This is so true

I feel like

I feel Like a bobin you know the ones you fish with. I feel like I just got my head above the water with the whole housing issue. Only today to log onto my checking account online and see a fraud charge. Its not for a small amount either. Our car payment hasnt gone through yet (1st payment) and its been 11 days last thursday I called and they said it had gone threw but the bank wasnt showing it. So I have to call about that dont need my car being reposed over a mistake on someones part. Just when things starting working out and I feel comfortable. I get draged back under the water. It sucks, so now my debit card is canceled which leaves me with no cash. Glad I have a credit card (even though we are trying to pay it off) just in case. I used the last of my cash this morning to get some gadorade and bananas because Kenzie is sick. I want my life back, Since we have moved here its been total crazyness. The past 3 months have been the worst. The other day I was listening to the radio in the car and it was a country song and it says something about her driving baby in the back seat. She was going to fast hit some ice. She then throws her hands up and prays for Jeaus to take the wheel. Well I am throwing my hands up and hoping for him to show me the way because I feel so lost in all this.

Cleaning, Cleaning, and More Cleaning

Thats what I have been doing pretty much all weekend.

Saturday Night after the girls went to bed I

Cleaned the front room
Cleaned the Kitchen
Downstiars Bathroom
Hallway
and laundry room
Swept
I washed the walls
scrubed the baseboards and floors
Washed and Dryed 90% of the laundry

Today I .................

Cleaned both girls closets and bedrooms
Cleaned the upstairs bathrooms
Dug out some christmas stuff from the storage to send Drew
Re organised the storage room
Cleaned and organised my room.....still needs some work but ALOT better
Cleaned my closet
Master Bath
Organised all the stuff I am getting rid of
Fold/Hung up ALL the lauundry and put it away




I am beat now!

Light at the End of the tunnel?

Or just a Flicker?

I got a call yesterday and they will be here Monday to start work on the floors and ceiling. I am excited and cant wait to get it all cleaned out and safe! Its so sold here in the mornings. Yesterday I went out and bought the girls some nice fleece warm cozy footed jammies so they wouldnt freeze. It doesnt matter how many blankets you give them they always end up sleeping on top of them...lol and there light weight pjs werent cutting it with no heat. Well thats the Update for now....lol

Update on Kylie Bug & I Look what I found

Monday after noon I took Kylie to the doctors. We actaully seen 2 different doctors. 1 doctor and 1 resident. They were both awesome. The dr was very concerned with Kylie persistant cough (its been a month now). Kylie is now on allergy meds. Dr said to give those a week and if her cough doesnt improve or gets worse to bring her back.

Well that got me thinking was there anything I have done different this past month, ect.. change anything, ect... I light bulb went off in my head for the past month the heater has been getting turned on and off as needed. For the past week it was pretty much on every night (had it set so when the house got below 70 the heater would kick on). Well Kylies cough was always worse at night.

I went in the Laundry room (where the heater unit is located) and looked around got a chair checked the whole in the ceiling where there was the water damage (there had been damage done before we moved in too).

Thid is what I found..................MOLD!

This is right next to the heater unit...More mold and I cant view behind it but my guess is there is more mold. So obviously its not just where the water damage is

So as of right now I refuse to use the heater because IMO turning on the heater is just spreading more spores and making Kylie worse. Well nights are getting chilly so the girls got warm jammies on and an extra blanket.

Tuesday Morning after I droped off Kenzie at school, I went to the community center and filed a report. The guy that helped me Called and told me someone would be out to look at it today (it was about 8am at that point) Well 2:20 came around and I had to go pick up Kenzie at school so I left a note on the door hoping they wouldnt come when I was gone. Well when I got home an hour later nothing. It was 3:30 so I called the matience line and the guy is telling me no one put a request in, ect.. and that the soonest someone could come out was Thursday. I was pretty livid and fustrated at this point. I kinda turned into a bitch. I hung up on him and called the guy at the community center I spoke with that morning and he said there was report in and gaveme the reference # and said he would call and see what was up. He called me back about 5 minutes later and told me someone would be out in about 15-20 minutes.

About 4 minutes later there was a knock at the door. Matience! I showed him the damage in the laundry room along with the mold and explained my concern about the mold and heater. I then took him upstairs and showed him the bathroom floor. (2 posts down for whats up with that)

Well the Full bathroom Floor and Sub Floor need to be ripped out and replaced. The sub floor is indeed warping and starting to buckle. Well he asked to see the master bath (God my room was a mess as I am cleaning out the storage room and going through stuff...lol he asked if we just moved in because there was boxes everywhere) he said our bathroom floor and sub floor needs to be replaced as it is buckling. (the full bath and our bath share a wall) so the structure in our bath was damaged too. He turned off the full bathroom toilet just in case there was still a pipe leaking.

