Sweet Life in the City

This week has flown by! I did sit down several times during the week and was going to blog but something would come up or the pictures would not post. Emma has fully recovered from her dentist experience but she is still complaining of her ear hurting. She has not been running a fever so I made an appointment with our chiropractor and took hr yesterday afternoon. He said she had a few swollen lymph nodes and it looked like she was fighting an infection. She got an adjustment and did great. Some of you may think I am crazy for taking her to a chiropractor but when Sam came home he kept an ear infection. Our friend told us about taking her daughter for ear aches and it cleared right up. I was skeptical at first but we took Sam and he has not had an ear infection since. We are hoping that this helps. We had a pretty uneventful week until this morning. My washing machine broke this morning and that is a serious problem with this household. I am pretty upset. There is not a whole lot of wig...

Last night we took Emma to Logan's to eat for her Gotcha Day. We had so much fun. The kids are so good when we are at a restaurant and we are very thankful. After we ate we went to get Emma's present. She wanted a harmonica just like Sam. We went to Cracker Barrel to get it because we knew they would have one in the store. We pulled in the parking lot and Sam says "Um guys, we already ate". I knew he would say something like that. We got home and then got everyone to bed. Sam finally went back to school today but they started an hour late. I took all the kids with me to work and then they drove Sam and the other kids over to school when it started. I was only at work for about an hour and a half because Emma had a dentist appointment this morning. The appointment was made back in August when I took her for a check-up. This was the earliest they could get her in to get her tooth fixed. When we got Emma she had almost all of her teeth in and I noticed that first night w...

Two years ago today our journey to bring Emma home finally came to an end. We left Seoul, Korea on Saturday, February 16th and got into Nashville on Saturday, February 16th. It was actually a pretty good trip with Emma. She slept most of the trip and was pretty pleasant. We flew from Seoul to Chicago without any problems. From Chicago to Memphis our seats were not next to each other and nobody would switch seats so Jeremy and I could sit by each other. Emma started getting fussy and by the time we landed in Memphis Emma was no longer pleasant and neither were we to be honest. Emma was throwing a fit the whole time we were at the Memphis airport. We finally boarded our last leg of the journey and landed in Nashville. The welcome we received was almost overwhelming. There were so many people who had come along to share our journey with bringing Emma home and we will forever be grateful for all their support. We were relieved that Emma was home but then came the hard part. The day Emma ca...

We have another snowy day here. So that means we are stuck in the house again. We bought the kids The Chipmunks movie CD and the love it but I am rethinking my decision in buying it. They want to listen to it all day and it gets a little annoying. Well I was not going to post since I posted last night but I keep forgetting to share a story. I get asked many times about the kids and "if they are mine" or "are they adopted?" and other various questions and statements. Well last week when I took Emma to the doctor I had the weirdest conversation. The nurse that took us back was an older lady and from my first impression she seemed like she was new because she acted like she was unsure about what she was supposed to be doing. We got to the room and this is how the conversation went: Nurse: Your children are beautiful. How old are they? Me: Thanks. They are five, three, and two. Nurse: So, what nationality are you? Me: Huh, I am American. Nurse: But your children look As...

Happy Valentine's Day!! We are having a pretty good weekend. Yesterday the kids and I went to the grocery store and then we just stayed home all day and played. Today was church and then we came home and we all took a nap. Samuel is running a low grade fever and complaining that his ear is hurting so I am not sure what is going on with him. I was up several times last night with him and a couple of times with Chloe. So, Sam and I were pretty tired today. We actually slept almost three hours today. They are calling for more snow tonight and tomorrow but thankfully we are all out of school. My plan is to get the laundry caught up and get my house cleaned again. Well here are a few pictures taken this morning.

February 12th is forever apart of my life. When February 12th rolls around I start to become filled with a variety of emotions. February 12, 2004 after 11 months of cancer treatments I sat at my doctor's office in Columbia, SC and was told there were no other treatments for me. The only way to get rid of the cancer was to have a complete hysterectomy. I was devastated. I remember being angry and was pleading with the doctor to try something else. With tears in his eyes he said he had already done more then most doctors would have done. We left the office and I remember crying harder then I ever had in my life. We got in our car and drove back the hour to our house and could not believe that this was happening. I was so upset and I needed to be with my family. My parents were going to be in St. Louis for the weekend at my sister's house so Jeremy and I bought our plane tickets and headed to St. Louis. You know the rest of that story. February 12, 2008 we boarded a plane and fina...

We had quite a weekend. Samuel's fever continued to stay around all day on Saturday. We were having a worship service at church Saturday night and I was pretty bummed that I could not go. I decided to keep the kids home that night and it is a good thing I did. Jeremy left about 4:00 to get things set up. Sam had been laying on the couch most of the day and had only eaten a few things. About 5:00 Sam stood up and started crying and then grabbed his throat saying it hurt. It took me about a second to figure out what was about to happen. I grabbed his blanket off the couch just in time to catch most of what he was throwing up. Unfortunately all of it did not make it on the blanket and there were two big spots on my living room carpet where Sam had thrown up. As I said, Sam had not eaten much but he had eaten some Valentine cookies that had red food coloring in them and we had given him orange Tylenol for his fever so I had two big RED stains on my carpet. I felt so bad for Sam but I w...

I took Emma to the doctor yesterday and she ended up having an ear infection and possible strep. The doctor did not do a strep test because she would be treating her with antibiotics anyway. She said her throat looked red but it was her ear that was making her hurt so much. I had to take a three kids with me and I am just amazed sometimes how behaved my kids are in public. They were so good. They did get a little restless toward the end because the doctor kept us waiting in the room for over 45 minutes! Our regular doctor was not in yesterday so we had to see someone new and I do not know if it was a situation where they were just working us in. We got out of the doctor a about 5:00 and then we headed to Wal-Mart to get Emma's medicine. I put her prescription in and then Jeremy met us and we went and got something to eat. We are trying to do better about eating out but I had no idea what time I would get home and it was nice that he could take the girls home and then I could get so...

Well I was going to post yesterday but things got really crazy so I am sorry that this post may be all over the place. Yesterday Sam finally went back to school so our morning was a little rocky. I got to work and found out that I had to work until 3 so I had to call Sam's school and let them know that he needed to come over with the other kids that come to my work. I do not like having to do that because I like to be able to tell Sam before hand if there is a change. I also did not like that I had to work later because I needed to study for my class last night and it just makes getting home and getting back out the door so much harder. So I was in the two year old room and I was told that the girl I was covering from would be a few minutes late. Well the few minutes ended up being 40 minutes. So I got home about 4:00 and I had to rush around. The kids needed a bath and I needed to get Sam's clothes together for Homecoming. I did have Jeremy stop at Wendy's and get some chi...

Is anybody else in complete shock that we are already in the month of February?? We have had quite a week and weekend. We were snowed in all weekend. Jeremy, Sam and Emma did venture out Saturday afternoon to Jeremy's parents house. His parents have an enormous hill in their backyard just perfect for sledding. They made plans to just stay the night over there Saturday night. I know everyone wanted me to join them but I just wanted to stay home and rest or do whatever. I did get some work done on my class and Chloe and I had some one on one time. Jeremy and the other two kids got back Sunday afternoon and and found out they would be out of school on Monday. I, however, had to go into work yesterday. Jeremy drove me because our roads were still HORRIBLE. On the way home from taking me to work Jeremy's truck actually swerved off the road and he and the kids were stuck in a ditch for a few minutes. Thankfully he was able to get unstuck on his own and without any damage. He, Sam, an...