Yes. I know. I’m fully aware that I haven’t posted a blog in over 2 weeks. I don’t really have an excuse other than lack of things to blog about and lack of motivation to blog. Oh yeah. And the Twilight series.

So for better or worse, I’m going to throw out some randomness of what has been happening over the last two weeks. I might even throw in some pictures.

Mostly over the last two weeks, it’s been difficult to blog because of the plague. If the Egyptians had continued to not let the Israelites go, the next thing God would have struck them with is whatever we just had in our house. I’m sure of it. It started out as the flu. Jayden was literally laying on the couch for about a week. A WEEK! He definitely got the worst of it. Fever, achy, coughing, headache..etc, etc. Then it got passed around and it got me. Then towards the end of the flu, somehow Jayden got pink eye. And then that got passed. I did not get that one though. But all three girls did. And then there was some sort of stomach thing. People started throwing up for no particular reason that I could tell. On top of this, getting sick has caused Bryce’s asthma to act up and it feels like he’s been coughing forever. Although my flu was significantly lighter than Jayden’s it seems like it’s been taking a longer time for me to feel back to normal. I really only had about 1 day of not being able to do anything and one other day were I didn’t do much…and then it’s been manageable. But I still, even now do not feel like I have gotten all my energy back. When I go to bed, I literally pass out. And that’s not normal for me. It’s also harder to get out of bed in the morning and get going. But at least I can say with somewhat certainty, that we are on the upswing.

We learned a few days ago that we have an unwelcome occupant in our chicken coop. A rat. Dis.cus.ting. I’ve never actually seen a rat in real life, but I have a pretty strong fear of mice and bats…so I’m really hoping that I don’t actually come face to face with the rat. Josh was thankfully the one who discovered the rat and he’s been outside a few nights with his bb gun trying to shoot it. I do not know if he’s been successful. However he did shove packets of rat poisoning down the various potential rat holes. I’m hoping that there will be some success with that.

Have I ever mentioned that I really dislike the age of 2 in children? Because I do. Really. I didn’t like it much when Bryce was 2. I liked it less when Jayden was 2. Now as I deal daily with 3 2-year-olds I find that I like it significantly less. There’s always a war going on in my head and my heart. One side tells me to just endure it. Get through it and it can’t possibly last forever. The other side tells me I need to treasure this time because this time of the children being so small and home all day is so short. These are my last ‘babies’ and I can’t ever go back. *sigh* But then the other side comes back and says, “yes, but won’t it be so nice when they grow up and are not always in three places destroying things faster than I can put them back? and won’t it be nice when I can clean a room and it will stay clean for more than 5 minutes so I can feel like I’ve accomplished something…anything during the course of a day?” Ugh..I feel guilty.

Here is a picture that I meant to post a while back…Remember that windstorm we had a few weeks ago and there was destruction everywhere you turned? This happened just down the street from us:
Oh. Dear.

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I know, I know…you’re wondering how much longer I’m going to make this blog…well, I have 2 more things. The first? Two words. Kitchen remodel. No, nothing like spending thousands of dollars on new cabinets and appliances….however, we have added some cabinets and are soon going to be adding new counter tops to the sink side of our kitchen…as well as 8 feet of additional counter space. The problem? I’ve been waiting and waiting to be able to complete this project. I finally made it down to IKEA to purchase the matching counter top that we put on the other side of the kitchen. Josh began destroying the old tile counter while I was gone. And then. I found out that they were SOLD OUT! It’s been over a week of living with wrecked counter tops and their website still says they’re out of stock and don’t have a delivery date yet. Doesn’t IKEA know how long I’ve been waiting?

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We were able to attend church yesterday for the first time in several weeks. Our pastor challenged us to do a “fast” to get ready for Easter in 6 weeks. So Josh and I chose to “fast” from TV. We figured that anything we wanted to catch up on we could watch online after Easter is over. It’s going to be interesting. Man, as I was writing that, I just thought about Lost. I did not consider Lost in this equation. Darn. We’ll see how it goes. Right now, we’re looking into listening to some audio books and maybe getting into a better habit of praying together. I’ll let you know how it goes. That’s it for now. I’ll try not to stay away for so long next time.