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- God has blessed me tremendously with an amazing husband, Doug, and two gorgeous little boys, Gavin and Joey. It has always been a dream of mine to have a large family but God may have other plans. I had a series of 6 consecutive early miscarriages when trying for baby #2. We are currently trying for baby #3 after our 7th miscarriage. I am faithful that God's plan is perfect, even when I am not happy about it. I love comments and meeting new followers so please don't be shy!
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Cabin Fever
So far we have been very blessed with healthy kids for the last 5 years. We get our sniffles here and there but very few actual illnesses. Then... illness struck. Only Gavin, thankfully! (Knocking vigorously on wood!) Gavin has been sick starting on Friday and today is Wednesday. Not all days have been bad days, but we haven't been able to do much outside of the house.
I have this issue with cabin fever. We live rurally and without getting into a vehicle and driving a mile or so, there might not be any sign of other humans existing. To make life a little bit more stir crazy, Doug is out of town for work which means that my conversations for the last 48 hours have included:
"Joey, do not sit on your brother! He is not a horse!!"
"Okay, Mom."
"Gavin, you and your brother will not both fit into a diaper box!"
"Yes we will."
"Okay. Good luck with that."
If there is still a such thing as Calgon, I insist that it take me away!
I decided that since it is raining and ugly out and I have a kid that will have diarrhea at any given moment with no warning, that it would be a good craft day. I got out a science kit to grow a crystal tree but the packet of crystal water stuff had gotten opened somehow and there was already crystals growing where they shouldn't have been.
Craft idea number two was to make some sort of balloon filled with corn starch as a "stress ball" or tactile toy. Well... yeah. While entertaining to Gavin, this project created a smoke machine that essentially destroyed my already messy kitchen. I tried this concept again with a different funnel and it worked a little better. This time, I managed to get corn starch into the balloon but only enough to really look more like a visual aid of a scrotum.
So I decided that I was done with the messy stuff and that it was time to simply use up some left over helium from Gavin's birthday and that would keep the kids entertained for a while. I figured there was enough for 3, maybe 4 balloons. I stopped after filling 9 helium balloons. It kind of looks like a circus blew up in here, but the kids are having so much fun.
Until then, I decided that it was time to share my very first belly pic.
I have this issue with cabin fever. We live rurally and without getting into a vehicle and driving a mile or so, there might not be any sign of other humans existing. To make life a little bit more stir crazy, Doug is out of town for work which means that my conversations for the last 48 hours have included:
"Joey, do not sit on your brother! He is not a horse!!"
"Okay, Mom."
"Gavin, you and your brother will not both fit into a diaper box!"
"Yes we will."
"Okay. Good luck with that."
If there is still a such thing as Calgon, I insist that it take me away!
I decided that since it is raining and ugly out and I have a kid that will have diarrhea at any given moment with no warning, that it would be a good craft day. I got out a science kit to grow a crystal tree but the packet of crystal water stuff had gotten opened somehow and there was already crystals growing where they shouldn't have been.
Craft idea number two was to make some sort of balloon filled with corn starch as a "stress ball" or tactile toy. Well... yeah. While entertaining to Gavin, this project created a smoke machine that essentially destroyed my already messy kitchen. I tried this concept again with a different funnel and it worked a little better. This time, I managed to get corn starch into the balloon but only enough to really look more like a visual aid of a scrotum.
So I decided that I was done with the messy stuff and that it was time to simply use up some left over helium from Gavin's birthday and that would keep the kids entertained for a while. I figured there was enough for 3, maybe 4 balloons. I stopped after filling 9 helium balloons. It kind of looks like a circus blew up in here, but the kids are having so much fun.
I am really looking forward to everyone being healthy again!
Until then, I decided that it was time to share my very first belly pic.
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