I missed an entry last week due to a Young Women's board meeting and loads of homework and reading that the kids--mostly Rubie had. And again, here we are on Saturday afternoon and Rubie still has some homework and reading to do. Mostly the reading is because her class has started the Idida-Read. Mrs. Soderstrom does this every March to match the Ididarod sled dog race in Alaska. The kids are to read as many minutes as miles of the sled dog race. I was actually very nervous for this with Rubie. But so far she has had a good attitude about it. What has helped is that from doing this with Eric last year, I learned do not try to read all your minutes in one sitting each day. Break it up. So right away I have been having her read 10 minutes in the morning before school and in between whatever is going on for the day. Also, we can do some games or other type activities that Mrs. Soderstrom has suggested with spelling words. That helps Rubie as well.
This week I have gotten derailed from my workouts and I have have really reflected on what my goals should be fitness wise for this year. It is common for me to have to be really aggressive with my time in getting the workouts in. It is hard when so many things come up and I can't get cleaning and laundry done and we are always scrambling to get homework in. I like to be able to accomplish what is important and required and I get grumpy when that does not happen. That is one of the hardest things about parenting for me is getting the kids to do what I think they should--mostly homework and 1 of 2 jobs around the house.
Monday we started off okay. But when Samuel and I returned from grocery shopping he promptly burned his hand by sticking it on the tailpipe of the X-terra. He just screamed and screamed. I knew it was bad because of how he was acting. He is usually pretty tough and calms down fairly quickly from getting hurt. I ran his hand under cold water and put the doTerra oils on. But he was still screaming. I held him and turned a show on for him but he was not calming down. I said a prayer asking for guidance. At that moment our pediatrician's office called to remind me of our appointment the next for a physical for Eric. After the reminder I asked her what I should do for Sam. She asked a nurse and came back on right away saying to go to the ER. What a tender mercy to have a prayer answered so quickly. Again another testament that the angels are watching over my Samuel.
Samuel and I went to Instacare right away. The wait was much longer that it needed to be. I think we waited almost an hour to get in and they kept saying there was just 2 patients ahead of Sam. A nurse did look at his had right away to determine if we should stay there or go to the ER. She thought we were fine there. She gave him some ibuprofen and after about 20 minutes of Sam crying in the waiting room brought us a cold pack, That helped him calm down and he fell asleep in my arms. The doc put some ointment on him and wrapped his hand up. She said to take him to the pediatrician the next day to have them look at it. She said we might have to go each day this week because of blistering and keeping it clean and wrapped.
The next morning we had an exciting wake up as we woke up police, ambulance, and fire department at the Platts/Adams. Brother Adams (Josie Platts dad) had fallen. They were all trying to get into the house and couldn't, I ran over to give them the garage door code. We had to keep track of the dog, Spice. Samuel quickly got his fire fighter hat and went to "Fight the Fire." He was so cute!! After they got Brother Adams all taken care of the firefighters, Cody Jolley and partner, came over to give Sam a badge and put him in the truck. Oh my goodness he was in Heaven!!! It was so cute! All day he talked about the fire truck and fighting the fire. He was so disappointed when he was taken off the truck and they had to drive away.
Then Carlee texted me to let me know she was on the way to the doctor because her incision was infected and she couldn't take Sam for the day. I could still go to swimming class but by then I wasn't quite ready and Megan Parker in the ward needed a babysitter for her little girl and then Rubie called saying she was sick and wanted to come home. So after Megan's little girl left we went to get Rubie instead of helping Mrs. Soderstrom in the classroom. So for the next two days Rubie was home and that keeps me very busy. And then the kids were out of school on Friday. I tried to workout but of course Addie Huddleston comes over and then we met some other AHS families (Norton's, Rowley's, and Soderstrom's) at Kangaroo Zoo to play. The Norton's were going to come over here but Eric and Rubie ended up over there. That gave me about 30 minutes to exercise. I have got to commit to eating really well because I am not getting as fit as I would like to be.
We went over to the Harrison's for dinner last night. They just moved into a beautiful home on the other side of their ward. It really is a big, beautiful home and I am really happy for them.
This morning Eric, Rubie, and Brock had a karate tournament. Scott is gone to army today and tomorrow. I tried to get me workout in early this morning and got in some of it. Now I'm trying to clean and get some laundry done. I had Rubie, Eric, and their friends Kiana and Brock out on the porch a few minutes ago cleaning the door and cleaning up rocks and dirt that Sam had made a mess with. I'll be getting Sam up in just a minute and the friends are still here and somehow I've got to clean a few more bathrooms, get the kids to do more reading and pick up some toys. "Sigh."
Oh, the stick bug. Rubie got a stick bug from Mrs. Soderstrom. She has named it Stick. Today she and Kiana tried to sale tickets for people/kids to come and have a look at her baby stick bug.
We actually got some winter weather this week and it was weird. I think it came on Saturday or Sunday the snow started. But then today is beautiful and most the snow is gone and I keep making the kids go outside to play. We even went to the park after karate because Sam wanted to so badly.
Sunset
6 years ago
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