It may sound like boring work but I love it because I love them

It's almost spring break for the kids, Hallelujah! They are driving me crazy and I think they just need a break! I need a break but with them being home from school it just means I don't get a spring break. I think they are just feeling cooped up and have spring fever. Although by the look of the weather around us lately it doesn't really look and/or feel like it is Spring here (except for all the rain). We are ready for some SUN and a "vacation".

We are going to Utah for part of our Spring break and I have lots of stuff to get done, clean house, the-never-ending-laundry, bathrooms, make phone calls, plan fun activities, pack bags for 5 people.....the list goes on and on....and on....so I thought since I feel overwhelmed I'm going to stall and blog :) That's what I do when I feel overwhelmed, I stall and when I stall I blog :) But I can justify it, it's a good thing to do, it's what I consider my journaling so it's good.

I'm not very eloquent in putting my thoughts into words, sentences, paragraphs like other people but I have thoughts and I'm going to try to express them in my way.....

Often I feel looked down upon by "the world" because all I "do" is stay at home. In my heart I know it's what I was meant to do. I know it is really what I love, I do, I love being a Mother. And it doesn't matter how many times I hear a General Authority or Prophet of the Lord talk about the importance of mothers, I can still feel the worlds judgements, not that I care what the world thinks or that it effects what I do, but I feel it nonetheless. Though in my heart I know it's a good thing to want to be with my children and the right choice for ME and MY family, I still feel.....looked down upon, like I'm less of a "Woman" because I don't work outside the home.

Some times my mind tries to tell me things like "Well, so-and-so is a Mom AND works/goes to school (fill in the blank)" or my mind says "Is driving kids around all day, buying/making/preparing food for them all day, wiping bums all day, really that important that I have to be the one doing it?" and there are other thoughts similar to these that pop into my head on a daily basis, some times on hard days they pop into my head multiple times a day. Please tell me I'm not alone here? If you don't I'm gonna feel a bit guilty :/

When People ask "So, do you just stay at home all day with your kids" I wish I could say "YES!" with less of the "I'm sorry, is that bad? but yes I do" tone. Ya know? That word "JUST" really gets to me when people say it that way, and I know what most people mean by it and it's harmless really but it can some times sound like the "well staying home for your kids isn't all that much work so there's bound to be something else you do, right?" tone and THAT bothers me.

I know I should not let it get me down, but some times it "gets" to me and I feel like saying "WELL, I'd LOVE to go back to school or go to work or have a really time consuming awesome hobby (like traveling the world) but I feel strongly about being here for my kids at this time in their young lives and I can JUST stay at home so I do! It's not easy on our pocket book, but we make it work and we feel good about it so....what's it to ya!?" But I don't say that, I usually say "Yep!" and sigh and invisibly rolls my eyes and try to remind myself it doesn't matter what they think I know in my heart it's what I need to be doing. But why does it have to be hard for my brain and my heart to connect and make me feel so confidant in MY choices for MY family that I could answer those questions confidently with no doubts or fears trying to sneak their way in?

I have my moments though where I think "This is tough work, it would be WAY easier to just go to work all day and come home to happy kids and put them to bed and do the same thing the next day." But then I have those moments where I'm like "This is why I do this, THIS is what it's all about and I wouldn't miss it for the world!" Moments, I love those moments. I have on most days those moments where there are those "gifts" my kids give me, they aren't physical gifts but gifts of love, joy, learning, spiritual gifts that only kids can give to a Mother and only if the Mother pays close attention to what she is receiving from her Children. I don't know how to explain them but I think any Mother knows what I'm talking about. I have days where I'm sure I don't pay enough attention to my kids and opportunities/gifts go unnoticed, but for the most part I look for them, I need them some times to just get through each day.

A couple of days ago I was reading a chain of emails from an old, good, friend of mine from college. She's one of those friends that we don't keep in touch that well over the last 10 years and our lives are quite different from one another, but when we do reconnect we feel the same about each other and it feels like, though things have changed our friendship has not. I love those friends and I have a few of them and I love that I can just pick up where we left off and reconnect. Anyway I was reading through this chain of emails back and forth between us which were spread out over a couple years time and in this latest one we hadn't kept in touch very well and we both really didn't know what the other was up to or what was new in their lives. So I asked her what was new with her and she responded and then asked me what was new with me and my family and I responded to her, but I remember thinking "Wow, I don't have any exciting things I do to tell her about, and is she really interested in hearing about my stay at home job?" I thought "Should I even try to make it sound glamorous?" Because as most moms know it is not glamorous at all, most days. I remember thinking for just a moment "well I don't have much to update her on because I do the same thing I did seven years ago and that is just stay at home." I caught myself repeating what others say to me, "just". So I decided to have a better attitude about what I did and be proud and tell her about it with confidence, so I did.

