Tonight we are under winter storm warnings because of a big ice and snow storm. Though all other school age kids are jumping for joy because now schools are closed on what was to be the last day before Christmas break tomorrow, my little Owen is not as happy. When the public schools close so does his preschool and tomorrow was supposed to be his Preschool Christmas party and green day. He's been looking forward to it for a long time now and Raymond had his on Tuesday and it's all Owen can talk about, and now he won't get to have it! :(
I was planning my daycare Christmas party tomorrow so I am going to try and make it extra special for Owen so he doesn't feel like his missing anything. However, with that, I couldn't make it to Wal-mart tonight so I don't have all of the craft supplies I need for my crafts for tomorrow and I don't have any Christmas presents for my daycare kids like I always do. I love the snow in the month of December, but I just wish it worked out that it didn't screw Owen out of his party. I feel so sad for him.
Poor Tony has to get up and out in the thick of the storm at 4:30am to head to work. Since I can't get out of the house tomorrow I am sending him in our Suburban so that he will have a better chance of getting to work and home safe.
I wish I could post pictures of my kids because I have so many cute pictures of them to share. I have taken pictures of them decorating the tree and just playing around. Pictures of Judd are probably totally different than the last one's I posted on Halloween!!!! Oh my gosh!!
Keep your fingers crossed that I can get my computer back very very soon!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Christmas Good Will
Tonight I got to get out with my fellow church members and do some Christmas good will. It felt good, but it is mixed with a strange sadness for the elderly and a bit scary for my future when I too become one of the elderly.
Every year our women's group at church makes cookies then wraps them up and drives all over town in the church van (which is nice but the heat needs looked at, and not too much fun in -20 degree weather!) to deliver these wrapped cookies to the elderly home bound of our congregation. So we were making stops at assisted living facilities and so forth to do this. We took turns getting in and out of the van because it was so cold and there was ten of us crashing in on these places, we thought it best to only go with a couple at a time.
The only one I went into was to see this 75 year old lady named Carol at an assisted living nursing home. She has been living there for 10 years!!! She has MS, but not severe. She has four grown children (all live around here except her oldest son who lives in Pennsylvania), a slew of grandkids and she said two great grandkids. We brought her Sunday's alter flowers, cookies and a few Christmas carols to share with her. Despite her age and her MS, she seemed in a great condition, not necessarily unlike where I'd hope to be at 75 if I had to be in a nursing home. Then going down the hallway I see other elderly people in not such great condition. Needing machines to help them get into their wheel chairs, completely unaware of their surroundings or no ability to control their body. SO sad.
These people are just like you and me at one point and someday we will be like them, and I have to admit I am scared to death of being old and knocking on death's door. I consider myself a devout Christian, but death sometimes worries me to the point of hyperventilation.
Afterwards we went to Village Inn for dinner (9:30pm) and with only one other table in there waited a ridiculously long time for our food, so though we started at 6:30 and we only had five stops to make, I didn't get home until 11:00pm. Tony wasn't too happy. Sorry Tony! :)
Every year our women's group at church makes cookies then wraps them up and drives all over town in the church van (which is nice but the heat needs looked at, and not too much fun in -20 degree weather!) to deliver these wrapped cookies to the elderly home bound of our congregation. So we were making stops at assisted living facilities and so forth to do this. We took turns getting in and out of the van because it was so cold and there was ten of us crashing in on these places, we thought it best to only go with a couple at a time.
The only one I went into was to see this 75 year old lady named Carol at an assisted living nursing home. She has been living there for 10 years!!! She has MS, but not severe. She has four grown children (all live around here except her oldest son who lives in Pennsylvania), a slew of grandkids and she said two great grandkids. We brought her Sunday's alter flowers, cookies and a few Christmas carols to share with her. Despite her age and her MS, she seemed in a great condition, not necessarily unlike where I'd hope to be at 75 if I had to be in a nursing home. Then going down the hallway I see other elderly people in not such great condition. Needing machines to help them get into their wheel chairs, completely unaware of their surroundings or no ability to control their body. SO sad.
These people are just like you and me at one point and someday we will be like them, and I have to admit I am scared to death of being old and knocking on death's door. I consider myself a devout Christian, but death sometimes worries me to the point of hyperventilation.
Afterwards we went to Village Inn for dinner (9:30pm) and with only one other table in there waited a ridiculously long time for our food, so though we started at 6:30 and we only had five stops to make, I didn't get home until 11:00pm. Tony wasn't too happy. Sorry Tony! :)
Friday, December 12, 2008
So Frustrated!
I am still so very frustrated with this whole computer crashing thing. I have it being worked on by Verlyn, Tony's mom's husband, which I am SO thankful for. I just feel so lost without it. It has all of my daycare forms on it and all of my picture programs for downloading pictures. I feel so behind on downloading pictures and I have about 100 on my camera and most of those need to be shared!
I apologize if you are aching for updated photos of the boys, I am dying to share them with you. Please be patient and don't lose interest in the blog because I assure you that there will be pictures again someday!!! :)
I apologize if you are aching for updated photos of the boys, I am dying to share them with you. Please be patient and don't lose interest in the blog because I assure you that there will be pictures again someday!!! :)
Christmas Spirit
It's sad but the older I get the less "Christmasy" it feels this time of year. I recall as a kid that it was usually snowy and cold at Christmas time, there was an air of excitment that built up all through November and December and the anticipation was so high on Christmas Eve that I couldn't sleep.
