So sorry

So sorry I have been slacking on my blog entries. I have taken the last month off from everything that I can. Needless to say my house is a mess, need to do laundry and get everything ready for the start of school next week. OK that means working the kids hard for the next couple of days. Michaela is having her 16 birthday party on Thursday so we have 2 days to make the house look somewhat clean. Then Friday I need to drop them off in Taber for cornfest with the Grandparents. They will be back Sunday ready to go to school on Monday. I love this time of year because things settle back down into a routine which I love. Up early, get kids ready for school, start my day and then start making supper, evening homework if any and then a family game. This year we as a family are going to start a whole lot of things to make us, hopefully, a better family, closer and more loving. I decided that with the start of school it would be the perfect time to start a new routine.

Before I list what changes we are making I will let you all know that we are members of The Church of Latter-day Saints or in other words Mormans. So all our changes that we are making will help us be better members too.

Here is how a day will go. Up early to have family prayer, breakfast, then send the 2 oldest off to school. My job, which is a day home then begins. Lunch, nap, outside then it is time to start supper, kids home from school. Homework for them, kids I watch picked up, supper then dishes. Right after dishes we will have scripture study and then family prayer. If there is time a family game, then get ready for bed. Once the middle two are in bed then there hopefully will be some me time depending on how Cara is that night. Plus on Monday nights we will have Family Home Evening with a lesson.

These are changes that I know are needed in our family and hopefully they will bring us together as a family and closer to our Heavenly Father as well.

Weekend Worries

This past weekend we traveled up to Sundre for Tyler's Granddad's 70 Birthday party. All the family was there for Saturday. They rented a big jumper for the kids, had water games and Sunday morning golf for a couple of them. Bunch of us were staying in Uncle Darren's house and the rest had brought trailers. Veronica had lots of fun with her cousins, Hailey, Claire, and Matty are 3, Conner is 7 and Kennedy is 12. Veronica attached herself to Kennedy. Followed her around every were it was cute. Cara was the youngest one there and of course everyone wanted to hold her. I was informed she is very much a Sanregret baby because she is chunky. Veronica gets her curly hair from her Great Granddad. Well the most exciting and scary thing happened on Saturday after Jay arrived. The brothers, Tyler, Jay and Travis were throwing a football around with their Granddad when Tyler started to experience heart issues. He never said anything and figure that his heart would stop racing if he relaxed for a bit. Stupid, stubborn men. Jay needed to go into town to pick up some parts for his trailer so Tyler said he would drive him in. They went to several places and it wasn't until they got to Home Hardware that he remained in the car because his heart was still racing. They got back to the house and Tyler said he was going to lay down as he did not feel well. As he was walking back to the house he turned around and came back and said that it would be a better idea if he went to the hospital. I asked him if he was serious and he was like yeah his heart was racing and he could not feel his left arm. PANIC sets in for me as I am holding Cara to nurse her and I am not sure what to do. Lucky his mom sees me about to panic and tells me to sit down she will take Tyler in and not to worry. So she is back in about 20 minutes by herself and I hand off Cara and meet her at the car. I ask where is Tyler. The Doctors want to keep him for a couple of hours and run some tests. His ECG came back abnormal and when admitted his heart was beating above 190/min. I then borrowed her car and went to visit him. He was lying relaxing but every time he moved even to get water his heart rate went passed 100. Like a typical male he told me not to worry and that he was fine. He felt very tired like he had just run a marathon. I left so he could sleep because there was nothing else I could do and if I had stayed he would not of rested he would of tried to keep me entertained. They were able to get his heart down to about 100/min which is still high for him. He had something called SVT and as long as it doesn't happen again then he should be fine. When they finally released him about 4 hours later the Doctor told him he needed to get a Echo cardiogram done. The rest of the weekend pass by uneventfully thankfully. Now all I have to do is get him an appointment to see a Doctor who can refer him to a Cardiologist it have the Echo cardiogram done. I really don't feel like raising two small children on my own so it is time to make changes to our diets and lifestyle so he stays healthy and strong.