Last Saturday...Joye with strep
Monday....Graham got ear tubes
Tuesday....fever and puking, Graham with strep
On the mend????
Friday night...Griffin with fever and saying his stomach hurt.
Guess what? Three different antibiotics in the fridge! yay!
So glad it's Easter weekend. The sacrifice Jesus made for me makes everything else that I whine about look so stupid!
Joye and I went to see the new Hannah Montana movie today. I love to hang out with her! She is just a neat kid. She laughed out loud in all the right spots, though it was hard to hear her over my laughs. She's my daughter! We came home and looked up the Hoedown Throwdown dance that was in the movie so we could learn it. Hooray!
Griffin tonight--"Mom, we don't say damn."
Me--"Right Griffin. That's not a nice word."
Grif--"I know mom. Like dumb and stupid."
Graham's new favorite is shooting baskets in the little goal we have outside. The funny part is that he shoots with whatever he has! Footballs, soccer balls, Hot Wheels cars....it's great! (Until you get on the wrong end of the miss with the Hot Wheel) He yelled at Seth to "Get Up!!" tonight because he wanted him to play catch with the football and I guess you just can't do that sitting down!
Coach helped Joey with his shed some today. I don't think men really talk that much about super-meaningful stuff, but I think they did some bonding. :) I really love having our good friends right down the street. Makes this place feel more like a real neighborhood.
Soccer team won last night so the playoff dream is still alive! I want this so much for Seth and the boys, but I know it won't be easy! That's okay. Nothing really worth anything is easy. Thank you Jesus!
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Funnies
Griffin--as he sits on the potty:
"Mom, I just love soccer. I would be so sad if I'm not playing soccer and soccer goals."
Graham is loving puzzles now! He always needs someone to do them with him though. Something about never having any personal space with all the people around him all the time I think! He got bit twice at mom's day out last week by the most precious little girl! She could be a future Mrs. Condley I think. She's already demonstrating her love with nibbles!
Joye and I made up another clap today when she started feeling better. My favorite I think!
"Mom, I just love soccer. I would be so sad if I'm not playing soccer and soccer goals."
Graham is loving puzzles now! He always needs someone to do them with him though. Something about never having any personal space with all the people around him all the time I think! He got bit twice at mom's day out last week by the most precious little girl! She could be a future Mrs. Condley I think. She's already demonstrating her love with nibbles!
Joye and I made up another clap today when she started feeling better. My favorite I think!
Worst mom of the week?
So on Monday, I picked Joye up from school as usual and she says, "I got a new partner at school today. He came from a different class." I didn't think much about it...she just went on to say that he was her partner for the week and that was that.
Tuesday morning dawns, and she complains of a headache. "I don't want to go to school today mom. My head hurts."
"You're probably tired Joye--you'll be fine after you wake up a bit."
Wednesday morning was a repeat of Tuesday morning, and when I picked her up Wednesday afternoon, her teacher said she had a hard day and wasn't acting like herself. When I told her that she hadn't wanted to come to school since Tuesday morning, she said, "Oh I know the problem. Has she mentioned her partner?"
After that, I just assumed that she didn't want to be partners with that kid so badly that she was making herself sick about it! She kept complaining about her head hurting before school (so much that Gurney kept her out on Thursday) and I just figured that she would get over it. I talked to her teacher and e-mailed and got advice on how to handle the situation--after all, we all have to learn how to deal with difficult people eventually, right?
Friday was a struggle. She didn't want to go, but we all talked her into it. She called Gurney because she forgot her Teddy bear for the teddy bear picnic, but everything else seemed fine until she called me after lunch.
"Mom, my head still hurts and now my stomach, and when I bit into my potato at lunch my throat hurt." RIGHT.
I talked her into staying the rest of the day. She didn't have fever and I explained to her gently that she needed to be patient and loving to her classmates and just stick it out for a couple more hours. I got off of the phone so proud of our teachable moment!
After Gurney picked her up, I got the call. "Rachael, I think she has a fever." Great.
After ibuprofen, she perked up quite a bit, so I figured I would just wait it out through that night. I was alone with the kids after all, and a trip to the after hours clinic would just be too hard!
The night was rough. Raging fever, wanted to sleep in our bed, couldn't sleep, tossed and turned. FUN for everyone. This morning, puking along with everything else, so I had my answer. My baby had strep! AND, it was bad. The Dr. had to give her a shot because she couldn't hold anything down so I held my daughter on a table while a SLOW nurse gave her a fat shot. She screamed and screamed. After they left the room, she said, "I told you my head hurt."
No knowing she was sick all along makes me
1. Glad she isn't just that dramatic.
2. So sad that i let her suffer that long before I got something to help her!
That's me. Mom of the week.
Tuesday morning dawns, and she complains of a headache. "I don't want to go to school today mom. My head hurts."
"You're probably tired Joye--you'll be fine after you wake up a bit."
Wednesday morning was a repeat of Tuesday morning, and when I picked her up Wednesday afternoon, her teacher said she had a hard day and wasn't acting like herself. When I told her that she hadn't wanted to come to school since Tuesday morning, she said, "Oh I know the problem. Has she mentioned her partner?"
After that, I just assumed that she didn't want to be partners with that kid so badly that she was making herself sick about it! She kept complaining about her head hurting before school (so much that Gurney kept her out on Thursday) and I just figured that she would get over it. I talked to her teacher and e-mailed and got advice on how to handle the situation--after all, we all have to learn how to deal with difficult people eventually, right?
Friday was a struggle. She didn't want to go, but we all talked her into it. She called Gurney because she forgot her Teddy bear for the teddy bear picnic, but everything else seemed fine until she called me after lunch.
"Mom, my head still hurts and now my stomach, and when I bit into my potato at lunch my throat hurt." RIGHT.
I talked her into staying the rest of the day. She didn't have fever and I explained to her gently that she needed to be patient and loving to her classmates and just stick it out for a couple more hours. I got off of the phone so proud of our teachable moment!
After Gurney picked her up, I got the call. "Rachael, I think she has a fever." Great.
After ibuprofen, she perked up quite a bit, so I figured I would just wait it out through that night. I was alone with the kids after all, and a trip to the after hours clinic would just be too hard!
The night was rough. Raging fever, wanted to sleep in our bed, couldn't sleep, tossed and turned. FUN for everyone. This morning, puking along with everything else, so I had my answer. My baby had strep! AND, it was bad. The Dr. had to give her a shot because she couldn't hold anything down so I held my daughter on a table while a SLOW nurse gave her a fat shot. She screamed and screamed. After they left the room, she said, "I told you my head hurt."
No knowing she was sick all along makes me
1. Glad she isn't just that dramatic.
2. So sad that i let her suffer that long before I got something to help her!
That's me. Mom of the week.
Forget it!
I kept trying to have these little nicknames for the fam because of anonymity, and then I realized that our last name is in the blog title and my name is on as the author! So much for that. I will still call my husband "Coach" because that is who he is, but beyond that, the kids will now be known by their real names. SO much less confusing! :)
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