I'm On Vacation.

Only.....I'm at work. This used to be what I needed a vacation FROM. Now it's where I go when I NEED a vacation. ROFL.

Kids are back at preschool, two nights in a row of un-interrupted sleep (and actually, last night we slept in our BED for the first time since everyone's been sick....one good thing about sleeping in the recliners though...I don't oversleep....the bed was TOO comfy this morning), still dumping all kinds of medications down the kids....takes an extra 45 minutes to leave the house in the mornings thanks to all the different meds to be dispersed accordingly, mommy is still avoiding the sickness (Thank God) and daddy is feeling much better as well........................

Yes. Life is much better. Now. I'm off to find some wood to knock on.

LOL.

Later!

PS Thanks to everyone for the encouragement and the comments. I'm trying to respond in the comment sections when I can, but for any I missed, thank you! =)

Grace Came Back...

And I'm so glad.

'Member how I was so thankful for "Grace" in one of my last posts? Well, I wasn't very thankful when she deserted me at 2 am on Sunday morning when I hadn't been to bed yet, thanks to the K-man screaming and throwing fits and coughing his head off. I know he didn't feel good, but he would not let us help him at ALL. Breathing treatments? Fight. Medicine? Fight. Drink? Fight. Snack? Fight. Sleep? Fight. Cough. Fight. Diaper Change? Fight. Hold him? Fight. Cough. Fight. Put him down? Fight. Scream. Fight. Give him.....anything? Fight. Take it back? Fight more.

After doing that routine from 8pm Saturday night all the way through about 5am Sunday morning with no sleep whatsoever for mommy and daddy, it was clearly evident, Grace had disappeared and no amount of praying was going to bring her back.

If it hadn't been for munchkin being with KC's parents for the weekend, it would have REALLY been a disaster to be without Grace. LOL.

So after another doctors visit on Sunday morning for some cough medicine powered with codeine so that he could sleep (and consequently, mommy and daddy could sleep), we went back home and tried to catch some zzzzs while he watched a movie. Not much good.

Then Mom and Dad showed up. That was SOOO nice. She and dad watched K-man for several hours and tried to coax him to eat and changed his diapers and all that lovely stuff while the mommy and daddy in need of Grace slept. When we got up after a little rest, things looked much better.

And after he slept a good part of last night without coughing (allowing US to sleep most of the night without getting too frustrated), it was obvious Grace was back.

Ahhh. I love Grace. Even if she did abandon me in the midst of sleepless nights.

The best news? K-man's started playing again this afternoon. He's SO going back to school tomorrow. YAY!!!! And KC's parents dropped munchkin off at school this morning, so I'll go pick her up this afternoon and hopefully all will be back to normal again.

In the meantime, welcome back, Grace!!!

Random K-man Quote

After a long night of wheezing and hacking and keeping mommy and poor sick daddy up till all hours of the night, mommy took K-man to the doctor this morning.

He got a shot of steroids in the office.

After being stuck with the inch long needle right in the leg, mommy picked him up and this is what she heard.

*very sadly and pathetically*
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. MOMMY!... DAAADDDDYYYYY!!!.........
MUNNNNNNNNNNCHHHHKIIIIIIIIINNNNNN!!!!!"

Naturally, he didn't call for "munchkin", he used her real name, but I can't use it here cuz it would be obvious what it is. LOL. It was hilARIOUS!!!

Still here....

Still makin' it.

What a week, though. And it is imPOSsible to get anything done at home when you're here with sick young'uns. They (K-man especially) just wants to be attached to my hip permanently and for the munchkin, she turns into superbrat when she doesn't feel good. Thank God, he's given me abundant grace. I can handle a child not feeling good, and even being all whiney and everything yet just laying around and wanting to be babied or petted, but a child who doesn't feel good and shows it by being extremely bratty and doing her best to push every last anger button I've got (you know, the ones that get pushed when they scream in the highest decibel possible because you said it was time to pick up the stuff they dragged all out, or the buttons that get pushed when they narrow their eyes at you and call you meanie mommy and start tearing apart their room for just as small a reason), just drives me up a wall. Ugh.

Thank God for extra patience. I've certainly needed it this week.

So far I'm still above the sick bed, but no guarantees on staying that way. Still downing lots of water and vitamins and spraying lysol through the house, non-stop.

Oh yeah, and today I opened all the windows and turned the fans on. That was actually this evening. And it was comfortable and felt like spring weather. What is wrong with this picture? You should not be able, in the middle of January, to open your windows at 4pm and feel a nice spring breeze flowing through the house. That is just discusting. And yes, I'm sure if anyone reads this blog from the northernmost regions of the continent where it's probably like 14 below with lots of frozen precipitation, they're probably rolling their eyes and turning green with envy right about now. LOL. Anyways. I am just ready for this sick junk to go AWAY!!!!

