Good morning

We ended up going camping.  The lake was gorgeous, the campsite nice.  The swimming wonderful.  We all had fun.

And we ain't doing it again for a long, long time!  We ended up by morning having 3 babies in bed with us.  Yep 3.  HUGE tent, and we were all cuddled under 1 king size sleeping bag.  *snicker*

Oh yes, and if your planning on cooking your breakfast on a cookstove, its best to bring a skillet, frying pan,  shoot tin foil woulda worked.  ROFL.  You always forget one thing when your camping.  But the frying pan?  Where the heck was my brain.

The hot dog roast worked great, didn't need the skillet.  QFC ended up serving breakfast.  MMMM doughnuts!  *snicker*  And now everybody's catching up on the sleep they didn't get earlier.  Me I got mine while DH watched the kids.

This afternoon we have a birthday party for my sister, and tomorrow another birthday party for a friend.  So we're gonna be needing this down time.  I should go back to sleep, but I have to walk past Rainee's crib to do so, and really, really, really don't want to wake her.

So, Childrens called with some kinda info about Rainee, but DH accidentally hit delete before writing the info down, and its Saturday so we'll have to wait 'til Monday to find out whatever the heck it was.  *sigh*

I didn't take a single picture, was having too much fun.  LOL

Been thinking on these words.

Whatsoever thoughts are pure, whatsoever thoughts are lovely, if there be any virture if there be any praise think on them.   Philippians.

Good morning.

Its beautiful outside, and I *think* we're going camping overnight.  Just a one nighter about 45 minutes from here.  If all goes well, we'll do it again, if all doesn't go well, its not that far to come home.  hehehehe

Rainee *gasp*  Slept from 6:30-5:40 with only 2 whimpers.  Not even really crying, more like noise in her sleep.  SCCCAREY!  I didn't know what to do.  I kept waking up waiting for her.  I could learn to handle 5 kids sleeping all at the same time.    I think we made a good decision! 

I'm worried about somebody, and praying for peace.  Not gonna say anymore

HMMM, blog-block.  I guess I'll write when we get back.  Have a great-weekend All

Good evening.

Well my almost 2 year reprieve is over.  And my visitor came back last night.  I hadn't missed Aunt Flo.  And quite frankly she can leave at any time.  Oh and don't slam the door on the way out k?

Today the three oldest munchkins, my sister and I went to the u-pick strawberry field, and picked 33 lbs of strawberrys in about 30 minutes.  We then came home and sis sliced and sugared and froze them for us.   It feels good to actually have preserved something.  And MMMMM did they taste good.  I was quite impressed by how good of pickers the kiddos were.  Even Kaylin filled her small bucket 3x.  They had a lot of fun, and seemed to enjoy the mommy time without Rainee and MariMan.   (They stayed home with daddy)

We went to the lake this afternoon after I had a nap, and enjoyed the water.  Though it was terribly windy at first, but once the wind died it was nice and hot.  Hey, Alicia, when you coming up again?????

Rainee had her first summer p/t with early intervention.   They DID arrange for something for us this summer, for which I'm greatful.  She's actually cruising little bits.  And will take upwards of 15 steps holding our fingers.  So maybe she'll be walking sometime in the fairly new future.  I have hope. 

Kaylin has kept us in stitches the last couple days with the nonsense that has come out of her mouth.  The cutest one was as she was eating ice cream.  She said she had ice cream juice at the bottom of her bowl. 

HMMMM I've gotten bumped off-line 3x in the past 5 minutes,  I may notbe playing online after all.  *sigh*

I had a bit of a pity-party last night, but now that Aunt Flo showed up I know why, so that makes life a bit better.

And a little bit fearful as it actually means I'm probably fertile again.    Here's hoping I'm don't get prego quite yet.  But God's in control.

And I got bumped offline again.  *sigh*

Oh for something besides dial-up, but alas we've schemed and plotted and there's just nothing available.

My roses are blooming and they are gorgeous.  I even picked a perfect yellow rose bud yesterday and brought it to Rainee's 'school'.  It was fun to have something out of my garden.

Okay I'm online, gonna hit submit before I get bumped again.

Have a great day all. 

Oh pssst Rainee is sleeping from 11-5 without stirring.  And from 7-11 before that having woke up 3-5x and crying for less then 5 minutes.  For as agonizing as the decision was to teach her to sleep, it has gone really well.  God truely worked a miracle.    And I'm ever so greatful!!!!

Good evening

Well, my evening just took an unexpected turn.  And one I actually feel a bit proud about in an odd sort of way.

DH and I made the hard decision that we are teaching Rainee to sleep.  Its been a worrisome night as she keeps waking up and fussing.  But she's doing better then I expected and usually cries about 2-4 minutes and then goes back out.  (YEAH)

Anyhow I heard HD making crying sounds upstairs and was quite ticked.  I *mean* come on already isn't one crying kid enough???

