Creative Homeschool Exerience

Almost Christmas and One is Sick and more about my family.

    Yep that's right one of my children is sick. To be a little more specific my oldest decided to be sick today. Actually it was more towards the evening hours. Both boy's took a late nap today because they were acting cranky toward each other and then when they woke up my oldest complained that is tummy hurt so I gave him a little water took his temp which was fine and told him to lie down. Well about an hour after that I asked him if he was going to be sick. He said no but then got sick all over the living room carpet. So I clean him and everything up. This time didn't give him anything to eat or drink and then a couple more hours later I saw that he didn't look to well so I asked him again and once again he said no and he got sick again all over the carpet. An hour after that he again looked sick so I sent him to the bathroom and this time he got sick all over the bathroom floor. (Sorry if I am grossing anyone out.). Took his temp after that and it was 99.1. So now he has a slight fever and he's gotten sick more so since then but he's made it to the bathroom thankfully. He is finally asleep. I hope he is feeling better tomorrow (my poor little guy). I also hope the rest of us doesn't get sick either.

     I sure hope no one is sick tomorrow because we are supposed to be going to my BIL and SIL's for a Christmas get together and all the kids (cousins and what not) get their gifts and spend time as a family together. But if either the boy's or I happen to be sick then I guess we will have to stay home (which isn't too bad of a thing but not being sick lol) and hubby go pick up the gifts for the boys. I am not really concerned with the gifts but I would like to have hubbys family all be together. You see back in 98 just before we were married hubby's dad committed suicide and then in 02 his mom died of breast cancer that spread. So I would really like for us all to be together for Christmas. I know how hard it can be for them during the holiday's missing their parents. They don't really get together very often and I know they need this time. So pray that we are not sick tomorrow.

    I know it may seem odd that I am close to my In-laws but we've had an usual family experience I guess you could say. See after hubby's dad passed away just weeks before our wedding we ended up for a year with custody of hubby's three teenage brothers (at the time they are all adults now). We had them for about a year. Their mother was sick with cancer and kind of ran away because she didn't want anyone to know. So that's why we had custody of them. We were only twenty--two so we were barely out of our teens and had to take care of three teenage boys. I love them each like a little brother. Might not always agree with their choices but I do love them like brothers.

    After a year of having them they decided to go live with their step mom because to be honest she would let them do things we wouldn't let them. I won't get into that thought. That would be another long story LOL. After they left to go live with their step mom I soon became pregnant with my oldest son and so we started a new life yet again.

    Fast forward to my oldest son's first birthday my hubby's mom (my MIL) finally came around and let everyone know just how sick she was and accepted our help and love for her. In that time I became really close to her like before she ran off. (I have been with hubby since a month shy of my seventeenth birthday so I had known her a long time). Soon after that I found out I was prego with my youngest son and we all got very close to my MIL and my oldest son adored her. They were the best of buds.

   She was there for the birth of my youngest son and was getting to know him when she got really sick and the family took care of her. I knew my hubby couldn't handle it and I had experience of being a Nurse Aid at one time with the elderly so I kind of new what to do. So I volunteered my time instead of hubby having to do it. So the family and I each took turns taking care of her till she passed away Nov 14, 2002. My youngest son was only ten months old when she died and my oldest was two. After all she had been through she really was a good woman. I do miss her terribly. So that is why I have such a close relationship with my In-laws.

    Anyway on a different note my SIL called last night and told me that when they were passing out the Toy's for Tot's stuff a lot of people didn't show up so I guess the guy in charge of it all told her to give the rest to kids they knew. She thought of us and so today hubby went and picked up the toy's she was going to give the boy's. I wasn't expecting a lot but man there was a lot more then I thought. So we had a Christmas today LOL. I am going to have to go through the boy's older toy's. I needed to anyway. Find out what can be given away and what needs thrown away. A couple cool things the boy's got were a couple of educational games. One is a fractions game and the other is a bingo game with colors shapes and what not. We truly are blessed. Well I hope everyone has a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!  GOD IS GOOD!!