Goodbye 2011!

DID YOU HEAR THAT NEW AWESOME BIEBER SONG???   LOL LOL "Let it Be

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I sure hope 2012, is a good year. I happily said goodbye to 2011! In reality, I am not sure if a new year really makes a difference?  A new year means we are a year older and possibly wiser? If only a new year could erase the negative events of years passed. I can't say that I ended 2011 with any regrets.  Of course, I  wish I could have foretold the future. Maybe I would have chosen to do some things a little differently; however, with the knowledge that I had, I did all that I could humanly do.

I got my first laptop for Xmas from my Dad this year.  Maybe I will get creative in 2012 or something. lol

Adapting to life without my Mom has obstacles. Having a very small extended, dysfunctional family causes my children to miss out on the whole "family" concept.

On the Thursday prior to Xmas, I had to take Lx to the emergency room for an episode with croup.  She was given an oral steroid and seemed to bounce back within 48 hours.  As if that was not traumatic enough, we apparently contracted food poisoning at Christmas eve dinner. It hit the family on Christmas day around 6. We were all sick as dogs. When both parents and the kids are sick, it is challenging!! I think Athena will forever associate the futon with puke.  It took a few days but we finally bounced back.  Lx on the other hand, was not so lucky. After being sick for days, her body became too weak from fighting and she stopped eating and drinking which caused her to be dehydrated.

My little man is going to be 10 in Feb and we never had a hospital stay.  I really didn't know what to expect from a pediatric unit.  Starting an IV on a dehydrated infant was not an easy task. A specialist had to come in to do it and he ignored the nurses when they said, she sucks her right thumb.  Needless to say, the IV was placed in her right hand making her even more miserable than she already was.  I had to sleep/rest with her on my chest because she would not allow me to put her down.  Even crazier was the fact that I could see the room that my Mom died in from Lx's window. Here we were one month later..... instead of a dehydrated Mom bringing me to the CMC, it was my dehydrated child. Yes, I was freaked out.