There are days when you are reminded as to how absolutely wonderful your spouse is, today and tonight combined are one of those times. Last night I stayed up late to get some packing done, spend some time with Ken and to enjoy some of the tv I have pvred and not watched. But 2 hours after I went to bed I woke up to one of the children calling for Ken and the distinctly stomach turning noise of a child throwing up.

Apparently Emanuel was sitting on the toilet and all of a sudden threw up… all over the bathroom floor! Ken was quick to the rescue and when the same child who alerted us of the issue decided to pipe up again and wake up the baby he left me to feed, change and put her back to bed. (we were trying for a whole night sleep through and made it to 4:30 am!) Even with Ken’s iron stomach he was in need of a momentary lay down on the couch once the cleaning was done. Myself – I would have just ended up throwing up as well!

This afternoon it has become apparent that Emanuel has a tiny stomach bug, he was sick again (this time in the livingroom and again Ken leapt into action – of course I had arms full of baby!) and decided to take the afternoon for a nap and rest in his bed. Here’s hoping it is a small and quick bug, they usually are with Emanuel… he is so rarely ill.

Naptime

Combine the ill 5 yr old with a call back from Echo’s doctor and life just gets MORE exciting. Apparently her bloodwork came back with high potassium levels… now don’t get excited there is actually (almost always) an answer to this – apparently they probably squeezed her arm too tight with the tourniquet! Oh and the 2nd nurse’s hands squeezing her arm above and below. So, the solution – a redo on the bloodwork but this time at one of the local clinics on Tuesday. They will fax over the requisition… BUT this has us rushing her over on the 31st… which, if Sunday goes well, means the day BEFORE we move myself and the kids to the new rental. Can you say CRUNCH TIME? They were also able to move our appointment with our doctor to the same day as the cardiologist saving us a trip back into the city in July.

Trying a new food - 8 months jarred chicken and fruit

So we have managed to continue our trend of almost frantic activity here in the Reinsch-Johnson family. We have 3 payment orders connected to our homeschooling board for the supplies I want to pick up… BUT they have to be used before the end of the month! So now it is a mad dash to get a hold of the places and make sure they can confirm amounts and put them through in time… add to that the fact that you cannot call our board on a Friday (they use Fridays to reply to missed messages and return calls) and all of a sudden there are only two full working days left!

In our novel the little boy Sam Beaver always ends his day writing in his diary and ending with a question to think about while he falls asleep. So for today’s activity the twins each came up with a question to write out about the chapter and then illustrated it. Today’s chapter was about a fox attempting to eat our female swan! I had a little bit of explaining to do there, but they seemed to comprehend it.

Finished pages

Sean came over today to help Ken with some running about. I have to say I don’t know what we would do without the wonderful friends and family that are in our lives. With as many kids as we have it is an utter blessing to have so many other people loving them as they do. (which of course is one of our motivations for moving out of this city and  to the other – closer to some very special people in our children’s lives.)

Chris and Chris stopped by. Today was (she) Chris’ graduation. She is now a certified care aide. VERY exciting. It was nice to have a visit with them both. They are about as stressed out as we are with their hunt for a rental closer to (he) Chris’ work and the upcoming wedding. But you know, I think good things are coming our way and theirs as well… as (she) Chris says, we are due! So I have a new goal.. I am going to find some way to make a BIG good thing happen for them… save them some money, come up with something amazing to do for decorations… something.

Congratulations Chris!

I am still stitching away… you can FINALLY see the shape of the toe. I like to finish these two chunks of solid cross stitches first as they can be the most monotonous. I am loving the colour combination – total girly!

Toe

Bedtime is an all out battle right now… but I am trying to remain calm with the kids. I am just hoping that Sunday will go well and our nights of cramming all 3 boys into one room will have a stop date. I am remaining guardedly optimistic as always.

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