One Month in One Day....

... because that's what I feel like...

I have no excuses for myself to not have posted ANYTHING in just over a month...  We have been knee deep in life and since I am not a person who gets paid for this, I have had no good reason TO post anything either.

Thing 1's softball season is in FULL swing and we have her coach from her first season back which is good.  The whole family is on board with her coaches which makes it easier to sit there and watch Thing 1...and the REST of the team because there are no favorites... getting talked at and talked to and told to run laps, to the fence and back, do calisthenics and what have you and do this extra because you messed up and blahblahblahblah... 

Thing 2...TEETH... oy-to-the-vay...  The first set of molars all came in at ONCE... now it's EYE TEETH!!  One at a time, and they're killing us ALL...  a week on and a week off and now 3 days on, 4 days off, 7 days on and vacation...  that's daddy's schedule... that's awesome....  the team had a winning streak on the road and it made it such a great vibe when he went back to work last night...  Practice runs LATE, games run LATE... it's ALL LATE... fine.. we signed up for it and it doesn't even last that long... one more month and that's it...that's IT!!  Amazing... I just got the softball team picture... Harley said she thinks her picture gets better and better every year...

Well who am I to argue??  Of course she's right...cause she's the most beautifullest thing in the world :) 

Work has kept me running ragged, on my toes and constant state of OHMYGODOHMYGOD!!  Another reason for the silence... of course it always seems that when I found a moment to myself to jot anything down, I got sidetracked... such is life.

C'est la vie...

Fine fine fine...  Things are good though... pretty darn sweet if you ask me. 

Choni has a possible partner in crime to work with on possible short film projects which is fantastic for him.  Might even get into his videography business...  still waiting and seeing on that.  Fine fine fine. 

We had a super busy fun family filled weekend that I can't believe just happened...  I'm tired from it...really...but it was super awesome :)    I used a gift card from Christmas which is always a great accomplishment..  I got home from work one day last week and Choni had the whole garage cleaned out...  and now everything minus the yuck is back in it and it's so clean you can walk around in there now!

I almost got internet at home, but Verizon kept that from happening.. bastards...

Probably a good thing because it's the one thing keeping me as the only person I know without a tablet.  Oddly enough something my almost-8-year-old likes to point out on an almost daily basis... Hard to raise children in this technobabble world...
Really...

So many things coming up and happening I can't wait.  CAN'T.WAIT!

My bestie, her woman, and my merry band of miscreants are planning an amazing trip to NY..  No city for us, I have gone enough for two lifetimes and my honey has seen and edited enough footage to last him... so we're good on that...  I want to lounge on Lake George...  if I can do that holding my main squeeze's hand with my kids splashing in crisp clean lake water... I'll be a happy camper!!

I have been forced to abandon the Nail Polish challenge for a short period of time.  As a result of my stressball-loseriness, I have chewed my nails to nubs and am in the process of de-uglifying them.  Until that has passed, no news on that front. 

There is a two day trek to the Emerald City on which we stop halfway and see some kin folk, a possible stay from Kid Sister, a possible stay from my niece...  but we'll see... still ALOT of summer to go.  Thing 1 just got out of school and she is already ready to go back...

And since our dog was put down, she has been asking for a low maintenance pet of somekind...so there is THAT to look forward to.  I am a little curious myself to see how that will play out...

Our little one has proven to be such an amazing addition to our family, she makes us laugh and smile everyday..sometimes, just sometimes, we want to pull our hair out. But that's MOSTLY to do with the damned teeth...DAMMIT!! 

Not a day, NOT ONE DAY, goes by where, if we are in public, someone comments on the cuteness of the wee one...and then immediately on the big sister... 

I got some answers on my foot pain and now that I know what it is and it has a name, the healing can begin... any time now... ANY TIME...  It's not going to fix itself over night, there are things I need to do to ease the pain and help correct it, but I have had more good days than bad days in three months, so I can't really complain...

I need to take Thing 1 to do the dentist this summer, and after I have been there and dropped way too much money on MY mouth, I am totally not going to forget to do that with her!!  damn teeth....

