When It rains....It pours!

One of the amazing adventures, when you have four little ones is when they get sick. If you are lucky enough, then all your kids will get sick at the same time, which means, one trip to the doctor, and sharing medicines etc. In other occasions you will have what I call "the cycle". One kid get sick, then another and by the time the first one is healthy, the last one who is still sick, passes the illness to the first one, and "the cycle" starts again. But if you are me, they will wait to this time of the year when you are broke...right after Christmas, near taxes time, and they will get four different illnesses at the same time. That means: several travel to the doctor, different labs done to all of them, different medicines at a different schedule each ( seriously try memorizing all the medicine schedules). Forget about sleeping, because you have to give antibiotic to Daniel at 1am, nebulizer treatment to Erica at 2am, eye drops to Gab at 3 am, fever reducer to Fran at 4 am and at 5 guess what?? Its time for Dan's antibiotic again!

Now here's my amazing week:

• Friday: Dan had an ear ache.
• Saturday: Gabriela had a stomach ache.
• Sunday: they both seemed better and played all day only to get worse in the afternoon.
• Monday: Pediatrician trip. Dan has an ear infection and Gab needs some laboratories. Dan need antibiotic, ear drops and cold medicine.
• Tuesday: Gab goes to the lab, I received a nice call from school with wonderful news: Erica is sick. I go pick her up and fantastic! when things could not get any better! she has asthma! YAY!(notice the irony here). I start her treatment on my own but it didn't worked.
• Wednesday: Gab, who is way better from her stomach ache has an eye red, while preparing to go to the pediatrician, my baby starts a fever and vomits... and of course he has to vomit over mommy. We go to the ped...AGAIN! Gab has conjunctivitis and the labs showed a urine tract infection. She needs a to get a sonogram and more labs. Erica starts a fever in the doctors office. Now she needs to get more labs done, thank God all the baby has a virus, wich will clear on its own(hoping his siblings don't get it too). We make another pharmacy trip. We need 3 different asthma medicines for Erica and a cough syrup, eye drops and more antibiotic for Gab. I've spent over 150 on this little game and suddenly my cell phone gets suspended because I went over the damn spending limit. Gotta love Sprint.
• Today we went to the lab. More test to be done, more money to spend. I can swear, the lab woman sees my face and she gets all happy and exited thinking what she is going to buy with my money. I sent hubby to pick up the medicines and he got them all wrong, which means I have to go again to the pharmacy. Then I had another doctor appointment today, because she wants to see Erica's labs results. I dress the kids, get there, unstrap the four, go into the building, only to find out the doctor is not on the office..... I could have stayed happy on my home.
• Friday: Tomorrow we have Gabriela's sonogram and another doctor trip to take Erica's lab results.

As you can see this have been a wonderful week, anything but boring. I cant wait till next week when Hubby goes away for three weeks military training. Gotta love my life.

Four kids one hubby and a blog: NOW i have my hands full

Long time ago I been wanting to start my own web page. I like to write, I like to give advice, I've read a whole lot about parenting, plus experience....I think I've learned a little something trough the years and thought I could share. Also in those so stressed evening, writing, and let it all out helps me not to kill somebody, so in every way it looked like a pretty good idea for everyone.

I'm married to a computer freak! he is the best, specially when it comes to computers (and not because I know he definitelly will read) we tried to make my page like a hundred times, but try programming HTML with four kids jumping, running, screaming, by your side! and then hubby and I could never agree on what we wanted MY page to look like (you got it right?? hubby wanting to do what HE wanted with MY page) So finally he gave up to the idea of doing it from scratch and found this blogger stuff, and now hes trying to hook me up.

So the blog wars have begin in my home. I want my blog to be bilingual, he wants me to choose: English or spanish, not both. I am Puertorrican you see so I speak Spanish, but sometimes im in the English mood specially after seeing lots of cable tv, my brain start to think in english and take its time to reset. Fighting over the layout the colors LOL! I'll probably end up doing what he wants because as I said he is a genious.

Ok now a little about me. I already said I am Puertorrican, almost 29 yeasr old and obiously woman. If you haven't figure it out I have four kiddos: Gabriela is 8, Erica 7, Daniel is 5 and Francisco is 2 years old. Yes, we have a tv in home, and two computers by the way! We just love babies (and making them) I almost ten years married with the hubby wich most of the time makes the fift kid in the house. I don't know how but i've been able to keep my sanity...... yet.

We also have a kitten, wich my kids like to torture. I think he is masochist bacause he seems to actually like living in here and being squished all the time. My life can be messy at times, but as I said it is very fun. I love my kids to death, my hubby is imperfectly wonderful and i cant wait to keep writing on this blog.