Hallee told Keith that he couldn't make dinner because he wasn't a maker like mom. I'm glad she thinks I'm a "maker" because cooking is not my strong point!
This week started a little rough for us. On Tuesday Wyatt woke up with pink eye. His eye was so red and swollen, it looked awful. I have had horrible ear aches and I was pretty sure I had a sinus infection so I spent Tuesday morning looking for a doctor for Wyatt and I to go to. It took over three hours from when we left the house, but we found a doctor and we really liked him. We buy our own insurance because the insurance from Keith's work is awful. We pay for every thing unless it is over $500 so doctor visits are not cheap. It was a long, stressful morning, but I'm glad we went because the doctor said I had a pretty nasty ear infection and a sinus infection and Wyatt did have pink eye. I was so relieved when we got home and we all went down for a nap. I had been up with three of the four kids the night before so I was exhausted. Poor Jonah has a dream that Keith and I die at least once a month. I can always get him calmed down, but that is obviously a big fear of his.
Caitlyn ended up getting pink eye too, at least I think she did. The doctor gave me an extra prescription in case anyone else got it, so when she woke up with a red eye I just started her on it. Her eye never got really bad, but I kept her home for two days just to be safe. She was not happy about missing school, I'm so glad she loves school so much.
I went to SEP conferences for Caitlyn and Jonah this week. It was so good to go in and talk to their teachers, it is hard not knowing any of the teachers or kids at their school. I love both of their teachers. Both of them seemed to know the kids really well and they both had great things to say about them.
On Wednesday Jonah and I decided to go to a Jazz game. We picked up his friend Gaven on the way. Jonah and Gaven have missed each other. I loved listening to them talk to each other in French and laugh, they sure get a kick out of each other.
These two are goof balls. It was a great game, the Jazz won by almost thirty points. I was thrilled for a night out after a hard week of sickness, eye drops and constantly telling Wyatt not to touch his eye.
The night was great except for when I got us lost. I am horrible with directions and I took a different street than I normally do so I got myself all turned around. I decided to pay to park because we were running late and I didn't want to be walking all over downtown with the boys. My plan backfired and we ended up walking around the block instead of right down the street to the arena because I was so turned around. After the game I couldn't figure out where we had parked because of the confusion before the game. We walked around for a while and then I started to panic. We were back by the arena and this wonderful, nice man offered to give us a free ride in his bike carriage to find our car. The boys were thrilled because they were tired of walking and they thought it was pretty cool to ride in the bike trailer. We rode around until Jonah and I started recognizing things and found our car. I was so grateful for that guys help. I gave him the $5 I had and thanked him over and over. I was so nervous walking around downtown with the boys. I was so relieved when we were safely in our car. I feel pretty dumb that I got us so lost.
Wyatt was so excited when he found a dollar under his pillow from the tooth fairy.
Wyatt lost his first tooth yesterday. He was so excited when he realized it was loose. Yesterday I noticed it was gone and he had no idea that the tooth had fallen out. He wrote a note to the tooth fairy since he didn't have his tooth. The first words out of his mouth when he found his dollar was, "can you take me to All A Dollar?"
This week has been a rough week. The kids take turns being sad and missing their friends and both Caitlyn and Jonah miss their old school a lot. I've had a rough week and felt negative, so that didn't help. Negative thinking is a dangerous whirlpool that pulls me in quickly if I'm not careful. I still believe you have to feel your emotions and sometimes they are negative, but I have been dwelling in the negative too much. I wasn't expecting this move to be so hard on me. I knew I would miss people, but I'm surprised by how much I miss everyone and how much I miss the familiar. It also hasn't helped that this winter has been freezing and depressing and we keep getting sick. All of those things have added up to me feeling sorry for myself. I have been thinking about a conference talk where he (I don't remember who) talked about asking the Lord what we can do to improve and bring the Spirit into our lives, "What Lack I Yet?" I feel like I need to be more positive. Being positive has never come natural to me, so I need to renew my efforts to be positive and not dwell on negative thoughts. I'm sure all of my friends and family would love it if I stopped complaining so much! I've heard that you have a much better chance of keeping your goals if you write them down, so I wrote it down here and now I need to start working on it.
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