April Showers

April Showers bring May flowers….. right? I sure hope so. April has been a difficult month. To make a long story short: the day after Katie’s party I started feeling sick. By the end of the week I was pretty miserable and went to the doctor Easter morning. We thought it was strep and I started taking antibiotics. Later in the week I started feeling worse so I went back to the doctor and had some more tests done and it was discovered that I got mono. So I stopped the antibiotics and I had to have bed rest for 4 days without watching any kids. I have slowly been recovering and I am feeling a lot better. I am still quite fatigued and have to get naps in whenever I can. I also discovered about 8 canker sores in my mouth just over a week ago (just when I was starting to feel better from the mono symptoms). Thank goodness those are starting to go away now. I can’t wait till I can eat without pain. It takes the bad to appreciate the good. I am so thankful that I am pretty healthy most of the time. I want to thank everyone who helped with watching kids, bringing food and for everyone that called or emailed to see how I was doing. I appreciate and love you all.

To top off April: our oven burned out. But hey – it went out in style and we got a light show. Last night we were cooking a pizza and we noticed the coils in the oven were sparking. So we figured we better clean the oven out next weekend. It sparked the whole time we were cooking the pizza and was sparking in different places and kept moving along the coils, which was making us pretty nervous. When the pizza was done we turned the oven off and it was still sparking and the coils were still red and it was starting to burn the coils right up. Chris poured baking soda on it but it didn’t help. Then he unplugged the oven and it finally went out. Check out the pics:

Katie was so distraught that the oven was broken - she started to cry. We told her not to worry we'd get a new one. We'll be going oven shopping tomorrow.