MIA

There I went being MIA again. Sorry about that :)

Quick update on Zach (my youngest): His temperature never really dropped from the 99 range on Wednesday and after another restless night it was up to 101.7 Thursday morning. My gut was telling me this had turned into more than just a cold. I went ahead and tried April's suggestion which didn't seem to make a difference with his cough. Thanks for the suggestion though April, I will keep it in mind for next time...although you should have seen Zach's reaction to it - lol - He was fine at first then all of a sudden he scrunched up his face and shivered - lol. So I tried the onion-sugar syrup and I had to admit that it is fine at first but it does have an after bite ;). (Also, thanks Grammadianne for your suggestion of warm milk/honey/lemon/butter...I had tried the warm tea/honey but didn't have lemon in the house. I will keep your idea in my file for next time also!) So I called and got him an appointment to see the doctor yesterday morning and my gut was correct. It has turned into more than just a cold. He was diagnosed with bronchiolitis and the doctor put him on 5-days of a steroid along with continuing the Albuterol...as well as instruction that if the temperature raised any more or the coughing/wheezing got any worse to come back in so they could see if it has turned into pneumonia or an ear infection. Thankfully he seemed to be a tad better last night and actually slept in his own bed for a couple hours without coughing the entire time. Today the coughing wasn't nearly as intense as it has been, and he didn't have a fever most of the day, but the wheezing is still there and has changed sounds a bit...so we will have to keep an eye on that. Now if Zach comes through this without it changing to pneumonia, and Drew and I get through this (yep, we have both caught it) without it settling too much in either of our chests, I will be VERY happy :)

I have very much to be thankful for in my life right now too! We did not end up getting all the rain and dangerous weather in our area like they were calling for on Wednesday night/Thursday. It did rain pretty well over night and there was some flooding in our area (thanks to ground that was already over saturated), but our basement didn't flood again and it has pretty well gone down in our town. South of us has not been so lucky. Down in Branson they have had to open up the flood gates at Table Rock Dam to release the record level high water... (photo taken from Branson Daily News) and of course this has caused major flooding down stream. When you talk to people that have lived here in the Ozarks their whole life, all they say is that they have never seen it like this...and they are right since it is setting all sorts of records. Please keep all of these people affected by the flooding in your thoughts and prayers!

I really hope that you will all be back for next week!! You shouldn't have to put up with my lack of blog then since the wonderfully talented Pamela Yates will be your hostess here. I had the chance to work with Pammy in the TSG Design 101 mentoring class earlier this year and I really looks forward to getting to know more about this sweet lady during the next week.

Before I go for the evening, I would like to give a small peace offering to apologize once again for pretty much abandoning you all this week...and a thank you for being so understanding about it. It is nothing big, but I hope you will be able to use these two SticKits I created using the beautiful TSG April Mega Kit "Spring Sorbet" Grab these 2 SticKits HERE (Sorry, this link has expired)

Hope you all have a wonderful and relaxing Saturday!!