Week 1 and 2

I started off the new year with enthusiasm and hope for a different story. Well two weeks and no new posts on the blog...I got a little side tracked. If you didn't already know both of my kids had strep. I was forcing 7... count them 7 teaspoons of medicine down my kids each day. Needless to say the medicine was awful and so was trying to make my children swallow. We finally started feeling better and sleeping though the night. YAY!!!! Four days later we were waking up again, luckily we had a recheck scheduled. Kennedy needed to have her lymph nodes checked since they were swollen to a ridiculously large size. They were still large but they are going down and improving so all is good there. Collin is a different story. I took him in because he woke up in the middle of the night. Guess what...he has strep again. After two throat swabs and a very painful shot we went for some ice cream. Friday our ENT called back and let us know that we will be having Collin's tonsils removed. Five cases of strep this fall is apparently too much?!?! Who would have thought?!?! Anyways, for now I am trying to stay positive and get my kids well. I am hoping that Collin stays healthy until the surgery and praying for no complications.
On a different note...exercise...well that hasn't quite happened yet. I am getting an elliptical soon and I am super excited to get started. Last week at church we started a fast....Aaron chose cokes and I chose cake. I haven't splurged at all but boy has it been tough.
We are praying for health and patience.... sick kids, lack of sleep, and coke/cake can make our patience a little short. I hope you all are staying healthy!