I feel like I have fallen...

...off the edge of the world.

But that is what happens when you go on a very LONG trip.
And during that trip, Kate gets sick but you don't know she's sick because the entire day she is fine and then the next second she can't breathe and her lips are turning blue- but then she's fine again.
My diagnosis- she swallowed money- choked for awhile and then swallowed it.
Makes sense right?
Until it happens 3 more times in the middle of the night- so we head to the ER.
They say she has croop-
I say you are wrong.
They do an x-ray and say it's croop AND bronchiolitis (which isn't a made up word like I initially thought- but is inflammation of the bronchial tubes).
So after 3 trips to a pharmacy and 3 trips to the hospital- she starts to get better- so we head to VEGAS- warm weather should cure ALL right?
Wrong- she get sick again and then sicker and then 7 trips to the pharmacy later- we are heading home to see OUR very own doctor WILSON- (who has 6 or 8 of his very own kids so he knows what he's talking about) and he looks at ALL the medicines and breathing devices I pull out of the bag- patiently listens to my story and then says let's do one more x-ray.
His diagnosis- Pneumonia.
I was so relieved... because that made much more sense to me than the diagnosis the ER doctor made up to appease me.
So 3 more visits to the pharmacy later and...

KATE IS BETTER!

And I was soooo tiiiirrrreeeedddd!
So I fell off the face of the earth- that's what you do when you are that tired.
Brock brought home dinner or made pancakes or nachos or sandwiches with avocado for dinner.
I've read books and watched tv and made sure the girls don't kill each other (which sometimes means two tv's with two cartoons- one girl upstairs and one girl downstairs and me in the middle to keep them apart).
So anyway that is where I have been literally-long vacation... mentally- off the edge of the earth.

But I'm back now.

And I planted seeds last night for a garden.

And Brock's putting the girls playhouse together today.

And the girls are playing dress up together... lovingly- for the moment.

And it's good to be back.