It's friday morning, I got 5 hours of sleep last night, and the same for the last 3 weeks. Ezra was awake until 12:30am and then I finally went to sleep at 1am. Jason got home at 5:45am and of course, that woke me up. I got up this morning, telling myself that I have to have a good attitude and that'll make me have energy and not be so tired. Then some morning sickness hit me and Ezra watched me go through it and kept saying, "Ewww mom, you sick!" It was hilarious just seeing the look on his face while watching me. It made it much easier for me to get through it. haha! So we did our morning routine and I was struggling just focusing on what I needed to do, but got it all done except for making the kid's lunches. Here's to $3 hot lunches... yippee!! Hope's bus came and I walked her out and the bus driver says, "Oh dear, you look exhausted and burnt out, at least you can sleep in this weekend." No, I don't get to sleep in on the weekends with soccer and church. That's fine with me though, because I love being a mom and all that comes with it.
I went to my OB yesterday, who is amazing and has been my OB for 5 out of the 6 kids. I'm almost 37 weeks and I'm already dialated to a 1cm and 30% efaced. He said that was totally normal for how many kids I've had. He said it's normal to be anywhere between a 1-3cm for 3 weeks. It'll just feel like the baby is going to fall out... haha! I'm happy to be progressing though. I would much rather do that then sit in the hospital for hours in labor. I want to show up to the hospital at an 8 and then have the baby within an hour. Wouldn't that be awesome! I'm hoping I won't have to get an epidural this time. I was so tired with Ezra because I had been having full on contractions for 3 days, so I got the epidural. And it was weird. So I guess we'll see what happens! Only 3 more weeks!
Isaiah has been playing a lot with Ezra and Elijah lately, which I love! I love that he's such a good big brother and willing to spend time with them and teach them things!! Most older siblings want nothing to do with their younger siblings, I'm glad that's not the case with him. Jason took the night off tonight to take the 2 older boys camping since we didn't get to go this last year at all due to Jason's work and our trip to my brother's wedding. Isaiah has been so excited and packing for the last 2 days! He loves nature and camping and survival things! I just hope they catch some fish!
Maci loves soccer and she works so hard at everything! She practices piano without me asking her, she does her homework without me asking her too. She'll go outside and practice soccer with Elijah so she can become better at it. She is on her 12 multiplications at school, and she's the highest in the class and has studied so hard to pass each one. I just love how motivated she is!
Sadee went to the fish hatchery in Oroville yesterday for a field trip. She thought it was the coolest thing ever! She loved watching them cut open the fish and seeing all the eggs come out. I was so bummed that I didn't go with her, I knew I wouldn't be able to walk around that much though. She lost her first front tooth a few weeks ago and is about to lose her 2nd. She's so proud of it too! And she's doing very well in school!
Elijah's speech is coming along. I have to work with him more because he's so used to saying it a certain way. We need to retrain his mind to use his other muscles to say it correctly. A kid the other day asked why he talks like that, and I asked the kid, why do you have brown hair? He got the clue that he was just born like that. He's definitely not special needs or anything, just taking a little longer to speak properly. Just like his daddy! Jason was 4 years old before he talked! It's weird how he looks so much like Jason, he has the same speech problem as Jason did, and when I was prego with Elijah, I threw up the whole pregnancy 6-12 times a day and in labor and Lauren, Jason's mom, did too with Jason. Crazy!! I would love if Elijah turned out to be like Jason though.... because he is a wonderful man!!
Ezra is currently obsessed with Little Einsteins. He loves how we have on demand and can watch it whenever he wants. I say no a lot and he throws huge temper tantrums. So I just change his direction and find him something else to do. He loves the TV though. I don't like that.... but it's been a blessing because I'm able to get a little rest at least while he's watching it.
I am so thankful to be able to have children. I think back to that dumb Dr. that told me that I wouldn't be able to and it just makes me want to scream to the world that Dr.'s aren't always right! To get to this point though, has taken a lot of prayer and faith. While I was sick with the endo, I promised Heavenly Father I would have as many kids as He wanted me too, whether it was me having them or us adopting them, if He would just let us have 1 little McOmber. I promised Him I would do my best at teaching them about how much He loves them and how to return and live with Him again someday. I'm not always good at that and have to be kicked in the head sometimes when I just want to do my thing, but we do try hard to teach them and love them and just try to forget about ourselves and what we want. This pregnancy really has kicked my rear! I think one of the hardest things is the fact that my older kids have so many more activities now and they eat a lot more food. Before I could just lay around... but now I can't. Driving kids to and fro, helping them with homework, dr's appts, scouts, activity days, sports, piano, birthday parties, ect ect. I'm not complaining, but it is definitely harder when they're older. And it seems as though they eat soooo much food now and I'm constantly running out of things, so I'm always at the grocery store. Which is the hardest thing for me to do with the 2 younger boys. I do it anyway and thankful to have opportunity to do so.
