To Decorate Or Not To Decorate????

Decorating it used to be so fun. Jason and I used to decorate for christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving. We would get the tree done on a Sunday afternoon. This year we decided to do it a little sooner since Thanksgiving is later. Well good thing we did. The story begings by getting the tree upstairs. Our box had gotton wet when this summer we had a lot of rain and the basement leaked. The box was in an area that got wet. So Jason had to bring the tree up tote by tote and dropped the pieces on the living room floor. After that set back we got started only to find out the color coding directions were missing. We had to guess how the tree went together. That optical was completed tree looks good. Next is the lights. I can not tell you how much I dislike lights. We untangle, test and throw away half the lights that were working last year but stopped in the box over the course of the year. Days pass and the bare tree stood. I went out a few days later and bought new lights. We were busy the next evening and so Jason and I have now late at night got a few sets of lights on the tree. A few more days pass and Jason decides tonight to do the outside lights. He gets the hedge lights up and next is the house lights. Most of those lights do not work. So now we need to purchase new outside lights. We load up the kids and off to Big Lots to get a few more boxes. A side note we bought a few boxes at the end of the year last year and the boxes were 6.00 this year the same boxes were 6.50. So we get home and the lady at the store forgets to give us our box of lights. Jason goes back out to pick those lights up and comes home to finish. Now he needs more hooks to hang the lights since at Halloween he threw most of them off the roof when he continued to break them. Along with that the silhouettes two of the five work and most places do not sell them anymore. Jason is so disappointed. Well the Christmas tree has yet to see the rest of the lights or ornaments and the other decorations are still packed away. I am not sure if we will get finished by Chritmas. Is all this worth it??? I hope the kids enjoy the finished product.

Why????

Blake is always wanting to learn things. His new phase is Why?? Daddy what you doin? Why?

Jason and I were driving with the kids home from the store and Blake was trying to get Jason's attention when Jason finally answered and said What Blake? Blake responded by saying What are you doin and Why? Jason said to me. I knew he was going to say that. He is very predictable because every other word out of his mouth is Why.

Morgan has been singing songs to him as well lately. It goes a little something like "Pant's on Fire" I see your underpants. Now Blake say's I see your underpants to me along with at bath time saying I get my underpants. Maybe he will want a real pair instead of his diaper. I can only hope that this teaching that Morgan is providing will turn into something positive.

Morgan's Busy Weekend

I got thru the weekend with Morgan's Parties. We had a house full on Friday Night with Family. Morgan was excited to finally get to open gifts. Thanks to all those who came and made her day special. Along with her party came a few other memories for the day. Morgan fell at school on

Friday at recess. I again got a call from the school nurse. I think this makes around four times for the year already. I figured I would be getting calls from the principal but I guess she decided to behave and have injury's instead. She scraped her nose and lip and had some blood at school. I think an icepack was all that was needed. But the fun did not stop there.

Oh after the party on Friday, Morgan had started to have some cold systems like the rest of us. Now with this child we do not get just a cold. The asthma started in. From 8-11 at night she coughed and threw up. It was non stop. I called the on call doctor and he was very nice. I have been down this road a million times before but I could not get the coughing to stop with the inhaler. I need the machine again but I had no meds. Morgan finally fell asleep and started in again at around 1 in the morning. It was a long night and on top of it all Blake woke up crying.

On Sat I got meds from the doctor on Call which was our doctor. The usual is what the told me I needed to do and watch her. On Sat night another attack come on and we started all over again. I had Hy-vee bring the meds to me and worked thru it with a treatment every hour on the hour to get it under control. I was worried about another bad night so we talked to the doctor again to get the steroid in case we needed it. It is a last resort but at that point I needed an outlet. She did sleep thru the night.

On Sunday we had her friend party at Happy Joes. She had a lot of fun and it made cleanup easy. Blake stayed with his grandma and grandpa so I only had to focus on her. I have some pics to view of the parties. Well between the parties and the asthma I think little Morgan had her fill. I am still working on the asthma as we speak. I had her to bed and she began a spell again. She is on the machine and well we will see how it goes.

BIRTHDAY GIRL

Today is Morgan's B-day. I surprised her by taking her lunch to school from subway and a card and Balloon. She was standing in line to walk to the lunch room and I walked towards her she said Mommy. I asked her if she was surprised and she said yes. I took her card and Balloon to her room for her and then picked her up and hour later. It was an early out day.

Then when Morgan got home I showed her bedroom to her. I organized and moved furniture around to give it a new look. She was excited. Tonight she gets to go to church group and they will sing happy birthday to her. So even without her party today I think she felt like it was her birthday. We will celebrate Friday with Family and Sunday with Friends. Let the Parties Begin. I can not believe my little girl is six. Happy Birthday Morgan.

FALL FUN

We had fun taking the kids around my parents house for trick or treat. It was nice that it was light out for awhile. Morgan was a trooper, Blake was tired and did not want to walk except to the door to get his candy. This year was fun since Blake did have an idea of what to do. He said thank you a lot to make his mommy proud. Morgan did not have time to wait around on her brother. My little frog and my little cheerleader looked cute and enjoyed the evening. We seen lots of families we knew and enjoyed taking a walk around the neighborhood.

I also have a few photos from the day the kids and I raked some leaves and jumped around in them. They had fun with it for a while while I did accomplish getting a few leaves raked up. The weather has been great to have gotten to do a few more outdoor activities with them. I know it is short lived so we tried to enjoy it the best we could.

SICK BABY GIRL

I got a call from the school nurse today. My little girl was in the nurse station sick. She had gotten sick during music class and a few other times on her way to the nurse. While running around a 103-104 temp Morgan sat and waited for me to arrive. I went in to get her and she looked nervous. I felt bad and took her home. We worked on getting her temp down but no sooner than I got meds into her and changed her she laid down and feel asleep. She was still running a fever when she went to bed tonight and had still been getting sick all evening. I will see how she feels in the morning.

Not only has Morgan been sick but, Blake and I have also had colds and a bug with us. I hope it all leaves soon so we can all be back to 100%