Wow this week has been tough!

Last Friday I took Mason and Ashley to the doctor.  Both had ear infections.  Mason's was really bad.  They have such a high tollerance for pain that it is so difficult to know when they are sick until it is really bad.  Ashley also had a yeast infection.

Wednesday, Mason spiked a fever and just wasn't himself.  Thursday- he continued to have a fever so I kept him home from MDO.  I got the other two ready to go and Mason said, "Wait you forgot to get me dressed."  I said, "Well today you can wear your pajamas."  He said, "I've never wore my pajamas to school before."  He still thought he was going to school.  Throughout the day he told me his head hurt and his mouth hurt.  He would get so tired and would take long naps.  I also, have been having headaches that don't seem to go away with medicine.

Last night was horrible!  Mason ran around the corner and fell on the corner of the banister scraping his side.  He cried and cried and I tried to comfort him.  He is much more sensitive when he is sick.  Ashley was extremely jealous that Mason was getting all the attention.  I can not get her to understand that when one of the others is sick, they need to have extra attention.  So with Mason being sick and hurt and Ashley being needy, I just didn't need anymore stress.  Well...Austin was trying to "walk the balance beam" on a plastic gate that I was trying to fix at the time.  He fell right down hitting his groan.  The gate pinched his inner thigh and scraped or pinched his testicle too.  He cried for at least 2 hours straight.  That's when I lost it.  My husband glared at me like it was my fault and I thought may be Austin thought it was my fault too.  I just cried and cried right along with him.  I ended up sleeping with Austin to make sure he was ok and he was ok by the morning.  Greg slept with Mason and said all night long he was short of breath, burping and his heart rate was really fast.

So today I took Mason back to the doctor.  (I actually should say when I have to take one to the doctor, then all of them come with me.)  The poor little fella has the flu.  They all had flu shots, apparantly if he hadn't had one it would be much worse.  I was surprised at the burping.  I have never heard of burping being a way of the body kind of throwing up.  Anyway, all of us including me got on something called Tamiflu.  It should help Mason get over the flu and prevent the rest of us from getting it.

This is much longer than I anticipated.  I had just planned to get on here and Thank my Secret Sister and go to bed.  But I guess I just need to get it out.

So about that...After going to 2 pharmacies that didn't have the medicine in stock I went home.  I opened the mail box to 2 surprises.  The first one was blackberry jam.  I won it from being in the Make-It-From-Scratch Contest.  And the other was a big envelope with 3 packages of scrapbooking letter stickers and three darling bookmarks, and a beautiful Secret Sister card.  I really needed that smile today.  Thank you so much!

For those of you praying for my family...Thank you so much!  I'm tired and so far behind.  My parents are travelling here tomorrow.  I would love to have the place cleaned up for them.  At least get the paint off the bathroom sink nozzles (Is that what they are called?).  All the dishes cleaned and put away, the kitchen floor mopped--oh and so much more, but those are the biggies.  Then next week I need to start tagging for a consignment sale.

Sorry this is a downer today...I just don't feel great.  Good night.