Twice a year, we have a mouse problem. It's usually in the spring and the fall. Always when the weather is changing. Last Spring we caught 8, trying to come into our house in one day. Ya, gross huh? They come in from the garage through this dumb open space where the cupboard and wall meet. Today I am buying some spray foam to seal it up and hopefully that'll keep them from getting into the house. Well, we knew it was that time of year and they would start coming, so we set traps up throughout the laundry room. Well, those smart little things kept getting the peanut butter and setting the traps off without getting caught. And Malcolm our dog, wouldn't eat his food or even go near it because he is scared of the mice. Then the other night we saw one in our family room! It was about midnight and I heard a trap go off and turned around and saw the mouse wiggle out and run back to the laundry room! ARGH!! I was so mad! So last night I was so done with them and with Malcolm crying about it and I set up glue traps. This morning I got up and saw there was one, alive in the glue trap in our family room! Awful!! I felt so bad for it though and it made me want to cry. I went into the laundry room and saw that 1 of the traps was gone, so I ran upstairs and woke poor Jason up asking if he did something with it. He said there was another mouse in that one and he bumped it off and he'll take care of it when he gets up. I begged him to come downstairs and take care of the one in the family room, but he was just too tired. Poor guy! The mouse is still sitting there in the glue.... and it's crying now! I feel so bad, but I can't get near it. Those dumb things carry diseases and I'm pregnant and not taking any chances! So we'll just have to wait for Jason to get up and take care of it, because I definitely can not kill it, no matter how annoying they are! I'm hoping that there aren't anymore! Elijah is such a sweet boy and just came up to me and said in his broken English, "Mom, just be nice to the mouse and ask him nicely not to come into our house. Just talk nicely mom." :-) Such a sweet boy. It makes him sad too knowing that we will have to kill the mouse.
We haven't been able to find our camera, so Jason bought a cheapo one at walmart because we have to have a camera when the baby is born! I haven't had a chance to use it, but when I do, I'll post some pics. It's no fun reading without any pictures! BTW.... Jason has like 2-3 more weeks of nights! YAY!!!! Then he'll be home for me to have the baby and during that time he'll work at switching his sleeping schedule back to days and then go back to work 2 weeks after I have the baby. Ya, I get him for 2 weeks! YES!!!! It might be my only time to really be able to catch up on some much needed sleep and rest. So excited!
Friday, October 19, 2012
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Gastroenteritis
-Did you know that the stomach bug is not and should not be called the flu? It is not associated with Influenza and should really be called the stomach bug or if you want to sound smart, call it gastroenteritis!
- Did you know in 1980, gastroenteritis from all causes caused 4.6 million deaths in children, with the majority occurring in the developing world. Death rates were reduced significantly (to approximately 1.5 million deaths annually) by the year 2000, largely due to the introduction and widespread use of oral rehydration therapy.
And this is exactly what we had.... I thought at first that maybe it was food poisoning, but no!! Ezra 1st, Jason 2nd, Isaiah 3rd, Brittney 4th, and Maci 5th. Ezra & Maci threw up once and were done. Isaiah, Jason, and myself were hit waaay harder!! Jason and I were wiped out from it and had it around the same time. Jason laid on one couch, I laid on the other, and we just laid there and stared at each other when we were awake. I don't think we've spent that much time together since the kids were born. I wasn't sure how we were going to make it since we were both out of commission. But we somehow figured it out. It was also an expensive week for us.... the kids eating hot lunch everyday, our trips to walgreens (gatorade at $2 a pop, many bottles of pedialyte, saltines, and the many bottles of Diet Gingerale), the nights of being so weak that we had to order pizza for the well ones, Jason missing work, the price of disinfectants products at Walgreens is crazy, disposable cups & plates & silverware, the loads of laundry, the cleaning products.... whew!
In the beginning of this, I was pretty worried about the baby. I've been dehydrated before, but wasn't sure how I could even get to the hospital to get an IV if I needed one. I paid special attention to my body and the baby's movement.... making sure everything was ok. I did become pretty dehydrated and still am, but hopefully by tomorrow night I'll be all good. If not, I'll just go get the IV. But who has time for that when you have 5 kids to take care of?
