KELSEA :D

i have decided to hack!!
well not really, mom just left her blog up so i decided i would write a little something.
SOOO....... My birthday is comming up and i just thought id let you all know so you can get my birthday presents in advanced.
;D haha, just kidding.

GUESS WHAT!?!?
the SND (saturday night dance) this saturday has a theme of superheros and i have decided to be.............................................CAT WOMAN!!! HAHAHA amber and i went to savers today and i got a leotard and this pair of like running tights thing and a jacket and a tennis skirt. it was fun.
I LOVE lemon pie. :D you wouldnt know what im talking about unless you live in my house.
but anyways im tired and its late and i have to wake up early!!!! :P
-mostlikley the only blog you will ever see from me
sorry if anithing iz spellded wronge i couldnnt cute ande paste two word document to checked my words wite or note.

Saddest thing ever

If you you are in our ward and have not heard I am sorry to bring this bad news. It is the saddest news ever. We had a young couple in our ward a while ago. He grew up in our ward and his family is still in our ward. His wife Tasche has died. I don't know details except for the very sad fact that she just gave birth to twin boys the beginning of this month. I found their blog and all sorts of pictures of the beautiful babies on Facebook. www.Keola-tasche.blogspot.com and look up Tasche Stone on Facebook. My heart goes out to Keola and his newborn boys. I will be praying for him and his family. Nothing is posted on there right now so I wouldn't comment on any of these sites.

Is it over?

I wish this week was over but we get another grand finale weekend to the craziest past few weeks. I won't even go over the schedule. Ridiculous. Anyway. The week is over and I survived it. Not sure how though. I am ready for a serious nap but can't get one yet. The hubby should be home sometime this evening- I hope. He has no cell phone coverage where he is right now. Hannah is catching up on the enormous homework load she has neglected. We managed to find all but one of her missing work and it was all unfinished. We had our last basketball practice last night (YES!!!) 6th grade girls are an interesting group to coach. They are so social beyond anything and like a bunch of pre-schoolers in their attention span. ACK> Their last games are tomorrow and a team get together. Autumn had another week added on to hers so next week is her last game.

I am trying not to think too much about tomorrow. I will think about my mom's late birthday thing for tonight and an early nights sleep.

I have ants all over in my downstairs bathroom darn it. Like I needed another thing to add to my list.

Headache

I had a couple of bad days with my dumb headache. I am seriously overwhelmed because it bearly brought me to tears today. But something I did at my lunch got rid of it by 1pm. Tuesday it was gone at 8pm and was much worse. But once the headache left it left a very vacant space in my brain and I can't think and I can't do math and it is amazing that this blog is coherent and the words aren't all a jumble and misspelled.

It is hard right now. Have I said that before? I am really hoping to be in bed by 10. I had several kids fall asleep when they got home today. So I hope that happens for me-early bed. I went to bed at midnight Monday night because there was so much to do. I went to bed at 11 last night. I went to a concert for Kelsea last night that I found out about on Monday. I haven't even looked in Hannah's backpack in days. I found out she has a bunch of missing math assignments from when she was sick. I just looked in it. It is just FULL of stuff. Ugh. I haven't been able to visit my mom yet for her birthday because we have all been to sick and now busy.

I better find out how neglectful of a mom I have been with my little first grader. !!!13!!!! missing math assignments!!!!! I am hunting high and low for them now. So much for early bedtime.

Random

I am going to do my mini post that could become long. I really need to be doing something else but everyone is gone right now. That never happens. I don't have to fight for computer time.

I love Dr. Pepper. I don't like many sodas but Dr. Pepper is my favorite. I like it at McDonald's because they usually have a good mix. Today they goofed up my soda. I would drink Diet Dr. Pepper but I have a reaction to the sugar substitute and it makes my mouth swollen and sore. Darn that. It would be helpful to reduce calorie intake but it is not worth the sore mouth problem. Oh well. So now I have a soda I was looking forward to that I can't drink. It was too late to turn around and straighten it out.

The hubby is gone to Nevada again. I get to do the single mom thing again this week and it is another full one. But as of this weekend 6th grade basketball will done. 5th grade runs another week. I am still trying to shake this cold. I don't have the full blown nasty thing the girls have had but I still keep losing my voice and cough a lot.

The last thing. Amber's boyfriend had to get rid of his Facebook. His mom doesn't understand or want to. The mom has not been paying attention for months. He is having an interesting time right now. She was so sad it was almost like they broke-up. They didn't but she was very upset.

