Security Breach

After a few chaotic months, I have decided to resume my blogging. As you can see from the prior post, my account was hacked into and I no longer felt safe using it until I re-secured my network. haha. So those of you who have been asking about me not posting- you may openly blame the hacker... hahaha. As for the contest, We lost. I never did get my date in a box, but you are welcome to send me chocolate in a box to make me feel better... haha.

Stay tuned... March was a bit of  a nightmare... and that, is possibly an understatement...

Since I do not want to pay money to keep blogging on my old address (apparently I used too much space..), you may join me at http://KissMyAfghanistanDeux.blogspot.com/

where all the fun continues...

Hacked!!!

Why hello one and all.
This is Emily.
Tara's sister.
Oh hi Tara....
sorry I have taken over your blog... but only for one post - PROMISE!

Okay - don't stop reading just because this isn't Tara.  I have a favor to ask.

I am going to enter Tara and Jared in this military couples contest... where they'll get to have a "date in a box."
I know to those who have their significant others at home, that might sound lame... but really, it's cool.
Promise.

So I need you to write a comment on this post - about why you think they deserve to win this awesome date... and something about their story.

Okay.  Now don't go to the next blog... write your comment.
You'll feel guilty if you leave.
Trust me.
You'll be back.
Write a comment.
Now.
Please. :)
Thank you!

It's the least you could do since Jared is fighting for your freedom and all.
(quoting Tara, haha) 

When it rains it pours....

February was NUTS! My kids were so sick on and off... If you read this blog- you should know, I am about 1-2 weeks behind... Well, sometimes I delay the post if I actually have more then one to post a day... so this did not happen today and no we are not back in the hospital, but thanks for offering your services..... haha...

My kids have been soooo sick. I have not had a full day of work since.... January?? First Gavin throwing up, then his ear infection the next week, then both kids throwing up and coughing... and now a trip to the emergency room.... (x2). But before I get into this, I will recap a memory from long ago... haha.

About 4 year ago Jared left for Germany with the military, I took him to the airport and came home. Ava was about six months old. And loooong story short... I had to take her to the emergency room, and he had only been gone THREE HOURS.... It was horrible. And then I wondered if I would be able to keep her alive while he was away.. I am guessing he was thinking the same thing... haha

 This time it took between five or six months before we ended up in the ER. Ava was so sick throwing up on Wednesday night. So I called off sick, she was ill all day. Barely ate anything... then that night she had a fever of 104.5. It was after midnight, and I decided to take her to the ER.

 

           As soon as we got to the hospital she started to perk up. When we put into a room, Gavin was crawling around on the hospital bed while we waited for the doctor. When he came in, Ava started acting normal again... started chatting like crazy, asking tons of questions "Are you going to give Gavin a shot?" .... just talking away... I look at the doctor and promise him she is actually sick. He kind of laughs... Her fever was already down to borderline to high 101's/ low 102's... so embarrassing... but REALLY she has been VERY VERY sick!!   Obviously............. hah.

Then... they sent us home.

Sickos!

Will it never end?! My kids have been sick on and off for about a month... Ava was so sick the other day and was running to the bathroom to throw up in the toilet. I went in with her to hold her hair and comfort her... Pat her on the back 'there there..'...nothing... just misery.. "I am gonna frow up.... I don't feel berry good..." Gavin waddles in- tries to give her a toy... then me. Waddles out. Waddles back in... pokes her... pokes me... waddles out. Comes back in again... just trying to share his sore throat sucker with Ava... then me.. Coughs once in my direction and BAM.... Projectile vomiting ALL over me... and all over him... It was RED. Scary red!  I thought for a moment (a moment that felt like eternity...) that he was blowing chunks of blood... but then I remembered it was toast now soaked in raspberry ice crystal light.... Mmmmm.... So here Gavin and I both are- on the bathroom floor, now covered in his puik. Ava looks at us... with her face back further away from us because we were now closer to the toilet she was eager to use. "Ewww... that's disgusting"... She didn't throw up in the toilet after all... She waited and threw up in my bed at nap time instead...niiiiiiice! My poor babies!!!

I know they look really happy... but I promise they were really sick...
And yes-- Gavin is wearing Ava's bathrobe... haha.

traumatized...

