Sunday, January 08, 2012

2012 Starts

This virus is hanging on and on – I am ready to do without it!

On Monday Jason and the girls were home.  Jason decided to get the cars inspected.  I was so grateful he did the van.  No one had been in the van in five days and we discovered that the battery was dead!  Someone had left a light on and the battery was completely dead.  So grateful we got that taken care of on Monday while Jason was at home rather than on Tuesday when we were trying to get out the door to school!

Tuesday I took Bella to the kid’s pediatrician instead of taking her all the way downtown.  I have just been feeling like I need to get this changed.  I’m hoping it’ll make my life simpler.  I loved picking up the phone, scheduling the appointment and just going in.  No central scheduling, no triage nurse, no ER, just a doctor's appointment same day.  I’m hoping it’ll work out!

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Bella and Joy continued with their fights against this virus.  By the end of the week, Becca and Daddy were falling again.  We have got to kick this stuff out!  The hardest thing for me this week was five days in a row with no nurse.  My life is busy and I really, really appreciate the help the nurses give!

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Wednesday Nathan and Mandy came to spend some time with us.  Miss Chloe was also here for drawing lessons.  Joy and Bella had their 30 day evals for PT.  So there were eight people doing a hundred different things all at the same time in my living room.  Exciting times!  Jason popped in for lunch and helped Sammi make sushi!  I so appreciate how much Jason helps me.

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Sammi is my right hand man during the day – here she and Bella are working on shapes and colors.   Later Sammi and I did an experiment to see how much ground covering (in this case grass) helps to prevent erosion.

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Reading, computer time, and playing house

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Our new toy – a well powered leaf blower.  It took care of our yard in a fraction of the time it would have taken us to rake it!  Jessi, Lizzy and I still played Leaf Olympics, but we weren’t nearly as exhausted at the end!   We tried a Lemon Meringue Pie from scratch – pretty good!

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I know we are all still fighting the virus – Friday we had our pizza (Joy was thrilled!!) while we watched our movie – and then we all went to bed.  Early bedtime on a Friday night?  We must be sick!

Jason about cried this morning.  Bella was sitting on her little recliner watching Signing Time.  She looks so big and so good!  I was so pleased to see the girls working on their Faith in God and Personal Progress this afternoon!  We only had Sacrament Meeting today and had to meet at the Stake Center.  Some copper thieves got into our church and stripped the wiring, so we had no power!  Crazy!

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