I hit one low point during the whole thing.... yesterday, Wednesday. I wasn't throwing up, but I was wiped out and could barely walk. I didn't care about the house being a mess, but we were running out of clean dishes. And the kitchen was disgusting, so I wouldn't let the kids cook anything. We had no food in the house because I always go shopping on the 1st, but couldn't because that's when this had all started. The kids were hungry and searching for food to eat. Jason was trying to sleep so he could attempt to go back to work that night. It was 7pm, way past dinnertime and I really didn't want to spend $25 on pizza again for the well kids. So I was going to go to Walgreens to find something frozen to throw into the microwave. I looked disgusting and awful, I told the kids I would be right back, I went outside just barely walking to the car and I went to go get into the car and couldn't. I grabbed the steering wheel and tried and tried to pull myself up, for about 5 mins. I just couldn't do it. Now if you know me, things like this just don't happen. I don't allow them to happen and WILL figure out a way to make things work. But I absolutely couldn't. I was standing there in my driveway, just bawling. Mad at having to spend so much money on stupid pizza, mad that I wasn't strong enough to get into my car, mad that I stunk like throw up but felt too weak to get in the shower, mad that I couldn't take care of my children or myself, & mad that I was having an absolute breakdown in my driveway, but couldn't help myself! I finally gained my composure and came back in and ordered pizza for the kids. It was not one of my greatest moments, but we all have them, right?!
This hasn't been the worst case of the stomach bug we've ever had. But I think just mentally and emotionally I wasn't prepared for it. I'm about to have this baby and my life is absolute chaos right now. I am so thankful that it hit us when it did though. I'd rather have it happen now than after the baby is here. And I really needed to get hit upside the head by something like this to make me appreciate the small and simple thing in life. Ya, sounds weird huh? But lately, I've been so ornery and moody and whiny about little things. I mean, ya, it's normal to whine about being pregnant and sore all the time and having sciatic problems. But I was whining about having to clean the house all the time and doing laundry and all that fun stuff we do as women. But when I wasn't able to really do those things because I was sick, I wanted too. I wanted to clear off the counter, I wanted to do the dishes, I wanted to work on laundry. Weird huh? Now I really appreciate being able to do these things, and haven't whined about it in a whole 24 hours!
Anyway, I know this is a long post about nothing. But I realized that I'm not blogging things like this for anyone but myself and my family in the future. I really want to start blogging more. More about the highs & lows and realities of life. More about the things we go through and experience as a family. And the lessons that are learned from life. We'll see if this happens though. Finger's cross though that we are done with this stomach bug! We will find out tonight if that's the case! Then, we can finally prepare and get excited for General Conference this weekend! YAY!!!
- Did you know in 1980, gastroenteritis from all causes caused 4.6 million deaths in children, with the majority occurring in the developing world. Death rates were reduced significantly (to approximately 1.5 million deaths annually) by the year 2000, largely due to the introduction and widespread use of oral rehydration therapy.
And this is exactly what we had.... I thought at first that maybe it was food poisoning, but no!! Ezra 1st, Jason 2nd, Isaiah 3rd, Brittney 4th, and Maci 5th. Ezra & Maci threw up once and were done. Isaiah, Jason, and myself were hit waaay harder!! Jason and I were wiped out from it and had it around the same time. Jason laid on one couch, I laid on the other, and we just laid there and stared at each other when we were awake. I don't think we've spent that much time together since the kids were born. I wasn't sure how we were going to make it since we were both out of commission. But we somehow figured it out. It was also an expensive week for us.... the kids eating hot lunch everyday, our trips to walgreens (gatorade at $2 a pop, many bottles of pedialyte, saltines, and the many bottles of Diet Gingerale), the nights of being so weak that we had to order pizza for the well ones, Jason missing work, the price of disinfectants products at Walgreens is crazy, disposable cups & plates & silverware, the loads of laundry, the cleaning products.... whew!
In the beginning of this, I was pretty worried about the baby. I've been dehydrated before, but wasn't sure how I could even get to the hospital to get an IV if I needed one. I paid special attention to my body and the baby's movement.... making sure everything was ok. I did become pretty dehydrated and still am, but hopefully by tomorrow night I'll be all good. If not, I'll just go get the IV. But who has time for that when you have 5 kids to take care of?