We are watching netflix at midnight... because the kids have been sick and Gavin was getting his molars so he was miserable... screaming bloody murder and awake until 3AM.. loud enough to make Ava wake up too.... so I turn on Pingu.. Because Pingu can keep Gavin's attention... This is the episode we watched...

If you don't have time to watch it...-- here is a run down of what happens....

Pingu takes his baby brother or sister penguin on a sled... he leaves the sled getting distracted playing with a friend and goes back to the sled and the baby is gone.... Ava gasps when she sees the empty sled... They follow his foot prints.... which eventually disappear.. and then  they find the baby's scarf... and she panic "where is the baby?" and now I am thinking what a dumb show... stupid friggin penguin getting her all excited over idiot brother penguin being irresponsible.. And irresponsible parents who left him in another child's care in the frickin arctic!! So then... after they find the scarf... they come to a big hole in the ice... where pingu start squawking down yelling for his lost sibling.. then he and his penguin friend burst into tears over the loss of baby penguin... Ava is seriously so upset by this.. "Ahhh!! wheres the baby? Did he fall down that hole?... awwwww...  poor baby penguin..." she is devastated... so freaking pingu goes back home with the baby's scarf in his hands, in tears to tell his parents he lost the baby... and his baby is sitting in his high chair and miraculously made it home by itself... Stressful.... I KNOW!! So I turn it off and put my kids back to bed and Ava is in my bed... and she says after like 10 mins of silence... "Momma, I didn't like that show where the baby got lost..."....  I know.. me either. ... ten minutes of silence later; "It scared me..." I know hunny it scared me too... and I try to tell her that's why we don't run away in the store and stay right where mommy and Daddy can see you... blah blah.... go to bed... ten minutes of silence after that something along the lines of "I thought the baby died in the hole... I was sad"... hahaha... geez frickin PINGU... I'd like to drop you down a hole before your show had time to air....

BEST family EVER!!

Can I just brag for a minute how amazing my family is? While I was at work one day, one of my cousins was going to try to fix my Internet problems... Instead three of my cousins came, cleaned my entire house, did ALL my laundry, SHAMPOOED MY CARPETS, fixed my wireless Internet after being on multiple service calls for hours on end, and set me up with one of their old Wii's for netflix!! They even left a pot of flowers and little treats for us!! My house reeked of cleanliness!! It was WONDERFUL!!

Jared and I have only had TV for one year out of our almost nine year marriage. I always tease that if I were butt naked doing a sexy dance in front of the TV and he was watching football that he say "WHOA!! WAS THAT A TOUCHDOWN?!?!" basically not even acknowledging my presence other then to motion to me to not be in front of the TV screen so he can see it better...haha. While that is probably only part of the reason we don't have TV... the other is that I get NOTHING done. I get sucked in.. to stupid stuff.. all. the. time. We have done netflix in the past and mostly do red box these days.... but I cannot even tell you how great it has been while both kids have been sick to have that Netfilx streaming into my bedroom while we all just veg on the bed watching ridiculous shows... I LOVE IT!!

And since I am so ecstatic about all of this still- I won't even mention that Gavin already split his red juice (from a 'spill-proof' sippy) all over my freshly shampooed carpets... Or that Ava threw up all over my kitchen... :)

This is not the first time I have come home to a clean house either... My mom and Emily came and cleaned my house a few times before this... (AND had dinner in a crock pot for us when we got home-- amazing right?)... I am getting kind of nervous about being so spoiled!! I like it so much I might just have to hire someone when Jared gets back when no one feels sorry for me anymore!! haha. Ooooor maybe I'll just put Jared to work and bribe him with TV!!!

Surrounded by Hazards...

The other night I asked Ava to go hurry and brush her teeth... 10 minutes later she is still in the bathroom barely getting the toothpaste on her toothbrush... Getting frustrated, I remind her that I asked her to hurry and she says "But momma, when I try to go fast, I bonk my head and hurt myself..."(the other night she ran into the doorknob trying to hurry) ... And of course she is saying this to her mother, who recently fell up the stairs (that's right-- I said up), holding three gallons of milk and 4 grocery bags in a rush to get on the computer to skype Jared...(who p.s. was not even there yet...)

.... "That is a very valid point sweetheart-- take your time..." Poor kid never had a chance with my genes...