Synagis Denial.....

Well we got our denial letter yesterday….no synagis shots for Bean….at least not unless someone wants to cough up an additional $10K for buying them out right. So we just continue to do all we can to keep her from getting sick. It’s frustrating because she’s not “sick” enough or overall “unhealthy” enough that Blue Cross and Blue Shield feels the need to approve us, which I’m thankful for but she is more susceptible than “regular” kids. Yet when we were in the hospital in June it cost them $26K for that stay. I think I might give them a little reminder that their $10K investment now in my child’s health could save them an additional $16K in hospital bills later on. I highly doubt that BCBS would actually have enough common sense to see it that way, but I will still try!

As much as I dislike BCBS right now, in the grand scheme of things, they were out a total of $146K with Mallory in the NICU and the other week stay in June and they never once caused me any problems. They paid for everything other than the dedicutible....but I still want them to pay for the shots....

Otherwise, again, if you are sick, keep away from my child until April : )

One good thing from the storms on Tuesday was that it blew the one dead tree we had in the yard down and the wind was nice enough to blow it down on our property but yet not on the house, which was kinda tough! So yeah, we don't have to pay someone to cut it down for us because we were too worried it would hit the house! Thank you mother nature.


Mallory’s Halloween Party at Mrs Carole’s is tomorrow. They aren’t going to dress up in their costumes, just wear a Halloween outfit, so she will be back in her “Daddy’s under my spell” outfit with the Bib that Mrs Carole got her with a cute little witch on it. We will have to wait to get her in her cow outfit until Saturday!

I have dug down deep and found my inner Martha Stewart, who was so far buried I had to move Mr. Clean out of the way, because he NEVER gets used, to find her, LOL! So, I’m tackling making homemade cut out Halloween sugar cookies with icing for the kiddo’s at the Empty Nest. Granted Mallory cannot partake in them yet, but since the recipe makes like 5 dozen, many will go home to Elkton for the weekend down there. So, I whipped up the dough last night and stuck it in the fridge for baking this evening. Should be interesting….I’m not sure what I’m more concerned about, my crazy oven screwing up the cookies or my attempt at icing them. I am actually fairly crafty and creative, I just don’t use it much but I’m sure with baby in the house the crafty gene will get utilized more often now.

The dough was tasty when I tried it last night!


So this is a two day to write blog, lol! So here's a picture of the cookies after baking. Not too bad.


And here they are after the icing. The icing wasn't quite as easy as I was hoping for but they are good enough and tasty, so that's all that matters!




Here's Mallory this morning before the party!


The party seemed to be a success, Mrs Carole took tons of pictures and I'll post the ones of Bean and one of Puddin, Mrs Carole's right hand pooch, here! Enjoy!!