Counting my Blessings!

I am out of the hospital! I hope that I do not have to go back for a very long time. I was in for 6 days having an IVIG treatment. Basically I got new plasma that is supposed to kick my body back into doing the right thing. I think that I will be put on medicine, but I will find that out tonight. So being away from home and around a lot of people less fortunate than me got me thinking (I had a lot of time to think), of how blessed my life really is. I have 2 healthy great kids. I have a son and a daughter. I have a wonderful husband who can fix anything! I live in a cute little home complete with wildlife. I have the best family in the world! There is no stopping the fun when we get together and that goes for both sides. I have wonderful caring friends. I have realitively good health. I live in a free country. Last but certainly not least, I have the gospel in my life. What more could I ask for? I am really glad that I won't be having my vitals taken every couple of hours that was getting really annoying. I am happy to be home. I will kind of miss the hospital bed, they are kind of fun to play with when you get bored.

Haloween

Kiley and Danny wanted to go trick or treating this year. I didn't let them go last year because I thought they were too old for this, I guess you are never to old to dress up and beg for candy. Well being the bad mom that I am I felt guilty for depriving them of this pleasure. So I told them that if I didn't have to spend any money on their costumes they could go. Kiley wore her 50's costume that I made her a couple of years ago and Danny borrowed Kiley's pirate costume. I still wasn't sure if they were going to go because they were still making arrangements to go with their friends. Well I think my kids are pretty cute but I have to admit they don't look quite as cute in their costumes as their little cousins do. I think they had a good time. Kiley even had to sing for some of her candy because the family made all of the teenagers earn their candy which I think is a good idea. I only saw one hooker costume this year, thank you very much! I wonder if she had to sing for her candy. I wish parents would care more for their children and not let them dress like that. Oh well not much I can do I guess. I hope that everyone had a happy halloween! Next year I am going to distract my kids by letting them have a halloween party at our house. I will try and have them build a haunted house in our back yard. Well we will see if I remember this by next year!

Snow day

Kiley doing homework by candlelight.

Keith fixing the power!!! Yeah for Keith!!!(he just saved us a ton of money!)

Playing Nertz by candlelight.

We got snow on October 28th. It started as a beautiful day. I love a snow day because life has to slow down. Well life really slowed down for us. About 4pm the power went out. Not a problem we have a gas stove and dinner was already started so that was good. I love candles so I lit all of my candles and we found the flashlights. We also have a woodstove and a fire was already burning so we were set. We played nertz by candlelight and the kids sang silly songs. A friend of ours lent us his generator so we got the power started again. Unfortunatley that is when things started to go wrong, or so we thought. The water would not pump out of the washing machine or the dishwasher so we thought we had 2 broken appliances. The next evening when we knew the power would be back on Keith went to turn ours on and the switch was broken. So Keith needed to put a new electric box in. Thank heavens that he knows how to do that. Things were getting a little tense around here for a while but Keith came to the rescue and used his fix-it skills and we now are all powered up!!!!




I now understand why the early settlers went to bed early and got up early, because there is just not too much to do when you do not have electricity! I have learned that I need more candles, matches and a few more lanterns. I also need to have extra batteries stored next to the flashlights. Oh, when we finally did get the power on we found out that the dishwasher and the washing machine worked. There must be a safety on them so that there is not a power surge or so that we do not use them if there is not enough power. Kiley and Danny are so happy that the dishwasher works because otherwise they are y dishwashers! I am so happy that the washing machine works because when you get used to having one in your own home it is hard to go with out! I am extremely grateful for modern technology and will try not to take it for granted. I am sure that I will be reminded every time the power goes out. Now we just have to save up for a generator!