Sweet Life in the City

We are going on day 5 of this nasty flu bug. Chloe seems to be better, but her cough sounds terrible. At night her cough seems to be the worse. I have two roll-on essential oils that seem to be the only things that give her some relief. Emma is still running a fever and yesterday her fever reached 104.4! Emma always runs a high fever and so we were not as freaked out about her high fever and the doctor at the hospital gave us great advice and eased our worried some about the fever with this flu bug. Emma is just really tired and worn out from the fever. Praying that today she finally will see some relief. I have been cleaning and trying to get some rest these past few days, but Netflix put one of my favorite drama series back on their list of shows. The problem is that is is all in Spanish (no I do not speak Spanish 😁) so I have to read all the subtitles and so I really can't do anything else while I am watching. The other problem is that there are like a million episodes! So, m...

Chloe was fever free most of the day yesterday. She is still coughing really bad, but she is eating again so that is a good sign. I started to have a terrible headache and had a low grade fever, so I thought I might be getting sick. Jeremy brought Emma home from school around 4:00 and she had a 102 fever but no other symptoms. I gave her some medicine and she went to bed. She still is running a fever but doesn't feel bad at all, it's so weird. There are so many students out at school that our school is closed today and tomorrow for the building to get a deep clean and hopefully give time for students to get better. I am glad that I finally cleared the air about some of the things that are going on so I can get back to blogging. It is hard to jump back in when I have been gone so long, but I am going to try and get you caught up on what we have had going on the last six months. August- We all went back to school. For the first time in a few years I had my own classroom again...

I cannot begin to tell you how thankful I am for the prayers and love for Chloe and our family the last 24 hours. I am happy to announce that she had a restful night and has been fever free since 9:00 last night! She is still coughing terrible and the fact that she doesn't want to eat anything is still an indication that she still feels bad. I am home with her today. Praying she gets rest and is headed in the right direction for recovery. She really did give us a scare yesterday. It didn't help that I had been reading all the stories about how deadly this flu virus can be. Chloe doesn't express pain or sickness to us. She never has. She won't tell us that she feels bad. She could not hide the misery she was in yesterday afternoon and it was scary for this momma! The hysteria then produced the post from yesterday that I thought nobody would read 😰, but I was wrong. I was up every few hours last night checking on Chloe and I kind of regretted spilling all of that! There ...

This is what I am calling an impulse post. A post that I was going to take to Facebook, but (1.) was completely too long (2.) too emotionally charged and I risk not offending as many people. If this post had a title is would be called "The Breaking Point". You see I have sat down many times over the last few months to blog and share some of the struggles going on in our life but I could not share the things that were going on. Behind the scene stories that belong to someone else. People acting in ways that to share the behavior would make me look like a person spreading gossip or trying to make  other people look bad. You see about a year ago my husband and I obeyed God's leading in our lives. We believed that him leaving the persecution of unbelievers and being surrounded by believers would take some stress off of his life. WOW, were we ever wrong! We have endured more criticism and persecution from people who claim to love Christ more than we ever have in our entire lif...