Legacy

We were on our way home this evening from eating dinner with Jeremy's parents when the song "Legacy" by Nicole Nordeman came on the radio. This song always make me think. Some of the words from the song are.

I want to leave a legacy
How will they remember me?
Did I choose to love? Did I point to You enough
To make a mark on things?
I want to leave an offering
A child of mercy and grace who
blessed your name unapologetically
And leave that kind of legacy


How will you remember me? If I was to die tomorrow how would my girls remember me? I know it may sound a little morbid, but seriously have you thought about it? There are no guarantees that you have tomorrow...how would you be remembered? What kind of legacy are you going to leave behind?

Firsts...

It's been a big week at our house and it's only Wednesday! First of all Carleigh got her first taste of real food this week...green beans. She didn't seem to like them much but did enjoy a change from the regular formula she's been getting. Today I tried applesauce which she seemed to enjoy much more.
Yesterday was another first for her....her first tooth!! I couldn't believe it because she hardly even fussed. When Gracie is getting teeth she has a fever, runny nose, as well as drool but I guess that just goes to show how different they can be. It has just barely broken through but when you can see it better I'll post some pictures.
And then today Gracie had a first....her first computer game. She is always wanting to get on the computer with me so today I popped in a CD and she had a blast.

It was so cute watching her as she tried to figure out the mouse. Next thing I know she'll want to create her own MySpace page :0). FYI though it won't happen until she's 30.

**sidenote** in addition to the first I listed above, Carleigh has also began crawling!! She more so does the inch worm thing but none the less she gets around.

God is GOOD!

Wow what a weekend! I knew going into it that this weekend was going to be busy since I had planned to help my friend Brea with her consignment sale but in one quick instant it REALLY got busy. Friday morning as I was pulling into Chick-fil-A I received a phone call from one of my very best friends that she was at the hospital because her water broke the night before. She was only 14 weeks pregnant so I knew that things didn't look good. Her calmness surprised me but her strength in the Lord didn't. This weekend, through all the busyness, text messages, phones calls, and emails I got to see a glimpse of Heaven and what it means to be one family. It still amazes me at how details as far as child care for their older 2 girls, food, and even visdits worked out. but I can now sit back and reflect and see how God had his hand in every detail. Yes, it was under unhappy circumstances and I wish I was able to meet Rylan (as I know one day I will) but for now God's grace is sufficient. Yes! GOD is GOOD!!!!!

What REALLY happens in the pharmacy...

As most of you know, I work in a pharmacy as a technician so when I ran across this I found it hysterical. Let me know what you think! Oh, and FYI this REALLY is what it's like most days.....

For those of you who wonder why the pharmacist always looks so annoyed, the answer....

You come to the counter. I am on the phone with a drunk dude who wants the phone number to the grocery s tore next door. After I instruct him on the virtues of 411, you tell me your doctor was to phone in your prescription to me Your doctor hasn't, and you're unwilling to wait until he does Being in a generous mood, I call your doctors office and am put on hold for 5 minutes, then informed that your prescription was phoned in to my competitor on the other side of town. Phoning the competitor, I am immediately put on hold for 5 minutes before speaking to a clerk, who puts me back on hold to wait for the pharmacist. Your prescription is then transferred to me, and now I have to get the 2 phone calls that have been put on hold while this was being done. Now I return to the counter to ask if we've ever filled prescriptions for you before. For some reason, you think that "for you" means "for your cousin" and you answer my question with a "yes", whereupon I go the computer and see you are not on file.

The phone rings.

You have left to do something very important, such as browse through the monster truck magazines, and do not hear the three PA announcements requesting that you return to the pharmacy. You return eventually, expecting to pick up the finished prescription.....

The phone rings.

.......only to find out that I need to ask your address, phone number, date of birth, if you have any allergies and insurance coverage. You tell me you're allergic to codeine. Since the prescription is for Vicodin I ask you what exactly codeine did to you when you took it. You say it made your stomach hurt and I roll my eyes and write down "no known allergies" You tell me......

The phone rings.

......you have insurance and spend the next 5 minutes looking for your card. You give up and expect me to be able to file your claim anyway. I call my competitor and am immediately put on hold. Upon reaching a
human, I ask them what insurance they have on file for you. I get the information and file your claim, which is rejected because you changed jobs 6 months ago. An asshole barges his way to the counter to ask
where the bread is.

The phone rings.

I inform you that the insurance the other pharmacy has on file for you isn't working. You produce a card in under 10 seconds that you seemed to be unable to find before. What you were really doing was hoping
your old insurance would still work because it had a lower copay. Your new card prominently displays the logo of Nebraska Blue Cross, and although Nebraska Blue cross does in fact handle millions of prescription claims every day, for the group you belong to, the claim should go to a company called Caremark, whose logo is nowhere on the card.

