Ear Infection

Two weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night with intense pain in my right ear. Aching really. My teeth hurt. I couldn't lay on the right side of my head. I put some drops in my ear on Saturday trying to fix the problem, and by noon was completely deaf in that ear. It felt like I had water in my ear that I couldn't shake out. AHHHHH.
Finally Sunday morning I gave in and went to urgent care. The doctor said I had a massive ear infection, put me on some antibiotics and medicated ear drops and sent me on my way. After three days of being deaf in that ear, the swelling finally went down and the pain went away. I took the 10 days worth of antibiotics and figured I was done. Fast forward to last night. I went and played volleyball with our ward, and felt fine. When I was getting ready for bed my ear started to feel sore. I put some medicated drops in hoping to clear up any infection that might be lingering. NOT. More drops in this morning, and by 3pm on this afternoon I knew I had to head back to urgent care. They flushed my ear, which is a special treat if you've never had that done, and then looked in and said everything looked fine. I wasn't going for that since my ear was throbbing. The doctor gave me another round of super strong antibiotics and sent me on my way. Meanwhile, Landon is suppose to be taking Colton to do baptisms for the dead with his friend, and both my girls had soccer practice. I am sitting there with my ear dripping, giving Landon instructions on who to call for rides, and how to get Colton where he needs to be. Thank goodness our friends just waited for Lan and he was able to go with Colton after all. The girls made it to practice and I got don in time to pick everyone up.

I'm crossing my fingers this round of antibiotics works. This whole ear infection business is nasty. I feel so bad for babies!

Crazy Days

Landon is out of town for work. You think I would be use to this whole single mother thing since he lived in a different state for nealy a year. But he's been home now for a couple months, and I've gotten use to the help. This has been a crazy week as usual, and tonight is not going to be any different Here's the schedule between now and bedtime.

3pm- Coton has football practice
3:40 - Pick up girls from school. Feed them, have them change into soccer clothes, and do homework.
4:45pm - Take Whitley, Kennedy and neighbor girls (my turn for carpool) to activity days at 2 different places
5pm- Pick up Colton from football and get him fed
5:30- Pick up Whit's friend for soccer practice (my turn for carpool)
5:40- Pick up Kennedy and Whit from acitivity days (early) and head for soccer
6pm- Both girls have soccer practice (luckily at the same place)
7pm- Kennedy done with soccer
7:30- Whit done with soccer
7:45- Home for showers! Finish any unfinished homework.
8pm- Bedtime for Kenendy
8:30- Bedtime for Whit
9pm- Bedtime for Colton

Now that I type it all out it seems doable. I guess it's all the driving in between that adds up. Why is it that everything always seems to be on the same day. That is until you get to the next day. Then everything is on that day! I wouldn't trade a minute of it, just wish my help was here!

Air Soft War

As the weather gets nicer and nicer the kids are starting to come out of their houses like rats! This was the scene on my front lawn right around dinner time tonight. 3 of the boys had already gone home for dinner. They were planning a huge air soft war. Whit was knee deep in the war, but Kennedy and her friend Lauren were using moving boxes to protect themselves!

I can't say enough how much I love this neighborhood. Too bad these kids all play football, soccer, have piano, scouts, activity days, oh and homework to get in the way of all their fun!

More Bread

For dinner tonight we had meatballs subs. They are my kids' favorite! I decided, since I'm slightly obsessed with bread making, that I'd make the rolls for them. They were awesome. However, they were huge. They got away from me a little bit.

This picture doesn't do them justice. Colton's bun was huge! Big enough to hold like 12 meatballs. Big shocker, he ate the whole thing.

NEON Love

Seems like when my kids turn 11 their taste in shoes turn NEON! These are Whit's new soccer cleats this year. YOWZA! She LOVES them. I guess they'll see her coming.

Books Books and More Books

I have been reading like crazy lately. My mom started bringing me books that she had read, and before I knew it I had a pile waiting for me. I love that. I love a good book, and I love a good series even better. I think I'm about the last person on earth to read some of these, but here are a few of my favorites as of late. In no particular order...

This was a great series. I love books from the late 1800's early 1900's. Life was hard, yet simple.

I think I was halfway through this one before I realized it was a true story. AMAZING. Makes me want to do more, do better.I am finally starting Mockingjay. My friend Stacy brought it to me a couple weeks ago to read, and I have so many others waiting to go back to the library I haven't been able to get to it. I can't wait! I hope it's as good as the first two.

Grandparents Day

My mom was the only Grandparent that was able to make it to Grandparent's Day this year. She took the girls and had breakfast at the school. How lucky my kids are to have their Grandparents live so close and able to be so involved in their lives! Something I took for granted as a kid.