Household Update

My posts have been lacking lately.

Here's why.

All 4 of us have been battling colds as of late. The day after we discovered Spencer's pinkeye, both kids woke up with nasty colds. Spencer's had a fever here and there the last few days. Kianna's also been a little bit feverish but not quite as much as her brother.

It's hard on the kids. Kianna coughed so hard this morning she threw up. Spencer's just been feeling yucky in general. I feel terrible for them but there's only so much I can do to comfort them.

I took both kids and myself to the doctor on Sunday and we just have viral colds. That just means we have to wait it out.

It's been a looooong 3 weeks of sickness around here.

Maybe February will be better.

Sick.....

So just as I thought we were starting to get things under control in regards to the sickness that has been flooding our household, we have officially started to face round 2 of this monster.

1. I'm still not better and have a nasty cough that keeps me up during the night.
2. Kianna's starting to get a cold.
3. Lyndon's still not feeling better.
4. Spencer now has pink-eye.

I'm just sooo tired of dealing with all of this. It's certainly frustrating. I've been losing sleep, becoming more cranky, and just flat out sick and tired of being sick and tired. It's been an extremely long January.

When will it end?

I'm still....

here.

Things have just been so out of wack lately as the 3 of us have been trying to get better from the strep throat episode and getting back into routine.

I think life will be a little more tolerable once routine is established again.

When all is said and done.....

Tammy and Drew have officially begun the journey called marriage.

Their wedding day was a good one. You couldn't have asked for better January weather for a winter wedding day. The sun was out, it was hovering around the 0 degree mark, and there wasn't much wind.


I don't believe that there was anything that went wrong in terms of the wedding day.

But....and there's always a BUT....

I got strep throat this week and only realized it on Friday just hours before the wedding rehearsal. My throat was sooooo sore. It hurt to drink water! I cringed every time I had to swallow and I had lost my voice. It wouldn't have been much of a problem execpt that I was supposed to read some passages at the ceremony the next day. I wasn't sure until just before the ceremony began if I would do it or not. I'm sure there were people praying that I'd feel better for this. I went from not even being able to drink water at the rehearsal dinner the night before and wanting to head into emergency for painkillers (which I didn't do) to having enough voice and almost no throat pain overnight. I was sooo glad I was able to do my part in Tammy's wedding. Both of us were really disappointed with the idea of me not being able to do that.

Then, to top everything off, as all of the girls...bridesmaids, Tammy, myself and Kianna, were getting dressed and prepared for the ceremony, Kianna's eye was bothering her and had some goop in it. I realized it was pink-eye! What rotten timing. An hour before the ceremony she has to get this. So, I called a friend who had eye-drops, sent Lyndon over there and had him bring the drops to us, and Kianna's been getting the drops ever since.

My poor girl had to deal with her hurting eye, being over-tired, and being in the wedding party all at the same time. It was rough but she did okay despite everything. The wedding pictures will show her with her one droopy eye though. Oh well, there's nothing you can do.

But, when all is said and done, Tammy and Drew are husband and wife now. That's what matters.

No Screaming and Writhing.....

Spencer had his second haircut in order to get all spiffed up for his auntie's wedding.

Here's the before, during and after shots of him.

The last time we had his hair cut I had to hold a screaming, writhing and crying little boy as the stylist did her best to cut his hair in the midst of it.

I was so impressed with him this time. He sat there like an angel the entire time.

My little boy is growing up so fast!

The Fire Department Visited Me Today......

I had a visit from 3 wonderful firefighters this morning.

He's the story behind that visit.

I had gone upstairs to change Spencer's diaper and smelled something funny (and no, it wasn't his diaper). At first I thought it could be natural gas but quickly ruled it out because what I was smelling didn't have the lovely aroma of rotten eggs. Then I ruled out carbon monoxide because that has no scent.

So, the next thing I did was call my dad. He wasn't able to come over at the time but he was going to get someone to come to my place and help find the problem.

In the meantime, there were several things going through my mind.

What if it's a gas leak?
What if there's something smoldering in the walls undetected?
What am I going to do with myself and the 3 kids in the meantime?

My heart was pounding so hard you probably could have heard it across the room.

I was really scared.

Then I called a friend to see if she maybe had any other ideas as to what it could be. She suggested to check all the appliances and then it hit me! I ran the dishwasher this morning. So I checked inside the dishwasher.

There it was!

A plastic mixing spoon had fallen off the top rack of the dishwasher and was stuck to the element.

The smell I was smelling.....burning plastic.

I called my dad back to say that I had most likely found the problem. That's when he told me he had called my uncle who's a firefighter. My uncle told him to call the fire department to come and check things out. So that's what my dad did.

I discovered the melted piece of plastic just before the fire truck showed up.

It was nice to have them come in and confirm that the spoon was the only problem.

So that was the excitement at our house today.

I was so relieved.