I reread my response and it just struck me......My heart yelled "Be proud of who you are, what you do and why you do it!" and as I read my response I cried because my heart and brain finally connected and I felt overwhelmed with this sense of confidence and pure joy in my roll as, not just a Mother, but as A stay at Home Mother.

Here is what I wrote:
"About me/us:
I have three kids now (I like to take it slow, none of this 18 months apart stuff for me ;) my oldest Eden, whom you've met, is already seven and in second grade. It blows my mind that next year she'll be eight and be able to choose to be baptized! My boy, Jonah, is now five and in K-G, he is a funny kid, and by funny I mean strange :)But we love him. And my sweet baby girl Lahna (pronounced law-nuh) is 16 months old and we are on the count down until she can enter the amazing world of NURSERY! She's wild and crazy and cute and funny! And by cute, I mean GORGEOUS and by funny, I mean hilarious! She makes me jealous daily of her beautiful blue eyes and long LONG eye lashes and it doesn't take much from her to get the whole house laughing, we sure love having her around. So as you can guess my days are spent caring for these amazing little people. I do the usual cook, clean, entertain, chauffeur, play, love, clean clean clean....for these kiddos. It may sound like boring work but I love it because I love them. I'm not as crafty as some home-makers but I try and I make my home, just that, a home but most importantly We and make the kids feel loved and that is home enough for anyone."

I broke down at the part where I said "It may sound like boring work but I love it because I love them!" It hit me at that moment that THAT is why I do it, I love them so much that I want to sacrifice my wants for their needs. I forgot that I could do that. That I could love someone, or little people and a husband in my case, so much that I would sacrifice anything that I would want, for them. How selfish of me to forget the importance of what I do, how silly of me to "get down" when I feel like less of a Woman because of what others think. WHO CARES, what other things, who cares!? I know a few people who really care (my husband, my parents, most important My Father in Heaven) and they are the ones supporting me and loving me and encouraging me in this roll I play, and for them I am thankful!

So I thought I need to say something in my brain that connects to my heart when I get that "just" question asked to me. I thought I need to say to myself I don't "just" stay at home, I GET to stay at home to be the Mother I want to be. I don't need to feel judged nor judge others for being different in what we chose to do. For some it is a choice to do other things on top of being a Mother, and that is okay! For others it is not a choice and they must work or go to school to help the family and that is okay too! So I need to remember to be grateful that I "get" to stay home, I get to have that as a choice option in my life, and I am thankful that I can.

I'm not gonna lie there are days where I say "Never mind this is too hard, can I change my mind? Can I go to work?" But more times I say "Thank Heavens I can do this for my family".

I'll just end with one last thing I liked about what I said in my email...

"I'm not as crafty as some home-makers but I try and I make my home, just that, a home but most importantly We and make the kids feel loved and that is home enough for anyone."

I'm grateful I get to make my home a home for my husband and kids, it's not easy but I'm grateful for my roll.

The not-so-forgotten-third-child

I am the third child in my family of seven kids. Would I consider myself "forgotten"? Well, not as forgotten as the 7th right ;)
No, I'm kidding. BUT I will say it's easy to forget to "record" your kids as often, as more of them come along. I have two million and two pictures and videos of Eden as a baby/child, about a million of Jonah and about half of that of my baby girl. For some reason life gets busier with more kids and the camera gets left in it's case all too often.
BUT
Even if I have half as many pictures of this crazy, cute little girl I have just as many stories and memories that I want to record of her at this age, as I did of my other kids at this age. So here is my Not-so-forgotten-third-child post just for her!

Lahna is 22 months old and thinks she is two. She has learned to throw fits long ago but has perfected them these days. She loves to talk and has learned to love the word "no" and tries her best to use it on me, and when it doesn't work that's where the fits come in, ahh don't you just love two year old children?

I do love her. Even with all her orneriness she is hilariously entertaining!

