Wake up call

My five year old, Thomas, has asthma. He was diagnosed just a few months ago because of chronic coughing. I've been thinking its no big deal, I hardly ever hear him coughing anymore and don't see any other symptoms. Well, our insurance put us on this program for asthmatic kids, and we have nurse support and additional info and stuff. Two days ago now, the nurse calls up and we are talking about his asthma and she starts in on a quality of life questionnaire. Does he ever complain of being tired? Does he have trouble running around, or keeping up with other children? And a few others I can't remember, but I got all choked up, because he has been complaining of being tired...all the time!! And he just plops down on the nearest chair. And I had no idea. And the nurse is saying how all boys just run around all day until you make them stop. And then she asks me if he's my first. Sheepishly, I reply, no he's my third... I just thought he was being whiny. Sorry little buddy!

Yesterday I had him use his inhaler twice... And he was so energetic all day long! It was really good to see. So I need to get some doohicky to monitor his breath output and monitor him more closely, and hopefully he'll be as energetic and non-whiny as possible!

Out of the blue...

Thomas: : "Its too bad we have to wear white in heaven."

I don't know the reasoning behind this, but probably because he'll get everything all dirty in two seconds...

Back from Bear Lake

Excessive fatigue

Now that I have my road bike, I've been going biking with some friends three times a week. I'm still slow, and they wait for me at the top of the hills, but I'm getting better. A week or two ago they invited me to come swimming with them twice a week. I love swimming, and I used to go for a mile just for fun, so I said sure. Yesterday was my third time, and we went for 29 laps. But we do all this at 6:00 AM. SIX A.M.!! I'm normally a late owl, so six comes pretty early for me. I don't think I've gotten up this early this consistently since seminary, actually. Yesterday afternoon I went to my gym to lift a little. While I was there I decided if I was biking and swimming, I should work a little on being able to run... So I walked, then jogged, then walked, then jogged for about thirty minutes. Well, I was exhausted afterwards. (To borrow one of Paige's phrases..."No duh!")

That evening my eye started twitching. It was the first time it's ever happened to me before, and it was getting pretty annoying. I looked up eye twitching online, and one of the reasons was excessive fatigue. HA!

It also mentioned that it had genetic tendencies, so I called my mom and asked her she'd ever had twitchy eyes. Well, she was surprised that I was asking, because her eye was twitching at that very moment and was totally bugging her. We had a good laugh at the coincidence. :)

And the winner is...

James Willes!!! James is the proud winner of the award for the fastest boat in the raingutter regatta. He is as pleased as punch.

Birthday girl

Thursday was Paige's birthday. My baby is 10!! She is growing up so sweet. She is so responsible and such a nice helper for me. I'm such a lucky mommy!

Lightning

Lightning always reminds me of summers from my childhood. No matter where we lived, we'd always spend part of our summer here in Utah visiting. My grandparents had a house on the Provo bench, and they had a big window overlooking the valley. When there was a storm, we'd look out over the whole valley and watch the lightning. Grandpa usually gave us a physics lesson on the speed of sound, and we'd count the seconds between the flash and the boom. (If you were wondering, every five seconds is about a mile away...)

So Paige and I were counting the seconds tonight during the storm, and thinking of Grandpa Woodbury.

Summer!!

Yesterday was the last day of school for my kids, and today we are going to stay home and not go anywhere! Just bask in the languor of a day without activities. Yay!

Busy, busy....

I feel like my head is going to explode. I've got about a million things to do, and need to be in many places at the same time. My brain is so full of what I need to do when, that I'm double and triple booking myself, and not realizing 'til way too late. So if I'm forgetting anything, or anyone, I'm sorry...

A good day for a garden

I just finished planting my garden! I have pumpkins, spaghetti squash, two kinds of zucchini, and a banana squash. Plus 'Big Beef' tomatoes, and the onions that are starting to naturalize because I forget to harvest them. Because it's such a small garden (things are just crammed in), I decided to plant some pots on my back porch too! I've got two kinds of cherry tomatoes, a bush cucumber, a patio pepper and basil and chives in my herb box. I hope I don't kill everything!