know I have found and its unfortunate but i have found clicks in my Sons support group and it saddens me because we as parents in this group our already showing our children to judge and dis-like for whatever reason even as toddlers and children that this is your friends because we choose the parents as our friends and we not include others because we don't care for their parents for what ever reason. This saddens me why cheat thees kids whom may not have the best of the best but our children share many simulate things such as being short stature, society already does this why do we not stick to gather and let these kids make their own decision and not exclude these kids. You know my son has another lp child in his class/grade as i have mention in the last post "T"
WAS ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM JADEN'S IEP as for Adaptions in the class room i didn't have the attitude of Oh well its not my kid i felt i not only as a member of LPA and a parent and Wife to LP's I was going to advocate for this other lp child because some people believe it or not Might not know that they and their child are in titled to this adaptions regardless if its used right now its there from them to use if needed or wanted. which will help their Independence and self esteem. I mean I'm what you call low income and don't have the best of the best and my kids don't have the best of the best but i feel they have a well rounded mother and father who cares as to how they will grow up in society to not treat ppl who have money as the true friends and the ones who don't have money aren't your friends, I was raised to treat ppl for ppl not for what they have or don't. And I love my boys they are really great
and i know if i stay on this right way of thinking and teaching my kids this value and morals they are going to be really great leaders in this world. and richer then anything that money can ever buy. heck I am not ashamed to say I shop in second hand stores, I grocery shop in Save-a-lot or Aldis. I'm not ashamed to admit that i live in a trailer park im proud of who i am as a person, a mother, and a wife and who my boys will grow up to be im even more proud to me Iam Richer then those in a $300,000.00 home and a $60,000.00 car and a wardrobe by lv, Gucci, and stilettos.
Baby I shop Once upon a child and Wal-mart, I even go to garage sales, and mom 2 mom sales and my kids don't know the difference and when they do I'm gonna say hey you got 60,000.00 towards College and we won't have to struggle at the last minute when its High school graduation day knowing my kids are going to college how are we going to pay for it! to me education is every thing. as to a good well rounded Child who will be an awesome asset to our country.
that's all i have to say on this note please don't take this the wrong way y'all im just a ranting and venting. I feel much better now that i have put my feelings out.

Jaden Is now in School

Well Jaden Has finally started school we have been in for a little of 3 weeks now and Jaden is doing really well, What a suprise i for sure thought i would get a phone call saying we can't handel him he climbs all the time and everything. But so far so good No Phone calls yet. Infact i got to meet a nother child whom is in his afternoon
class and she is also a Little Person she has Achondroplasia and to protect her and her family im not oing to put her name in my blogs so i will be refering to he by the name "T" now for some reason When developing Jaden's IEP We got a special chair that has foot rest like you would see on a wheel chair so that he can rest his feet properly while sitting also i got the school to purches the steps called pup stairs so that Jaden and "T" can acess the sink and the toilet more apporperitly with out having to climb or the ones on the floor this also help them feel more comfertable in other classrooms like the Motor room and other rooms that don't always have stools. And they bought not only 1 pup steps but 2 How great is that! well im so happy that i could get them to purches this steps for the 2 of them because from my figures i believe they didn't even buy or thik to buy one for "T"
or the parents might not have specified that she would need one So through Jadens IEP
she will also Benefited from this as well to me this was well worth the wait for fianlization on his IEP before he started school.
I just can't believe he is in school it seems like yesterday i just gave birth to
him and got to bring him home and now he has entered the 1st stage of growing Up.

NICU

-JADEN 2HOURS AFTER BIRTH-
Well, I have been reviewing all Jadens Medical Complications from the past till now and I often wonder if I'm the ONLY Mom that has gone through this or are still going through this. But when Jaden was a Baby about 32 weeks i was told from an ultra sound that Jaden's Arms, Legs, and torso, don't equal out to the weeks gestation;
in fact he was 3-4 weeks behind but his head was rather large and the Dr.s were worried if i would be able to deliver him Vag. So they checked his weight and realized that he would be 9lbs or more, Not what you wanna hear in the near and end of A long Pregnancy. Well we seen all kinds of specialist in the parental asst Dept at the U that's the abbrev for U of M and shortly after Jaden was born he had some repository distress and would not go home with us after i was discharged in fact he had to stay in NICU to monitor his breathing and his lungs and his oxygen rate and his heart. this was supposed to be for 24 hours but turn into a 36 hour deal with no diagnoses and why 24 turned to 36 when his nurse said he was doing excellent.
and when i look back at my sweat baby Boy's pictures and i now can see the signs of hypochondroplasia where i could of educated my self about the medical complications
and would of known what to expect medical wise and growth wise and much more, no one prepared us for this till he was 2yrs 8mos, but medical probs since birth. And I wonder how many mothers of children with Dwarfism have had their babies in the NICU after birth. is this common?