Thankful on a Wednesday

1. Dave is doing better.

2. Back to a semi-normal day today.

3. Hearing Dave's laughter all day.

4. Getting to stay in my p.j.'s till after-noon.

5. Dave eating lots of food today.

6. Hearing the normal brotherly banter in the back seat of the car.

7. Dave not laying on the couch all day.

8. Antibiotics and cold medicine.

9. Sweet friends that called and emailed to check on Dave. Thank you.

10. Our health.

Fighting the Nap

So this post is by my son Dave. After taking him to the doctor to find out he has a 'form of strep' and possibly mono (we'll be waiting for the end of the week to take the blood test for mono)..the doctor told him, he needs to stay inside, resting, drinking lots of fluids, eat lots of fruits and veggies and GET LOTS OF SLEEP!!!!! Dave rolled his eyes. I did the happy dance.

So when we got home, I knew it was MY naptime, so I had Dave go up and take a nap too. This is what he spent his time doing....while I was sleeping.

WHY NOT TO NAP By David H.

1. It's a waste of time.
2. Night is when you sleep.
3. I don't feel better, I feel worse.

Nappng is so dumb, why nap when I could be doing school, playing with dad or Calv, studying the word of God (nice), reading, or watching a movie. They are all better than napping. It's a waste of time. If you want to get better then why nap, I could be getting better, naps make me feel worse. I am a night sleeper, I don't know about you but I generaly sleep at night. Instead of having 15 hours to do stuff,when you nap you take off 2 hours - in 2 hours I could watch a movie, read 7 chapters or play a game. Overall I am against naps and HATE taking them. Doc may have said go to sleep early, but that's at night and its not night, its 2:15.

(this is where he stopped, because...HE FELL ASLEEP!)

He's so precious.

Day 13 on the 'Dave is Still Sick' Watch

Yes, it's true. I'm completely beside myself. I thought I was bad when they got the stomach flu but try having them have a cold and fever for 13 days. Makes this Mama pretty much a mess. I know we should have more sympathy for the sick boy. But this is my blog, not his. :o)

But really, he woke me up again yesterday morning saying he didn't feel good at all and had another fever. After getting him all tucked in on the couch, meds in, water downed and he fell back asleep ,I just rubbed his back...and prayed, and prayed, and prayed. My poor baby, my heart just aches when my babies are sick. I don't care how old they are, it will still make me cry and worry.

Jay had to put the kibosh on me taking him to the doctor everyday, saying that a cold and low grade fever are no excuse to go to the doctor and what can they do that they didn't do last week????

Then, it happened, the sweetest voice on the phone...our pediatrician finally callin' me with the final lab results from the culture they took from him last week. He either has strep or maybe mono. See, he really was sick and needs those antibiotics. I'm normally one of those moms that tries all the 'natural cures' before I'll give them anything regular, but not this time. I was begging for drugs. The nurses and receptionists are completely tired of me calling everyday. But the sweet Doctor calling me tonight and wanting us to get the pills and then bring him in the morning to check again. I just love him. I could just kiss him right now.

I don't have any pictures for this post. One, because I couldn't figure out how to download them into my new laptop. Two, how many pictures of a sick little boy laying on the couch can one take? Third, he now snarls at me when I get my camera out. Except for the sweet picture I took of him snuggling his dog yesterday afternoon, that dog knows when his Dave is not feeling well, and it makes my heart smile.

Jay and I have been tag teaming it, Jay is in charge of doing the Neti-Pot (nasal passageway clean out) every morning and night. I'm in charge of administrating the medicines. Jay's in charge of making sure he eats the food I give him. I'm in charge of drowning him in fluids. Jay is in charge of giving him comedic relief. I'm in charge of snuggling him and watching movies with him. It's a tough job, but I'm happy to do it. Jay's not too thrilled about the Neti-Pot thing, especially when Calvin and I come running to see what creatures are comin' out of his nose. Lovely little science project.

His baseball draft was tonight, but he was too out of it to go, we're hoping that there will be a make up night. I can't imagine the spring without baseball. His last basketball game is this weekend, hopefully he'll be able to at least go and sit on the bench. I've missed church three weeks now, I'm hoping that no-one will be sick and I can go this Sunday, I'm thinking the pastor is going to make a house call pretty soon if he doesn't see me there soon. We've tried doing a little bit of school but when I look at the month of March in the attendance book, it's a very sad sight. Looks like we'll be schoolin' through the summer this year.

I'm off to stick a thermometer in my turkey, mash some taters, paint my toenails. Hears hopin' I'm able to blog about something other than sickness...soon.

We're Still Here

This is what greets you at the back door. After what seems like a month of illness, it pretty much sums up our house. We are very thankful that so far it has not gotten to Jay or I.

So for the past two days this is what my guest room was used for...