K-man was running a fever part of the day and Munchkin ran one last night again. It just comes and goes. I'll be veryyyy happy when it goes and doesn't come back. LOL.

Okay...well, K-man is sitting beside me sleeping slumped over against me, making it very hard to type, so i'm going to go put him to bed now.

Later!

Another one bites the dust~~~

KC's on the couch. Reading.

Nuff said with that....since he doesn't just sit down and READ unless he's SICK, but in case you wanted further information....sore throat and terrible headache. Hopefully it's not the flu, but the realist (okay pessimist) in me is going...YEAH RIGHT....HERE WE GO!

So. That leaves: ME.

Who is still consuming large amounts of echinacea, vitamin c, and water, and as much sleep as possible.....and praying it is enough to ward it off.

I'm not sure, BUT......

I DON'T think JUST an ear infection will include a 2:30am fever and puking session. I'm thinking maybe if munchkin were to retake that flu test, it might NOT be negative this time. Thank heavens that the K-man slept better last night. Although at one point last night (or actually early this morning), our living room contained our whole family....asleep on various couches. FUN.

You'd think being home for 7-10 days, I could get stuff done, but I'm exhausted just keeping up with the poor sick young-uns. And dumping bales of echinacea and vitamin c down myself to try to keep from getting it. Oh yeah, and catching snoozes every chance I get cuz I know I'll need it....maybe not right this minute, but I'll sure appreciate it later.

So that's the update. Will come back some other time when I feel like it. Who knows when that will be. But anyways, thanks everyone for the well wishes....sure do appreciate it.

Later!

Scattergories - Bloggy style

Saw this meme at The Diaper Diaries and decided it might be fun on this night when I'm stuck at the house with the kids with ear infections.....oh yeah and one of them has an ear infection AND the FLU. ARGH. Besides that, I also thought it would be a good chance to have a positive title for a change. LOL. I was looking back at the post titles for this year and they're pretty depressing. Tired. Sick. Exhausted. Achy Head......course, with one kid with the flu and both with ear infections and it's only January 10th......wellllllllll actually....that IS kinda depressing....LOL. Good gravy, I hope I don't get it. Anywho, on to the game....

Here’s how you play. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following categories. They have to be real places, names, things…nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same first initial. You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question. Here goes nothing.

What is your name? Faith
4 letter word: Foot
Vehicle: Frontier
City: Fayetteville, NC
Boy Name: Frank
Girl Name: Fallon (I luvvv this name.....don't know why....)
Occupation: Fireman
Something you wear: Football Helmet (well, not ME exactly, but you know....some people do...)
Celebrity: Franklin Roosevelt (okay, so that was back in the day, but come on....I can't think of any other "F" celebrities. And I really hate to cheat. But now I'm curious, so hang on a sec while I go cheat....oh DUH me....can you tell that my day has been LONG??????? Google rocks. That was the first link that came up when I typed in F Celebrity. LOL.
Food: Fried Chicken (Yeah, I'm southern to the CORE!)
Something found in a bathroom: Face wash
Reason for Being Late: Forgot something important
Cartoon Character: Ferdinand (wasn't he a kitty or something?)
Something You Shout: FIDDLESTICKS! FLU!?!?! FORGET IT!!!!

Want to play along? Copy and paste, people, copy and paste. Oh yeah, and let me know if you do. And if you don't have a blog, that's what I have a comment section for....hehe.

Oh yeah, and on the long day? It started with a LONG night. K-man, poor fella....ran 105 starting around 11:30 last night and I was up with him, sponging him off and trying to get his fever down for several hours, finally got him sleeping on one couch while I laid on the other and dozed and was just up and down with him the rest of the night. His fever never dropped below 102, so I called the doc first thing and took him in at 10. Got out of the doctors office around 11:30 with a positive flu test and antibiotics for ear infection and was running through walmart collecting various sick stuff....you know...crackers, soup, gatorade, yada yada....when daycare called. Munchkin's running 101.5 and tugging her ear. Call the doctor and get her in at 1:45 but in the meantime, I go get her from daycare and take all the sick stuff home and unload it (so the popsicles won't melt) and then turn around and take TWO sick kids back to the doctors office. Poor K-man....been drug around all day. The good news is, Munchkin don't have the flu, just an ear infection. Bad news is, she'll likely get it before it's all over. So both kids were in bed by 9:30 tonight and it's 9:53 now and I'm heading there myself since I'll likely be on the couch again with one or both of them before the night is over. Dear God, PLEASE don't let me get sick.

And so that I won't end this on a negative note, here's a munchkin-ism from today:

(walking down the hall after seeing our friend "bubba" who works at the doctors office and running to him and giving him a BIG hug)

"Me HOVE bubba. He my BES pend!!!!"

(translated: I love bubba. He's my BEST friend!!!)

