January 12 - January 18

It is snowing. Again. It snowed last night. It stopped. It is snowing again. It snowed on Thursday. I do not mind shoveling. I think I actually like it. And going out over and over again. I dont know why. I think it is peaceful. There is something about how quiet it is during snow storms. Of course only when it isnt incredibly windy outside. It is a quiet and stillness that you. really can not explain. It is definitely different from other quiets. I know some people know exactly what I mean. I wonder if there is more snow in the forecast. I have not been able to watch the weather because of the football games on TV! Since the Bears and Patriots were not in the running, I was hoping the Cardinals (YAY!) and the Ravens (BOO) would get in. Ok... so I was 50% happy with that.

This week was crazy. As is always the way with us. I feel like a big hypochondriac half the time. I feel like more medical drama can not come to our house... but, it always seems to make its way back here. I hate sounding like a whiner. I just can not believe it though. WHY!??!?! We had all the housing drama last year with the mold issue. My kids spent almost all of last winter ill and it seems to be a repeat of last year. This week... what a whirlwind of craziness. Almost as good as last week... we didnt get to torture the baby as much this week with crazy eyelid seperators and needles. BUT he was NOT well this week. Monday night he woke up with the ever familiar croup seal bark. He had a very tough time being able to catch his breath. It was pretty scary. I brought him to the ER sometime after 1230 am and he received some saline breathing treatment which ended up being much more of a cool toy... and he did get a good dose of prednisone to settle it down. And we returned home at about 230 ish.

I had the dentist on Monday. I REALLY REALLY like my dentist! A L O T . I could not be happier and more comfortable with a dentist which is something I will miss when we leave here. She is connected with the kids dentist. I told them I needed to make an appointment for Kiley because she lost a filling. She had been getting resin fillings at the previous dentist who has since passed away... and well, they dont hold up too well in children. So, I made the appointment for tuesday not knowing how horrible monday night was going to be. I still have 3 more appointments to have my teeth fixed up but I am an adult and I can tolerate it. So, I get home and I am talking about how Kiley was going in the next day and Sydney shows me that she has this thing on her gums below one of her teeth that had a silver crown. She informs me that it is ok. It has been there before and she will just go and pop it! WHAT?! POP IT?! NO! I kind of LOST my cool when she was saying that... not yelling at her but more of a freak out. LEAVE IT ALONE! DONT POP IT! I WILL MAKE AN APPOINTMENT at the dentist! YIKES! THIS CHILD HAS AN INCREDIBLE PAIN TOLERANCE! So, off she goes to the dentist with me, Kiley and croupy CJ. YES I brought CROUPY CJ to the appointment? What ELSE Was I going to do with him? Seriously? So, Kiley will need to return for some dope and a pulpotomy and crown. ANOTHER crown. This is the child with NO front teeth (4) and several other crowns. She has some sort of enamel defect. Who knows. She also has high bacteria like her mother. Genetic. Great. Sydney.. well, her tooth was abscessed. Since she had the catheterization for her WPW in Nov. She needed to have the tooth pulled out.... RIGHT THEN... he couldnt let it wait. WHY didnt Sydney tell me the FIRST time she had the problem? The XRay.. Wow... WOW... I have never seen anything like it. There was NOTHING under the tooth. The roots were GONE... Scary. I can not believe it. So, off we go almost 40.00 later. Disgusting tooth in a container. And the dread of Kiley having to go back. Sydney has to have a spacer put in. Kiley.. yikes. Yeah. She is not a good dental patient but she sure likes Doctor. Blue Eyes.... Erica can attest to the nice doctor... tehehehe. So. Because of the LONG night at the ER... Sydney wanting to go back to school. Kiley at school... I decide... COOL... I can take a nice long nap because CJ is nice and asleep. Well. 20 minutes in to my awesome much needed nap the phone rings. It is Ol Doc Blue Eyes.... he wants Sydney to have a mega dose of Amoxicillin. Now. NOW now... not in a little bit now. UGH... SERIOUSLY? So, because the phone rang, CJ woke up. Off to the pharmacy we go. Off to the school we go. AFTER getting the starving baby some BK. I got to the school 5 minutes before the end of school AND I took her out.... doped her up... and waited for her sister. OH... I forgot. I also needed to get Kiley at school AFTER the pharmacy and before getting Sydney. Great. NOW now didnt work out the way it should have. That night Chris had to catch up on a bunch of work because he had been at his posh conference in VA the week before. SO... tired ol bag me... had to take Sydney to basketball. With all the other kids too. Yah. Ah well.. we made it. Oh, and did I mention how Tuesday started the new season of American Idol and Biggest Loser was on at the SAME time... Why do they do that to me?

