Back to School

Back to school and so far... so good.

I spent the last two days in an Addiction Treatment Center and wow was it eye opening... and also exhausting. I have a lot of respect for the people who do that work every day. They do some pretty amazing things.

But of course it means I've been away from my girls these last two days more than what was normal and it's been a little bittersweet in that I miss them terribly but love that feeling when you walk in the door and they are absolutely beyond excited to see you. Abby just wanted me to hold her and hold her and hold her today and she played with my hair for awhile, we went for a walk and played in the backyard with Kiley and Kara.

Kiley has a fascination with the pool which makes watching Abby outside while she is swimming really tough. I need a fence within my fence! Kara tends to be more interested in eating the grass. And there is a lot of grass in my backyard....

We found a frog in the grass and Abby loved it. Thankfully it was a large frog and could really jump which kept it out of Abby's loving grasp (aka super tight death grip) It was a beautiful cooler day and we enjoyed playing outside as much as we could.

I always seem to miss the weekends but we had a good time going down to celebrate with Tom's parent's church. While we didn't get to see Grandma and Grandpa as much as we would have liked it was still a good time. The services got a little long at one point and Abby was beyond tired so she couldn't handle it as well. Oh and side note. All three girls slept in the same room with me over the weekend! And it worked! It was so cute.... once when Kara woke up and woke up Abby (I was super tired and didn't wake up as fast to get her)... Abby said "Be quiet baby, Abby's trying to sleep."

I couldn't help but laugh because those were my thoughts exactly!! And when it comes to not sleeping... ugh they haven't been sleeping again! Does this mean ear infections again? I don't know for sure but I'm super suspicious. And I've been unbelievably good at getting those meds into them on time every day every dose. And still... we can't kick them. It's been 2 months of this with Abby and just over a month with K&K. Abby is on her third type of antibiotic now and K&K their second. They aren't working...

Someone mentioned tubes and oh my can you imagine if I need to have all three girls get tubes placed in their ears? Three surgeries? What do you even do? Would I have them all done the same day and be done with it? Rip it off like a bandaid? Or... Do I spread it out so that I can have more special cuddle time and attention from mom... They might not even suggest tubes, they might not even try to get me in tomorrow but I'm just trying to be prepared so I don't get sideswiped by this and make a hasty decision. Hmmm what to do... I just want these ear infections to be done. They are seriously sick ... all ... the time. And it's August. What will we do when it's December, January, February? The months where ear infections are more common.

I guess we'll find out. Perhaps I shouldn't even worry about it until I take them in tomorrow or Thursday... and see if they even still have them. Kara's nose is running like crazy and they are so so so so very cranky at night. They have been waking up screaming at night again... last night I was up with them 4-5 times each. I'm too tired for that anymore! Plus they are pulling on their ears and falling over a lot... so thats why I suspect it... but I'm tired and so...

 I'm going to bed!