Anyways that is the run down for the moment. I need to clean something or pay something or find some dinner and do about a million other things other than this.

A week!!

A week has slipped by without a blog from me. Wow. I guess it spared everyone the run down of more sick people's status but I am never one to spare the memories. Yes-Autumn caught the crud. She started Weds night. She ran fevers everyday through Monday. I took her to the dr and recapped Kelsea's antibiotic and pneumonia run down and said Augmentin worked for her please give it to Autumn too. So they did. She also has a pretty good ear infection to go with it. She did make it back to school all day today. She is getting better a little faster than the first 3. Kelsea went to the Doctor this week and they said her pneumonia looks really good for as soon as it has been since she has had it. But she is still improving. I caught the cold, I have felt yuckier and yuckier. I have worked and when I get home I am worthless. I have had a really yucky voice or soft and raspy. Blah.

Devanie came Sunday afternoon. Then Randa came a few hours later. We had Amber's boyfriend over for dinner with the crew. Then that night was rough. We had Autumn up at like 3 from a coughing fit. Sierra was sleeping in Kylee's room which must have been 90 degrees from the 4 kids sleeping in that tiny room. So Sierra threw up at 6:30. We took care of her, poor thing. Then at 7 Zach paid us peek in visit and then went to play somewhere else. I took Autumn to the Doctor. The kids went to the park, we saw Marley and Me. A bunch of us cried in the end. But Devanie doesn't know much about the movie because she took the little ones to the car to settle down and watch a DVD. We went to dinner at Golden Corral. We came home finally and the kids played. Randa left back to Nevada. Lee Joe and Kelsea went to see Amber working at the frozen yogurt place she is working at now. While they were gone they missed a classic sick kid moment. Little Zach ran up the stairs to tell us he was going to Throw up. And he did a little. Then he did a bunch and some more and more. I think that little guy had a gallon in him. It was a 4 towel job. Devanie and I did our best not to repeat what he just did trying to clean the floor and him up. Then he felt better. We gave him a bowl. The next day before bed he wanted another bowl. He didn't throw up but he stood in it then crouched down and said it was his egg and he was a birdie and the bowl went everywhere with him. He slept with it too. I think that blue bowl gave him comfort like a blanket. I felt bad because she was able to stay 2 more days but we all had to go to school. Lee Joe had to go back to work. But Autumn stayed home those 2 days. Devanie helped me out so much by being there and the kids got some time with at least one cousin during the day. I would have let Hannah stay but she has missed several days already and she is the only one who hasn't gotten this particular crud yet. Hopefully she doesn't but is she does there are more missed days to come. I REALLY REALLY hope Devanie and her kids didn't bring it home with them. Thanks for coming Dev!! Sorry it wasn't something more exciting.

I suppose the most exciting about the week is that I got a hircut yesterday. It was really long again and now it is above my shoulders. All the kids at the school were so cute. "you got your haircut! I really like it!" I heard that a lot. ANd the sdults were complimenting me too. But my husband made a face when he saw me and said "It's too short." He has never learned tact. Oh well.

Guess what

So someone is following my blog. She lives in my house and has red hair. One of the links is carrot tops are green. That's funny. But the title of her blog is "Save the redheads! They are almost extinct."

Today I went to work at 8 and came home before noon. That was cool. I don't have to be back until Tuesday. That is cooler.

I got some serious laundry and house cleaning done. The kids have been cleaning their rooms. I have more to do though. And loads and loads of other laundry to catch up on. I did get woken up last night about 11:30 by the vacuum running. I told Kelsea to put that off until tomorrow and that did not mean in an hour. Then she had a horrible coughing fit at 2 am. She still is dealing with this crap.

Devanie will be here tomorrow. We are almost ready for a visit.

Autumn has the crud darn it. She has been running a fever for 2 days and a night. She is coughing. I thought we were done. More like hoping really really hard that it would finally go away.

Lee Joe brought me some roses and we went to dinner tonight. A little Valentines early. We had gift cards to Carraba's Italian Grill but I guess it is gone so after discovering that, the cards were good at Outback Steakhouse too so we went there. We had to steak dinners for $14.00-that was with the tip. How cool was that?

Misc...

