It's Official...

I am sick. I have been fighting a fever now for 4 days. I feel like an elephant is sitting on my chest and it hurts to breathe. I have bronchitus. Yup, lucky me. Am I shocked? Not in the least. We have spent so much time and money at the dr in the last 2 weeks that I am sure I have paid my
dr's mortgage for the month. No kidding. Remember, I have 5 kids. All but 1, yes you heard me, 1, have been in and out of the dr. Now I had to go.

You would think that my MIL who SAYS she wants to help out would take pity on me and keep my kids for me tonight. She saw me today. She saw that I look like death warmed over and she heard my non existant voice. She also talked to my husband who told her I was sick. Do you think she could get a hint and OFFER to keep the kids tonight? Nope. Not her. 2 of them did opt to stay with her becuase they harrassed her, but the other are home with me. My oldest asked her if he could stay too, and get this, she said NO. She had "too much to do" to worry with the oldest around. Uh, huh. Thanks, I appreciate it.

I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but damn, she goes on and on about how she wants to "help" while she is down here and she gets the opportunities and she shits all over them!!! It is almost like she does this on purpose. For instance, 2 years ago during Christmas I had pnemonia. Did she help then? HELL NO, infact she went a step further and had her husbands son and his family down and made ME, yes you heard me again ME, entertain them.

I don't know, maybe I am just whining because I haven't had any sleep in 5 days and I feel like death.

We aren't doing much for Thanksgiving. Honostly, I am not feeling up to doing much about it right now anyway. Maybe I could just sleep this week away and wake up next week healthy!

Are you serious!?!

Ok, I will first disclaim that I am NOT an OJ fan. I remember the day when his trial was over for the murders. I was in shock!! I do believe he did it... there I said it. But, I wasn't on the jury, so my opinion didn't really matter and I went on with my life.

Now he goes and writes a book! Not just any book, no. It had to be "If I did it, here's how it happened". Are you frigging kidding me????? He proclaims his innocence, raises his
and Nicole's children and then writes a book on how "If" he killed their mother, this is
how it would have happened!!!! NOW, I am in shock. How on earth did this man think this book was a good idea? Not only does it show him to be profoundly stupid, but how uncaring about his
children! How obscene that the victims families could be put thru this.

This is one book that I will surely NEVER buy. There is now way I would put more money into the pocket of a crude idiot like this. I think I will find out if there are still funds available to the victims families and see about making a donation there.

Congratulation's Mr. Simpson, you are officially the dumbest man in the world!

Encore.......Please?

I never said I wanted an encore. Our family would have been just FINE without a repeat performance of....... STREP. Yes, it is here again, and apparently not wanting to leave. My poor Kaity has been struck again (within a month) and this time she has had a fever for over a week. The dr has changed her antibiotic and if she still has a fever tomorrow it is back to the dr we go! UGH. Not only do we have Strep in the house, but we have her sister Bronchitus (two younger boys have this one) and her cousin the Rotovirus(hubby, me and Becca). The only member of my household that has been saved from an epidemic is Logan. How he escaped? I am not sure, he has been delving into magic tricks lately, so maybe he pulled a Houdini on it? I think he needs to teach the rest of us his tricks because in the last week alone I have been to the dr's office 3 times (which is 1 hour away from my house) and I have been to the pharmacy 5 times (they conveniently could not get my rx's filled all at once) and I am exhausted from the poor things that are up all night sick.

On a positive note, my oldest got his glasses this week too. Doesn't he look handsome???

Hmmmm

Do they look scary or what?? LOL 2 vampires, a witch (she refused to wear the hat), a ballerina fairy and a baseball player.

Thank you to those that calmed my fears on Becca's lack of speech. I think I am a little paranoid since it turned out Kaleb has some developmental delays after I was insistant for the first 3 1/2 years that he was fine.

I have been racking my brain trying to come up with something funny or
upbeat to talk about. I can't seem to do it. I don't feel like I am depressed, but
nothing right now seems funny for upbeat. The days just seem to plow along nothing spectacular is happening.

The only other thing I can possibly try to talk about is that my mother in law is in town for a month. Yes, you heard me, I said a month. She lives next door and commutes from Michigan every other month. We don't have the best of relationships. At one point, she threatened to kill me. I tend to refelct on that when I see her. Call me crazy, but I didn't take that as an idle threat. We are pleasant enough right now. I try to avoid her at all costs. She actually offered to cook Thanksgiving this year. I was floored. I always cook it. Now she is hinting at Ray that if I really wanted to cook it, I could. AKA she really doesn't want to do it. LOL Why did she offer then?? I took her up on it and you know what, I think I will continue to let her cook it. I will cook Christmas dinner, that is only fair right? Well, I think it is anyway. LOL

So, as you can see my life is a tad boring right now.