the snow is falling AGAIN...i reminded my husband all week long that it was going to snow again, the nice weather wouldnt remain, it was februrary after all.
so the kids dont have school today, bradley or kaila...im very greatful for that becuase other than the minimal grocery shopping we went and did we will NOT be leaving this house today. have you looked outside?
they have been playing legos all weekend. they came out on saturday and still right now the three of them (todd, kaila, and bradley) sit on the floor and build...this is where i feel like i have forgotten how to "play". although i used to frequently play with legos as a kid, i have no ambition to sit on the floor and build with them now. i however, love love love sitting and watching them all interact together. espically elizabeth. this is the first year that she sits on the floor and plays with them.
bradley will be with us all week long, he doesnt have school on wednesday, thrusday, or friday and im thinking with how hard they got hit down there with freezing rain and ice they probably wont have school tomorow. that will be nice...todd really misses him when he's gone.
kaila is going tubing at snowsnake with her girl scout troop and we will be going to michele's for dinner satruday night!! im excited to sit down and spend time with my new sister in law and her family. zeller's we will see you soon too!! super excited about that...i need me some a dose of zeller love...always good times...
busy little bees we are this week, i look forward to it and welcome the change but at the same time i am a little timid about leaving the comforts of my home where my kids have their own beds, i have my own kitchen and i know where everything is...
we shall see how everything goes....but i know im blessed to have anywhere to go or anyone to go see!! i love my life and my family...
Monday, February 21, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
saturday morning...ontis style
satruday morning....the ontis house....11:19am....
kaila is at the table in the frontroom doing a jig-saw puzzle, bradley is running around with elizabeth having a great time...she has grown so much and can play a lot more than when she was little. this is the time bradley used to be so excited for....when elizabeth is old enough to really play.
todd is helping kaila with her puzzle, playing with bradley, and throwing elizabeth in the air, all at the same time it seems, he is sooooo good at playing with the kids. i used to think i "forgot how to play", todd brought it back out in me and you can find me on the floor playing with elizabeth and her "guys" doing the voices and everything.
mr. pootie pooped in kaila's bed last night, that cat is SUPER lucky that he is like a kid to us and we love him like we do. when we took him to the vet to see why he was randomly shitting in places she told us that "he had an attitude problem"...there was no medical reason for it so he was doing it out of spite plain and simple. so kaila wanted to smack him, i think her words were "oh mom, i just wanna hit him" and i explained that he wouldnt know why she was hitting him, viloence isnt the answer, abusing pets is bad...so the only thing i could think to do to make her feel better that she had to throw away her snuggie (she never wore), and wash the clothes that were on it again...is i told her to put him in time out...the bathroom....where his litter box is and shut the door and leave him in there...this is his room basically he sleeps there at night and goes there when we leave the house because he will randomly shit if we leave him out. he's a good cat...he's great with the kids, plays with todd...but when he gets mad at you he poops...so he is sulking around today
the puzzle is finished now and todd and kaila are gluing it together...the kids bathroom and mr. pootie's bedroom is done in a tropical fish theme. i bought kaila a box with 10 tropical fish puzzles in it all different sizes, frames for them, and puzzle glue. she has been putting puzzles together now for awahile and they're all up on the walls in their bathroom. she loves doing it and im proud of her for doing them. i used to do puzzles all the time when i was young like her. its amazing the similarities we have, we both love to read, do puzzles, listen to music and sing really loud....
so now onto getting lunch ready...putting liz down and going about our saturday afternoon...this is the one day that everyone i love is here, together, with nothing to do but be together. i hope when the kids get older they look back on these weekends and have found memories of their childhood...i cant wait to be THAT grandma that has sunday dinners at my house, holidays, everything family...i want my kids to tell their kids what GREAT parents they had..i want to see how many traditions they take with them to their families and what they carry on from their childhood with their kids...i cant wait!!
kaila is at the table in the frontroom doing a jig-saw puzzle, bradley is running around with elizabeth having a great time...she has grown so much and can play a lot more than when she was little. this is the time bradley used to be so excited for....when elizabeth is old enough to really play.
todd is helping kaila with her puzzle, playing with bradley, and throwing elizabeth in the air, all at the same time it seems, he is sooooo good at playing with the kids. i used to think i "forgot how to play", todd brought it back out in me and you can find me on the floor playing with elizabeth and her "guys" doing the voices and everything.