I snuck out and investigated of course getting Rainee crying again for a minute or two.  *sigh* 

I had HD come downstairs and he was just sobbing.  He has had night terrors in the past, and he was acting like that.  I was thinking here we go again, and my patient mommy hat was slipping just a bit.

I said "Whats wrong?"  "I just wanted to say I'm sorry."  Was what I finally got out of him.  After about ten minutes of true hysteria and calming him down, and a couple of hairy mommy moments as I was breathing in and out trying not to do something drastic to this child who was not communicating with me. 

I worked this out of him.  He snuck downstairs while I was fussing with Rainee and took some bread.  When it got dark in his bedroom he felt bad and scared because he had stole stuff. (we've been working really, really, really hard on him not touching ANYTHING that doesn't belong to him)  I thought he was winning.  Anyhow, he was very sorry for taking the bread, and very scared/sad over it.

I of course instantly forgave him, hugged him, and we prayed.  He was hysterical and quite convinced that Jesus would NEVER forgive him, but I *think* we've worked that bug out, and he was calm and quiet and went back upstairs to sleep.

A repentant heart.  One that wasn't forced.  One that makes this mommys Christian heart just go WOW!

How can something so cute, stay up so long, and make me so tired?  Its the amazing sleepless wonder baby.  She never naps, and she only sleeps at night when she's on my boob.  (sorry, but its the truth)  And well its gotta stop soon.  And I'm thinking the only way its gonna stop is with some major trainning, and well, I guess thats my job huh?  And is she not sleeping 'cause she's hurting, or is it just cause she has a really, bad habit going.  Well I know she's hurting some of the time.  *sigh*  And its 4:30 in the morning, and I've been up all night, and I'm sure none of this is logical.  She's sleeping in my arms sitting straight up.  She's DREAMING.  I'm watching smiles flicker across her face.  But the second I lay her down she wakes up screaming cold blooded murder.  I know, I've tried many, many, many times tonight. 

I really really, really don't want to do CIO.  But I'm thinking its about all thats gonna work.  But, its starting to effect our marriage, and my other kids, and this can't continue much longer if I wish to maintain even a partial bit of my sanity.

Okay on to bigger and better things.  The thing we ended up doing on Saturday?  We forgot that it was the Awana picnic, so we went there, and built a HUGE sand castle.  The top picture with Rainee is to give you a good idea as to how tall it was.  We called it Masada.  ROFL  It was a big mountain, with a little bit of buildings on top.  It was a Tim Allen kinda adventure,  DH got just a wee bit over ambitious, and our kiddos abandoned the castle after the first 10 minutes 'cause I think they thought mommy and daddy were nuts.  But hey we worked on it for almost 2 hours.  *grin* And it turned out quite impressive.

Update its 5 am.  And Rainee *gasp* is in her crib.  DH and I grabbed a couple minutes.  (use your imagination.  )  And now I'm hacking up half a lung,  I hacked up the other half about a half hour ago. 

I should go to bed, but of course I'm wide awake.  I'm so glad my sister is coming today, or I'd go nutso about 2 this afternoon.  Mind you this means I'll be sleeping while my other kids are awake, but I don't see that I have much of a choice

Its amazing, 2 years ago I blogged about being tired,  I truely had no idea what tired was back then......

We bought the newest Harry Potter book.  And it was a good thing to do while I laid sick in bed yesterday.  I skipped church 'cause of being so miserable, and slept/read all day.  It was a lazy thing to do, that I can't remember the last time I did, but oy I was so miserable.  Still am. 

And finally the last picture is uploaded.  Here is our finished castle.  And yes Kaylin was dwarfed beside it, its not an optical illusion.  The stinking moat was up to my knees,  I know 'cause I was standing in putting up finishing touches.  DH, dug down so deep to build it, that he hit the water table.  LOL

I haven't had that much just relaxed fun and craziness in a long time.  My sister showed up just as DH and I were getting tired, and had some extra "tools" and helped us do the finishing touches.  Haven't worked that hard having fun in  a long time either.  All in all Saturday was a lovely day, and boy did we wear those kiddos out!

Okay then, all my pictures are uploaded, and its time for this mommy to grab an hour or two of sleep before the kids wake up.  And this time when Rainee wakes up...she's all daddys!  I've done my share of duty for the night.  *grin*

Have a good day all.

another reason to smile 

You are like MARY! You understand that you are not
the center of the universe, and that you must
serve the greater good. Don't let anyone tell
you that being virtuous and obedient is a bad
thing!

Which woman of the Bible are you?
brought to you by Quizilla Okay, so I succombed to a test. It was a intresting result. LOL. I always thought Mary was a little bit too saintly for me. But *hey* I'll live with it.

Good morning.  I have pictures.    Well okay I do if they upload.  My poll shows me for whatever reason I'm the only one that its taking a good 5 minutes to get the wretched things to upload.  Its kinda taken the fun out of doing pictures as time is always a big issue around here.

