I needed a reason to eat out

I picked up the boys from daycare, and we headed to the nursing home to visit Grandma. Tanner had lots of yummy treats from his first of several Halloween parties, so the boys and I were chowing down on all the candy in front of my grandma. She is diabetic, so she didn't join in. That was slightly rude of us, wasn't it?! She was hungry and asked me to go grab something for all of us. Since the boys started getting restless, and we were no longer hungry we turned her down.
We go home. I decide we need to get something in our stomachs besides sugar(even though I had just told my grandma we weren't hungry!). I turn on the stove, boil some water, milk and butter so that I could make mashed potatoes (yes, out of a box!). How hard is that?! Apparently, you should not allow that stuff to boil for like 20 or so minutes because it is going to evaporate and burn the pot. How did I screw up boxed mashed potatoes, you ask? Well, I sort of forgot! I know!
We ended up picking up dinner (chicken strips and fries) at the local diner and headed back to the nursing home...which made my grandma very happy. I think that I just really wanted to eat out all along, but I needed a really good excuse.

-A couple hours later, it still smells awful in our house!
-I was trying to add a picture, and I broke the usb cord. Sheesh!!!

Dang Couch!

Before you read this post, read the one before it. I wrote it last night, but didn't feel that it was really blog worthy until now.

Have you read it?

Seriously, read it first!

By the way, this may be TMI!

Ok, so by now you've read that Tanner loves to sleep on the couch, if you did as I asked ;). Well....last night, he fell off the couch. Barry and I were woken up by this loud thud. Barry rushes in to check on him, while I doze back to sleep. Don't worry! I wasn't asleep long! Tanner was slightly confused by what had happened, and he was screaming his head off.

I'm still in bed.

Barry helps Tanner into the bathroom, so Tanner can go potty.

Tanner is still screaming. I'm still in bed.

Barry brings him back to our bedroom. Tanner is still screaming. Barry lifts him into our bed, so I can rub his back and calm him.

He calms down. Phew! He is relaxed. A little too relaxed. I feel something wet. Ew!The bed is wet. How is the bed wet? Ew! Tanner wet our bed. Apparently, when I was too sleepy (lazy?!) to get up and help my husband with our son, and I thought (key word-thought) he had gone to the bathroom...He did not. That will teach me.

We put Tanner back on the couch, surrounded by pillows this time. Safety first. Unfortunately, we only have one set of sheets for our bed. Fortunately, I always kick off the unfitted sheet. We were able to use it for the rest of the night.

Can you guess what my husband is doing right now? Laundry. No peed on sheets for me.

I think Tanner may be sleeping in his own bed...just maybe.

Loves to sleep on couch

No. Not my husband. My son. Tanner who will be four in December. He does not want to sleep in his own bed. What is the deal? No idea how to break this habit.

Silly Boys

Tonight while I was talking with my mom on the phone, this is what my boys were doing...jumping up and down on the bed in their daddy's underwear. Silly Boys!

Crazy Weekend

The weekend started out pretty good. Gotta give props to Barry's football team. They WON a game!! WooHoo!! Our town had a fall festival that same night, so the boys and I chose to go to that instead. Tanner and Jackson both scored some calculators. Jackson uses his as a phone. He says hello? hello? Just waiting for someone to answer...very cute!
After we got home, I had a test to take. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. Open book, but a lot of work I wasn't planning on. I finished it with 29 minutes to spare thinking I'd done a pretty good job. I got a D! What?! Who gets a D on an open book test!!! Apparently me!
Right before I went to bed, I ate a granola bar. No big deal, right? Wrong!! It felt like I got a piece of it stuck in my throat. I'm totally freaking out! Choking is a huge fear of mine. So, I pray. I realize I'm still breathing and that I must be ok, so I go to bed. Wake up in the a.m. feeling fine. Thank you, Lord. I get the boys some Lucky Charms to eat, while grabbing a handful and popping them in my mouth. I don't know how this happened, but a piece of Charm got stuck in my throat. I started dry heaving. Oh No, I thought...I'm choking again!!! You'd think by now I'd realize I'm not really choking. I pray again. Anyway, I try to decide what to do. Pray some more. Should I call 911? Nah, I'll call my mother who totally thinks I overexaggerate things. It took her like 20 minutes to get to me. I continue to pray, dry heave, pray, dry heave. After calling urgent care, they told me there would be nothing they could do and if necessary to go to the ER. They suggested I eat a small piece of bread. I did this and everything was fine for about 4 hours. By 6, I was ready to make a trip to the ER. My mom was over to watch the Tigers game, so she kept the boys for us. We didn't have to wait very long to be looked at. They hooked me up to an IV and made me drink a horrible drink-Mylanta cocktail...yuck! It numbed my throat, so I felt a lot better. Until I saw the Tigers score!!! I probably should have prayed for them too! They decided to keep me, so they could do a scope in the morning. I finally got to my room about 1 am, but I didn't get to sleep until 2. I was up by 5 when the nurse came into to take my vitals. I fell back asleep (a nervous wreck), but was up again at 7 when my dad called to check on me. I couldn't get back to sleep due to anxiousness, so I called my good friend Stephanie to calm me with prayer. She's a fantastic prayer warrior, and His presence set me free. A little before 1 this afternoon they came and got me for the procedure. Within 20 minutes, I was out cold. When I woke up an hour later, they said everything went fine. Praise the Lord! They took biopsies in 3 places, and I have minor irritation. They also stretched out my esophagus which seemed to be the problem. This week I'm to have my gall bladder checked just as a precaution. I'm going to need lots more prayer!! For now, I'm headed to bed. I'm exhausted from this crazy weekend!

Lots of cleaning

I had the day off today, and I thought I would be spending it with my boys, but Tanner had preschool and he just had to go. Then, I thought I would be able to spend time with Jackson, but once he saw I was dropping Tanner off he wanted to go too! How did this happen? My boys like daycare more than me!
Even though I was deeply wounded by my boys choices, I knew this was the perfect time to clean my house. So, clean I did...and then I cleaned some more. We have been so busy, our house got really, really messy!! I should have taken before pictures, so you could see just how messy...but I decided that would have been way too embarrassing. However, now after a day spent sweeping floors, putting away A LOT of laundry, getting rid of A LOT of clothes and toys and scrubbing a disgusting toilet...our home looks pretty good and I should post an after picture! I wonder how long it will stay this way?!

Pumpkin Patch

Today we visited the pumpkin patch. It was really fun! The boys especially liked the Thomas the train ride...we rode it about 5 times!!! The pumpkin patch had a corn maze, hayride, hay maze, train ride, bouncing pumpkin, and face painting. By the time we got through everything, the boys were exhausted and so were we!!
Note the pint-size pumpkins! The boys carried them around all afternoon!