mr. pootie pooped in kaila's bed last night, that cat is SUPER lucky that he is like a kid to us and we love him like we do. when we took him to the vet to see why he was randomly shitting in places she told us that "he had an attitude problem"...there was no medical reason for it so he was doing it out of spite plain and simple. so kaila wanted to smack him, i think her words were "oh mom, i just wanna hit him" and i explained that he wouldnt know why she was hitting him, viloence isnt the answer, abusing pets is bad...so the only thing i could think to do to make her feel better that she had to throw away her snuggie (she never wore), and wash the clothes that were on it again...is i told her to put him in time out...the bathroom....where his litter box is and shut the door and leave him in there...this is his room basically he sleeps there at night and goes there when we leave the house because he will randomly shit if we leave him out. he's a good cat...he's great with the kids, plays with todd...but when he gets mad at you he poops...so he is sulking around today
the puzzle is finished now and todd and kaila are gluing it together...the kids bathroom and mr. pootie's bedroom is done in a tropical fish theme. i bought kaila a box with 10 tropical fish puzzles in it all different sizes, frames for them, and puzzle glue. she has been putting puzzles together now for awahile and they're all up on the walls in their bathroom. she loves doing it and im proud of her for doing them. i used to do puzzles all the time when i was young like her. its amazing the similarities we have, we both love to read, do puzzles, listen to music and sing really loud....
so now onto getting lunch ready...putting liz down and going about our saturday afternoon...this is the one day that everyone i love is here, together, with nothing to do but be together. i hope when the kids get older they look back on these weekends and have found memories of their childhood...i cant wait to be THAT grandma that has sunday dinners at my house, holidays, everything family...i want my kids to tell their kids what GREAT parents they had..i want to see how many traditions they take with them to their families and what they carry on from their childhood with their kids...i cant wait!!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
so personal accountablility is a big one on my list of being a good person or just a decent human being. i display this as much as i can wether i be held accountable of something bad...or good. i love posting the good but not so much the not so good....heres one of good.
i was thinking a lot today of an old friend of mine. her name is amanda and we were VERY close at one point in time. she helped me through a very trying time in my life when i had little if any self esteem at all. it was soon after my mother died that i met this little 4'10" ball of fire. to make a very long story shorter...we met at applebees and became very close. her mother had gone through many brain surgeries recently after she was suddlenly struck with an anurisum one day. she might not have lost her mother but she definetly wasnt the same. so we had that to lean on eachother for. she was my rock, my backbone and my best friend for two years. we moved in together and everything fell apart. we were good for the first year, we seemed to mesh really well. then i met todd and things suddenly changed. amanda started lashing out at me for things she wouldnt explain why to, i found out i was pregnant and i couldnt handle the stress of it everyday so i moved out, we stopped talking. finally she called one day, apologized and we met, had dinner and things were great again. until that christmas season, she came over for a "family" xmas with with kelly and we havent heard from her again. she was super close with kaila and would tell her to call when she was over here and they would get together. one day kaila asked to call and amanda's number was disconnected. we never got another number. she didnt show up to the reception and never responded to the xmas card we sent her. if i didnt ask the right people from time to time if theyve even seen her i wouldnt even know for sure she was alive and kicking.
so today i was determined to write her a letter letting her know that i am hurt by all this, kaila was hurt by her "dissapearance" from us. but then i stopped and said...ok before you write this letter lets right a really happy letter to balance out the sad letter. so i wrote two ltters!! i wrote my neices in detroit and told them all about the wonderful things going on in our lives and asked about theirs. i love those little girls and dont get to tell them that enough. i felt really good for writting those two that i still havent wrote the first intended letter.
i dont think i will...maybe but not today. i like to think that i dont even need to...maybe just be happy with the good ones i can write and that one wont seem so important to get off my chest. only time will tell but i am thankfull for you girls for giving me someone to write happy thoughts and loving comments too.
