Update on Megan

She is feeling better today! Yay! She was up pretty late last night coughing, but thankfully it was productive, and not just annoying. We are doing breathing treatments every 4 hours, and they seem to be helping. She gets very jittery right after the treatments, and can't keep her hands and legs from shaking.

I stopped by her school today to pick up some work for her so she wouldn't get too far behind. She decided to dive right in and get started on it today. I got this great shot of her today without her even being aware that I had the camera out. Here she is, during a breathing treatment, with her mp3 player cranked up, doing her homework! She had to stop writing as soon as the treatment was finished because her hands were shaking too badly to write!


Today I am so grateful for modern medicine, and that I followed that prompting to call the doctor earlier this week. I never dreamed that this would be the outcome of the call, but I'm glad that she is feeling better.

My silly girl!

One of the teachers at work brought me a page from the Wednesday edition of the Huntsville Times that featured a picture of Kayti and the other 2 students who won the Optimist Club's essay contest. I brought it home to Kayti, and instead of being excited that she had a write-up in the paper, she says to me, "Yeah, I've already seen it. I HATE my smile. They made us stand there smiling while they took tons of pictures, and naturally they put the worst one in the paper!" I have to agree that her smile does look a bit plastered on her face, but I still think she is beautiful, and I am very proud of her accomplishment!

Here is one of my favorite pictures of her. I'm sure she hates this one too, but I love the fact that I caught her laughing... it's a genuine smile, not a fake plastered one!

Mother of the Year Award...

So, in my last post I mentioned that Megan had been running a fever most of the day on Saturday. She was fever free by that night, and has stayed that way until today. She had, though, a horrible cough. I called the doctor late yesterday to see if she could recommend anything for the cough, as NOTHING we had tried had helped. We even were trying her rescue inhaler, but no luck with that, either. Of course, the doctor wants to see her, and we scheduled an appointment for this afternoon. This morning she wakes up feeling pretty bad, and her fever has come back. Instead of calling the doctor to see if we can get an earlier visit, I decide to go on to work, and just keep our afternoon appointment time. I did come home to check on her during my lunch break, and she was still in bed, feeling pretty awful. So... fast-forward to our doctor's visit. As it turns out, she has double ear infections, and really, really bad bronchitis, bordering on pneumonia. How awful do I feel? Like a total cruddy mother. The bronchitis is triggering her asthma, so we have a home health nurse coming in either tonight, or first thing in the morning to set up a home nebulizer so we can give her breathing treatments every 4 hours for the next few days. She is also out of school until Monday. I just can't believe that it progressed so quickly. She didn't even seem that sick to me, except for the cough.

Hopefully, though, she will be back to her cute, well self soon. I sure miss that bubbly personality with she is sick. :(

Long week - lazy weekend

This has been a long week for everyone around our house. Due to circumstances at work, Barry has had to work nights this week, and also this weekend. By the time next weekend rolls around, he will only have had 3 days off in 3 weeks. Great for overtime pay, but not great for family time. He is off tomorrow (Sunday), which will be spent sleeping, then has to be back at work bright and early Monday morning... and he will be there from 5 AM-5 PM. This will be his schedule all week, then hopefully he will have a few days off. That could just be wishful thinking on my part, though!

Due to all the rain we have had, the kids did not have any soccer this week. Games were not scheduled for today, but even if they had been, I doubt that the fields would have been in any shape to play. Everyone is hoping that next week will be their lucky week, and they can finally get out on the fields and run! I am hoping this too, as I am tired of kids in the house with pent-up energy. They are driving me a bit bonkers!!

I think I will spare you the details of my week at work. Let's just sum it up by saying that I HATE severe weather during school hours. The first drop of rain, and the phones start to ring off the hook.

Last night was my sweet nephew's birthday party. We were headed there, but Josh was feeling really awful, and my momma-instincts started yelling to go home and put him to bed, so I did. This morning he work up feeling fine, but Megan has been running a fever all day. I hate that we missed wishing Noah happy birthday, but I'm glad that we didn't go share our germs with anyone.

Kyle is a member of his school's Destination Imagination team. Never heard of it before? Neither had I until I started working at Liberty, but here is a website with more info: http://www.idodi.org/. Anyway... his regional competition was a few weeks ago, and his team came in second place in their challenge. Today they got to participate in the State Tournament! They had a fun time, but once again they came in second. Only the first place team will be able to advance to Global Competition, and Kyle is hoping that something happens to the first place team, leaving them unable to compete, so LMS can participate! He's not a competitive kid at all, now is he?

After Kyle's competition was over, the kids and I planted an herb-container garden and some flowers. Every year I let the kids pick out some flowers, but this year I decided that I would rather have an herb garden. We still picked out a few flowers for the porch, but we mainly got herbs... rosemary, basil, oregano, thyme, dill, Italian flat leaf parsley and cilantro!! I also got Barry some strawberries. The front porch smells so good, as did the car on the way home with them. Josh complained that the combination of basil and oregano was making him hungry for pizza!

Kayti and I went on a walk this evening to take some pictures of some of the beautiful tulips that were recently planted just down the road from us. The storms on Thursday night damaged some of them, but they were still pretty to look at. We also admired a near-by tree that is in full bloom right now. We took the camera along with us and were able to get a few pictures.


And in the middle of everything else, we were able to watch some of General Conference today. I really enjoyed all the speakers, and I am looking forward to tomorrow!

Just because

What a way to end the week.

Everyone headed back to school this week after a great spring break. It was hard for all of us to get used to going to bed at a decent time, and getting up early. Megan enjoyed her first night of YW this week with a camp kick-off night. She really enjoyed it. Spring soccer started this week, and Meg was the only one to actually get to play any. She had a practice on Tuesday night, then the rain moved in and closed down the fields for the rest of the week. With more rain expected tonight and tomorrow, the first day of games is looking like a wash-out.
Everyone got up this morning looking forward to this being the last day of school for the week, except Megan. She woke up with her eye glued shut. She had complained about it hurting, and being a bit fuzzy to look out of last night, and by this morning she had a full blown case of pink eye. We were finally able to get her seen and a prescription for eye drops filled (it's a really LONG story, and pretty boring, too, so I'll spare you the details). I have quarantined her in her room to try and prevent it spreading through the household. Hopefully it will work, and no one else will get it.

Happy Birthday, Meggie Moo

I can't believe that you are now 12 years old! Seems like only yesterday you were born. I'm so thankful you are part of our family... it just wouldn't be complete without you!!!