Is today over yet?!

I was hoping to be on my way to bed by this time but it just isn't going to happen! Last night was a long night of getting up with Hannah every time she vomited, which was at least once an hour and sometimes more than that. She started to feel a little better around 10am and was keeping fluids down until like 4pm. Then she vomited about everything she had drunk in those 6 hours!! So now we are back to square one....And on top of that, Brad was gone most of that time and then outside working until about 7pm!! So it has been a really long day of being cooped up in the house with a crazy boy and sick girl! I just know Ryan is going to get it again. I can't keep him away from her and right before she started getting sick, he was eating her cereal. Ryan has been dying to go outside with daddy but I didn't let him because it is sooooo cold today. So he has been driving me crazy, getting into everything. We played with moon sand for a long time. That is messy but it keeps him busy for a long time. So I think that is about all I have to say for now. My mom skills are being tested again. If you missed that blog, go back and read it, it is titled "mom skills." But I would rather Hannah be sick than Ryan because at least she knows when it is coming and can lean over the trash can! I just wish it wouldn't hit her as hard as it does. Anyways, I am done. I don't know what else to say. My brain is about fried today. I hope tomorrow is better.

another virus

Just when I thought everyone was finally healthy again......Hannah threw up earlier. I noticed she was acting kinda weird all morning. She didn't want to eat her cereal, she didn't want to eat any of Ryan's snack in K-mart, she kept saying she was tired, she started crying when we pulled in Big Lots because she didn't want to go in, she started saying her belly hurt, and she didn't want any Wendy's on the way home!! Ryan on the other hand, has been eating all day! He ate some cereal, drank his milk, ate a blueberry muffin, then ate Hannah's cereal for breakfast! An hour or so later, he was eating a snack and water in Kmart (that is the only way I can get any shopping done!), then he ate all 5 of his chicken nuggets from wendys, juice and wanted Hannah's cracker!!!! That boy can put away the food! Anyways, I kept asking Hannah if she felt like she was going to throw up on the way home but she didn't. Then a few minutes after we got home, she did! I am glad I just decided to come home instead of shop more. I would have been very upset if she had vomited in the truck! She was sitting on the couch after getting sick and she said, "I caught a virus, didn't I?!" I said yup! So now she is laying down in the playroom with a trash can beside her and Ryan is napping. I kinda enjoy this blogging thing. I don't talk to many people at all and I think this is one way to feel like I am talking to someone. I miss that about working. I never had a problem talking!! =) Well, I think I am done talking for now. I need to do some cleaning...I never can think of anything to do but the house is always a mess!

outside chores

I have been so lovin' the warmer weather we've had today and yesterday. I took the kids to the park after school yesterday. This morning Ryan and I spent a couple hours working outside. It has been cloudy but still a little warmer than yesterday. Some dogs tried to get the rabbit last night. This has happened a couple times now and it is really annoying. These 2 stupid dogs keep coming at random times (always at night, of course) jumping all over the rabbit cage, barking and knocking it over, pulling the tarp off. So this morning Ryan and I took her a special treat and fixed her cage back. We also cleaned out our trash bin where we put our trash bags until trash day. That was disgusting. Mice always find there way in it during the winter and so some bags were empty and the trash just ends up in the bottom of the bin. No joke, I took 10 bags of trash down to the end of the road this morning. 3 of them were the huge 40 gallon bags of junk!! That is were Big Red (our truck) came in handy! I just threw them all in the back of it and drove the truck down to the end of the road. It isn't a long walk but with 10 trash bags of stuff, I would have been going back and forth all morning! Then after that we worked in the building for awhile. Just trying to clear a path from the front door, back and just organizing stuff. It was a good use of a warm morning. There are plenty of things I need to do in the house but I am so bored with the usual cleaning. I needed to get outside and do some work, as strange as that sounds!! Brad will be happy that he doesn't have to clean out the trash bin (he wouldn't get it done anyways, that is why I did it!) Now I am trying to think of something we can do tomorrow since Hannah doesn't have school. I think it is supposed to rain all morning but I have to go pick up her immunization records for kindergarten registration on Monday so I'd like to do something while we are out. We haven't gone anywhere this week (except my dentist appt). I didn't even grocery shop for this week! I want to try to empty our cabinets and freezer for a change. The kids are playing happily for a change. Right now Ryan is pushing Hannah in a stroller! I love it when they aren't screaming at each other! Well, it is time to think about dinner so I better get going.

What a day!!

