How am I doing??

I've decided to review my list and see how I'm doing getting all those things done.

• Took Taylor to the doctor on Wednesday. Her stomach was really swollen. She has staph again in three places. Two of them had to be drained. One was packed. She was able to take out the packing herself the next day and we do not have to return unless they get worse. Yay! She does not have strep. More antibiotics and cleaning the holes everyday.
• After the doctor Taylor went back with her mom and we went shopping. (Angie offered to pay for her prescriptions. I asked if she was sure and she said yes. However, when she saw how much only two of them were she was mad. She paid for them but saved one for us to get the next day. Welcome to parenthood.) Tristan spent his Christmas money and got some new playstation games and 2 movies. Chance got a DVD recorder so now we can record movies off the TV. Yay! And we had to buy a new vaccuum cuz ours broke the nite before.
• Thursday I planned to stay home and rest. We were tired of being on the run. Taylor was not feeling well. I lazed around. Later in the evening after I made dinner, I began to work on my syllabus. Was just getting into it when our house caught on fire. Yep. We had been burning a fire in the fireplace all evening. All of a sudden the whole house filled with smoke. I called 911 and the fireman came. We had to get out of the house. Just as we got out in the driveway, it started snowing on us. It was pretty but cold. The firemen were there until 12:30 a.m. I had to take the kids and the dog to Dave and Heather's cuz it was taking so long. They had to tear out our fireplace to get to it. I posted pictures on my myspace. It's lovely. The house stunk to high heaven. My living room is all torn up. At least I will probably get new carpet out of it. The firemen told us if they had not torn it out, our house would have burned to the ground. We have lots to be thankful for. Oh and my syllabus did not get done or even a dent in it. We sat up most of the night in shock.
• We called the insurance company on Friday morning. After our complaining about our living room not being livable (they were gonna wait until next week to do anything), they got us with claims. Took a while for claims to call, but they did. Had to wait for the adjustor to call. He can't come until Monday. We tried to fix our furniture where we could walk through and maybe sit. All the trash is still all over the floor by the fireplace. After all the waiting, it was close to 5. Taylor and I set out for some shopping to spend Christmas money. Were gone about an hour and a half before the boys called and were hungry. So we got food and came home. I think I worked on gathering pictures for the scrapbook. Used up all my photo paper. Oh and I set up my OU account for my class but couldn't figure it all out. That is going to be tricky. I need to enroll.
• Today, I made brunch and was getting ready to take Taylor to finish our shopping when we got a call that Chance's Pap was taken to the ER. He was vomiting blood. Chance was changing the oil in the truck. (Big ordeal that takes all day.) So we did not go shopping as we were waiting to hear when to come to the hospital. I spent several hours working on the scrapbook while we were waiting and I got 5 pages done. Oh, I have so many more to go but it's a start. Pap was admitted overnight. We will probably go tomorrow to see him. He told Karin that he is ready to die. I think he's losing his spunk and fight. That makes me sad. Please pray for him.
• Somewhere in there I made some small changes to my myspace page but not like I wanted. Doubt I will get to that.
• Taylor's Mami is taking her to get her haircut next week so I don't have to do that. I have not made plans for myself. That will probably happen at a later date.
• Emails will still be backed up for a while.
• Still have all my work I brought home to do and still need to make a dent in my syllabus.

Well I guess I got some of it done and some started. Not near as close to finishing anything as I had hoped. The drama really needs to stop. I am ready for some mundane, happy go lucky days. In the past three months, I have had to deal with 5 deaths, strep, staph (2x), wisdom tooth pulled, cracked tooth getting capped, a real FIRE, and now a serious illness with a grandparent. Really, I need a Leave it to Beaver episode or something. Christmas was in there and it was wonderful. I just need to keep everything in perspective. I have so many new things to look forward to and several things on my list to finish up.

Didn't mean to complain. Just had to let it out. That's what this is for I guess. Well it's almost 3 a.m. Guess I should go to bed. Tomorrow is another day to get stuff done. Nitey nite.