Well, summer is coming to a close and we are starting to look ahead to the busy holiday season at work. The more I think about it, the harder time I am having with have to leave my boys more during such an important time of year. I am currently working Thursday and Friday and for five weeks I will have to be working Monday and Tuesday evening, three of those weeks I will have to work Saturday and one of those weeks I will have to add Wednesday night as well. I understand the extra need but it is so much harder for me with my young kids. Please pray for my family as we will have to adjust to this busy schedule!!!

Mason's first breathing treatment

Well last week Thursday, I had a bit of a scary time. Mason was having difficulty breathing and the nurse told me to take him in to the ER. I was super stressed because Mason started crying, then Austin started crying and I couldn't get a hold of Doug. Go Figure. Anyway, it turns out that when we got there his oxygen levels were down to 87. They put him on 3ml of oxygen but that only bumped him up to 92. He got his first breathing treatment in the ER and that seemed to help. After about 2 hours they tried to take him of the oxygen and he dropped back down again so they ended up admitting him. At this point I am worried about him and trying to figure out what we are going to do about the vacation/family reunion we were supposed to be leaving for at 4am the next morning. My parents gladly took Austin overnight and from there it was a waiting game. I stay the night with Mason but by about 3:30 I had still not slept between nurses coming in to check on him or to give him treatments and from the fact that he kept itching his nose and pulling out his oxygen. So I called Doug at 3:50 am (sorry honey!!) and told him that I needed him to come and stay with him for a while because I needed to sleep and was not feeling well. (yep by the time Doug had gotten there, I had thrown up) So I went home and slept for 3 hours and was back to the hospital by 9. They took him off oxygen at 10:30 and he was doing extremely well. Finally by 3 in the afternoon, they let us go. We headed straight for Wisconsin with an oral steroid and breathing treatments. What a trooper Mason was. He did SOOOO well all weekend. Praise God for taking care of us and our children!!

He Finally made it in to a room

He was very limited to where he could go with

oxygen on.

He loved the swing with Aunt Kelly!!!