Wow it's been busy here. 2 more days and this year is over. I'm actually excited and optimistic of the upcoming year. This year had a lot of positives, but the lows were really low.
The highlights were definitely finding this house, and finally feeling like I could stay here forever. The settled feeling is pretty awesome. I know that this landlord loves us here, and eventually would sell. Since it's old though, it's going to take a lot of saving. But anyway, the house and move this time was most definitely the big highlight of the year.
And the puppies. I love my sweet babies. They are turning into pretty good dogs and we're managing to get some good manners into them. I'm impressed. I guess it's quicker for them since they have each other, and compete to please us. And me being around all the time instead of being gone 12 hours a day is a good thing too. Poor Zoey had been alone a lot when she was a baby because I worked full time and at the start, 2 jobs.
So then we hit all the downs. The big one, our loss of Zoey. Which is still really hard and I struggle with almost daily. It is getting easier now, but I hate that. I'm so use to the puppies that it's hard to remember some of her normal day to day things. It's just really hard at times.
We had the surprise baby enter the babysitting group. He's been trying, and makes me wonder if I'm doing the right thing by babysitting. He was just diagnosed with reflux and on meds finally, so I'm noticing a change this week. But the days of full blown screaming and crying has worn me down. I honestly don't know if I could deal if he was mine. I'd need medicated for sure.
The 7 weeks off was difficult too, because it was so sudden and at the worst timing bill wise. But, we pulled through and are bouncing back.
And then we have the study. I'm glad I was able to be apart of it, and had some responsive rounds. I know what I want to do with my next tries, but, I need to figure out the money part of things. We are working to eliminate credit cards and bills we don't need, so charging it is not an option. So I have to talk myself into the right mindset to go through with the next round. I feel really stupid spending the money with no promises that it will really work. But, I do want to try one step higher with IUI, so I must call and figure that out next week.
Christmas was pretty good this year. Kristopher made out like a bandit as usual. The big gift this year was a kindle fire. Of course, all he really cares about on that right now is Angry Birds. But I have a ton of books loaded and we can do movies. It's like an Ipad but so much cheaper. I actually love it, and am debating getting my own. Other than that, he got DS games, books and some toys that have kept him pretty busy this week. My husband and I got some nice, useful gifts as well, and we made it good for my parents. I know it's hard on them at Christmas since we've moved because they got use to us close and to have the fun of the kid magic part of things, so we included them and made it special. At least we end the year closer and happier.
Oh and for Christmas, Kristopher got bronchitis. He came home from school last week not hungry, then feverish, and to bed early. Then, the next day acted fine, just mild cold and possible low fever. Christmas eve he was coughing, but fever was gone and he was hyper. He went to bed early and deep to sleep, but woke up for Christmas at before 4am. Hyper all day, but coughing and snotting. I figured it was just a regular cold. Till Christmas night, we went to see lights, and he had a major cough attack in the car. I asked if he was ok and he said his chest hurt when he coughed. And pointed to the spot last year when he had pneumonia. So, Monday we went to urgent care. They said we caught it in time, and it has not progressed to pneumonia, but if I'd have waited a day or 2, it would have settled completely. He's on meds, and we had a follow up on Wednesday. Urgent care had done a blood test, and said his white cells were low. His regular doctor agreed and said it was time to do more testing. So, next week we're going for blood work some morning, which I'm completely dreading and panicked about. It's several tests so I know this will be a regular blood draw. He's never had that, and has a normal fear of needles. so this should be interesting. Then, we go on the 9th for a lung test where he will breath into a machine and assess if he has any form of asthma. They think if he does at all, it is cough variant, and basically means it's triggered by the colds. The blood work is to test for immune system issues. It could very well be that he got so sick last year and never had a chance for his body to bounce back. We will hope for that. I'd hate to see every single cold turn so bad.
He also got a flu shot while at the doctor and next year he will get both that and the pneumonia vax.
So, that's our year end review. Bring on a better year with 2012. I'm very hopeful for this.
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