Oh my gosh, I have never felt more tired so many days in a row. I have had so much on our schedule that I have had no time to rest really. Here I am blogging. But there is no point in going to bed if one of the kids is going to wake me up and then I wouldn't be able to fall asleep again after that. So here is the rundown:

Amber had a very nice birthday. Her boyfriend and other friends went to the Olive Garden. My mom got her a diamond heart necklace and diamond earrings-Hey I don't even have any diamonds. I do have some really nice Sapphires and I like them a lot. So moving on. She asked for black converse shoes and she got those along with a John By the Way CD collection and a cute 101 Dalmation figurine. That was her first and first favorite Disney movie. Her friends gave her some nice presents as well.

I have had five kids in school 3 consecutive days now. Even though Kelsea thought she might die on Monday but she made it and took a really long nap when she came home. For some reason she ran into a wall today in PE and could not recall how the wall got there. She got a beautiful bruise on her knee. She is not quite there yet. But tonight Autumn is running a fever. But she can't miss tomorrow. It is Valentines party day. We will see what happens.

I just took Kylee to the jr high orientation. I have enjoyed the 2 school thing a whole bunch this year. Back to 3 next year. I can't believe it. And I could not believe what I saw next to the trophy case. I was looking for some past basketball stuff that had Amber and Kelsea in the pictures but it was gone. But next to the case was a large plaque with names of students for an Athletic "F" award. I suppose the F stands for Fairmont not Fail. It said the students represented a whole bunch of cool things. There were maybe 10 names or 12-ish per year. I need to go back and take a picture. My brain is hammered. Both girls had their names on it for the years they were there!! But poor Kelsea's name was spelled wrong again. She should be use to it by now. I keep telling her to get over it anyway.

And Devanie is coming for a visit! We have a 4 day weekend-I have a 3. Next week is a tiny bit calmer than this one. It should be fun as long as Autumn does not get the long drawn out illness the girls have been passing around.

So we all are having a clothing crisis. There has been no time to get laundry put away even though everyone has pitched in on the washing of the most necessary to be washed stuff. I have to get on figuring out taxes and tackling the paper trail once more. Someday, maybe someday, My sister will get her Christmas and now birthday present as well.

Happy Love day to all-I might miss it here.

Surprise Party

I couldn't say a word and it was planned so quickly, but we threw a surprise party for Amber. Her boyfriend's mom offered to do it and to do it at their house-I didn't have to clean. The only glitch in this weekend was that the Special Olympics had their opening ceremony on Amber's birthday and a lot of her friends volunteered for that so they were either unavailable or exhausted by party time. We had our traditional family get together and then the boyfriend, and her great friend and her boyfriend came over for a bit. They were "going to a movie" then they put a blindfold in her and drove all over the place before they came to his house. We were there with the friends that were able to come. She was carried in and deposited on the floor. All the stuff over her head was removed and we yelled surprise of course and threw balloons at her. She sat their open mouthed for a long time. It was funny. Autumn videoed it so if I can figure out how to post a video I will. She said that she did not know where she was. She realized there were people in the room. Then she realized they were people she knew-AWESOME.

So my baby is officially 18. We are in mourning. But it turned out to be a great birthday.

We had 2 games this weekend and both were lost. One was by 4 points and the other by 2.

Kelsea still is recovering. She wears out really easily and still has coughing fits. It is going to be a long recovery for her. The thing about Kelsea's grades is she got sick at the beginning of 3rd quarter so nothing has been turned in which amounts to F's but the teachers are going to be working with her to help her get back on track and I have someone lined out to tutor her in Math.

I am up this late because I watched the Masterpiece Theatre version of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Auston with Kelsea. I just LOVED it. Oh my gosh. It is a very well done version as well.

Well, I still have to work tomorrow.

Vacation?

I wish I was going on one. A nice long one. All alone. It doesn't even have to be that warm. A comfy bed would be great. An ocean view would be cool. A place like the Oregon coast where the walks on the beach can be pretty solitary. Or even a vacation in my house with everyone gone and people thinking I am gone too. HMMMM...... Maybe I can go get some sleep and dream about one because I won't be getting one. Visualization will have to work.

Pneumonia

My poor kid. I came home today for lunch. I have been letting Kelsea sleep in the mornings because the minute she wakes up she coughs and coughs. So I get home at 11 and wake her up to see how she is. She is not right. She doesn't have a fever. She is coughing and when she stops she looks like she ran a mile. I ask her questions and she is just responding slow and not making much sense. I was trying to determine how tired she was still or if something was wrong. I went ahead and went back to work after I made sure she got her medicines and I was not feeling right about her. I am kind of slow trying to figure it out. But she should have been improving and that was a step backwards I thought. I talked to several people at the school and they said "take her in" Every time I do jump on that bandwagon I hear that it is viral. But I really felt like something was really wrong. I was able to get her an appointment this afternoon-that does not always happen at our dr's office, especially at 11:45. The PA we saw was really concerned. her lungs sounded clear but her ears were more infected. They did a chest x-ray. He said it was obvious she had pneumonia. So they gave her shot. She refused it. I coaxed and finally pulled my 140 pound solid muscle kid out of her chair and stood with her and held her as she cried. She has an inhaler now and since the shot, even though she is complaining more about the pain from it than she has about any other thing she has been through the past 2 weeks, she is acting more like herself already. Poor kid.

