The endless Green Goo

WAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! I hate being sick....I hate taking Nyquil(well who really hates that) waking up at 4:00am..cause then it was all over. As soon as my body knew I was awake it started rejecting the green goo in my throat causing me to hack away in the bathroom sink something vile. I had the kids in my room since Nate's gone and CJ woke up and is yelling.. MOM, MOM.. are you throwing up?? ARE YOU OK?? ARE YOU DYINNNNGGGGGGGGG???????? Luckily Cole and Kendall stay pretty dead to the world and I stepped over my son on the floor climbed back into bed knowing that I was AWAKE..boo..then my nose wasn't having that greeness in it either so it decided to just flow, flow, flowwww..you know that kind where you can't sniff back up? So I had to stuff tissue in both nostrils..I try to sleep..watch the clock...wait...wait... the last time I looked it was 6:00 then I must have fallen asleep because I was in a dream...My son was knocking at the door with his friend and his friends Dad. I answered it with the tissue in my nose.. The boys and the Dad were staring at me like what in the flip is wrong with her? Then I woke up to the alarm and to Kendall's face staring right at me. She looked pretty confused like she had been studying me for a while....She says," Mama what are those things in your NOSE???!!"

Today I had to take CJ to the dentist because her cheek has been bothering her and I didn't know if it was an infected tooth. It's happened before.. I had to take all the kids with me. I also had to take a statement from them that seemed really high and wrong and sort that out. That was some serious drama and we found the errors. The front desk lady then called our Dental carrier and was getting crazy on the phone with her! Then I could tell Delta Dental was getting crazy back on her! Each of them was saying it was the other's fault.. then front desk lady slammed down the phone on Delta..S-C-A-R-Y!! She said she would try to figure it out... Sooo... I get home and the phone rings and it's Delta Dental... telling me all about how they got so rudely hung up on and they would MAKE sure this is handled and if not I need to call them and they will DEAL...so.. I don't care about all that.. I just know that all that dental drama with the wrong procedures, wrong kids, wrongs dates of service that seemed like a nightmare will now get extra special attention from both ends and I will come out the WINNER!! WOOOOOO

Nathan left this morning for a conference for a couple days... That means I'll get to appreciate him even more as I'm driving the kids around the next few nights to all their practices and to Awana...he really really does so much. My to do thing is to be more appreciative...

This week has been really cold..I am sick with the fall/winter sickness I seem to get every year. Green lovliness stopped up in my throat and in my nose. Coughing and sounding like an alien. This morning I was trying to call the girls upstairs for breakfast and my voice sounded so weird that they didn't come up because they were laughing thinking I was just making funny sounds at them.
Their brother didn't appreciate that they were laughing and not coming up so he marched down there and gave them a What's up! They came up right away after that pretty confused..haha

I am off to do laundry and clean and finish the rest of the cinnamon rolls from breakfast.

I love this pic my Mom captured of Kendall last week. As soon as I saw it I just laughed. There has always been something about her little face and her expressions that just kill me. Sometimes I just find myself staring at her with the biggest smile on my face. That little round face with purple glasses always shifting up and down on her tiny nose is too much for me to handle and then she must be SQUEEZED!

Pawsitive Panthers!

So.... yesterday when Nate brought Kendall home from school she ran in to show me her award. She was named pawsitive( their school is about paws from panthers apparently) panther of the week in Kindergarten! They announced her name over the intercom and she was so excited to get her award...She then tells me that CJ was named the pawsitive panther for 3rd grade too! I thought that was so cool they both had it the same week... no Cole? Kendall says, no I did NOT hear my brother's name.... When I pick the other two up from school, CJ says...Kendall did YOU already tell MOM?? Kendall says nothing out of pure fear.... I tell CJ to cool it and yes she already told me because she was too excited and if she decides to get upset I will crack her in her head and rip that dang panther award up so fast!! Well CJ says.. Oh Ok then, never mind. All smiles... So Cole wants to tell his version of the story... Cole says.. yeah in class when the announcements start he hears Kendall's name and he then claps really loud in class and gives a little woo woo.. and everyone looks at him like he's a freak. Then CJ's name is called and he claps loudly again and woo woo's her up.. His class says, are those your sisters? Yes they are he says.. Then his teacher walks over and gives Cole high fives for a family shout out.. Then the kids want to know how many dang sisters does he have? Cole says well how many grades are there? hardy har...then everyone wants to know WHY his sisters are so dang PAWSITIVE and He is apparently not... Hmmm... No answer for that one.. Anyway this school is crazy, we had the principal call to say congrats last night and today I had the school counselor call to say congrats about the girls.. They do this every week and make all the calls. Seems wild..anyway, Cole told me to wait by the phone..surely he can learn to be pawsitive soon enough....

