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Life since my Colorado trip has been a blur & not in a good way! When it rains it pours as they say!

Patrick was rushed to urgent care this morning & is on meds for sinusitis gone bad…resulting with both inner ear infections & overall crappy feeling. He pretty much spent the weekend in bed, sleeping, weak & exhausted!! It’s rare he’s sick & this is probably the worst I’ve seen.

It seems Braysen might be following as he was sent home early with a fever today too!

Merrick is still fighting with a cough & wheeze lingering from his near pneumonia urgent care scare.

I’m alive ..barely & exhausted! My class this semester is intense, frustrating & overall stressful. My first test was horrible & I am dreading the results! So much going on & trying to stay afloat! Our schedules are full of juggling acts of someone here or there, trying to figure out who drops off, who picks up & where should we be!

Just need to be able to breathe….

Seems like there has been a lot of meds around lately…we will get a break soon right?

The good news is Patrick told me to have the house cleaner over again so I’ll call to get her over soon! I need some relief, we are sinking!!

Saturday was one of those intermittent rainy Oregon days.  That usually means, get stuff done outside when you can.  We started off early by getting the rest of my compost soil for my garden bed and then I hit up various stores to fill in the gaps of veggies/herbs I still needed.  Lastly, I had to get Lowe’s to price match the 99cent Margiold/Petunia sale that Home Depot was having.  All the while, hope that I can get home in time to get things planted before the rain stopped me!

I get home, change into grungy, dirt friendly clothes and get to work plotting out that last part of my garden.  While out there I have Braysen, my friendly helper, telling me to plant the Marigolds.  I told him I wasn’t ready yet and he kept asking impatiently If I was ready yet.  Well, I’m trying to get things in the ground as it starts to sprinkle and I see him grabbing my flowers so I turn to tell him to knock it off. (nicely of course!)  Here I am hunched over my plants and I twist around to him when I feel this sharp pain in my back.  OUCH!  I tell Braysen to go get daddy and tell him that I’m hurt.  He runs inside and tells Patrick, who tells him that he can’t right now.  I don’t know what Braysen told Patrick but I told him to go tell him it’s important.  He still didn’t come out haha.  Well, I get myself  upright although painfully and tell him what happened.  It’s the same pain from a year ago when I had a slipped disc.   Nice numbness feeling through  my leg to my calf.  Sciatic pain (feels almost like the pregnant sciatica I had!) and of course this horrible lower back pain that kills to sit down and put pressure downward with.

But the good news is:  I have my garden planted!   haha A garden post to be coming soon!

On the other good news:  I have someone coming to clean my house tomorrow before family arrives, just so I’m not bending over toilets and stressing about my dirty house!

We just need to worry about getting the bedding and towels all washed & ready.  The car needs to be majorly cleaned / vacuumed before they get picked up in it!  Also, need to do the rearrangement of car seats in it so we can fit people.  Of course I also need to get some Rubbermaid boxes full of baby clothes out of the guest room and into a temporary spot until we can get people over to go through them and stake claim before I sell them off!  Not too bad really but still lots to do in the next 2 nights and with swim lessons tonight & tomorrow nite’s meet up to get Miss Lush (a bag …a whole other post..one in which you’ll think I’m even more bag cray than some realize).  Yup, lots to do and running out of time!  The grocery shopping was done last night…a fun 2 hours worth of it and I didn’t get home until nearly 9.  But we are getting there!

I did get Braysen signed up for a summer soccer camp and a summer swim lesson session.  I went with just the 3-4 year old soccer camp instead of the 4-6 year old camp because I think he will do better this go around with the younger age bracket.  The swim lessons switch to summer schedule so he’ll be doing basically a 2 week session where he goes every night from 6-6:30 instead of twice/week.  I’m not looking forward to driving him every nite to Newberg but I don’t want to stop his lessons now.  We’ll have a bit of a break after soccer camp until August because I don’t want him in camp during the day and swimming at night.  I figure we can pick back up in August and I think they start up the 2 night a week ones at that point.  Newberg also has a Sat. morning Soccer thing for younger kids in the fall that starts in Sept. so if Braysen does really like this soccer stuff we can get him going on that.  I am pretty excited to get him in these sports camps and fun things. He’s finally at an age where he is old enough to do it.   Then we the logistical side of getting him to / from places when we live in between the 2 towns that he can go to for these things.

Summer of fun here we come!  hehe

The dreaded dentist appt was today. Patrick drove me since we figured I’d be a bit out of it if they did decide to take out the tooth. The dentist was wonderful, cracking jokes and trying to calm my fears as I’m sure the anxiety was all over my face.

I guess he told Patrick that everything that could go wrong with my wisdom tooth had. It was completely sideways so pushing into my cheek. It had broke and I was starting to get an infection.

They actually got it out fairly quick and I was oblivious to any pain minus being numb n puffy faced. We picked up the kids at daycare on the way home & I retreated to the bed while Patrick has been holding down the fort.

I realized we had basically nothing I could eat so he drove us into town. I wandered through the store grabbing those single serving cups of various flavors of sorbert & ice cream. I got jello, pudding, some drinks and potatoes for mashed potatoes tomorrow. If my teeth feel up to it I’ll make the mac n cheese bought lol.

For now I’ll continue doping myself up & taking my penicillin. Both of which make me feel pretty cruddy. The vicodin just takes the edge off the pain but it still feels eh. I’m sure that once this heals up I’ll feel way better without that stupid tooth.

On a better note…I got a 89% on my last Stats exam last week!!!

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