Sadness and healing

A friend of mine lost one of her sons yesterday. It has been a hard fight. He ended up in the Hospital about a month ago with lower abdominal pain. The doctors found a that he had bleeding in his intestines and thought that he might have colitis plus they had to insert a tube in his neck but I am unsure what it was for. He ended up getting a ecoli infection in that tube by his neck and it was not responding to treatment so the Doctors decided to fly him to Calgary to the Peter Lougheed Hospital were he would be under the care of several specialist with the hopes that they could get him better. For about 3 weeks it was all looking positive and then his body stopped responding to the drugs. Saturday afternoon the Doctors had exhausted all their knowledge and it was now a waiting game. Yesterday afternoon the Lord called him home and he left this earthly plane. I sit here writing this and cry. As a parent we should not have to watch our children suffer and die. My HEART hurts for my friends so much. I wish I could be there to give them hugs and to cry with them. I am so grate full that my children are all healthy and strong. Having found out that he has passed away makes me want to go and grab each of my children and just hug them close and not let go. I cant imagine what they are going through. I am so grateful for my beliefs and that I know without a dought that they will be together again for all time and eternity after this life. That is a huge comfort to know that should anything happen they will be a family again in our Heavenly Father's home. Their son is now free of pain and hurt, he is in the healing embrace of our Lord and I am sure he will be an angel watching over his loving mom.

Winter is here

Weather reports says it will snow for the next 3 days. Well this morning I woke up and saw blowing white stuff. It is sad really because the Christmas lights are not up outside yet and it is blowing like crazy. Temp is   -3 right now with it getting colder by this afternoon. Up to 5cm of snow but we wont know it because it is all blowing away. It rained last night before it snowed so the roads are going to be slick. Tyler started working today at 6am which is nice because he will then be home at 2pm. I start working next Monday at Cleo in the evenings. We have been seeing how Cara does without me in the evenings. Leaving her in the living room with Tyler or Michaela and then I hit my scrapbook room down the hall and stay there. If she doesn't see me or hear my voice she is fine. If she does see/hear me she crawls down the hall to me. It is very cute. She should be fine while I am gone. She is still nursing but eats foods to so they should be able to feed her something until I get home after 9pm. I look forward to working in the evenings as it will give me something to do and I love Cleo and the people I work with there. I would love to go back to full time but that will have to wait until the kids are in school, childcare is way to much money! Off to enjoy staying indoors and reading/stitching with the kidlets :)

Super Saturday

What a crazy weekend it has been. Relief Society had our Super Saturday and man it was busy. Had to take Cara with me because it was an all day event and she is not ready to stay home yet. She did really well in the morning playing in the playpen but come lunch and the afternoon she was not cooperating. Was able to feed her and get her to sleep for about an hour so I could go eat. All the homemade soups were wonderful and the squares too. I love my sweets, LOL. So the classes that I took were an beautiful Advent calendar that said "Tis the Season for CHRIST" then most of the squares had pictures of Christ on them. I used some pics of little children praying, sharing, etc. as well. It turned out wonderfully. Each one that was done turned out differently. I used snowflakes and blues for the card stock because I did not want it to be Christmas designs even though it is a Christmas decoration. I also attended a cupcake decorating class and am finally able to make roses out of icing! So excited that I can do that. Now just need to buy more tips since my have disappeared. Also made little tutus for the girls. Veronica's is a little large, oops and Cara's is a Tutu dress which still needs to get done. Plus made matching head bands for them.

Monday will be a busy day for me this week, Nov. 11 is a holiday so I have all the kids I normally babysit and my sisters 3 kids while my mom and Bill are in court to find out if they stay in custody or if my sister gets them back. They were here Thursday and Friday for the same reason and mom said it looks good that the kids will be staying in care. That means private guardianship for my mom and Bill. But Nicole's Lawyer still has to present his case and that happens on Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday the Judge will also make a decision on what happens to the kids. I hope they stay with mom and Bill because they will at least get the help they need mentally and physically. If they go back to Nicole I can see that with in a year they will be back in care. There is no way she will be able to take care of the boys. She has not had them in over 2 years and has no clue at their behaviour issues or that there are mental problems too. She refuses to except the fact that both boys are ADHD, and that they need medication. She "feels" that is just a label. Fred has been diagnosed with ADHD and is on medication that seems to help him and it makes his life much more productive. Once a decision has been made I will post at let you all know. This whole process is very frustrating because the kids should of only been in care for a year and then this should of been in court, it was handle very poorly by social services and for the longest time they didn't think there was an issue with Nicole but now that all the experts have had a say in the case it just shows that she is incapable of taking care of kids.

Busy so busy

Sorry it has been over a month and I have not posted anything. I must put this onto my "To Do" list so that I can at the very least post something once a week. Well it is the start of November which means my favourite season. I LOVE winter time and Christmas. I love the snow, but hate the cold, I love all the decorated house, but hate putting up lights, and I love the spirit that seems to catch almost everyone. I cant wait to put up all my Christmas decorations and tree. I love a traditional Christmas so my house tends to be more classically decorated. I believe in the less is more and those things that do come out for decorations should reflect that. I need to get out my lights for the outside of the house because those have to go up before it snows. We left the clips up last year so just need to get out the light strings. If I remember correctly some of them need to be replaced. Will have to hit the dollar store soon to pick up a couple of things for gifts I am in the process of making. Going to do a lot of baking and hand that out to friends, you can never have too many homemade goodies at Christmas time.

OK so for Halloween, Veronica dressed up as Tigger of course and Opa is the one that found the costume and sent it to her. Cara wore Veronica's Tigger outfit from last year so I had to Tiggers. Michaela was a Druid Goddess and Fred was a wizard from one of the D&D books he is reading. Saturday I took the 2 littlest ones to the Trunk & Treat at the church, Veronica loved it going from each car saying "Treat peas". Sunday Michaela had a concert down at the mall and they were to wear their costumes. Then once she was done we went and stopped at Jason & his Girlfriends place were the kids got popcorn balls, Yum. Then off to pick up Tyler and show off the costumes to Shaun's mom. Once we got home Tyler took Veronica out trick or treating. She LOVED it but I think she loved handing out the candy to the kids once she got home too.
Cara is moving all over the place. She went from rolling to creeping in 1 1/2 weeks. Now she is combat crawling and trying to get up on her hands and knees. She is already very quick and I am not completely looking forward to the real crawl because then it will be next to impossible to keep her somewhere. She has even started to follow me down the hall to my scrap booking room to be close to me. She is a mamma's girl for sure. She is being very difficult when it comes to learning to eat solids. If she can put it in her mouth then she is willing to eat it. I have found a few things she will let me feed her. Yogurt, Vanilla custard, chocolate pudding and of course french fries.
Well that should bring everyone up to date. I will do my darnedest to post something new within the next 7 days. Until then have a wonderful life everyone.