last week.......

to be honest last week was kinda rough. not only did we have REALLY cold temps- which you understand that if its 20 degrees and then there is humidity, how cold that feels. anyway, claysen started to feel kinda gross, and max was working on moving some teeth up while struggling with a cold, anyway, so i had 2 cold, sick boys all day and then joseph is kinda still feeling not so good, not bad, but definately not good, and i was starting to feel yucky cuz i am trying to fight off this cold that i am almost getting. and its COLD outside and i have a drafty house still. anyway, after 3 days of below freezing temperatures- like in the 20's and teens, saturday night after joseph works and gets a WHOLE WALL of shelves in the library up, and i do the little that i can, i start to feel really like my head might explode. well joe is playing his game with some of his friends, and then at about 12:30am, i hear screaming so i do a stagger/run up the stairs and to jerras room, to find she had thrown up. and so we had to shower her, and get her bed cleaned. well- joe gets off the comp, cleans the bed, i shower the girl, with the only shower that has hot water, cuz the other ones are broken- literally broken, and we snuggle and warm her up, then put her back to bed. we didnt think it would happen again cuz there was really no temp or anything else, but, well- at about 3:30, screaming again, this time joseph runs up, and brings her down because.... she got everything else on her bed, yuck. so she is sleeping with us, (ugh).  well- suddenly joey throws on a coat and shoes and runs outside, where its 12 degrees, to discover that ANOTHER pipe had broken even with the water that we had running! so that is like 3 lines that have broken! so he turns the water off to the whole house, and comes back to bed. jerra continues to throw up throughout the night (4 more times) and i dont sleep because i am trying to figre out how to live life with 3 kids who are not feeling 100%, one of those 3 throwing up, 1 of them having abnormally disgusting stinky diapers and is running out of clothes, and one feeling kinda left out cuz of the attention the other 2 are getting, through life, while cold, and sick, and NO WATER. that means no baths. and i have to fill water buckets out front to do any cooking- and toilet flushing (fill the back tank to flush). oi. dishes, i have to heat the water on the stove/microwave and stuff to do them, all while TRYING to take it easy! and all while trying to sleep but yet i have a little girl throwing up in my arms. lucky? yeah right.
oh well.
luckily i have a great friend who came and got jerras stuff to wash and i can shower at my wonderful inlaws. and stuff, that will be kinda exciting for the kids, a hassel yes, but atleast we have them to be able to help us! yeah- i guess its really not too bad, joe fixed pipes on sunday, and since it was so cold it had to set for 48 hours, well, tuesday night when he checked the pipes, he found one that he had missed. to the washing maching. that was harsh. so he couldnt fix it till wednesday night, so now i wont be able to do laundry till friday night. again- we are lucky to have family so close! and yeah its not that bad, it could definately be worse, i was just a lot for me to handle feeling so gross and having such a long week.

and as you know i am on limited duty- or bedrest will be in order.  that is REALLY hard for me.  i watch my exhausted husband pull double duty, and i feel so bad, cuz i can only keep up on laundry, as long as the loads arent too big, and dusting, ironing, and the 'little'things.  i do have help from clint and laura, my best friend here- Lynn, and a WONDERFUL yw named Marisa, she comes once a week atleast to help me around the house and vacuum, and scrub tubs since i cant do that.  and that keeps me sane!  i dont know what i would do with out these people helping.  i know its good to suffer now doing the 'little' things only and not be put on bedrest, cuz that would be worse, but i feel so good that its really hard to control myself.  not to say that my belly doesnt hurt and that i can do hardly ANYTHING sometimes because of discomfort, but it all works out.  that is my whinning.  i will try to be done now.

max said a prayer tonight.  he folded his hands and 'talked' and said his 'amen' and everything!  it was sooooooo adorable!  i almost died laughing cuz he was so cute and happy with it!  i love him!  max turns ONE on saturday- how crazy is that? the 16th, and i will have a 1 year old. that is so weird for me to think! he is really starting to grow into a little person, he doesnt talk much, but he sure has a heck-of-a- squeal! it really does sound like a monkey! =) its really cute! oh and for his birthday cake- we do cupcakes- in my FABULOUS cupcake book, they have the CUTEST decorating tips for making monkey cupcakes! so that i what i am doing and i cant wait! i hope they turn out though, i have never worked with fondant before......
claysen is a crazy little boy. he has soooo much energy its crazy. but at the same time, so sweet. he still loves transformers and dinosaurs. and its really cute to watch him start to play with max. i love it. he is also showing interest in reading, he tries to all the time, he just doesnt have the patients to work at it. but he is only 3 so i am not worried.
jerra is such a soft hearted little girl. she is going through a hard phase where she is hurt easily, and slightly paranoid. its weird, and now we struggle with acknowledging the problem without making too big a deal about it, so that way she doesnt make it a bigger deal ya know? weird limbo. anyway. that is her, and she is getting girlier by the day, and i didnt think that was possible! thats ok she is still super sweet!

ummm...........
yeah........... i will stop now. this is long.  and i really dont ahve pictures to show for the month so far- we have been too cold..... but i do have things i want to tell you, i am just to cold and tired.  so yeah.
sorry that you read this.  have a good day!