Big Week!

Well this week started off with me starting my job. Drew also started preschool and daycare at Koala Kids Academy at Melaleuca. The first day wasn't too bad actually. Drew did fine going to school and my first day went well......very busy. This week I figured out what I was in for at these apartments. Aparently the old manager was not doing her job (which is why she was fired). There is so much work to be done and things that were never done to begin with that I will be playing catch up from who knows when plus do the current work. It is a HUGE mess there. Anyway, at least I am the rescue insead of the one that made the mess.
Tuesday was the same only I had YW right after work and dinner. Doug and the kids came with us because it was a combined activity with the boys and they wanted to come. We hauled everyone's bikes and took a bike ride around the river and it was great! Afterward, one of the girls wanted hot chocolate so we went through the drive through at Starbucks (don't tell!). They have this awesome caramel apple cider that is like drinking a hot apple pie! That was my first time ever to Starbucks, but I'd have to say they make a good drink (not coffee!!). The rest of us had caramel hot chocolates. Mmmmmmm.....But we ended up getting home kindof late for a school night with little one's so it was a long and tiring day.
Dallin has had this wierd thing going on that is way too long to explain so I'll just say he was up the ENTIRE night long on Wed. night with diarrhea and a huge throw up at the end. He has had random wierd things going on all week with last Saturday night throwing up all night. So I was up most of the night with him on Wed. and then had to get up and go to work. I took Drew to school and he finally figured out by Thursday that we were going to leave him there all day and did not want to go! So I spent over 30 minutes at school trying to calm him down and make him feel better before I left. I was already exhausted so that just made me break seeing him so upset. I was almost sprinting to the front door to get out of there before I started bawling. He was screaming when I left, reaching his arms out to me and saying, "Mom, please don't leave me! Don't leave me!!". How are you supposed to take that kind of guilt?! Especially when you don't want to leave him.
Now that I am working, I can't just up and leave for Utah anymore. My sister, Jenasie had her wedding shower on Thursday night that I had to miss......sorry Jen, I love you! But congrats anyway! (I know, I suck)
Then Friday morning Doug woke me up around 6 a.m. telling me that Blair was at the hospital with his wife, Michelle, and that her water broke around 1 a.m.. Yay, he was having his baby! So I got up then to get ready so I could visit them before I had to go to work. I am the only one on Blair's side that is here in Idaho Falls, so I wanted to be there.
Dallin's doctor also wanted a STOOL SAMPLE because of his wierd symptoms this week, so he finally had a BM that morning so it was also a rush to fit taking poop to the lab within the hour, getting ready, getting Drew to school, getting Dallin out the door, going to see Blair at the hospital and getting to work......all before 9 and Doug needed me to put a check in the stinkin' bank too.
It was the same ordeal with Drew at school that morning too, only this time I didn't make it out of there before I broke down. I felt like an idiot crying. It was one of those that you just couldn't control and I tried to hold it back as much as I could while talking to one of the teachers there, but when I got out those doors and to my car, I just lost it. It felt like I was completely abandoning him. It was not this hard with Dallin when he went to daycare. This is bad.
So I get to work. Same old shniznit. Tons to do. Then at lunch time I had to go get Dallin from school because he wasn't feeling well. I had to call in with a sick kid for the rest of the day because Doug was in Island Park......too far away. Luckily I was able to be there when Blair had his baby.
That was the highlight of the week, of course! Oh, Blair was awesome! I was so dang proud of him. He was so good with Michelle, a great cheerleader and so supportive and loving to her. It was Blair in his best moment yet if you ask me. When that baby came, he was so happy and got all emotional. I can tell he is very excited to have his little man here. They are naming him Benjamin Elijah Hoxer. He was 6 lbs. 14 oz. and 20 inches. He was adorable! What a great moment being there with him in all his glory! I was proud. It is so touching seeing a little baby that was just in the presence of Heavenly Father. What a spirit that is there!
So my Dad and Marnae and my Mom came up too. Mom stayed the night at our house and was able to be here for Drew's birthday, which was today!
Drew. What a big boy he is! He turned 3 today and now I am going to cry again.....here we go. I don't like my babies growing up! He is so precious and small and happy and loving. They just don't stay that way forever. But, I am so proud to have him as my son and I love him with all I have. So happy birthday, Drew!
He got a fun package in the mail from Grandma and Grandpa Hoxer. That was so exciting for him! He also got a John Deere truck with a trailer that carries a tractor. (Same kind of thing he always wants......he likes those things the best). He also got a real cool Step 2 train table with a train that also has a table cover that they can use to color or do activities on. It is perfect for him and he loves it! That was courtesy of Grandma and Grandpa Kammeyer.
So, needless to say, it was an exhausting week and I am pooped! Going to bed......
I'll post pictures as soon as my camera will cooperate with me!