Not much going on. I'm not feeling so good. Mom thinks I might have an inner ear infection. I think that in addition to that my anemia is making me soooo tired. I've been receiving my IVIG treatment for CVID for five months. It's helping! I don't think I'll ever be the picture of health, but I haven't been this "not sick" in a very long time. It's a blessing.

However, to say I feel good, is a stretch on most days. Unfortunately, my hemotologist doesn't know much about CVID. By much, I mean he knows less than me as I've spent a little more time reading about it than he has taken the time to do. I know he's busy, and he treats A LOT of cancer patients (who clearly have a lot more going on than I do), but it would be nice if he knew what I was talking about when I ask him a question.

I could go somewhere else, another in network hemo, but they will be located in Baltimore or in Bethesda at the NNMC. I'm sure those facilities have EXCELLENT doctors, but the distance is prohibitive. Adam already has to take an entire afternoon off of work every month for my treatment. If I had to travel that far away it would require that he be home all day with the kids and then I'd have to drive a much farther distance after the treatment when I'm dealing with a benadryl buzz. So, to keep it easy on all of us, I'll stick with my current hemo. I'll just have to be a voracious reader when it comes to my disease.

Well, I'm off to bed, hopefully. :) I'm dealing with a little guy who took a nap at 8:30 so he's not quite tired enough for bed.

In order to move, I guess you have to pack. And I hate packing. Typically, when you're in the Army and it's time to move, the Army sends a big truck and some movers and they come and pack up all your stuff, load it, and move it! Then at your new house, they unload all your things from the truck. That's not happening this time. So now we'll be moving ourselves.

And I hate moving. Adam picked up some boxes from Home Depot the other day, about thirty of them, I think. In theory, I'd like to have all those boxes packed up by this time next weekend. So far, I've packed 2. Yep, two. My once clean bedroom is a hot mess of clothes, shoes, and things everywhere (of course, maintenance had to come fix our closet the other day, so that's one reason). Today, I have a few errands to run, but I must get more things packed upstairs and clean up my room.

I'm getting excited to pick out paint colors, but Adam wants us to wait until we see the new carpet in the house. Which is a wise idea, but I'm getting excited nonetheless. I'd prefer something more dramatic, but Adam's into way more mellow paint colors. Since we're renting, I guess I'll stick with him on this, though the walls in my new kitchen would be so pretty if they were red (the cabinets are white). Anyway, off to eat a little then clean. I'd love to get three new boxes packed up today!!

We're MOVING!!! :) We signed a lease to rent a really cute (well, it will be) single family home in Frederick! We spent a few weeks house hunting (and looked at a lot of places!!) and tried our hand with a rental management company but in the end found a really great homeowner looking to rent out his former house. He agreed to put in all new carpet and is allowing us to do pretty much whatever we want to do with the house (yay for paint!!). He's super excited to rent to us being a military family as he's a war vet himself. I liked him right away and hope this turns into a great landlord/tenant relationship. We'll be there for two years unless Adam gets orders for a new duty station.

The boys are pretty excited! They'll get their own rooms and Adam excited to have his own game room. I'm thrilled to be moving off post because I'm getting tired of dealing with our current management company on post. It's not government run, I'm not sure if any post housing is government run anymore, so it's what they like to call "privatized"....which means that rental company gets to leave us nice little notes every single month complaining about something the tenants are doing that they don't like. I'm getting tired of being griped at every month.

We move in a month and while there's not a ton of stuff I can pack right now, I'm ready to get started. So the boss is picking up boxes tonight!! :) I'll try to update on our moving progress!

Adam's been working in DC since the middle of November. He's been home for all of the holidays and he comes home on the weekends, but it's crazy having him gone so much. It feels surreal when he's actually here. He'll be gone again in March for a school, so that will stink, too.

It really is getting to me tonight. Because the kids are sick. Puking sick. Now, Adam doesn't handle puke. Can't be around it, can't see it, can't hear it, can't smell it....it all makes him puke, too. Or that's his excuse. But he can wrangle the baby while our four year old is heaving into the toilet so Jax isn't standing next to him peering into the potty to see what's going on. He can start laundry to clean the vomit out of blankets. He can fix little cups of sprite with bendy straws. But he's not here. I don't mind doing all of the above. It's the gross stuff that gets to me. So I get all the gross stuff and all the not so gross stuff. But that's what Moms do, so it's ok. I'm just tired. :)

About me. While I haven't been too sick since my treatment started, I've had a few colds here and there. Right now is one of those heres. I'm a coughing maniac and my nose is competing in a marathon with as much as it's running. I can't complain and I won't. I'm just a little under the weather and really tired. Just makes it a little harder to handle everything with Adam gone.

Tomorrow and this weekend seem to be pretty void of anything fun. I'm sure it will remain that way with pukey kids and a tired mommy. We have tonnnns of laundry to do and Christmas decorations to take down so I'm sure that will be on our agenda. We're still trying to decide if moving is a good idea and it's hard because we can't seem to decide on an answer. Hopefully, God will give us a better idea of what to do soon. :)

I always think I'll start the new year by blogging more. Then I'll blog for a minute and then it will be three or six months before I'm back. We'll see how it goes this time. :)

Things are great with us. The boys are getting big, the house seems to be getting smaller. :) We're currently looking for a new house, but rental options here in Frederick are slim. Very slim. We'd have better luck if we looked outside of the city, but then we'd sacrifice time with Adam due to him commuting to Frederick. What's the fun in a nice house if Adam's never home to enjoy it with us? He travels so much for work already that when he's not away, I want him to be here with us as much as possible.

We went to our first homeschool co-op today. It was interesting. Adisson had a good time. Zander and Jaxon, however, didn't like the idea of us being apart. :) So I was with one or both of them the entire time. And there were lots of tears. Here's hoping it goes better next time.

I wanted to blog a little more today, but the natives are restless. :) Be back later!