prairiemom

Out of the Dungeon

     Greetings from Northcentral Montana.

      My daughter recently described the four seasons in Montana: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter and Road Construction. What an accurate description!

     Today the weather is lovely. Jonathan has a baseball game and David is at the ball field to watch him. Tonight is my night at the library, so I will be eager to hear of the outcome. Jonathan has such a great group of coaches. They are four dads who are very patient and encouraging with their group of 6 to 8 year old boys. Jonathan has  learned a lot already. I hope he will want to play again next year.

     David turned 50 today, so of course his co-workers had fun teasing him. He was able to buy a hunting blind with some birthday money. It arrived yesterday and we tried it out. We need practice. We are not as accurate as we would like to be as we sit in the blind and shoot our bows.

     Have you ever had a month where it seems like every organization you belong to needs food of some sort? This is the month for us. I made 8 dozen cookies for church. We will need treats for Jon's kindergarten class and for baseball next week. David's bank is having a retirement party for one of the tellers, so I made three kinds of dip for that. I'm not complaining, mind you, just commenting that I don't think I have ever made so many treats in one month. But that means I will be done for awhile!

     Maria moved to Montana Wilderness School of the Bible on Tuesday and she is very pleased with her situation. She still misses Dan terribly and I continue to encourage her and to pray that the Lord will give her beauty for ashes.

     Does anyone else find obtaining the prescription medications their family needs to be difficult?

     David recently got a prescription for a medication called Singulair, which is very similar to an antihistamine. He finds that it helps him very much. However the price is high, our insurance only pays for generic meds and there is no generic form of Singulair - in the United States - that is.

     He went on-line and found a company in Ontario that sells generic Singulair for 1/3 the price of the brand name medication.  It turns out that the drug is manufactured in India, outside of FDA approval. Guess what? My pharmacist told me that many of the generic medications he provides are manufactured in India as well. The companies send him the Indian meds and he has no choice in the matter. That's an eye opener. He did mention that he hasn't heard of any problems in the chemistry of the meds at this point.

     Isn't it discouraging though that it is getting so difficult to obtain the medications we need from reliable sources?

     Tomorrow is my last day of preschool. We are having a Hawaiian Luau party for the children. Out of 21 children, we have 18 who will be going to kindergarten. The class list for next year is beginning to fill up. Conrad Christian School's preschoolers did very well at their kindergarten screening in April.

     There were three of us who team taught the children and our giftings were very different, but we blended well.

     Linda had a flare for music and drama and was spontaneous. Mary, a homeschool mom, was excellent with academics. My forte is art and with an older group, we could do many really fun projects.

     I told Jonathan that I am ready to spend the summer as his mom and Dad's wife. I may tutor a little boy, who's dad, a single father, wants him to have some instruction over the summer. I have purchased a very nice summer homeschool program for Jonathan, so the two boys could work and play together. It would just be for two mornings a week.

     I should explain my "out of the dungeon" comment. This week I moved my sewing machine and serger from the basement to Maria's sunny bedroom. I figured having the machines upstairs would be conducive to my spending a little more time sewing. It is too soon to tell!

     Well, enough rambling. I hope your weather is as pleasant as ours. Blessings to you from.............prairiemom (Denise)

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{ 10:47 , Thursday, May 15, 2008 } { Posted by gabbie427 }

Sounds like a busy week for all!! Happy 50th to the hubby. I had no idea on the presciption dugs. We are blessed with wonderful insurance and our most expensive is only $20.00 copay (because there is no generic as well). Still it can get expensive!

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo