Cranky

Okay so the visit to the hospital yesterday was pretty pointless. All he said was that we need to do the test that my doctor on base said I needed and we scheduled it for Wednesday morning. The language barrier/gap is just annoying. He was talking too fast for the girl to translate for me. I did get all the info that was important to me. Basically I have a thyroid “disease” but it is not serious and is treatable. I have no specifics though,  but he will give me the results of the test that day so I don’t have to wait or make yet another appointment.

Cranky refers to me today. In order to get accurate results, I need to stop taking all migraine medicine until the test. So 5 days without headache prevention meds and no relief for all the headaches to come. Yay! Not. If you pray, do me a favor a say a  prayer for not me, but my poor children and husband. Steven’s weekend starts tomorrow so he was grateful that he can at least be at home to help me. That is a blessing in and of itself. He is never home when I am sick or hurt, not by choice obviously. When I was pregnant with Sadie, I had kidney stones and a 18 month old. Sure enough Steven has to go TDY and he is literally, the only person who could do the job. I just know the next few days are going to be rough and I am thankful that God gave me such an amazing guy. So Steven, Lilly, Sadie, and Ruby, I am SO sorry for the next few days. Even though I’ll probably be extremely tough to live with, I still love you guys!

♥krissy

Sick day, part 2

First off, Thank you for all your sweet comments they really are appreciated. 
Secondly, Lilly is still sick. I think she has what Ruby had a couple of weeks ago. It started off with sinus issues. Then Lilly got a cough and started to lose her voice.  Yesterday she woke up with a fever and didn't have another issue with it until last night. I went in to check on all of the girls before I went to sleep and Lilly was very warm. I woke her up and sent her in to our bed while I got her some medicine. I didn't want to go to sleep while she had a fever so I sat up with her(she was sleeping) until it came down. I gave her some motrin 30 minutes later, and finally got it down another 30 minutes after that. Then when Steven got up for work I asked him to check on Lilly and send her in if she needed more tylenol. Sure enough she was getting warm again. Thankfully the other two didn't wake her up this morning so she was able to get almost 2 extra hours of sleep this morning. And in true Lilly form, she woke up happy as can be. Hopefully she is over this virus by Monday, I know she is desperately wanting to go back to school.
Today I go back to University Hospital to get the results of a blood test that was done last week. Right before we took our COT(continuous overseas tour) leave, I had asked my doctor if there was anything we could test because I felt my hormones were going crazy. My body just never went back to normal after I had Ruby. When we got back to Turkey he told my that my thyroid was acting a little funny. Basically my brain was telling my thyroid that it wasn't making enough thyroid hormones, but the thyroid was making enough. In short he thinks that I may have nodes on it that may or may not have to be removed. The clinic here is very small and lot of tests that have to be done are done in Turkish hospitals, and thankfully someone from Tricare will drive you to the appointment and serve as an escort and translator. I was really nervous about going to the first appointment but it went really well. I would like Steven to come with me but I would much rather him stay with the kids, especially when Lilly is sick. So off to the doctor's I go and hopefully back with good news.
And who could go a day without seeing the sweet faces of our monster children! 

Obviously I annoy them with the photos I take of them. Oh they joy of sarcastic children. The teenage years will surely be loads of fun :/
♥Krissy

About Me/Blizzard Bloghop

For anyone new, here's a quick little about me. My name is Krissy and I have been married to my sweet husband, Steven, for almost 6 years. He's in the USAF and we've been stationed in Delaware, England, and currently Turkey. We got married almost 3 months to the day we met. I was 19 and he was 20. A lot of people laughed and joked how it was crazy and we'd be divorced faster than we married, but almost 6 years later we're the ones laughing at them :) We have 3 beautiful daughters, Lillian (4.5), Sadie-Mae(3), and Ruby(13 months), and they were all born in England. Life is crazy with three young kiddos. Throw in the military and it's plain insane! This blog is my way of keeping in touch with family and friends and my effort to record our life. If you're here from the Household 6 Diva's Blizzard Bloghop welcome, and I hope you'll be back to visit again!

Our family, January 2011

This is outside of base, called "The Alley". The base is a lot nicer than this.

