This has been quite the week. Of course I only know this because of what others have told me. I, myself have been home sick and miserable all week. I am thinking of taking next week off to make up for the missed vacation this week!
My friend Kathy (aka - miracle mom) I am told was to have a defibrillator (sp?) put in yesterday and could be going home sooner than I am over this stinkin' cold! I didn't even get to visit her! ha! So when you think of it give God some praise for He is Good!

Yesterday morning my Aunt Evelyn died. She was in the hospital, but she's been in and out a few times so I didn't know this time was that different. I didn't get to visit her either.
My Uncle Pete has been in the hospital up in Berkeley. He is 98 years old! I remember him saying at his 95th Birthday party how he's not been sick his entire life. Isn't that just crazy?!! Here I am, sick all week long, and I was sick 2-3 weeks ago too! What's up w/that?
Pete is not expected to make it much longer, he's just hanging on, and I can't go visit him! I don't know if I'm contagious or not. I've been taking cough medicine and nose medicine and throat medicine and I'm probably building up an immunity to all these drugs and they will be useless to me! I am frustrated that I have not been able to "be there" for anyone. I was just thinking how I was sick when my grandma (dad's mom) died in the hospital. I wasn't able to go see her. I hate not getting to say goodbye.

My kids are getting better (knock on wood). At least they are feeling well enough to raid the Easter candy that's hidden (apparently not well) in our room. Isaac alone, has eaten 4 of the bubble tape gums that were for Easter. He denies it but the powder is all over his face and clothes....it's those cute little hand prints that give him away. Our friend gave us each a See's Candies egg, the good stuff! I don't know when but Isaac helped himself to all of them, leaving only bits and pieces of a couple egg shells (chocolate, of course). The evidence was found under his bed! No wonder the toys don't fit under the bed...he's got a stash of goodies under there!!

This morning I woke up and took some medicine and everyone piled in my bed to watch a video. (Jim went to work) I got drowsy but figured that it would be okay because everyone was right there with me, occupied by the TV. So I allowed myself to fall asleep. 3 hours later (yes, THREE) I was brought back to consciousness with the sound of crying. Not a cry I hear too often so I responded. Isaac's finger was bleeding. Not the kinda of bleeding where you have to squeeze the crap out of your finger to get it to bleed, but the kind where you could catch it in a cup kinda bleeding. I grabbed some kleenex (because they've been my constant companion this week) and then I grabbed up Isaac. I held the kleenex on his finger for about 10 seconds (maybe?) and he was ready to go play. Naissa then walked in holding a big sharp knife stuck in the middle of a dirty old orange! In my sweet mama voice I nearly scared her senseless as I hollered, "What the french toast are you doing with that knife?!!!" She caught her breath and simply said, "Isaac did it!" At this point I had this fuzzy nudging in my head that something was familiar but I just couldn't put my finger on it yet so I asked Isaac how he cut his finger (why it hadn't occurred to me to ask this before...I don't know). He said, "With a knife". I asked what he was doing with a knife when he knew he wasn't supposed to touch them and he said, "I wanted fwuit" (not a typo)
I looked at the dirty old orange that Jade had taken from Naissa (because it had a big sharp knife stuck in it) and vaguely remembered Isaac saying something about picking fruit (fwuit). When I asked, he confirmed that he had gone in the back yard and picked the oranges off our tree. He then was trying to cut them open for "you and me mom". Of course, that makes sense. I've seen Bill Cosby when he tells the story of his kid trying to sneak a cookie. When his kid gets caught, his excuse is "I'm getting a cookie for YOU". That's my boy! He also has a high tolerance for pain. Once when I was at the store, Jim found Isaac under the kitchen table with the bread knife and little cuts all over his hands. He was trying to cut an apple and there was blood all over! He wasn't even making a sound! I think the stubborn has gone through his blood and toughened him up! (lol!)

I am ashamed to say that I am just now reading "The Magician's Nephew". I have owned the entire Chronicles of Narnia books for years and have only read "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". I always thought I would read them aloud to my kids, hasn't happened. I haven't even seen the movie "Narnia" yet, but we own it. I think Jade and Zack have seen it.

Last night we watched "Oklahoma" and "State Fair". This probably sounds funny but I consider it such a blessing to have kids who love musicals! We have the best times watching them together and singing the songs later. I already need to borrow a hand to count the times we've seen "Hairspray"! We're going to watch another one tonight....not sure which one yet.