A day with the ducks among other things
After such a fun weekend, and thinking that the kids were all over whatever illness they had,
I-girl started running a fever last night, along with a cough/cold. She probably has whatever S-girl had last week.
Because of the fever I-girl had a minor seizure this afternoon, it only lasted for a few seconds. (Mike just called me to her room as I was writing this, she was just ending another one). We think the combination of her age, and the medicine she is on helped to make these seizures less intense than her other ones. It has been a year since her last one.
Sometimes I think "how much more do I have to watch my kids suffer like this?", but then I remember that our Heavenly Father watched his Son suffer more than I can ever know, and I just have to rely on him to help our family through this.
M-boy also started running another fever tonight as well. I don't know the whole purpose of this experience, but I do know that everything happens for a reason, and things could always be a lot worse. I may spend the rest of their childhood worried about them getting sick, and now that S-girl is in school, it might make it worse. Sometimes I want to put them all in a bubble, and not go anywhere, but I know that it is not possible. We have to live our lives, and be as cautious as we can, but allow the Lord to comfort us during these times as well. At least they are not terminally ill, and could die from getting a minor illness.
They are all such sweet kids. S-girl was really excited to get back to school this week, and came home on Monday with a stack of papers from the days she missed last week. Here she is helping me chop nuts for a cake I entered in the fair last week.
Tonight as I-girl was feeling a little better, she asked me to turn on ballet music, and come and dance with her, so I did. Then she told me "Okay you can go back to doing the dishes now".
M-boy loves to go outside and can now open the back door all by himself. I'm so grateful we have a fence (although he did fall down the deck stairs the other day). How did my baby grow so fast?
I also need to mention what a wonderful, amazing husband I have. I could not do this without him. He just hopped in the car to take I-girl to see a doctor. Her fever is 104, and we are having a hard time keeping it down.
If there is one thing I have thought about a lot today, it's that I need to move slower, and take more time to be with my kids, and enjoy them. I get going too fast, with too much to do, and I find myself telling my kids a lot that I don't have time to play with them. Dishes, laundry, and housework can wait, but if I don't enjoy them now, the day will come, when my house will be empty and all I have will be my housework, and I will wish I could put it aside to play with my kids. I need to enjoy the moments now before it's too late. If nothing else, that is what I am learning.
As I mentioned in my previous post, my brother and sister in law watched the kids on Saturday night. They always have such fun things planned, and that night, they took the kids on a picnic and then fed the ducks. They were able to get some great pictures of our kids. Thanks Darin and Lyndsey for being such a great uncle and aunt!
I love this picture. Lyndsey printed a copy of it for us and wrote "Because I have a sister, I have a friend". As they get older, I think they look more and more alike.
This is my awesome brother. I always secretly hoped that our third child would be a boy. I'm the middle child with a older sister, and a younger brother. Darin was such a cute little boy and after we had two girls, I thought it would be so cool if our third one was a boy, just like the family I grew up in. Well, along came M-boy, who now has a special bond with Uncle Darin.
This is Lyndsey, Darin's wife. She is the greatest, and we love having her in our family. BTW, the kids absolutely loved the bug juice.
I love this picture. Who need to have professional pictures when Lyndsey takes such good photos? I'm so glad you were able to get them to all sit still for longer than two seconds.
I-girl started running a fever last night, along with a cough/cold. She probably has whatever S-girl had last week.
Because of the fever I-girl had a minor seizure this afternoon, it only lasted for a few seconds. (Mike just called me to her room as I was writing this, she was just ending another one). We think the combination of her age, and the medicine she is on helped to make these seizures less intense than her other ones. It has been a year since her last one.
Sometimes I think "how much more do I have to watch my kids suffer like this?", but then I remember that our Heavenly Father watched his Son suffer more than I can ever know, and I just have to rely on him to help our family through this.
M-boy also started running another fever tonight as well. I don't know the whole purpose of this experience, but I do know that everything happens for a reason, and things could always be a lot worse. I may spend the rest of their childhood worried about them getting sick, and now that S-girl is in school, it might make it worse. Sometimes I want to put them all in a bubble, and not go anywhere, but I know that it is not possible. We have to live our lives, and be as cautious as we can, but allow the Lord to comfort us during these times as well. At least they are not terminally ill, and could die from getting a minor illness.
They are all such sweet kids. S-girl was really excited to get back to school this week, and came home on Monday with a stack of papers from the days she missed last week. Here she is helping me chop nuts for a cake I entered in the fair last week.
Tonight as I-girl was feeling a little better, she asked me to turn on ballet music, and come and dance with her, so I did. Then she told me "Okay you can go back to doing the dishes now".M-boy loves to go outside and can now open the back door all by himself. I'm so grateful we have a fence (although he did fall down the deck stairs the other day). How did my baby grow so fast?
I also need to mention what a wonderful, amazing husband I have. I could not do this without him. He just hopped in the car to take I-girl to see a doctor. Her fever is 104, and we are having a hard time keeping it down.
If there is one thing I have thought about a lot today, it's that I need to move slower, and take more time to be with my kids, and enjoy them. I get going too fast, with too much to do, and I find myself telling my kids a lot that I don't have time to play with them. Dishes, laundry, and housework can wait, but if I don't enjoy them now, the day will come, when my house will be empty and all I have will be my housework, and I will wish I could put it aside to play with my kids. I need to enjoy the moments now before it's too late. If nothing else, that is what I am learning.
As I mentioned in my previous post, my brother and sister in law watched the kids on Saturday night. They always have such fun things planned, and that night, they took the kids on a picnic and then fed the ducks. They were able to get some great pictures of our kids. Thanks Darin and Lyndsey for being such a great uncle and aunt!
I love this picture. Lyndsey printed a copy of it for us and wrote "Because I have a sister, I have a friend". As they get older, I think they look more and more alike.
This is my awesome brother. I always secretly hoped that our third child would be a boy. I'm the middle child with a older sister, and a younger brother. Darin was such a cute little boy and after we had two girls, I thought it would be so cool if our third one was a boy, just like the family I grew up in. Well, along came M-boy, who now has a special bond with Uncle Darin.
This is Lyndsey, Darin's wife. She is the greatest, and we love having her in our family. BTW, the kids absolutely loved the bug juice.
I love this picture. Who need to have professional pictures when Lyndsey takes such good photos? I'm so glad you were able to get them to all sit still for longer than two seconds.
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I am praying for you and know that this is only a trial and Heavenly Father knows you can get through it and he knows that you will rely on him to get through it....he also knows that you will develop a greater love and appreciation for your kids and your husband from going through this experience....that is what happened to me when it was happening with Grayson and I can only say looking back that everything was worth learning the lessons of life that I needed to learn at the time! I love you!!!