It's a dinner time ritual in our house to have a little music on in the background while we eat and talk as a Family. Usually dinners end up with us cracking up at our silly Lulu while she either dances in her seat and/or depending on the song, she will "rock on". All you have to say to this girl is "Rock on Lahna!" and this is the face she makes as she nods her head up and down to the music as if she were a "rocker". It's hilarious! We have yet to get a real good picture of her "rock on" face, this is as close as it gets. And of course when the video camera comes out she won't do it at all.

Here are her First piggy tails. My poor baby girls are always so bald. She's finally getting more hair enough to "do it" and it's getting darker, she was such a Blondie in the summer but now it's more like Jonah's color. She hates to get her hair done "pretty" so I rarely do it because it's not worth the fight, to me anyway. That's how it goes with the third kid, right?

Speaking of hair, she hates my hair. She can some times be a snugly little girl and will want to lay her head down on my shoulders or chest. Since my hair is long (a few inches past my shoulders) she gets mad at me and won't lay her head down until my hair is off my chest/shoulder area. She'll yell "Nooo, you hayuh you hayuh!" As she violently shoves my hair over my shoulders and out of her way. I don't know why I think it's so funny, but I laugh every time. I tell Cory it's because she's jealous and wish she had long hair too ;)

This girl has an obsession with putting things on her legs. For example: Any hair tie she finds lying around the house, she immediately sits down and begins to shove it on one or both of her legs, or if she finds anything that looks like it has a hole big enough to put her legs through, she will find a way to make it fit. Once we found a hair tie around her upper thigh in the morning after changing her morning diaper with a hair clip on it, apparently she put it on just before bed the night before and we didn't see it and she slept with it on the whole night, it left a nice red mark on her leg for a day or two. She LOVES putting her brother and sisters underwear on over whatever she is wearing, she will sport that outfit all day if I'd let her, even out to the store, but I put a stop when it comes to going out in public like that. Here she is sporting Jonah boys underwear over her jammies, cute! Could be the newest fashion statement, ha ha! I need to get this girl some leg-warmers she'd probably love them and at least they are back in style now and safer than hair ties cutting off her circulation.

(this is her "show me a cute face" pose)

She is my "little helper". She loves to "help" when I'm cooking or baking (which sadly has not been a lot lately), but usually she just wants to watch and then lick the beaters or burn herself on the stove or oven, very helpful indeed.

Helping me make a pie, I did not use her mashed up pie crust for the pie. It was more like play dough to her.

Being the third child, you usually get more "picked on" and she has really learned how to "tattle" on her brother and sister, okay mostly her brother since he is the one that picks on her the most. It's funny to watch as she comes running to me sobbing and babbling on and on in audibly about what just happened to her. It usually sounds like "wah wah wah uh Jonah wah wah wah uh hurt me" I tell her to calm down and then say "now tell me what happened" it comes out the same way "wah wah wah uh Jonah wah wah uh hurt me" I can't help but laugh it's funny and sad at the same time.


We sure do love our spunky little almost-two-year-old. We can't get enough of the silly quirky things she does on a daily basis. I tell my Mom the reason she is alive on a daily basis is because she is so cute, on top of her orneriness, and it's a good thing too it really does save her life ;) (mostly kidding CPS please let us keep our kid!)
We love you lulu you are not forgotten!

Happy Birthday sweet Girl

***********I wrote this post the day before Eden's birthday so I would remember to post her "Birthday Post" on the blog even if the day got crazy busy, well I still forgot! It's only two days after her actual birthday, oops.****************


My sweet sweet Eden Girl is Eight years old Today. I cannot believe eight years ago she came into my life and made me a Mother for the first time, for that she will always have a special place in my heart. It doesn't seem possible that it was that long ago we brought her home from the Hospital and realized she would change us forever! They grow up too quickly.

We love our Eden girl. From the time she could smile, laugh and bat her eyes she has been showing off her full personality to the world. At just a few months old she would bat her eyes at any stranger willing to ooh and aww over her, she knew she was beautiful and wanted to show it off, she loved attention! She learned to "flirt" with any man in any store or public area before she was six months old, it was almost a joke how she favored the Men so much, and it worried us a bit :) Her first crush was when she was just a year and a half old on the Bag Boy at the local grocery store, who looked as if he were fifteen years old, Oh our boy crazy Eden Girl.

Then we watched as she turned into our spunky little toddler and became our little comedian, wanting to make everyone smile and laugh, no matter how silly she had to look, she'd do it for a laugh. In preschool the kids loved her because she was just so "crazy" and silly. She was oh so "drama" but at that age it's entertaining! At three she was so mad at me she said "You're ruining my life" as she was quoting a Barbie movie, oh Drama!

