Fork in the road.

This is what I feel like my life has been: School or Family?

I feel like I need to make some decisions in my life and I know that nothing needs to be done right now, but I feel stuck and somewhat lost.  School is kicking my butt - the classes aren't hard, but trying to balance that with my life is too much. As I was driving home from class Saturday evening, I decided that this is not what I want to do. I love learning and think that education is VERY important, but I don't want my MBA right now. I want to be me. What is me? A wife, a mother, someone that is crafty, and someone who isn't stressed all the time with trying to get everything done. I want to eventually have another child and can't stop thinking about when can I with school? I shouldn't plan my life around school.

As soon as I decided to stop going to school (for now, maybe forever) I felt a huge relief taken off of me. Until I remembered that I have a huge assignment due in 2 weeks. I am hoping that I can drop my other class that I am registered for next block so that I get to "me" earlier. 

I have already started looking at some "fun" classes that I would love to take. Photography, zumba, cooking, & maybe even a doula class. 

I hope that I don't regret my decision, so far I am just looking forward to spending more time with the family and less worrying about homework and class. 

Sick of being sick...

This last week has been troublesome. I was out of town on Tuesday for work and came home Wednesday to a baby that was starting to get sick. Wednesday night Max's fever started at about 101 degrees and spiked up to nearly 105 degrees even AFTER giving him medicine and would not break! We called the on-call pediatrician and they recommended that because his fever wouldn't come down and he was weezing to take him to Primary Children's Hospital. 

They took him in, gave him some more medicine and also tested him for RSV (a respiratory infection) which came back positive. So we took him home and were ready battle through it... or so we thought! 
Thursday was ok. 

Friday was ok. Until Friday night. His coughing got so bad he started to throw up pretty bad. And these days his fever was still always above 101 degrees and sometimes as high at 104 degrees.  We decided to take him in on Saturday to his doctor to see what was going on. His RSV has now caused an ear infection so he would need antibiotics -- this explained why the fever wouldn't drop. And because his cough was so bad, he was having problems breathing. They gave us a steroid inhaler for us to use over the next week or so. 

All of this has been really tough and tiresome for us all. Max has been quite the trooper through all of this. He is finally starting to feel better today, but is still being needy. We are hoping that he starts feeling better so we can get back to normal life. Or I suppose that this is normal life with kids. 

A little embarassed.

After I posted Max's dancing video he was a little embarrassed when the camera came around.

Droping it likes its hot.

I don't know if there is much I can say about this. Other than Max sure knows how to get down at 16 months. 

For those that were wondering, that is Katy Perry featuring Michael Angelastro Jr. singing.  

I am not sure where Max got his moves.  I know I am can't move like that.

One of the best parts of this video - is showing it to Max. He just points and laughs at himself. And also busts out a few more moves.