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The good news:

• I made it through another contest weekend.
• Everything went well.  Not perfect, but well.
• We were able to enjoy a nice family dinner together on Monday night so the kids could finally see me.  (we went to Chinese!)
• Everyone is on the mend.  Medicine is awesome.
• My tooth hasn’t been bothering me as much.
• I never did get the fever or throw-up sick that was infesting everyone.
• The piano tuner is coming tomorrow!

The bad news:

• I did end up getting a nasty cold over the weekend.  It made me have coughing fits…
• We ended up having to take Josiah in to the doctor bright and early on Monday morning because he was up most of the night crying about ear pain… turned out to be an ear infection virus that just had to run its course.
• My dentist appointment was cancelled on Tuesday morning and moved to (get this!) Monday the 28th.  Ugh!

Hey, everyone!  It’s my favorite day that is also a command!

March forth!

🙂

(Warning:  dramatic complaining ahead)

I’m having tooth troubles.

In reality I’ve always had teeth problem, but over the past few months I’ve had a top molar start to fall apart.   I’m pretty sure I’ve talked about how my tooth is falling apart before because, on Amy’s suggestion, we purchased a dental plan that helps give us discounts.  We decided that it would be a good idea to purchase something to help with the cost–even a tiny discount would be sizable if I was going to need a root canal or crown.  After looking into it further the discount was actually not very significant although it was something.  So, we’ve had that dental plan ready and just waiting for when my tooth really started to bother me.

My tooth continued to crumble.  And it was annoying but not painful.

Until this week.

I’m not sure what changed, but all of a sudden I woke up on Monday morning and my tooth was throbbing.  And then my jab was throbbing.  And now I can’t eat on that side anymore.  Apparently it was time to make that dentist appointment.

Let me insert at this point that we have recently switched insurance companies for myself and the kids.  We all are eligible to be in Medical Assistance through the state.  So I called our current dentist and they don’t accept that insurance.  Tim made a call to the insurance company to ask for names of dentists that DO accept Medial Assistance and they gave us 5 dentists in Shakopee.  I started calling around–no one would take me.  I made it through the 5 on the list with no luck.  So I moved to just calling any dentist in Shakopee.  No luck.  So I branched out to nearby cities.  And I FINALLY found a dentist that would take me and my insurance.  The earliest they could get me in was this morning.

Well, I got in today.  For a cleaning.

They cleaned and assessed my teeth and gave me a plan of what needs to be done (no shocker here, but that top moler needs to be extracted.  It’s beyond repair) and then they told me I had to go back and get a doctor’s note to say that I’m allowed to have an extraction done while I’m pregnant.   So they wouldn’t schedule my next appointment until I got the note signed.  Ugh.  Off I drove to my doctors office–which is actually a midwife–and got the paper signed.  At which point I called from the parking lot to get the next appointment scheduled right away.

And I have my next appointment scheduled!  …… for Tuesday March 15th.  🙁  I guess I’ll have to live with my toothache for a while longer.

Maddie has taken to “dancing.”  Well, at least her version of dancing.  It’s pretty hilarious.  She sort of just wiggles back and forth.  I wanted to make sure I got a video of it so we will remember it someday…

I found a nickel in the bottom of her footie jammies.

😉

We’re getting hit by a rather big snowstorm today.  It started just after lunch and is supposed to last until after supper at least.  Tim’s already shoveled once and I expect he’ll have to do it again.  We remembered that the snowblower is broken (whoops!).  It broke after the last big snowstorm, luckily after he had finished all the driveways, and he meant to take it in to get it fixed, but forgot.  So, here we are at the next blizzard and now it looks like he’ll have to do it the good ol’ fashioned way.  😉

It’s snowing hard enough that school was actually cancelled early–so Chloe got out 90 min. early.  She thought that was pretty cool.

Anyway, all this snow made this song come to mind today:

I want to remember these tiny hands.  Those chubby, clumsy fingers that so willingly hold my hand as we cross parking lots.  How he blows kisses to me (the wrong way) every day at nap time.  How we eat lunch together every day at the table and how he seems to always want MY food instead of his.  The constant humming.  His affectionate hugs and sweet kisses on my cheek.

He’s so much fun.  I am so beyond blessed.