Today started out bad. Actually I should say that last night ended bad! When I was taking my contacts out before bed, one of my contacts flipped out of my fingers and went down the drain!! In all the years I have been wearing contacts that has never happened before! To make matters worse, that was my last pair and I couldn't get more because my prescription was up and my appt isn't until March!! So I went to bed in a mess last night, wondering what I was going to do today with only one contact. I am still learning how to drive that huge truck with both eyes, let alone only one eye! Brad said if I didn't think I could see well enough not to drive! But it actually wasn't that bad. Things were alittle blurry on one side but other than that, I drove fine! I called the eye dr and they gave me a contact for the one I lost to get me thru to my appt. Then I went to the dentist. I was very nervous because I haven't been in YEARS!! I don't admit that to many people because it is kinda embarrassing. But I don't care anymore. I have a couple of cavities but they said I did very well for not going to the dentist for so long! Then after that the day went a lot better. Hannah and Ryan played happily most of the afternoon. The kids made their own little pizzas for dinner. Brad worked late, like always. Then it started again....I went into Hannah's room once after she had had her make up out and there was dark pink lip gloss on the carpet and it was laying in the floor without the lid on......Big uh oh in our house! We don't wear our shoes on the carpet! We replaced all the carpet in the bedrooms about 2 yrs ago and that changes the value of it big time!! It needs to stay as close to perfect as it can until we sell the house in 10 yrs or so. Now I know that it won't be perfect but we can still try to keep it clean! So I took her make up out of her room and she has to start asking me for it and doing it at the table. She knew I was very upset about it. Her punishment was that she had to sit on the couch (no tv) and after I read a few books to them (like I do every night before bed) she was to sit there and look at a couple of those I Spy books where you have to find the objects in the big picture until it was bedtime (like half an hour by the time I was done reading). She told me she didn't want me to call daddy and tell him about it. I said I wasn't going to but I was going to tell him when he got home. They were already in bed when he got home. Then an hour and a half after they went to bed, I heard Hannah in there crying. My first thought was that she was throwing up (since Ryan just got over it, I am just waiting for her to get it). So I went in to check on her and she was crying hysterically because she couldn't go to sleep. She said she was thinking about thinks but couldn't tell me. I knew right away that it was bout the make up on the carpet but I didn't say anything. I just blew her nose and told her she needed to go to sleep or she would be very tired for school tomorrow. So she laid down. Then a few minutes later she was crying again so I went in and she wanted daddy. Then I ask her if she couldn't sleep because of what I found on the carpet earlier (I hadn't told Brad yet so he found out while we were in there but he didn't yell at her or anything, he wasn't even mad) and she said yes and broke down! So I told her that she was going to have to do her make up on the table and to go to bed. And I haven't heard her anymore so that must have been really bothering her! It is kinda funny that something so silly was keeping her up because she thought that she was going to be in BIG trouble! But I also think that will be good for when she is older and has tough decisions to make.....Hopefully she will think things thru. Anyways, I think I have said enough. Sorry that my blogs are never short!

Monday again....

I haven't wrote for a few days so I thought I would take a minute to write something while Ryan is watching a Bob the Builder movie (thanks Stephanie!!) I think the last time I wrote Ryan had the stomach virus pretty bad. He is better now but that made for a long weekend. I did enjoy him sleeping a lot but that is about it! We ended up getting a truck too. We finally found someone willing to work with us since we got ripped off when we bought the envoy. I was so nervous because I didn't want to end up in the same spot we were with the envoy.....owing A LOT more than anyone would give us for a trade. I never want to be there again. Don't get me wrong, we still had to carry over a lot more than we wanted to but the truck is worth it. We even talked about selling the camper because we couldn't get anyone to work with us to get a truck. I would have been alright with that. But now that we have this truck, this is the last vehicle we plan on buying for a long time! I was really nervous about driving it too because it is a lot bigger than the envoy. So far it hasn't been hard. Granted, I haven't had to go to walmart yet!! It is actually easier to back up because I don't have much stuff blocking my view like in the suv. The tires bark very easily when you take off because it is so light in the back so if you ever hear that when I am pulling out of the church parking lot, sorry in advance! Anyways, I don't think you guys care about the truck that much. Hannah fell and hit her head on the doorway yesterday and was complaining of a headache this morning. She has a knot there but I think she will be fine. I gave her some tylenol. It scares me when she falls or gets hurt because she doesn't do it often like Ryan and she usually screams her head off about it! Once she got her arm stuck in between the pieces of wood on the back of one of the dining room chairs. That was a nightmare! Brad freaks out too when things like that happen. Speaking of nightmares......I dreamed last night that there was a big storm and Brad, me and my sister when in our house and a piece of the roof was about to fall in (you could see outside) and Brad tried to push it back up and the whole ceiling started caving in on us. The house was the one my grandparents lived in when they were alive but it was mine and Brad's house. And that's about all my dream was, the roof falling in in different sections and us curling up and covering our heads. Weird. Ryan is already done with the movie! Lately he has been wanting to help with everything. He always says "help, help." No matter what I am doing, if it is just shutting the frig door, closing the washer lid, pushing the button on the dvd player, anything. He wants to help. It is fun. He helped me make the bed this morning. Speaking of beds.....the one thing I hate about Hannah's loft bed is that it is nearly impossible for me to change the sheets or make the bed. I have to stand on a stool to even kiss her at night. I can't get on the bed because it will break for sure! We rigged the bed up from cousin Michael's old bunk beds so it isn't really made for adults!! We all love the bed but if you have never tried changing sheets on a bed that is sitting 6 ft in the air, you aren't missing anything!! Well, I think I am going to get off here now. It will be time to go get Hannah soon. This morning has gone by fast.