I hit one low point during the whole thing.... yesterday, Wednesday. I wasn't throwing up, but I was wiped out and could barely walk. I didn't care about the house being a mess, but we were running out of clean dishes. And the kitchen was disgusting, so I wouldn't let the kids cook anything. We had no food in the house because I always go shopping on the 1st, but couldn't because that's when this had all started. The kids were hungry and searching for food to eat. Jason was trying to sleep so he could attempt to go back to work that night. It was 7pm, way past dinnertime and I really didn't want to spend $25 on pizza again for the well kids. So I was going to go to Walgreens to find something frozen to throw into the microwave. I looked disgusting and awful, I told the kids I would be right back, I went outside just barely walking to the car and I went to go get into the car and couldn't. I grabbed the steering wheel and tried and tried to pull myself up, for about 5 mins. I just couldn't do it. Now if you know me, things like this just don't happen. I don't allow them to happen and WILL figure out a way to make things work. But I absolutely couldn't. I was standing there in my driveway, just bawling. Mad at having to spend so much money on stupid pizza, mad that I wasn't strong enough to get into my car, mad that I stunk like throw up but felt too weak to get in the shower, mad that I couldn't take care of my children or myself, & mad that I was having an absolute breakdown in my driveway, but couldn't help myself! I finally gained my composure and came back in and ordered pizza for the kids. It was not one of my greatest moments, but we all have them, right?!
This hasn't been the worst case of the stomach bug we've ever had. But I think just mentally and emotionally I wasn't prepared for it. I'm about to have this baby and my life is absolute chaos right now. I am so thankful that it hit us when it did though. I'd rather have it happen now than after the baby is here. And I really needed to get hit upside the head by something like this to make me appreciate the small and simple thing in life. Ya, sounds weird huh? But lately, I've been so ornery and moody and whiny about little things. I mean, ya, it's normal to whine about being pregnant and sore all the time and having sciatic problems. But I was whining about having to clean the house all the time and doing laundry and all that fun stuff we do as women. But when I wasn't able to really do those things because I was sick, I wanted too. I wanted to clear off the counter, I wanted to do the dishes, I wanted to work on laundry. Weird huh? Now I really appreciate being able to do these things, and haven't whined about it in a whole 24 hours!
Anyway, I know this is a long post about nothing. But I realized that I'm not blogging things like this for anyone but myself and my family in the future. I really want to start blogging more. More about the highs & lows and realities of life. More about the things we go through and experience as a family. And the lessons that are learned from life. We'll see if this happens though. Finger's cross though that we are done with this stomach bug! We will find out tonight if that's the case! Then, we can finally prepare and get excited for General Conference this weekend! YAY!!!
Monday, October 01, 2012
Donde Esta mi Camera?
Ok, so I haven't blogged all summer. Maybe due to the fact that my blog always seems to be weird and do strange things and I don't have the patience to deal with it. We also lost our camera around the time that Maci got baptized. So I'm without a camera and hate it! But what can you do? I guess I'll just have to write about what's going on in our life right now instead of having pictures of it.
Kids
Between soccer, piano, scouts, activity days, Dr. & Dental appointments and just normal life... life is busy. The kids are all back in school and loving it! They love their teachers, love learning, and love their friends! Elijah is the only one that didn't go back to preschool. We did a co-op last year, but with the baby coming, there was no way I could commit to that. So his speech therapy class once a week is just going to have to do for now.
Pregnancy
I am due in 6 weeks! HALLELUJAH!! This pregnancy has been good, yet crazy! There are days that I have contractions 20 mins. apart and they don't go away for like 24 hours. Of course they don't hurt, just uncomfortable and when I have them, I have to try to lay down and rest a little. We don't want a preemie! My sciatic nerve is off and on too. Somedays it doesn't bother me, other days I can't move! And my blood pressure has been great.... but had a low blood pressure day last week and was bed ridden because of it. Despite all the weirdness of this pregnancy, I just still try to keep on going. I have to pick and choose what to do. So feeding and clothing the kids is my #1 priority. The house doesn't get touched until I'm feeling decent, and by that time, it's a disaster. Oh well! Just all part of the pregnancy game! One that is definitely hard, yet so rewarding in the end!
Jason
Jason just got released from his calling(job) at church. He was working with the youth, but is now teaching the 10/11 yr. olds in primary. He loved working with the youth, but never got too due to his work schedule. So it's nice that he has a calling he can actually fulfill now. His work schedule is 5-7 nights a week, 8-12 hour shifts. And he's working in Galt, which is a 60-90 min. commute one way. So since he's working all the time, the kids and I are on our own. So when I'm down.... I have to rely on Maci to help out with the younger kids. This time of year Jason is pretty much a zombie. Which is totally understandable. We'll go weeks without really seeing each other or talking to each other. And that's just part of the job this time of year. Once winter comes, he's around way more and works a lot from home. We're very thankful for that and his job!
