The Moore You Know

I’ve started carpooling with Ann Gardner, a woman that lives down the road.  She takes the kids to school and I pick them up.  It’s works out great!  I love only having to pick them up once a day now.  One thing that I’ve found incredibly funny is watching them try to get into her SUV.  All my kids have grown up with a van.  The doors magically open and shut for them, no work on their part at all.  The first few days they had a really hard time shutting the door.  They opened the door too wide so that when it came time to close it, they couldn’t get the right leverage.  Then just this morning they were trying to open the door.  Chiler tried first but I think he was having a hard time because he had big gloves on.  Then Xander tried and a little while later the door was open and the kids were off to school.  I didn’t really realize it until now that having a van with automatic doors has handicapped my kids from opening regular car doors.

When Xander was going into Kindergarten I just prayed and prayed that he’d get the right teacher.  Xander just needs the right teacher, someone with patience, someone that loves him and wants to work with him.  I did the same at the start of this school year.  When I went to meet his teacher at the beginning of the year I just knew that this wasn’t right.  Don’t get me wrong, his teacher wasn’t bad, she just wasn’t the perfect teacher for Xander.  But after talking to the Principal and thinking about it and praying about it, I knew he needed to stay.  I finally know why.  The teacher he had at the beginning of the year had a baby and moved to another state and he has a new teacher, Mrs. Wennergren, and that teacher was sent specifically for him.

His other teachers’ approaches seemed to be, how can we get Xander to change, but his new teacher’s approaches are more how can we help Xander be the best him.  How can we get him to want to sit down, to want to do his work, to want to listen.  She immediately called me with ideas of things that she’d like to try, she talked with a group of teachers for suggestions.  She has taken such huge initiative with his education that I will always be grateful!  When we’ve talked she’s always spoken out of love and concern, rather than frustration (which I’m sure she felt too.)  That makes such a big difference to me but also to Xander.

I’m just so grateful that my prayers have been answered and Xander’s finding his educational way.

This might be too much information for you all, but I’m so excited about it, I have to share!  After three long weeks of vomit and/or diarrhea every single day I have had over 24 hours off.  It has completely cut down on my laundry (it was getting insane for a while!), and I’ve been able to get a lot more straight sleep.  Most of it was Rory, she had an upset stomach for over two weeks.  She would throw up in the middle of the night then have diarrhea during the day.  After two weeks I took her to the doctor and nothing was wrong except her stomach never got it’s balance back after having some sort of flu.  It was truly miserable for us all.  She has three older brothers and I have never dealt with so much gross stuff.  So everyone please do the happy dance with me, because I we made it through it.

Lance was joking with me yesterday that I was a hypochondriac.  I’m so not.  I’d don’t have to fake sickness, we have enough real ones to keep me super busy.  Though that doesn’t mean I don’t play other mind games on myself.  This morning our power went out.  In the cold months my biggest concern is always heat.  I don’t want my house to get too cold.  So the power had been off for maybe 15 minutes and I was just sure if 10 degrees colder in the house.  I was so cold.  When I looked at the thermostat it stated that the temperature hadn’t even gone down one degree.  Okay, so I don’t make up illnesses but I do make it freezing in my house.

My mom and I both share a passion for baking.  For many years now we’ve wanted to start a business together so now’s our chance.  This year we’re starting small at Farmer’s Markets.  But there is still a lot we have to do.  We started a blog that will chronicle all of our adventures as we go through the process.  Please take a look:

http://littlesistersbakery.wordpress.com/

I’ve also put a quick link on the right.

When I have a long stretch of having sick kids I almost take it personally.  Like someone is out to get me.  I mean don’t get me wrong I have sympathy for my kids.  I can’t imagine what it would be like to feel like I couldn’t breath.  But I just get so tired of the middle of the stuff, the whining, crying, cleaning up vomit/diarrhea, it’s just gross!  So it’s been a long day with Dax not feeling well.  He’s coughing and miserable and been running a slight temperature.  After making him pancakes (which he cried about not being able to stir, flip and cut his pancakes) I took his temperature.  He asked, “Mom, am I hot?”  I told him he had a slight temperature.  He started crying again and said, “But I just want to feel better, Mom, I want to feel better.”  That made my heart soften.  They want to feel better as much as I want them to feel better!

For the best couple of weeks we’ve been dealing with a couple of different illnesses.  Some sort of stomach things has made it around the family, except me (knock on wood.)  Then at the same time different kids would have fevers.  So starting the Friday before President’s Day Xander started with stomach problems, then Chiler started with a fever.  Sunday morning Rory started with stomach problems that lasted until Saturday, but surprise it started back up for her again today.  Then Dax woke up yesterday with breathing problems and this morning with a temperature.  We better kick these illnesses soon, or I’m going to be kicking a hole in the wall of my very new, pretty house.

Well, I guess the good thing is we haven’t had any ear infections…