I am exhausted. My head is splitting. I am ready to be home for a while and yet we have more activities tomorrow. I am feeling swamped. Chris and I are currently in a downward spiral of home repairs and are trying to get out of it so we can think of something else. There always ALWAYS seems like there is something to fix around here. I want to think about taking the kids to the movies or something fun and what I have to think about it is . . . cleaning out the closets, ironing clothes, scrubbing toilets, and what activities do we have on the calendar for tomorrow. On Chris’ few days off, he is trying to do home repairs, mow the grass, and attempt some of the items on my honey do list.
The kids had swim lessons this morning and they are doing superb. Ben has shown the biggest improvements. He is swimming. Swimming!!! If you know my Ben, he has not always been fond of the water. But he is “like a fish” (words according to Ben) now. It has been wonderful. The girls are doing well too. This will be their last week at swim lessons. I think two weeks is enough. I am just tired of spending two hours a day at the pool and not getting in with them. (Maybe I’m just tired. period.)
We came home after swim lessons, ate lunch and then the children put on a talent contest for me to judge (a remake of “America’s Got Talent”). They worked so well together. They picked their songs together, practiced, and performed three acts for me to judge. So cute. They really had a good time doing it. They shared beautifully! I was so tired that after three Dt. Cokes and three talent acts I could have fallen asleep while sitting in a chair. But it time to go on to our next activity. Movie Night at Church.
Awesome and fun. The kids had a great time. I drank another gallon of caffeine, so I managed to stay awake during the movie. We had over 30 people come to the movie. Our activity next week is a lock-in, but I think that we will have to repeat the movie night in the fall. It was a lot of fun.
The kids are all tucked in for the night. I heard Madie have a coughing fit this morning so I hope that she is not catching what Ben has. We had to go to the doctor again Monday because Ben’s cough has not gone away after three weeks and he started coughing so hard this weekend that he threw up Sunday morning. He has repeated this every morning this week and sometimes in between. The doctor told us to wean him off his acid reflux medicine so we can see if he still needs it. But the doctor said Monday that the cough/vomit behavior may have nothing to do with his acid reflux. He has micro—- something. I just blanked when she diagnosed the cough. I just remember the three new drugs we have to put him on while we try to get rid of the cough. So we are weaning him off two drugs and adding three more. We always get the weird diseases.
We just have to wait and see if he vomits after his cough is fixed. Poor guy. He is tired of throwing up. If he throws up after the cough is healed, then the doctor wants more testing done to figure out why he is throwing up all of the time. Great. More tests. We finally received our appointment for his kidney testing next month. Of course, the only available time were while Dad is out of town at camp, but this is just a test and no visit with the doctor. So we won’t find out anything on that day. So my mom is going with us. That is good. The girls are going to hang with Aunt Debra while we go to TCH. Ben is not excited but he likes it when Grandma comes.
So we have had medical drama this week. And we still have dentist appointments to make and yearly checkups to schedule. Busy. The routine stuff is hard enough let alone the unusual visits to the doctor. I guess that is another reason why we are all so tired around here. The only way to fix that is to get some sleep, so I better head topside. The morning will be here before I know it.
The Puddles 