Course, her best friend changes more often K-man's diapers, but still, it was a supersweet little moment there.

Later.

Oh my aching head.

I'm......well you know the rest of this sentence, so I'm not even going to bother saying it. LOL.

Took off yesterday to take me to the doc and to take K-man to his followup on breathing treatments.

Got up this morning and K-man felt unusually warm when I got him up. Checked his temp and sure nuff. 102 something. Can't take him to daycare with a temp over 100. So I took him with me to work while dumping Childrens motrin down him. He did good until around lunch time and while we were at lunch, he fell asleep. I got back to the office and laid him on a blanket in the floor and kept working and then a little later when he woke up he was really hot and you could TELL he didn't feel good then. Temp of 103. So I decided to just go ahead and bring him home around 2:30. Came home and laid him on one couch and he snoozed all afternoon, so I laid on the other couch and snoozed all afternoon. Figured I might need it tonight. He's burned up all afternoon though, even though I've been giving him motrin and tylenol regularly. 104 earlier and used cold cloths and a lukewarm bath to cool him down. He weren't too happy bout that bath. LOL. Bless it, he's so pitiful. We did get the fever down, but when he went to bed, it was still around 100-101, so he's still a little warm. I called the doctors office and they said if the fever continues tomorrow over 101, to call and bring him in.

Regardless of whether he runs a fever tomorrow or not, I can't take him to daycare cuz he has to be fever free for like 12 or 24 hours (can't remember which) but neither one will work, so I'm stuck with a kid tomorrow.

And my head hurts and I've kinda had a funny tummy feeling most of the day. Doctors visit yesterday sent me to the hospital. No worries though (did I freak you out?) it was just b/c the x-ray tech in the dr office is out on extended leave so they're having to send all their patients over to the hospital for any x-ray stuff. So they xrayed my neck to make sure that there isn't any kind of issues in there that are causing the brain zaps since I've had serious pain between my shoulders that has gradually gotten worse over the last two months and he doesn't know if it's connected to the meds I'm on or if it's something in my neck. WHO KNOWS. I'm really tired of not feeling good though. I haven't heard the results from that yet, hopefully it won't be much longer.

It's just a sick place around here these days though. Munchkin has a rattly cough that I gave her some of her cough medicine for tonight. She's been complaining of not feeling good, but since she's not running a fever and she only complains when she sees K-man getting the babying and being coo-ed over for being so sick, I've been shrugging it off.

I have decided though that I believe I could have discovered a niche for making money in the area. I can be a sick kid mommy for kids who can't go to their usual daycare but their parents still have to go to work. They can bring their kids over and I'll run a little hospital daycare. All I'll have to do is take my info around to all the daycares and they can stick it right in there next to the slip that says they won't take sick kids for 12 or 24 hours after fever.

The question is, do I have the nerves to deal with whiney-not feeling good-not mine-kids on a erratic and unpredictable basis. Uh. Maybe I could be the manager and hire mommies to run it. HAHA.

Anywho, nuff rambling thoughts for tonight. I'm going to bed in hopes that it makes my head feel better. *sigh*

Later.

Yeah.

Becky sent me this link which I thought was pretty funny and decided to share.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_utET7TCMQ

In other news......my head is driving me NUTS. It's like I'm just plugged into some freaky electrical current and it just keeps zapping my brain. I can't think straight tonight and I can barely move....anything I do makes me just cringe cuz my head thinks the world is spinning around me. Oh wait, it kinda IS. Haha....but you know what I mean. It's really quite aggravating.

OH well. Life is good.....anyways.

By the way, my really sweet hubby made some new years resolutions. I haven't read them yet, but he said he was going to post them on his blog. However, I think one of them must have been to help me out more b/c the other night when I was doing the kids baths and all that stuff and trying to get everything done, he put away some clean laundry, tidied up the house a bit, and asked me if there was anything else I needed him to do before he sat down to his computer. That was really, really nice. Not that he's not always nice, but it was just EXTRA nice. =)

Anywho. I'm going away now. I'm exhausted. Oh, before I forget, we went to the city up the hill with some of our friends for KC's birthday last night. We left the kids with mawmaw and pawpaw and then picked them back up really late on our way home.....it was pretty heavenly to go out with our friends and no kids for an evening. Don't get me wrong, love them dearly, but the break was W.O.N.D.E.R.FUL!

So yeah, today was back to normal. Kids are tired, so they've wore us out today, too, plus no naps b/c we were out at birthday parties this afternoon during naptime. LOVELY. LOL. =)

Later.

Happy Birthday to my honey!!!

This is what I've been working on tonight as a special gift for my honey, who has been asking me to redesign his blog header since he saw my new little piece of work.



