So sorry for keeping you all waiting but I have been tired. LOL!! I know many of you probably think that I run on no sleep... well most of the time you are right. :) Anyways things have been a whirlwind around here. I guess I should explain.
Friday the 18th of February was a great day I was out of the house at an job interview since there are no kids at home and I need to help pay off debt that I created. knowing how long I have been looking I was praying that I would find something soon. Well after that morning I went home to where my sister was watching my kids and got ready to get down and dirty doing chores, doing shopping, etc... Then we were off her kids and my kids and us. We had a blast doing things that if there was one person it would really suck. LOL! Anyways as we were shopping I got a call and was offered the job!!! I know I was so happy I was crying. (What a wuss. I know that is what you are thinking. LOL!) We decided that I needed a few things and took the kids home and unloaded the car. Wow that is when daddy pulled up and told me that he was done for the day and we asked him if he could watch most of the kids so we could do a little bit more. Kid free in a clothes store is so nice! Any way I started this new job on Monday the 21st. It has been a interesting week seeing as I am making sure I have babysitters lined up willing and able to take my younger 2 boy for only a few hours a week. This has been such a fun job and I love being at work and learning and helping people.
Monday daddy watched the kids and when I came home from work the house was still standing. :) LOL! It was a big mess but daddy had worked on it a little bit and the kids had each done a load of laundry too. So I told the kids since they were all watching a moving and it was almost dinner time that who ever wanted to stay up an extra 30 minutes the living room, bedrooms, hall way and dining room had to be cleaned up and they only had until dinner do make it happen. I have never seen kids move so fast! LOL!! My house was spotless in 15 minutes minus vacuuming since I was helping and making dinner. As soon as it was done the kids all asked if they could stay up longer and I told than that daddy gets to look around and decide if they get to stay up. He did and then told them that they can! Oh excitement!! We had dinner and then as soon as there time was up and they were all asleep I decided that I would like to see my laundry room floor again and start a load of what ever was laying on the floor in the laundry room. Than I went to my bed to relax until I could move the laundry over. As soon as the laundry finished I went to move it and notice that it was soaking wet still. Hummm... I talked with my husband and we found out that the washer wasn't spinning at all! CRAP!!!! I don't need a broken washer! :( He told me that he would pull it apart the next day to see what was wrong with it. So I dried a little bit of laundry at a time and had the dryer running several times on every little bit that was in there.
Well Tuesday only one kids of mine had school and everyone else didn't, so I asked my sister if she could watch the other kids and make sure that Dylan got on and off the bus for me and like such a great sister she said yes. It was a good day. The only weird thing was that Gavin wasn't eating very much but he was still running around playing so I didn't think too much of it. After work I rang all the clothes that were still in the washer out in the tub and then had my husband pull apart the washer and find out that the "gear box" was broken. He told me that he was going to get a part for it.
Wednesday could had been better It started at 3:50am as I awoke to high pitch screaming coming from Rhett and Gavin's room. I run down there just to find out that Gavin was screaming because he was tangled in his blanket and he had to go potty as he is crying and trying to catch his breath. So I take him to the bathroom and then he tells me that he has a huge headache. I give him some medicine to help with that headache. After that he tells me that he has had a bad dream which he really didn't want to tell me(I am sure that is where he got his headache from). So I ask him if he wants to lay down on the couch since he was too scared to go to his own bed. He said yes. I told him the only way for the bad dream to go away is to tell me so I can chase it away for him. He then told me as he starting crying again. This is the story I got and understood.
"I dreamed that there were 3 ghosts in my closet and I was trying to catch them. Each time I would catch one another one would come and knock me out."
Where does he get this? Anyway I helped him on to the couch and he felt a little warm but I think anyone after all that would feel warm so I didn't worry about a blanket or anything. I gave him a drink and turned on the light and the TV since he was clinging to me like Velcro. After the lights and TV were on he climbed onto the couch and fell asleep within 5 minutes. I went back to bed thankfully. :) Then again was woken by Gavin asking for another drink at 5:00am. I get him a drink and then he tells me that he needs a blanket to which I wonder why he feels so warm. I didn't worry too much about it since heck it is 5:00am. I did let him know that we were going to need to get up soon and get ready for the day. He said ok as he was falling asleep again. Manhe is wearing me and him out faster than running around. So we both go back to sleep for a hour and than my alarm goes off it is now 6:00am. Can we say zombie! Oh yeah! I get all the kids up get myself ready and then I wake Gavin who is not wanting to get up at all. Here I am thinking it is because we have been up all night anyways. So he is dropped off at school with Rhett and Nikole to have breakfast. (The rest of this story is what I was told since I wasn't there.) Gavin was eating breakfast with Rhett and Nikole when he threw up a little in his hands and sat there dazed and not doing too much until grandma came to help him. He was taken to grandma's and grandpa's house at which point he rested all morning. He was acting fine all except for eating and drinking which to that he did none. But then was taken to school at lunch time where he didn't want to eat anything. So he laid in the office until it was school time and the teacher went to get him but he was asleep. So she left him there sleeping. At about 1:30pm I get a call from the school saying that Gavin had a 102.6 temp and they are not sure what to do.