The phone rings.

A lady comes to the counter wanting to know why the cherry flavored antacid works better than the lemon cream flavored antacid. What probab ly happened is that she had a milder case of heartburn when she
took the cherry flavored brand, as they both use the exact same ingredient in the same strength. She will not be satisfied though until I confirm her belief that the cherry flavored brand is the superior product. I file your claim with Caremark, who rejects it because you had a 30 day supply of Vicodin filled 15 days ago at another pharmacy. You swear to me on your mother's'....

The phone rings.

........life that you did not have a Vicodin prescription filled recently. I call Caremark and am immediately placed on hold. The most beautiful woman on the planet walks buy and notices not a thing. She has never talked to a pharmacist and never will. Upon reaching a human at Caremark, I am informed that the Vicodin prescription was indeed filled at another of my competitors. When I tell you this, you say you got hydrocodone there, not Vicodin. Another little part of me dies.

The phone rings.

It turns out that a few days after your doctor wrote your last prescription, he told you to take it more frequently, meaning that what Caremark thought was a 30-day supply is indeed a 15 day supply with the new instructions. I call your doctor's office to confirm this and am immediately placed on hold. I call Caremark to get an override and am immediately placed on hold. My laser printer has a paper jam.
It's time for my tech to go to lunch. Caremark issues the override and your claim goes though. Your insurance saves you 85 cents off the regular price of the prescription.

The phone rings.

At the cash register you sign....

The phone rings.

.......the acknowledgement that you received a copy of my HIPPA policy and that I offered the required OBRA counseling for new prescriptions. You remark that you're glad that your last pharmacist told you you
shouldn't take over the counter Tylenol along with the Vicodin, and that the acetaminophen you're taking instead seems to be working pretty well. I break the news to you that Tylenol is simply a brand name for acetaminophen and you don't believe me. You fumble around for 2 minutes looking for your checkbook and spend another 2 minutes making out a check for four dollars and sixty seven cents. You ask why the tablets look different than those you got at the other pharmacy. I explain that they are from a different manufacturer. Tomorrow you'll be back to tell me they don't work as well.

Now imagine this wasn't you at all, but the person who dropped off their prescription three people ahead of you, and you'll start to have an idea why.....your prescription takes so freakin' long to fill.

Myspace

I can't believe I'm actually writing this but.... I LOVE MySpace! Yep I said it, I love MySpace. Thank you to my dear friend Holley for getting me addicted and helping me to find 1 more thing that sucks time out of my day.

When I first started my page I was seriously ignorant but now I can change my background like the best of them not to mention my song, pictures, comments, etc. It is so much fun to be able to pop in and just give a quick little note to someone. Oh and if I haven't mentioned yet I am REALLY nosey and it is fun to be able to go read someone's page find out a little about them without them knowing you stopped by. I have also done a little few investigations too but I won't mention for who those were for...*wink, wink*

Most of all I love looking at peoples pictures and believe it or not- seeing what people I went to school with have done since gradutaing.

It's fun....add me as a friend if you haven't already!

Unbelievable!!

So last night I worked and shopped a consignment sale and here's what I got:

6 pairs of shoes for Gracie (stride rite, Asters, Keds, Gymboree)
9 outfits for Gracie ( includ. 2 Baby Lulu and 1 boutique)
2 pairs of Jeans for Gracie
6 outfits for Carleigh (including 1 boutique)
Eddie Bauer carseat
infant swing

And the grand total..........$265
Yep that's it!! Can you believe it? This is the best consignment sale you can go to. Oh and you ask where is it.....Encores and More North in Rivergate.
Hurry you don't want to miss this one!!!

Getting So BIG

Last week was Gracie's 2nd birthday....2 already can you believe it?! She daily blows me away with the things she says and does but lately it's been more than normal. Last night before I put her to bed she said that she wanted to go potty. We've been trying to potty train her for a little while now but it's not been too successful. We have a seat that sits on top of the potty so she doesn't fall in but last night she didn't want to use it. So just like a big girl she sat up there and went poop! I am so proud of her, maybe soon there won't be anymore pull-up at our house...well at least for a short period of time!

Keeping up with the Jones'

I don't normally follow suite when the "new thing" is happening but I thought since I read so many other blogs then maybe I should have one too! This will be a place for me to let you in on some of my daily activities, funny sayings I get from my girls, and then also my notorious Sarahisms. What is a Sarahisms you may be asking. Well they are the opinions and views that I have that make most people say "HUH?" while still loving me at the same time!! Like Forrest Gump says....Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what Sarah will say (okay so I sorta made that up but it works!).