Rhode Island~~~

WOW! I have had the most amazing 6 days....Our vacation was more than I hoped for and more beautiful than I even imagined. We visited a few states while in Rhode Island and all of them were equally breathtaking... So full of trees and color. I thought moving to the Midwest we were the holder's of some pretty amazing fall seasons. While they are really beautiful they can't even touch the fall on the east coast. I have never in my life seen fall colors so bright and so out of this world. It looked like melted crayons that had been poured over spots everywhere. I was in complete awe and couldn't keep my head away from the car window glass or the airplane windows flying in. I kept telling God how much I appreciate this...all the imagination He has. And if He ever wanted me to live there to appreciate it some more, I of course would be honored! Nate and I had the best time, eating!!! We are quite the pair of hogs. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Desserts, Coffees, Snacks...everyday, endless....wine's, beer's...it was AWESOME! I feel a little bit fluffed up right now. Food is good.. We had the most authentic Italian foods. We did wine tasting at a winery and I found a white wine that I just loved, loved and brought home with me. We went to the Sam Adams brewery and got to sample beer. I loved this lemongrass heff but then found out that it was a secret batch they will never sell. Boo..I did find another beer that captured my heart.. SAM Adams cherry wheat.. Ohhhhhh I might stay fluffy for a while now. Boston was of my soul...I just imagined myself living in the old buildings and walking on the old streets, attending service at the old churches and sitting in the old gardens...I just LOVED it.. It was such a neat city, full of charm and character. We had a great time there. We went into Mystic, Conn and spent a day there. Of course eating Mystic pizza! It was very mystical and the seafood pizza was delish! We did so much and enjoyed every moment and enjoyed each other's company and it was the best...the best best best!!!

I am uploading pics and I will post some..

We are "officially" on vacation...hot diggety dang!! We are waiting at the New Jersey airport and Nate has stolen the IPOD and is reading a book at the same time. I could never ever do that. I would never be able to concentrate. We have about an hour left of our layover and then off to Providence. My free hour of Internet access is about to end now. PROVIDENCE, WOO WOO!

Last night CJ had a school performance and it was funny. All the third graders sang songs about the fall and Halloween, so she was dressed up as a waitress. Thankfully one of her friends Mom's called me and asked if I needed a costume for her..umm yes.. cause it was Sunday night and the performance was Monday and I still hadn't even thought about it. At school Cole showed me his pumpkin drawing displayed on one of the walls and the last picture is of Miss Kendall earlier in the day. She was having major, major sad face over the fact that she could NOT have cookie dough as a snack because she didn't finish her lunch that day.... motivated by junk food. Straight through the DNA.

My girls

Kendall has been sick for a few days and she really wasn't feeling good on Saturday morning. We gave her Motrin and I told her she should probably skip her game. She was REALLY not happy about that and said she would be SO FINE MAMA! So after talking to her Dad and then Dad talking to me about it, we decided since she was going to be out all day at the other kids games she might as well play. CJ was feeling bad for her and decided to sit by her and give her back massages when she came to take breaks. I thought it was very sweet and I was happy I took my camera..these kind of moments with the girls don't happen all that often!!

Fall my favorite

At Cole's football game on Saturday the girls were playing back here, collecting leaves and other pretty things that had fallen.. Just a couple weeks and the leaves will all be changed and falling...I love it...my most favorite time of year.

My new lovies

I LOVE MY NEW SHOES! The last time I bought running shoes or tennis shoes whatever they are officially called was honestly about 7-8 years ago at least! If I need them for something I would just steal a pair of my Mom's 7 1/2 size ones and squeeze my extra large foot into it until I could use them. Cole and I were at the shoe store and I fell in LOVE with them for some reason and tried them on and they were so comfortable I have been wearing them everyday for almost two weeks. Yes I can obsess and overkill everything. At the shoe store Cole was trying to find me shoes and he kept bringing me some that weren't my size and they were very ugly. This woman probably in her 60's was laughing at us go back and forth. She then says, " wow SHE is really adamant on finding you some great shoes!" Umm...did she just say, she??? I think she did and Colina and I had a good laugh about that..

I graduated~

This afternoon was my last session for my volunteer training course. I am officially a MOCSA volunteer and I am going to start doing hospital runs in November. Thought that would give me time to go on vacation and go over all the reading and notes I took so that I could feel more prepared. Although I don't know how prepared you can be for this until you go through it. I am a victim advocate and they signed me up to help in the education training too. To volunteer in doing sessions in schools with kids. Education sessions not counseling. So maybe I'll do that too. I am really happy to be done with training and to be on to the next part of this journey. May the Lord be at my side, in my heart, in my head and the one taking care of the victims I meet...phew

Still sick

Cole has been home the last two days sick. Booo...He has been in the bathroom about every half hour. I have been taking lots of pictures and trying to figure out all the settings, which is annoying me. Kendall is all about the pictures so I have lots of her. The rest of the family is suffering through the torture. Cole will make really ugly faces just as I click so I've had to be fast on that.

Sickness has taken over

These last two weeks everyone in our house has been sick. This week Nate got it so bad and is still trying to have it be done. Cole and CJ are almost over it and Kendall and I only had it a little bit. Even poor Bosley has been having more seizures. My old camera had been giving me trouble for a while so I decided to go get a new one. I have no idea about technology and anything that speaks in terms of optical zoom and SD cards and mega pixels...I went online and have been looking on epinions for a camera which was a good idea. I was going to buy another camera which was $250 more than the one I ended up buying. But epinions swayed me away to the cheaper one and so today I have been playing. The kids are already over the torture. Bosley is being a good model and Nate refuses to give in to my annoyingness...

Vacation, WOO!

Oh man I am so excited!! Nate and I are going to Rhode Island in two weeks.. We were going to go to Florida for a week this September for his work conference but since that was cancelled we decided just to shift that money and still try to go do something fun. Nate has never been to the east coast and last time I was there I was in Jr. High I think, so it'll be something totally new, since we usually just want to go to Hawaii. The first picture is of the Hotel we'll be staying at called the Dolce Villa and it's in what's called "little italy" in providence. Then there's the picture of the place you get to take 40 min gondola rides with wine and cheese that I will be forcing Nate to go on. Especially since he is taking me into Boston to partake of the Sam Adams beer tour. The other pics are of Places in Rhode Island that came up when I googled... Rhode Island. Woo, I am seriously looking forward to this.