Interesting week.....

I know I said I would be good about posting, however, this week was kind of crazy and I still had not finished the setup of our blog. I think I have now finally finished changing the setup of our blog. So many choices.....

So on the crazy week. Started off on Monday when I got ready to leave work, I had a flat tire on the van. I had to call someone to change the tire because I have no idea how to do that. When the guy put the "donut tire" on the van, he said it was not advised that I drive home on the tire, since it was such I long distance. Ok, so now I am stuck in Chicago and need to find a tire place to see if they can patch the tire. Unfortunately, the tire was not repairable and I am now stuck waiting on the new tire to come from the warehouse as I am watching the time tick by on the clock. Normally, this would not be a problem except that Rick was stuck in Milwaukee doing some security work and there was no one to get the kids. I was stressing OUT!!!! Once, the van was finally done, I was praying that I would not hit any traffic on the way home. Rick and I got back to our town about the same time and we were able to get both kids with time to spare. I don't think it could have worked out any better.

Once we got home, we were trying to get dinner started and Ashleigh comes downstairs complaining about a bug bite. Rick and I both took one look at her arm and could not believe what we saw. Her arm was twice the size it should be been and there was definitely a huge mosquito bite on her arm. We put a little bit of heat on her arm and it seemed to help. I ended up calling her pediatrician the next day just to see what to do. They told me to put hydrocortizone cream on it. How crazy is that.

Next, when AJ went to get his homework out of his backpack, we got the next big surprise. Apparently last week, AJ got some tomatoes from the garden at school, however, he never took them out of his backpack. Do you know what rotten tomatoes smell like? The smell was terrible and it was all over everything in his backpack. Needless to say, we ended up putting the backpack in the washing machine and that seemed to do the trick. What a crazy night!!!!

The next few days were to a little crazy with getting the kids and the normal evening things we go through every night. However, Thursday night was something else. On Thursday, Rick had guard duty and I worked all day, so Diamond was in the cage all day. When I got home, as I pulled the van in the garage, I told the kids, I was going to run inside and let Diamond go potty. The kids and I got out of the van and I ran in the house. I was out back with Diamond when Ashleigh came running out of the house, shaking and screaming for me to help AJ that his hand was stuck and I needed to help him. I knew just by the way she was acting that something was really wrong. I ran back into the house and could hear AJ screaming from the back door. Apparently, he had gone back out to the van to get something and had shut the door on his hand. When the van door shut, it was locked. I had to run back into the house to get the keys. Once, I got his hand out, I took one look and knew we needed to go the ER. We spent 2 hours and 45 minutes at the ER and the doctor said she thought the hand was broken in one possible two spots, but was not sure. They put his hand in a splint cast and wanted us to follow up with his pediatrician the next day. When we went to the doctors the next day, they looked over the xrays and decided that it was just severely bruised! Thank god! He is doing much better now!

What a crazy week! I just hope this coming week will be better and less eventful!!!