So I haven't written for a couple of days but I have been busy. As many of you know, Joshua has been sick and Sunday we took him to the emergency room. He had went on a eating strike starting Friday night and by Sunday he was so weak from not getting anything in his body that he couldn't even stand by himself so I decide to take him to the ER. The only thing nice I can say about the visit is that they did get some IV fluid in him. But they also put a cath in him to get a urine sample (OUCH!), ran x-rays of his chest and put an IV in the bend of his arm for which they had to strap his arm to a board with tape so he wouldn't bend it. ARGH! Remarkably he barely cried, just wined a bit. Starting yesterday, Tuesday, he was feeling so much better but the doctor is still concerned that he is underweight and not gaining. He goes to Children's on the 21st of this month and even though I don't want anything to be wrong with him, I wish there was some treatable diagnosis so we can move on. So...that is the update on him.

Today. I helped Wayne trim a tree in our backyard. He climbed up in it about 30-40 feet up when he decided that it was TOO RISKY to go any farther. About 10 feet up I would have come to that conclusion. I actually had to quit watching when I lost him in the branches because I kept having visions of him crashing down on our shed. So we decided to do what any other redneck would do...we tied an extension cord to the branch pulled it to the ground and he climbed on a step ladder and cut it with the chainsaw. We came inside and had a shasta and ate moon pies. LOL. We go this week to get fitted for our "You're Stupid" signs. But it makes room for our poor people pool. All of this so we can get 30 more minutes of sun directly on our pool so it will heat it up. YEAH RIGHT!
Friday I have to take Wayne in for hernia surgery and we will be stuck in the house together for at least 2 weeks SO pray for me! I know that sounds bad but if you know us you know that we hardly see each other because he is always working and I don't know how I am going to handle him being around ALL THE TIME! Maybe this will be a good thing for us. He is a really great man and I would happily marry him again tomorrow (but he has to come debt free, hee hee). I know I don't talk about him a whole lot because I can be really sarcastic and I don't want it to come across wrong. We have a great life together and two wonderful and perfect kids and he has been a great husband and father. Sometimes I don't say it enough about how much I love him because I have this tough independent exterior I need to maintain. Here is a picture of my lovely husband.


JUST KIDDING!!! (Here is our lovely family)