may is over. the month came to me with so much potential and yet i was so unable to take advantage of the beauty of it all. sounds a bit sad, doesn't it! well! we started on a good note and then came the drama. so, here's the quick run down: three people sick with the flu for over a week. can i tell you how fun it is to wake up in the middle of the night, change sheets, wash a child and then loose your stomach? it reminded me of being pregnant... so not wanting to be there again anytime soon! (sorry, mom!) a week of health and then the allergies, all four of us this time. so much time spent inside was very hard for the kids and i but so much nicer than the effects the high pollen count had on our systems. (which we learned the hard way). oh, and don't forget the lingering effects of the flu bug we had and the cleaning of the back seat of the car on a day the temps soared higher than 100. thanks to my mom who was laughing so hard it brought tears to her eyes, i was able to get through this one unscathed. no, she wasn't being mean or even heartless, she has five children and apparently this was not a foreign experience in our family to launch vomit all over the car. hmm. we also had shoulder surgery for my sweet husband and he was totally out of commission for several days through which he laid on the couch and the bed and became georgia's new best friend. she enjoyed pointing out his owie, snuggling into his good arm, throwing toys into his bath and only letting daddy put her to bed. andrew, on the other hand, was not so understanding and the day of the surgery kept asking me when daddy was going to wake up. my answer, not today! he also couldn't figure out why dad couldn't play x-box with only one working hand. (eric's doing great, a real promise of no more pain! hooray!) and then, to top it off, georgia had some serious allergies and couldn't handle anymore drainage and woke eric and i up at 3am loosing her stomach. a word from the wise, laundry in the middle of the sleep cycle is not highly recommended. i know the poem says april showers bring may flowers but they really need to add and terrible allergies and stomach bugs and windy weather with high pollen counts and drowsy grumpy benedryl kids and grumpy lortab husbands with a useless arm and... anyway i think i have painted an adequate picture of our month.
may did have some fabulous ups as well, and i will not readily forget them. spending so much time with my kids, mother's day, adding a bright singing little bird to our family, participating in the komen race for the cure on my grandmother's birthday (she died of complications due to her breast cancer), nana day visiting, loosing weight (due to the stomach bug) slowing our lives down to take care of one another, and remaining sane during the whole thing and laughing off the stress of it all with my mom.
i look forward to what june will offer us. swimming, sprinklers and popsicles. warm weather, hefty air conditioning bills and lots of watermelon. i'm even hoping for the eradication of the stomach bug that's been hovering around our house! dang that lysol for not working... or is it me for not using it enough? hmmm. even with day time temperatures hovering around 100, june looks to be promising and i can't wait to see what happens next!
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