New Changes

We are dropping like flies over here.  Sickness is running rampant, and I hate it! My kids are miserable, they can't breathe, and in between breaths they are hacking up a lung. I can feel it coming on as well, it feels like someone ran a grater along the back of my throat, and all I want to do is nestled myself in between the sheets and covers of my bed.  But I am a mommy now - and mommies don't get sick, right?

They look so miserable!

So for now we are eating way to many marshmallows (the gelatin is suppose to sooth your throat) it is probably a lie, but no one is going to complain about eating unlimited marshmallows. Oh, hi mom, we need some more please :)

Accompanying this bowl of goodness is warmed honey and apple cider - it is also suppose to soothe your throat - and it probably will because it tastes like crap in comparison to the marshmallows.

So for now we muster up the energy to do the bare minimal - to just survive, and hopefully not get Nate sick in the process.

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Yesterday was our last day of non-nonchalantly hanging around the house doing nothing.  We cherished it, we did good at it, and well we loved it.

We are a homebody family, and almost nothing makes us happier then to be home, cozy in the living room, watching movies, playing Lego, and coloring - while eating delicious homemade goodness.

We love making breakfast a little fancier with setting the table with pretty dishes.

and of course we can't forget our daily green smoothie! I was a little skeptical a first but all I can say now is YUM!!

Even the cat joined us, she is amazing at doing nothing.  This cat is amazing - I am happy she is ours!

She is still so beautiful even when she is miserable!

And then we celebrated life and everything in store for us with cooking and sipping on wine.  I love cooking with Nate - hanging out in the kitchen chopping and stirring, and sipping on wine while soup simmers - it's something dear to me.

I love my man!

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See today is the first day of Paramedic school.  It has been building up for months accompanied by the most obscure horror stories - and I won't lie it got to me a little bit - how will we survive this terrible course and everything that accompanies it? Well then one day I had this realization - that we survived multiple deployments, we have it under our belts - so why would we not make this?

I know it will be an adjustment time and schedule wise - the kids and I will have to adjust to Nate being gone a little more between classes, clinicals, and ride-outs.  But then we have adjusted to pretty extreme conditions (psychically and emotionally) in the past year that this actually seems like a breeze.

I am so proud of Nate - I still remember many years ago when we first me in Utah, and started to share our hearts with each other - he told me that one day he will go to paramedic school, and so we have arrived at his one day, and I couldn't be prouder.

So here it is the next crazy twelve months have arrived, but is all wrapped up in a long awaited goal that will be fulfilled come December.

We can do this!! Our little family of four WILL do this!

Now let's hope Nate doesn't catch our germs - see it's awful timing.  We might have be quarantined.

Happy Wednesday!