Holy Cow what a month.

So the twins are one year old today.  I don't have a present for them, I don't really have the desire to do much more than give them a kiss on the cheek and wish them a happy birthday.

There are no people coming over so I could get away with that if I really wanted to.  But I won't. We will have cake and presents and fun.

This past week and a half has been enough to turn my entire head of hair white. It isn't, yet.  But I'm just waiting for it.

Milton has been in the ER 3 times this past week and a half  and got to stay overnight once. I won't go into all of the tests he's been given, but lets just say I don't want to think about the bills that are coming our way.

The final diagnosis is complex migraines.  Migraines that start with numbness in your foot and end with not being able to speak, lump in the throat, wanting to puke because of that lump and many many more symptoms.

He has had so many medicines prescribed that I had to take a sharpy at one point and write what each one was for so that I wouldn't give him the wrong one if I was in a hurry.

I hope that we are now at the tail end of this. Its hard to say where we are for sure since I can't see into the future. But we are 4 days with no migraines so yay!

Occasionally he has had numbness in his foot which used to signal the beginning of a migraine, but so far has just been that. numbness in his foot that goes away and no pain afterwards.  Its weird, but I'm hoping it doesn't mean anything other than the meds are doing their work.


He gets to see his neurologist again in 2 weeks.  I have many more questions for him now that life seems to have returned to normal.

The boys are cute, crawling everywhere, charming everyone.  Ned is potty training and his biggest obstacle is us.  And poop. But he would be more successful if we paid more attention to it. But he along with many other things have been suffering be cause of all the medical issues Daddy has been having.

The girls are enjoying homeschooling. I am trying to figure out how to get them more independent.  I've been spending a lot of time with them everyday as their teacher. I know there are ways to get them to be more independent, but I haven't had time to get organized enough for that. 

Working on it.  But at least their math isn't suffering.  That is the one class we've had everyday of the first week of school.  Just another thing suffering due to Daddy being sick. But we'll get there.  Daddy is feeling better and I am getting into the swing of things.  Funny thing was learning about prime factorization trees this morning with Cecilee and trying to remember how to multiply big numbers like 27 x 49 without a calculator. I know how to do it, but hadn't practiced for a while.  So I had to review to make sure I was teaching her correctly.  I hope to have time this week to prepare more for our lessons beforehand.  I am a bad home school teacher. but I'll get there.