Perfect Timing

My goodness, this has been a long week here.  The summer weather has finally decided to come which is good, but I’ve been sick all week, which is bad.  I woke up Monday morning with a fever and sore throat.  This is very unusual for me, since I never get fevers.  Wally was starting to think there was something wrong with me since I was sick all winter and not once had a fever.  Since I was feeling pretty bad, and had a fever to prove it, I stayed in bed all day while my three kiddos ran around the house, watched TV, played computer games, and pretty much did whatever they wanted to.  And I didn’t care. 

By Wednesday, I was feeling so yucky that I went to the doctor, another big deal for me if you know me.  I was convinced that I had the flu or something worse and came out with “it’s just a really bad cold”.  The remedy?  Take a couple of advil for the discomfort and mucinex to clear it all out.  Great.  Except that mucinex doesn’t work for me.  Or Wally.  But I tried it anyway and it still didn’t work.

It’s Saturday night, and although I’m feeling a little better, I’m still going through 3 boxes of kleenex a day with no end in sight.  And speaking of sight, now I have some form of pink eye.  I’ve been putting the drops in my eye all day and looking up home remedies online (if you know any, send them my way).  Hopefully I’ll wake up tomorrow and this will all be in the past.  Except that probably isn’t going to happen.  Sigh.

To add to all my drama, Wally left yesterday afternoon for a work conference in the Netherlands and will be gone all week.  Great timing, huh?

I bet those bacteria bugs are laughing their little heads off right now. 

Easter

Our Easter weekend was great! On Saturday, we went to our church for the nursery egg hunt. It was so much fun! They had all the little kids (3 and under) look for eggs outside on the lawn, while the older kids each had a bag of goodies with their name on it. Caleb loved looking for the eggs, but wasn't as fast as some of the older kids. He was happy with what he got and finally decided that it was more fun to open and eat the candy than find more eggs. Kelsie and Brandon had fun searching for their bags and couldn't wait to break into them and see what surprises they got. It really was so much fun! Later that night, we dyed our eggs for the Easter Bunny and then sent the kiddos to bed.

Brandon couldn't wait for Easter and all that candy. He woke up really really early. He found his basket, ate some candy, looked for his eggs, then came in and woke me up. When I realized what time it was, I told him to go watch Veggie Tales until 7:00. He came in a couple more times before 7 and even woke up Caleb and brought him into me. Caleb, as it turned out, had a fever and wasn't feeling very good, so he got in bed with me and went back to sleep. By the time Kelsie woke up and Brandon came in to wake us up 3 more times, we were up. Kelsie and Brandon were more than excited to find their eggs and eat their candy. Caleb didn't want anything to do with finding his eggs or his candy. He just wanted to be held and would drift off to sleep until something woke him up again. Poor little guy.

After a quick breakfast and showers, we headed off to Stake Conference where we were able to hear from President Monson and Elder Oaks during a regional broadcast. It really was nice to hear from them on Easter. We then came home, took some naps, watched Finding Faith in Christ, roasted a chicken for dinner and called it a night. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get those pictures of the kids I wanted in their nice new clothes since Caleb wasn't feeling well and Brandon was bouncing off the walls from the sugar rush he had from eating candy all day (and I made them take off their clothes to keep them from getting stained with chocolate). I'll try to get those pictures taken soon though!

Kelsie helping Caleb check out his candy!

So proud of his goody-bag!

Caleb just wanting to be held instead of searching for eggs.

Those eggs have to be around here somewhere!

What a goofy kid!

This is how Caleb spent most of the day.

These are the pillows I made for Easter. They were a big hit!

I also wanted to add that Easter, for us, is so much more than candy and plastic eggs. We are grateful for the atoning sacrifice that was made by our Savior, Jesus Christ. It is through him and his resurrection that we are able to be together forever. This is the real reason why we celebrate Easter. I loved Elder Holland's talk from General Conference about the Savior. If you didn't get a chance to hear it, or don't know what I'm talking about, click here.

Asthma?

Last week Brandon and I got sick with a pretty bad cold. It was one of those chest colds that ended up with lots of coughing and runny noses (we went through a few boxes of kleenex between the two of us). Brandon got it pretty bad in his chest and was having a hard time breathing. Thursday night he was up three different times throughout the night, which for Brandon is NOT normal at all (unless it's to sneak some video game time). I was starting to think that I probably needed to take him into the doctor the next morning when he was laying in bed with us, wheezing and coughing.

I finally decided to take him in Friday morning and when the doctor listened to his chest, he almost immediately called him an asthmatic. They gave him a breathing treatment in the office and he sounded a lot better and so they sent me home with our own nebulizer and prescriptions for all the medicine he would need. It was a very interesting appointment, and by the time I got home I just wasn't sure about how I felt about the whole asthma thing. It doesn't surprise me that he could have asthma (it runs in both of our families) and really if that's what it is, that's fine. I think what surprised me was that it was like all of the sudden Brandon has asthma. We've never had problems in the past with him and he gets one bad cold here and now he's an asthmatic. And, if you know Brandon, he's one big ball of energy that just goes and goes and goes from the time he wakes up in the morning until he falls asleep at night. I guess we would have noticed something in his behavior if he was having a consistent problem with breathing before now.

I was ready to take the machine back to the office and just let his body deal with being sick, but then after I realized that his breathing had gotten a lot worse from the time he had his treatment in the office and when I picked up his medicine we were probably doing the right thing. So, this weekend, Brandon has been doing breathing treatments 3 times a day and is on a steroid, predisone, to help reduce the inflammation in his lungs. He's doing better breathing-wise, but I am still trying to decide if this is really asthma or just a really bad cold.

I guess it's better safe than sorry, right?