Isaiah 7.17 : Updates, etc.

More snow fun! Well we're on lockdown because of the snow. It may not look like much to our friends in the North, but just think about this. There are 8 salt trucks in the state of Georgia. Eight! None of them have a plow. Therefore we're not driving! Now I know the state has brought in some outside help, but still, we've been having a bit of freezing rain this morning and there's a good 1/8" to 1/4" crust of ice on top of the snow as you'll see in the video. He handled the snow a little better than in Wisconsin, but because of the ice we're not sledding or doing a snowman. Instead I brushed off the top of the sandbox, took off the lid, and let Isaiah help give our driveway some traction!

Just had to share. All of this had fallen in the course of an hour here at the time of filming. Isaiah's been running around the house screaming. It may not look like much right now, but this is already a ton for Atlanta and we may be in for as much as 8"! oh an because I can, I hadn't taken the Christmas lights down yet and had to light them up since the bushes look so nice covered up in the snow. I hope all my southern friends are staying safe and warm at home... Enjoy!

A week in and the new year seems to be going about the same as last year. Not the best year ever of our lives, but nothing much to complain about either. Isaiah is still trying to get over his wheezing asthma that flared up about a week before Christmas, but we definitely hear less junk in his lungs now. The other day he actually helped us percussor his own chest. The percussor, if you don't know, is a little flexible plastic cup that we lightly beat on his chest and back to help loosen up the junk in his lungs and make coughs more productive. It was just cute to see himself trying to do that to himself. He's really been getting better about taking his meds lately and putting up less of a fight. His breathing treatments were a struggle when we had to start increasing them, but Grandpa Kolis' gift of Bearry White, Jr (a white stuffed bear) helped us since we had Isaiah help give Bearry White his breathing meds too. New years day we had breakfast with Rachel's G...

Well its soon to be a new year and while we've been busy as a family we've been thankful that its been relatively uneventful compared to the last two years. There have been the normal ups and downs that everyone experiences, but all in all its been a pretty decent year. I've wished I would've posted more and always said I would, but never seemed to find the time. I've also realized there's been no major picture update in over 6 months and part of my New Years resolutions this year is to get back to updating the blog more. Right now I'm sitting in a Courtyard Marriott in Lima, OH after we surprised Rachel's Grandparents with a visit on our way back from visiting my family for Christmas. Its been a nice trip, but after a quick stop off in Cincinnati tomorrow to see some more of my family we'll be happy to be sleeping in our own beds again. Anyways until I get to keeping my resolution you can always catch updates from Rachel and me on faceboo...

Sorry about the lack of posts until this morning about this, but I don't like writing about our travels on our blog until we're close to being home again so we're not advertising to the world wide web our home is empty and waiting to be robbed. Am I paranoid? Probably, but I feel better anyways. Anyways, if you didn't know, we're on the return leg of a whirlwind trip to Dallas, TX for Isaiah's annual check up with Dr. Fearon, the guy that gave him his fingers, toes, and his latest cranial vault. We did all we could in Atlanta first (sleep study, MRI) and really only had a half hr appointment with the good doctor for him to look everything over and physically see Isaiah and feel his head, but the news we got in that half hour was great! Isaiah's MRI looked good for lack of Intra Cranial Pressure (ICP) and his sleep study which is looking for sleep apnea, while slightly elevated for a normal child, was not too bad for a kiddo with Apert. We need another ...

Furnacegate 2010 has been resolved, sort of. We ended up replacing just the furnace / air handler for now, which was the part of the system that could have killed us with its lovely spewing CO2. We'll deal with the AC later, and apparently it looks more repairable than originally thought. Still furnaces aren't cheap and ended up being around $3500. Luckily they had a financing deal available so we have a little more time to pay it off than trying to scramble for $3500 we don't have. It was actually installed last week, and man the difference between the old and new is amazing! I guess furnace technology has changed a bunch in 18 years!

Well, things had been going good. Too good you might say. One of my favorite songs is the title of this post, and pretty much the reason for the lack of posts lately. I don't know why, but it feels weird to write "everything is hunky-dory." Don't get me wrong, we're not living in the lap of luxury and Isaiah has not been miraculously cured of all his ailments and developmental delays. Isaiah's progression and development has been coming along slowly but surely, but we've been living paycheck to paycheck for quite sometime now, and really more money has been going out than coming in, but there really hasn't been that huge of a dilemma or hardship to write about, until now that is. You see today we had the winter tune up for our furnace and lo and behold there's a one inch crack in the burner area of the furnace that when on, leaks some lovely CO2 into the house. Put that on top of a blower whose ball bearings are all but shot, a rusting fl...