Mom skills

Napping again....

Hannah even shared Teddy, for a few minutes!

They are most precious while sleeping

My mom skills have really been put to the test this week!! I have used more tissues and seen more snotty noses than I care to talk about. I had to clean out the entire laundry room to find an over turned bottle of deer urine on the dryer causing a big stink. We put Ryan in his toddler bed and I have been on him like a fly on a carcass about staying in it and not jumping on it. And today I have been cleaning up vomit and doing vomit laundry and holding a sick little boy all day. He just doesn't feel well and mommy is the only one who can help him! It started at 4am....they never start throwing up during the day. It only happens during the night when I don't have my contacts in and can't see unless I am 2 inches away from whatever I am trying to see (and when it is vomit you are trying to see, being 2 inches away from it is never a good thing!!!) He threw up 3 times and then started acting fine. I had already made a dr appt for today for his coughing. I wanted to have that checked early so I hopefully wouldn't need the nebulizer again (and he doesn't). Of course he wasn't sick at all while we were there. We waited in the lobby for an hour!!! Why did they tell me to come at 10 :15 if I was going to be in the lobby until after 11?!?! It is like that almost every single time I am there (which is a lot). But that is a whole nother blog in itself!! Anyways, when we finally got home he had a fever and was acting sick and moping around and clinging to me. That gets annoying. But I knew he didn't feel good so instead of cleaning like I needed to, I sat on the couch holding him until her threw up everywhere again. Then he went to sleep on my lap and I laid him on the couch and he slept for maybe an hour. I took some good pics that I am going to put on here too. Now he is sleeping again. Poor guy. I hate it when they feel so bad. And Hannah has been trying to be so nice to him and helping him and getting things for him and covering him up. She has been asking me a lot of questions about how he got sick. So I have been trying to explain to her about viruses and how you pass them to other people. That reminds me.....she also asked me what the big thing is that he pees out of!! I have been wondering when that would come up. It finally has!! I just told her that boys are different than girls and that is how they are made. That answer satisfied her so hopefully she won't ask me about it for awhile. Brad has worked late every night this week so he might have tomorrow off. I like those Fridays. Brad's mom wants to keep the kids but I don't think I will let Ryan go unless I think he is vomit free!! I think she can appreciate that! She had him the whole time Hannah was sick and in the hosp the last time they had this virus! Well, I better go. The dogs are scratching at the door wanting out. I just don't want to go out in the cold. What is with this weather anyways?!?!?

Back to reality

Well, it has been a week since my mom came in, 3 days since my sister and nephew came in and now the house is empty and quiet.....It is good to get back to normal but I miss my family already! We had a great time together and I bet mom is going to sleep good tonight! She has had back issues since she jumped on the trampoline with the kids the first few days of her visit! Both the kids came down with colds right before my mom came last week and now I have one as well! I don't know how it happens that everyone gets sick when we plan to get together! But it never fails that we either leave sick or are sick to start with!! We had a good valentines day too. It wasn't very romantic but we spent it with family. We have never bought so much stuff for the kids for this holiday but I have a feeling it is going to start being a big one! Not just junk food either, it was like they all had a stocking as big as the ones they had at Christmas time!! Well, I am in the middle of cooking dinner so I better go before something ruins! I am cooking to please tonight....mac-n-cheese and fruit it is!!! I am choosing not to fight this battle tonight!!

