Runaway October

My chil­dren — They are healthy, ornery and intel­li­gent. My life is hec­tic, full and amaz­ing with them in it. They have thought me to be patient, to look at the world through dif­fer­ent eyes.

My hus­band — Though our mar­riage is still fresh, our part­ner­ship is any­thing but new. I am thank­ful that he is by my side, help­ing and sup­port­ing. He is the may­on­naise on my sand­wich of life — with­out him every­thing would be too dry. 

My mother — Cur­rently she is furi­ously scrub­bing “her bath­room” which hap­pens to be the main bath­room that a cer­tain mostly potty-trained lit­tle boy pees all over. She’s also made break­fast and cleaned the kitchen this morn­ing. Our house­hold would come to a grind­ing stop with­out her in it with us. Some may dread hav­ing their mother come to stay with em, but we absolutely adore her.

The rest of my fam­ily — Every one of them rounds out this lit­tle slice of life that I call my own. Were they not here some­thing would feel amiss.

The rain — While the mud in my dirt back­yard is not fun, I am happy to have the rain wash every­thing away. It gives us a chance to hun­ker down and enjoy time as a fam­ily while drink­ing hot spiced cider.

I am thank­ful that we are healthy, that we have a home and have food to fill our bel­lies. There are needy fam­i­lies who can­not say that they have health, wealth or hap­pi­ness like I can. Though money can be scarce most of the time, I am rich. For that I am eter­nally thankful.

Now… where’s the turkey?

Wow! It’s been awhile. When I picked ‘Run­away Octo­ber’ as my blog name I wasn’t kid­ding. Things just pick up and move so fast this time of year.

- Our nor­mal com­puter is down for the count. I believe I need a new power sup­ply for it, but funds are very lim­ited. It’s much harder to blog when you don’t have your nor­mal setup, with pro­grams and FTPs and the like. Trust me.

- Rowan turned 1 year old last month. He has 8 teeth, and is def­i­nitely on the move. He still prefers to crawl, but he’s got it down and I bet he stops crawl­ing entirely soon. He just walked all the way across the bed­room, as a mat­ter of fact. He seems to walk bet­ter hold­ing some­thing in one hand, like it gives him a mission.

- A fel­low bloggy friend just had a very large benign brain tumor suc­cess­fully removed. Be sure and visit her and send her well wishes.

- My Christ­mas craft­ing is not going as well as planned. I get so stuck when try­ing to think of gifts for every­one. Then I start wor­ry­ing about mak­ing every­thing per­fect. Then I worry that the gift will not be liked and I’ll find it a Good­will in a cou­ple of months, etc etc. I’m also find­ing that hand­made does not mean cheaper. 

- We are all get­ting over a dou­ble round of the stom­ach bug. It’s so hard to watch kids be sick, and pukey sick is even worse. I guess you never really think about learn­ing to puke, but it’s so obvi­ous when some­one doesn’t know how. Declan is a very loud and vio­lent puker.

- Speak­ing of Declan, we took him to the doc­tor to have a wheezy cough looked at.  It turns out it was asthma. He’s cur­rently tak­ing Orapred and thrice daily breath­ing treat­ments of Xopenex. He’s doing much bet­ter. Thank­fully he’s not on a full time reg­i­ment of meds. The Xopenex is $45 a week alone after insurance!

- I’m woe­fully behind on my Sun­day Stash. I don’t know if I’ll get caught up, but hope­fully I’ll stay on top of things.

That’s all for now my pret­ties. Hope­fully I’ll be a lit­tle more reg­u­lar on my posts. I try, I swear. A blog is a lot of work!