Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Spring is in the air
Ahhh spring... Though it may be a month (or three) away, the air is warming and the feeling of change is making its way around. I hope that as the snow melts so does the hard times in our lives.
Brock: Brock is doing great at school, but is having a problem with the two bully boys that live by us (the only non members) who like to tease Brock as they wait for the bus. We have decided to walk him to the bus for a week or two hoping that the boys will get in the habit of better behavior having adults around. Brock also has a sore throat right now - again- I feel bad for him. He's had a rough week. He did play with Hatch all day yesterday and met the two new boys in the neighborhood and was able to go to Dads elders ball game and have fun there....so I guess his life isnt all bad.
Blake: Ok you love all your kids equally, but Blake has been wonderful lately. So much fun and so cute. He has a breakdown every day or two for about a half hour, but other then that he is wonderful - despite not napping any more. He is beginning to climb and jump of everything. I want to get him into the gymnastics gym in Salem when we have the money. He also repeats everything we say and his favorite expressions are "What the heck!" and "oh darn it". He is forcing us to read to him alot and his favorite is the owl book, which has nothing to do with owls. It is a Holloween book about a witch and it is super cute. Because of it, he now exclaimes often "buzz off...my witch".
Jack: He is officially CRAWLING!!!!! Can you belive it. Brock and Blake rolled till 10 months and so a crawler so early is a suprise. He also pulled himself up on my today. The night after we started the acid reflux meds Jack began being happy and eating again. He is tring to nurse again, but my milk is pretty low, and he refuses to take a bottle still. At least he is nursing abit and ate 3.5 jars of baby food today.
Brock: Brock is doing great at school, but is having a problem with the two bully boys that live by us (the only non members) who like to tease Brock as they wait for the bus. We have decided to walk him to the bus for a week or two hoping that the boys will get in the habit of better behavior having adults around. Brock also has a sore throat right now - again- I feel bad for him. He's had a rough week. He did play with Hatch all day yesterday and met the two new boys in the neighborhood and was able to go to Dads elders ball game and have fun there....so I guess his life isnt all bad.
Blake: Ok you love all your kids equally, but Blake has been wonderful lately. So much fun and so cute. He has a breakdown every day or two for about a half hour, but other then that he is wonderful - despite not napping any more. He is beginning to climb and jump of everything. I want to get him into the gymnastics gym in Salem when we have the money. He also repeats everything we say and his favorite expressions are "What the heck!" and "oh darn it". He is forcing us to read to him alot and his favorite is the owl book, which has nothing to do with owls. It is a Holloween book about a witch and it is super cute. Because of it, he now exclaimes often "buzz off...my witch".
Jack: He is officially CRAWLING!!!!! Can you belive it. Brock and Blake rolled till 10 months and so a crawler so early is a suprise. He also pulled himself up on my today. The night after we started the acid reflux meds Jack began being happy and eating again. He is tring to nurse again, but my milk is pretty low, and he refuses to take a bottle still. At least he is nursing abit and ate 3.5 jars of baby food today.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Animal cookies
I was eating frosted animal cookies today...and you know what... The white ones taste better.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The problem with going to the store
In efforts to save money, Jeff does most of the shopping. He runs after wendys or occasionally on a day off to pick up only the things we have to have ie milk and bread. He does also get the weekly sale items that are too good to pass up (like the chocolate chex for 1.48 a box he got today). With Jeff doing the shopping we end up with no real food in the house. You end up lacking food ideas when you dont have cream or chix, sour cream, cheese, etc. So I went and wondered down each isle looking for things that we dont have and need. I managed to get out of the store not having spent too much.
But then today happened. Lets have hamburgers.....ok easy. When you actually have food in the house hamburgers isnt easy any more. Suddenly there are toppings. Well we have onion to caramelize, and bacon would be good on top too, oh and a jalapeno, tomato, lettuce, cheese, and all on grilled toast (since we dont have ham buns). Well it becomes a production ending up with a 20-30 point burger that could rival even Carl Jrs finniest.