Now, she is blossoming more and more and she is starting to be so "grown up" in a way. She is more reserved than I thought she'd be at this age, she still likes the boys and chases them on the play ground occasionally. She does like to make people laugh still (mostly her little sister) but keeps it low key, the attention doesn't always have to be on her any more. She loves to have lots of friends and tries hard to be kind to everyone, she really is turning into a sweet heart. It's funny to watch how your kids' personalities change over time, as the grow from phase to phase of their childhood. I love that she keeps bits of her "old or young personality" as she comes into a "New" one.

This year she is Eight, like I said, and she has chosen to be baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, this is the religion my husband and I are baptized members of and this is where we take our children to church every Sunday. Not only do our children learn about The Church on Sundays but we try our best to teach them Church principles at home, as we try and live our religion. In the church any worthy person who is Eight years of age or older may be baptized and confirmed a Member of this Church. I grew up in the church and was baptized at the age of Eight and so was my husband, but We wanted Eden to make the choice for herself. So we talked a lot about it as 2012 came along and we did a couple of Family Home Evenings (as they are called in the Church) to help her learn more what it is to be baptized and why we (her Dad and I) chose to be baptized. Then she went to a church meeting for all the children turning eight that year, and their parents to help them see what it would be like when/if they were baptized. After that meeting we asked her "So Eden, do you think getting baptized when you turn eight is something you would want to do?" before I could finish the sentence she said excitedly "Oh I've already decided I DO want to get baptized!"

I can hardly describe how I felt when I heard our sweet and innocent child have such great Faith and know that this is what she wanted to do. It's one of those moments as a parent where you think "Okay so we are doing something right, we aren't so bad at this after all." It's more than just being proud Parents it's this over whelming sense of....Joy.....it's almost like your kids give you a glimpse of Heaven in moments like this, it's just a pure and sweet feeling. We are so proud of her!

I love that she is our Oldest and she is such a good older sister to her siblings. She has her moments of being bossy (of course) or rude to her brother but she has soft heart under it all. She feels bad if she treats her brother wrong. It's fun and interesting to watch her grow and learn and make such grown up choices in her life at this age and though, to me she seems so "old" (because she is my oldest) she is still so young and has her whole life ahead of her. I love how she is such a good example to, not only her siblings, but to me and her Daddy.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDEN GIRL! WE LOVE YOU!

La Nina I hate you, Indy I miss you.

Apparently it's going to be a La Nina spring, until late June! Or so the weather lady says. JUNE! Really?!

La Nina, I hate you!

Below is our local forecast for the next ten days. As you can see 7 out of the 10 will be rainy and the days it won't rain it will be partly or mostly cloudy.

((Sigh))

Spring Break you can't come soon enough! Please, Utah have sunny weather while we are there! Maybe we should change our spring break plans and head to Hawaii, that's my vote! Or Indiana, I posted Indy's forecast below, this is what we left :( 80 degree weather in March, to come to non-stop rain and cold, sad. Indy, how I miss you this time of year. Who cares about all the tornadoes, I miss that nice warm spring air.

It still vote Hawaii for spring break, though, No offense Indy.


Welcome Back to the great North West!

Today Mar 16	Sat 17	Sun 18	Mon 19	Tue 20	Wed 21	Thu 22	Fri 23	Sat 24	Sun 25

Showers	Showers	Mostly Cloudy	Partly Cloudy	Rain / Snow Showers	Showers	Showers	Cloudy	Rain / Snow Showers	Partly Cloudy
46°F High	47°	44°	42°	41°	47°	46°	50°	49°	49°
36° Low	28°	28°	29°	38°	36°	34°	35°	34°	35°

Indy's Forecast, seriously! 80 degrees!

Today Mar 16	Sat 17	Sun 18	Mon 19	Tue 20	Wed 21	Thu 22	Fri 23	Sat 24	Sun 25

Partly Cloudy	Isolated T-Storms	Scattered T-Storms	Partly Cloudy	Partly Cloudy	Partly Cloudy	Scattered T-Storms	Showers	Sunny	Sunny
79°F High	78°	76°	78°	80°	79°	72°	67°	61°	61°
59° Low	60°	60°	60°	60°	59°	52°	49°	45°	45°

Sunny Day pictures

For just a few days at the beginning of March, we were able to enjoy some warmer weather and sunshine. It really was a nice change of pace for us.

