The Six of Us

It has been such a long week.  Thursday at my mom's group Luke would not stay in the kids class.  He screamed so I took him out fed him and put him back.  He screamed again.  So he hung out with me and the other moms.  Friday he was sick not super sick but we felt to sick to go to the babysitter so Lee called in sick and I went to work.  Luke just got worse and worse as the weekend went on.  He didn't want to eat wasn't sleeping.  He would sleep for an hour at a time and then scream and scream.  We tried all sorts of stuff and nothing worked.  Monday morning I ended up in our doctor's office.  Luke has coxsickie.  Three days later he is improving.  Still won't eat anything but is drinking plenty so I am less worried then I was.  He did sleep all night (coughing and gagging according to Lee).  So while this is all going on, Sunday while I was at work Lee called and said he wasn't feeling well.  He spent Mon...

Today was so busy and it isn't the way I wanted it to go.  Lee had an eye appointment because he has decieded he wants to start wearing contacts.  He was gone over two hours this morning which shouldn't have been a big deal but the little boys were so upset about everything that I ended up putting Luke down for a nap.  Then Victoria and I went shopping.  We came home and walked out the door a few minutes later because we had to take our van to the mechanic and we are borrowing one of my mom's cars.  Came home did a ton of work in the garage in a very short amount of time and I left for work.  So somebody deleted me off facebook because she said I was too much drama.  What it came down to was she and I disagreed on how something should be handled and she thought I was attacking her.  Which I wasn;t she was just one of the 20 friends who had done the same thing  which I disagreed with.  Doesn't help that I go to churc...

more and more the kids are having adventures with out us.  It makes me happy and sad all at the same time.  Tonight was ski night.  I had to work and with sick boys it worked out better if we didn't get a babysitter.  So here I sit in the school parking lot waiting for the bus to hear about Jakes first skiing adventure.  I hope he had fun and didn't get too frustrated.  He was nervous and excited.   I teared up when he got on the bus. He had several friends go with him some knew how to ski not sure if all of them did.  I have visions of broken leg or concision but I  thinking the would have called me. Maybe not. Jake had fun and wants to do it again.  Came back exhausted,  Slept until after 9 the next morning which is not like him at all.

I am against it.  I don;t think that it is ever the right decision except in VERY extreme cases of violence.  I think both sides did somethings wrong.  I use to think it was the worst thing ever and now I think that local people have way too much power to make these decisions.  That there have been too many times where two people do the same thing and one is forced to leave and one isn't. So many secrets so much heartbreak.  The whole thing just leaves my head spinning.

Mixed emotions today as I have come to terms we will never have another baby in the home.  That chapter is closing and we are moving on. A year ago today we rushed to the hospital in a snow storm to have Luke.  I would love to say that he has been a blessing and we have loved him from the moment he was born.  We loved him but it was hard.  The first six months were some of the hardest of my life.  I will forever be grateful for my mother who was so helpful during those months when Lee was working long hours and Luke cried what seemed like every day.  Every day Luke is showing more and more of his personality.  He is actually pretty calm easy going kid unless he is tired and then he is throwing himself on the floor out of control crazy.  He is just recently starting to show interest in books.  Luke follows Andrew around wanting to do every thing Andrew does (except walk).  I am guessing he will be walking in a couple of weeks. ...

Christmas was good.  The kids got to see all their grandparents.  Victoria was most excited to see her cousin.  Kids were spoiled.  My mom always goes a little overboard.   We exchanged gifts.  Ate way too much and enjoyed being together.  Lee had a four day weekend.  I was on call Christmas Eve but didn't get a single call. Love this pic First Christmas as six She loves her Frozen Marble Track Everything was so new and exciting

On Tuesday afternoon I received a call from Victoria's resource teacher saying that Victoria would be receiving an award Wednesday morning  but it was a surprise.  It was Citizen of the Quarter.  One student from each class gets it.  Usually resource teachers don't put in for it because their students are in another class.  But she did for Victoria because she works so hard and is always so eager to learn.   I text Lee who wasn't going to go the ceremony but changed his mind.  So we get there and the first award called is Great Author Award.  I was shocked Jake got it.  He loves to write and is pretty creative so it was nice he was recognized for it.  I started crying when they called Victoria's name.  She is often overshadowed by Jake's academic successes.   But these two have worked super hard this quarter and it really showed.  Great Author Souper Salad Citizen of the Quarter