bits and pieces

Here's a brief wrap up of the past two or three weeks.

It started when Ben went out of town. He was going to be out for 12 days. It was a sucker punch because he had been home for over a month and we were all in a routine. Things went smoothly, he was home for dinner, and practice, and anything else that came up during the week. Then, he's out for a long show. Normally when he travels it is for about 7-10 days at a time. It's getting to the point where it's normally 10-12 days per show. Don't get me wrong, we are very thankful that he has a job and is working as much as he does. Every little bit helps.

Where was I....Oh! So now we're all out of schedule since daddy is out of town. He left on Monday, and by Tuesday night all of the error lights on the car are on. I take Wednesday off to get the brakes fixed, but the battery light is still on. I get a new battery and everything is great. Thursday go to work, and when it's time to go home the car won't start. It's not even turning over. The battery is dead, so I beg a ride home from a coworker. Friday, I work from home. Well, that's the plan anyway. I get the girls up for school and they are picked up by the carpool. Alexander is home with me because his eyes are goopy again. Every time he gets green goopy eyes he has an ear infection. He had finished a 10 day round of antibiotics a couple of days before so this is alarming. The girls are out of the house and I call the doc. They want me to bring him in to recheck his ears. Sure enough, instead of one ear being infected, they are both infected. 10 more days on a different antibiotic. Oh yeah, the car! Before we went to the doctor's appointment I had the paople from enterprise rentals pick me up so that I could have a vehicle for the coming week.

The next week goes by without incident. Friday, Ben is flying home, I turn in the rental car, and pick up my car from the shop to go to work.

Third week...It's about 1 in the afternoon on Wednesday and I get a call from the sitter saying that Lex woke up from his nap with a low grade fever. I had been watching for symptoms since Monday. That's when he finished his second round of antibiotics. He had a clear runny nose, and a mucousy cough starting the next day and now low grade fever. I call Ben and he is more than willing to call it a day and pick up the kids early. I put a call in to the doctors office and they want him to be on a stronger antibiotic for another 10 days. AAGGHH!! I was mad. I don't like to give my kids that much medication. I let them run low grade fevers, I let them cough up mucous. I think it's better for their bodies to try and fight the illness and build up the antibodies. By the time Lex is over all of this he will have ha 30 days of medicine, which is ridiculous.

That's my little melodrama for the month. :)

Now, for some little things we're working on. I am slowly but surely getting some of our old things replaced. Last week I bought new bedding for our room, new towels for our bathroom, and new pillows for everyone. There was a sale going on! This week I replaced old silverware, pots, and pans. We have had some of those pans for at least 10 years!! And how do you lose forks? Does anyone else have this problem?

Looking into charter/private schools for the girls. You don't even want to know what goes on in middle schools. It's learning all right, just the unsupervised kinds that you warn your kids about!!

Summer camps are scheduled.

My summer work schedule has been scheduled.

Slowly purging old stuff out of the house and on to goodwill if they are still in working and good condition.

My tomatoes, peppers, and herbs are growing!! I am so flipping excited, I can barely stand it!!

I have accumulated 2 years worth of monthly SB kits, and I have only completed about 8 of them. Need to find time for this.

I should start meeting with a personal trainer this week to do the fitness assessment...aka barely alive...and get onto a work out program. Starting to make healthier food choices for myself and for the family. I don't want them to grow up with the same struggles over food that I have right now.

I hope everyone had a relaxed and wonderful mother's day. I give the gift of blogging. xoxo