He then got a special spray and cleaned up the ceiling and sprayed the mold in there.

The taken down and replaced

Okay when can you do this? Well there are 15 other families in front of me before they get to me a time frame 3-4 weeks (knowing the army probably longer)

later that evening the guy I was talking with this morning brough me a paper for the girls dr to file out so I can have the air in the house tested and he took pictures of what it looks like now (after all the clean up) So I offered to have pictures of the before printed. Okay well I read the paper if there PCM sees it neccisary for them to see a specialist for allergies then she/he can refer them (obisiously we now know Kylie is and would be, Kenzie has no signs of allergies or exposure) Once refered that dr can do its tests, ect.. and can request housing to have the air quality control test done.

I called today to see about getting the girls in the next avaible appt. is Nov. 19th!!!!!!!!!!! thats a month away by the time the referal got in to see a specilist and appt made it will be the end of the year or begining of next year! Umm I dont think so. I will not use my heater that means no heater this winter. Yeah SO not going to work.

So this morning I went back to the community center and spoke with the head guy. He had an idea as to what was going on already. So I filled him in about kys allergies ect... and how I cant get them into the dr. till the 19th of next month, ect.. He said hw will call the hospital and have them come out and do an air quality control test. He told me they will get back to him in 48 hours to set up the appt so come out. Good so I dont have to wait months to see different drs, ect.. So depending on what the tests says I may be moving or not.

Now that Kylie is on the meds and the heat isnt going her coughing isnt as bad but she is still coughing. So it is a slight improvement from where she was.

If you got this far thanks for reading my book.....LOL

Yeah SO not going to work

Okay so while I was out today the guy came to put the new toilet in. (I have a paper stating they can enter to fix/repair things if I am not home)

So I get home (was gone from about 9:30 to 4:30) and checked the bathroom sure enough new toilet. Didnt inspect it or anything just seeing if it got fixed. Came downstairs looked in the laundry room still a open hole.

Well I gave the girls a bath after dinner and was washing kylies hair andKenzie says look I turn my head and she is holding a piece of floor .

As you can tell the toilet is smaller then the old one he filled in the gap with caulk (sp?)

The broken piece (the triangle) was what Kenzie was holding...I am not sure if she broke it off or it was like that...I tried to put it back in place as the caulk is still wet. Oh and you can tell the floor has warped



Under the broken piece

Another piece of floor sticking up and warped

Now the subfloor (i think thats what it is called) is wet still. and it is warping....This is not the first time this has happened as when we moved it there was already damage in the laundry room ceiling and the guy said the same thing when he saw the ceiling. I know nothing about this stuff but with the floor warping, ect... could my toilet fall through the ceiling since everything in there is till wet and soft? I refuse to use it till it is fixed right...lol also this is problem too because even if it was left like that the bathtub is only about a foot away (or less) and the girls splash...its going to continue to get wet and drip into the floor/ceiling.

Kylie Update

We went to the doctor today. The Doctors she seen today were awesome. Both were very concerned about her cough and looked her over. Going Off her symptoms she is being treated for Allergies (cough, puffy eyes, runny nose) so she is now on allergy meds. We are giving those a week to clear it up. If it doesnt we will either treat her for GERD again or she may need a inhaler. So only time will tell. I had them re check her head because to me it didnt not look like ring worm. I was right! It is NOT ringworm, it is just a bacterial infection. So she is off the ringworm medicine.

When it Rains It Pours

Literally! Its Raining its pouring in the laundry room! I called maitence and a guy came out something in the toilet in the main bathroom is cracked and was leaking down into the laundry room. This is what the ceiling now looks like Now

Kylie Bug is Sick

When it rains it pours.......lets pray it doesnt start flooding

I have been trying since Wed. to get Kylie into the Dr. She has had a cough for a month (when she first got it, it was bad tried for a week straight to get her in they always had no appts.) Her cough got better though it was going away. Tuesday night it got worse so Wed. call NO appts, thursday No appts, Today No appts. Yesterday and today I spoke with 2 different peds drs. and the first told me sounds like she has ashma or walking pnemonia told me she needs to get seen to keep calling to see if anything opens up, I called and called nothing. Today spoke with a differnt dr who told me there is a walk in clinic saturday and sunday or if I felt the need to take her to the ER. Well I decided not to wait after my 3yo got out of school we headed to the ER . We were only there for 4 hours on a firday I think that is a new record. We did X rays of her lungs.
Well she is being diagnosed with a viral infection (this morning she woke up with a rash). She can not diagnose ashma that needs to be done with testing and a peds care. No problem if we could get in to see a dr! So that covers her cough, runny nose, and rash

