A Great Website for All of Us in Need of a Little Help.

I found this website in a baby mag. and thought I would sign up and give everyone the username and password so that we could all use it.
Here's the website information: http://www.lotsahelpinghands.com/c/607640/ and the user name is my email the password is : beg68lap. Please use it. It would be in the best interest of everyone. Send on the information to anyone that you might think would be interested in helping all of us out. This should be interesting but a fun way to get a sitter or let people know about something. Check it out, I have already put up an event!

More pictures.. taken today!

Love,
Missy

Thoughts...

I've been thinking a lot about our move back home. I'm so scared to fly. I'm scared of what is going to happen with regards to housing, transportation, getting enough hours at Target to support myself and my family. I keep thinking that this is something that I have done before, move half way across country but this time I'm more prepared. At least both Robert and I have a job to go to when we get back. It's all still scary though.
It took a lot of thinking to come to the decision to move back home. A lot of back and fourths. A lot of time. It was a hard decision. A decision that is best for at least my kids and myself. I hope that Robert will be okay in the long run. He's nervous but you can see a little excitement with going to a new Target. That's a start. I hope that he will be excepted as part of the family. I so hope that he will be excepted. He's a different kind of person. A GREAT person. Something that has not presented it's self into our lives in a long time, I'm saying the kids and I.
That's all I've been thinking about. Sorry Sarah that our call yesterday ended without saying goodbye, my phone died. But the 15th will work for us.. so lets plan on that. I'm so excited to see you, Todd and the kids. Along with everyone else.
Love,
Missy

Finally Home!

So I hope that this is the only illness that hits all the kids in the same week and puts all of the in the hospital. This week has been pure HELL! Izzy is great. We got to take her home this afternoon and she's been sleeping most of the day.. which is alright.
Everyone else is well again also. Steven's got a runny nose but he's good. Katie.. well... she's Katie again. :)
That's it for now.
Love, Melissa

Hospital Update...

So here's the d.l (down low) on Izzy. All of the kids have been sick and have been to the emergency room because of high temps. Due to Izzy being so young it is an automatic 48 hour stay for her. But in her case it is longer because her temp doesn't want to go down. This morning it was 100.8 and it did go down after given some meds. It was 98.6 when I left. She has to maintain a regular temp for 12 hours before they will release her. Although I didn't want to leave, it was my turn to come home and take care of the other two. But in the end it is okay. I get to get a quiet night for the first time in a week. :)
Izzy should come home tomorrow sometime with luck.
Love,
Missy

HOSPITAL... AGAIN!

Yet another child is in the hospital. Actually, all of them have been here over the last week but Izzy is the only one that they have kept, due to her age. Not a whole lot of time to write so I will fill you all in at a later time.
Love you,
Missy

SHE IS OKAY... JUST A HIGH TEMP.

Todays Notes

I am feeling a little better today about everything. I am mostly scared at night when I have to go to sleep and am not with her.
I am heading back to work on Wednesday. Looking forward to it. I hope it will help me with all that has been going on. But we will see. Not getting much for hours but that's okay too. Ease into it.
Everyday I am looking forward more and more to getting back to Minnesota. Hoping everything gets better in my kids lives and also mine.
Here's a couple of updated pictures of Izzy. Hope they work for everyone. :)

Scary Days

This past couple of days have been scary. As you all probably heard, Katie had a "fever siezure". It was scary. I never want to experience that again. This happend on Tuesday night. That morning she wasn't feeling well. She had thrown up multiple times and had a fever, I didn't take it but she was warm to the touch. I had put her in the car to take her to the hospital ( I thought she was having an elergic reaction to dried cherries) but on the way she fell asleep, I thought it was something that she would just sleep off so I turned around and went home. HOW STUPID AM I! I had a doctors appointment that I went to that afternoon and called Robert often to make sure she was alright, she was still sleeping. When I got home, Robert told me that she had eaten a banana and she looked alright. Andy came over at about 4 p.m to see the kids and she was doing decent. I could tell that she was not feeling well again so I gave her some motrin. She came and layed in my bed and was only complaining that she was tired but I decided to take her temp under her arm. It read at 102.0 and I don't know if it was correct because she was moving and didn't want to have anything to do with it. So I gave her her pacie and went out to have a smoke. Andy was in the house so I thought if something happend he would hear her. I sat outside on the porch, right outside my bedroom window and lite my smoke. I heard a little groan and thought it was just her complaining about being sick and then I heard a louder groan and knew something wasn't right. I came back into the bedroom and found her on the bed siezing. She was by herself. I wasn't there to comfort her when it began. I wasn't there... I feel so guilty. I yelled to Andy and he called the fire department and they took her to the hospital. I let her temp get to high. At the hospital it was 103.7. She is okay. I guess that there's no damage that happends from these types of siezures and they aren't preventable, but they are. If I had took the time to give her some medicine when she was first not feeling well, it probably wouldn't happen. How could I let this happen?! I tell her everday how sorry I am. How sorry I am that I turned the car around when I was going to bring her. How do I get over the guilt? I could have prevented it. All I can say is please, please watch your babies. If they are sick, please trust them and give them the attention that they need. The doctors told me that this is most likely something that is genetic, but it could happen to anyone. Doctors also say that if it happends once, it will probably happen again. Just please... watch your kids. Save yourself this kind of heartach and guilt.
Melissa

Finally.. an update

So, finally able to tap into someone's internet! Yeah! Got a chance to catch up on my favorite blogs and email. My new niece and nephews are crazy beautiful! And I also talked to Jenny and found out the wonderful news that she's having a girl! Congrats! So much to be thankful for and also to look forward to when we come home. We are starting to count the days. Next month! I'm so so excited. So much new things to come home to see and so many people to come home to meet.
So I love and miss everyone!
Missy