The kids were so happy to spend most of their day outside with out coats or even sweat shirts on.

"I don't have to wear a coat and I get to wear Eden's hat?! Yes!"

Playing "jump rope"

Playing in the fire pit, lovely!

And getting dirty, what every boy should do while outside.

We even enjoyed an outside lunch. We are so ready for spring, it can't come soon enough!

Change of weather, Change of attitude

*****************I wrote the following blog post a few days ago. I wasn't sure if I wanted to post it, I do that with lots of post some times, but I like it and want to have it recorded on this blog.******************************

There is something about warmer, sunnier weather that makes people ( mainly, me and my children) happier, it makes the stresses in life just melt off your shoulders and feel less.....stressful. Three days of "warm" sunny weather has really lifted the spirits in our home, well for me at least, and when Momma is happy everyone is happy, right? I know it won't last forever and inevitably with in the next few days clouds may roll in, rain may fall, but what a nice break we got to enjoy, even if it was only for two days! And even if the clouds roll in and the temps drop I feel like I'm in a better mood and nothing can break that, and that I'll just look forward to the next sunny warm streak.

I think I have just been in a mild state of seasonal depression, and I know it affected the kids too. The lack of sunshine really got to me, that and being in a new place in life, feeling like I don't fit in yet, has really got me down. And, it also doesn't help that I'm pregnant (hormonal) and feeling like crap, on top of all the illnesses I contracted this winter! Yes you heard me right I'm pregnant with #4, surprise! :) Well, it wasn't really a surprise for us, but maybe for some of you it is. Anyway I think all of this going on at once made me down and out. It made me neglect the blog, kind of lose touch with the things I like to do....slip into a mild seasonal (feel sorry for myself) depression. I was just going through the motions daily, hoping to just get through each day, and not really caring to love what I do or to even be the happy person I like to be.

I'm pretty much a "Glass is half full" kind of person most of the time but lately I've just been in this "I don't care what the glass is just get it away from me" type of person which is just as bad as the "Glass is half empty" person. But Honestly just being in a better mood because of two things: one, I'm finally starting to feel better pregnancy wise and health wise and two, because the sun has come out (literally) which just brightens my whole attitude and I just feel like more of the "Glass is half full" me again.

We are most likely going to have to move this summer when our Contract is up, the owners are looking into selling the house and it's looking like one family is really interested in buying. We are not in a place where we can or even would buy, so buying it ourselves is not an option. At first I was MAD! That wasn't MY plan, this can't happen! I was planning on staying put for another year. But nooooo they decided to put it up for sale (which we knew would be likely to happen when we signed the lease) and ruin my plans. This sucks, I hate that we are being forced to move....yada yada yada...bad attitude bad attitude!

When the sun came out, my attitude changed. Now, with my better attitude I'm feeling like this might be a blessing in disguise, of a small bump in our road to where we need to be. In all honesty getting this house (even for a short time) was a blessing, it worked out perfect and I have to believe that moving out is going to be the same. I HATE moving, hate it! Not sure that anyone really loves it but some people do it so often that they don't loath it like I do. BUT I have come to accept that, until we know for sure where we want to settle down to finish raising our family, we'll have to move at least a couple more times and it's tough accepting that fact but I have come to accept it. I think I wouldn't hate moving so much if people packed up all our stuff for us, moved it for us, unpacked it for us.....yeah that would be way easier! But we aren't in a position to pay for movers and we aren't in and job or the Army where they come and do it for you AND Pay for it, so thus my negative feelings about packing up all our stuff (which is a lot when you have kids, they have so much crap!) just to unpack it, to eventually repeat the whole process again, its a bit daunting. Okay so my "better attitude" isn't great but it's better than my bitter nasty attitude I had before, baby steps!

Anyway, right now we don't know what our immediate future holds. We know the long term goal and that we'll eventually get there but it seems like the little phases and steps to get us there are not quite visible to us yet, which is a little scary some times. We aren't sure if Cory will stay in this practice he's at, he likes it for the most part but there are so many contributing factors when deciding where to settle down, if the job is right, if the location is right, if we are supposed to be here or if there is some other opportunity out there that would be better for us....The whole not-knowing-right-now-thing kind of stretches my patience, and stresses me out a bit, but increases my Faith and though it's not easy it's a good thing. It shapes me. It strengthens me spiritually and emotionally and to know we are not forgotten and that there is a plan and all we need to do is our part and that we will be taken care of and it will work out, knowing that and having that Faith gives me comfort and when you feel like you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel just yet, you need that comfort. I'm grateful for that comfort.

