RSV, an ear infection, strep throat & the bug...

This past week has been wild, and I'm thankful almost everything has settled down a little bit. It started about 8 weeks ago when the bug broke down and we realized it was going to cost a fortune to fix. Because my husband adores me, he agreed to spend 3,000 dollars and have it fixed for me. (No we didn't have the $, so he moved things around, found a way and made it happen. We had our VW guy, Rick, work on it, but because of 100 different reasons, it took 6 1/2 weeks to complete. I learned a lot more about patience during that time of not having a car for a month. (My dear friend Angie loaned us her car for 2 1/2 weeks while she borrowed her MIL while they were on vacation) A month was long enough without transportation and everyday I prayed that my babies wouldn't crack their heads open and need to be rushed to the hospital. We survived without the bug, but were VERY thankful to pick her up a few nights ago!!! Did I mention it has a faster engine??? Very cool. And that Trav is installing my new seats?? I love that man.

Last Friday I woke up with a really sore throat and by Saturday morning, I was sicker than sick. I was throwing up, every inch of my body ached beyond belief (even my eye lids hurt!) I had a fever, my throat was KILLING me, I had no energy and I just wanted to die. By Sunday morning I was crying it hurt so much, I could hardly swallow and had white sores all over my throat,so Trav took me into Primary Health and in about 2 seconds found out I had strep. I got on super wonderful drugs and started feeling better awhile after. No wonder people only lived until age 40 a long time ago. I was in bed for 2 1/2 days straight and had NO idea what my poor children were doing all those hours. My wonderful friends took care of me, and boy, was I thankful to have them. Chelsea brought pizza over & Lisa did my dishes and vaccuumed for me. Annikan & Angie were the greatest helpers with Daisy's party, making treats and helping- I was pretty out of it, but we made it through and had a great party for her.

I took the girls into the Dr. a few days ago for shots and found out that Willow has RSV and an ear infection- and that the rest of the kids probably have suffered with the same thing for the past month. They have all had terrible coughs/colds that never really went away and then got worse. Willow was miserable the other day, but is such a great sport. She has medicine for her ear, but it breaks my heart to her her wheezing & crackling when she breathes. I am so thankful for doctors and medicine (except for when Grace found the medicine, overdosed and then I had to call poison control! Not fun, but she was okay. That was about 2 weeks ago- and scared the cr*p out of me too!)

I am thankful to have alot of the big things done and off my To Do list, so now I can relax a little. Valentine's day is almost over, no parties for awhile, I gave my RS lesson today, we had our taxes done last night, no appointments for a long time, we have running cars, I'm done cooking the 60 pounds of hamburger- so I'm good! I think I'll take a bath and call it a night. There's our little update...