A Glimpse into my Life.

Yes, I'm sure that is a shock to everyone. This is just a quick update to say we are all still alive here, and the crazy is settling down to a manageable level and I'm working on organizing pictures to do some blog posts with actual content.

A quick run down of what is happening/what has happened since Christmas:

Rynie ended up pretty sick, then he shared with the rest of the family. I ended up sick for almost 2 weeks and it took a while to get back on my feet. It's no fun being sick over Christmas! At least he was better before Christmas and Hubby wasn't sick until the beginning of January.

My dad came into town for work in mid-January. He wanted to take Rynie home with him to Scotland so they were off and flying. Little Miss and I followed a week later. We ended up staying until almost the end of February. It was a wonderful break from life and Winter in Utah. Hubby had to stay home because of school and work.


When Hubby was sick in January, his immune system decided it didn't want to stop fighting, so it turned on his skin and gave him a severe case of psoriasis. He is having to use a pine tar soap, take pine tar baths and slather lotion to try and keep it under control. Plus the initial doctor gave him some steroid pills to try and knock it out, which works pretty well with mild cases, but made his flare really bad. The dermatologist has been giving him weekly shots, and after 3 of those, he is starting to lose his leper look. It'll take another 2-3 months for him to finish healing from this.

Last week, Little Miss became really sick. Throwing up, fever, lethargic, and other nastiness. We ended up taking her to the Emergency Room because we were concerned that she'd become dehydrated, and they put 800 ml of fluid in her and had to give her anti nausea tablets that I had to put under her tongue. It really helped, and we are on the mend from that. It's going to take awhile before she gets her body back to normal function though. I lost track at around 20 loads of laundry for that week. That is really not an exaggeration, some of her stuff had to be washed two or three times to get it back into usable condition.


Tuesday night, we got a call from my mom's tenants, the washing machine was broken and flooded the main level and basement of her house. A valve broke on the washing machine, and they'd thrown a load of towels in to wash before they left for work. The machine ran all day long. We've spent the past day doing clean up and damage control. It's involved moving furniture, ripping out carpet and carpet pad, and getting fans to dry everything out. I've spent a decent amount of time talking to insurance people today and getting things ready for the adjuster to come and look things over.

The best news for last though! We are expecting again. This little critter will be here sometime in August. Rynie is so excited and can't wait to get another sibling. Little Miss just really doesn't care one way or another, but I think she's in for a rude awakening. She is quite the mama's girl and doesn't like to share me with Rynie or the cat much, but will grudgingly do it sometimes. Things are going well, and if we want to, we find out what we are having at the end of the month.



Time to dash and get ready for a date with Hubby and make dinner for the kidlets. Ta ta for now!

This is what I want to be doing, but I think I'll update really quickly instead! :)


Well, to update and try to catch up, it's been busy. My parents are moving to the area around Aberdeen, Scotland and we are almost finished with that. Dad is already there along with half their stuff. The other half is in transit on a very slow boat. Mom is leaving Wednesday, February 4th. We have been finishing up all the last minute things including trying to sell her car. It hasn't happened so far, but we've reduced the price on it so hopefully someone will want it soon.

Jake has almost made it through his neurologist imposed probationary period. If he makes it to February 1st without any seizures, he can drive again. He has felt like his wings were clipped since that happened. The good news is after the initial one, he hasn't had anymore of them and is doing a lot better. Mom is feeling alright about leaving her 'baby' in my care now that we know things are going well.

Rynie is adorable. He loves preschool. He keeps going on 'dates' with my mom "Floolie" and they go get pizza. You know a kid has their Grandma wrapped around their finger when he suggests going to Red Robin for pizza and a chocolate shake and they've gone three times in the last two weeks! He's going to miss his Floolie.

The Pink Princess is very proud of herself. She is rolling over and spinning. She rolled over in the bathtub last week and got a face full of water. Then she laughed and rolled over again so she was back on her back. Today her accomplishment was learning to 'sneeze' her rice cereal in my face. She had honestly sneezed a few times and thought it was funny. Then she tried to do it on her own and sprayed me with cereal. She thought she was hilarous! So she kept doing it until she was completely done with lunch. Rynie and Floolie were cracking up at her.

Life is getting back to normal (I hope) for me. After we got all of Floolie's stuff done with her house, we kept trying to get my house back into order and everything else done. In the meantime, I had to get my wisdom teeth out. That seemed to do well, but we noticed there was a sharp, hard spot over one so I had to go get it looked at. The nurse tried to pull it out for about fifteen minutes on Tuesday and she couldn't get it so I had to go back in today and have the Dental Surgeon pull it. He got a lot of it out, but said that there is the possibility of more bone fragment working it's way out and if it does I need to go back and get it taken care of again. On the car ride home, I took the gauze out of my mouth and a nice chunk of bone came out! Yikes. My mouth feels better now so hopefully it'll heal up quickly. I want to get back to singing again but didn't feel up to it since all that was going on. While all this was happening, I also had a back case of allergies and the inversion around here compounded it into a chest cold of magnificent proportions.

My house is slowly getting put back into order and other than being sick and having a sore mouth, life is pretty good.