back down the up side

asher has a bad cold, and he's teething, and i am almost convinced his ear infection is back... altogether, we're all a big snotty, sleepless, cranky mess!  i'm glad timm is home today and tomorrow and he's healthy enough to keep us in better spirits!  (iris and myself are also coughing and drippy-nosed, but we can take medicine and blow our noses and all that good stuff, so we're a lot better off than poor little asher!)

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another word i want to remember in iris' dictionary:
"alligator" = elevator or escalator.  depends on which one she can see and which one she wants to ride, context is everything (she rode the up escalator by herself at forest fair mall the other day and couldn't figure out how to get back down, despite the fact that the down escalator was literally right next to her!  poor little girl had such a blonde moment!  i had to run up and "rescue" her when she tried to go back down the up side.  sometimes i forget just how young she is until she does that kind of stuff!).

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i'm hoping the snow is almost over... either that, or when the snow comes this next time, we are healthy enough to play outside a bit! we still have a good 4 or 5" on the ground, and we're supposed to get anywhere from another 2" up to another 8".  it has been really sunny and nice the last few days, and the snow has looked so untouched and inviting in our backyard, even i want to go out and play in it!!

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last night i had a dream that timm and i were with a realtor looking at houses.  we found one that we wanted to buy for $110,000 and we were going to offer them $90,000.  wouldn't it be nice if that were actually an option?!  ironically it was bruce maxwell's (our financial counselor) house we were going to buy.  i've never been to his house, but i'm sure it doesn't look like this in real life.  and he wouldn't sell to us anyway because he knows just how much money we DON'T have!

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last night i gave asher some Hyland's teething tablets.  they are all natural, and i have a friend who swears by them, but i don't really know what they do.  so i googled them, and saw a post by some lady who's child had a grand mal seizure from belladonna overdose from the recommended dosage.  now i'm all paranoid.  they recommend 2 or 3 tablets every 4 hours... asher got 1 tablet once and i'm freaking out that he's been napping too long and i need to wake him up... but many more people are completely satisfied and singing the wonders of these things... who knows.

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i liked today's sermon (once he finally got to the sermon part).  i wish i cared less what other people thought.  but it's reassuring that i have people in my life who like me "as is".  and that i have a God who loves me even more than that.