Wednesday was my quiet day. Or so I thought... Ashley has been telling me she has been peeing herself. What? Why? I thought maybe she was getting to the age that some changes might be starting. She is a small almost 9 year old... but my grandmother was a young bloomer.. my mother was not. I was average. Who knows.. right? Everyone blooms at their own age... So, I emailed a friend of mine... her daughter is a little bit older than mine. She said it could be a change in her ... but to make an appointment just in case. So.. on my good quiet day... I go to the clinic with her. She has to pee in a cup... AFTER CJ stuck his finger in a socket at the docs. IN THE DOCTOR's OFFICE... on the socket on the examination table... boy, it made a noise too! I looked at the doc and said "He just shocked himself!" She just looked at me as if her IQ was blinking 12... 12.. 12... in her eyes... like an alarm clock that has been unplugged and plugged back in... geesh.... Thankfully he seemed ok. Those jerks need some outlet covers. It is at the eye level of a small child when standing on the floor and perfect sized for a nice little finger to go in the hole for the large round part of the plug! grrr.. It could have been bad.... real bad... and I am counting my blessing he was/is ok. Once Ashley paid her price of pee... I brought her back to school to wait for the results... and... well.. the results came in and she has a UTI.. WHAT?! HOW? WHY? Whatever. I now had to wait for the king to wake up from his nap to go and pick up the prescription and get her started. 10 days... return to the doc when medication completed. Yum. UTI... Fun... she is feeling better now though and isnt screaming that she is "PEEING A LITTLE IN MY PANTS". The laundry is not as full as it was of pants and panties... Girl scouts... aargh.. Girl scout meetings on Wednesdays... We got a new girl putting our number at 12. Our limit at the beginning of the year was supposed to be 10. Oh well... they are a good group of girls and they do not all show up. We had a great meeting. American Idol kept me company that night again.

Thursday. Snow day. No school. YAY! I actually do not mind the kids being home but it didnt seem like it snowed enough to warrant them going to school on a putridly hot day. I called the doc in the mornign to try and get CJ in because he now has a miserable cold and cough and snot is slinging out of all the holes on his face. Yuck. LOTS of laundry from me. I hate being covered in snot... and let me tell ya.. when he is nursing... ewww... I will spare you the details. So... night time rolls around. I couldnt get the appointment and had to make it for Friday appointment... well.. he couldnt settle in to rest because of the cough.. so I bring him in to the walk in clinic ER place. We walked in and signed in at 936pm. the place closes at 11pm. WE did NOT get in until nearly midnite to be seen! AND IT TOOK not even 5 minutes to determine my poor baby has a double ear infection. He also still has croup. Great. Discharged close to 1 am. Prescription in hand I go to the local Walgreens to get a dose or two in him before Daddy re-enlists on Friday morning for 5 more years in the Good Ol Navy! Home close to 2 am... Zzz... zzzzzzzzzzzz

When is it my turn to catch up? On SLEEP?

Friday morning.. baby still miserable. Everyone else OK. Keep the girls out of school for the morning for Daddy's re-enlistment. We did it at Subvets. It was definitely different than the other 2 re-enlistments because he isnt on submarines anymore. He is now a corpsman but forever a submariner. Once a submariner always a submariner. It was nice and quaint. And then we enjoyed an awesome lunch. The kids all received a commendation for dealing with the military life... I also got one! Chris got me a dozen roses and the girls all got their own single rose from Daddy. The baby, he got an awesome Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Monster Truck. Have I ever mentioned how much I am loving all of these boy toys? Such a nice change! So, my dear Hubby is property of the government until 1/16/2014. 9 months shy of his 20 year mark! So, he will have to extend to make it to the 20 year mark. I am so proud of him. I am proud of the life we live... we may not have all the money in the world but there is something to say about pride... and honor... and duty... and being in the Armed Services. I LOVE HIM. I am here by his side, thick and thin... now and forever....

I guess I will sign off for now... I have kept you all bored as it is... and I have not even gotten in to the issue of Chris and his back pain and many X Rays... and possibilities... and the worry I have for his health. I told him he better not die on me or I will Kill him... LOL... that will work!

And I never did the giveaway for my 200th post... but I need more traffic to do my giveaway...

I never did find my old cell phone...

MY HUSBAND IS GROSS.... you dont even want to know! LOL LOL LOL!

Oh, and the neighborhood drama... well... not really... but I am the neighborhood outcast now I suppose.... another rainy day story.