The poor little thing. We thought he was getting better over the weekend, but then Monday night it hit him like a ton of bricks. Fever, cough and severe tiredness. We rushed him to the doctor Tuesday night where they did strep test, flu test, pee in a cup test. He has nothing serious. It's just a cold. But this is the worst-bad-@#$ cold of the century. O-my-goodness!

I made him stay in bed all day yesterday. I've been force feeding him fluids, soups, fruit, malt-o-meal. The DVD player doesn't work in this room so he's been watching TV all day long. I know that he's being corrupted by all the nonsense cartoons, game shows, Judge Judy and maybe a little soap opera...but, seriously, how much can affect a little eleven year old? Right?

We were suppose to have some friends come and stay with us for a couple of weeks before they go on their mission field. But what with the plague going on over here, they were a little scared. So they are coming tomorrow to just stay the weekend. Don't you know I've had to completely wash down and clean the guest room & bath.



Yes, I have WAY too much free time. This is what I do when we have guests.



Oh, but wait, check out the bathroom.





As you can see, not very exciting stuff going on around here. Me trying to keep busy and not go stir crazy and the boys doing hardly any school and lots of TV watching.

Spring is here and we wanna go out and play....soon, hopefully, real soon.

House of Plagues (take two)

Meet Sickie Number One...


(oh, and can I just tell you, this is what the kitty does every night, he jumps up on Calvin's stomach and starts massaging it, till he gets it just right, then curls up and lays down. Calvin loves it, and we just laugh.)

He came down with it last Thursday and is still going strong. We thought it was Strep, but now the Doctor thinks it may be Mono (lovely).... we're still holding out hope that it's just a bad flu/cold thing.

Then yesterday, Sickie Number Two...



Doesn't have much energy, but at least he can still hold the wheel. That would have been tragic.

I've been keeping busy by doing lots of cleaning, laundry, reading, did all my ironing & mending; watching all the Andy Griffith, Gilligan's Island, I Love Lucy shows, some Indiana Jones movies, ALL the Rocky movies (Yo, Adrian!), it's been real fun.

I've also been dealing with lovely computer naughtiness. Like email just not wanting to download. Being kicked off the internet at the bestest of times. And right now, I keep getting some sound file that keeps playing weird commercials. There is no window, just some sound....what is up with that? Some bad woogies have gotten ahold of my computer. My Mr. Computer Chris got a frantic call this morning. He loves my frantic calls...."Chris, come quick I can't check my blogs, things are very dire, need your help, stat!"

We did order me a new computer, because this one is well, not doing well, computer guy said it was a good time to do it, and the deal was too good to pass up. But in the mean time, I still need to be able to do the important things like run payroll, pay bills, email my homies, blog for my parents, shop for shoes, check out the deals at Old Navy...you know the really crucial stuff.

wups, gotta go, someone just hacked up somethin' in the other room, gotta go check to see if it was the cat or the Dave. O, Happy Day!

Thankful on a Thursday

1. How sweet my boys are too each other when one of them is sick. At 13 and 11 it's all I get.

2. That it's chilly outside today and looks like rain, I love it when it's like this.

3. My bouquet of daffodils on my table. They had bloomed and then the snow made them get all laying-downy, so I brought them in the house to perk 'em up.



4. All the hugs and kisses I've gotten from Sweetie this week.

5. My parents left today on a little camping trip, though I hate it when they are gone and not available for me to call them anytime I want to, I do love it that they can get away.

6. I got to talk to Sara last night, and then realized I haven't talked to her for a few months, I've been a bad friend. But she's good about forgiving me. Right?

7. Sweet Gina showing up this morning with our movies, but asked if she could get Calvin anything at the store.

8. After getting some bad news last night about some friends of ours, Calvin called everyone on his cell phone contact list and asked them to be praying.

9. Laughing on the phone last night with my friend Stephanie while I made dinner. Yummy & Healthy tacos.

10. My bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs that I have hiddden from the boys. My favorite Easter candy! Every so often I walk by and get a couple. Yummo!

Prayer...if you don't mind. Sweet Heidi at Nothing But Blue Sky was in a bad car accident yesterday. She broke her ankle/leg and had to go through several hours of surgery last night. She's about 30 weeks pregnant and the baby seems to be okay PTL! Please be praying that her healing goes good and that all is okay with little baby Samuel.

Thankful on a Saturday

1. A good nights sleep, which is rare when Sweetie is out of town.

2. Dave holding my hand while we were reading in bed.

3. That first bite of crepes this morning.

4. Hearing what a great time my oldest is having with his Dad. Just listening to his deep voice over the phone.

5. The absolutely gorgeous weather we've had the last couple of days.

6. Got to talk to my sister today, even if it was to give her advice on what kind of vacuum to buy.

7. Remembering, even if it was at the last moment, that I was in charge of snacks for Dave's game today.

8. Watchin' Dave play basketball, and that I made it through the whole game without screaming his name and embarrassing him.

9. The windows being open today, loving the fresh air.

10. Snuggled in my bed, drinking a cup of tea watchin' a great movie with a sweet friend.