Sick Kids

I guess I can be grateful that since we left England our kids really haven’t been sick. Well except for Ruby, but her ailments were not some bug she caught  from others. When we lived in England it seemed that we were always sick with a virus that was going around. Lilly had a lot of ear infections and colds or a stomach bug she caught at school. Even the month we  left, Lilly and Sadie had a stomach bug that was going around and left vomiting with fevers for  at least 2 weeks.

Since we’ve been in Turkey it’s been a-whole-nother story. They’ve been good and healthy. So when Lilly started up with some cold symptoms I got worried. I didn’t want to send her to school just for all the other kids to get sick. Oh, and did I mention that most of Lilly class has been sick? At one point last week there were only 6 kids that attended class. I kept Lilly home one day last week and all I heard from her was, “When can I go back to school?” I knew she was feeling cruddy, but since she was a baby she really hasn’t let being sick slow her down. I kept second guessing my decision to keep her home.

Well when she woke up yesterday she had a cough, so when Steven took her to school they went to visit the nurse. She said that as long as it was affecting her ability to learn, she could stay. And when she came home yesterday she was losing her voice and start coughing junk up. Last night Steven and I decided to keep her home today. I have been telling her all morning that she needed to just relax and try to get better. The result was her and Sadie, cuddled up in a blanket, looking at books and magazines together. And at one point Sadie pulled out a stethoscope  and gave Lilly a “doctor appointment”.

Hopefully she gets over this soon so that she can go back to school and enjoy it. I know she really doesn’t like missing school, and she really enjoys learning. Sometimes I think she is just too smart for her own good. But I know I won’t have problem with faking illnesses. Although I know Sadie is LOVING having Lilly home today. Yesterday when Steven went to pick her up, she said, “Yay! Daddy is going to pick up my sweetie!” Get better soon Lilly!

♥krissy

Mini Valentine's Day Photo Shoot

So I have been playing around with photo editing software, Photoshop Elements and Lightroom. Now I am no where near proficient but I have been playing around with some actions and presets. I've found a lot of free ones on different websites and of course downloaded some to try. I found some ones that I really like so I decided to take some photos of the girls and maybe use them to send out Valentine's Day cards since we didn't have enough time to get out Christmas ones. With Steven's help, we cut out some hearts from scrapbook paper and construction paper and taped them onto our fence in the backyard. We dressed the girls is pinks, reds, and purples and brought out one of the girls' chairs. I only got a couple with all three of them and in those not everyone was looking at the camera so I made due with what I got. The big girls were nice enough to cooperate for me and I got a couple of good ones.
I am really liking how they came out. I only wish I got one with the 3 of them smiling at the camera. Maybe one of these years they'll all cooperate. I can dream, can't I? Well here are some that I edited and really like.

Story Time

Ever since Lilly was 6 months old, we have gone to Story Time at the library. All the girls love it, ans Lilly was pretty sad when she started school and couldn't go anymore. We soon got her to understand that she gets stories and crafts everyday at school. Occasionally Sadie will remember Lilly at Story Time and make a craft for her.
The library is one place where Sadie is pretty comfortable. She isn't incredibly shy and really enjoys being there. We go and we sing songs, listen to a couple of stories, and then make a craft. Ruby enjoys the songs and stories, but prefers to eat crayons as apposed to doing a craft.
Yesterday was no different. It was a good time and Ruby was in heaven with all of the books. She kept pointing to them and shrieking "Book! Book!" I know they can't wait until next week!

Sick Day

Lilly has had her first sick day from school today. And I am trying to decide whether it was a good idea or not. Yesterday she came home with a very runny nose and she said she actually slept during nap time. That rang a bell for me, she never sleeps unless she is sick. She doesn't have a fever but feels warmer than usual. And last week we got an email from her teacher telling us to make sure we keep our kids home if they have any symptoms, so when Steven left for work I decided to keep her home just in case.
Well she wasn't too happy about staying home. She really wanted to go this morning and kept asking when she could go back. She still has symptoms which seem to be her sinuses, but Lilly never acts "sick". She has never let an illness  keep her doing all the things she wants to do and I know she is frustrated. She wants to keep busy and play. I just couldn't get her to understand that she needs to rest and get better. So I decided to let her watch movies today so that she will actually sit still and relax. Hopefully she feels better tomorrow and can go back tomorrow. On the plus side, I am glad she is really enjoying school again. She didn't like until a couple of weeks ago. Between this school being so different than the one in England and taking a month of leave in the states, she just wasn't all too thrilled with it. So thank God she is liking it!