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Im Home Today
Thu Jan 17 2002

Morning Diary,


Well had to take the day off. My oldest is now sick. Younger one had this last week. But my oldest seems to get this Croup cough at night. It was really bad the other night I almost thought I was gonna have to go to the hospital. I went and read some websites on what to do, and took all the steps, he was soon calmed down and back to sleep. But for a bit there he was having a hard time breathing.


Last night he came down with a fever. Which is pretty much what the younger one had.


Its hard watching your kids be all sick. He kept waking up crying, not sure if he was achy or what, but I got in bed with him and just had him lay on me and rub his forehead. Then he was all fine and slept well. I had called H, he wanted to talk to him, I asked him not to have him talk back cause when he would talk the coughing would start. So Daddy told him he loved him and prayed with him over the telephone. :)


I was sitting there in bed with him and started to fall asleep. OOPS. Had to get up and get things turned off, put away, truck locked outside.


I crawled in bed and for once went to bed before midnight!


I have had a hard time sleeping lately, well getting to bed early that is. I was in the gym for about an hour yesterday, the came home and did a 30 min upper body workout, so that probably helped.


One day I would like to have my own lil gym room at home. With some basic equipment. I do like going to the gym, but there just some times when you have so much going on, plus having kids, it makes it hard to always get away.


Can you believe my tree is still in my house! My Christmas tree! I have been so busy, I get home each day after dark and am just too tired between dinner, kids homework, and just winding down, plus its dark out. I did finally get all the decorations boxed up and a lot of my christmas decor is in a pile. I just gotta drag the tree out today, trash day is tommorow.


Gonna go for now,

4 Comments
  • From:
    Salamander (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jan 17 2002
    Well, if I *had* a tree (which I don't) it would still be up too. As it is, I haven't taken the lights down off my balcony yet. Or the lights off of the outside of my office at work.

    Maybe I'll just leave everything up. I can save major time decorating for Christmas next year that way.
  • From:
    Salamander (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jan 17 2002
    Hey, I'm with you. Call me old fashioned, but if it isn't white or natural (stone, brick, redwood paneling, whatever) it doesn't belong on the outside of a house. OK, I'll bend a little. Off while can work. In special situations, so can browns, tans and even greens. (I once saw a house painted forest green in the middle of a pine forest. It blended right in, and was beautiful.)

    Pink? Aqua? And you, Mr. Orange - yah, you, the guy who lives two and a half blocks away from me. What in the world were you THINKING?
  • From:
    Salamander (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jan 17 2002
    If you are going to start posting ugly house pictures in your diary, I'll help supplement your collection. There are several I'm familiar with that deserve to go into your "Hall of Shame".
  • From:
    LisaMarie (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jan 17 2002
    Personally I think you are doing the right thing by not uprooting your children at this point. They have had enough to handle.

    When I was first seperated, I had offers for employment out of the area and they were very good offers. I could have supported my children financially without any help from the father. However, emotionally I decided it was best for my children to be around their families.

    If you uproot your children, yes, they would be with their father. But they would be with parents who would have a lot of conflicts going on between them. That's not a comfortable environment for young children. They would not have their grandparents or other close friends and relatives that they have now would they?

    As for a church, God goes with you everywhere you go. You have him in his heart and that my dear is most important. I am not a bible expert, but somewhere I read or heard that in some churches they are very upset because the bible speaks of the fact that God does not need you to belong to a church. See...in some churches they see that as a way for them not to get additional funding. They want the people to come to their church each week and donate. The more involved a person is with the church, typically the more $$ they give. God speaks in the bible that the church is not what its all about. Its about believing.

    If anyone finds that part of the bible I'm refering to, let me know. I wish I could remember where I heard it.