SICK

Well, there's this thing going around Korea. It sucks big time!! Brodie started out with it. Bill and I had it last night. I'm feeling much better, but Bill's still in bed. Jenna started up tonight. Not sure if she just ate too much at her friends house or has the illness. Creed hasn't gotten it YET. It sucks. Tonight I had to take Brodie in to our Urgent Care Clinic (like an ER, but probably sucks worse). His fever was up to 104.5. To me that is WAY high. They gave him some Tylenol and it brought it down. His body is fighting something. He was supposed to be going sledding tomorrow with his school, but he'll have to miss out on that. He does not have strep, but is very congested. Please say some good prayers that our family starts to mend rather quickly. I HATE being sick, but I hate it worse when my kids are sick.

Brodie's School Program

Friday night brought our family to Brodie's school program. From what I hear, they do this program every year. I'm not sure if it's a graduation type program or just a dancing and singing program. All the kids did was dance and sing, but with Korea you just never know!!! Now in the good ole US of A, the programs there last around 2 hours....tops! We were thinking much of the same thing. It started at 6 and didn't end until 9. Of course we left post around 5, so lets just say there were two of our three children not having the best time by 8:15. We walked in door around 9:40. We were all spent. We did get some great photos of Brodie who was in three different dances. A lot of the costumes were kind of girly looking, for even the boys, with lots of hearts on them. From what I'm gathering, the Koreans really like hearts. Here are a few pictures.

Brodie's class board with pictures of all the kids.

Brodie's picture.

Brodie's treat box from his teacher. They were these cute little mice!! I didn't want him to open it up to get the candy inside of it!

The stage.

Bill with Creed.Creed.Jenna.The emcee for the show. Of course all of the show was in Korea and we didn't really understand exactly what they were saying.Brodie's first dance. Dressed as boxers.

Brodie's second dance.Brodie's third dance.
You wouldn't see many Americans walking around with this bag!!

I know that you've all missed me!

I've been around, just not posting. My parents...Mimi and Poppa Owl came to visit for 25 days. They got here December 16 and left January 9. We all had a good visit and we didn't want them to leave at all. My Mom and I went to the "Happy Quilt". We thought this would be much like the fabric market that we went to in Daegu. This was NOTHING like it. It was a steel warehouse with tons and tons of fabric all around. It was not heated. Needless to say....IT WAS VERY COLD THE DAY WE WENT!!! With my toe still healing, I was still wearing summer sandals. My Mom was so cold that she couldn't even concentrate on what fabric she'd like to buy. After that we had a wonderful lunch at Chili's and then did some shopping in Osan.

Bill took my Dad to the DMZ. I think they both REALLY enjoyed the trip. Bill must have had someone looking out for them though. You take the DMZ tour through the USO. The tour from Camp Humphreys wasn't until after my parents left. So, they took their tour through the Yongsan USO. The USO up in Seoul is at Camp Kim. This is located not far from Yongsan. However, Bill couldn't find it in the dark. You leave on these tours very early in the morning. It was a very good thing that he couldn't find it. Since he couldn't find it, he parked on Yongsan and took a taxi there. While they were sitting on the bus, they heard a loud POP, looked out the window, waited for the dust to settle and saw.....a Seoul bus had gone through the wall. It totalled 3 cars and damaged 5. Where the totalled car was, that was where Bill would have parked, due to our large vehicle. Yea for not getting our car totalled!! While they were up at the DMZ, there were some North Korean soldiers right by the line taking pictures. Since we got our new lens for our camera, Bill got some great pictures.

We went bowling with the kids and did some other things. My parents were here when we had our ball in Daegu. So, Bill and I got a overnight date night. We had a good time and saw a lot of our friends from that area. While we were there, we were talking about how we did miss our little "Mayberry".

Once school started again, we've been very, very busy. Jenna's in Brownies and they've started to sell Girl Scout cookies. She's also in ballet once again, take a fitness fun club on Wednesdays and possibly do keyboarding (this is like piano lessons, but on the keyboard) on Thursdays. Brodie has started Tae Kwon Do and that is 5 days a week. Creed has been to the CDC more and hopefully I can get him potty trained soon!! Wish me lots of luck, as Brodie potty trained himself.

Here are some pictures that were taken at Christmas and other events! I'll try to do a better job at posting. Between trying to keep my house clean (I've actually been doing that!), keep up with the laundry (been doing that as well) and being a taxi driver to my kids for all of their events....not to even mention that Bill and I are addicted to playing "Toontown" I've not done a great job at posting. As for those of you who have no clue what Toontown is...it's a computer game from Disney. Brodie found it and the kids basically taught me how to play it. Bill said that there was NO WAY he would play that and now every night after the kids go to bed, we spend it at the computer defeating cogs with our gags. I hope all of you are well and are having a blessed New Year!

Jenna, Brodie and Creed with Santa.

The fish Uncle Randy got the kids. Barney the Beta, Fuzzy Muffin and Cammy.The kids opening gifts.
The DMZ tour. I have more pictures, but for whatever reason, I can't upload them at the present moment. I'll post them later.