good day gone bad!

Where do I start?! While Hannah was at school today, Ryan and I had a very long day at home. It just seemed like the time was going sooooo slowly! I did some things around the house; laundry, dishes, cleaned Ryan's room, swept, so on. But it felt like all that took about 5 minutes of the day. I just couldn't do anything to pass the time faster. I called Brad's mom as soon as I thot she would be awake (she stays up late and sleeps in so I called at 10) to see if she had plans tonight. SHe has been wanting me to come out and give her dogs their 7-1 vaccines. I totally don't agree with buying the shots and doing it yourself but that is a whole nother blog in itself! She didn't answer her phone so I left a message. When she hadn't called me back by 1pm, I called Brad's g-ma to see if she had talked to her. Turns out she was already out shopping when I had called at 10! With the slow morning we were having, I was dying to get out of the house after we got Hannah from school. She finally called me back and said we could come out for the evening. Thank goodness!! I even took supper (manwich makings and mac n cheese). After we got home, after 6pm. I fed the dogs, took them out and then locked the door, knowing we wouldn't be going back out. I put the kids in the bathtub and cranked the water on. You know how sometimes you feel like the water is never going to get warm? I had the feeling and thot but it never got any warmer so I turned the cold water off completely. Still no hot water.......Of course, Brad is out of town so I called him immediately. He just said "it'll have to wait till I get home." So I called Brad's g-ma. I am so thankful she lives about 20 steps away!! I took the kids over there in their towels, in the pooring down rain, gave them a bath real quick and headed back home with Ryan. Went to turn the door knob........it was locked!!!! I jsut couldn't believe it!! No, we don't have a spare key outside hidden for these instances! It it on my list for walmart tomorrow tho!! I took Ryan back next door and had to get a chair, pry the screen out of Ryan's window, and climb in it!! Luckily it was unlocked because Brad had to do the same thing last week. The thing is, when you lock the front door, from the inside, you can still turn the knob and go in and out. But from the outside it is locked. So when I leave I always forget the door is still locked and remember when I cant get back in!! But now the kids are in bed and I am watching biggest loser, about to get a bowl of ice cream!! =) That makes everything better!

the nebulizer.....

my worst enemy!! I had to take Ryan back to the dr on Monday because he was still coughing. This time the dr heard wheezing in his lungs when he would breath out so we were blessed with a nebulizer 3 times a day and antibiotics 1 time a day. Ryan does not like to have the breathing treatments, which turns it into a battle!! It takes between 10-15 minutes (it might actually be less but it feels like forever) and the machine is loud and blows the medicine in his face and 10 minutes is way too long for any almost 3 yr old to be still!! Tuesday (yesterday) I was sure Ryan was getting worse. He was coughing a lot more and even coughed to the point of spitting up at the playground. He had to go back for a recheck today and turns out he is worse. Now he's wheezing when he inhales and exhales. So we had to get a steriod that he also has to take 2 times a day!! I have been doing his third treatment of the day after I put him in bed and know he is sleeping. That is ten times easier for me! He does wake up but he is so groggy that he just lays there. Then goes right back to sleep when I leave. I tried doing the first one the same way this morning but somehow he knew it was time to get up and he wasn't as cooperative!! So....that is where I stand now. He is still sick but not contagious sick. It sounds like he has something crazy going on when you hear him cough. Poor boy. He did this to me last year around Christmas time. The dr told me that the steriod can sometimes have weird side effects on kids like when thy=ey get mad, they get very mad. If they cry it is a major cry, basically they get very dramatic. And it increases the appetite. The boy already eats all day! So it will be interesting to see how he acts the next few days. I don't remember his attitude from last year. Well, it is about naptime for both of us!! I have to say I've been looking forward to naptime since I woke up! I have been waking up with a headache about every day. today it was worse and I just didn't feel good in general.......blahhhh. Say a prayer for us if it occurs to you!

What a day!!

Today was not the day I had planned it to be!! Brad left to work out of town again this week. He left his work truck here and rode with the other guy who goes with him. When he has done that in the past, he has left the key with me "just in case." Not this time!! And this is the one time I could have used that key. When I pulled back into the driveway from taking Hannah to school Brad called me from Charleston saying he needed a notebook that was in his truck before he left town. So what did I have to do? Meet him in Cross Lanes right then so I could get the key and come home and get the notebook. I had planned on calling the dr about Ryan's never-ending cough this morning but couldn't decide when I could fit it in. I ended up getting an appt for 1. So I got the key from Brad and decided to go to walmart while we were out to get a few things. Then Ryan and I came home (it was around 10:45a at this time), ate a quick lunch and I put him down for a nap so he could get some rest before leaving the house again at 12:30 for his dr appt. I knew taking the 1pm appt would be pushing it with having to pick Hannah up at 2:30 but the lady assured me I'd be in and out b/c that is the first appt after lunch. And we were out in plenty time. Turns out Ryan is wheezing in his chest and needs antiobiotics and a nebulizer 3 times a day. We have to go back for a recheck on Wed and if it isn't improving he will need steroids. We dropped his perscriptions off and then picked Hannah up from school. We went home long enough for the kids to get their daily snack and then we left to go get Ryan's meds. So by the time I took my shoes off and knew I didn't have to leave the house again it was 4pm. Ryan does not like doing those treatments! It was fun for about the first 2 minutes but the other 10 were a fight! I am planning on doing another treatment before I go to bed. I think it will be easier while he is asleep. While the kids were eating I asked Hannah if I could see her loose tooth (yes, this is the second one and it is right next to the first one she lost) and I just barely pulled on it and it popped out! We started talking aobut the tooth fairy and she said "I wish I could get $7!" I said maybe she'll leave you a cookie or something this time. She said she'd like that. SO I think I am going to start a new tradition tonight. The tooth fairy no longer leaves money, she leaves a treat!! I don't mind giving her money but it goes straight to the piggy bank and we never see it again. I'd rather give her something that gives her real joy! Even if it is a cookie.=) But I think I am settling with a box of Mike and Ikes. I just hope she doesn't wake up because Brad isn't here to back me up.....and I forgot to put the tooth under her pillow. Oh well. Then it was bathtime and then Hannah read me a few of her books and I read her a book and read one to Ryan. Then it was bedtime and the house was mine at last!! Oh yeah, and then Brad called me and I had to read him everything in that notebook! It was like 4 pages of numbers. Blah! I really need to work on cleaning the house up but I have already said I am not leaving the house tomorrow except taking and picking up Hannah from school. So I'll do it all then. I want to put some of the pics I took tonight on here then I might just go to bed myself!!