My cute Karl snores like a bear. He has done it as long as I've known him and it has progressively gotten worse and louder. We have had people sleeping downstairs be able to hear him. Yikes! He did an at home sleep study and he failed it. He quits breathing for a total of an hour a night and had some crazy high number of how many of his breathes were snores. The doctor wanted him to have an over-night sleep study done but when we went to schedule it we found out it would cost $2500 out of our pocket. We were able to find a place that would do it for less but we had not yet scheduled it. On one of the many nights I would lay awake watching TV hoping for his snoring to go away so I could sleep I saw a commercial for puresleep. I showed it to Karl and he ordered one.

It came in the mail yesterday and I was so excited. Finally a night with no snoring. What would it be like? Would it really work? I couldn't wait!

We snuggle down in our warm flannel sheets and drift off to sleep. Snore free. For real! It worked. I was so happy as I was falling asleep I couldn't believe it....but wait. I hear something. It's not snoring. It's Karter throwing up all over his bed. Awesome! The first night I am actually going to sleep without having to kick my husband and my kid has to get sick.

Needless to say none of us slept much. Karter continued to throw up all night. Missing the garbage can that I was holding in front of him everytime. (Can you imagine the laundry I have today.) But at the times that I knew Karl was asleep he didn't make a sound. Super Fab! Hooray for puresleep.


PS - I guess the links don't work. And I really don't have the ambition to fix it. So...there you have it.

An over abundance of blessings....

This blog is amazing. http://www.kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com/
It is so profound and touching. We have all heard about the people suffering in Africa and seen all the commercials asking for donations to help feed them....but this...this is shocking to me. To read a young womens account of her everyday life in Africa and all the struggles these people have is crazy. The blessings we have from living in this country are beyond belief. My children would never go hungry no matter how poor we were, we would not go without medical care, or the basic necessities of life. After reading this I want to do more, be a more giving person, sacrifice some of my "luxuries". I obviously don't have the option to jump on a plane to Africa but I know there is things I could do here.

When Karl and I lived in Montana seven years ago I worked at a home for children who had been removed from their homes for one reason or another. I wish so badly that I could go back in time and be more loving to those kids. Their lives were so sad. Many had no hopes of ever being adopted due to their ages and "issues", their parents had abandoned them or put them in horrible situations, most hadn't seen or heard from them in years. They didn't have a happy home to go to after school. They all had their own personal problems because of the things they had been exposed to and so because of that the home was run very strictly. They came home to counseling sessions, written schedules, if they acted out the were dropped a "level". They had no childhood. They existed and were trying to find their place in a world of people that had forgotten them.

Now that I have my own kids I look back and wonder how those kids parents could just walk away from their kids or worse do the things to them that had been done. How sad that they had to grow up in a state run home, no grandparents, no cousins, nobody. And when you turn eighteen you go out into the world and have no place to go back "home" too.

I wish I could see them now. Or maybe not. I can remember each of their names and faces like I just saw them yesterday. It makes me sad....

Any-who...I guess I am in an emotional/reminiscing mood. I'm going to squeeze my kiddos and find some ways to do more in my own community.

This is super cute and would be great if you have little hands around during the holidays. I am totally getting one!

2009 Little People Nativity $21 shipped! Hot holiday item!

I have started talking with Karter about "strangers". I gave him the normal example of "if someone offers you a piece of candy....". He listened, sort of processed it and went about playing.

So today the propane man comes to fill our tank and Karter ran and opened the door for him. I told Karter that he isn't allowed to open the door for anybody. I asked if he remembered what we had told him about strangers. He said, "Hey little boy. Come here I have a candy for you." (this is especially funny if you know how Karter talks) I said "Good job. Now what do you do?" He says, "Please."

Ummm....no.

Random Pics

Karter and Hudson have discovered playdoh. Karter likes to play with it...Hudson likes to eat it. Yum!
I'm not sure why Karter thinks he always needs to do a silly face.

And there are the goggles yet again.

Cute pudgy legs.

Karl said this picture looks like him when he was little. I thought it was so darn cute. Hud is so darn cute.

Karter loves to "wash" the dishes. Dishes that are already clean but what little kid can resist playing in water. By the time he's done he has pretty much washed the entire kitchen. Tonight while washing he came up with a fabulous idea to dunk his head in a bowl full of water after a few tries he decided he needed his motorcycle goggles. They are his new obsession. He wears them to the store, resturaunts, while he does his "homework school" just about anywhere. We took this video so he could show Grandpa what he was doing. So....here you go Grandpa. Enjoy!

PS - Hudson is sucking on a dish rag but it was a new clean one. No worries there.