Ten for the Week

1. Frank has been coughing off and on for months and the doctors kept misdiagnoising him. They kept telling him it was just his asthma and prescribed him some Symbicort. The medicine really wasn't helping him. One day this week he starting coughing up lung tissue. Frank saved a sample for the doctor and than he scheduled an appointment. The doctor immediately ordered up a CT scan and the results came back as whooping cough. He has been on antibiotics all week and should no longer be contagious. Luckily we have all been vaccinated in our household. Frank has already started to feel better. It will take about three weeks to completely go away.

2. Sarah is turning 17 years old this week. We are looking forward to celebrating her birthday next weekend.

3. Frankie headed over to his mom's house this weekend.

4. Frankie started church basketball this week. He has invited his friend Max to play with him on the team. They won their first basketball game today.

5. I finally took down all the Christmas lights outside.

6. I worked some overtime hours today. Afterwards I spent some time visiting with my friend Wendy.

7. My old babysitter Mary watched Savannah for me one day this week. Afterwards she took us out to McDonald's to visit and allow Savannah time to play. She had a blast playing in the play area. She even made several friends while she was there. It was very cute this little 5 yr old boy was watching after her and even called her his "little baby". I thought I was never going to leave that night. After 2 hours she was ready to go home.

8. Frank is having a guys night tonight and invited a couple of friends over to play Axis & Allies.

9. The weather has been really nice outside lately. We enjoyed 55 degree weather yesterday. We are experincing tempetures about 10 degrees higher than normal. We are currenlty having a snow drought in Chicago. We have had more rainy days than snow this year. It's a nice break after last years "Blizzard of 2011".

10. I received my new VT route this week. They gave me the sister who is currently living in our old house. I'm not sure how I feel about going back to my old house to visit her. I still have mixed emotions about this. They did this to me once before and I complained to the VT coordinator and they switched my previous route. Maybe I should pray about it! I received my new Primary class on Sunday. I love teaching the 5 yr old girls.