London Follow up meeting

We are doing so much better since Adalai is feeling well again. Wyatt has been such a trooper dealing with needing to be somewhat cooped up because of us sickies here... We have had a nice time spending family time w/ Ben being off work a bit this weekend. Have a few more chores to do before the weekend is up, but for the most part it has been kind of no agenda which is very NOT us... So it is nice to just be home (I am not usually likely to say that).
I had a meeting with friends tonight on a kind of follow up from our London trip. It was so nice to get together with friends and reminice about the time we spent overseas. It made me realize how much I miss my friend that lives there! It also made me remember how much I missed my husband and son while I was away, but how the Lord was the one who pulled me through it. I was so happy to talk to Christy because she was the one who I wrote to about how homesick I was when I first got there, and she was so quick to help me. It is so amazing what friends I have! And to be lifted in prayer when the time is so tough that you think you won't make it! To think that I made friends there, and just am still awed by the time that we spent in London. It was cool to remember how much the people in London really loved my daughter. I wish Wy could have come too! It was so amazing. Anyhow, the follow up meeting was great to just talk about what we learned bein in London.

Poor little girl, Adalai!

Thanksgiving was great yesterday, except for the baby being really sick! We got kind of worried about her when she wouldn't really move around at all. I called nurse online from my Mom's house because she had yet another fever, so, since the fever wasn't leaving, I figured there was something up. The nurse on the phone said that the lethargy is something to be concerned about, so she sent us to Urgent Care in Mukwonago. I felt really bad getting there 5 minutes before they close on a holiday, but truthfully, it was great because there were no other patients, and it was literally the fastest I have ever spent at a doctor/ER since there were chest x-rays and everything! Anyhow, Daddy had to step up and do the job of staying in the room when they did her chest x-ray because I had to do it with Wyatt and it utterly freaked me out. Anyhow, they saw what could be pnemonia on her x-ray and an ear infection. Oh dear. So they gave her a shot of antibiotics that is supposedly help for all of the infection she is fighting off right now. 20 minutes later I had my normal little girl back! It was amazing! That medicine helped us to enjoy the rest of our holiday and she was able to be comfortable. It was such a blessing. Now we need to take her to her pediatrician today to see what else we need to do to help her since the "miracle" shot was only effective for 24 hours! So anyhow, I am praising God for the medicine and the wonderful holiday we had. We spent time with my family, eating lots! And watched a movie together (well Kir and I actually played "Yatzee" and "Friends Scene It"! --so much fun!)... and then we went and saw Bens moms side of the family! It was a wonderful holiday dispite the sick babe... It is really great that she is feeling so much better. She slept for a good solid few hours straight last night, so that was much a blessing to me!
Hope your holiday was grand!
Peace

Getting well--soon I hope!

We are still sick (the kids and I), with sniffles and sneezes and coughs... it stinks. Nevertheless, we are going to Grams today to do laundry since I just can't stay on top of it all. With all of us being sick I have been changing sheets on beds constantly and we have ended up with mounds of laundry to wash, so yippppeee another day of doing my favorite thing! ;) Just kidding it certainly isn't bad when we are at Grams that is for sure. We actually went to the laundry mat with my sister the other day too, and Wyatt really enjoyed helping me load the laundry into the dryer... Anyhow that is basically the agenda for today, and then tomorrow we have off to stay home, but then Thursday is Thanksgiving! Wahoooo I am really excited to see my family and spend time together. Mom bought Apples to Apples game to play as a family. I LOVE that game. We used to play that at the journey all the time! Well I should go now to get the kids ready. Just wanted to check in~

American Gangster--A Must NOT see.....

Hunting weekend is almost over and I am really excited! The kids and I had a good couple of days. Spent time with Little Grams, which was nice, went shopping and then I took her to see a movie w/o the kids yesterday which was nice. I am sick though. Oh probably the worst touch of a cold that I have had for a long time. It stinks! Sore throat, aches and pains, sooooo tired but can't sleep well because I am uncomfortable, ugh... Wyatt has a pretty icky cough now too, hope it doesn't turn into the croupy cough... I am going to the store today also to try and pick out a formula that the baby will actually drink. She decided the other day that she doesn't like her every-once-in-awhile soy formula drink that she used to take, so here we go again with the buy-em-and-try-em-til-she-likes-em stage, not my favorite! Only real reason that I am giving her formula is because she is just NOT staying full at night, so we pretty much get up every two hours, which is hard on me! I don't do well w/ no sleep! So, anyhow, that is basically the story w/ the baby, she is getting well again after her croup/cold. So, that is good, there will be one healthy one! (not sure if Ben got a cold at all from all this mess, but we'll see this afternoon!).
Took Grams to see American Gangster yesterday because I think that Denzel Washington is amazing, but my review of the movie is not good... The plot of it and stuff was good, and toward the end, the violence wasn't so horrific and then you could actually focus on the storyline. The setting up of the characters at the beginning was the hard part. I mean the whole story was about drugs, so for that reason it was really graffic w/ showing how the "drug world" works... OH DEAR... and then there were plenty of other things that made me want to leave the movie (so pretty much made it uncomfortable to see it w/ my 85 year old Grams!) So, I wouldn't recommend it at all...
Other then that, nothing much else is going on. We are just hanging out w/ my sis and going to the laundry mat later, so that should be fun! It is the best way to do about 10 loads of laundry--w/ company! :)
Anyhow, hope you had a good weekend