I was going to update and write a post this week. I started it, but never got to finish it yet. My family took ill and caught the tummy flu bug this week. Jordan had it first on Friday night all the way to Saturday. We decided to stay home from church to rest and not spread the bug to other people. And then, Sunday night all the way to Monday, Aubrey had the bug. Unlike the others, she also got a little fever. We didn't get any sleep all those nights. Then Monday night, Jeb caught the bug. He was so miserable that night that he had to miss work the next day. Both kids are doing well now. Thankfully, it is just a 24-hour bug and goes away quickly. They just needed a lot of rest, cuddles and story time and sips of Pedialyte, then they were able to get over the bug quickly. Jeb is just starting to feel better and keep his dinner down.
I am hoping and trying not to catch the bug. I have been very careful to wash my hands all the time and clean / sanitize surfaces that we would normally touch. But if I ever do catch it, I hope it would be after everyone is healthy again. It is no fun being sick while the family is sick too.
UPDATE: I am starting to feel the queasiness in my tummy now too, so I might be getting sick. I will need to cut this post short and just publish it. I will try to write another post later when everyone, including me, are feeling better.
We recently fired our realtor that we first got when we put our house on the market, and then got a new realtor and even changed real estate companies. We hope that we can get better results with our house sale with our new realtor. In case, you are interested or wondering, here is our house listing.
I have added a couple pictures in a new sub-album in our "Our First House" album, called House 2009 - selling. There are some pictures of our house before we left for the Feast and "staged" it for Open Houses and showings. Of course, I also added a few pictures of how messy and cluttered the house was before. One thing that I kinda regretted is forgetting to take an after picture of the kids room. All of the pictures I have of their room are either them messing it up or just plain messy. It would have been nice to have put in their scrapbook a picture of their room that is nice, uncluttered and tidy. Oh well, we'll just have to imagine that their room did look emaculate at one time. :)
Our bank, US bank is sponsoring a Get Ahead in 2010 sweepstakes, and I decided to take advantage of it. There is nothing to lose anyway, and it is worth the try. I entered a little story about how we would get ahead in 2010 if we win $5000. The story with the most votes, win. It is very unlikely that we will win this contest since the leading story has already 2000+ votes, and the voting period ends on the 28th of this month. But anyway, you never know. If you want to vote and help us get as many votes, you may vote once a day per email address. Please click to vote now!
Unfortunately, voting is open to US Residents only. Thank you for your help in this, we appreciate it. If we don't win, thanks anyway and at least we tried.
Here is the story I submitted:
Hoping to Get Ahead with a House Down-payment
$5,000 would greatly help us in getting ahead in 2010, by giving us some [extra] down payment for a house. My husband's current work facility is shutting down and thus they are moving us ASAP. Being not able to "plan" for this, because it just happened with the bad economy... a little help for a house down payment would be great!
I know a lot of you have been asking and wondering how Amberly is and what she looks like now. It has been nearly 4 1/2 months since I have written an update about her. She has been growing fast and steadily. She is 8 months old now. She has been crawling now pretty well. In fact she has started to attempts of crawling when she was at the end of her 6th month. She also has been standing up and holding onto things to support herself. Amberly has been learning and developing new things by leaps and bounds lately. She is also teething, but hasn't have any teeth cut through yet. And yes, she babbles a lot now too; and wave 'hello' or 'goodbye'.
I have updated Amberly's album... so I am finally caught up again. Sorry, mom... I know you have been itching to see new pictures of your grandbaby, Amberly. So here they are! Her Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eight months are all added.
By the way, don't forget to check out my "What's New..." section to see all the updated and added albums I just did for 2009.
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