Still fighting!

I've been sick a total of 6 days now. At first I was just a little annoyed with minimal sneezing and a bothersome runny nose. By midweek it gone from minimal sneezing to every 10 mins and my poor nose was uncontrollably flowing and getting very sore due to my Kleenex shortage which forced the toilet paper to be used. Today I felt the worst. Throbbing headache and sinus pressure. I cannot smell or taste ANYTHING! I also ran out of my anti-depressant pills 2 days ago and the pharmacies have been giving me the run around so my mood went crashing down today which lead to a short but heated argument with Chad and I was more agitated with the children. I did make it to CVS and REFUSED to leave until I had my pills. As soon as I got the car I already had one in my system. I'm feeling SO much better now. Well.. mood wise anyway.

So as the morning drug on I thought, maybe if I just get up and do something I'll start to feel better (some times this works when I'm sick) So I did the dishes, swept the floor, cleaned the kitchen, picked up the living room, did two loads of laundry all the while nursing Kaylee feeding Sierra, and tending to Joshua's every need. After all that I got the kids down for naps and Joshua off to school. I feel asleep some where around 2:00 and Thanks to my wonderful hubby and my wonderful daughter, Mariah, I was able to sleep until around 5:30! I do feel a little better this evening, but regardless of all the cleaning I did, everything is a mess AGAIN! I'm thinking of waking everyone up a half hour early so they can pick it back up! We will see.... I do love being a mom and the house work doesn't always bother me. Some times I like doing it!

My favorite moment of the day was laying on the couch with my precious baby. She has the most beautiful eyes and the sweetest disposition! Thank you Lord I am so honored to be a mother to 5 wonderful children!

Things to do on No school Mondays!

Regardless of having colds and feeling a bit under the weather, the older kids and I went out and build a snowman today. It was fun but now I'm feeling the effects of going out when your sick! Why is it that every time I'm sick I feel the worst in the evenings?

Signs of spring!

LOOK OUT everyone, spring is on it's way!! Even with all the sub zero temperatures we've been having and the ground still covered in snow, look what I found peaking out to say hello! :)

Go Vikings!!

So I was finally able to go to one of J.C.'s games. She's been cheering all year for basketball and our schedules are so crazy I haven't been able to. Monday night Mariah and I went to her first game of the new year! Now if you know JC she's not one to be shy. Shes very outspoken and LOUD! LOL, Well, for whatever reason, ever since she was very young she gets really nervous we family is watching her. I remember going to her school concerts when she was in 2nd grade and she would just stand there while ALL the other kids where doing the hand motions and singing. Well I believe the same fate hit again as we watched her. She was off the wall with enthusiasm when we got there and then all of a sudden she's barley moving his limbs! HA! Oh well. Here's a short clip of one of her cheers. She's in the back row the second one.

Pancakes! Fun colors and shapes!

Today we made pancakes.... with a twist! I have been feeling so creative lately and this morning the end result was pancakes in the shape of: buterflies, flowers, hearts and snowmen. Look how cute they look! :)

Dear 2010, please bring us some better health!

Here it is a new year and all I want is for my family to be well again! We've had so much illness December and now into January. Back in October/November we had some MAJOR colds going on. Kaylee and Sierra seems to have these horrible runny noses for weeks! Then Kaylee developed a bronchitis like cough and was on the nebulizer for a few days. Sierra's cold turned into coup and that put her on the neb as well. We had finally gotten over that mess and then came pink eye! Yuck! Joshua, Sierra and Chad got that one. Then we had these high spiking fevers that Joshua and Sierra came down with and almost 2 weeks later we found out that Josh, Sierra and Kaylee all had strep throat! Joshua ended up getting sick one day about 7 times and we just assumed it was the strep. Well 5 days later Chad, myself and Mariah all got this tummy bug. We thought that was food related since we all got sick at the same time but who knows. That was a few days before Christmas. Thankfully we were well through Christmas. BUT JC got sick on new years eve. See, I don't know whats going on because I've bleached lysoled just about everything in this house and we keep having illness! Also weird, JC had not left the house in a week! So where'd she get it? Then today Sierra got sick in her bed during nap time. She never seemed sick and ate her lunch and dinner! She just got sick once and now is fine. Mariah also got sick about an hour or two ago.... what the heck? Is it something in the house? Food? Chemical? A germ I some how missed with my over paranoid cleaning?
I don't know whats going on but I am so tiered of sickness and my kids are too! Please pray that we recover and everyone gets health and stays that way!
Dear 2010, please bring better weather, and better health!