i was thinking a lot today of an old friend of mine. her name is amanda and we were VERY close at one point in time. she helped me through a very trying time in my life when i had little if any self esteem at all. it was soon after my mother died that i met this little 4'10" ball of fire. to make a very long story shorter...we met at applebees and became very close. her mother had gone through many brain surgeries recently after she was suddlenly struck with an anurisum one day. she might not have lost her mother but she definetly wasnt the same. so we had that to lean on eachother for. she was my rock, my backbone and my best friend for two years. we moved in together and everything fell apart. we were good for the first year, we seemed to mesh really well. then i met todd and things suddenly changed. amanda started lashing out at me for things she wouldnt explain why to, i found out i was pregnant and i couldnt handle the stress of it everyday so i moved out, we stopped talking. finally she called one day, apologized and we met, had dinner and things were great again. until that christmas season, she came over for a "family" xmas with with kelly and we havent heard from her again. she was super close with kaila and would tell her to call when she was over here and they would get together. one day kaila asked to call and amanda's number was disconnected. we never got another number. she didnt show up to the reception and never responded to the xmas card we sent her. if i didnt ask the right people from time to time if theyve even seen her i wouldnt even know for sure she was alive and kicking.
so today i was determined to write her a letter letting her know that i am hurt by all this, kaila was hurt by her "dissapearance" from us. but then i stopped and said...ok before you write this letter lets right a really happy letter to balance out the sad letter. so i wrote two ltters!! i wrote my neices in detroit and told them all about the wonderful things going on in our lives and asked about theirs. i love those little girls and dont get to tell them that enough. i felt really good for writting those two that i still havent wrote the first intended letter.
i dont think i will...maybe but not today. i like to think that i dont even need to...maybe just be happy with the good ones i can write and that one wont seem so important to get off my chest. only time will tell but i am thankfull for you girls for giving me someone to write happy thoughts and loving comments too.
Monday, February 7, 2011
week in review
well this last week started off slow and steady...monday anyway...
tuesday we all went to pick up kaila since wednesday the big storm was coming and so there would be no school, she stayed wednesday night also. thursday she went home and everything was normal, friday came and she came here early morning because she wasnt feeling good. i went and picked her up and we started our weekend.
saturday morning i woke to take kaila to urgent care, she had a temp of 102 and was shaking and just not feeling well. i took her in and they took a strep swab, a flu swab, and a chest ex ray to rule out pneumonia. we left with a prescription for lots of fluid and tylenol and a positive test for flu. in my attempt to find a silver lining no matter what is going on i latched onto "its not the puking flu..." i thanked my stars for that let me tell you...
so i call kaila's dad to let him know what was going on and ask him if he could come and pick kaila up and take her to his house for the rest of the weekend. this was to avoid the rest of my house getting sick and is she were to be at my house she would be quarantined to her bed watching movies until her fever was consistently broke. well to my disappointment he said that although he didnt have to work the next day he too was not feeling well and couldnt take care of kaila because he was sick and wanted a nap. so kaila stayed with me until monday night. i decided to keep her at my house an extra day to make her fever was good before she went back to school. no reason to infect other kids and josh had to work so i knew it would be tough to find someone to watch her especially sick. i love my kids and when they are sick you see the mama bear come out of me.
kaila was in her bed for three days. she got out only to shower, eat meals, and go to the bathroom. even when she was feeling really good i still had her watching movies. thankfully her fever seemed to break last night so she came out with the family after todd took bradley home. i hope he was away from her enough to stay flu-free. liz didnt meet a flu-free fate.
this morning she hadnt made a peep and it was 9am...so i went in and found her in her crib her hair plastered to her face, pink cheeks, shaking. i had a dentist appointment at 10:30 so i called the dentist cancelled and called liz's doctor and scheduled. i took her temp and it was 103.8 so i got the Motrin and a Popsicle and some juice and tried to pump as much liquid in her as possible. it was scary. her hands were shaking and she was so full of fever. long story short the doctor says her flu test is positive and prescribes her some antiviral meds to shorten the length of the flu for her. with a little couch therapy, movies, liquid, tylenol, motrin and love she has a very low temp and is active at least as much as she can be on the couch.
i have been feeling not so great but i think too that i may have been psyching myself into my symptoms. i hope that at least. i cant get sick. im mom, i have to be there when everyone else gets sick.
i would like to end this week in review blog saying a HUGE THANK MY STARS to my husband Todd Ontis. this man is my partner for sure...while i am trying to keep kaila company now and then in her room, constantly checking on her to see if she needed anything or take her temperature, bring her food, get her in the shower....and taking her to the doctor one day, liz another...my husband was doing laundry, cooking meals for the family, doing the dishes, cleaning the bedding not only for me to make me feel better while i was feeling sick he changed and washed all of kaila's too. he sprayed the whole house down with lysol for us thank god!! this man has my back, is a wonderful father, is a great provider, and a wonderful human being. this man is my soul mate. thank you for having my back, picking up my slack, letting me take care of the girls, keeping bradley and liz happy while i had to give my attention to kaila...youre the best todd and i will never let you forget it. thank you for being you, marrying me, and making me the luckiest woman on earth!!
