Archive for December, 2005

Sick kids

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Poor Brandon and Alyson are sick and both came home from the doctor today with 3 prescriptions (each).

Alyson has a creme for excema… it turns out the horrible sore under her nose that we thought was a burn at Christmas was just excema (sp?). She’s also on the nebulizer every four hours.

Brandon is also on the nebulizer every four hours. He’s also on amoxicillin twice a day for a beginning ear infection. He ALSO gets to take two pills (crushed) each day. Alyson gets the same pills if she gets much worse.

Brandon gets to go back to the doctor first thing Monday morning for a recheck… I guess the pediatrician was concerned about his breathing… he and Alyson both sound just terrible.

The good news is, Christian is fine. He’s got a bit of a cough, and the pediatrician listened to him and said he was fine :-)

So it seems our New Years will be spent quietly at home.

Happy New Year!

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Custom List: Prayer List

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Prayer List

  • For us: That I will be able to find a way to open my own tax prep office and leave Orrtax.

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Christmas

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Well, this blog entry would have been done last weekend if our internet hadn’t been down for two days. Apparently something blew up and knocked out only our service :-( But it’s all better now :-)

Christmas was WONDERFUL. We had such a nice, relaxing weekend!

The 23rd, Friday, I was lucky enough to leave work early. The boss was on vacation, although apparently she did call around the office to try to find someone around 2. There was no one to be found :-)

Christmas eve was, as always, spent up in Arlington. The kids had a great time with aunties and cousins. Alyson loved all of the food. The previous week at bake day, she even liked a tomato and mozzerella (sorry for the spelling) and vinagrette (ack, spelling again) salad. Alyson didn’t even mind being passed around. All day the kids asked when they could open presents! Christian got both the smore maker and the chocolate fountain he’d been asking for. He was so excited! Brandon got a karate Spongebob toy that he’d been asking for. Alyson got an adorable little chair with a table and light that sings to her and lights up. (There were other gifts as well, but these are the highlights) :-)

We even made it to the Christmas Eve candlelight service. We had to be there at 10 for the 11pm service. The kids got changed in to their jammies and were really good. A little wound up, but good. Brandon slept through the whole service. Alyson desperately wanted the candles! She was so tired but just couldn’t rest. Christian was a little bit bored, but when it came time to light the candles, he perked right up.

By the time the kids were in bed, it was at least 12:30. Bill and I got to bed about 2. At 5, Christian woke up and woke me up (and was promptly told to go back to sleep LOL). He slept on the floor by my bed until 7:30. Much better :-) We were all up and tearing into stockings by 8. Bill was disappointed because he got Brandon the same SpongeBob gift, but Brandon decided he liked it so much he wanted to keep them both!

After all of the gifts were opened, we had a nice breakfast and we had a little bit of time to play before Grandma Julie came over. We really enjoyed her visit. Alyson carried around her new Live Strong bracelet for 24 hours before she put it down for a rest LOL. The kids love the play tent and tunnel too. It was the year for duplicate gifts, though. I know Mom was disappointed that Christian had already received a smore maker. The good news is, I’m sure the Alvord family will enjoy it :-) We’re hoping to get together with them this weekend.

We had Christmas dinner at Grandma Tessie’s house, and more gifts! Uncle Ed spoiled the boys with a Nintendo DS to share!! Alyson got a really cute fuzzy Dora chair to sit in and a nice fleece pillow. Ed found me a nice lamp that’s made of salt! It’s really cool. Bill was excited to get Battlestar Galactica Season 1 on DVD. We still have one more gift exchange there, as Uncle Andrew and Brenda are in Chicago.

The 26th we got to just have a nice relaxing day home playing with all of our new toys :-) Over all, we had a great Christmas! Brandon was funny… he said he hated every single gift (well, except the SpongeBob gift). Alyson, on the other hand, dearly loved every single gift. She loves her Cabbage Patch doll, her bracelet, both of her new chairs, her ball popper toy from Daddy… every single gift. She even loves the clothes! Christian’s favorite gifts this year were his new spy kit and the smore maker and a remote control flywheel that Brandon got him. Brandon’s favorite gift was by far the SpongeBob toy.

I think that about sums up our Christmas weekend! Happy New Year everyone!

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Quick funny about Brandon

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

This morning at breakfast, I said that right after breakfast I needed to go to the store.

Brandon’s response?

“Good luck with that.”

LOL!

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Narnia

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

Yesterday was Brandon’s 4th birthday. His party was last week, but we wanted to do something special for him, so we took him to the Chronicles of Narnia movie on opening day. It was a great movie. I highly recommend seeing it (although I don’t think it absolutely has to be seen in the theater). Brandon was a little bit bored and distracted. He really wanted to go play the games in the lobby, so he kept asking if the movie was over yet. We also let him pick dinner, so we picked up his favorite McDonalds dinner on the way home :-)

Today the kids are getting ready for tomorrow night’s Christmas program. Alyson and I just went and spent $100 on clothes for her (yikes). At least I can finally clean out some of the clothes in her dresser that she keeps wearing every week even though she’s getting too big. She’s really going to need more clothes in the summer – if only we could move her birthday LOL. I would have bought her more 18 months clothes today, but they were all long sleeves and fleece. I also picked up a set of gloves, hat, and scarf for her stocking… she keeps stealing mine, so I don’t think it’ll matter that they’re a little big for her :-)

Christian got to go on a field trip to see a play about the elves and the shoemaker (whatever that is about LOL). He was upset about it because he missed two recesses. I also sent him with money for the bookfair this last week and he forgot every day to use it. I guess we should have gone on parent night afterall. Oh, well, he has lots of books and I’m sure there will be another bookfair in the spring.

Some good news, I’ve been getting more calls and emails than I ever expected thanks to my listing on bookkeepinghelp.com. I have another meeting with a potential client Monday night (and this is after I met witih 2 new clients less than a month ago). I’m excited for what January will bring!

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Snow!

Thursday, December 1st, 2005
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What a great day to be stuck at home. Grandma was sick today and couldn’t watch the kids, so I got to stay home. While Alyson and Brandon aren’t terribly helpful when I’m trying to work from home, it was ccertainly fun to be able to tell Brandon, Look it’s snowing! He got SO excited. He had to put his shoes on and go outside. Alyson liked it too. I’m hoping to get snowed in and not have to go to work for a couple of days 🙂

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