Library Time

Selah had a good night.  In face she didn't wake up at all.  Jon woke up at almost 6 am and got me up.  Selah's bed was soaked, she was asleep and did not seem to appreciate that we had to change her clothes and bed!  I generally stay up later when we are "on" so I sat up till midnight reading.  That is late for me.  So we all went back to sleep till the nurse came at 8 am.  I'm always thankful when she has a good night with us, it is such a responsibility to take care of her.   When she is well, it is not so hard although there are always little things to worry about like the gtube coming out.  But when she is sick, it is so scary.  The thing with Selah is she can be perfectly "normal" and then 20 minutes later, be having a storm!  That is the nerve wracking part. 


All my kids have runny noses as do the nurses.  Jon and I are the only ones who don't.  We really think Selah was in the beginning stages of getting sick last week but beat it thanks to the Tobymixion she was started on last Friday.  The last time Selah got sick, a few days later everyone else got sick and all four of my other kids ended up on antibodics !  She gets some strong germs! 

So we have made it 2 days with NO eating out:)  Not even an ice cream cone!   My goal is to go a week.  Tomorrow Jon, Shad and Steve will go kayaking after church with some of the guys and I've already told them they have to make sandwiches  (actually it will probably be me making the sandwiches) so we don't break our record. 

Shad and I did errands together yesterday and went to the library.  Shad is a good reader but prefers video games.  I've put quite the stop to gaming around here for now.  Shad picked out some books (no comics much to Steve's dismay) and he is really reading them.  My one major "gift" is I am a speed reader, really, and can skim a book in a very short time with pretty much full comprehension.   It came in good in college!  I use it now to skim all of his books and then make him retell to me the stories he reads.  Of course it helps that it is kids' books LOL!  He likes Hardy Boys, which I do too.  When we were in the library, I found some Bobbsey Twin mysteries and The Happy Hollistors...Who remembers them????   Those were the books I loved reading growing up.   He found a series of books on The Titanic and he is devouring them. 

I find it hard to savor a book, if it is good, I don't want to put it down.  My favorite books are mysteries, that have an element of comedy to them.  I also like ones written during the WWII era for some reason.  I give my boys a hard time about their video games, then they give me a hard time about my reading.  Although I am quick to tell them that I do believe READING is much better for a person's brain than video games!

We are thinking about taking a few days vacation this summer.  Selah will be staying home with her nurses.  We are looking for some good ideas  on the beach, on the gulf coast, from Tarpon to St Pete or maybe even a little further south.  We have stayed in that area many times but there is no place we've stayed that we absolutely want to go back to except my favorite is the Clearwater Hilton but we are on a budget.  I'm very uncomfortable with the whole idea, leaving Selah and going to a beach but we need to be together as a family for a few days, alone.  I'm a beach lover, even with my fair skin, something about the water just draws me.  When the accident happened, I did not know if I could ever be around a body of water again but that feeling has subsided.  I am thankful that this is something that home health care is there for, to be able to relay on the nurses for a few days.  I'm sure we will really enjoy it once we go....  So if you have any suggestions let me know.  I am TERRIBLE on those sites that find deals for you.....I seem to always pick crappy places and get bad rates LOL

The worse pick ever....was a few summers ago.  We were going to the Keys for a week.  Prior to the Keys Sam had an appointment in Palm Beach with his Miami eye doctor.  We were going to spend the night there and visit with one of my dearest college friends.  So we have this great appointment and head off for the hotel.  Oh the pictures and wonderful description just made us look forward to this "one of a kind" hotel...  So we follow directions and it becomes quite obvious we are in the HOOD!  With X rated theaters and hookers....  We pull up to this hotel, this supposedly glamorous hotel, next to an XXX rated theater...with a dry pool but lovely murals.  They take us to see the room (which was paid for already since it was one of those "deals" )  It was "interesting"  we go back outside and I'm almost crying at this point.  There was no stinking way we were going to stay there...  thankfully we were able to get our money back and ended up staying off the interstate in a chain motel.  Otherwise we had a lovely trip.  3 days in Key West and a week in Key Largo at a dolphin therapy school for Sam.   In Key Largo we stayed in a 3 storied townhouse right on the water with the biggest pool I have ever seen:)   That place so made up for the Palm Beach hotel......

 

Here is a picture of us in Key West on that trip.  I think it was the summer of  2008 or 2009:)  You can see how little my boys were back then!  Believe it or not, I just got rid of  the outfit Sam was wearing ....it was too worn out to wear anymore.  He is still my tiny boy:)

 

I love the Keys, I could live down there and be quite happy.  It is a beautiful, laid back area...  While we were in Key Largo, Steve got his first chance to kayak and has loved it ever since. 

 

So anyhow we don't want to end up somewhere like the Palm Beach hotel again!!!!!

 

 

Here is Jon and me

 

 

Here we are snorkeling in the keys

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed these old pictures, it was fun to find them on my computer.

 

 

 

Please keep praying for Selah and for favor with the nursing situation.