November
2006
A Month NOT to Remember…
Okay there were some good things in there, but all in all October was the worst month ever! (Okay that could be a slight exaggeration, but not by much.) The month started with Drew getting a virus, then passing it on to Bran. Then happily Mike’s parents came for a visit. Yay! While they were here, B decided to spike a fever of 104 and vomit. So we got to visit the ER. Five hours and a chest x-ray later B was diagnosed with pneumonia and we got home at 4am. Within days of B being off the antibiotic, he and Drew both came down with the flu and gave it to us. Yay! (read this one with sarcasm) The day after I stopped being naseaus I threw out my back changing a diaper. It took me 1 hour to get high enough off the floor to reach the phone to call Mike. I knew adrenaline would kick in if the boys were in trouble, but I still kept praying that they wouldn’t do anything to hurt themselves while I was trying to get up. Instead Drew used me as a jungle gym to get onto the chair. (I had flashbacks of laughing as my dad lay in the wet grass with a torn knee, I didn’t know he had torn his knee. Drew didn’t know why his mamma was screaming at him either.) The boys also took this opportunity to figure out how to get the lids off of their sippy cups. They dumped juice all over the kitchen floor, sat in it, and walked through it…They thought it was the greatest thing and all their mamma did was watch helplessly trying to decide whether to laugh or cry. Two days later we got on a plane for California. Yay for visiting relatives! Boo for flying with a bad back. While there, Jeffery and Holly got food poisoning and Jeffery couldn’t go to the Steelers/Oakland game with us. Oh and B woke up at 5am every morning screaming. Oh…Oh…wait…We arrived back in Edmonton to -17C and 6 inches of snow. Unfortunately that was November, so now I don’t know what to say. Maybe mid-November will be better?
