This is Our Life!

Well, we have been busy as usual. It looks like this winter is going to be one full of snow. It isn't even winter yet and we have had 4 storms with plowable snow. We have a Nor'easter coming this weekend. It is supposed to hit early Sunday morning and go till Monday morning. My parents are leaving between 3:30 and 4 am tomorrow to go help Sarah and John move back here to Maine. Because of the storm and the fact that my parents have 2 dogs, we will be staying at their house for atleast Sunday. We could take the dogs to our house, but we don't have enough runs for them to be able to go out and go potty, plus my parents have a woodstove should we lose power. So, we will probably go over Sunday morning and spend the night there to wait out the storm. Hopefully we will be back home on Monday afternoon. I hate not staying at home, there is so much stuff to pack for 6 people, even if it is only for one night. To make things even more hectic, the twins have now been diagnosed with asthma. They had been sick for almost 3 weeks when I finally brought them in. When I say sick, I'm talking about just what I thought were colds. They didn't bother them too much, they just hung on. Finally for the past 2 days their coughs had become horrible and kept them up all night. As soon as the Dr. walked in the room, he said "oh, they have bronchial coughs", then when he saw their eyes with the dark circles under them, he said that was a classic sign on allergy induced asthma. They were so bad, that they have been put on two medications to be given in their nebulizers, plus claritin every night. Thankfully we were given another machine so they don't have to share and it goes much faster. So, our regular schedule goes like this:

7 am ~ wake up and do one medicine, wait a few minutes and do the next one.
8 am ~ eat breakfast
11 am ~ eat lunch
11:30 am ~ nap
2 pm ~ wake up and do both medicines again
3 pm ~ go pick up toya and jordan
4 pm ~ arrive at the gym (stay for 1 1/2 hrs.)
6 pm. eat supper (i love my sutomatic oven, supper is ready when we get home from the gym)
7 pm ~ do machines again and take the claritin
8 pm ~ bed time

So, this is why I have not been able to catch up on the blogs and leave comments. please do not hold it against me. The girls will be on this schedule for atleast a week. Their coughs are getting a little better, but nothing drastic has happened. Now, we have 3 kids with asthma. They are all stage 1 so that is good. Hopefully they will grow out of it. Jordans is cold induced and the girls are allergy induced.

On to other news. As we were getitng ready for school this morning, I sent the kids out to the van and I ran up to brush my teeth. I then heard Jordan coming up the stairs. This is our conversation:

Jordan: (excited voice) "Mom, I have to tell you something"

Mom: (mimicking his voice) "What?"

Jordan: "I lost my tooth"

Mom: "Let me see, where's your tooth?"

Jordan: "I lost it"

Mom: "yeah, but where did you put the tooth?"

Jordan: "it was all bloody so I threw it!"

Mom: "threw it where?"

Jordan: "in the snow"


There was about 2 inches of fresh snow on the ground, so, needless to say we never found his white tooth in the white snow! I was a little dissapointed since it was his first tooth, but it was pretty funny. You can see in the picture that he actually had an adult tooth come in and push that one out that he lost.

So, anyway, that is all for now. Please pray for my family to have safe travel. My mom, Sarah, and Grayson will be flying back home on Wed. night, but my Dad, John, and John's dad are driving the trucks back and won't be home till Saturday probably. My sister Jess comes home on Thursday. If I do not get a chance to update again or comment on your blogs, please know that I am just busy, and I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!!