Well last night I noticed what I though was a bug bite on her head no big deal. Or so I thought this morning the 1 bug bite multiplied and was covering a area of her hair. The er dr. had to go get another dr to confirm. She has Ring worm on her head and on top of the ring worm she has a bacterial infection. Because of the location of the ring worm that cant do a cream (which is how its normally treated) . She has to be on a oral med. Only this med can cause liver damage and she needs to be monitored by a ped. for the next 6 weeks while she is on the meds (yes 2 times a day for 6 weeks for ringworm) She is on another oral meds for the bacterial infection. Thinking she got the ring worm when we went to the pumpkin patch and they were playing in the hay pile


Now back to her cough from the sounds of it and her history of frequent coughs (she had a cough from Jan. to May none stop I kept getting told it was a cold or viral infaction) The Er dr thinks other wise. She think it could be 1 or all 3 of these Ashma, Allergies, and she could still have GERD but it is Silent now. She needs to be seen by a reg. ped 1 all the time no bouncing from dr to dr like the military likes to do. So I HAVE to get her in on Monday and have a ER paper stating so.

I am worried about my Kylie Bug

Pumpkin Patch

This past Saturday we have went to a Pumpkin Patch. It was Small but the girls had Fun. We wish Drew/Daddy could of been here to go as this was both girls first trip to a pumpkin patch. We will all be going next year as a family and hope that next year my belly will look like a pumpkin :)Anyways here are pictures of the girls

Hair

We have been busy busy doing hair. Thank You to Emily we have had lots of New styles and lots of compliments on there hair.

Kid Tag

Kid Tag

I saw this elsewhere and thought it would be fun. Man we had some serious laughs during this!!

About Mom!

1. What does Mom always say to you?

Mackenzie-I Love You & Not So Loud
Kylie-I Love You & Stop being a Monkey (I said it for her...lol)

2. What makes Mom happy?

Mackenzie- Me being good
Kylie-(gives me a kiss) yep that makes me happy

3. What makes Mom sad?

Mackenzie- Daddy being gone
Kylie- (too little to understand)Drew being gone and when the girls are upset or hurt

4. How does Mom make you laugh?

Mackenzie- Tickling Me
Kylie- (too little) but she is very tickleish

5. How Old Is Mom?

Mackenzie-ummmm
Kylie- (too little) I am 23

6. How Tall is Mom?

Mackenzie- Big
Kylie- too little, I am 5'9"

7. What does Mom like to do?

Mackenzie- Play with me
Kylie- (too little, Play with the girls and talk to Drew

8. What is Mom's job?

Mackenzie-take me to school...lol she loves school
Kylie- too little, being a mom and wife

9. What is Mom's favorite food?

Mackenzie-fruit
Kylie- too little, hmmm right now Smoothies

10. How do you know Mom loves you?

Mackenzie- she tells me
Kylie- too little, they get told daily lots of hugs and kisses

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1. What does Dad always say to you?

Mackenzie- I love you & be good for mom
Kylie- I love you bug (mom said it for her)

2. What makes Dad happy?

Mackenzie-playing with me and ky
Kylie (too little) but dad is happy at home with his family

3. What makes Dad sad?

Mackenzie- Being Away
Kylie- (too little) being away from his family

4. How does Dad make you laugh?

Mackenzie- playing with me
Kylie- (too little) but he puts her on his belly and bounces her up and down

5. How old is Dad?

Mackenzie- i dont know
Kylie- too little, he is 23

6. How tall is Dad?

Mackenzie- big
Kylie- too little, he is 5'10

7. What does Dad like to do?

Mackenzie- play
Kylie- too little, he loves to play with the girls

8. What is Dad's job?

Mackenzie-Trucks
Kylie-too little, he is a mechanic in the army

9. What is Dad's favorite food?

Mackenzie- Sandwhiches (Drew would come home on lunch and make him and her sandwhiches)
Kylie- too little, he likes Mexican Food

10. How do you know Dad loves you?

Mackenzie- My cat tells me (before he left they went to build a bear and she has a hello kitty with a voice recorder in it and its daddys voice saying he loves her misses her and to be a good girl)
Kylie- Too little, she has a bear that says pretty much the same thing


Ya, we really enjoyed that! I tag.......... anyone reading this and has kids and hasnt done this yet...lol

Make Them Stop Please

Okay can someone please make the girls stop growing? please! Kenzie has had a MAJOR growth spurt over the past 1 1/2 months going from a 3t-4t to a girls 4-5. Kylie has gone from a bearly 12m to a 18-24m...I cant keep up I swear I buy clothes and the next thing I know they have out grown them. So does anyone have magic dust or something to sprinkle them with?