Completly uninspired!

To start...I am so sorry. I'm started several posts this week, but I am completely lacking in any creativity. I think that is what sick children do to you. They take everything. Not only can I not wait for spring to be here b/c of the change in weather, but LORD IN HEAVEN...I can not wait to open up the windows and get the nasty germies outta my house!!!

I am so sick of dealing with sick this winter. Ok...yeah...the last three years are way more full of illness and so on...but this last two months...dude...I can feel the germies just hibernating in my home. I even use my Clorox wipes more times than I ever have. Maybe that is my problem. Maybe my messy house was playing to my advantage. Maybe we were so use to the germies that we built up some type of household immunity to them, but when I started using CLOROX...duh, duh, DUH...THE GLOVES CAME OFF FOR THE GERMS! I can imagine it now..."Dude...you think those stupid little wet, smelly clean wipes are going to help you? HA HA HA! We will just morph into bigger, badder germs. Just watch us take you all down!!!"

I'm convinced my little Ian man probably had hand, foot, and mouth two weeks ago. The little blisters that show up on their hands and feet are now starting to flake away and leave little dried up little blisters on his hands and feet. Poor kid! I thought his daycare teachers were smok'in some wacky tabacky, but I guess I was the crazy one. Humm...funny isn't it?

My little lady who I thought had hand, foot, and mouth actually ended up having strep. I KNEW IT...AND I TOTALLY CALLED IT!!! It was my nurse gut telling me...dude...it is totally not hand, foot and mouth! Last week on Thursday she finally broke her fever, but I just had this feeling in my gut. So...on my way out the door to work that night I was all like, "Warren...just take her to urgent care and tell them to swab her throat for strep." Well, the rapid came back negative...HUGE SURPRISE! I think you need a full blown strep infection for that to come up positive. In any case, the pediatrician's office called on Saturday morning with a positive culture. They asked me what type of antibiotic I wanted for her, and I was all like...your call! So...she is on "bubble gum medicine" for 10 days. We call it that b/c there is no other way we can get her to swallow that crap.

Anyway, back to my little manster! Ian is celebrating his first birthday in less than two weeks. This has been the fastest year I have seen to date! I remember last year literally waddling around the place. I had to roll myself out of bed, and I can remember dragging Sophia along in the mall walking like a psychotic woman just to get myself to dilate. Sophia was such a good sport b/c I kept reminding her that her baby brother would come sooner if we hoofed it around the mall! Thanks be to God that she has/had long legs and was able to keep up with me. I don't miss a second about being prego, but I do miss having an excuse to eat anything and everything in my way. LOL! Oh the good 'ol days when it was cute to be a little fluffy! Now the extra fluff is super frumpy!!!

In any case, I'm still glad to be a mommy. Being a mommy is the hardest job I have ever had in my life. It is 24 hours a day non-stop, unpaid breaks, on the job training! Being a full time nurse is SO MUCH easier than this mom thing. I know what to expect with my patients and while I get a little anxious sometimes working at the hospital...it is nothing compared to the anxiety my children give me.

By far I am 100% more relaxed as a mom with Ian, but still I worry about the both of them when they aren't an eye or ear shot from me. I am SO BLESSED to have health children! There are so many parents and children in the world with so much pain to deal with. Health is such a precious thing to have. You never know what you have until it is gone. Day in and day out I'm reminded how lucky I am to be healthy and have healthy loved ones around me.

A week from Sunday we will all be getting together on Ian's "real" 1st b-day to celebrate. It's to bad he can't blow the candles out on the time that he entered the world, but I'm not sure we would have many guests at 5:11 a.m. Who knows...Ian could very well wake up at that time screaming. It seems like that hour has been his favorite over the last month. My big 'ol cute little lovable baby boy is turning into such a little lovable little man! He started walking almost a month ago, and he is getting so much stronger every day. I love to watch him walk, and I love to watch him when he doesn't know I'm watching him.

We were watching AI on Wednesday night and when the girls got up to sing...he clapped his hands together and swayed back and forth to the painful and beautiful melodies. He LOVES to dance! Dancing right now consists of bending at the knees at different intervals! I love it!!! I promise you all to get it on video some day. It will be great pay back in about 18 years!!!

Well, I either should retire to my book..."Dear John"...or try to close my eyes again and get some sleep. Tomorrow is shaping up to be a busy, busy, busy day and then I'm back to working the weekend. Grrr! Well, I hope this finds you all well. As uninspired as this blog started...I hope you have been able to follow my rants! God bless ya! Have a super day/night!