2 trips to the Urgent Care

Last week my boy was complaining of ear pain. We had missed the prior week of school due to an on and off fever, he went to school on Tuesday, and then Thursday this ear pain. So off we went to Urgent Care.

Here's when I knew he was really not feeling good. 

After 7 years, his first ear infection. Picked up the antibiotics and home to sleep most of the rest of the day on the couch. Thankfully just the next day he was feeling better. 

I was really relating to that song "and mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again!" as he had nearly a 3 week break already for Christmas and then he was off another week for the fever and then another day for the ear. He only goes 2x a week to school and we do the rest of the work at home, so I felt a lot of pressure with him missing so much. But oh well, he has recovered and we got all our work done at home too so it is fine.

Then today we were planning on meeting some friends at an outdoor iceskating rink and doing that as a family for the first time. We were getting lunch ready when we heard, "thump! waaaaaaahhhh!!" Lucy had been sitting on the toy cabinet with Jeanie and she reached for a toy, fell off, and must have hit her chin on some hard toy on the ground, and she had a nice slice under her chin. 

The bleeding stopped after a couple minutes, but it looked deep, I could see some adipose tissue. So off we went to spend 3 hours at the Urgent Care 😔

(The happy minutes before the fall:)

Running around without a care in the world at the Urgent Care

Guess I didn't take a pic of the injury, but a 1/2 inch cut under her chin. He didn't stitch it, but did glue it shut, so I think it was worth going. 

How crazy to have 2 trips to the Urgent Care in 1 month, hopefully we are good now! :)

2024 Goals

 New Year, new goals!!!

I love setting goals. This year I wrote them on a piece of paper with kind of a checklist aspect. I am VERY motivated by checking things off. And I plan to keep this in sight this year, instead of just forgetting about the goals until the end of the year.... 😖

Marriage Goals:

- Complete the Love & Respect workbook with Doug. Read 15 of 52 chapters so far. 

- Date nights 1x a month (and weekly "date nights/connection time" at home also.

- Attend a marriage conference. 

- Do The Husband Project. 

- Pray consistently for Doug and our marriage. 

Mothering Goals:

- Complete the Parenting from Surviving to Thriving workbook together. Did 2 of 12 lessons so far. 

- Continue "Monday Momming" prayer check-ins with Liz. 

- * remember people matter more than a clean house!!! * 

(these motherhood thoughts get me every time!)

Faith Goals:

- Finish BSF. 

- Use the "snooze button" time to read my Bible instead. 

Work Goals:

- Write 2 flashcards per shift: 1 drug and 1 disease/condition to study up on. 

Personal Goals:

- Use the harp lessons from my 40th bday. 

- Read (some?) of my book pile: 

(I also plan to keep a list of books I read, so I can remember that too.)

Fitness Goals: 

- Complete the 10 minute plan.

- Complete the Firm 30 series.   

- I'll add myself to the millions of people who want to lose 10 lbs as a resolution! I've slowly and steadily gained weight since quitting breastfeeding last spring. My body is actually at what I would say the weight it likes to be at, but I like to be about 5-10 lbs lighter. Even that little makes a difference in the looseness of the pants, the effort to run up a flight of stairs, the difference in my face in photos, etc. Just obviously hard to do, especially when one already exercises and eats pretty healthfully, and is now over 40... 😩

Not resolutions, but hopes: 

- More photos in our photo travel map (flights already booked for a mid-winter break trip!)

- We'd love to get a 2nd rental property, we'll see what happens with the economy this year. 

- We're also looking to move, although I'm not going to move unless it's "the one". I do need to pray that Doug and I will be in unity about a decision- we ended up having some good conversations from what happened with the house we lost out on, but it was hard. We need to have a team approach going forward. 

- Doug has been wanting to do something volunteer wise with the kids, so we've been thinking about what we could do while still having little ones. 

Excited for this new year!!