Easter Weekend

Wow....Easter just flew right by us!  I missed out on all the things I had hoped to teach and go over with the children, as usual.  I don't think I've ever made it through a holiday and taught everything I had on the agenda!  LOL

Anyway, we had a wonderful, relaxing and refreshing weekend.  Blessed Daddy surprised us and came home very early Friday!  That's the nicest start to any weekend!  After a fun afternoon with Daddy we had some friends over for dinner and games.....it was just like old times with them.  Saturday Daddy had to work for a few hours, so the girls and I went to run a few errands.  I had a last minute Easter errand to run, finding a slip!  Ugggg.....slips must be a dying artform as well as thank you notes and rsvping, etc.  Oh well, after a few hours of shopping and a few stores, I found one that would have to do.  I returned home and cooked dinner for the family and then it was early showers, fingernail painting, preparing clothes for church and bedtime.  We woke on Sunday to a GLORIOUS Easter morning!  It was a wonderful and beautiful day to celebrate the resurrection of our Savior!!!!  After worship service we enjoyed fellowship with our church family, then lunch with friends at our home and lots of rest an relaxation that afternoon.  Here are a few pictures for you to enjoy!

Slow Progress

I finally feel like progress is being made. Three of the kids are much better, now just the two youngest are still sick. The 3 yr old arrow had to go back to the doctor yesterday, only for us to discover that she had a blood blister ON her ear drum....also known as "H. flu"

Haemophilus influenzae.....In infants and young children, H. influenzae type b (Hib) causes bacteremia, pneumonia, and acute bacterial meningitis. Occasionally, it causes cellulitis, osteomyelitis, epiglottitis, and joint infections. Due to routine use of the Hib conjugate vaccine in the U.S. since 1990, the incidence of invasive Hib disease has decreased to 1.3/100,000 in children. However, Hib remains a major cause of lower respiratory tract infections in infants and children in developing countries where vaccine is not widely used. Unencapsulated H. influenzae (non-B type) causes ear (otitis media) and eye (conjunctivitis) infections and sinusitis in children, and is associated with pneumonia.

So, yes my kids are all vaccinated, but this is not the meningitis part of the infection....its from the pneumonia that she had last week. Although RARE for kids to get after being treated with antibiotics, it does still happen in a small number of kids. Well, for anyone that knows my family, you know that if its RARE it WILL happen to us! It is just part of the way God made us. (I mean my husband has been bitten by two black widow spiders on two separate occasions and now he his highly allergic to ant bites.) So I say, if it is rare, it will happen to us! I can laugh about it now, because I have come to expect the unexpected. Anyway, it explains alot of her screaming lately. She never told me anything hurt and I asked her a number of times. What hurts? Do you not feel good? And she always said nothing hurt and she did not feel sick anymore. LOL I think she was just tired of being sick and tried to convince herself she was better.

I am still keeping us on quarantine. We have been home since the doctor visit Monday. I did go out with just arrow 4 to the doctor and we washed our hands up to our elbows, and changed clothes to decontaminate. Daddy has gone to work, but decontaminates when he comes home. We will be home for another 3 days before venturing out anywhere. I am still thinking of keeping the younger ones home and only letting the older 3 go to basketball practice. It just makes more since to protect them until their immune systems are back up to 100%.

So, enough about sickness. It's Saturday, Daddy is home, we are still in our jammies and its almost noon!! That's a Wonderful day if you ask me. We will be watching movies and taking naps this afternoon. I LOVE WEEKENDS! Keep us in your prayers and have a Blessed Weekend.

Fabulous Friday...

It's Friday and I am so happy the week is over. It is so hard to come back from a long relaxing vacation and get back into the swing of things. I did manage to get everyone unpacked from their suitcases and the suitcases are now put away. It did take me all week, but it's done. We are caught up on laundry again and back to the normal 2-3 loads a day. The laundry is just a constant around here, like eating breakfast, lunch and dinner....it has to be done or else.

My poor husband has worked late everyday this week, except for Tuesday and he insisted that I visit my friend that had her baby, so I am ready for some down time with my hubby. I miss him when he is not around. The kids don't behave as well when Daddy isn't around. There is just something about "Daddy" that Mommy doesn't have and they know it. My 2 year arrow has been AWFUL this week. She is really testing the limits with me and I go to bed every night thinking all I did was discipline her all day. Its days like these that make me say, YEP....5 kids is my limit....I'm DONE. :) Hee Hee Only the Lord knows for sure and for now I am to be content.

Have a Super Blessed Weekend everyone.