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Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I did not use a bathing suit top as a bra to go to the store on Monday. Since my 2 nursing bras were dirty...

I did not let Colin go pee behind a tree at our Doctors pharmacy on Tuesday b/c I was too lazy to take the kids all the way around the building to the bathrooms since we were all outside waiting on our prescriptions to be filled. (Don't worry no one was out side, and you couldn't see him, he was between two cars and a really big tree.)

I did not sit down and plan out ALL of my Christmas presents that I am going to be giving to everyone this year, now all I have to do is make them. The hardest part is over now.

I did not take a picture of my almost 6 year old running around the house in one of his sisters diapers. I totally know what I am going to pull out and show is girlfriend in 10 years! (I will be posting the picture later, since I did not forget and leave my camera in my husbands truck last night, and he did not take it to work this morning.

I did not forget that I was holding my daughter last night and ask my sister if she had already put her in the car. After asking twice and my sister giving me the oddest look I realized that I was still holding Cayleigh-Grace. This is not all my Mom's fault since she gave me NyQuil a couple of hours earlier, and I was not feeling a little "toasty," as I call it, by that time.

I did not forget about about the Father's Day photo shoot that I wanted to do yesterday since I as feeling sick, and got progressively worse as the day went on. I did not remember that I wanted to do the photo shoot after it was dark out and the kids were all tucked into bed and sleeping... oh well. Maybe we can do it next weekend...

Happy Father's Day

First of all I would like to say "Happy father's Day to all you Dads out there." You know, I don't usually talk about my husband too much on here, but I have to admit he is one amazing Dad. We found out we were pregnant with Kiale on February 2nd of 2003. He was trying to go to college and I was just trying to finish out my senior year of high school. We had been dating for two years and engaged for 1 month. I was in absolute hysterics and he just had the most elated look on his face. He couldn't have been happier. Neither of us were happy about the timing of the pregnancy but as I have said I don't think I had ever seen him that happy. He took me in his arms that night and held me and comforted me as I cried and cried. I was 17, and a Mom. I felt in no way was I ready for all of hell that was about to ensue (and trust me those next few months were hell, I have blocked the majority of it from my memory.) KS took it all in; he was ready to be a father, and to be the kind of dad that his father was to him. You see I never met KS's dad... well I did when I was very little, 4 or so, but I do not remember. He died in a motorcycle accident June 4th of 2000, 2 months before I met Kiale, and 7 months before we started dating.

At 20 to Kiale

At 22 to Colin Hunter

At 25 to Cayleigh-Grace

KS has been such a wonderful father to our children. He is an excellent father and a wonderful husband. He works so hard to try and provide for our family, working 45+ hours a week and 6 days a week and always coming home from work with a back that will not un-knot and cease from hurting. All that he does he does for us, to give us a roof over our heads and food on our table. His job is FAR from easy on his body, but he takes it and frequently pushes the pain aside; even when that means spending hours and hours leaning over the front of a vehicle to work on the engine. He is such a wonderful man and I am beyond blessed to be able to call him my husband, and soul mate. I love him dearly and I always will.

I love you Honey, Happy Father's Day your are truly one amazing man! Thank you so much for dealing with the teasing about dating a "15 year old kid" during your senior year, and thank you for standing by me when we became pregnant with Kiale. So frequently it goes the other way and the "dads" skip out and are never heard from again. You stepped up to the plate and have never backed down. Thank you for all of your hard work, even though I may not seem appreciative 100% of the time, I really am. Thank you for being who you are (stubborn or not) you are the perfect man for you and the perfect father to your three beautiful children. I could not have asked for a better life. God has really done well knitting this family together. I know I tell you all the time but...

I love you honey,
Charity

Quick Update

Cayleigh-Grace is doing MUCH better today. Her eyes have cleared up most of they way, and she only needed one dose of Motrin today. She is back to her happy go lucky self again thankfully. She really had me worried there for a little while.

Summer break is going good. We made an attempt to go to the park this morning, but we were only there for a short time before we had to come home due to the insane heat that we are already experiencing here. Our highs for this weekend are in the triple digits which is just absolutely ridiculous if you ask me.

Well I have to go do some laundry... big Kiale thinks he needs uniforms to be able to go to work tomorrow. I guess that was a hint or something.

God Bless & Goodnight!

Worried about my girl...

Well Cayleigh-Grace is sick... the sickest she has ever been in her 9 months here with us that is. She has been running a fever for about 30+ hours now. She seems to be just a constant 101+ I took her to the doctor yesterday and she said that she has pink eye in both eyes, plus the fever. She gave me a script for what is basically Motrin and then one for eye drops. I am starting to get worried that she is getting dehydrated though since she only peed a VERY little bit in her diaper last night. She isn't eating well at all, the equivalent of one banana yesterday and a handful of puffs. She is still nursing like a champ, but I think I am going to try to nurse her ever 1.5-2 hours today to try and keep her hydrated. She isn't really wanting the drink the Pedialyte stuff that I bought her yesterday. She also had diarrhea yesterday and she has a nasty cough on top of everything else. The poor girl just seems to be falling apart.

She spent the entire night sleeping in her Daddy's arms on the couch last night. We were too worried to let her sleep in her bed. I just hope she starts getting better soon... She is playing in her room right now. She isn't being cranky or anything thankfully. All she is really doing is being a bit more clingy than usual but that is to be expected. Well, off to my sweet sick girl.