Creating Kris ~ a young mom blogs…

Observations on pain

The first set of observations are mostly related to my most recent visit to my family physician, a brisk and dismissive woman who seems to want to write you a prescription and send you on your way instead of helping you. Last fall she was the one who told me I was “carrying too much” and to just keep on going to work every day. I have yet to be able to walk again the way I could before doing that. And yet I’m forced to depend on her for help, still staggering out to the same doctor, hoping she might be able to accomplish something useful for once and not accidentally kill me in the process.

Observations:

* Just because doctors haven’t yet seen a direct physical cause for pain doesn’t mean the pain doesn’t exist and doesn’t mean there isn’t a cause that hasn’t been discovered. With so many ligaments and tendons and muscles and nerves, it’s ridiculous that some physicians chalk nerve pain up as “nothing” real quick. If someone is having sciatic pain sharp and shooting down their butt and leg, there is something physical at work there! It may not be a bulging or herniated disc, but it may be a muscle or anything else. Until the technology exists to see everything at work, I don’t think doctors should be able to say “Well it’s nothing”. If it’s just not something you have personally detected, that doesn’t meant it’s nothing.
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Twilight graphics

My friend Mandy not only feeds my scrapbooking obsession, but my Twilight obsession as well! With her introduction to it, I’ve been able to keep tabs on the upcoming Twilight saga sequel, New Moon through this website, which posts an abundance of pics as well as video clips and latest news. When they posted these yummy-looking new New Moon promo posters as well as some tweaked versions of them, I knew it was finally time to get around to making a few graphics I’d had in mind…

Team Jacob (full size here)

Team Edward (full size here)

and the one I’ve really been eager to put together, Team poly lol (full size here)

*** Terms of use: You are welcome to save & use these graphics for non-commercial purposes as long as you credit & link back to krismom.com. You may not sell them, alter them, or pass them off as your own. You may NOT include them in any other online collection.

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new blinkies: Bright Stripes

This was a cute set I put together recently, based on the pastel Baby Boy striped blinkie (found here) and a custom blinkie I made for one of the YM mommies who has a little boy (which can be seen in the Blinkie Pick-up Gallery).

I also added in the face of a little puppy I designed for a friend’s baby shower:

So there are a dozen + blinkies (big size: 150 x 40) with toddler, baby boy, boy, and potty training messages. You can find the whole set here:

Bright Stripes & Puppy Toddler Big Blinkies

I hope to see these blinkies surfacing on the web if moms of toddlers find them cute!