life around here

I've spent the rest of the week laying around and recovering.

I really did think I would be able to do more by now. 

It's been hard to not do anything or go anywhere!

My church mentor sent me these beautiful flowers!

 We have some SILLY children!

 Sweet Sissy girl

 This boy was not feeling well on Friday, so Tim picked him up from school. 

He had to miss a field trip. He has not felt well all weekend. He even had some vomiting :-(

 She is a good helper..... sometimes!

 I've been really missing white chocolate, so I bought some dairy free white chocolate chips off of Amazon. I'm so excited about this!

We've already made white chocolate mochas!!!

We decided to start decorating for Christmas during this week and before Thanksgiving so we wouldn't be stressed about it this coming weekend. 

Since I can't do a lot, most of the work will fall to Tim and the kids.  

C Girl is a big helper with this kind of stuff! 

She has such a sparkle in her eye!

Happy Thanksgiving week!

the weekly recap {July 20-26 church camp and Museum of Native American History}

C Girl has had so many big things happening this year.

We allowed her to attend church camp this year! This is the first year that she was of age to go and she was so excited!

I was nervous because it was my first time sending her to an overnight camp.

She was there from Monday morning until Friday morning.

 She had friends from church going and a friend from school!

They had theme nights every night and she had fun dressing up!

My sweet friend, Ginger was her counselor for the week and sent me a lot of pictures!

She had such a great time at camp!

I was so happy to see her on Friday!!!

B Boy was swimming with a friend so I got to pick her up and talk without interruption!

I think she only brushed her teeth a couple of times that week but, hey she'll get better with that, right?!

Thank you for taking care of my girlie Ginger!

I tried doing a few fun things with B Boy while she was at camp.

He had a couple of playdates, lots of screen time (oops) and we visited the Museum of Native American History.

It is such a neat little gem in our town. And it's free!

We took him to one of his favorite restaurants- Lin's Garden.

(He loves chicken on a stick.)

C Girl yelled at me to come to the shower when she was in there one day. 

She HAD to show me this bubble from her body wash!!!

I started getting an awful headache that Friday night. By Saturday, it was the worst headache I have ever had in my life. My back hurt and I had fever. I tried going to convenient care, but they referred me to the ER. They ran all kinds of tests, but I declined the spinal tap due to the risk of infection. I was never diagnosed, but I 'm pretty sure I had a mild case of meningitis. They put me on a round of antibiotics. I pretty much spent the entire month of July on antibiotics. I'm mostly feeling better now, but I have to focus on getting my hemoglobin number up and working on my immune system. I will be seeing an immunologist soon.

a ROUGH week and more snow days

The Sparacino house has had it rough this week. 

I started getting sick last Friday and went to the ER super early Monday morning with incredible ear pain. I can't even describe how bad the pain felt. I got antibiotics and pain meds and nothing improved. 

I have had constant pain and drainage from that ear. I saw my PCP on Tuesday and he referred me to an ENT. The ENT examined me and ordered a CT scan (!!!) to make sure I did not have mastoiditis or other worse infection. I have a ruptured eardrum and very bad infection. I have new antibiotics and better pain meds. 

Tim got a terrible stomach bug Wednesday night and has missed so much work this week. He's been sick but taking such good care of me. I married up and I thank God for him continuously. He loves me selflessly. We have some good kiddos that have been troopers at all of these dr/hospital visits.

I was really worried about the infection because Humira can cause you to get infections easier and make it harder to get better after getting one. I was literally pretty close to having to be admitted to the hospital and be on antibiotics intravenously. 

I have not eaten much at all in a week and I'm still having lots of pain and drainage from that ear. I do think that I am getting a tiny bit better everyday.

The first few days, I did not get out of bed at all except to go to a doctor appointment.

The last few days I have been able to camp out on the couch. However, I have not felt like reading or blogging or anything. Today, I seem to be doing a bit better.

Yesterday, we got some unexpected snow. Tim left work early but he still had trouble getting home. He had to run and get us some groceries and a normal 6 minute trip home took 35 minutes. The roads got bad very quickly! Thankfully, it was a teacher work day, so all kids were home.

It has been snowing the entire day here. We probably have around 4 inches of snow. The kids went outside and played in it earlier. I snapped a few pictures from the back door. Those pictures are below, along with a few from the last week and a half.

A beautiful cardinal visiting our bird feeders during the snow we had a week and a half ago. I believe this was from February 18th.

I cleaned and organized by "office."

My sweet kitty bear has been keeping me company.

A beautiful sunset on my way to a baby shower.

A baby shower for our friend, Jen who is having a baby girl very soon!

Beautiful cookies made for the shower by my friend, Robin!

I have been a pitiful sight!

 Having fun playing in the falling snow!

 Tim enjoying playing some Solitaire

 I love how much fun they have together and what sweet childhood memories they will have!