Random Happenings

The kids have been a little sickie around here. I hope they get better in time for Easter. The weather is supposed to be so nice. I would hate for them to spend Easter Sunday in bed!

Major's eardrum burst yesterday. He suffered with a yucky cold for a few days and had been doing two things that concerned me: 1)shunning food- not the norm for either of my kids 2)Saying,"Mommy, I wanna go to bed please." thoroughout the day. I had taken his temperature yesterday morning and was debating whether or not I should call the doctor when I noticed some nasty looking stuff coming out of his ear. It looked like dried blood, so I frantically made the phonecall. I took him in yesterday and he is now on antibiotics for a ruptured eardrum. He has been complaining and he keeps saying, "Mom, I have a boogey in my ear. It's yucky yucky." It makes me feel a little bad. I have taken both of my kids to the doctor (for illness) fewer than 10 times. I just don't like to rush them in at the sign of a sniffle. In this case, however, I wished I'd acted a bit sooner. We've all been so sick here these past few months. I feel like Josh's entire paycheck should be directly deposited at various doctor's offices. The nurses at the pediatrician's office say that this season has been the worst they've ever seen for illness. I wish my brother would hurry up and finish medical school, so we can bother him for perscriptions and medical advice. We are quite a sickly bunch right now. (Julie, if you are reading this, that is why we have yet to schedule a visit to Houston.)

Mary Alice the girl has a little fever too. She always handles illness better than Major. The girl is generally pretty healthy (with the exception of the freak long lasting diarrhea that we are now OVER!), so I expect her to get well pretty quickly. Lord willing, she can get better before Easter.

Today, Mary Alice came forward to tell me the truth about a "crime" she'd committed. She has been doing that alot lately (confessing). I think it is really precious that her little heart feels so drawn to confess disobedience or something that she feels she did wrong.

She had a very sincere face on and said, "Mom, I need to tell you that I did something very bad."

"What did you do?"

"I got into the olive oil and drank some of it up."

"What?" I said, trying not to laugh.

"I got into the olive oil the other night when we were making green beans... and I... I thought it would taste good like tea, so I drank some, but it didn't taste good. It just tasted like..like oil and now my stomach hurts and my bottom hurts and I feel like I have a cherry pit inside my stomach. Mom, I'm so so sorry. I'm really really sorry."

I am trying so hard not to laugh at her sincere apology and just to make sure it actually was olive oil that she had ingested, I had her point out what it was that she drank and had her tell me exactly how much just to be safe. I told her how proud I was of her telling the truth and how is pleases God when we tell the truth and how much God hates lying. I also told her to never ever get a snack without asking, because I don't want her to eat or drink something that would make her very sick!

She gave me a hug and repeated just how sorry she was. It was precious! I just had to record this moment on my blog.

Also, Nicole Brantley found Mary Alice's missing Bible. She had this little pink Bible that her Uncle Craig and Aunt Deon gave to her when she was born. We misplaced it at church about a year ago, looked for it for about a month, and then supposed that it was gone for good. Well, sweet Nicole found it and mailed it back to us. It arrived yesterday. Mary Alice was so excited! She has been sleeping with the long lost Bible and taken it everywhere today.

I guess that's all for the last few days.