Happy Valentine’s Day!

Saw this online several places.  Before I took a picture of them with their hands out…

 

Added text in photo shop (edited to remove name)

Just for fun…

 

We had a great day!  Flowers and cute pictures from all the right people. Hope you did too.

Perspective...

This morning I woke up feeling down.

Woke up to arguing. Lindsey telling Jacob the weekly reader stinks. He's unlucky. Seriously? Sitting around the dirty dishes, shriveled up tomato's from last nights dinner. I thought of my day. Made another appointment to the doctor, for Lindsey. Sore throat. Possible strep. I was just there yesterday. Bad bad croup in both of the twins. Sad state for them. Missed the entire week of school. Emergency trip needed for orthodontist as a bracket has come loose. No time. Too many sick kids.

I felt a little overwhelmed and negative.

So I sat at the computer and read one of my favorite blog writers. About loss and life. Didn't have time to spare but it was well spent. Suddenly the illness doesn't seem overwhelming anymore. I feel lucky. Lucky to have doctors to heal and medicine to treat. Knowing the wellness will come. What I am experiencing is just life. Living. The good and bad. Life is full of good and bad and just regular. Some would give a lot for more days like this.

So I feel renewed and refreshed and actually lucky. The girls are playing with the barbie dream house coughing but happy.

We'll make our Valentine cards I saw online. May have to use a little photoshop to cover the dark circles and spots on their faces from all the coughing but it will be fun.

Today is going to be a good day. Maybe tomorrow we'll get to the orthodontist?

Groundghog day...

You know that movie Groundhog day? A lot of people love it. Not me. It drove me nuts to see the same stuff happening over and over. This week was groundhog day- the real one. But my life is starting to feel like the movie... this week I got a very sore throat, then I threw my back out and spent the week in bed. By Thursday I had just had it. My throat and back were getting worse and I finally went to the doctor. I got muscle relaxers and antibiotics. I had strep throat. No wonder I felt awful and wasn't getting better. Please tell me illness will leave for good because I really do hate seeing the same stuff over and over. Did I mention both twins just started a croupy cough and fever? We're home sick from church today.

So I have been stuck in bed watching a lot of t.v. I thought I would share two of my favorite netflix series. Friday night lights, which was recommended from my sister in law Lisa. This show is still running but I played catch up with netflix all summer. I loved it. The second is Chuck. I think they are currently airing season 3 but I just started season 2 on dvd. This is a fun light spy show. I also really enjoy a series on Mtv called Teen Mom. It started as a show called 16 and pregnant ( a new series of this starts in a week or so) and then followed the Mom's in the first year of motherhood (now called Teen Mom). I found this show addicting. I was so interested. It is sad to see the disfuctional relationships and family backgrounds but interesting to see the real drama and challenges they were facing.

SO there you have it. Last week was spent flat on my back watching good t.v. Do you have any favorite t.v series?

Oh and don't ask me how but I got all the girls stuff up on ebay. You can check it out here. Twins ebay