Runaway October

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!

Since Fri­day Declan has had what we thought was food poi­son­ing. That in and of it self is just a nasty stress­ful time. I think I’ve scrubbed vomit/poop out of the car­pet at least 6 times. Any­one who knows me well knows that I don’t do vomit. Period.

Unfor­tu­nately it seems that it’s not food poi­son­ing because now the lit­tlest guy is run­ning a huge fever and had a blowout in bed last night — on my side. This is the baby that poops once every week to two weeks. Poor guy.  All he wants to do is sleep on me and all I want is to not have a per­sonal heater while it’s 100 degrees out­side. It’s got to be some kind of stom­ach bug.

Just think about us and hope we come through this soon.