Nothingness....thanks Alisha for that title!

I stole my title from my dear friend, Alisha. I just got done reading her latest blog. Anywho...(I stole that from my cousin in FL) I have been a very busy lady today! I almost got Ryan's room painted today. I have never done a project so fast. I was able to spend all day working on it because my wonderful mom is here and watched the kids for me a lot. I would have finished but I ran out of paint. We are going to put him in a toddler bed once I get his room back in order now that he is climbing out of it. Pray for me when we start that! That is one battle I don't want to fight but I guess I can't keep him in a crib forever. Right now I am listening to him cry and yell "mommy." He is not sleeping well lately. And he has a cold so his nose has been running non stop. That is a task in itself! My sister and nephew are coming in tomorrow night. I can't wait! We are going to have a good weekend. I don't think the weather is going to be good though. Anyways, it is bed time for me!

Rain, rain go away!

Today my mom and I (and Ryan) went and got our hair cut and went to a few stores. All the while it was raining off and on, which didn't help my new do! Then I picked Hannah up from school and mom went to eat dinner with her work friends. The power steering belt on her car broke right as she was pulling into AEP so now I am waiting for her to call me so I can go pick her up. I guess we are supposed to get some pretty good storms tomorrow so we will probably just stay inside until church time. I have a few desserts that I want to make anyways so I guess that is fine. Then it is going to get cold again. Hopefully not as cold as it has been. Brad finally bought a water pump so we can pump water out of our yard now. For anyone who hasn't seen our yard or heard me talk about our yard after we get any rain; it stands in our yard very bad. We live right next to railroad tracks and there is a ditch between the tracks and our yard where the water collects. It is very annoying because the kids and dogs can't play in the yard much and it is a breeding ground for mosquitos during the summer. So we are finally taking care of that, thanks to some of our tax money. Which brings me to another subject......I am so thankful that our doctor bills and other big expenses seem to fall around tax return time! I used to complain that we never get to buy anything good with the money we get back until my dad reminded me that at least we have the money to pay for our misc stuff that comes up and aren't in debt! We also have a hefty $1400 and some bill from when Hannah was in the hospital for 24 hrs, plus our electric bill has been thru the roof the past 2 months, and we need to pay our property taxes with money from our return and there is a whole nother list of things that need taken care of but we have to pick and chose what is most important. I am afraid Sammy's surgery and Patches yearly stuff is last on the list! I know you will ask what surgery Sammy needs so I am just going to put it in here! She just has a lump on her groin/belly area that needs removed before it gets too big. It is a suspected lipoma (fatty tumor) but could mess up her urination if it gets big and it will cost more to have removed the bigger it gets. But it isn't major and the dogs have to come last. Once again, this blog has become more than I intended it to! But now Hannah wants me to write my name on her paper so I am going to go now.

A good day!

Today has been a good but busy day. My mom came up from NC and is going to stay the week. I think the kids think they can get away with anything while she is here!! So I have been yelling a lot! But the weather has been so nice. Before she got here I was able to hang some clothes outside to dry. For some reason I love doing that. I haven't figured out what it is but I love it! Anyways, I am looking forward to a full week and will be busy! Mom is going to be ready for a break by the time the week is over! And I am going to miss the help!

Picture Tag

I was tagged by my friend, Lisa, who I knew from camp growing up, to do this picture thing. Here's how it works: Go to the 6th picture folder and pick the 6th picture in that folder to post. Like Lisa, I also have lots and lots of picture folders, but under the general "my pictures" here is the 6th picture in the 6th folder.

Here is my picture! My wonderful boy, Ryan, doing what he does best, eat things!

I am tagging Alisha and my mom to also do this.

I do not make a good host!

