yuck

We've spent the weekend trying to clean up our house in preparation for an appraisal of our house.  No, we're not moving, but it hasn't been appraised since we bought it on auction & with the massive changes we've made, I'm excited to see how the value has changed.  That's the first yuck... I like the house being clean, but I HATE cleaning... & there are alot of things that hadn't gotten clean for a while (many bags of garbage!).  My mom has been helping us out also... {LOVE YA MOM} & we were talking about how wonderful it would be just to have someone come & clean for you once a week or every two weeks {hey, we can dream, right?}.  We planned on having Thanksgiving for both of our families here, so I'm glad it's getting clean now, so we won't have so much to worry about later.  

The second yuck is Collin... took him to the dr. yesterday & he has bronchitis.  He wasn't feeling very well all weekend & Sunday a fever started.  He's home again today, hopefully he'll start feeling better soon.  Evan had this a week or two ago & seemed like his cough was worse, so I'm hoping I got Collin to the Dr. in better time so it won't get as bad (I hope).  Now I'm keeping a close watch on Lydia, she is coughing & I'm paranoid about her temp.... I took it last night because I thought she might have a fever & it was below normal & it was like 97 (guess I need to relax, huh?).  Just extra worried about her since she's so little & in spring & winter she seems to frequently get the croup.  Collin has a classmate that's been in Iowa City for a while with pneumonia & we really don't want it to come to that!