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Poor V! You see she may be three years old however she still has to have a nap during the day. Some days she decides not to until after 3pm, those days I have to keep her from attempting it because their bedtime is at 8pm and if she sleeps that late she’ll never go to sleep.
This day in particular I made dinner and she promptly took one single bite, came over sat next to me. ‘I sleepy mommy.’ I tried to get her to go eat but she wouldn’t and five minutes later she was out cold. I hate putting her to bed without eating but she slept straight through until around 7am. So I suppose if she was really hungry then she wouldn’t have allowed that to happen right?
Ugh has it really been a month since I wrote anything on here? Bleah!! I’m so sorry.
Life in general is pretty crappy for us right now. The bills keep piling up and we can’t get ahead. So there really hasn’t been much to blog about.
The girls are doing really good. Last week we had a potentially scary thing happen. V being the little copy of me that she is decided it would be nice to introduce her face to the corner of our coffee table. Thankfully it was only just a bit bloody and she ended up with a black eye for a few days. It is starting to look much better now, and we may get lucky with her not even having a scar.
As if that wasn’t scary enough for me while I was on the phone with Mike explaining what happened and trying to calm down. M tore out of the bathroom, tripped over a toy and introduced her chin to their solid wood toy kitchen. Thankfully we escaped any bleeding on her account and she wound up with just a really nice bruise.
Really other than our little misadventures in the home we haven’t done much. The weather has gotten warm here, running in the higher 50’s so I have been trying to go through their clothes and pull out the summer stuff. Camping season has finally begun, tonight will be M’s first night out at the campsite with Grandma and Grandpa all by herself. We are going to try to enjoy the few we will get in this summer.
Our families have been plagued with physical illness. It started in September with my dad, that ended last month with the removal of three of his toes. This is the hardest for me to handle seeing as the doctor that first saw him could have had him in for an angioplasty and saved months of pain, suffering and amputation. But no, they gave my dad the run around for months until his toes finally turned black and had to be taken off.
Mike’s mother had to have her gallbladder removed a couple months ago and so it knocked her on her butt for a few weeks. She is finally doing much better from that. But now Mike’s dad is the concern for us. A couple weeks ago he was in for a normal check up when he couldn’t pull himself up out of the waiting room chair and the doctor saw. This is nothing new for us to see because it happens very often, he has diabetes and is nearly 300 pounds. But his doctor thought that there was something else going on, that he shouldn’t be that debilitated that he can’t pull himself out of a chair.
Sure enough his heart is nearly clogged. He is going to have to have a valve replacement and double bypass, possibly more but they haven’t heard all the details yet but it will have to happen soon. So a lot of family illness issues at the moment.
Mike and I are doing okay despite our constant money issues. We are stuck in a hole and are having a seriously hard time trying to find the surface. Drowning in bills and negative bank balances is slowly starting to drive a wedge though. I feel badly that I can’t help. Mike has applied for another job though, we are about a month out from them having a decision. If he doesn’t get picked for the job though then I will pick up a night job, with or with out his approval. We just can not continue down this path. The girls will ultimately suffer and I won’t allow it.
The major blow to my self esteem this month was having to ask my mother in law to buy groceries for us last weekend. I was depressed for several days after it, and am still dealing with it. I have a feeling it will happen again in a few weeks when we yet again are negative and just trying to make ends meet.
I hate to be so negative in my posts. Our life is just not all sunshine and roses right now. There are points where the happiness can break through and I am so very grateful for those moments. Like seeing the girls happy giggling and wrestling on the floor, or seeing Mike laugh at one of my silly little stories. I am just putting my faith in a higher power to see us through this storm. For so long I haven’t been with all the overwhelming trials we have had to deal with.
We will get there, how and when is up to God.
That protect our freedoms, worlds away from our homes. They give their lives for us. I hope that everyone takes today and thanks a Veteran for what they have done for us.
God Bless you all!!
Today was kind of busy. But kind of not. I got up this morning and was pretty lazy, then we went grocery shopping. I hate to grocery shop lately. It’s depressing seein the prices rise and rise. It also stinks when people are rude as hell. Some lady who was in an obviously bigger hurry than I was, ran into my cart with the girls in it. She never even stopped to say she was sorry, or even tried to say ‘exuse me’. Nope she just gave me the dirtiest of looks and kept on going.
The girls and I came home, V slept on the couch in her jacket, hat and shoes. She must have been really sleepy. She didn’t even want me to take off her coat. I tried once and she gave a huge protest. So I let her be. M and I cuddled on the couch for a while. It was nice to just hang and watch tv. I should have been cleaning my kitchen, or folding laundry. Oh well, they are only little once and its one thing I love to do. Just sit and enjoy their company.
I did make dinner and then spent an hour folding laundry that I had let pile up. See the thing is when you have sick children, you often have to give up on keeping everything nice and tidy. I have two sinks full of dishes along with a couple pans sitting on my stove. They’ve been really cranky and clingy. I feel it is more important to make sure they are happy. So if that means sitting thru Sleeping Beauty 20 times in one week (no exaggeration) then I’ll do it.
