Kids again!

Wow, last week was a bit insane. This week looks a little better, well it did before all three kids got sick and missed school today. As soon as I leave here, I am taking them to an after hours clinic, so they can HOPEFULLY not miss any more school. It is really hard to get them an appointment on Mondays. They all started getting sick yesterday, and well now they got me sick too!!! Christopher slept until 2pm today. He was so pale. He looks and feels better right now, but he still gets to go in to the doctor. Any way, I think I keep jumping from one thought to another, so if none of this makes any sense, I am sorry. My head is a little achy right now. Cassidy probably has an ear infection (she has them a lot and never really has a fever or earaches), she has been coughing and that usually leads me to her ears. Anyway, Barry just has a cold I think, but you never know! I'll fill you in later!

Crazy life!!

Lets see, where to begin? I do not even know! My life is so crazy! My kids really seem to be going in ten different directions and they are still little. What am I going to do when they get big enough to really have lots to do. I think I will just have to let them figure it out. This past weekend the Colvins took my kids on Saturday and kept them the WHOLE day. It was so nice to have a day with no kids. I did not have to feed them breakfast or lunch (they ate at grandma's house), I did not have to entertain them, I actually got stuff done! Hooray! Yesterday Christopher had a counseling session that went really well. Today Cassidy has Girl Scouts, and then all three kids have swimming lessons. I am watching my nephew so his mom can go to a funeral. Tomorrow we have AWANA, and Thursday we have more swimming lessons. I am pretty sure the kids do not have some place to go on Friday, but I have an AWANA activity with the girls T&T. Then on Saturday, I have a counseling session with Brad's counselor again. That is just this week. Oh well, I will survive! :)

When it rains. . .

WOW!! We had so much rain here this weekend. Northwest Indiana does not flood that often. This year we have had two major flooding issues. First this spring, but that did not really affect my neighborhood. However, this past weekend, it poured!! My yard was completely under water. My neighborhood is situated on the top of a hill. We live very close to a creek, but it is below the hill. The road leading to the creek was completely under water. Lake George in Hobart flooded so badly that it washed away 3rd Street (the water is not down yet, so it may to be as bad as that.) There is a huge sinkhole on 73rd Avenue, one of the major road ways in the Hobart/Merrillville area. There was so much rain that most Northwest Indiana schools were canceled yesterday, including all of the area colleges. Most schools are back in school today, but some are not. I do not think I have ever heard of our area schools closing because of flooding! We always seem to have to make up snow days, but this year we will have to make up a "flood" day also. The major highways around here are closed also. I 80/94 is closed from the IL/IN state line all the way to Chesterton (close to me.) That is about a 30 mile stretch (or more). I know that IN did not see the amount of rain and wind that Texas did, but man, this is a lot more rain than I am used to. The rain ended on Sunday night and the roads are still closed. What an awesome God we have. Yes, we got lots of rain, but it did not flood every where. My house and family are safe. My mother's house is safe, my friends and their families are safe. It could have been so much worse. I thank God that it was not any worse for the people that I know and care about.

Weekend of rain!

What about this rain!? I took Christopher to the Colvin's house today. Ron was going to spend the afternoon with him. (They had a really good time.) Anyway, I got a phone call from Ron telling me not to take 73rd. If you know 73rd avenue in Hobart/Merrillville, then you will know about the dangerous curve that is between 51 and Colorado. There is a sinkhole about 14 feet deep across both lanes of the road. When I got to the Colvin's house, there was a car in the sinkhole almost completely under water. All I could see was the left rear tire and part of the trunk! The man driving the car got out OK, but his car was flooded in a BIG way! For all you Northwest Indiana people, you will know that the rain is not over yet. We are supposed to get heavy rain tonight and the weather report on the radio said "100% chance of heavy rain tomorrow." Roads all over the area are already under water. There has been so much rain already. I suppose I should not complain. We are not in the middle of Hurricane Ike, so it could be worse. Cassidy is at a horse show in southern Indiana and they have not had rain there yet. She got pushed over by the baby horse and got muddy, so I guess that means that they did have rain earlier this week. Anyway, I'll keep you posted!

Quick Update

Christopher decided this morning to wake us all up by throwing up! YUCK!!! He is asleep on my mother's chair right now. (We had to come here to be here when the Sear repairman came to fix the washing machine.) He was not so patiently waiting for him to leave and now he is waiting for me. Anyway, hopefully this will not travel through the family!!

Update

I have a little update about Brad. He got out of jail last December. I expected him to really cause a lot of problems for me right from the beginning. I have been pleasantly surprised that he has been on his best behavior. He only communicated with me through his mom because he was not allowed to talk to me until I talked to his counselor. I did not talk to her until the very beginning of August. That was the hardest meeting I have ever had to go to. Everything that I thought I had gotten past was brought back to the surface. I have come to the decision that I am not quite as over everything as I thought. I have gone back to talk to the counselor twice. Once alone and once with Brad. (The first meeting Brad was at and he had to do all the talking.) I am getting child support, again another thing I did not think I would ever see. Brad has not tried to see the kids yet. It is part of his parole that he stay away from kids under 18. From what he has said, he does want to see our kids. I am still a little uncomfortable with the idea, but it will be court supervised, so it should be fine. The kids have all figured out that he is out of jail, but Christopher is the only one who is having a hard time with not seeing him. After my first meeting, Christopher said that since I had talked to "Daddy" he should be able to see him too. I have been considering getting Christopher some counseling, but could never afford it. I found a place near our home that counsels kids for free, so we have our first appointment on Wednesday right after school. Cassidy has started telling people that her dad is dead. I have told her that she cannot lie to people about things. She may start counseling also, if I see that she is continuing to have an issue with the "Daddy" stuff. I think that she is angry that her dad is not around to do thing with her, like her friends' dad's do. Matt and Nick have both done special things with her, but she is starting to see that it is not the same. (Nick and Matt both took her to her Girl Scout Daddy/Daughter Dance the past two years.) Barry does not seem to care much about whether or not he has a daddy in the picture. Anyway back to Brad. I have been told that he may not be able to see the kids until at least December and if that does not happen it could take as long as December of 2010 or 11, before he can see them. Anyway, I will let you know how things are going as things happen.

Just wondering

Well, I am a little confused. I have been sneezing like crazy and my nose keeps running, but until today I was not coughing at all. At first I thought I was just allergies, but now I am not so sure. Also, my kids started swimming lessons again this week. Of course, I HAVE to swim too. I wonder if that has anything to do with me feeling sick. Anyway, Cassidy has a horse show this weekend, her first girl scout meeting next Tuesday, AWANA started on Wednesday, Christopher's boy scouts start next Tuesday (after Cassidy's girl scout meeting), and the swimming lessons are every Tuesday and Thursday. I think that I am going to go crazy this month. Maybe that is why I am sick!! :)