about wednesday

Just when I start things are starting to calm down around here, things get shaken up.  Yesterday started out with what was supposed to a normal 6 month ear recheck for Evan from his ear surgery.  Well, I decided to take Collin along to see if I could have him checked out as well, since he's been complaining about his left ear.  Evan checked out fine & we even got in his skin allergy test, which we have been wanting to do for a while, since he seems to be sensitive to many things.  The allergy test turned out great too, no allergies {guess we just have an extra sensitive boy!}.  Collin, it turned out, has ear infection, which he hasn't had since he was 6 months old.  He is now on his 3rd version of antibiotics, which is the most antibiotics he's been on in his entire 9 year life!  Turns out the other 2 he's been on tend to be resistant to the bacteria that causes most ear infections.  I hope this is it.  Now if we could only avoid all other illnesses for the rest of the winter!  Lydia is getting better as well, seems to be much more happy, so I think she's making progress as well.  She's been very congested in the morning & I haven't had any luck getting her to eat breakfast, but the babysitter says she's eating really well at lunch.

My mom, bless her heart, called to invite us over for supper last night, knowing I've had sick kids & cooking has not been top priority.  So of course, I said "YES!".  Less than an hour later she called & sounded a little panicked.  She said that they had just found out that my brother's house was on fire & they were going to be with him.  Thank goodness, no one was home {except Leroy the dog & Evalyn the cat} since it started before the kids got out of school.  My brother was working in town, so he was able to get there quickly & he got the pets out, but he inhaled alot of smoke.  So, we're keeping them in our prayers & trying to help in any way we can.  Since our family all lives near each other, they have plenty of places to stay.  We even got some clothes rounded up for them, since right now, they can't get anything out & everything will probably need to go to the cleaners.  Thankfully, they think it's been confined to a small portion of the house, but there was alot of smoke.  Of course, they are all pretty shaken, I can't even imagine.... hopefully they'll find out more today.  

Oh & in all of this excitement.... we didn't forget, HAPPY BIRTHDAY RANDY!  Randy is my sister Kim's husband & we love him {and his fabulous cooking!}.