2010

Happy New Year!!! Where in the world did 2009 go??
As I look ahead into yet another chapter of our lives, I cannot believe at how very blessed we are. We have a great home, close to our family and most of our closest friends. We both have good jobs--and most of all--three great healthy(most of the time) kids :)
I say most of the time as the last three days have left me at home with a sick Addyson again...it's been a horrible fall/winter for her health wise: ear infections, swine flu, brochitis(on Christmas Eve), and now the good ol' seasonal flu!! This fills me with so much guilt and concern...more to come on that later ;) Anywho...so the flu came in with Addy on Tuesday(she seriously started puking in the van on our way to work/daycare...ick!) and sweetly passed it onto me Wednesday night, Josh late Wednesday night, Zach at 4:00 am, and Anna by 7:30!?! Can you say laundry!?! YUCK! But as I'm sitting here writing this tonight--I think most of us are on the mend...Addy still has some massive diareha(which means no daycare again tomorrow-sigh).
Back to my previous statement--guilt. For the first time in my life I feel torn. Now being the working outside of the home mom--it's so hard to divide work/home!! I feel just horrible leaving work--finding subs is not an easy task!! And it puts so much on my partner in crime at school--it's so hard to make that call and them know that you will be letting them down that day...this fall has just been so bad. When we all had the swine I missed 5 full days and now this week I will more then likely be out 4 of the 5. :(
But on the other hand I feel so guilty as a mom!! Did I make the right choice going back to work and putting her in daycare!? She has never been so sick--and while I trust fully that my daycare lady(who is one of the best out there ;) ) has a very clean and tidy home--there is still more exposure to her there then at home! Even just the fact that we are going in and out in this freezing weather is different then staying in where it's warm. I've also been told that your first year of teaching is the worst health wise--so who knows what I'm bringing home with me either--not to mention Zach's first year of full days....ugh! This has been on my mind a lot lately....
Wow...this is a long one!! Anywho---Josh started his masters program!!! YEAH JOSHY!!! He will go to school from 6-10pm on Thursday nights. For Christmas this year-when asked what to get our kids--no toys really popped to mind--so Anna recieved DANCE LESSONS from Just for Kix and Zach is signed up for GYMNASTICS!!! Along with that the Jeffers--and Tara ;) have started weight watchers and we plan on hitting up the YMCA at least two nights a week--it's going to get busy!!
Christmas was great by the way--we made it to Dickinson before the big snow hit! We ended up going to Rhame the weekend after New Years and had a ball!! It's so nice for the kids to have someone their age to play with down there---but seven kids under the age of 12 gets a little loud ;)
All for now---the kids are sleeping and I hope to be shortly :)