8 hours uninterrupted sleep . . .

and I feel like my old self instead of this needy, angry person that I've been for the last year and a half. We took Devin to a new pediatrician a couple weeks ago, which is great and we love him sooooo much better then our last for many, many reasons, and found out he (Devin) has started growing again. He looks skinny still, well, he is skinny, but his length is back where it used to be and head circumference is also, and he's eating (when he's not sick, which is a lot), and he's not having diarrhea. Anyway, because he's growing again, we decided to cut the nighttime feedings so that I can be a normal person again. So we only had one night of crying and he started sleeping through the night. Even while being sick and eating less. It is soooooo amazing!! My kids now seem funny instead of hellions, my house is so much easier to clean, I don't mind that Mike's working 16 hour days right now, I am actually getting down enough on my to do list that I'm getting laundry done, and I have free time to blog right now. Only wish I had pictures. But that will be for another time. For now, this is great.

Out of the fire and into the furnace

So while you may think this is referring to the weather state of AZ, not so my friends. This is my life. :) It seems we have been in the state of putting out fires. Crisis after crisis. Or at least it has felt that way to my sleep deprived brain. Our latest and greatest was we had a hard freeze here. We knew it was coming and being from Michigan (well for the last 6 years) we figured not a big deal, we know how to handle this. Well, we're not used to uninsulated pipes, so they froze. But we had a wonderful neighbor we brought out a space heater and made a cocoon out of a quilt to localize the heat and soon we had water again. However, the gas company couldn't handle everyone running their heaters to compensate for the 18 degree weather, so they turned a bunch of people's gas off. No warning, no explanation, just bye bye heat, have fun dealing with subfreezing temps and no gas. Well, Ivan (Michelle's fiance) saved the day. His family has an extra house that they are not using, so they let us come and stay at their house. Yay for warmth!! And I didn't feel guilty about ordering chinese, or pizza, yes! And another really great neighbor of our's called and said the gas company here is turning back on the gas and pilot lights, (b/c apparently they are the only people competent enough to turn on a pilot light, heaven forbid civilians take their hand at it) tell us the code to your garage and we'll go in and wait for them and get your gas turned on. Thank you!! We're all grateful for heat, and for warm weather, and for running water, and for my own house with my own stuff and clean floors! And I've realized that I do not miss the cold. Good lesson to learn since we're here for a while.