Saturday is a special day...

After snowing 14" on Monday it warmed up on Saturday to be a beautiful day! We cleaned out the garage and did a few projects which included digging through 2 weeks of garbage to find a piece to Brian's vending machine I accidentally threw away.

Am I Freaking you out mom?

Yes, Addison you are freaking me out!

My baby is back!

Macie had a fever of 102.5 up to 104 degrees for four days straight. She was lethargic, irritable, not sleeping and totally attached to the hip. She is smiling again and happy and it's sooo nice to have her back to her old self again.

Happy

Sad

Get out of jail free

I feel like I just finished a jail sentence and now I am out on probation. I feel so free. It is so amazing I can't even describe how wonderful it is to walk. I still limp and sometimes hop so it's not a beautiful glide quite yet but I have ditched the crutches! Yay! I am so excited! I feel like I am on vacation or something. I love it!! I am seriously so happy. It is so nice to walk albeit slowly from one room to the other. I needed something upstairs and my initial thought was that it was too much effort and then I remembered I could walk and I went and got what I needed. I am free however it has not been free in another sense of the word. My new brace will be billed to my insurance at $600 and I just found it online for $80. There is something seriously wrong with health insurance in this county but that is a whole other discussion.

Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day

Today was just one of those days. Macie has had a fever between 102.5 and 103.1 for the past 2 1/2 days even with Tylenol and Motrin. She has been up the last 2 nights miserable and shaking. Needless to say I woke up today TIRED. I tried to get a little shut eye on the couch after I put Macie back to bed in the morning but all I heard was Addi and Matt bugging each other....Stop copying me... I not...stop...no....etc etc etc. I threaten my kids that I will send them to their rooms but most of the time Macie is asleep in Matt's room or I really can't get up and take them to their rooms and they know that. Earlier I had decided that if Macie's temp was still high I would take her to the doctor. Sure enough she woke up a burning hot 103 degrees. After finding a someone to take me to the doctor and some one to take Addison and her friend we ventured out in the snow, yes snow, it is not December people...we have at least a foot of snow right now. After several drop offs and pick ups we made it to the doctor only to hear the dreaded words, "Its just a cold." I just paid you how much money to say that...oh well, at least I know she does not have ear infections or strep or something like that.

So yeah, that doesn't sound so horrible after typing it out but it was a rough day and a super emotional day probably because I am tired and partly because I just want to walk. Tomorrow is my 6 week mark since my injury and I am so excited to get on with my life or so it feels. Sick kids always wear on me so maybe not being able to do anything because I am disabled at the moment in addition to not being able to do anything because I have a permanent living rice bag attached to my hip made it all that much more draining.

So the positive in all that whining is that I have amazing friends who watch my kids at the drop of a hat with no complaints. Friends who pick up my kids from school everyday.  And my friend who pretty much spent all day with me helping me out and driving me around in this winter wonderland..pretty sure she had way better things to do with her time. And then there is my other friend who I don't see as often since our ward split who called out of the blue to tell me she was going to bring me dinner because "she couldn't stop thinking about me today." I just cried and cried on the phone because I felt the call was inspired. I still cry just thinking about it. I am just glad she was living with the spirit because I so appreciated the help and delicious food. Even my picky I am only going to eat bread and sugar boy downed the soup and rolls. I just cant stop thinking about the kindness that has been shown to me over the last 6 weeks. I hope I can be even half as good of a friend as my friends are to me!! I am one lucky girl.

Sleepover!!

I love it when the kids are sweet to each other. Brinley read to Matt until they both fell asleep.