Finally another post!!!

Well, there's been so much going on around here since the last post...including my internet being spotty....however, the cable company came today and the problem is now solved! That's the good news....well, I guess there's no real bad news....it's just been quite exhausting around here the last month! It started out good and I suppose it'll end good....but the stuff in between was, I guess you could call it.....educational....and, on SO many levels!! :)

First off....Lee, Bill, and Bryan (eric's parents and brother) came out for a visit! Eric and I were looking forward to a fun filled weekend! With plans to take Josh swimming, all of us going to a Cardinals game, going to play some golf, etc.......Well, none of that really happened because Josh was sick, for reals, for the first time that same weekend! I suppose if there is anyone to blame, it all started with myself! (isn't that nice) :) I started feeling a little sick while we were still in Colorado and then when we got home...I had a really bad cold/flu sympoms.....this is what I shared with Joshua!! Except, for him, it moved into his lungs and on one Saturday he started wheezing really badly. I heard that noise and somewhere, in some far off memory of mine, I either heard my dad or sister or maybe even myself wheezing and I got the chills....I immediately wanted to take him to an urgent care center or someplace(remember, it's a saturday) but, then....this is the kicker....I remembered that we are recently knew to Tricare(military insurance) and things operate....let's just say, differently than what I'm used to! We must first get a referral to be able to be seen at an urgent care, however, with his wheezing we were told to go on to the ER!

That's always a good thing to hear....So, at this point....Eric's family is still all here, we really haven't done anything, and now Eric and I have to leave them at our house and go take Josh to the ER.....I must say, that I was quite impressed with the Memorial Hospital ER. They have a peds ER that is part of Carinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis...I think we waited 5 minutes and saw a doctor within 10! Needlesss to say...only 2 hours later and after a couple of breathing treatments and one x-ray....oh, and now Josh completely fights you or whoever looks like a nurse/doctor....we were on our way home!

So, that was the first week in there...which, you know, looking back and putting everything into perspective everything was just fine.....But, I guess I feel hazed or that I went through another rite of passage as a parent....which is...how you feel, what you do, how you act, etc...when your child is truly sick! It made me appreciate my new quote I posted!!

These pictures were taken when everyone was leaving and then the other two are of Josh and Gidget with their new lookout window!! :)