A Smattering of Duehrings

I was racing Eli home from the park today. I was on Micah’s bike and Eli was on his bike. I was staying right on his tail but I was letting him win. About 3/4 of the way home he fell off his bike. He jumped up and left the bike and started running. A few seconds later he tripped and fell down. His glasses flew off his face onto the sidewalk. He kept running all the way home and into the house without ever looking back. If I had not been behind him I would still be looking for his glasses tonight.

Today Maggie had 4 teeth pulled. We have been trying to get these pulled for months and it hasn’t been easy finding someone to do it that our insurance covers. We finally found someone and got it over with.

The dentist was a bit worried that Maggie would not be able to handle it without gas, but Maggie did great. After they pulled two on one side they called me back to see what I thought about doing the other side today. Maggie and I agreed to go ahead and get it all over with today. They told Maggie that she did better than a lot of adults do with having teeth pulled.

Maggie was able to eat dinner tonight and is feeling pretty much back to normal already.

It makes me sick to my stomach to look at these. I must have a thing with getting teeth pulled. I felt just sick today while she was getting it done. My sister had her wisdom teeth pulled when I was in high school and when I saw her afterwards I passed out. Maybe I should let Damon go next time one of our kids need teeth pulled.

I have decided to try to go a month without drinking any pop. (soda for you people up north) I don’t drink very much of it,  but I usually have one can with my lunch each day as my treat for being a mommy. I sit their and explain to the kids that they can’t drink pop because it is bad for them while I drink away. (They don’t seem to understand why it is good for me and not them.They ask me about that quite often.) Anyway, I am going to start March 1 and do it for at least a month. They say 30 days makes a habit so we will see.

Anyone want to do it with me? Julie? Susan? Anyone? Damon already agreed to do it with me.  You have 2 more days to drink up.

It’s not the best video, but this will give you an idea of what I do for “fun.”

We have some serious baking going on in this house. Maggie and Eden baked cookies with the Easy Bake Oven for hours last night and went to bed with a plate full of cookies and cakes. When they woke up they brought their empty cookie plate upstairs and started to bake again.