We tried something new with Rainee's sleeping arrangements.  It didn't work.  We'll go back to the old plan.  LOL.   We put her right outside our bedroom door in an attempt to get her to sleep a bit more.  And left the alarms etc right inside our door.  So each time she woke up rather then rolling over to get her I had to climb out of bed, etc, etc.  It was a good idea, but not one we'll repeat!  LOL

We're planning on doing something "fun" today.  Its been awhile.  Last week we wanted to do something "fun" and instead we got the wretched tire fixed on our van.  This week we really, really, really want a break.  We shall see if it happens. 

Okay no patience.  I'll just upload the one, may it make you smile

Good morning

I'm back.  I survived the tests.

I got very sick.  Am still that way.  (MAJOR cold/asthma)  Hope I didn't give it to anybody over there.

Rainee survived the tests. 

We're not doing any more tests.  I can NOT go through this anymore,  I can't watch while she goes through it anymore. 

I bawled to our "real" doctor over there.  She agreed that the tests weren't showing/helping.  And she couldn't th ink of anymore tests either.

The attending doctor and the resident were bits of butt heads.  They never once actually talked/played with Rainee.   I don't like doctors who forget who the patient is.

The results of tests will be in two weeks.  Preliminary results show we *may* get to take Rainee of oxygen.  I don't think that the sleep test was a good example of how she really sleeps.  (LONG LONG LONG story)  But the pulinologist said she'd take that into account.

She also said she could cancel our July visit if that would help my sanity.  *LOL*  I don't have any of that left.

The camels back finally broke yesterday.

I have a happy lovely baby who has to be rescued breathing twice a day, can't walk yet, and doesn't sleep.  The happy part is a good thing,  I'll focus on that, and the rest I"M DONE TORTURING HER!

Of course I say this in exhaustion.  If they were to come up with a very plausible logical reason for another test I probably would succomb.  But om am I DONE at the moment.

The paperwork routine at the hospital was ridiculous.  They took 2.5 hours to find Rainee's.  While I entertained a unable to eat baby in a waiting room.  And then they apologized in this way.  Admitting; "I'm sorry, so sorry you had to wait, but it wasn't our fault it was 'x's fault."  (uh hunh ok)   Chest Clinic; "I'm sorry, so sorry you had to wait, but it wasn't our fault it was Admittings fault, we did everything right."  (uh hunh ok)   GI lab.  "I'm sorry you had to wait, but it was so&so's fault."  I don't give a rip-roaring snit whose fault it was, and when you blame somebody for a mistake the apology remains UNEFFECTIVE>  A true apology is one where you take the responsibility.  Okay got that out of my system.  ROFL

So getting out of the hospital was another game.  The attending told the resident to sign my release papers so we could leave as soon as the probe was taken out of RAinee.   The attending was told this 20 minutes before said probe was removed.  20 minutes after said probe was removed he showed up to do said paperwork.  I waited 15 more and was just getting ready to leave without discharge.  AND in he walks.  He gives his la-de-da speech about taking care of RAinee proving in at least 3 different ways he hadn't read her chart and didn't know me.  I had laringitis, which made arguing with him a lovely chore.  And *sigh* he didn't listen much anyhow.  He suggested I *teach* Rainee how to sleep.  And that the rest was a figmit of my imagination.  I told him I'm NOT a new mom, I know how to get babies to sleep, bla-bla-bla.  He didn't listen.  I said. "Can I go now?" 

He said oh no, the nurse now has to do her release paperwork.

I went and talked to the nurse, she said "You know everything there is to know in this paperwork, I would like you to stay and sign, but you can leave if you want."

I left.

And if there'd been a door to slam I would have.

*note to self* Never go to a hospital when your gonna get sick and your NOT the patient.  (Like I chose to get sick.

And many other idiotic things happened, but you don't need to hear them. 

It was a sucky two days, and life moves on.

More postive blog to come at some point.!@

This is a poll how long does it take you to upload a picture at xanga these days???

And here we have kissing cousins.  Okay, umm smiling cousins.  Nope.  Okay here we have cousins.  ROFL  They didn't think that mommy and auntie should take pictures of them on Fathers Day.  But their just so cute. 

And here's my niece.  Isn't she cute.  She's almost 2 months older then Rainee.  Red hair and freckles.    I did this picture for my sister.  I think it turned out quite well. 

Good morning

And I'm a nervous wreck in regards to Rainee's tests tomorrow.

I'm not sure why its bothering me so much I guess its dealing with a little girl with a thing up her nose for 24 hours.  Its gonna be so much fun.  (NOT!)

That and the worry about my poor kiddos who are gonna be left at home without me once again.

My DH will take lovely care of them, I know that, but I'm their mom, and they've just been left way too much. 

I have the details of packing for said visit today, which of course always get intresting, as no matter what you pack for a hospital stay you never have the right things.  Babies like to puke on you in the hospital, or blow out their diapers.  Or slime you with their food.  I ran out of pants the first day last time.  LOL

Sooooooo  gonna do that, and then gonna try to pretend I'm not freaking about this day.

Oh yes and about the fact that we currently have no water.  Our pump/well or something isn't working again.  Its a GREAT life.  bwahahahahaha