Lots has been happening in the past month for us, or especially since the last blog post.
Firstly, Anya and I had strep throat. It was horrible, but we made it through and luckily, Travis and Arwen avoided it! The Wednesday after we had strep throat, my Grandma passed away. She had been sick for a long time and while I was sad to see her leave this world, I know she’s in a better one now. I was able to go back for her funeral though and that was quite nice. I was glad I was able to be there for my Dad and Mom and all the family. Travis and the girls stayed here. I was also able to visit with my brother and sister in law and step-niece in Georgia.
Then we had to deal with an issue with our mortgage which is way too involved to go into detail here but needless to say we will be monitoring things very closely for quite some time. It was nothing at all that we did wrong, but the attorney at the closing instead. Hopefully, it will all get straightened out over time, but sometimes you just have to roll with these things. Part of life, I guess.
So, onto fun things, the girls are doing well. Arwen is talking more and more these days and has discovered the computer games! Anya’s doing well in school and has made a few close friends in her class that she does things with regularly and has also decided to play girls softball for the first time this spring.
Travis and I are gearing up for our 12th Anniversary! Anniversaries are a big deal to us and this one will be special because we can afford to buy each other something a little bigger than normal this year! Travis already got his…a bigger computer monitor…although he hasn’t been able to enjoy it too much yet though as Arwen takes it over pretty regularly these days.
And we are all looking forward to Granny and PopPop taking their next trip out here soon.
And here’s some photos of the girls and I making spaghetti…and Anya with her friends playing mini golf!



And lastly something sweet and important…

So we are in the year 2012 now! Sounds strange. Not a lot going on for us so far. Anya and I are currently suffering from strep throat and it has been years since I had this and I don’t like it one little bit. I do not remember strep throat being this painful. Of course most of the time I ended up with bronchitis so dealing with strep is at least a new adventure! We went to the doc yesterday and luckily they swabbed only my throat and looked at Anya’s. Anya’s was obvious they said, she had the rash and the strawberry tongue, even though her throat pain went away. Me, I was all about the swabbing, one of my favorite things ever. I remember when I was a little girl and they would do that and I hated it then. We are in the year of 2012 now and have all kinds of cool little medical gadgets to take temperatures and even measure the amount of oxygen we have through our nails, but finding some cool little laser tool or something that can check for strep is just too daunting of a task, so we have to rely on the old fashioned long cotton swab and stab the hell out of the already sore throat of the patient! And not just one swab they do two swabs at once now. One to do the quick test on that takes 5 minutes to determine if its positive and one to send off to the lab in case the first one isn’t positive they can send it off and see if anything else shows up. Hey, here’s an idea, why not just stab me with one swab and if it comes back negative, how about the doc see me and see if he can narrow down the symptoms more! Let’s not stab the poor patient with two long cotton swabs at once and for the love of all that is holy someone please invent a new tool other than the tongue depressor! Wood stick to hold down your tongue while someone stabs you in the back of throat to make you gag! Yeah, that’s a great idea! Needless to say, we are on antibiotics and slowly recovering. Anya has decided she loves the smell of amoxicillan but not the taste even though I would take that over the freakin’ horse pills I have to swallow any day. In other news, we went to a ice hockey game, just here locally in Frisco and had a great time. Arwen even enjoyed it until she fell asleep. Yes, my tiny three year old can sleep through a loud hockey game and for her next amazing feat of wonder…stay tuned!