Health
Since I've felt absolutely exhausted lately, my mind is mush. Last night around midnight, I heard Ezra coughing and it sounded like he was throwing up. I was sooooo tired that I couldn't even open my eyes and get up. I know, I'm a bad mom. But I figured if he wasn't crying, he was fine. Awhile later I heard the same thing, but once again could not get up for anything! Jason was wide awake downstairs and I couldn't even call for him. Ezra just fell back to sleep and so did I. Around 2:30am, Jason came upstairs loudly and announced that he could smell throw up. He checked on Ezra and sure enough, he had thrown up everywhere in the crib! He instantly took action and put him in the tub and cleaned him up. I slowly got up and waddled to the crib to clean it up. We got it all taken care of and went back to bed. An hour later, I woke up again to the sound of someone else throwing up. It was Jason this time! And then I heard Isaiah. Sooo.... it looks like we have some sort of bug in our household. Hopefully no one else will get it. I am glad that I had to cancel all of my appointments today. Because I'm just exhausted! I felt so bad though because Jason was upstairs dying and asked me to go to Walgreens and get him something. I was so out of it that I didn't even think about getting 7up, pedialyte, and saltines to help calm their stomachs. Usually I'm on top of that.... but not this time around. Oh well. It's all good and we're fine. Just tired!
Well, that's all I have for now. I guess I better go feed the healthy kids and check on the sick ones and then lay down and take a nap. Today is definitely one of those days that the TV is going to be babysitting the kids.
Kids
Between soccer, piano, scouts, activity days, Dr. & Dental appointments and just normal life... life is busy. The kids are all back in school and loving it! They love their teachers, love learning, and love their friends! Elijah is the only one that didn't go back to preschool. We did a co-op last year, but with the baby coming, there was no way I could commit to that. So his speech therapy class once a week is just going to have to do for now.
Pregnancy
I am due in 6 weeks! HALLELUJAH!! This pregnancy has been good, yet crazy! There are days that I have contractions 20 mins. apart and they don't go away for like 24 hours. Of course they don't hurt, just uncomfortable and when I have them, I have to try to lay down and rest a little. We don't want a preemie! My sciatic nerve is off and on too. Somedays it doesn't bother me, other days I can't move! And my blood pressure has been great.... but had a low blood pressure day last week and was bed ridden because of it. Despite all the weirdness of this pregnancy, I just still try to keep on going. I have to pick and choose what to do. So feeding and clothing the kids is my #1 priority. The house doesn't get touched until I'm feeling decent, and by that time, it's a disaster. Oh well! Just all part of the pregnancy game! One that is definitely hard, yet so rewarding in the end!
Jason
Jason just got released from his calling(job) at church. He was working with the youth, but is now teaching the 10/11 yr. olds in primary. He loved working with the youth, but never got too due to his work schedule. So it's nice that he has a calling he can actually fulfill now. His work schedule is 5-7 nights a week, 8-12 hour shifts. And he's working in Galt, which is a 60-90 min. commute one way. So since he's working all the time, the kids and I are on our own. So when I'm down.... I have to rely on Maci to help out with the younger kids. This time of year Jason is pretty much a zombie. Which is totally understandable. We'll go weeks without really seeing each other or talking to each other. And that's just part of the job this time of year. Once winter comes, he's around way more and works a lot from home. We're very thankful for that and his job!
Health
Since I've felt absolutely exhausted lately, my mind is mush. Last night around midnight, I heard Ezra coughing and it sounded like he was throwing up. I was sooooo tired that I couldn't even open my eyes and get up. I know, I'm a bad mom. But I figured if he wasn't crying, he was fine. Awhile later I heard the same thing, but once again could not get up for anything! Jason was wide awake downstairs and I couldn't even call for him. Ezra just fell back to sleep and so did I. Around 2:30am, Jason came upstairs loudly and announced that he could smell throw up. He checked on Ezra and sure enough, he had thrown up everywhere in the crib! He instantly took action and put him in the tub and cleaned him up. I slowly got up and waddled to the crib to clean it up. We got it all taken care of and went back to bed. An hour later, I woke up again to the sound of someone else throwing up. It was Jason this time! And then I heard Isaiah. Sooo.... it looks like we have some sort of bug in our household. Hopefully no one else will get it. I am glad that I had to cancel all of my appointments today. Because I'm just exhausted! I felt so bad though because Jason was upstairs dying and asked me to go to Walgreens and get him something. I was so out of it that I didn't even think about getting 7up, pedialyte, and saltines to help calm their stomachs. Usually I'm on top of that.... but not this time around. Oh well. It's all good and we're fine. Just tired!
Well, that's all I have for now. I guess I better go feed the healthy kids and check on the sick ones and then lay down and take a nap. Today is definitely one of those days that the TV is going to be babysitting the kids.
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