Great appreciation

As we started on Paula's third week of radation yeah about half way. I have began to realize how hard single parenthood is and I am not even doing it all myself I still get a lot of help from Paula. anyway back on point I have found that it can be overwhelming and overbearing at points trying to work a full time job, do all the house chores and and all the outside chores, etc. Your day starts early and doesn't end until the late hours, and a lot of the time you don;t have a lot of time in between to rest. I know before this all started I took advantage of Paula and all that she does around the house, I still find I take advantage of her when she home but I have also gwon to really appreciate what she does do. I have also talked with a freind that she and I were talking and it was amazing to me that she was able to work a full time job, and still raise and be a part of her two kids lives. I couldn't imagine doing that for more than a few weeks. it is just simply amazing what people can do when they need to.

Softball/ t-ball lessons

We recently signed all the kids up for either softball and or t-ball. So I have been taking them outside trying to teach them how to throw catch and hit. They all seem to have got hitting down sort of, my girls can hit about 20% of all free pitch and have figured out if they hit coming up they get the ball to go farther. I think the biggest thing I have found is that a five year old is mych harder to teach than my older girls. Trying to show them and help them throw better I developed a little 4 step guide to walk through well when I first showed them they did really good and seemed to be getting it down and was even stepping into the throws. And the next day we went out to throw somemore and he decided that sidearming was funner and funnier cause it would make him spin round in circles and then fall, he seems to think that is the funniest thing ever cause I can't get him to throw any different. It was amazing the level of understanding just a couple of years makes between each child. I guess they will get it eventually without to many bruises.

Why???

I am sitting here listening to my kids supposed to be cleaning. I told them last night when they got home to get there Saturday's chores done so we could have fun today and not have to worry about anything. Well in the process of this "cleaning" they decided that it would be fun to write all over each shirt's and ruin the clothes so they got in trouble, most people when they get in trouble change their behavior and get things done not mine. they didn't so they got sent to bed early. When they got up this morning at 7:30 they went and got breakfast and then were told they needed to get the chores done well it is almost one and they still haven't got it done yet. Why is that kids listen so well at school, according to teachers anyways, but they are completely the opposite at home? I have found this action to be baffling enough so that I have tried several different tactics to avoid this but to avail. I guess kids are kids and that is all there is to it.

Callie

Hey i am almost done with my kids storues and who they are. I am not sure what I am going to write after this but I guess that is at least another week away.

Callie came into this world and caused us a lot of heart ache and fear. It was the first real thing our marriage and family had to deal with. The doctor was a little worried about inducing Paula but they couldn't find a strong heart beat and so he had her admitted to the hospital. Well while we were there the nurses started getting all the equipment placed in the room, but while they were doing that one of the nurses fainted, this should have been a omen of things to come. Well after a few hours they finally started to come. Paula delivered her without to many issues but she had swallowed some maconium and stopped breathing on her own. That was one of the hardest thing is to watch the nurses wheel your baby out of the room. I followed the nurses to see what was going on with her and saw them begin CPR on her, air bag and all. They were able to keep her heart beating long enough to keep her alive. They had called for air med NICU team to come but they were already out on a call so they ended up sending Gold Cross NICU team out which is the same teams just by ground and they brought out the ventilator, hooked her up to everything. After they got her in the incubator and hooked up to everything she was some what stable. They then brought her in to see Paula before they took her to Primary Children's. They let her hold her hand and then I followed the ambulance to Primary's. They took me up with Callie and refered to her as baby Humphrey, after a few hours of that I finally got mad and told everyone that her name was Callie not baby humphrey. The doctors would never get our hopes to high they would just tell us that she is doing good or she isn't doing as well. But after about week on the ventilator they started to give us a good reports that she would be removed from the ventilator and should be fine. Day 11 came and she was removed from the ventilator, it would take another month for her to be removed from the oxygen. She is our little miracle and our little pain in the butt, She is stubborn and dramatic all at the same time, but she is great overall. Her lungs have recovered and boy does she use them.