10intheCabin

Yes, I'm pretty excited about it. I'm doing better today than I thought I would be. No ill affects from yesterday's jaunts to the cabin. So happy with that progress!! The three deserters, I mean the three boys who have been partying at a friend's house are coming home tonight. I'm pretty excited to have my slave labor....I mean my lovely children back.

I have missed them, even Max. I have ALSO missed all them doing all the chores that they do on a daily basis. We have dust bunnies in the hallway that make me want to carry a large stick. Lee said he wanted to sleep in his own bed tonight, otherwise they had the opportunity to move on to a different friend's house for the night and for tomorrow.

Mom is now safely in OR. She'll be enjoying her family for the next three weeks, so I don't know how much she'll get to post to her blog, but I expect she'll have lots of pictures when she gets back!

Yeah, so enough about me, well I guess the blogs ALL about me, but it's NEW, and I love, love, love new things!!

So here it is. http://oneblessedwoman.blogspot.com/

You will need to change your links in your own blog, if you've been so kind as to link to mine.

I will post one more generic post in the next day or so here on this blog, that will redirect people to the new blog, after that I'll leave this blog as it is.

You probably thought that meant I was going to update you on how I'm doing!!! Well, OK, I'm going to do that to. I guess I'll do that first, THEN tell you about what else I'm updating!!!

Yes, I'm still in bed.....it's now been 2 WEEKS.....there were a few words I wanted to put in between the 2 and weeks, however I am trying to watch my potty mouth. I am doing much better. Today I did some laundry and went to the cabin TWICE (can ya say FREEDOM!!!!), and I'm still alive AND awake to tell you about it.

I took people with me to the cabin(so as to not strain myself), I did not do anything that resembled doing anything and I only went over because the horse decided that the 10 acre pasture she was supposed to be in, was not GOOD enough and that she much preferred the OTHER 10 acre pasture!

It's a very careful balance of do something, then rest, do something, then rest and sometimes we shake it up and REST some more...wild thing that I am. And there is a real likely hood that I'll have to rest even more tomorrow, cause of today's WILD adventures.

So now that we've gotten that out of the way....

It's been bugging me for awhile that the title of my blog does not exactly fit our current circumstances...well OK.....it pretty much doesn't even resemble our current circumstances..... I named the blog as a take off of the 10 in the bed song and I have to say that the last one in the bed/cabin is very snug and comfy. We obviously had to completely rewrite our plans when Dad died and thus we lost the 10inthecabin life.

Sooooo what to do.....what to do.....I really like my 10inthecabin blog, however I really dislike that it doesn't even cover where we are now. The end result is that I'm going to leave this blog as it is, and start a NEW BLOG that hopefully will be able to be a little more flexible with our life circumstances...... drum roll please..........thank you...... The new name is ONE BLESSED WOMAN....so that will always cover my life circumstances, because no matter what....I know I'm one extremely blessed woman. So I'll shortly be giving you the link to that, I have to do some tweaking and you know....WRITE A POST.....then I'll give you the link, really I will, I promise.

Thank you so much for the concern, love, and the get well wishes that you have sent to me. I am doing much better, largely because one of my many awesome friend's took three of my kids INCLUDING Max. Than is gone on a sailing trip and yes we'd all rather be with him. So I have Amanda and Jayden home to wait on me hand and foot, they're quiete and obedient, just the way I like them.....

To see the entire effect...or is it affect....hmmmmm.....now I remember, it's effect..... anyway to see the whole picture go cleaaaarrrr to the bottom of this blog.

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

I think we can all agree that I'm not one of those wonderful, light, gentle sweet ladies, that people say..."We never heard a word of complaint from her, and she was always smiling."

In fact for the last few days it's safe to say, that I've been pretty much the opposite of the above lady. Poor Brent, he gets the brunt of it and he's such a sweet heart about it all.

He took off work for the last week, has managed kids, animals and meals ON TOP of catering to his very cranky wife AND taking on new and more responsibilities at church this week. The man is a SAINT, really, I should nominate him....right after I finish this tantrum!!

The kids have been kept out of the sick room for the most part, supposedly so I can get the rest I need......more likely Brent's afraid I'll rip their heads off too....

I told him the other day, "You're too cheerful and I really want to slug you....in a loving way, of course". He just laughed, smiled SOME MORE and told me he understood I wasn't feeling very good.....which by the way, not feeling very good is a MAJOR understatement at this point.....

Another saint has been my Mother, she's been over here also managing kids, animals and meals all week, while managing her busy life, as she gets ready to desert me.....I mean go visit her Mother and family for three weeks. She leaves next Thursday.....I don't think it can come fast enough for her!!! Oh yeah, and how could I forget, she's also keeping on top of the garden, which is now starting to produce things that have to be picked on a daily basis.....never a dull moment around here!! She too has been catering to my needs, producing yummy foods that my stomach is actually willing to allow me to eat.

Now lest you think I'm whithering away in bed....I did go in for a check-up and new x-rays this morning and my NP informed me that in fact my death is NOT imminent and that REALLY I'm getting BETTER.....yeah right.......

Seriously, she said the x-rays showed some clearing of my lungs and that while I'm hacking more stuff up and feeling more stuff in my lungs when I breath....I'm not dying yet.....that those things are really GOOD things.....yeah right.........

