Sick girl...

Emily just wasn't herself yesterday. She was quiet and reserved most of the day, HA!, and last night at bedtime I decided to take her temp. It was 102! She went right to sleep, but woke up at some point in the night and came downstairs to me. We "slept" on the couch for a few hours. I am one of those weird moms that lets their child run fevers. I figure that God gave that to us to take care of things, so let it do its job. Just my opinion. So, she jerked and shook and carried on while I held her and then I could feel her fever drop a little. She perked up and asked to go get back in the bed. She woke up this morning still at 102 and complaining of "burning tee-tee." GREAT...so off we go to Dr. Z. After a lovely adventure of going potty in a cup, she has a UTI, but something else undetermined. Her labs are being sent off to see what is hurting her. The way she is shaking, I think it is her kidneys. We've got something to cover the UTI and then just wait and see what comes back in a couple of days.

Happy Easter!

We had a wonderful Easter...church, lunch, and nap. What else does a family need? The bruise on Em's head is from falling out of the bed in St. Louis. I hoped it would be gone by Easter, but it wasn't. She just moves from injury to the next...wonder where she gets that???

We went to St. Louis for Spring Break this week and I am still working on my post with all of our pictures. I will post them soon. Brent has gone to Virginia. His dear friend Bob died this week and the funeral is tomorrow. I need his help with some of the pictures!

Aunt Sissy was right

When I was around 16, I put sun-in on my hair. My great aunt Sissy pulled me aside one day and gave me some advise. I'll paraphrase, since it was so many, many years ago...she said, "You shouldn't start coloring your hair. You have Williamson hair. As you get older, it will turn on you. You will put color on it and when you are an old lady, someone will stop by to see you and you will have gone gray "Overnight" because no one will believe what your hair looked like underneath. You don't want to do that." She was so right. I am so gray. I have tried to hide it...but, alas, I cannot keep this secret anymore. I am trying to think when my dad started to gray. Was it in his early 30's? Am I getting slammed from both sides of my genetic pool??? I am not going to stop covering it up, but if you come by to call on me and I have 2 inches of gray (ugly gray, not pretty snowy white) hair from my roots to the rest of my hair, will you be a dear and go get me a bottle of Clairol 107A?

Tyler's program

Tyler's first grade class had a music program yesterday morning. They performed about 10 songs. He did great. He had a speaking part and he was very nervous, but he did a great job. We have video of the whole show, but I have no idea how to post something like that. Maybe that will be my next blog venture.

My life back

Now that the clothing sale is over, I can resume my normal life!!!! YAHOO! My mom is on spring break this week and she took Emily for the day and I have cleaned and bought groceries and taken care of Easter Bunny things all day. I was so tempted to sneak in a nap, but I just couldn't do it with all that has to be done! I really hoped to fit in some sewing today, but it's not going to happen. Maybe I can sew again in June...maybe.

Light at the end of the tunnel

I have to admit, today I woke up feeling better than I have in 2-3 weeks. Maybe this is finally over. We had a good weekend, but every time we got out to do anything, it immediately drained us and we had to rest. We should have known better, but it was so pretty outside and there was so much to do!

I spent the day at church yesterday getting ready for the clothing sale. Our church is in the middle of major construction and it took us all day to get the gym clean enough for the hundreds of shoppers this week! Emily and I are headed up there this morning to begin receiving clothes. She is so excited to be "babysitted." She just wants to be where the action is.

Pray for a healthy week!