As I thought about the nice weather I thought about my life/attitude being much like the weather. It's been pretty gloomy outside, before the nice weather came along, and when the sun did shine it was FREEZING out and you could only enjoy it from inside. Just like that, I was gloomy, not happy and when I was happy I wasn't enjoying it to the fullest, I kept that cold temperature in my heart, I was bitter about things out of my control. Well the blessings of A loving Heavenly Father came (along with spring being around the corner) and the sun came out with its warmth and brought happiness, literally. My eyes were opened and my heart was softened and I could feel the warmth over come me and give me hope and strength. I know that the "weather" will change, it will not stay warm forever, the sun will hide at some point but I feel like I can handle it now, that I'm recharged. I also know that the bad weather is not forever either. There are ups and downs all year round and I just need to patiently wait it out through the rough times. Life is not always sunshine and roses. Storms come our way our whole life, whether they are big or small we are not always going to be in a consistent 72 degree sunny blissful state of being. I know this, I've known if for a long time. But what I know now, is, if we endure the rough times "waiting it out" with Faith the Sun will shine again, the blessings will come and when that Sun does come out I need to remember to first, be grateful for it(my blessings), then I recharge (take advantage of it) and prepare for when the storms will eventually hit again.

Can you imagine life as always being 72 and blissful? At first thought I think "Heck yeah!" but then I think we'd get bored of it or at least I know we'd stop appreciating it to the fullest. I know if we didn't suffer we wouldn't know or appreciate all the good things we have in our lives. So as I go through this phase of "what's next?" "what should we do?" "where is this taking us?" this, not-knowing-it-all-right-now phase, I can know that some day when it's 72 degrees again, I can remember how hard it was getting to that temperature and what we went through to get there and how blessed I am to be there.

I know this post may sound really lame, cheesy or like I'm trying too hard to be all "Spiritual" or whatever, but it's just how I've been feeling lately and I wanted to record it. So judge all you want, I'm just putting myself and my thoughts out there so I can look back and remember what I learned along the way.

I'm just grateful..... for the changes in life that make me learn, grow and stretch me to my capacity and then the blessings that follow.

How can I not be grateful?!

The longest month of the year

Even though February is the shortest month of the year some times it feels like the LONGEST month of the year, like this February has been the longest February in History (for us anyway).

I'm pretty sure one or more of us in our little family has suffered a sickness every day in February. Maybe not quite, but it has felt like it. It started out with me getting some weird stomach bug again. I HATE throwing up, can I just say that?! I HATE IT!!! I had this awesome bug the day of Eden's Secret Garden Play and I had to miss it. I was so bummed! It was either miss it or go to the play and most likely throw up on the row in front of me, no thanks and You're Welcome!

Then the next weekend Jonah boy started to get sick and we ended up in the ER on a Saturday night with him suffering from Croup. My poor asthmatic kid, he gets it every year! He is still coughing from it, but it's slowly going away. That next weekend Lulu got croup. It's miserable for babies to be sick but I think it's just as hard on us Momma's to watch them suffer through being sick, it's so heart breaking. After coughing night after night and snot galore I took her in to the Doc and of course she had an ear infection, thankfully that's an easy fix. Just as she's getting better I get this nasty croupy cold along with Cory. It was a nasty bug that lasted at least 7 days and I still have a cough/mucus from it, it's been two weeks. Eden has now joined in on the nasty mucusy, coughy sickness, thankfully it's not as bad for her.

This last week I just wanted to end February with a bang I guess and I got UTI, not uncommon for me, I get them all the time. It's those cute kiddos of mine, they ruined me, but they were worth it. Any way...UTI, no biggie or so I thought, but then it decides to turn into a Kidney infection. Lovely! So I had the wonderful opportunity of being in the ER for five hours so I could get it diagnosed and taken care of. I just thought I'd keep up with this February theme of "Let's just be sick all the time" theme. So now I'm pumped full of antibiotics too and hoping March brings Healthy bodies and dare I ask for more sunshine? But ya know what I'll just settle for no more sickies in this house that would be great!

That's the end of my "I hate February" rant.

Here's to the best March ever! Right? Please!