Our Crazy Week and Scars!!

These are the two pictures I got of Timothy's wound!! He seems to be pretty cool with it. He is going to be a vampire for Halloween so he thought it would look even spookier.
This is kind of a long post. This day was quite the event!

This past week has been quite an adventurous one!! I went out of town last Wednesday to see my Mom and sisters for a fun trip to Minneapolis for Time Out For Women. This was supposed to be a fun and relaxing time for us girls to kick back and have some time to ourselves. Well, that is about the only thing that went as planned. Greg stayed back with all of the children. On Saturday afternoon he mentioned that Christopher had quite a fever and wasn't feeling too great. This carried on thru Monday when I arrived back home so Chris had to stay home from school with Dad and Maddie. By Tuesday when Greg was back at work I was graced with Christopher (still had a fever) and Zack (vomitting) home from school. Just as I was to go and pick up Tim from school Taylor's school called to let me know I had to come get her as she "didn't look good". Yeah me!! So, now all 5 were home! Wednesday Zack was able to go to school but Chris and Taylor were still home!! By Thursday Taylor, Tim, and Chris were out of school.

Friday morning I woke with a positive attitude that all would be able to return to school and I could accomplish my extensive list of errands and chores! HA! Hilarious!

First Taylor sounded like she was going to cough up a lung! She is home!! Tim was looking good and Chris had been fever free for a day and a half!! I had all the kids ready to go with lunches packed and Halloween treats ready and loaded in their backpacks. I decide to vaccuum a bit (the one rug in the house!) when all of a sudden there is the ear piercing scream from the basement! Timothy has taken the toy dinosaur to the face!!! I looked down the stairs to see Tim coming up with Zack leading the way with "the story" as blood is running down Tim's face!! Yeah me!! It didn't take long to see that we were going to the ER. I called Greg, told him to head back home. Let my neighbor know that I was leaving and see if she could handle getting boys on the bus. No problem. Taylor is going to stay with Maddie and we are good. Start to load Tim in the van, commence vommitting from Christopher!! What!! This is not good. Call neighbor and let her know only one child getting on bus!! I am pretty sure the neighbors think the circus moved in a year ago up the drive from them!!

Well, as you can see in the photo, we managed to get away with no stiches. Just some super glue!! That went much better than I imagined stiches going!!!

By the time I got home I now had to deal with Christopher being sick again. I called the doctor, got an appointment, and headed in!! Well, it seems that the way things are going, the kids are getting the flu (H1N1 with their symptoms) then that is pushing them into bronchitis or pneumonia. We get.......Pneumonia!! Chris is now on antibiotics and we are on the waiting game for the other 2 sick ones to get it. Greg leaves town on Monday so I am sure all this will catch me around then!! That's about the way it seems to go this week.

All in all, this has been a crazy week. It is almost over and I am looking forward to that!! I am living by a new motto (picked up on my getaway!) If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. I am certainly trying to laugh a lot!! That is the best plan I can come up with at this point!!