Cleaning....

I so need some help in cleaning this house. My son doesn't understand that you are suppose to put up one thing before getting out something else. My living room looks like a tornado has hit it as does the den. I am sure his room looks just as bad.

We were suppose to go to Christmas on the Square today but I am still sick. It is about 35 outside today so I don't think we will be going this year. I don't need to be outside with it this cold. I did finally go to the doctor today since I was up half of the night coughing.


so Iam rambling... but my thoughts are jumbled up in my head too. I need to get off the couch and clean the house some.

ENOUGH!!!

I have had it with being sick! My cold is getting worse and I don't have the time to take off to take care of myself this week. I am suppose to take several students to a convention next week and now I think I have bronchitis. I hope that I can knock it out before it gets that bad with some OTC meds, but I don't have high hopes about it.

Kaitlyn was still running a low grade fever last night so she is home again today. Dh is staying home with her today and I hope her fever does not come back today. She needs to be in school since she has already missed several days last month due to an illness.

It seems like this year has been the roughest on us with illnesses and everything else.... I can tell you that I will be so glad when this year is over. And I pray that next year is better.

My sickly family

Just when I thought we were all over being sick.... Kaitlyn comes down with a fever. She has no other symptoms, just running a fever. Saturday it was 102, yesterday it was 101, today it is 99. I have put a call in for a nurse to call me to see if I need to take her to the dr. I also have the beginnings of a head cold.... mainly sinus. Dh is coughing. At least Will is well (knock on wood!).


So I am home with Kaitlyn today... she says she feels better but hasn't asked me for anything to eat yet. Guess I can work on the house and get things clean.

Jackpot!!!!!

We were out of bread and cokes, so on our way home from my parents house today we decided to head to Walgreens. I refuse to go to Walmart unless I have to, so we thought this would be a quick stop. I picked up a few things I knew I didn't have coupons for and checked out through the cosmetic counter. Dh came up with some candy he loves so I told him he had to pay for the second checkout. Once we had paid and were about to leave the lady behind the counter says "Oh you should have gotten a discount." Dh was in his fire jacket and because he was wearing that, he would have gotten 15% off. WOW! I now know that we will be shopping there more as the sales allow and let him pay all the time now. I will even be getting my Christmas pictures there so I can get 15% off the 9.99 cards. Now I am checking out their ad for this week to see what we need to stockup on. I really don't need alot of groceries this time, but will stock up on things for my Christmas cooking.

My little dancers.

Kaitlyn and Will keep pushing the on button on the dog Don got me for Valentines Day. It's a dalmation dressed as a fireman and plays a song. Once the music is on the kids start dancing. It is so funny to see Kaitlyn dancing to the music and then Will gets out there and starts wiggling his bottom. I will have to see if I can catch it on video and post it.

My artist!

Kaitlyn is becoming a little artist. I think she needs to take some classes but finding the time for them will be the problem.

The other day she cut out a horse from a sheet of paper.... without drawing it first. Then she drew designs on it.

I think we are going to get her a good art set for Christmas.

Go Kaitlyn!!!

Kaitlyn had a soccer tournament today. Last Saturday her team finished the season in a tied game with the second place team. They ended the season in first place. Then came the tournament. Because we were in first place, they played their first game at 11:00 today. We bundled up and headed to the field. They won that game and had an hour to rest before the final game. The final game started with her team playing the second place team.... the team we had already beat once before then tied... who are also the team they practiced with every Monday night.

It was a long game with our team scoring in the first quarter. They went through to the fourth quarter of keeping the other team from scoring, when they scored. This tied the game with not enough time in the game to score again. Our kids were already tired... the other team had played for two hours straight at this time. We began overtime of 5 minute quarters. Neither team scored in the first two overtimes.... then in the third overtime, the other team scored. Kaitlyn's team did not have enough time to score. This ended the soccer season.

It was a wild game!!! The parents were just as excited as the kids were about the game. I now haev a sore throat from all the yelling and my legs hurt from standing and jumping. I hae pictures but have to wait until we get them developed since they are on the 35mm camera.

I am so proud of my daughter... she went after the ball today and did such a great job. Before this game she was saying she didn't want to play again, but once the game was over, she was saying she wanted to play again. Now to wait for the next season.