Now, I feel like it is any other day. Last year I was way more excited than this year for some reason and I feel too organized, which also makes the season seem less "Christmasy".
Now that I have three kids they are the only ones I care about the season for. I want them to experience EVERYTHING to do with Christmas and I want them to get wrapped up in the spirit of the season. I want them to have exciting and fun memories of Christmas like I do. Tomorrow we are going to go shopping for Tony and it sort of seems like it will be no fun because it's supposed to be about 50 degrees and to me that is NOT Christmas shopping weather! :(
So in light of all of this I have decided to change my background on the blog into a more Christmasy theme! So enjoy.
Now, I feel like it is any other day. Last year I was way more excited than this year for some reason and I feel too organized, which also makes the season seem less "Christmasy".
Now that I have three kids they are the only ones I care about the season for. I want them to experience EVERYTHING to do with Christmas and I want them to get wrapped up in the spirit of the season. I want them to have exciting and fun memories of Christmas like I do. Tomorrow we are going to go shopping for Tony and it sort of seems like it will be no fun because it's supposed to be about 50 degrees and to me that is NOT Christmas shopping weather! :(
So in light of all of this I have decided to change my background on the blog into a more Christmasy theme! So enjoy.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Winter blues, winter flus!
Last week was so horrible. I hate when my kids get sick. I may as well be sick when they are because I feel like I suffer as much as they do. I anticipate their throwing up, I have to run with them to the bathroom, I get puke all over me as I help them clean up, I get no sleep because I am waiting for the next throw up, and I'm constantly on my feet trying to get everything cleaned up.
Let me start from the beginning. Wednesday night Raymond kept saying he had a tummy ache and needed to throw up. I kept kind of ignoring it because he jokes about this sometimes (I know), Owen is slowly wilting away meanwhile on the couch and getting warmer with a fever. We get them all ready for bed and Owen passes out on the couch and Raymond passes out on Tony's lap and then Tony shouts "Ah help". I knew it. I didn't even have to look I just whipped into action with my mom ability. I just knew he was going to throw up. He had started to throw up a little on Tony but I grabbed him by the arm and ran to the bathroom and shoved his head over the toilet just as he let it loose. Then in the middle of the night he threw up all night and Owen started throwing up. I had to strip beds, strip pj's and clean up faces and put towels everywhere all night long.
Thursday came and they were NO better. Raymond was going intervals of a few hours without throwing up, but poor Owen was running to the potty every 15 to 20 minutes all day long. That night Judd was SO crabby all afternoon. Nothing made him happy, not even me, which is saying alot. That evening I sat down to nurse him and not five minutes after he finished he sat up on my lap and puked all over the place. He was completely happy afterwards. He was laughing and smiling and crawling all over. This is the great resilience of a baby. He proceeded to throw up two more times, but was then done. They ate nothing and drank sips of water all Thursday. Same thing Thursday night. Friday came and they both stopped throwing up. They still had fevers and now a cough but the throwing up was gone. Then Tony took the dogs to the vet for a check up and Raymond REALLY wanted to go. BIG MISTAKE. Poor Tony ended up cleaning Raymond's throw up off the vet's floor.
They are much better now and we were in the clear over the weekend, but I am still exhausted from their illness. The nice thing is that all of my towels, sheets, and pjs are clean. Both bathrooms are totally disinfected and so are all of the toys in the playroom.
Tonight Tony is up in bed throwing up. I hope you all find yourselves healthy for this holiday season.
Let me start from the beginning. Wednesday night Raymond kept saying he had a tummy ache and needed to throw up. I kept kind of ignoring it because he jokes about this sometimes (I know), Owen is slowly wilting away meanwhile on the couch and getting warmer with a fever. We get them all ready for bed and Owen passes out on the couch and Raymond passes out on Tony's lap and then Tony shouts "Ah help". I knew it. I didn't even have to look I just whipped into action with my mom ability. I just knew he was going to throw up. He had started to throw up a little on Tony but I grabbed him by the arm and ran to the bathroom and shoved his head over the toilet just as he let it loose. Then in the middle of the night he threw up all night and Owen started throwing up. I had to strip beds, strip pj's and clean up faces and put towels everywhere all night long.
Thursday came and they were NO better. Raymond was going intervals of a few hours without throwing up, but poor Owen was running to the potty every 15 to 20 minutes all day long. That night Judd was SO crabby all afternoon. Nothing made him happy, not even me, which is saying alot. That evening I sat down to nurse him and not five minutes after he finished he sat up on my lap and puked all over the place. He was completely happy afterwards. He was laughing and smiling and crawling all over. This is the great resilience of a baby. He proceeded to throw up two more times, but was then done. They ate nothing and drank sips of water all Thursday. Same thing Thursday night. Friday came and they both stopped throwing up. They still had fevers and now a cough but the throwing up was gone. Then Tony took the dogs to the vet for a check up and Raymond REALLY wanted to go. BIG MISTAKE. Poor Tony ended up cleaning Raymond's throw up off the vet's floor.
They are much better now and we were in the clear over the weekend, but I am still exhausted from their illness. The nice thing is that all of my towels, sheets, and pjs are clean. Both bathrooms are totally disinfected and so are all of the toys in the playroom.
Tonight Tony is up in bed throwing up. I hope you all find yourselves healthy for this holiday season.
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