Life With Boys

This morning I was readmitted to the hospital for an obstructed bowel. Turns out what I thought was just a reaction to the antibiotic wasn’t. So I have a really exciting tube in my nose to pump my stomach all day. Merry Christmas to me! Maybe I’ll be out tomorrow or the next day. Hope… Continue reading

Dear Santa, I’ve been a good mom all year. I’ve fed, cleaned and cuddled my children on demand, visited the doctor’s office more than my doctor and sold sixty-two cases of candy bars to raise money to plant a shade tree on the school playground. I was hoping you could spread my list out over… Continue reading

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My sister has an odd sense of humor — but it’s hard not to laugh! Oser elvesDave & MarilynKrall elves Continue reading

Staples are out. Incicsion is healing nicely according to the Dr.I’ve been taken off of the antibiotics that were making me super sick and I’m starting to feel much better.And added bonus — What I thought was scar tissue from my gallbladder surgery is really a hernia. Yes, a HERNIA. I’ll need another surgery to… Continue reading

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Well somehow I convinced them to let me out (maybe it was a few noisy visits from the boys). So now I’m home feeling crappy but happy. And overnight St. Louis has turned into a winter wonderland — the whole city will be paralyzed for a week. Now my main goal is graduating from a… Continue reading

This is not what I had in mind. OK — I guess I owe you a little bit of background. Wednesday morning about 2:30 am I drove myself over the the ER — my lower belly was so tender and I had a lot of the same feelings when my gallbladder went berserk, so I… Continue reading

Three separate visits to the clinic at Walgreen’s, three separate diagnosis (what’s the plural of diagnosis?) Anyway — here’s the rundown (literally) Matt — Bronchitis Morgan — bad cold and me — two ear infections and a sinus infection in between — and did I mention I tweaked my back at the beginning of the… Continue reading

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