Mono brings out the best/worst in me......

Some Pros

• Weight loss
• reason for extra sleep
• definite decreased appetite
• it makes me remember to take my vitamins along with my regime of dayquil/benadryl/any pain killer I can get my hands on.
• Im hopefully half way done with this illness! 2ish more weeks to go and I should fell up to par!

Some Cons

• No alcohol drinking at the joint birthday party. Totally sucked except for Adam was wildly entertaining. I did end up with a half naked man poster which I love! (however I was informed that it CAN NOT hang in our bedroom. Sheesh...what a spoil sport ;) )
• Not being able to eat anything solid. I tried to have a dorito the other day and regretted that choice about 2 seconds into it.
• Having to sleep with a heating pad on your ears sucks. I wake up looking like a sweaty warthog (Swollen glands and bright red face). Not that I have ever actually seen a sweaty warthog, but that is definately what I picture it in my head to look like.....just go with it ;) .
• Its lonely when you are the only one awake at 5 am.

The many super powers of mom.....

I had some good conversation with Natalie while i was driving her to school this morning. I am apparantly "cool" when it comes to things that I can do.

1. I can make donuts. We made apple cider donuts for breakfast for the two of us. She thought that was awesome.
2. I can wake up WITHOUT an alarm clock.
3. When I eat food and spill it magically gets stuck in between my boobs. Apparantly just having boobs is cool.
4. I can do the splits (still! I know!)
5. AND I know all the words to her favorite song...."1985" Bowling for soup.

I love that kid.

I thought that we were past this!

I took Natalie to the Dr yesterday because she had complained the entire night from 11pm on the other night about her ears hurting. We get there and they cant see her ear drum at all, so as they were getting us an appt to the eye and ear clinic across the street Luke informs me that he has to poop. I ask him to wait just a minute until we can get the referral. Then I hear "Mom, I just poop in my pants". It was diarrea everywhere....down the hall of the dr office(Imagine little poopy footprints) , all over his shoes, I had to throw his pants away and They gave me a diaper for him. I ended up carrying my 4 year old in a diaper to the other appt for Natalie. Im pretty sure that I looked like the biggest piece of white trash out there. Ugh, After all was said and done Natalie does have an ear infection.

Hard times for me...

My grandpa Dooley passed away last monday and I ended up going to the funeral in Arkansas. It was a beautiful service except for the part when they opened the casket. I didnt know that they were going to do that. I cant get the image of him out of my mind and I think its making me crazy. Im tired of the nightmares that come with it. I cried through the whole funeral and then some...Im still crying over a week later. How long is it normal for someone to greive? We went to the burial service too and I was NOT ready for that at all! I just want to forget that it ever happened. I think that I have serious PMS along with this ....I cried because I missed Karalee this morning(no i didnt call, I didnt want her to listen to me bawl). I missed my husband terribly and was so happy to be back home with him and my beautiful babies.
I NEVER want to travel with my parents or sister again. And I wont. I wanted to punch my sister in the face....I still want to so I am going to avoid her for awhile, A LONG while.