What a week!

Wow! What a week and a half we've had! Everyone in the house is finally on antibiotics, except Jessica who just finished hers and is finally back in school. Today was her first day back in a week in a half. So far we've had, strep, scarlett fever, asthma, pneumonia, ear infections, tonsilitis, upper respiratory infections, bronchitis, croup, laryngitis, estachian tube problem, sarcoid flare up, and high fevers in our house and with multiple illnesses to each person except David, he got away with only the onset of bronchitis. It was like a little hospital line up here. Amanda would hand out antibiotics, I would take temperatures, she would pass out the motrin and then Maddy and Jess would take turns on the breathing machines. What a week and a half, seemed much much longer. It seems a lot lighter just with one of them off the steroids and antibiotics though. Can't wait till we get more off of them. Unfortunately, I don't have to deal with the little ones after tomorrow though. Amanda is taking her little troop and her new puppy, or poopy as Maddy calls it, and are heading home tomorrow afternoon. It's been hectic and noisy, and yes, Jonny has gotten on my nerves some with his constant fits, but I'm going to miss them soooo much when they leave. They sure do make me smile and laugh a lot, and Jess is going to be devastated. Maddy and her are attached at the hip. But I think Maddy is a little homesick for her daddy too. She called him last night and talked and talked to him, I don't think he knew what she was saying, but she sure did. We got her to hang up by saying he had to go to sleep and flipped the cell phone closed. So tonight when she wanted to talk to him we caught her flipping the phone open and close and tapping on it saying wake up wake up daddy, wake up wake up. That was really cute, and then she said "oh shit". We couldn't believe our ears. But her dad says that word a lot I guess so she picked it up from him. I just know she didn't pick that one up here. Not one of the bad words we say. We were laughing though without her even knowing we heard her. It was funny though. She thought by waking up the phone she could wake up her dad and when she could she cussed at it. It was funny. She's such a cutie. However, my grandson made up for the cuteness by throughing the temper tantrum of all tantrums when we said no to a cookie at bedtime. He was kicking his feet and throwing his hands and hitting his head so we went to put him on the stairs and he started hitting me and kicking me. So I spanked him when he hurt me and then he put his fists in my face and tried to hit me again, when I moved out of his way he threw him self on the floor and started hitting the floor with his fists and kicking the floor and hitting it with his head. We just let him go and made him stay over there until he quit. The rule is he has to stay on the stairs while he's throwing his fits, once he stops screaming then he can get up and go to his mom. As bad as he gets, I've never seen him this bad. Maybe it's like they say, it's gets even worse right before it gets better because he'd been a lot better this evening and had been playing with me a lot and not throwing any fits for a change. Who knows. It was just amazing how much rage he showed. We were all shocked. But still, I am going to miss his smiling face, when it is smiling he's pretty cute. I'm definitely going to miss my little monkey Maddy. She can light up my face no matter what, and then there's the little angel Elizabeth who just turned 4 months old. She's been so good despite being so sick. Of course I'm going to miss my kid too. She's so helpful with all this sickness going around, even though she was the germ monger who brought it in the first place. Plus it's nice having someone here to talk to all the time about anything. She's not only my daughter, but she's my best friend. I hope when my younger daughter, Jessica, grows up we are as close as Amanda and I are right now. That the two of us can talk about anything like Amanda and I can. That would be great! I can talk to my daughter-in-law about most things, and then to have two daughters that I could talk to about anything, what a great blessing that would be! And to be honest, except for my health, I do feel blessed. I have this great family that surrounds me all the time and who could ask for anything more! So I hope this finds all of you in the same predicament and as happy as I am and I'll write more later. See ya soon!