So now I'm allowed to maybe sit up in the living room and watch TV for a bit, but I'm not allowed to go anywhere or DO anything....so really I might as well stay in my room, cause then I have the movies to myself and no little brats....I mean none of my lovely children are climbing on, around, or over me.....not to mention I can drift off to sleep and drool all over myself and no one even knows it.... the drifting off to sleep has stepped up a bit yesterday and today, so tell me, does that sound like I'm getting better to YOU......I didn't think so....

Hey everybody....thanks for the get well wishes, I appreciate them....most of the family is healthy at any one time, however we keep getting one kid, always a different kid, who comes up just feeling, off. Not truly sick, but not feeling like he wants to eat.....so we've consulted with our NP, but she's not overly worried, says it's been a really, really bad year for stuff and to just keep working on it. My current policy is that I really want to see everybody healthy for 48 hrs before we go anywhere. We've also developed a damp basement and that caused some mold issues, so we're eliminating that too, although we're skeptical about whether that's an issue or not for our health.....really skeptical.....

The bad news is that I did go into our NP today and I have been diagnosed with pneumonia. She did send me home, after being in her office for several hours, dealing with tests, shakes, chills and x-rays, based on test results she may still send me into the hospital. I'm betting I get to stay home.....fingers are crossed and everything!!! I'm very close to needing the hospital, in fact I feel sick enough for the hospital, which is saying a LOT for me......I avoid hospitals to the extreme, but if she told me to go right now, I'd go, I've been that sick the last two days.

On a very funny note, it seems as if I was shot with a BB gun when I was very young! There was a very clear BB in my sternum area!! When I was around 6 yrs old, my brother and two or three of his friends went out shooting their BB guns. They were all 5 yrs older than me, so of course they didn't want me around!!! So I stole a small penknife from my Mom's purse and went out to play, I did "accidentally" get close to where they were shooting and the theory until today was that a BB went ricocheting past me, causing me to grasp my chest, with the hand that had the knife, which of course caused a puncture wound. My collarbone saved me from really extreme damage and life went on.....

Now with the x-rays, which are the first time I've had chest x-rays, we're thinking I must have gotten HIT with a BB and that's why I clutched my chest.....such fun huh? I have to say it was humorous enough for me to get me through a few blood leaching sessions.....I mean, to get me through them taking a few blood samples!

So now I'm off to enjoy some drug induced sleep, for which I'm very grateful, drugs are my friend right now!

Well I still have the creeping crud....whatever THAT is......I'm not as light headed, although a trip into town can still do me in. Between my chiropractor and my amazing hubby, my headaches are manageable, and my joints don't seem to be aching anymore.....so that's progress. I do still have a highly, highly annoying cough and a tendency to want to crawl straight back to bed whenever my bladder forces me to stagger down the stairs (can you believe we knowingly bought a house with NO upstairs bath, what fools we were......) Although I do not have to make sure that Brent is within calling distance anymore, when I head down the stairs, in case I should become too lightheaded to make it safely down the stairs.

So...enjoy these pictures of Jayden's b-day, be glad you're getting ANYTHING and realize that sometimes LATE is better than NEVER!!!! The cake was of course, made by Brent, the decorations by the kids and the color scheme and party trappings by Jayden! He's a green kid.

Our kids are colored coded, it's taken several years, but here it is, Amanda is light blue, Than is black, unless the item is not available in black, then he is red, Collin is dark blue, Lee is dark green, Jayden is light green, unless it's his birthday, then it's any shade of green that works for him and his party. Max is........drumroll.................you're NEVER going to guess..............give up???? OK, OK, yes Max is pink, unless of course said item is not available in pink, then he is orange......or any color I can convince him to accept...............yeah, we're real sticklers for the "system" around here!!





Be sure to notice Max in the picture below.....he's at the end of the table, if you double click on the picture you can see his very lovely face that he's making....

Did you know that boys play house? I bet you didn't know they played house like this.....well unless you read my Mom's blog, which of course you probably do, just so that you can reassure yourself that yes, we are still alive and kicking, if nothing else.

Here are some random pictures of their house. I'm not really up for major typing, I've spent it on other things, shame on me.....I'm still sick and I'm SICK of being SICK.....

They made a table with some lumber and cinder blocks....no that is not my child, it's a neighbor's child, I would NEVER let my child out of the house with long shaggy hair and holes in his pants!!
They built the house out of more lumber and cinder blocks, all this was laying around the farm, mostly in this area that they built in. And yes it really was cold enough to be wearing a winter coat, like Jayden's, but Max has no nerve endings and Lee got hot building.
And then the decorating......
Some was more successful than others.....Grandma Candy provided the flowers, the boys did the rest.....


Yes that dang neighbor kid is very proud of his creation......
Oh yeah, they built benches and tables inside AND decorated in there, also.
See the green shirt over his arm in the above picture.....well it's in as good a shape as the jeans are!!! I do NOT know what it is about this kid and his holey clothing.....Mom asked him the other day if he owned any non holey clothing......he laughed and said he did, he just likes his holey clothing better!!
Too cool for words, Mom.......
I have to say that the adult population around here was very impressed with their ingenuity with this project.

PS: The boys are all now sporting short haircuts, as can be seen at Mom's blog, some more willingly than others, AND the holey jeans have been confiscated.....well all but one pair, that used to be in the best shape, but now is in far worse shape than it's mates.......I drew the line when we could see his underwear over his bum....... Now to "loose" this last pair, which is no small feat, as he's very, very attached to them!!! I think he wears them for days on end and sneaks them through the laundry when I'm not looking. The laundry being the ideal candidate for "loosing" clothing whose owner is far too attached to, even though it maybe too small, too holey or just plain rags!!!!