Hell Week

Well it has been a horrible, hellish week and a half for me!  First I have some very frightening unexplained bleeding that required a trip to the doctor for me, then viking boy age 4 stops eating for no apparent reason (until later) and I have to take him into the doctor where we end up having to do a blood draw!  Let me just tell you that doing a blood draw on anyone under the age of 16 is no fun.  Then as soon as we get settled at home he starts throwing up, having diarrhea  AND not eating!  After that one by one each of our six family members went through a horrible bought of stomach flu with symptoms that included vomiting, diarrhea  back ache, headache, fever, body aches, and tiredness.  I by the way was the second one down with it but still of course  had to take care of everyone else.  The worst part was that not one of the "little's" could make it to the toilet so between caring for them I was shampooing the carpets sometimes twice a day.

Then  two days before thanksgiving just when I was thinking everything was getting better my eldest daughter who was babysitting the kids called in panic because captain submarine, age 9, was laying on the floor of the bathroom screaming in pain.  After rushing home we headed to the emergency room where he had an IV port put in his arm (two kids in one week!), got put on morphine for the pain, and had ex rays  blood-work  and exams to find out that he had separated one of his floating ribs!

Then home and bed rest for him and the next day was Thanksgiving!

What am I thankful for?  Great emergency room nurses, care, and doctors.  And also my carpet shampooer.

Great now I hear Youngest daughter hacking down stairs.

Here we go again!

A great thanksgiving song! To all my readers God Bless you this Thanksgiving Day

What I am Thankful For

I thought I'd wright what I am thankfull for this year and would love to hear from my readers!  What are you thankful for?  As I was wrighting this out I realized I have so much to be thankful for, so much to thank God for!  How can I ever be sad or discouraged when I look at this list?  I think I'm going to print it out and post it where I see it all the time.

I am thankfull for

God Being in my life

Sleep
Being Alive
My Husband
My Children
My Dog
My Home
My Husbands Job
Living In America
The Constitution
Having Enough Food
The River Near Our house that I get to walk by

Heywood Banks - I Am A Turkey Bird (Thanksgiving Day Song)

A November pumpkin massacer

Both my husband and I feel it's very important that our children understand how to safely and accuratly use firearms so we take them out and teach them shooting.  It helps that we both enjoy shooting guns and the kids LOVE it!

So as soon as Halloween was over we took out jack o lanterns to the shooting "range" and had a little fun.  Pumpkins make satisfying targets because you can see really well when you hit them.

All of the older kids are already fairly good shots and are doing well on safety.

the victims

me with a pump action shot gun

for some reason I love pump actions... they make me feel like Sara Conner!

after the first few shots

will the violence never end???

Eldest daughter is a great shot