Hehehe....I really hope he likes it. And honey, if you found out by seeing it here first, then just let me say, happy, happy birthday. I hope this year is your best yet, and I hope I get to read about it through your blog. Heaven knows we hardly get to talk these days seeing how busy we are with the kids. LOL. So....anyways. blog. Okay? I love you so much.


For anyone curious, since his blog is private and you can't go see the credits, the elements are from Miss Mint at Peppermint Creative.com (the After Midnight Coordinating Page Kit) and the design is of course....by me.


Also, for those who have asked, I get a lot of digital goodness through freebies offered here and there on the internet. A few of my favs for freebies are Miss Mint (of course), 2 Peas, Shabby Princess and a few others that I'm sure I'm forgetting, due to lack of sleep. I'm going to have to come back and link up to those places later b/c it's getting really late. *Edited to add, here's a nice page of links to digi freebies that looks like it has quite a few that I haven't even found yet....woohoo! Enjoy!*


CV, I think you asked about this one, but the credits for MY current header are down at the bottom of the sidebar over there. I think it's the very last item down there. It is not from a freebie kit, but it WAS free for me b/c I won it from Nikki. I luv luv luv winning cool stuff!!!


And one last answer really quick for Jules....in order to make a private blog (either create a new one and do this, or make your current one private), you'll need to go into the blog from your dashboard to the settings tab. I believe it's close to the last tab in the settings tab and it's called permissions. You'll just want to make it by invitation only and then of course, you'll need to send out invitations to the emails of folks who you want to read it. Like me. *smiles*


Gotta run for now.
Later!

The "Having More Patience" Thing?....

Well, I'm not doing so good on that resolution so far.

As evidenced by my exasperation at having to get up with K-man at 2:15 and pat him back to sleep.

Well, actually that first time wasn't THAT exasperating. It was when I had to get up again at 2:45. And then again at 3:35. And then when I went back to my bed at 3:40, he was still crying. So I laid there and tried to ignore it until 4:10 when KC got exasperated and got up. So I got up. Patting didn't work. Holding didn't work. Changing his diaper didn't work. I finally got him to wake up and THAT worked. Course, by the time he got calmed down and I got him back to sleep, it was 5.

Was I patient? Not very.

I've decided to change that resolution.

I think I'm going to resolve to....uh.....take more pictures instead. That sounds much more do-able.

*sigh*

I'm so sleepy.
Now I have to work....and I don't know how I'm going to keep my eyes open long enough to do it. *sigh*

Later.

Can't Be Left Out.....

So since I'm seeing a lot of bloggers blogging about their New Year's Resolutions (or goals....or whatever you call them), I figgered I'd just post mine, too. After all, if for no other reason, I could use a laugh next year when I go back and read them. HA! *grin* Cuz we all know, my ongoing dr pepper addiction is proof that I absolutely cannot stick to my resolutions. LOL!

Anyhow, so here they are.......in absolutely no particular order.....

This year, I resolve to:
- Be more positive. (HEH! oops, that could possibly be construed as negative. I can see I'm going to have lots of work to do in this area. LOL!)
- Be more patient with the kids.
- Quit work. (the one that pays....and start staying home and doing the one that is much harder and doesn't pay. Well, doesn't pay MONEY, anyways)
- Keep my house cleaner.
- Enjoy life. (even while stubbing my toes on the trucks that K-man leaves in the middle of the floor and stepping in the sticky mess that munchkin dropped on the floor, yes, even then, when I'm not quite keeping the last resolution)
- Quit smoking. (hey, I can check that one off now......or do you have to actually BE a smoker in order to quit???? BWAHAHAHA)
- I suppose I could put in here that I would drink water instead of dr pepper, but that's one resolution I don't really feel like making this year. How bout if I just cut back a little instead.....like to two drinks of the addictive stuff a day instead of 4. (*wincing* oh that looks so harsh when I put it in writing)
- Catch up on some of the scrapbooking. (I can dream, can't I? And this is my effort at being optimistic....hehehe)
- Blog more of the important stuff. (like less about pms and shaving legs and more about...um....wait....there's more important things than that? hahaha. kidding. you know, more important, like crafts. I'd say more important like deep thoughts and intellectual theories but with a brain like mine, that really IS wishful thinking. HAHA. Ya'll please note though, that from time to time when I sound like I'm being negative, it really is just me kidding around....kay? good. glad we got that settled. Now where was I?)
- Shave my legs more often. (BWAHAHAHA....I'm not getting very far on the previous resolution, am I? ROFL!!!)
- Go someplace I've never been before. (Preferably NOT the inside of the mental institution)
- Love God more and myself less. (And that one is said without any kidding at all)
- Get more sleep. (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Who am I kidding?!?! Well, that wasn't very positive. Actually, maybe I'm not kidding....I think I'm going to get off here now and go do that. *grin* .....maybe. hehehe)

If I think of any more good goals, maybe I'll come back and post them later. Till then.....
off to zzzz-land.

Later!