Sick Little Baby

This is how we've been spending our days lately. Tierney has been one sick little girl! It started with a cold about three weeks ago and a residual cough. The cough got worse until we took her to the ER last Sunday and she was diagnosed with bronchiolitis and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). She's been getting regular albuterol treatments with a home nebulizer and has been on steroids for the past few days. Not sure if she's breathing better, but she's really bulked up nicely.

It's been pretty serious at times this week, and very stressful for everyone. It has really made me far more empathetic and sensitive to parents who have children who really are sick. Not that Tierney isn't very sick, but there are kids that are a lot worse off.

We're going back to the Dr tomorrow in hopes of avoiding another day in the ER over the weekend. Prayers on our behalf are always appreciated!

For all you out of state suckers!

So, the other day I called Mom and I was telling her how I wanted to get out of the house, but not sure what to do. She told me to come down there and we'd go to Chuck E Cheeses. Seriously......how friggin' awesome is that? (To top it off she offered to take the kids back to her house after for a little while so I could get an errand done....seriously awesome....) So the kids spent their day with their Mom and Grandma living it up at Chuck's. We had a great time, and we are so, so, so lucky to have her close. She really is the best Grandma ever guys. So, although I love you all tons....stay away. She's mine!

Mason stayed on this trolley forever. He would just sit on it and kids would come and sit on the other side and put in their coin, so he'd get a free ride. He must have sat on that ride for at least 20 min. Genius.
Mallory spent 95% of the time sitting by Mom playing with the tokens. She would just take them from one cup and put it in the other over and over again. She loved it! It was the funniest thing. Here she was surrounded by all these cool games and all she wanted to do was sit and sort out the coins. She's so awesome.

After the coins, she figured out what Chucks is all about. She spent the rest of the time climbing on the skee ball with her brother and pulling the tickets out of the machines. Whether our family member was using that machine or not. Hey, you snooze you lose.

Mom, here's a picture of Mallory in the coat you gave her. I finally got you a picture! Isn't she so adorable? I seriously love that coat. And I put this little ballerina outfit under it. She loved it because it was all poofy! It was really cute. Tanner kept calling her "Princess." I told him that I was the princess around here. Just kidding. I'm way out of my league with Mallie. There's no contest.

Now if only we could do something with her hair......

Just a Few Thoughts

It's been a few days since anyone put anything up here, so I thought I'd chip in my two cents. Which is good, because a few things are on my mind right now. Here they are, in no particular order:

1. Remember that girl that I said I was thinking about dating? I'm not thinking about it anymore, I actually am.
2. People in southern Utah, particularly in my town of Cedar City, somehow think it's okay to start a conversation with "What are you doing?" This annoys me to no end. The people I work with say it all the time, and I find it ridiculous. It's obvious what I'm doing, I'm talking to you, stupid. Furthermore, what business is it of yours? If you would have started with "Hi, how are you?" I would be fine with telling you what I'm doing. But don't just go starting out with that! I love this town, but this one thing is in and of itself reason enough for me to leave. My frustration is compounded by the fact that I know I can't get mad at them, that's just how they were raised. Getting mad at them would make me no better than Al Qaeda.
3. I also hate the term "hubby."
4. I saw Indiana Jones (the first one) for the first time in my life last night. Underwhelming. But I'm glad it's out of the way so I don't ever have to see it again.

What a worthless post.


Bubba

On a lighter note..

Last night Jackson did NOT want to go to sleep. I had to go in several times and keep putting him back in his bed. It was weird becuase it was the first time I've had that problem...now thinking about it- It may have had something to do with the fact I gave him kool aid before his bed time...hmmm...
Anyways, I kept hearing a dull thud and when I went in there Little Joe told me that Jackson was throwing shoes. I popped him and put him back in his bed. This scenario happened a couple more times. Finally, I hear Little Joe crying his head off. I went in there, Jackson was laying in the bed with his eyes closed, and Little Joe said "Jackson threw this at me!" and it was a big wooden puzzle board. Jackson popped up and said "Whoa! What's that? What happened?" He thinks he is so slick. He got his first real spanking last night. For those of you that know me, I don't play when it comes to bedtime...and now Jackson knows it too. Cute little guy

More Divorce Details...

In response to the several questions commented on my last post:
1. Expensive is $3,000. which, is a deal from the regular $5500 since this lawyer is the father in law of my boss. He's super qualified, and very successful. If I could poop money, I'd sit at home eating prunes until I had $3,000
2. I would like to think that this divorce will be uncontested. I'm agreeing to some visitation (no custody) I get the house and my car, in exchange for his crap truck. Child support will be handled through another outlet since that process have already started (see #3) I agree to visitation since he won't come anyway. I will also have a clause that states I'm not confined to anywhere, and can move where i want when the divorce is final. I will have full custody, and he gets no say in anything I do with them. hes agreed to these terms, however before the child support hearing he said he'd give me whatever I wanted and then threw such a fit, we are getting sent to court. That's why I'm nervous about filing anything myself without proper representation.
3. Child Support - We went to a meeting and fought over the monthly amount. he wanted it based off his current wage (part time at $9/hr) and I wanted it based off his salary history of full time at $15/hr. She agreed to make an amount between the two, but he refused to provide any old salary info. I got $350/month. For those of you without kids, that covers formula and half a month supply of diapers for one baby. nevermind the other ones diapers, food or child care costs. anyway, I wouldn't sign because it said I had to stay in Denton County for the rest of my life we could have altered the papers to say otherwise, but he wouldn't let me. So, now they have to send us to court. I'm still waiting on the paperwork for that with the date.

It's a mess. For a guy that hardly comes around and is totally unsupportive, he sure has a sense of entitlement. I heard through a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend that he's coming back home, but he's just not ready yet. But, when he is ready I'll let him come back and everything will be good again. he also told me that he was victimized by me because I was so degrading to him. I'm not going to pretend to be perfect, and I absolutely have been that way towards him in the past few months. I've been mean as a snake. However, that didn't start until a few months ago. He's so out of touch with reality. For those of you curious, I will not be getting back together with him. Ever. It's sad. My family is in shambles, but there is no possibilty of reconsiliation at this point.

Advice!!

Does anyone have any thoughts on which would be better: Getting an expensive lawyer that I can't afford, or filing for divorce myself using an online service lik https://www.legalzoom.com/

Cowboy Showtime

So we went to Showtime Utah in swingin' downtown PG (https://www.showtimeutah.com/) last night. Mom won discounted tickets off of a local auction and we had to use them by last night. We wanted to go when "The Mamma's Boys" were featured (a cowboy band made up of the Shumway family (neighbor and 1c Stake Presy) and his boys. They were not playing but we were significantly entertained by the Dryer Highway - 3 very talented youngsters. Great night of food and entertainment. Unfortunately their can-can dancers didn't show up for work last night so they had to recruit from the audience. Kinda hard to see, but that is Matt on the left end of the bad picture.