Avoiding.......

As most of you following my blog have noticed my updates have been few and far between lately and no it is not because we are so busy living island life, the whole truth... I am HOMESICK! There I said it, its out the last 2 weeks have been really rough for this beach bum.

Most people are aware that Katelyn had a pretty bad run with RSV and Pneumonia back in February she was admitted to the hospital on Valentines day and that was  her and my home for the next 6 days. It was a very emotional week for me, we were trying to move out of our house and in with my parents so we could save some rent money before we moved for school, I had a very sick baby and a 4 year old who just didn't understand why all of his toys were being boxed up, why mommy was gone all day and all night, why did he have to go to the scary hospital and see his baby sister hooked up to so much "stuff". Needless to say there were a lot of tears that week! If it wasn't for our family we would have never survived that week!

Katelyn finally got released from the hospital and we were able to go home but we had to be on oxygen, and we were still giving her 3-4 breathing treatments a day as well as 3-4 oral medications, all I kept on saying was "I can't wait too move to a warm place and get away from all this sickness."  Funniest thing though......they have germs here too!!

So this is were my last 2 weeks start......I knew that July was going to be a hard month for me to be away but I was convinced we would stay busy and get through it!  WRONG! 

Kohl started with a runny nose the end of June and I didn't think  much of it because he has some serious allergy issues. It is so hard to tell the difference between allergies and a cold, maybe I am just ignorant when it comes to the symptoms but I seriously thought it was allergies (this is why Jacob is going to be the Dr.) 2 days later Kohl still had a sniffly nose but seemed to be getting better. the next morning Katelyn started with a runny nose which I thought "great Kohl had a cold and now she has it, or maybe just maybe she is cutting some more teeth", I prayed that it was teeth....nope 2 days passed and she was getting progressively worse poor thing could barely breath but I just keep telling myself "it will stay in her head.... it will stay in her head.... there is no way its going to go into her chest "she woke up the next day and the sounds coming out of her made my stomach churn it was an all too familiar weez....I started crying and not just a little I mean really crying, all I could think of was having to take my poor baby to the hospital and watch her lay in a bed miserable all over again!
This is where Jacob saves the day....we started her on her nebulizer that night and prayed that she would be alright, it took several days of breathing treatments and lots of silent prayers but she started to turn around slowly but she was making progress. At this point we have been confined to the house for a week and a half now but Katelyn still isn't well enough to take out, there is just something about this poor baby girl that her immune system is so slow it takes a long time for her to get better after being sick, I chalk it up too being in and out of the hospital for her first 7 months of her life!

The 4th of July creeps up on us really fast, it was a miserable day we found out late the night of the third that our housing for next semester fell through, so now we had no where to go after the 16th of August, I cried more that night I was so frustrated! I told Jacob  I was going to fly home with my parents in September and leave him here alone.

The 4th..... I was not looking forward to this day at all, I wanted to do something fun with the kids but Katelyn still wasn't doing great so that idea was out, I was able to get my life saver Meggie to come over for a bit the day before while I ran into town for more medicine for Kate, and I grabbed a cake mix and food coloring so Kohl and I  could make a 4th of July cake, Have I said how much I love Meggie? LOVE HER!

We woke up on the 4th and chilled for a while, there was a Bar-b-que party that night here at our housing unit but we just didn't know if we dared to take Katelyn or not. Kohl and I made our cake and while it was cooking I got a call from Jacob saying that he had found us an apartment and wanted us to come look at it, so we finished cooking our cake and hopped on the next school bus and headed to campus to meet Jacob. We looked at the apt and we really liked it but it was more expensive and smaller that what we were originally going to move into. I wasn't very happy about it but we forked over the deposit and did what we had to do, we may be eating a lot more ramen next term....sigh....we got home and decided to go to the party because the pitty party I was having of my own about not being home was just not going to cut it!

Party time! We had a really great time! I am so glad that we decided to go! We had hot dogs and hamburgers and salads and of course deviled eggs it was as close as you could get to American when on a Caribbean Island, some of the older students even mustered up some fire works for the 4 kids that were at the party! I was able to meet some of the other students outside of Jacobs class and they are awesome, I was able to talk to some of the other girls and laugh a lot!  It was by no means Granny and Grandpa Memmott's house and it was not the Nephi city park but it was a celebration of our great nation!

I was starting to get over my poor me party for all of about 3 days .....LOL.....Katelyn was still sick and taking her to the 4th of July party was probably not the greatest idea so she stayed home from church with Jacob last Sunday, and has had a pretty good week but is still a little congested.

I knew this week was going to be the hardest for me, I am aware that I sound very pathetic when I tell you all that I cried today about not being home for the Ute Stampede Rodeo! What can I say I love love my little home town! I am missing everything about this week that goes on in Nephi, we are truly an amazing town! I actually really missed selling tickets this year the most (yes Aunt Traci I am being sincere when I say that) LOL!

We are however not going to miss out on everything! Thanks to Jacobs amazing sister Allynne we will be with you all via Face Time Friday and Saturday night! Yes we are going to watch the bull riding via Face Time! So if you all see Allynne holding up her I Pad over in good ol section C just give us all a wave!

I don't want this whole blog post to be depressing but I just needed to vent I guess! To all of you that made it all the way to the end of this pathetic excuse of a blog post... Thank you for listerning!

I want to add that as homesick as I am for my close nit community and all of our family time that goes on during this month I would not trade my time in St. Vincent for anything (except maybe a carnival corn dog j/k) we are truly blessed to be here right now, I am learning that I can do anything I put my mind too and it is okay to be homesick. Elder Bird told me something on Sunday when we were discussing how homesick I was, he said  "Sister Bailey, it doesn't get any easier when your 63"
and as simple as that may sound its true, we will always miss our hometown and all of our memories, but home for me is wherever Jacob is and right now this is where we are and we are growing so much! I truly Love Jacob more than he will ever know, he has no idea how amazing he is and although he is not around much he is truly our glue in this family.

Until next time.....