Allergies are rampant this year already... no sooner I read an article about how bad it's going to be I start to feel the beginnings of discomfort...I have already bought a new fresh bottle of Benadryl for Thing 1 and I to share. 

I am getting a cut AND a color before I got on vacation which I couldn't be MORE excited about if I tried because I never get to do both at once between MY schedule and the hair chicks' schedule... My new rule of thumb, if I can put my hair in a rubberband, it's too long!

The way things have gone lately, I'm just glad we have cars that run and a house... and food.  food is always good.  unless it's tofu... I fucking hate tofu...

This Time Last Year...

Wow, you know what? I really should start a series called ,"This Time Last Year..."  I did the birthday story for Marysu...and now I get to do the pneumonia story with HarleyQ...

More like March 5th of last year, but still...This time last year HQ was recovering from a nasty bout of bronchitis.  I can't believe she got it.  It was just a little cough...cough syrup wasn't helping and my home remedies were getting kicked in the ass so to the dr. she went and she had bronchitis.  Antibiotics and a plastic bubble later, she slowly recovered.  Always having this phantom cough and sniffling ALL the time.  If you don't like nails on a chalk board then I don't recommend listening to a 6 and a half year old sniffle for months...  makes me shudder...truly.

Then there was the maternity leave which was awesome family time at it's greatest.  Went by like a flash.  On the EVE of my returning to work HQ's cough was coupling a fever that had gone on for 48 hours and was getting higher and less compromising by the hour...at 5:30pm I decided to take action and to the ER we go where we find out after 6 hours that it was walking pneumonia.  Shots and antibiotics later she was a new HQ after 24 hours.  She had weezing in her chest and I couldn't handle listening to that I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.  My poor Harleymunser was so sick...  We took her to the dr for a follow up.  I am not a fan of that dr.s office.  And we don't go there anymore and we have been happy since we changed back to her old dr.  Insurance.  Sucks.  Anyway, I started to feel a sinus infection coming on and I told MY dr. about her being sick so much and I couldn't stand the thought that she could be asthmatic like I was and my husband REALLY was...  But he said it didn't sound like that to HIM...so GUESS what he said? 

Just GUESS???

After all the problem and the sick and the holy shit...  He told me to give her Benadryl... Just one dose of old school Benadryl, even generic CVS, Equate, UP and UP, whatever is fine... Just one dose before bed... see what happens...

AND DON'T THAT BEAT ALL?!?!  IT FUCKIN WORKED!!!

Yep, it was THAT exciting.  After one week, her cough was gone...

And, not to forget to mention.  He was telling me that I should be doing the same thing!?!?! 

Love. My. PA.

Not even a Dr.  A PA...  Love him...  I tried it on my and I will tell you what... I have taken them ALL!  Everything that ends in D... all of it.  I have taken shit I can't even PRONOUNCE!  I can feel the sinus infections come on and they come on like a bastard.  The only time I haven't had any sinus flux is when I'm pregnant (so not a reason to do it again on purpose and not possible anymore anyways hehehe).

Harley was doing SO well in fact that I was down to honing in on the symptoms so early I would give her a Benadryl the night I would notice SOMETHING and then POW!!!  Muhfucker's HISTORY!! 

It's horrible when something is so simple and so wrong with your kids and when someone gives you a simple answer for what you feel is a simple question it's exciting!  Especially when I used the same advice for me and I am able to knock out my symptoms now with a simple pink and white pill that I can get OTC for 4.99 a bottle for the generic shit,...  Harley started to get a cough and I thought "Oh, that doens't sound allergy related"... silly me.  Cough syrup didn't work for shit and when I gave her the Benadryl what the hell do you think happened?  I got so used to her being ok over the past few months.. MONTHS!! that I forgot about the Benadryl... 

Lesson learned:  This Time Last Year I was learning how awesome old school Benadryl can really be !!!

Harley has surely escaped more horribly sicknesses due to her allergies NOT getting out of hand and I am so loving my Dr for it!!!

Which reminds me, I need to add Benadryl to my shopping list!