tuesday we all went to pick up kaila since wednesday the big storm was coming and so there would be no school, she stayed wednesday night also. thursday she went home and everything was normal, friday came and she came here early morning because she wasnt feeling good. i went and picked her up and we started our weekend.
saturday morning i woke to take kaila to urgent care, she had a temp of 102 and was shaking and just not feeling well. i took her in and they took a strep swab, a flu swab, and a chest ex ray to rule out pneumonia. we left with a prescription for lots of fluid and tylenol and a positive test for flu. in my attempt to find a silver lining no matter what is going on i latched onto "its not the puking flu..." i thanked my stars for that let me tell you...
so i call kaila's dad to let him know what was going on and ask him if he could come and pick kaila up and take her to his house for the rest of the weekend. this was to avoid the rest of my house getting sick and is she were to be at my house she would be quarantined to her bed watching movies until her fever was consistently broke. well to my disappointment he said that although he didnt have to work the next day he too was not feeling well and couldnt take care of kaila because he was sick and wanted a nap. so kaila stayed with me until monday night. i decided to keep her at my house an extra day to make her fever was good before she went back to school. no reason to infect other kids and josh had to work so i knew it would be tough to find someone to watch her especially sick. i love my kids and when they are sick you see the mama bear come out of me.
kaila was in her bed for three days. she got out only to shower, eat meals, and go to the bathroom. even when she was feeling really good i still had her watching movies. thankfully her fever seemed to break last night so she came out with the family after todd took bradley home. i hope he was away from her enough to stay flu-free. liz didnt meet a flu-free fate.
this morning she hadnt made a peep and it was 9am...so i went in and found her in her crib her hair plastered to her face, pink cheeks, shaking. i had a dentist appointment at 10:30 so i called the dentist cancelled and called liz's doctor and scheduled. i took her temp and it was 103.8 so i got the Motrin and a Popsicle and some juice and tried to pump as much liquid in her as possible. it was scary. her hands were shaking and she was so full of fever. long story short the doctor says her flu test is positive and prescribes her some antiviral meds to shorten the length of the flu for her. with a little couch therapy, movies, liquid, tylenol, motrin and love she has a very low temp and is active at least as much as she can be on the couch.
i have been feeling not so great but i think too that i may have been psyching myself into my symptoms. i hope that at least. i cant get sick. im mom, i have to be there when everyone else gets sick.
i would like to end this week in review blog saying a HUGE THANK MY STARS to my husband Todd Ontis. this man is my partner for sure...while i am trying to keep kaila company now and then in her room, constantly checking on her to see if she needed anything or take her temperature, bring her food, get her in the shower....and taking her to the doctor one day, liz another...my husband was doing laundry, cooking meals for the family, doing the dishes, cleaning the bedding not only for me to make me feel better while i was feeling sick he changed and washed all of kaila's too. he sprayed the whole house down with lysol for us thank god!! this man has my back, is a wonderful father, is a great provider, and a wonderful human being. this man is my soul mate. thank you for having my back, picking up my slack, letting me take care of the girls, keeping bradley and liz happy while i had to give my attention to kaila...youre the best todd and i will never let you forget it. thank you for being you, marrying me, and making me the luckiest woman on earth!!
Sunday, February 6, 2011
sick days of winter
what a weekend....kaila was sick friday so i went to get her early...brought her home hoping it was a cold and she would be ok...nope, flu
so i call josh and say "hey can you come get her so that my other kids dont get it..." needless to say he didnt and wouldnt do it...thanks buddy...great dad there
so now i sit here sick too, liz is coughing and telling me mama i dont feel good and my whole house is one big germ....I HATE BEING SICK!!!!!!!!!!
so i call josh and say "hey can you come get her so that my other kids dont get it..." needless to say he didnt and wouldnt do it...thanks buddy...great dad there
so now i sit here sick too, liz is coughing and telling me mama i dont feel good and my whole house is one big germ....I HATE BEING SICK!!!!!!!!!!
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