Settling In

I just thought I would let everyone know what is going on around here. WE have moved hopefully for the last time for a while. We love our house. It is spacious, even though it looks small from the outside. We have 4 bedrooms, 1 and a half baths, a huge living room, a 2 car garage out back, and room for the kids to run in the yard. It is quiet where we live since we are far enough from the city for peace, but close enough that it only takes Steve 10 minutes to get to work now.

Since moving in, we have had little problems to deal with. On the day we moved in there was no running water. We called the landlord about this and he had a plumber out to the house within the hour. It turns out that the pipes were frozen! Fun.... Then there was the trash and things left from the previous tenants that we had to try to move out and clean up before we could move our things into it. I had to run to the store because we had literally nothing for anyone to eat. I made it back, put things away, made PB&Js for everyone and back to work we went. We had everything off of the truck by the evening of the 5th of March thanks to everyone's help. Thanks Uncle George, Mom, and Dad.

Now I am at the stage where there is a few boxes here and there, and I still need to set up the guest room, but the rest of the house is unpacked. I never realized how much junk we really had until we moved. During all of this I have been having to make appointments with the WIC office to change all of that over, get Kyle enrolled in school and for the first few days I had to take him and pick him up. Then when the busing was finally established, they drove right by the house and didn't pick him up! So I had to make more phone calls, then take Kyle to school. Thankfully they brought him home that afternoon.

Then on Saturday I spent the day scrubbing out the oven. It isn't a self cleaning one, like I am used to, so I had to use elbow grease to get the job done, but now the smoke detector doesn't go off everytime I use the oven!

Now I am dealing with a rough couple of days and nights under my belt. Sunday was a bad day because I was trying to clean up Stevie built-in the wall dresser. I had to take the old contact paper out, vacuum the drawers, and put new contact paper in. I got through the first 4 drawers of his 6 drawer dresser just fine. Then I hit drawer 5. Oh my goodness the mess that was left in that dresser. I had to get a trash bag and plastic gloves because I wasn't touching any of that with my bare hands. Got all of that cleaned up, and the old contact paper taken off, the drawer wiped down, vacuumed out, and new contact paper laid. I was about sick to my stomach of the garbage that was left behind. But thankfully, it is done and looks so pretty now. I am proud of myself.

Finally it was time to go to bed Sunday night and I couldn't turn my brain off! I read a book, worked on the baby blanket that I am crocheting for Carrie's son Caleb, and still, wasn't sleepy. It was around 1:30 in the morning Monday that I finally got to go to sleep. Then I was up at 3am with Stevie, he said he couldn't sleep anymore....I told him to climb into bed with us and go back to sleep. Then around 4am with Freddy, he was wanting mommy. So at 4 in the morning Steve and I had 2 out of 3 of out boys in bed with us. I am thinking a King sized bed is needed soon. LOL. Then both Stevie and Freddy were awake and wanting to start their day at 5:30. So I told Stevie to go potty and I would change Freddy. He went in the bathroom, and started crying. I put the baby in his playpen and went to investigate. He has tears running down his face saying his tummy hurt real bad and he couldn't poopy... I thought, "Oh, Lord, he is constipated." Nope, he said he was going to throw up. So I am frantically trying to get something for this poor child to throw up in, and then he doesn't even need thankfully. He said he was hungry and as it was so early I just gave him some pop tarts to tide him over until I cooked breakfast. That is when the fever started with Freddy. Then later in the afternoon, Stevie was running a fever.

Boy when it rains it poors. Freddy's fever is due to teething, nothing more, but Stevie's fever was going to bring on bad news. All Monday night Stevie cried in his sleep, and wouldn't stop. We woke him trying to find out what the matter was, and he would calm down for awhile and sleep peacefully, but start crying again nonetheless. Monday morning he wakes all chipper, like nothing happened thorughout the night. I noticed that he sounded funny when he talked. I asked him if his throat hurt and he said no, but the roof of his mouth did. I checked his glands and they were swollen to beat the band. I looked in his throat with a flash light and said, "You got strep throat baby." He said no he had the flute (flu). It was cute and we laughed, but I knew what was going on to be sure. So I started making phone calls. Finally by 10:30 in the morning he had an appointment with the doctor for 1pm that afternoon. I ate breakfast late and broke and egg on my kitchen floor in the process.

Stevie went to the doctor just fine, he was such a trooper. The doctor confirmed the strep, but said that he has Scarlet Fever not just strep. The poor kid has a rash over most of his body now. He prescribed Erythromycin because Stevie is allergic to Penecillin. I started calling the local pharmacies to find out how much the medicine would cost, and by the time I called the 4th pharmacy(no one else had it) they told me that it was discontinued, that it was no longer made and they couldn't get it! GREAT! So I called the doctor's office again to let them know what I had found out. They said, "Mrs. Anthony we're sorry. We will have Dr. Goro call in something else. Which pharmacy would you like it called in to?" I thought, well at least they are getting it taken care of quickly. So I said Walmart Pharmacy, and said good-bye. Around 5:30 I called Walmart to find out what had been called in and again how much it would cost. Lo and Behold! NOTHING WAS CALLED IN!!!!! This is a kid that needs to be put on antibiotics now and nothing was called in. I was livid to say the least.

My mom called just after this news as she had a doctor's appointment that afternoon and wanted to let me know how it went. She is doing great. The cornea implant is responding well to treatment so her chances of having to have it done over again are slimming. The steroids are doing there job a combatting the rejection. Anyway, she said that when she worked for a doctor's office that the doctor would authorize the medication in the chart and the nurses would call it in after working hours. She advised me to wait 30 minutes and then call again. I did as she said and 30 minutes later it was there. Stevie is on Bactrum twice a day. He is such a trooper about taking it to. He just does it, no complaints.

So that is my life right now. I have to say, it is never boring.