Surgery for Ashlynne

Ashlynne has a nack for getting strep throat way too often. Over the last about 6 months she's had it 5 times, the last 3 were within 2 1/2 months of eachother and the last 2 were 13 days apart. It was decided that it was time to see the ENT about the problem. I took her in two weeks ago and it was easily decided that it was time for her to make a visit to the operating room. The surgery was scheduled for a week and a half later. Last Friday we got up early and were at the hospital at 6am. Ashlynne had her tonsils and adnoids removed and a short time later we were back with her. Dr. Ventura is amazing, he had her in and out and she did wonderful. He said that her tonsils were quite big and not just that but they were long as well, he also said that her adnoids were the size of one of her tonsils. He said she should even be able to breathe better now that they've been removed. She was such a trooper, a little nervous about it before-hand but not too bad. She did so good afterwards as well. She had a hard time on Friday but that's to be expected on the day of surgery. Saturday she was doing so well she didn't even want her pain meds. It's been slow going since but she is eating so much better and is going back to school tomorrow. What an amazing daughter we have!!!

WE ARE SO PROUD OF OUR LITTLE GIRL!!!

A new beginning!

A wonderful one at that! Brent got a new job! We've been praying and waiting for this job for over 2 years now. He actually applied for this job back in October. After long wait and wondering when we would hear anything we got word in late January that he got the job. He started on Valentine's Day of all days. We thought it kind of funny ourselves. We are so thrilled for this job. It has so much potential for him, lots of room to move up in the company, an actual career versus just a job and SOOO much more time at home with us. Consider this, for the past two years plus Brent has been working at a job where he hit the perverbial ceiling after being with the company for only a few months, they had NO benefits at all, he worked so many hours that we hardly saw him and when he was home he was half asleep and to top it all off he barely made any money at it at all. NOW, he makes good money with tons of room to improve on that and quite soon actually, ALL the benefits we'd ever want and TONS of time at home to spend as a family. It's a very strange schedule that's for sure but it's all worth it. The rotating schedule consists of this... 4 night shifts, 3 days off, 3 day shifts, 1 day off, 3 night shifts, 3 days off, 4 day shifts, 7 days off. I told it it was strange, but if you count all that up, it's a 28 day schedule and he only works 14 of them, that means that half the time, he's all ours! It's going to take some getting used to and a little tinkering with how we work it, but we'll have it down in no time. Today was his first day working the night shift and we didn't do too bad. I think we figured it out quite well, just a few adjustments and we'll be doing great. We're looking forward to what this job will let us do and the new adventures we'll be able to have as a family.

THANK YOU GOD ABOVE FOR THIS WONDERFUL GIFT!!!

Sorry for the lapse in time!

I know I'm not the best blogger I could be but that's just my life talking. I am trying to keep up with things but blogging happens to be on the bottom of the list unfortunately. For some reason clean clothes and food to eat seem to take a front seat to this. Apparantly sending your children to school naked because you can't find any clean underwear and jeans isn't acceptable, and if you don't feed your children the government seems to think they can just come take them away. LOL Okay enough of my smartypants antics for now, we'll get back to that later.

I pleadge to try my best through all the crud in life to at least let you all know what's going on once a month. As for pictures, those will come as I can get to them. I have a HUGE list of them to post for you so it may take a while but I promise to try.