The Iron Exploded, and other musings...

We survived the first wave of the plague, now it looks like we will be hit again. It is starting with a bad cough - hoping to get it contained on Monday at the doctors for the twins. They are very sickly, especially this time of the year.

Tonight I was ironing clothes (a very rare occurrence at our house) and just as I finished, sparks came out of the iron cord. YIKES! I screamed and Clay came running. We determined that Mr. Miagi (aka Stupid dog) chewed on the cord and it is now a distant memory! Oh well, I want a better iron anyway, even if we don't use it that much.

Christmas is almost here - it has come very quickly this year. I haven't wrapped a single present (besides the teacher gifts). I really need to get up and do this tonight. I hate wrapping a pile of presents, even though we scaled back this year, 4 kids times 4 gifts is 16. Then, add in spoiled Clay's presents and I have a lot! Don't want to do it, but I must...can't give them the gifts in grocery sacks, just not as magical!

I did finish the baking and gave plates to the neighbors for goodwill and Clay's home teaching families. We hardly ate any of them! This is a good thing...don't need the calories of fudge, gingerbread guys, choc chip cookies, candy cane cookies, peanut butter blossoms, etc. laying around for our consumption!

I still have to get stocking stuffers, which I am totally dreading because it is crazy shopping now. All the last minute shoppers are driving like maniacs to get good parking spots. Add in the rainy weather that we have been experiencing lately, and you have a lethal combination. At least I am done with the main shopping. Oh, note to self: Don't forget to buy a bone and a toy for the darn dog and cat, so they don't look jealous on Christmas. Does anyone else have animals that think they are people?

Hmmm....I am rambling now, probably so I don't have to go wrap the presents, huh? Clay is up - maybe I can intrude upon his generous soul (watching the BYU bowl game right now, so ha ha on that) and use his very limited wrapping skills to my benefit. He can wrap Alyssa's - she doesn't care what they look like anyway- :)

Signing off now...hopefully to go and do what I should have done weeks ago!

Another one bites the dust...

So, I took Zach to the doctor this afternoon...even though he really doesn't seem sick...

You guessed it! The boy has strep. We are at 100% now! I am glad that we got him on antibiotics before everyone else was done, he could have re-infected the entire family...

This too shall pass...

Strep, Bronchitis, and knocked out teeth...

It's been a rough week again medically for the Turner clan...Alyssa started out the week with a mouth injury and an earache. We took her to the doctor and she also had a nice case of strep throat...On the way to the doctor, I noticed Reagan had a funky rash all over his face, so I begged another appointment and sure enough, he has strep too.

The same day, both Clay and I were prescribed z-pacs for nasty coughs and sore throats - poor Clay has a bad case of bronchitis, I was heading that way.

On Thursday night, Alyssa re-bumped her little mouth and broke one of her front teeth off :(
That one about broke my heart...poor little thing won't have another one grow in until she is at least 5 or 6.

So, today Clay took Emma to the pediatrician because she has a barking cough, and I went the other way the ER with Alyssa to check out her teeth (on the advice of the peds office). Turns out that Emma ALSO has strep throat. I GIVE UP! The co-pays we've paid this month for medical totally goes over the budget that we had for Christmas. Talk about depressing...

Now, we have to take Zach back to the doctor on Monday to see if HE has strep...then we will be a whole happy family on antibiotics. Isn't this time of year a blast?