I so don't have time to be doing this

I should be working but if I don't get this out I may just scream! If I've got this all straight in my little pea brain it all started about here, and we've had some kind of crud ever since. Most recently (before the current trip to the trenches) it was my battle with an 8mm kidney stone - which ended up in a surgical removal where they had to use a laser to break it up to get it out. In said procedure they "think" they "may have" nicked my kidney - which all you need to know made me just as sick if not worse for a whole week AFTER the stupid stone was out. On the tail end of that Abbie goes & gets strep throat. GRRRR it never ends. We kick that - finally think that just maybe we are all "healthy", but Abbie has this cough that won't go away. Then Sunday WHAM-O it hits me after church - totally fine at church - within an hour of being home I wanted to crawl into bed for the night. After a couple days of fever, coughing I threw in the proverbial towel & went to the doctor. At which point my fever was 103.3 and as the doctor so lovingly (HA) put it as he listened to my lungs "you sound terrible" - really doc? I feel like CRAP! Official diagnosis - Bronchitis. Meds obtained & hopefully on my way to well - EXCEPT I got derailed again - almost the same as me (no warning what-so-ever) - Nate & Abbie got hammered today, but I wasn't waiting several days to let this get worse for them - took them to the doc - same thing - gee imagine that. They've been stuck in the house with a sick mom all week - & they got sick. I shouldn't be surprised, I'm not really - just grumpy, really grumpy about it all. We actually had plans this weekend, but they've now officially been hosed. We should be good to go by Sunday which thank goodness for the long weekend will allow (hopefully, fingers crossed, as long as the other 3 don't get what we've got) for something fun. If not you may find me in a straight jacket somewhere.

This is how I feel right now (I learned about this at the Time Out For Women I went to back in April)



Now just to figure out how to "change my ways" to get myself & my little family back on the road to happy & HEALTHY again. This is summer vacation after all. Not much of one yet - but we do have plans to change that. Fingers crossed sunshine & health are around the bend!

I am GRATEFUL for good health insurance, for otherwise I'd have to go to work full time or look for another job to supplement this one, we've not had to worry about bills in all of this & in this day & time that brings an immense amount of gratitude - tremendous blessings for certain.

AWW

So when I was thinking about what I wanted to put up today these two pictures popped into my mind.

Abbie, My rain boot ballerina princes

Kassie, My monkey loving monkey with the same dress a few years later. (I didn't realize how many "miles" this outfit had seen until I put these pictures side by side - WOWZA!)

As I was looking through my picture folders trying to find these two I found lots of other "dress-up" pictures that brought back so many fun memories that I decided to include them here - if only just for the fun of it all. (This is only a small sampling of the pictures & since dress up is an almost daily occurrence around here, we have 3 girls after all, there are more dress-up experiences than there will ever be pictures of said events)

Some outfits we go all out for:

 For some reason this one reminds me of the movie ET - when thy dressed ET up as a girl - sorry Kassie no insult intended, it just pops into my head every time.

 Harry Potter at his movie premier - complete with Hedwig

Some are spur of the moment (like the dress up section in a the naval museum):

And sometimes it's just a single accessory/addition that changes everything:

 And sometimes Dad even gets roped into the funny business.

 These funny teeth brought to you (as lollipops) from the Easter Bunny

 PS - she just discovered how much she likes strawberries :)

 Before just a pair of underwear - now Spiderman!

 A fuzzy purple hat takes her from a cute little girl in purple to a Lavender Diva!

 "Gags" from a family reunion in Idaho - good thing there's a dentist in the family!

Then there's the always unfortunate, wardrobe malfunction:

I am grateful for the playful spirits and grand imaginations my children have been blessed with.