Getting ready for Thanksgiving while sick

For the last six weeks at least one of us have been sick. I thought we had all gotten over it but for the last two weeks Chris has been congested and had a headache. She really did not want to do anything about it before because she had a cold at the time and thought that was it. But Friday she told me she had called the doctor and has an appointment for Monday. She talked with a friend from where she used to work at and the friend told her that three people had the exact same symptoms and went to the doctor and were all diagnosed with pneumonia.

If it is pneumonia we are going to cancel Thanksgiving but for now we are still planning like we are having Thanksgiving - we just went to Sams and got all the plastic plates, plasticware and a 20 lb. turkey.

Friday was Nate's Thanksgiving party. I took off of work and joined him. They had a great time. I posted the pictures on our photo album.

I took Nate and Lexi to McDonald's today and they had a great time.

That's it for now.

:)

The kids had a blast last week

Well last week was Nate's last football game, Tuesday was the football party where he got a nice trophy and dog tag. Wednesday I took him to out to eat with Grandmoo and Grandma Katie and Uncle Christopher (Chris and Lexi were too sick to go). Friday and Saturday Nate had birthday parties to go to and Sunday Uncle Bobby and Aunt Darlene dropped by. Needless to say Nate was pretty bored today!

:)

But it only took 30 minutes to cut them down....

Saturday I went out and trimmed the limbs on the trees in the front and back yard. It only took 30 minutes to cut down the limbs but to but up the limbs and bundle them up in the the city approved size bundles (no more than 40 lbs) took four hours! And even now my arms hurt! But at least next year when I mow I won't have to duck under alot of branches.

Today we went out and painted our pumpkins. I posted pictures of them on our photo album.

Nate and Lexi are doing better. We had to skip a football game yesterday because Nate was running a fever. I think both should be able to go to school next week. Tomorrow is Lexi's last day of antibiotics and we are all ready for it! Lexi cries when we get them out and we hate having to fight her to give it to her.

The joys of antibiotics

Nate and Lexi still had the wet cough a couple of weeks ago so we took them to the doctors and got them both some antibiotics (the doctor thinks its a sinus infection). Unfortunately neither the pharmacist or the instruction sheet told us the medicine had to be refrigerated after opening - it was on the bottle in the same font as everything else so we missed that one. So after four days of increasingly sour faces from the kids (Lexi hated the stuff from the get go and by the forth day it was just horrible the fits she was throwing) we rechecked the instruction sheet, then checked the bottle then threw them out. Nate was all better by that time and Lexi sounded a little better so we decided to see how they sounded after a week.

Well that weekend we got sick. Nate and I got sick Friday night, Nate could not keep anything down and I slept for about 30 hours between Friday night and Sunday morning. Sunday was Chris' turn and she spent most of the day in bed. Lexi did not catch anything but her cough got worse during the week. We were going to take her back to the doctors on Monday (today) but Saturday she was crying because her ears were hurting. I took her up to kids urgent care center that night and her right ear was infected. I got different antibiotic for her and confirmed it did NOT need to be refrigerated (but its in there anyway).

September in Review

Well this has been a good month for Nate. He has really done good at school and flag football. We had his birthday party last weekend and then we went to his football game then as a special treat we took the Dart train.

Lexi is taking dance lessons and she is having fun with that. After the dance lessons Chris and Lexi will go to Po Melvins restaurant as a special treat.

I loaded all the pics on our photo album, enjoy.

:)

Week in review

Nate had another fun week of football. They had their first real game this Saturday and the one time I did not take spare batteries to a game/practice is the one time I load the camera with dead batteries. Alot of my batteries are getting near the end of their recharging lives so sorry - no pics of the last game.

Lexi started dance class this week too. She had her first class Wednesday. I have not figured out yet if its once a week or Monday and Wednesday. When I find that out I will let y'all know.

Grandmoo was up this weekend so Chris and I went up to my office and packed up my cube. No I have not quit or gotten laid off (yet - on both counts). They are rearranging the cubes in the building and going to a flex-space configuration. Basically they are cutting the cube space in half and there are no longer assigned cubes (though there is a hope in our group that we will have assigned cubes on a project by project basis). Basically all our stuff has to fit in one wheeled file-cabinet/locker which we are supposed to take and find a unoccupied cube each morning and set up then at the end of the day we are supposed to pack our stuff back in the locker and wheel it to a common area so we can retrieve it the next day. I really wonder if companies actively try and find ways of lowering employee morale. If so I give flex-space a gold star!