FEELS LIKE HOME: family

that I hope will end very soon!!! This is an awful week and the worst is yet to come. It started last Friday. Emily was complaining of pain on the back left side of her mouth. I assumed it was her 6 year molars coming in since she was early in losing her two bottom front teeth. So, I gave her some oragel and tylenol, and sent her to school. She was up all night because of the pain and tylenol wasn't helping much. She then woke up saturday morning with the left side of her face swollen. So i called the doctor and he was pretty sure it was a canker sore, even though i told him there wasn't one. He said if she gets a fever to take her to the emergency room. I thought, given the swelling, he would prescribe some antibiotics, but he didn't. So, sunday she woke up with a, just as swollen, if not more swollen face. So i gave the dentist a call. He said she would not be swollen because of molars coming in and that she most likely has an infection. He prescribed amoxicillin which almost immediately helped to reduce the swelling. So monday morning, I brought her to the dentist and he took xrays of the sore side and then called me into the room to discuss things. He told me the last thing that I ever expected to hear.........that the tooth he already did a filling on is very badly infected and needs to be extracted. He proceeded to explain that sometimes when they do a filling so deep, it can rarely cause an infection like that, but that it usually happens within the first couple of weeks........SHE HAD THIS FILLING A YEAR AGO!!!!!! So, imagine my confusion/frustration. I started asking a million questions. It's a back tooth so thankfully, you won't be able to see it!!!! So, then i guess next week sometime, she will have to go back and get a small space maintainer put in, to hold the spot for the adult tooth, so that her teeth dont shift. I came home and cried my eyes out to Matt. i was so upset. The dentist said the root is so small, that it will come out so easily and provide her with immense relief. We have to wait until Thursday, because he said it was very badly infected and he wanted to continue on the antibiotic for a couple of days. He said they don't do root cananls on baby teeth, because they usually fail and you have to end up extracting the tooth anyway. If i could go back in time, I never would have handed baby Emily the toothbrush and let her do it on her own. After she got the cavities filled i have been crazy with the kids' teeth. They don't eat any chewy candy's or gummy snacks, I brush their teeth (not them), and i floss all the teeth i can. So, that was bad day number one. I do feel better about 2 things........1- the dentist said she will probably feel so much better than worse and 2- that it's a back tooth and you can't see it!!!! Bad day number two is going to be Thursday when they pull it. Bad day number three is going to be on Friday when i have my eyelid surgery. And guess what everybody, I only get a valium!!!!! Yes- no iv sedation or anything. i will be sitting upright in a chair. AWAKE. FULLY AWARE. when i start to think about, I feel like im going to have a heart attack. I feel really bad for Matt, because he has to come with me. I'm terrified. I don't understand how they think one can stay awake and relaxed with a knife coming at their eye. I'm going to Will's eye and know that I am in good hands, but still. Anyway, i have to stop thinking about it because I don't want to!!! lol. And to top it all off, a winter storm is coming and it's supposed to snow thursday and friday and i don't want to put off any of the above mentioned tasks because I don't want to worry about them anymore. So, you now know why i want this week to be over.

On a lighter note, Aunt Sammy and Jordan came down on sunday and stayed until Tuesday. We had alot of fun. Jordan is so, so big compared to Nicholas. I cant believe the difference. He also now has a full head of dark brown hair. Last time i saw him (about 3 months ago), he had a tiny amount of blond hair. It's amazing how much babies change in such a short amount of time. He is a crazy, loud, mischievious, ~~little~~ man who is almost always doing something bad, but I love and miss him to pieces. I will post pictures when I have time. I have to get the kids a snack!!! Thanks for letting me vent!!!

Don't forget....I warned you these posts would be all over the place until I'm caught up. Where do i start?! This was one of the best Christmases i've ever had. We had absolutely nowhere to go and nothing to do. We didn't have to get dressed, we didn't have to load all the kids up in the car, and we didn't have to pry them away from all the presents santa brought them. This was the first time in 5 years......that's not to say that we don't enjoy seeing everyone on Christmas, but it is definitely nice once in awhile to do nothing but hang out at home... So the morning started off with the oven catching on fire while trying to make a cinnamon roll. (the bottom burner in the oven was cracked, and the fire was put out right away by daddy). Thankfully, the cinnamon roll was already done. Then we just hung out with the kids all day long and played with all their toys. We watched Christmas movies and we stayed in our jammies all day. It was sooo much fun. The house was a mess, but i just let it go....I figured i would let them have all their toys out for one day, because the next day it was time to find somewhere to put them all!!! Thank you to everyone for all the gifts you got the kids. There wasn't one thing they didn't love.