Where do I start?

Greetings all. Did you miss me? I have been VERY busy. Wednesday morning I packed up the kids and headed into the city to take Emily to the ENT (tonsil doctor). Thanks to my previous trip to the city with my father in law I even drove! Nothing like the fear of death to make you do thinks that you used to think impossible. Anyways, he deemed Emily fit for surgery and so we stayed in the city at Lynda's (sister in law) and waited for 7 am to roll around so we could head to admitting. I have to say I am glad that the offending tonsils are gone but really not happy that our surgery time was screwed up, thus making us show up at 7 am for surgery that was scheduled for 9:45. I was not impressed. I could have slept for at least another hour. I will in the future be making my charitable donation of the year to the hospitals foundation and going to specify that the money go to the people making the surgery appointments.

Emily did wonderful, she didn't cry and didn't even need the sedative that they gave the other kids to make them sleepy for when they took them to the OR. She was awake by the time they wheeled her back to us and the first thing she said was "my mouth feels empty." lol No doubt considering she had 2 tonsils the size of oranges back there. My mouth would feel empty too. We got to leave the hospital at 2:30 as long as she had drank lots and we stayed in the city. So we got have another sleep over. I got to wake up every 3 hours to give her medicine and make her drink water. Let me tell you how fun that was a tired, grumpy child with a sore throat. Yeah nothing is as fun as that at 2 in the morning. We both made it through the night (barely) and got to come home the next morning. For the next two nights we had to wake her up and make her drink, and by we I mean me by the way, and get up with Issy. I felt like the walking dead and kind of still do actually. Emily is feeling much better and is actually eating some real food now. You know its bad when your 6 year old says "mom do I have to have ice cream?". On a good note though I won't have to beg her to eat food before dessert anymore.

Other things have happened this last week or so too. The most exciting being that I reported one of Colin's so called friends for ripping around and and burning tires in front of my house at 10 at night and waking up my kids. I had asked him many, many times to stop but he didn't listen and apparently didn't think that I would actually do anything about it. He was so wrong. There is one thing that you never do and that is underestimate me. Especially when it comes to my kids. When you carry something around inside of you for 10 months you tend to get a little protective of that thing. Now there is no way a man could ever understand this feeling but let me tell you piss off a mother and you will figure it out really quickly. So anyways I called the police and they pulled him over and gave him an inspection ticket, this means that you have to take your vehicle into be inspected and if there is anything wrong than you have to fix it. Well one of his other friends decided that this was his problem and is now not speaking to us because of this whole thing. It is so stupid we lost a good friend because of something that had NOTHING to do with him. I guess it just shows that he wasn't as good of a friend as we thought. The hardest part of all of this is that my kids loved him and now I have to try and explain why they won't see him around anymore. Life goes on though and we will persevere.

Lets see what else is new? Hmmmm. Oh I know it is costing us $730 to renew Colin's license. When he put the car in the water this spring they added all sorts of surcharges to his drivers license and we didn't know about them until today when he went to renew it. Talk about a mad scramble to try and dig up the money to pay for that. It was a tad important to have a drivers license when your job is DRIVING a truck. So needless to say we got that all cleared up and life is moving on. Emily is on the road to recovery and life is moving on slowly but surely. To end on a happy note we got Isabelle's hair bows in the mail today and they are super super cute. I will post some pictures of that and Emily's haircut that fixed her self haircut as soon as I find some batteries for my camera. I am off to wrangle the kids to bed. Wish me luck. Ta ta for now.