Category: Our Family

Our poor little handheld spot cleaning vacuum went the way of all the earth today. It has been our faithful friend in cleaning up spills and other messes on the carpet and couches. It has been a very handy little tool for small clean-up jobs. BUT it has been loosing it’s ability to hold a charge, and today the plug that kept the yucky water from flooding the motor broke and so now, we need to find a new one. Our very handy tool has served us well, and put up a good fight against the spills and messes that kids and pets make.

Our ward had what they called a ‘Treasure Hunt’ today where people from the ward could bring anything they wanted to declutter. Instead of taking it to DI they could just bring it to the church building and let others from our ward to pick through it for anything they might want or need. So I loaded up the back of the mini-van with 4 boxes a large bucket full of stuff and two more bags of stuff to take and to donate. I am SO excited to get that stuff out of our house. 😀 We have SO much stuff and we don’t even know what a lot of it is, so getting rid of a bunch of stuff that we have identified as stuff we don’t need, feels really good. And no we did not bring home more than we took. 😉 Ethan found a toy cell phone he wanted and Tyra found a care bear and a pair of snow boots that are hopefully big enough that she can grow into them and wear them next winter. Jeremy found a valentine Scooby doo that sings a song and a pair of shoes to grow into as well. And I found a costume that should be Dinah’s size come next halloween and an AWESOME kids book that I remember reading when I was a kid, “Henry’s Awful Mistake”. I am so excited about that and the kids have already asked me to read it to them many times. I just feel so good to have been able to help other people out with the stuff I don’t need, and they have announced that they are going to have another ‘Treasure Hunt’ in May. 😀 So it’s time to gather more stuff up to get rid of then……

I planted a couple blueberry bushes today. I am so excited to have berry bushes in our yard. I just hope these ones don’t die like the other ones we have planted in the past. But I dug up the soil, and mixed in a lot of peat moss, and some fertilizer and some sulfur (since blueberries like a more acidic soil than we have here). I would have taken a picture to post, but honestly a couple of twig bushes sticking out of the ground wouldn’t have been a very exciting picture, not to mention that it wouldn’t have turned out well since the branches of the twig bushes are pretty close to the same color as the dirt (so they wouldn’t have been very visible in a picture anyway 😉 ).

Well Ethan has had a fever for a few days, and Kyle had a fever and stayed home from work on Thursday. And now Tyra, Dinah and Jeremy all have it too. 🙁  (I, so far, am the only one that has not caught it.) We have no idea what it is, we took Ethan to the doctor earlier this week and they checked his ears, and they weren’t infected. They listened to his lungs and it didn’t sound like RSV or pneumonia. They did a strep culture since he has had a cough, but they came back negative. They felt his appendix, since he was saying that he hurts in that general area, but everything felt alright over there too. So the doctor said that since he can’t find something specific wrong that leads him to believe it’s something viral. (Great….I know) so we didn’t go to church today since all four kids aren’t feeling well. And I am glad there is no school tomorrow, so they have one more day to get over whatever this is.