You didn't

It's been about 4 months since my last post. You missed me, right?!?

We have been busy with baseball and moving and just a ton of things. Here's what you've missed:

We moved to my parents basement.
We broke ground on our new home.
Noah turned 11.
We have gone camping 2 times.
Baseball started for the Vipers (Noah's baseball team).
I volunteered to be the team parent for Noah's 6th grade football team.
Vipers won 2nd place for the season.
We (me and the kids) have spent lots of time at the pool this summer.

Now on to the upcoming events! The biggest news and only those of you who live under a rock wouldn't know this, but we CLOSE ON OUR HOUSE TOMORROW!!!! It is finally ready and so are we!

Yesterday I took all my kids to my Aunt Tammy's. This is so we can get unpacked and a bit settled and not have to worry about entertaining 2 kids while doing so!

I am going to change this blog up a bit. I am going to TRY to be a bit more light hearted and I am going to share my journey in unpacking and getting my NEW home organized. This is going to be a fun task and can't wait to get going.

If any of you have any advice on unpacking and getting organized as I go, I will take it!

If you thought you got rid of me, you didn't!

CRAZYNESS....

Well many of you know by now we have sold our house and are building a new one. We have to be out of ours in just two weeks. I have not blogged lately due to the fact, I'm just so busy. Once we get moved to my parents, I will get back to blogging more often. Until then, bare with me!

I also am adding a new page, it is the "New House" page. This way you can keep up on the building progress of our new house. This is a very exciting adventure for The Pingel Five and I want to share it all with you!!!

Grateful....

Yesterday it was pointed out to me by a dear friend that I seem to be ungrateful at times. I want to apologize to everyone for that. The fact is that I am VERY grateful for what I have. I don't think I can be grateful enough. I thank God everyday, all day for The Pingel Five.

You see the fact is that I could be a mom of two right now, but God chose to give me another chance and allowed me to stay a mom of three.

I light of this I am going to start something new. At the end of each post, I am going to list one thing about my family that I am thankful for. To help keep me in check and to remind me that I am grateful.

Today I am grateful for all the, "I love you, mom" ('s) (from Noah) and all the, "I wuv you" ('s) (from Josie), I get, just when I need them!

That sentence is probably a grammatical nightmare... but you get the picture! ;)

Me and Me alone

I am sorry for not blogging much lately. Things have been crazy around our house. I have a lot to blog about and can't at this time. I hope to be able to soon.

I have not made much progress on my weight loss. My nails on the other hand are growing like weeds. LOL Why can't weight loss be as easy as it was to stop biting my nails. Oh well, I am back to trying at least. I have got to become more healthy. I just have to!

I think sometimes I am just too hard on my self and need to lighten up. I just need to lighten up in general, about everything in my life. I need to let go.

I have been trying to organize my life a bit. Trying to come up with chores for Noah. Trying to potty train Josie. Trying to floss more. Trying to set a meal plan in place, so when things get crazy when baseball starts, my kids aren't eating dinner at 8:30-9pm.

I have been trying so hard to make everyone else happy that I have forgotten that I need to make myself happy. I think if I make myself happy, that along the way it will make everyone else happy too. I need to do all of this for ME and ME alone!!

Over Joyed!!!

The past few week have been a roller coaster of emotions. Trying to figure out God's perfect plan for our family. We have our house on the market. We have our cats we have to get rid of... Just so many things going on. Some of which I can not go into at this time.

We have been trying to figure out the best way to get rid of our debt. Should I go back to work full time, should I continue to stay home? Should we stay planted here (where we hate and want to get away from and have for several years) or should we up root and start over...

We think we have figured out a way to make things work. It seems that everything on this path is falling into place. We have found the reset button for our lives and are getting ready to press it. A fresh start for The Pingel Five.

I have to admit we are taking a leap of faith, trusting GOD will see us through. Trusting he is opening the doors for us to walk through. He has blessed my family greatly and continues to do so. He is making all our hopes and dreams as a family come true.

Dan and I often sit and talk about our vision for The Pingel Five and are so excited to see them finally begin to unfold. This has been a long time coming and we will continue to walk through the doors as God opens them.

Thank you GOD for all your blessings to my family. We trust you have GREAT things in store for us here in 2011, and are over joyed to see your hand at work in the house hold of The Pingel Five!!!

Maybe it's time to unpack!

Last night I sat down and counted up all of my families hospital stays. I went back to March of 2008. That is when I got pregnant with Josie. Do you know who has spent the most time at the hospital? If you guessed me, you were right. I have spent 47 days/nights the last two years in the hospital. That total is time I have been in for myself and time I spent staying with the kids or Dan. Do you know who has not spent a single night in the hospital? If you guessed Noah, you were right!

I have an emergency bag that I keep packed. It is a bag with all my "must haves". Tooth brush, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, that kind of stuff. I packed it after my first trip to the hospital while I was pregnant with Josie. It is kept in our closet so any time any one ends up in the hospital Dan knows right where it is, so he can bring it to me. It's been a life saver for him, so he hasn't had to search out every item.

2010 by far was the worst year for The Pingel Five. We had 6 hospital stays. Many people have said things like, "I thought this year was supposed to be better for you guys". Let me just say it already has been a great year. Here is why:

Dan's car broke, it only cost us $75 to fix it.
Our furnace broke, it only cost $50 to fix.
Our HUGE family TV broke, it only cost $50 to fix.

Each of those items could have cost us thousands to fix, but they didn't. I am trying to see the good and all the blessings after such a rough year.

As far as my emergency bag, maybe it's time to unpack!!

Reason to over react!

Today is Friday February 4, 2011. I am sitting at St. Johns Mercy Hospital with my Maxx. He was admitted last night after our second trip to the ER in 24 hours. He has asthma. Now I say that loosely because at this young of an age they will not / can not "officially" diagnose him with asthma. They say it is on the assumption because of the family history. My mother has it. His great grandma Garst died from an asthma attack and I have it.

I have to admit I am feeling a bit guilty. In the past when he was making "wheezing" sounds I would take him into the doctor and they say his lungs were clear. So this time I kept thinking he was OK. The doctors office was closed on Wednesday, so I kept thinking I'm sure I'm just over reacting, like always. After a phone call from uncle Dr. Chris and him hearing Maxx breathing while talking to me, he suggested that he be seen at the ER.

We went to the ER and sure enough he was wheezing. He was extremely tight and not moving air very well at all. They gave him a treatment that lasted an hour. He responded well to that, so they gave us a steroid script and some instructions on home treatments and sent us on our way.
I had him sleep with me Wednesday night, more so I could hold him and make sure he was breathing OK.

Thursday morning he seemed OK. We went about our routine. As the day went on he seemed to get worse and worse again. Then my grandma called. She could hear him, so she passed me to my mom. She could hear him, so she passed me to my uncle (who is a firemedic). He could hear him and suggested going back to the ER. I called the doctor's exchange and the nurse I talked with could also hear him and also suggested the ER again.

Thursday evening we when we got to the ER, we signed in and were told to take a seat. They then took us to the peds area and waited another 10 mins. They called us back to the triage nurse and she took one look and listened and they rushed us back to a room. The doctor came in and listened and right off the bat said we would be staying.

Now here we are on Friday. Just got word we probably won't be going home until tomorrow.

Wouldn't you know, the one time (OK 2 times) I think I am just over reacting that he really is sick. I am so glad that I took the advice of other along with my mothers intuition and went ahead and went. Had I not, he probably would have gotten to the point of no return.

I am going to stop worrying about over reacting. Because like this time, maybe there is a reason to over react!!!