Wordy Wednesday...

I'm so far behind I think I'm about to lap myself!!

I'm here, and I'm thankful for those of you who are

still here too!!

Here's a brief rundown/catch up. We...

Celebrated our 14 year anniversary!!

Spent two weeks in Disney...had a fantastic time-BUT-

found out that my two littles can be crazy stressful when

naps exit the scene and are replaced by long,

miserably hot days.

I got the sickest I think I've ever been with strep throat

just days after we got back from Disney. For the first time

in our marriage, Paul had to stay home from work to take care

of me and the kids. I spent a full 48 hours closed up in our upstairs

room with no contact with the kids-approx 16 straight hours

of that time were spent unconscious-lots of fever and meds.

I don't remember most of that week.

Had a second and a sixth birthday!

(well, they weren't MINE, of course, but you know)

Had some dramatic GARBAGE go on with some friends and

some people that I thought were friends. I'm not gonna

name any names, but one of the gossip/drama causers

is a pretty popular blogger around here...

and a (former?) IRL friend.

I am saddened to find out that she is NOT the person

I thought she was...or who she pretends to be.

Found out we do not have a special souvenir in the making.

A little disappointed about that, but

we'll keep working on it! ;)

Work on the upstairs addition has come to a temporary halt...

it's very hard to work in the non-air-conditioned attic when the

temps up there get close to 130 degrees cause it's so stinkin hot here!

I lost a friend to an overdose. It was unbelievably hard for me to

wrap my mind around. And just hard. Very hard.

Emmie has been running fever since last Wednesday. I took her

to the Dr. Friday just because I wanted her seen before the holiday

so if she needed meds she could get on them and we could go about

our weekend. The Dr. told me what I already knew...it was viral.

But said if she was still running fever Sunday or Monday to bring

her back. I hate that. Really? You will be able to do something with

her virus then that you can't do now??

Anyway, by Monday she was still running

fever, but had a new symptom...her gums were swollen and bleeding.

This worried me a bit and after looking into her mouth, I thought

her front teeth looked funny, so I made her another appt. Paul wanted

me to take her to the dentist instead, and I tried to get her an appt

there, but with no luck. I loaded her up for her Dr's appt knowing that

I just needed to hear what the problem was...I'm not a worrier, but I

felt that there was more to her symptoms than just her teeth and fever.

The Dr. looked in her mouth for all of one second and said she has a

severe herpes infection all in her mouth. (the herpes that causes cold sores,

NOT the other kind!!) Ashton and Paul get them all the time, and

Ashton has had one for almost 2 weeks by this time, so I knew where

Emmie got it from. I was relieved to know what was wrong,

but surprised by the severity of Emmie's symptoms.

Apparently babies get it BAD.

Of course, it's still a virus, so the Dr. said there isn't anything we

can do but wait it out. Thankfully she is some better now, I have to

cut her food into tiny bites, and her gums still bleed, but the fever is

mostly gone and she's finally eating!!

She lost 2lbs from Friday to Monday from not eating. She's too tiny as

is it...she didn't need to lose weight!

And now I have my first ever cold sore. Thanks, E.

I had NO IDEA how miserable they are.

I can't even imagine what my poor baby has been through the

last week! I have since found out that a dentist WILL prescribe

meds for it that shortens the duration, and that makes me a little

angry with her pedi, but by the time we went in Monday she was on

the downhill slope, and from what I've read the meds work best if

you catch the virus in the beginning stages.

Next time it's not supposed to be nearly as bad.

We saw Toy Story 3.

I cried.

If I don't see Eclipse soon, I may cry again.

Still here?? LOL...sorry that was so long!! I'm going to try to get

back into the swing of blogging, and in the process also type up and

post-date some back posts. I've missed A LOT that I need to

post about. If you don't want to do all the catch-up posts, I'll

understand. But this blog is also my scrapbook/family record thingy,

so I feel the need to update all the stuff I missed.

It feels good to be back! :)

TTFN,