Having sick kids is the pits

I just have to say that having sick kids is the worst thing in this world and not just for the kids, but it kills me to have to see my kids not feel good and even makes it worse when they throw up and I have to clean it up, it's especially bad at 3:00 a.m. My kids and husband and I have decided to share a miserable 24 hour flu, it is bad when it gets to the point that you can predict when they are going to throw up and how long the fever is going to last that comes after it, but I guess that comes with having 4 kids. I hate even more that a lot of times when the kids are sick I have to leave them to go to work, but luckily Chris takes good care of them and it has helped some. That has been our unfriendly life for the last two weeks. We were supposed to go to Lagoon yesterday with Chris's family but he and I were both not feeling great still and Justice and Sammie were both running fevers still so we sent the older girls and they had a wonderful time, but I was really looking forward to updating this with some fun pictures, but what do you do? The kids go off track at the end of this week and I am working a lot, which is good considering the current economy and that is what is going on with the Opheikens family! :)

Sammie Starts preschool tomorrow!

It is amazing how fast your kids grow and when you take those moments to realize it, it is really amazing how old you can feel. I am very excited for Sammie to start preschool for her final year, but it makes me realize that next year I will have a 3rd grader, 2nd grader and a kindergartener, luckily Justice is still a couple years off from school, so I can still think of my self as a little bit young. Sammie is an amazing kid and is so smart and funny and she has such a style of her own that I am excited and nervous to see how she does with school this week and with a new group of kids. Whitney and Abbi are doing really well in school and both are reading so well and doing great with their friends and social experiences that school consists of so much. They are both such sweet sensitive girls that they make me laugh that they can fight with each other over everything but are so worried when the other one is feeling bad about something. Justice has learned to sing his ABC's and being the overly proud mother that I am can't get enough of it and he loves to smile and see everyone watch him. I am wishing all the time that I could be the lucky one to stay home and hang out with my cute kids, but if wishes were fishes we would all have a fry... right? I really do enjoy working though too and I am realizing more and more that I am pretty good at what I do, even if I do say so myself, but it is probably good that if I have to work that I at least enjoy what I do. :) Chris was recently reconized in the South Valley Journal, courtesy of his team mom and there is a great article that tells about his softball teams victories this year and has a picture of the team and coaches in it. I am really proud that he has done so well and been getting out in the community and the exercise is a plus as well! :)