Oh the days...

Oh the days that have gone by.

I am so sorry I am such a bad blogger at the moment.  Things have been really stressful for me trying to get everything ready for the holidays.  It makes me crazy that I feel like I am not doing the best I can do and that I can do better.

Since I am writing this in the middle of the night I think I will finish tomorrow and post it them too.  I am too tired to try to stay awake.

So here it is tomorrow and things are rolling fast than I want them too.

Rhett is making me crazy.  I have tried to help him make sure everything is ready and have him turn in everything on time but NO!  To no end he refuses.  I finally told him that his grades do not affect me since I passed middle school a long time ago and those grades will just affect him.  He looked at me like but....  GRRRR!  Makes me crazy!  He has been missing out on scouts and mutual since he is not wanting to do his homework and it is taking him forever to get anything done before bed.  He knows it he just doesn't want to do it.  It is so very frustrating.  I would love some input on how to help him since I am drawing up NOTHING, because I have already tried everything that I know already.

Nikole has been struggling in school when I thought she was doing so well.  GRRR!!!  This cannot be happening to me!  She is really struggling with writing and I am not even sure how that is so since she is always making up stories and drawing.  I have informed her that ELP isn't something that she should worry about and that would be considered extra but she isn't in ELP right now anyways.  I told her that I expected her to do better and this show me how she will do in middle school and high school.  I then told her that I am not going to pay for her to go to college and they are going to have to make sure that they get great grades and earn their way through college.  That way it will mean more to them.

OK so I might help a little but I am not going to tell them that.

Gavin is doing pretty good in school.  YEA!!!  He has a few things that he needs to work on but other then that his grades are awesome.  He is having a hard time doing what is right and making right choices, I hope that he will understand that soon and stick to it.  He has been doing great on his homework and I am so proud of him for getting all of it done and heck he can write to the point that you can read it.  I am loving how he does his best just because I make it fun for him. :)

Dylan is doing great in school and is super smart according to his teacher.  He still sometimes has a sad moment when he realizes that him and Autumn are in different rooms but that is ok since she will be in there soon enough.  He has been getting sick quite easy this school year.  I am praying that he gets better and fast since I hate having him miss school since he really likes going and playing with his friends.  But better to keep him home and get him better than force him to school like some other parents probably do.

That was the update on the kids and now to update life.

We had Thanksgiving and I am quite really not enjoying that holiday ever!  It is really frustrating that Dylan gets sick following that almost every year!  What the heck!  I love getting together but not if he is going to get sick right after.  Ok let me back up a little bit.  The week of Thanksgiving Dylan had only one day of school while everyone else had 2 days.  He and of course all the kids were healthy and ready to go play with cousins and maybe eat some food.  So we head out to the place of gathering.  We stayed there for about 5 hours and came home.  Then the next day I went with Nikole and had our hair cut and spent time having girl time which was GREAT!!!  We did that most the day while daddy stayed home with the boys.  Saturday I ran to a store came home and then daddy took all the kids and headed out.  They hadn't been gone for too long before I got a call saying they they were out of gas.   Oh ok so I went and saved them all(I am so happy that it wasn't me this time.).  After I saved them we all come home for dinner and then sent the older kids to the neighbors house for a birthday party, and within 30 minutes we had to get them and headed to a hockey game.  As I am getting kids out the door I notice that Dylan has a whole bunch of green goop around his eyes.  I talk to daddy about that and found out that he has been cleaning them out all day.  Oh ok great just what I need.  We go and watch the game with all the kids and as we are getting ready to leave I am making sure no kids are leaving anything behind and I look around and don't see Dylan.  I ask and then the next thing I know he is screaming from a few seats from the isle and he is quite a few rows down from us.  I know he didn't fall down the stairs but he did manage to sprain his foot pretty bad.  We leave and before we can go very far he is asleep in the back seat.  Gratefully he slept the whole night but in the morning his eye was much worse and he was limping.  My poor baby!  I checked into taking him to the ER or Kids Care and decided to take him to Kids Care but they wouldn't open until noon so as soon as the clock hit noon I ran home from church since daddy stayed home with the kids and planed on just grabbing Dylan and taking him but NO, when I walked in he was in the bath and not even ready to go.  So as soon as he was out he fell asleep I let him sleep a little but then I took him and that is when I found out no school for him Monday but Tuesday he can go.  Great, that was because his eye are very contagious and he needed antibiotics.  They rapped his foot and tried putting a little shoe on him but he has in between feet so nothing fit and that was ok.  So Sunday night after everyone had gone to be I am hearing Dylan cough and cough.  CRAP!  NO!!  It is that horrible barking cough that is totally croup.  So first thing in the morning I took him to the doctors and yep he has croup.  Well no school for a few days for that .  Meaning the whole week for him since he only goes Monday through Thursday.  He has been home coughing and resting I hope.  I hope and pray that he will be able to go back to school on Monday.  But As you can see Thanksgiving weekend I could really live without.  Don't get me wrong I am very blessed and thankful.  I and thankful everyday for more than I can list.  I guess a better saying would be I can live without the drama caused by the weekend.

Ok that is everything for now I hope to update sooner since things go quite quick this month.