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5 days ago
What NOT to do on a night when you've had a few glasses of wine and your boys are busy: Finally, after 3.5 years, look at the NICU video footage of your now, fabulously healthy CDH miracle. What we saw hope in just floors me. Where we saw beauty inspires me. But really, just don't do it, the end.
12 days ago
LICE! Have you had 'em? Oh my what obnoxious house guests they are, I DO NOT recommend you let them in. We've gotten "the letter" home before, you know the one that makes your skin crawl and your head instantly itch? We've never had the pleasure of actually hosting the little buggers before though and oh, what a pleasure, UGH! About a month ago, I had just finished packing the whole family up to head out to San Antonio for my mom's 60th birthday, as in, was loading the dog up to take her to the boarding place before picking the kids up to head out, when my phone rang, "Hi Mrs. Miller, this is the school nurse, I have Jason here and well....he has lice". I literally screamed in the poor girl's (she's not even older than Audrey's youngerst NICU nurse), "WHATTTT????" Went and got him; turned out 4 in his class and 3 in Ethan's had it too. Cancelled our trip to SA and started the delousing process. 20 loads of hot water wash and super heat dry, hours ...
16 days ago
In true Audrey fashion...I write a whole blog about what a toot she can be and she'll slam me with perspective. She has been pull-up free at night for months now without ever having an accident. This morning she woke up with a "little accident mommy". Of course the message I heard was, "Complain about how tough she is and she'll remind you of something you should be thankful for...she may be tough, but she is potty-trained already, oh, and ALIVE, be thankful beyotch!!" Got it. She's still a toot though ;-) Ethan stayed home today and I wasn't going to take him in but something told me I'd better and yep, sure enough, Strep. They just went to the dentist this week, what a waste of a new and free toothbrush, bummer. Have a good weekend!
17 days ago
Hello old friend, how have you been? Facebook took your place but I'm ready to try adding to my verbage again! The Millers are well. Audrey is fabulous and terrible all at the same time...her health, FABULOUS, her rating on the ease of parenting scale? HARD! If I would have known before she was born how stubborn, independent, determined, and smart she was, I would have NEVER doubted that she was going to live. Of course she kicked CDH's ass, she beats me down daily! Seriously can not win for trying with little miss I-don't-miss-a-thing-and-don't-you-try-to-sneak-anything-past-me. Negotiations with her are never win-win for anyone but her...."Audrey, in 2 minutes we are leaving the park" "but I won't be ready then, I need 10 more minutes of swinging" "sorry, my car is leaving in 2 minutes" "but I won't be in it yet" and it goes on and on and on until I get done and carry her kicking and screaming to the car where the fight continues ...
212 days ago
It's that time of the year, people....time for Connor's Books! Since before Audrey was born, I have talked about and solicited books from all of you; for both of Audrey's birthday parties she collected books instead of gifts. This year I'm asking for you to help in another way...Please read the following from Connor's Mommy's blog. Quote HELP US BECOME A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION!! Who knew that way back in Kindergarten when we received a flyer about girl scouts and I asked Emma if she was interested we would end up here?!! The response from the girl scouts has been INCREDIBLE . We don't have a final number yet and hopefully this darn flu won't ruin everything but we are looking at close to 3,000 books. Yep, 3,000 BOOKS !!!! The response has been so wonderful. The girls have been so excited and some are doing their very own book drives at their schools. Outstanding!! We had our own book drive with our troop and there I was with the girl scouts holding up signs ...