I did accomplish the laundry, and I made the girls bed up. Since M had puked on it yesterday morning it had to be stripped down and the quilt washed. It took three runs thru the dryer on delicate to finally dry completely. Stripping their bed meant that they had about a 100 stuffed animals that usually sit on the end of their bed all over their floor. So it took a while this evening to get everything back in place.
Never a dull moment in our house. V seemed to be doing better then her nose started running even more towards bedtime and her temp was 100. M seems to be much better, she didn’t puke after about 8am, and her nose didn’t run at all today. And no coughing. I on the other hand have the start of a sinus/head cold. The weather is so dry and cold here right now that is the reason so many are getting sick.
I am suppose to have a doctor appointment Tuesday for myself. I think I’m going to call and change it to later in the month. Its just not a good time right now. And Mike has an eye appointment Wednesday night. It’s more important than my doctor appointment. He’s been having vision issues that are getting worse over the last several months. Its time for him to finally go get some glasses.
Anyways, that was our day. Simple all in all. Nothing glamorous but its our life. And … I kind of love it.
So yesterday morning I decided to go brave our brand new Target store (Grand Opening). We get out there, find parking really close to the building, so far everything’s going grand. Then we walk in the store, get V into the cart, walk over to take a browse through the dollar section, and I look down at something in the bottom bin, and my lens pops right out of my frames onto the floor!!
Thankfully the screw didn’t fall out. So I head to Guest Services and ask if maybe by chance they have a mini screw driver, she sends me to the Jewelry counter. This is when I really start to panic as the screw is not tightening into the hole! So I message Mike, saying I’m stuck at Target with broken glasses. I couldn’t even leave to come home because I’m almost blind with out my glasses.
So we stand around and wait for Mike to come from church to rescue me. He shows up can’t get the screw to tighten either. This is when we realize that because the glasses are 6 years old (no exaggerating there) the hole no longer has grooves for the screw to turn into. So we decide to wander over to the hardware section and see if something will pop into his head on how to fix it.
We’re wondering through the aisles when all of a sudden he goes, okay we need to find somewhere to sit so I can fix these, mind you I can’t see much but blurs everywhere lol. We go up front to the Starbucks and sit down, and he shows me one of those wire twist tie type things.
Here are my glasses now, in all their geeky glory. Did I mention I love my hubby?? I guess I’ll be heading down to Lens Crafters this week and get an eye exam, and new glasses.
We had a WIC appointment today.
M: 32.5 lbs 37in
V: 23.5 lbs 32in
I’m wondering how they will differ when M goes in for her 4 year check. Sometimes it can be so different between offices. Different scales and such.
My Geeklings
6 of them!! Little buggers! My AVG had started crashing my entire laptop with in the last month or so. First it was once every other week or so, it would crash during the scan, then it started happening every week, then 2 times a week, then it was every day! AVG just couldn’t get thru a scan and it would crash my whole laptop.
So I spent all day yesterday running House Call, it did the first scan in 2.5 hours. It found 6 issues. Then did a deep scan that took 5 or so hours. Ugh was such a pain in the rump. I’ll be running house call once a month now and AVG is fixed now to run everyday. I totally blaim Myspace or facebook. Thats all I’ll say! lol
Leaving my inlaws tonight I went to swing the gate closed and then had to stop it from hitting V. It nailed my right hand right on the inside of my wrist. Ugh, if I try to grasp anything then I get shooting pains up my thumb and halfway to my elbow. I sure hope it feels better in the morning. Amazingly, I didn’t bleed. It did peel up a couple layers of skin in two places. I imagine I may have a bruise in the morning. Stupid metal chain link gates!!
Mike brought home some kind of stupid bug from work, or from one of his trips. Its a nasty little thing. I’ve got sinus crap, sore throat (most likely from post nasal drip). So far I’ve tried Dayquil during the day, Nyquil at night. And even some Advil Cold and Sinus. I get very little releif. Been thru about a box of tissues and that was just since yesterday. Here it is 5:49pm and I have little interest in cooking dinner. But I suppose I should. The girls are going to be looking for it. Thankfully they ate a late lunch so I can put it off a little later.
I’m praying I’m better soon. I really don’t like being ill. Its just not fun having a stuffy head that makes you dizzy when you have two children to chase.
Poor V we ended up having to cancel her party for tomorrow. She’s been coughing since Tuesday afternoon, well this morning she woke up with a fever. We’re not sure what she has, but the cough is kind of yucky sounding and the temp is over 101. She doesn’t seem sick though. Oh well.
I took her to the doctor today and he said there is some pretty nasty stuff going around right now. And that it could last up to two weeks. Grrr!!! So she got a chest xray to rule out pneumonia, and or a chip she could have enhaled, which the xray’s were clear thankfully. So now we wait it out.
Mike and I think we’ll take her out to his parents campsite still and celebrate with them like we had planned. My poor girl, atleast its not M, man would she be disappointed!
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