Light at the end of the tunnel

First, an update on little Bry... he is still very sick. Fever last night was 104.3. Today it is down to the 102 range. Still high, but better. He does not have pnemonia... and what ever he has has moved into his eyes, so they are all bloodshot and goupy... sorry that may be TMI! The DR thinks it is either bronchialitis (sp?) or a cold on top of some asthma and allergies. So he is on a perscription antihistimine/cough syrup, breathing treatments, eye drops, tylenol and motrin... I am praying hard that he feels better soon... not only bc it is so hard to see him so sick and lethargic, but also bc we are planning to go to Port Aransas this weekend, and it will totally crush the other boys to have to cancel the trip!

OK... so the drama.... I took 18 4 and 5 year old kids to the Zoo yesterday for our field trip. Clint took a sick day to take care of Bry so I could go have a break and go on the funnest day of the year with my kids... crazy, but fun! When I got home, I headed to my room to change clothes and check email, and my entire bedroom floor was covered in water. I couldnt figure out if it was my waterbed leaking (a quick, easy, cheap thing to fix) or if it was coming thru the wall from the bathroom (messy, time consuming, and super expensive to fix)... and it was the latter. We have a busted pipe in our master bathroom. Clint went to the street to turn off the water while I headed for the towels and mop. We got the mess cleaned up... kinda... and headed to my mom and dads to drop off the kids and head to Lowes. We have taken the 4 of them to Lowes before, but it is a total zoo, so since Mimi and PawPaw are way more fun that Lowes, we went with that option. We decided that we were going to have to spend quite a bit of money anyways on the tile and it was going to be hard to match and patch it, so we decided to just go ahead and retile the whole thing. Well, while we were there, I got to talking about my yukky old bathtub and the hard water stains and rust that we cant got off of it (we now have a water softener, but it was too late for the tub). There is also some cracks in it, so it is impossible for me to get it very clean, and if we are going to replace it, now is the time while we are breaking out all of the old tile.... SO.... I talked clint into a new bathtub. As we were pricing those, we saw a spa-jet tub ON SALE, and mothers day is right around the corner, and it was not going to cost thatmuch more in the big scheme of things, so we went for it!!! yay!!! I have always wanted one of those!! Happy mothers day to me!! So it is super annoying that we are down to one bathtub right now, (especially since we have company coming on thursday!) but my light at the end of the tunnel is that in a few weeks, I hope to be basking in my new spa bath tub with cool jets, reading a good book and sipping on something indulging! (*fingers crossed real tight*)

On a totally different subject, my little nephew (my "best" nephew) was due last week and he is still cookin.... We are praying for you, Jarrell! And we are ready for you to come and meet your precious momma and daddy! Angie... you hang in there! We love you and we cant wait to see you as a mommy!