What a week

After the year that we've had, I'm not sure why I'm not surprised that we can't seem to have a week without some small or large disaster. This week was no exception.

It started off innocently enough. I worked last weekend and it was ok. It wasn't too busy during the day so I made it home to put the kids to bed, but got several calls through the evening and had to go back in overnight and didn't get back until 5am. Ok, not a great start to the week. Halloween was a blast, but then Dad had another seizure on Monday night and I spent all of Tuesday worried about him and what is coming.  Then Gramma Beth came down on Tuesday so I could work on Wednesday.

As I was driving into work on Wednesday, the car began to overheat... ugh. We'd had this issue a few times with the Subaru over the last few weeks, but thought it was solved. I manage to get into work where I find a service of 19 babies and 2 brand new inpatients who need lots of attention. Crap... double crap. Matt and Gramma manage to get the car to a mechanic and I worked and worked and worked and finally made it home at 10pm and spent the next few hours charting and billing. Luckily I didn't need to go back in, but did get a call about an admit at 5:30am which kind of ruined my sleep. I was enjoying a delightful post-work nap when I get a call from the mechanic telling me that the head gasket on the Subaru was blown and it would be a minimum of $2500 to fix it.

We actually decided not to fix it and to just call it good with the Subaru and replace it. So we spent the next few days researching (me) and driving new cars and negotiating (Matt) with the dealers and yesterday we bought a new Civic! While I think that there are some people out there that enjoy getting a new car, it was a highly unpleasant experience. We also drove the new car home and now are afraid to drive it again. I really am happy to have a new reliable car, but hate to spend that much money.

Now I'm naively thinking that this will be the week when nothing big or small breaks... cross your fingers for me.

On the brighter side: Erin had a great week being back at school and there is a new little girl in her younger kids class. We also signed her up for a Spanish class on Mondays and I'm really excited about it. We found a woman, Natalia, who will come and help out with the kids sometimes so I can get things done and have some time for myself- crazy concept. Nora cut her first tooth this week. Matt's been telling me that she was teething for awhile, but I didn't really believe him, but it is certainly there now. It's still too small to see, but she loves to try it out on anything she can get a hold of. She is also officially a sitter and we gave her rice cereal this week as well. She thought it was good stuff. She is also rolling to travel across the room now. It's certainly not as scary as it will be when she's crawling, but it's crazy that she's actually mobile now.

We're also planning to move the girls in together this weekend.  It's so cold upstairs that we are trying to lessen the number of space heaters we need to keep everyone warm. I think we'll have them nap in separate rooms and then sleep in the room together at night. Nora is still up 2-3 times at night, but I'm hoping Erin will sleep through most of it. Wish us luck.