Well, I am sitting on the couch, during yet another nap time, trying to plan meals for next week when my mom comes up and the weekend when my sister and sister in law and their kids come up. We are having a girls and kids weekend. I can't wait to see everyone but one thing I am dreading is being the host! I have a hard enough time planning meals for my family for a week, let alone having company! I am trying to get used to though because now that we are all spread out, my house is like the middle ground! Which isn't all bad because I don't have to travel! Ryan is at the awkward age where he is too big to sleep in a play pin while we are out of town but too young to put in bed at someone else's house and expect him to stay there and sleep! He doesn't do it at home yet so....I can't expect him to do it in someone else's home. Brad keeps nagging me about putting him in a toddler bed but I am not ready for that battle! He has only tried to get out of his crib a couple of times and has never gotten close to all the way out. Plus the pediatrician says he can stay in it until he is 3. I told Brad that when he takes a vacation this summer we would do it then so he can deal with Ryan at bed time and nap time! Anyways, so I am getting into host-mode and making lists for meals, groceries, what needs done around the house (a lot I might add) before I let company in, stuff like that. I have to also say that my sister in law is one of the best hosts ever! She is so neat and always has everything thought out and has good meals and lots of junk food. Plus, I never see her cleaning while we are at her house or hear of her cleaning (unless it is organizing closets) but it is always so clean! I get most nervous when she is coming to my house because my house will never be as clean or fancy and my meals will never be as good as hers! But I don't think she judges or inspects everything looking for fault, and it's a good thing! But, I better get back to work....lots of planning to do!

Thanks Stephanie for the chocolate!

Another day is half over. Today has been a good, weird day for us in the Palmer house. Hannah had a 2 hr delay this morning so I got to lay in bed for an extra half and hour (doesn't sound worth much but it really is!). That was the first good thing. It was really a waste because we only got a dusting last night. So by the time Hannah got to school it was almost lunch time for everyone. (We eat lunch early-around 11am since we are up early, if I can even hold Ryan off that long!) Ryan and I passed the time by finger painting (a BIG mess but kept him busy for awhile-go to facebook to see the latest pics), cleaning up the mess (a project in itself), me chasing him around with the camera and then I took his mattress out of the crib for him to jump on. Probably not the best idea but worth it to all of us! He was in an extremely good, non-yelling, mood this morning and was just acting goofy! I actually got a few things done too, like laundry and dishes (the laundry isn't really done yet, there are 3 loads on my bed!) Then we ate and then the school called to say they were closing an hour early because of the recommendations of the weather people but the preschool kids could go anytime. I was shocked because the sun has been out all day and it isn't snowing or anything! So we went and got Hannah a few minutes before noon. Now they are both in bed, although Ryan isn't sleeping yet. Then I saw the coffee mug of candy that I got at the ladies meeting last night and ate every peice of it except the coconut thing and reece thing! Thanks, Steph! That made a great day even better! That is what I was doing when I started typing this blog. I had such a good time at the ladies meeting last night. I really enjoy getting together with the other women and talking and sharing things. I wish we could do it more often! I feel like I need that time for my sanity! Well, I think I am going to go try to get some other things done before I wake Hannah up and she wants to play Barbie again. I don't let her sleep longer than an hour because I don't want her up until 10pm in case there is school tomorrow. I hope there is school tomorrow....

Spongebob, a lifesaver!

The house is never more peaceful and quiet that it is while spongebob is on! That is, unless it is bed time! The tv in the kid's playroom basically never goes off as long as we are home. That could actually be part of our $400 electric bill problem that I am furious about....but they only watch it once in awhile when something good comes on. I don't understand why they like the show but it keeps them happy for a few minutes of the day and it doesn't say anything bad so I allow it. I'm not buying that tvo or dvr junk (no offense anyone who has it), seems I can always find a lot of things that are more important these days! I am very disappointed that there is a chance I might not make it to the ladies meeting with the other church ladies tonight. Seems Brad always works late on nights that I want to leave the house! You know, I was looking for a good CD for Hannah the other day and it seems that I could not find anything worth buying! Most of the CD's were kids singing songs of other artists. I didn't find any worth letting her listen to. She is so young and impressionable right now. But yet she is growing up so fast. She takes showers by herself now, she basically made her own PB&J sandwich the other day, she does a lot of things that I can't seem to thing about right now. Well, the kids are yelling at me to eat dinner so I better go now. DOn't ask me what the point of this blog was!

I don't even know what to title this one....

So another weekend has come and gone already. Today was the best of the days because it was almost 60 degrees out and we got to play outside. We only got to jump on the trampoline because our yard is like a swamp now. Probably will be for awhile since they are calling for rain or snow tomorrow. I am so looking forward to Hannah going back to school tomorrow. She said she doesn't want to go back, though! That shocked me because she loves school. I have to call and register her for kindergarten this week. I can't believe it. Kindergarten already....I don't even know what to say about that. I am having a hard time typing because I am eating my nightly bowl of cereal. This time it is just dry fruit loops. Man are they good. I love cereal. Well, I don't know what else to say so I think I will end this now before I get in too deep. I don't think anyone cares about how much I love cereal!