Grandma Shultz

I talked to Mom today and Grandma is doing so much better. She is still critical but the breathing tube is out and so is the feeding tube! She is able to eat, she is off puree food and today she had soft food for the first time. She is smiling and was even approved to move out of ICU – now there aren’t any beds available in the hospital so she will stay in ICU until something opens up but she is doing well. It’s been 4 weeks now since she went in this round. Last Thursday they told us that the surgery to repair the hole in her chest had been cancelled and there was nothing they could do. But thanks to the Good Lord, she has gotten better. They still aren’t talking about doing the surgery right away but the less tubes in her and the more she can do on her own is fantastic!!! So excited to go see her. We leave Saturday morning and will be there Saturday night. We are staying at Grandma’s house. I love her house, I have so many wonderful memories there. That’s the one place I remember growing up that was safe, and warm, and well it was Grandma – and just being around her in the same room makes you feel good inside. She is a wonderful woman and I can’t wait to see her. Yay, Yay, Yay, oh yeah, she’s doing better – yes she is (doing a little dance, even though you can’t see) :)

Chase Karate

So today was Chase's first tournament at the Y. He did his Kata then and I thought he did really well. He messed up a little bit at the end that caused one of the judges to give him a 5.5 so he wasn't in the finals for Kata. He got a participation trophy. Then came the sparring! That was really cool. I've never seen a Karate tournament and let me tell you if Sparring isn't the highlight of it. They actually fight each other. Some of those kids were matrixing it up. Chase got 2nd place! 2nd Place! it was his first time competeing and it was great! He was so excited. It was so great to see him really try and he loved it. I have tons of pictures and the video of it that if I have time I am going to put up but it was really Neat!!! So proud of him he was Awesome!

Pink Eye

William had pink eye a week or so ago, we got it taken care of no problem. Now Hunter has it in both eyes, and he gave it to me and I have it in both eyes. My damn eyes burn, and I can't put my contacts in so I'm wearing my stupid glass's and I look funny. I'm not used to wearing my glass's so I have a huge head ache that won't go away!

Grandma Shultz

Grandma's surgery has been cancelled. She is ICU. Her lungs are filling up with fluid and her body isn't getting rid of it at the same rate. I pray she isn't in pain. We leave here on the 22nd, to go see her. I miss her. She is in our prayers.

You know you always see those commercials where the baby is running naked with Mom running behind him, a huge smile on her face calling him her little one and the "little one" laughing and giggling, the then product and then she is holding the baby dressed and saying that nothing is too good for her bundle of joy............well they never show you her cleaning up the water from the bath, or him yanking on his poor family jewels so hard they turn blue and she is telling him to stop thinking about his future wife. Oh no the TV world would never show you that! But I will - I will show you what I see and today that "little one" with the blue jewels, yup he's mine. I put him in the bathtub earlier and as I cleaned the bathroom he threw water every where. I let it go I'm going to clean it up not too big of a deal at least that way I get the bathroom cleaned up. Well he kept getting out of the tub and running into the bedroom then I would ask him if he was all done (with that big smile on my face, in my mommy voice) and he would smile, Noooooo and jump back into the tub. We did this for almost an hour, my Mommy voice was getting weak, but he was having a good time and I almost had the bathroom clean inbetween running after him. Then I finally get him rinsed, get a diaper on him, the room cleaned and all the suds cleaned up that were everywhere and I'm taking the dirty clothes downstairs. I can hear him playing so I'm good with not having him right in front of me. I sort all the clothes which for us is alot and I hear him giggling. I ask him what he's doing and he doesn't answer only grunts. So I go to see what all the noise is about and he is standing at the top of his slide completely naked holding his jewels that are now turning three different shades of blue, grunting - he looks up and smiles at me slides down and starts running. At that point I'm just tired, he hasn't napped all day and I know that I have to make dinner soon. I sat down and asked him where his diaper was. He does another lap before he runs over to the blue basket that we keep his clean diapers in. Hey - at least he put it away. I tell him that we need to put his diaper on and he comes back from a three lap stretch at high speed pointing at his jewels. So I explain to him what they are and tell him "Yup, just like Daddy" Using my mommy voice again. Well, that was my mistake. The kid Loves his Daddy and Misses him during the day. It sent him into a crazed high pitched voice. With one hand on the jewels and the other keeping him balanced and upright he sprinted once again. "Daddy", "Daddy", "Daddy", over and over and over again. I just took a deep breath, yeah it was cute but come on! Put the diaper on before you pee kid, thats the only thing that was going through my mind. I caught him mid stride in the living room and for the last time today using my Mommy voice I smiled and got his diaper on - 5 seconds flat..............Yayyyyyy Mommy. Then another 10 to get the shorts on and he was off again. And now to dinner.......

Boys

The girls went to camping with the girlscouts over the weekend. Dropped them off on Friday and picked them up on Sunday. After they weren't in the house for a few hours Chase made that comment that its so quiet without them bickering back and forth. I just laughed - thats the same thing that they say when the boys are gone. Its not that Mia and Angela fight alot  - who am I kidding they all fight and they all love eachother  :P They don't fight anymore than any other siblings do theres just more of them so it seems like alot. We had fun just us and the boys, we went to the sportsplex and played soccer, we went swimming at the Y. Chase had his Karate practice and we went out and ate lunch. It was a really good day. I was tired though man can those boys wear you out.

Grandma Shultz

Grandma had a heart attack while she was in the hospital. That makes me so mad! They didn't even know until days later. Why is it that she is in the hospital and the nurse's didn't know when she was having a heart attack, I mean I know I am no doctor but one would think that all the buzzers and all the crap they have her hooked up to would have spiked or something. But I guess it didn't, and they have been mean to her, Mom says that she was crying because one of the nurse's hurt her moving her into bed and damn, she is old and fragile and that guy was just a jerk. She goes in today for her major surgery. Then two days after she goes again. This is the more serious one but they all seem pretty bad - she slurs her speech and you can tell she is weak over the phone. She is one strong lady. I am praying that she has peace and not fear when she goes into surgery. I know God is with her, and I pray she is ok. I love you Grandma.