The Flu, Surgery and a New Day!

It’s the start of a new week, thank you God for new beginnings! All three of my school aged children went to school today, how nice!

Well as I told you last week (or was it the week before now) PJ got the Flu, presumably the H1N1 virus (they tested him for Influenza A which H1N1 is a strain of).  So he was starting to get better and then he seemed a bit worse last Tuesday. He had started throwing up, but then had stopped and was just sleeping all day and saying his side hurt. Well I thought his side hurt from laying on it (brilliant mom that I am) and thought he needed to move around. But luckily my husband was home and noticed that he was saying it hurt where his appendix was. So I took him first to the doc, who thought it needed  further investigating, so next to the ER!  So my sweet mom met me at the ER for a long night ahead. PJ is my super picky child, so it is no wonder he wouldn’t drink the contrast he needed for the CT, they ended up having to put a tube up his nose and into his belly, fun, I felt so bad for him. And then several hours later (maybe at 2 am) we were told he would need surgery, that he did indeed have appendicitis and the answer was to remove the appendix. So my  Mom went to try and get my other kids back to sleep at my house, while my hubby came to try and sleep at the hospital with PJ and I.  PJ had surgery Wednesday morning laprascopically and did great!

This picture is Thursday he was playing bingo via TV because he was one of those special precaution kids thanks to the flu!

They brought around toys for prizes, he sure went home with a lot of goodies!

And here is the view out of his 8th story room……

  He was able to go home Thursday afternoon and  is back at school today. My other kids all missed some school last week for being sick and the surgery, but nobody was as sick as PJ.  My sweet Dad came and stayed with PJ  Wednesday night so I could get a bit of sleep, after taking care of my other kids at my house during the day. Unfortunately both my parents now have the flu, so say a prayer that they are better quickly, I am really thankful for their help and  am praying they are back to normal real soon!

In our house, everyone is pretty healthy now! PJ can’t do strenuous activity until after he sees the doc on Thursday and he has a bit of cough as does Madeline, but thankfully everyone was back at school today and doing relatively well! PJ just has a ton of makeup work, otherwise I think it’s going to be a good week!

stopping by

Just stopping by to say ‘Hi’, I’ve not been in Bloggy World much lately as life seems to be a whirlwind of activity and then I crash each night! I used to be able to stay up late and wake up early, evidently I’m getting old!

PJ has the flu, but is doing fine, really I think he’s getting better as he’s been sick since Friday and I’m hoping he can go back to school Wednesday. I’m also praying nobody else gets it! It seemed Sissy felt a touch warm tonight, so we’ll see how she is in the morning.  And Curly stayed home from school this morning with a slight fever, but no other symptoms. Really if it wasn’t for all the hype, I’m sure I’d have sent him, of course when your 4 it’s no big deal to miss school! PJ on the other hand got some work sent home that I’ll have fun making him do tomorrow!

In other news….(I’m thinking)…..Oh how about this…..my hubby made dinner tonight and tried (he still hasn’t gotten the hang of how to load our dishwasher)  to do the dishes all in the same night! Isn’t that sweet? He also did dishes yesterday by hand! He’s been trying to help me and I really do appreciate it, it’s so NOT like him to do dishes or cook a whole big meal, so thank you sweetie (he doesn’t even read my blog, lol)!400

Now I’ve really got some Bible studies to try and catch up on….so night, night everyone!

Just leaving you with an embossed picture of Hubby and Baby Boy sleeping ;)

Not Me Monday

Oh my, it’s been a long week, oh wait it’s a brand new week, that means a fresh start! And what better way to start out than by confessing a few things from the week before!  So of course I’m joining MckMama in another NMM post!

Well we surely didn’t start the week off by all being late this morning! As I was trying to fix a car seat this morning my sweet dog most definitely didn’t run out the front door after another poor innocent small dog that was being walked on a leash!

My kids weren’t all grumbly and complainy this morning because they went to bed so late last night! My kids always go to bed promptly when told with no trouble! They all woke up bright and cheerful and singing a happy song! Nobody complained about what I fed them and nobody’s hair was sticking up at all once we were in the car! 

Also we did not listen to “The Pirate Song”   for the 100 millionth time this morning! I do not know every word of it and I did not used to even really like the song before the 89 millionth time we played it! I don’t still like the “Belly of the Whale”  song, because I’ve only heard it a few million times! I wasn’t happy to finally read those lyrics and learn the words at the end of that song! I don’t exaggerate at all either!

I didn’t just pick up my kids from the bus stop to find out they had a fire at their school today! They didn’t have to wait outside so long that water bottles were passed out. There wasn’t a real fire in the coaches office (or so rumor has it) and three fire trucks weren’t on scene along with an ambulance and fire rescue truck, I don’t feel like I should have known this before they got home! I guess I should have had the news on!

You may not have noticed that I didn’t also shamelessly put up a link to support my Cubscout by buying popcorn. I would never do that I didn’t feel a little bad that we were moving this time last year and that we didn’t participate at all in popcorn sales (their only fundraiser) and the year before we joined right after they finished! So I don’t think a big tin of yummy popcorn would make a great gift for someone you know!  Well it was worth a try anyway =)!

I don’t think it’s time to finish this post  before Monday is all over!

Walking through the Wilderness

Sounds deep huh? Well this isn’t, just a few pictures about a short hike through some local wilderness with the  Cubscouts last weekend! It was just him and me (and the other scouts) on this outing! It was real muddy out as it’d been raining hard that morning. The animals were almost eerily quiet and absent, though we did see a few bugs.  PJ really wanted to hit the playground afterwards, but we skipped it because his Daddy had plans to take the three big kids swimming at the Y’s play pool when we got back! 

Obviously our short hike wore this boy out, luckily he got a quick nap before the pool!