Dont get me wrong, Im not complaining about making dinner for my family, but an 88cent box of hamburger helper and steamed broccoli or pancakes have far less clean up then a real meal. You are probably thinking Im crazy to complain about the normal hamburger toppings, but when you dont have them cause bacon, onions, jalapenos arent something to waste money on, and the lettuce and tomatoes are usually all gone on the days we decided on hamburgers - you begin to appreciate things like that.
Ok crazy little rant over. On another note we got the hospital and surgeon bills totalling just about 4500. It took them less then two weeks to send those out. We have decided to pull out our tiny 401 k which after fees and taxes will give us enough to just pay off the surgeon and the new computer. Then well just figure out how to pay the hospital something each month. Jeff and I are very pleasently suprised at the churches new employment provident living site. It is far better then the old one and seems to have more jobs posted. Maybe something will come from that.
But then today happened. Lets have hamburgers.....ok easy. When you actually have food in the house hamburgers isnt easy any more. Suddenly there are toppings. Well we have onion to caramelize, and bacon would be good on top too, oh and a jalapeno, tomato, lettuce, cheese, and all on grilled toast (since we dont have ham buns). Well it becomes a production ending up with a 20-30 point burger that could rival even Carl Jrs finniest.
Dont get me wrong, Im not complaining about making dinner for my family, but an 88cent box of hamburger helper and steamed broccoli or pancakes have far less clean up then a real meal. You are probably thinking Im crazy to complain about the normal hamburger toppings, but when you dont have them cause bacon, onions, jalapenos arent something to waste money on, and the lettuce and tomatoes are usually all gone on the days we decided on hamburgers - you begin to appreciate things like that.
Ok crazy little rant over. On another note we got the hospital and surgeon bills totalling just about 4500. It took them less then two weeks to send those out. We have decided to pull out our tiny 401 k which after fees and taxes will give us enough to just pay off the surgeon and the new computer. Then well just figure out how to pay the hospital something each month. Jeff and I are very pleasently suprised at the churches new employment provident living site. It is far better then the old one and seems to have more jobs posted. Maybe something will come from that.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
A long time
Well life is crazy and I have to admit slightly depressing. I started watching a baby named Cash to help pay for the new computer (ours is infected and keeps crashing and is trying to steal my identity, but hey now I have no excuse to not blog more). He is a very sweet 2-3 month old, but there is an added stress to watching another child. Along with Cash there was my personal information being stolen (with a bit of help from my stupidity)but nothing has happened and I have contacted who needs to be contacted so no one can do anything with my information. Next there was the fact that Tim told me he was fired and until his first check comes from the army I will not get any child support. OK 600 dollars I needed-gone. Then Jeff went to the hospital and had his appendix out. He is doing fine and though he has no appitite he is recovering well. After calling and finding out for sure our insurance wont cover it- and getting estimates from everyone we are looking at about 5000-6000 dollars. Im trying not to think about it until the bills start comming. I just cant imagin why the sergon alone is charging 1900 for 40 minutes of work... Next I took Jack in for his six month well check and low and behold he hasnt gained any weight and I need to begin weaning him and need to shove food down his throat. Needless to say weaning is hard enough but knowing he hasnt been getting what he needs for the last month or more makes this soo much harder. He hates formula and after a nursing we can only get like 2 oz down him and that is with the occasional help of a medicine dropper.
So summery: Im tending a baby, we still have no money or job, Tim is still a punk, Jeff had an appendisitis, we are now in debt to the hospital, and Jack has been listed as borderline failure to thrive. I can say that I have had alot of love and support from family and our wonderful ward. Your prayers will continue to be appriciated.
So summery: Im tending a baby, we still have no money or job, Tim is still a punk, Jeff had an appendisitis, we are now in debt to the hospital, and Jack has been listed as borderline failure to thrive. I can say that I have had alot of love and support from family and our wonderful ward. Your prayers will continue to be appriciated.
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