So knowing that I am new to my job I was a little nervous about telling my boss that I needed to go and take care of my little boy. But it turns out that he was ok with it and told me not to worry about it. I left and picked Gavin up at about 2:30pm, where he was still sleeping. I took him home and he climb on the couch to watch TV but I told him that he could have a bubble bath so he was happy about that. He told me that his head still hurt and so I gave him more medicine to help that and let him have a bath. After that we showered him off since he was all soapy and cold from sitting in warm water. :) He went to try to warm up and I told him the fastest way to warm up would be to put clothes on. LOL! Well he started and got as far as a shirt and underwear and then fell asleep on his bed.As I picked up the kids from school Rhett showed me that he had won 1st place at the school science fair and was going to district level science fair. He was really excited since he only got 2nd last year. :) At dinner time he was still sleeping and so I had him take some Motrin and a little water and he then went right back to sleep. The day ended with Dylan being dropped off at our house since I was home with a sick boy and than dinner for 3 kids and showers etc for 3 kids since Gavin decided to sleep all day and night. Yeah we made it through that day.
Thursday was a whole other story...
My boss knew that I had to take the boys to some doctors appointments that afternoon. What was unexpected was that at 5:00am Gavin woke up throwing up. I heard him and got up to make sure he hadn't thrown up anywhere except in the toilet. Which he hadn't thank goodness. So I turn on a very dim light since that way it wouldn't hurt our eyes and I wait until he is finish to get him a drink and put him back in bed. What I see was a surprise to both him and me. He was throwing up blood! Oh this isn't good! He turns and looks at me after he had finished and asked me with tears in his eyes "Am I going to die?" I give him a big hug and tel him no. I gave him 1/2 cup water and put him to bed. Again at 6:00zm my alarm is going off and as I am getting me and the kids ready for the day I am thinking that I really need to take him to the doctors. So I decided to take him in and make sure all the kids get to the places that they need to be at. So at 8:00am I call my work and tell them that I will be in as long as the doctor thinks that Gavin is ok enough to go to the sitters house. Which he did! Yeah!! I was so happy. :) Not strep and no fever. He was just very dehydrated which I knew that since he had only 1 1/2 cups of fluid in 2 days, maybe more. He said as long as he will drink there is no need for a hospital visit. So he drank like crazy that morning since I told him he couldn't have anything to eat until he drank a lot. So at lunch time he was starving! He ate everything he had. Than he went to school.
As soon as I dropped him off I headed to work and got there about 10:00am. At 1:30pm I needed to leave to take the boys to the doctors since Rhett needed to have a PFT(Pulmonary Function Test) and than a follow up for having ear surgery and Dylan also needed to have a follow up from have ear surgery. So I decide that I would get Gavin and Rhett from school. Lucky they were in the office ready to go, since I got caught in traffic. Than I race over to a totally different school and school district to get Dylan. While I was picking up Dylan they wanted me to sign all these papers and stuff. By then it was 2:30pm!!!! Holy crap Rhett's PFT is at 2:35pm!! Why can't I just sign these later!!!!! Seriously! :( Not a happy momma here. We didn't even leave there until almost 2:45pm! Now I was MAD!!! Grrrrrrrrr! I finally make it to the hospital and it is 2:55pm, yes I was rushing it but heck if you don't make it on time you have to come in a different time and with my job I was worried since this was my first week. My life is not normally like this but there are some days when it is like this. So because we were late and the doctor was already running behind there was no way for him to have the PFT that day. After that bit of new I would have steered clear of me since I was PISTED! That was the test to help us decide if Rhett is going to have expansion surgery again. Now I had to wait to see when they could get him in. Lucky for us they could get him in the next day, at 11:00am. We had the follow up and the boys had a hearing test before we saw the doctor and they can hear better but they still have a hearing loss. LOL! I think the doctor expected for it to go away. :) We didn't even leave the hospital until after 5:00pm. But my husband was home working on my washer before I even got home! Yeah!! I might have a working washer! Can't wait to see!!! I come home to help put the washer back and it WORKS!!!! Thank you honey!!!
Friday I had did all of my laundry the night before and then I had all the kids ready to go and left early for work. Daddy stayed until grandpa came before he took Rhett and Nikole to school. Then when I get to work I find out that the phones and the internet is not working. Oh man! It was very slow and it finally started to pick back up at almost 10:00am when the phones and the internet were working. I let the person at my work know I had to take a long lunch to take Rhett up and get his PFT done since they couldn't do it yesterday. They were fine with that and so I left at10:10am and called my dad who was watching Gavin and Dylan. He was taking Gavin to school and told me to meet him at the hospital and he would bring Rhett up there since he was dropping off Gavin at the same school anyways. So I head to the hospital and get there 2 minutes before they do. Rhett and I hurry and check in and then wait. LOL!! I really hate that! Any way we meet with the doctor for less than 10 minutes and are taken to get the PFT done. That is what took forever!! We didn't leave the PFT area until 12:30pm!! We meet with the doctor right after that and I mean right after, we didn't have to wait at all. The results are that it has improved since last time meaning July. I asked the doctor what his professional opinion is on doing the surgeries. Does he think that they are helping since he has gone up slightly since July? He said that he thinks that if Rhett had not had the surgeries his lung function would have dropped a lot. He said that it was up to us to decide if it is worth the pain that he has gone through and would be going through. Oh joy more to think about. :) Dropped him off again and went back to work. He had the district science fair to go to later that day that he couldn't miss. Ended up staying late to make sure this one guy had his car back since he was told it would be done that day. After work ran home grabbed the kids and went to U-fit. While there I did Pilates while the kids had fun with their volunteers playing. What a great work out! After that We came home and all went to bed... Well at least the kids and I went to bed. LOL! I was tired it has been a long fun week as you can totally see.
This was my week in a nutshell.
