Thank You to all the Moms out there!

I just got home from spending the last 48 hours babysitting a 13 month old boy, Kaden. He is adorable. I had such fun with him. We laughed and giggled this weekend while his parents wen to Vegas for the weekend. It was their first time away overnight. So while they were enjoying Phantom of the Opera I was getting chocolate pudding everywhere! Right at this moment I am so proud of the moms in the world. You all have had to work so hard to keep children fed, diapers changed, baths taken, bottles fixed, dishes washed, clothing washed, walls washed, walks taken, ball played, naps taken, toys picked up and 1,000 more things done daily. THANK YOU for all you do for your families!

Right at this moment I am also thankful I am not a mother. I know I am going to age without anyone around to care for me and that makes me sad but at least I get to sleep through the night! I am just not ready to be a full-time mom which is what you are whether you work or stay at home. It is a lot of work and I am not used to it. Well I am off to teach 3 year olds that Jesus made the night and day for us for 2 hours. I just hope I have enough patience, energy and love left to give.

Advice Needed ASAP

Hey RDHs out there in cyberspace, I need your help! I am still struggling with calculus deposits at the base of the pocket. You know the kind that is down there yet the tissues are tight and all your instruments are to bulky to get around the deposit to get underneath. I usually end up scraping the top on the deposit until I can get it broken down enough to get under it. By then I have purple tissue that is severely damaged and all I can think about is how glad I am that I am not taking my boards right now because the amount of tissue trauma I just caused would flunk me. So then I think I am a failure as a hygienist. So I really need some help from you guys. How do you get that deposit off. In this one particular case I have a 6 mm pocket and I have used every tip of the ultrasonic (like the pink and orange ones that are huge meanies). Then I use all Gracey's I have....the rigid, non-rigid, and the after 5 mini ones. I have used my Montana Jack subgingivally....ouch! so what else is there? Let me know what you use and I can purchase one. I could really use some ideas! I feel really bad about causing so much tissue trauma but I had to get that deposit out of there......HELP!!!!

Best Weekend Ever!

I just had a really good weekend. I went up to Salt Lake City for the annual Utah Dental Convention. It was a really good convention--mostly because I got to see tons of people! While I love living in Cedar City I miss my friends and associates that live in northern Utah. I hung out Thursday night with Aimee, Emily, Candace and Desiree and Pam. We went to The Old Spaghetti Factory. It was very yummy! We had great conversation and it was wonderful to hear about all their lives and what they are doing. Friday I went to the Happy Sumo with most of 'my girls'. We were missing Melissa and Maria! Korbin, Heidi, and Natalie were there though. I loved being able to talk to them about work and dental hygiene! We worked on fulcrums, instrumentation, when to refer to a periodontist, injections, and rates of pay. I am so glad that they were there for me! I really needed that time with them! There was one moment that outshines all the rest...it is when my girls told me that they all purchased one of the cute RDH bags WSU SADHA was selling. I almost cried! Realizing that they valued SADHA enough to purchase these bags without my influence is the MOST amazing feeling of pride! Way to go my B-to-the ITCH-As!!

I stayed with my dear friend Andrea for the weekend. I arrived Wednesday night. Andrea took me to Joe's Crab Shack for some yummy shrimp! We went to Macy's to get breakfast food and I saw my favorite treats ever....cinnamon hearts with sugar on the outside. I bought 5 million pounds! We then rented Nacho Libre! I have not laughed so much at a movie for a long time! It was amazing. Jack Black was freaking hilarious! The accents and phrases he used were too funny and I cannot stop quoting the movie!

Saturday Andrea and I attended a Mary Kay party. We received some beautiful make-overs! Anyway, I was looking good and to boost my self esteem a cute man followed us off the freeway. We were having such a fun time flirting but alas he turned a different direction. Later that night we went to a luau for single adults. It was a lot of fun! The dinner was amazing, the entertainment was top notch, and the dance was alright. There were a lot of fun people there having fun! Then on Sunday we attended 3 hours of church in the dark. The power was out yet the good 'ol Mormons carried on and persevered in the dark! It was intriguing to me that a whole congregation and I squinted at the finely types pages of scripture and kept our shoulders to the wheel....What a great experience!

This whole weekend made me want to move up north. The pros are a larger social demographic for me, my hair girl moved up there, Andrea, Korbin, Heidi, Natalie, Andrea and I would start a book club, and the hourly rate is higher. The cons are Cedar is my comfort zone, no inversion/air pollution, I guess that is it....So why am I living down here? Good question! Well until later x o x o XX oo xx OO x ha ha ha!

Yes, this is a fantasy...

Ok so I love the disclaimer on the new Ford Edge commercial. If you have not had the pleasure of viewing this commercial-or if you did and missed the note at the bottom of the screen, I will tell you. As the Edge is driving around on top of a building it reads 'Yes, this is a fantasy. Cars cannot drive on buildings.' I love it! I love that America can make fun of their own stupidity. I mean it is ridiculous to even have to state that cars cannot drive on buildings-I know it is because of the false advertising laws etc-I would really like to think people would have enough common sense to realize that cars cannot defy gravity in such a manner. The fact that Ford took advantage of the blatant obvious fact and had a little fun with it made my day!