Feeling Better...........

I must be feeling a whole lot better because it is now almost 7:30 at night, the kids are both in bed and the bathrooms and floors of my house have been completely scrubbed and my house is smelling like the wonderful clean smell of bleach. ... or maybe it was just the energy from my ipod turned on to all the big hair bands of the 80's that made me clean like a mad woman! Either way, I am so glad my house is somewhat clean.... now I can catch the last half hour of Glenn Beck! (yes I am a total dork) By the way, Joel went to the doctor today and has an upper respiratory infection! AAAHHHHH!!!!!

Four months ago....

It has been 4 months since my Grandma Betty passed away. Time is a funny thing because in some ways it seems longer and in other ways, I can't believe that it has been that long already. I still often think about being around her in her last few days. I can honestly say that it was one of the most life changing experiences of my life. I am so thankful that we were able to surround her and be with her in her last moments. I know that I will have those memories with me forever. She was an amazing woman who made it through many hard times. A few weeks ago, Nevaeh had taken down Grandma Betty's picture from the shelf in her room and she layed next to it and cried and cried and told me how much she missed Grandma Betty. Such a sad but sweet moment. I miss her so much but am so thankful to have had such a great Grandma! Thank God we have so many memories to hold on to!

Good Friends....

So, the girls are now feeling pretty well, but Joel and I are now in the middle of the worst colds we have had in a long time. Or maybe now that we are in our 30's, it just takes more time to get over it! Anyways, I had a good friend call me today and offer to take my lovely two year old off of my hands for a few hours so that I could get some much needed rest. What a blessing!!! I was able to actually sleep without having to get up a million times to meet the demands of my child! Since we are so far from family, it is so nice to know that I have good friends who are there for me when I need a little help!


And throughout this entire sickness....... I have learned one thing. Men do not handle being sick very well. Let me just leave it at that!

Sick of being sick

This sickness or at least some form of sickness has now touched every singe person in our house now.... I will spare you the gross details.....but we are still all very sick and extremely crabby. I am trying to wash all the bedding and wipe down every place that our grimy hands might touch.... I don't watch morning shows that often, but since we are all feeling so bad, I sat down with my cup of tea and thought that I would give The View a try this morning. That show is nothing more than loud noise. My head could not take it and I had to turn it off. Did I also mention that it is very hard to parent my extremely not-feeling-so-great-always-crying two year old..... especially when my voice is almost completely gone and everytime I talk there is an obnoxious ringing in my ears. Maybe tomorrow will be better... but for now my friends, there is always NyQuil!

My Sick Child.....

This is what I get for just bragging the other day about how my children are never sick. What do you know, two days later Nevaeh comes down with a fever and soar throat and sure enough has strep throat! I am anxiously waiting for the pink stuff to kick in... still waiting. Bless her littler heart. I have been in and out of the room all day checking on her and after about the tenth time she said to me, "mommy, is there any way you can find me a bell or whistle so that when I need you I can just ring it and you will come?" I am not sure where she came up with that idea.... good thing I could not find a bell or a whistle!

Maybe this will be a better success...

Since so many people in this world have not had the great opportunity to have a Mac instead of a PC, I decided that my other blogsite was way too hard for people to remember and since others in my family blog on blogspot, I thought I would give it a try. Hopefully we can keep in touch better. (teammathews and teamlemiere!) With all that is going on in the world today, I feel lilke I have a ton of thoughts going through my head so I thought that it would be fun to post them.....at least fun for me. Anyways, we shall see if I actually stick to this blogging thing.....