You know what? I am hammered. I am just hammered from all of this. It has been so stressful with just everything. Somehow I am not sick but I am exhausted. I need some sort of really long vacation. Lee Joe will be home in hours but that doesn't mean anything will ease up. I am listening to some ridiculous battle over who is going to wash the crock pot. At least it isn't 4 kids echoing each other's cough. I think we might be down two one really bad cougher and one mild one. I have been sighing and taking deep breaths for about a week now to calm myself but I don't think it is very effective. So I am hanging in there like always.

I think I will have some good reports on the little girls in the school art contest. I know right now Autumn won a first place for a watercolor painting and 2nd on a drawing and Kylee won a 2nd place on a drawing. There are a few more I need to find out about like Hannah's and a couple more pieces. I need to go e-mail teachers now. My two oldest have been trying to pull themselves out of a mountain of F's. Well Kelsea hasn't been well enough to do much on that.

promised pics

I thought there were more to post. I guess not.

Hannah's birthday.. She really wanted a sock monkey. She is a goofy kid

Hannah lost her 2nd front tooth without as much drama as the first.

Autumn's basketball action shot. I didn't get any of Kylee. The game was to intense for the coach to do that. :)

Note to self--take more candid photos. I did get some of the two oldest in Amber's room all sick but I am sure I would be chastised for those.

Maybe an upward turn soon

I took Kelsea in to the doctor today. The poor kid is not improving at all. She is worse. She has been on penicillin and he looked in her ears and went-"OH" she has double ear infections I guess that can cause the nasty cough he said and that bacteria also can cause bronchitis. He didn't want to do a chest x-ray because he was wanting to treat her with the same antibiotic no matter what the results. Her pulse was really high and her bottom number on her blood pressure was high. So she is on Zythromiacin. That really good stuff for 5 days. Hopefully she will start feeling better real soon. He gave her some cough medicine too. As soon as we got home she coughed so much she threw up. Kylee did that too last night, really bad. Amber couldn't sleep because her cough kept her up too. But the little girls should be able to go back to school Weds. Fortunately the little girls were not hit as hard. With Kelsea on better meds I should be able to go back tomorrow without worrying about her all day. I feel on the verge of something everyday but it is mild so far, thank goodness. Lee Joe is back on Thursday for the weekend and then he is gone again.

pictures?

No pictures yet but it is about time I posted some. Same old Same old around here. I am home with 3. I am wondering that maybe the youngest 2 are not going to get this as bad. There is some improvement from yesterday. I thought they would be worse, that is why I stayed home with them today. Kelsea is still struggling. I am trying to figure out-take them in to the dr-don't take them in. I don't know. I have it just a little, not bad though. And it is worse later in the day. I am trying to take advantage of some time at home. Posting is not one of those things. Oh well.

It might have us all...

I won't elaborate too much unless I decide it is late enough and I am without adult company to drone on. But I believe this thing has taken down child #4. And the #5th was curled up in a ball tonight on the couch in a similiar way that it took down kid #3 to get it. I feel it coming on. The past two nights have been pretty rough for me. It would help if wandering teenagers didn't come over to my house after 10 to visit my sick teenagers so that I could go to bed and stay asleep at a decent hour. Here I am at a crazy hour going on about this. We did take a trip to the mall tonight for just a little bit to use Hannah's b-day coupon at Build-A-Bear because it expired today. I had 4 kids and 3 of them kept coughing and I decided pretty quick it was time to go. I don't think I am taking 4 possibly 5 hacking kids to church. 2 of the sickish ones played basketball today and they were down the rest of the day. Kelsea is done now for the season. They lost today. She was in bad shape to play. Kylee's team played a team with way more skill than our poor little girls had and we had a rough game. Kylee has no stamina 3 weeks later. Autumn's team won and she scored 4 points. If it gets me and the two youngest this may be one awful week. Oh man. I am going to get some rest so I can try to still fight it off the best I can.