off to school again....

through out the whole day today i have been going back and forth in my head if my kids should go back to the "germ hole" aka pre school. they have missed the last two weeks due to sick bugs. looking back, it has been a very long two and a half months. someone is sick every week. in fact, let me just pull out the last health insurance summary i got. we got this new plan through brians work june 1 this year..... oh yes, the emrich family has reached $2072.03 of their family deductible for the year. putting aside the $600.00 we paid for the birth of nataley, that is $1472.03 that i have ( i guess i should say brian has) forked out to doctors,hospitals, and prescriptions in a short 6 months!
it is insane! the worse so far was these past two weeks.... goopy eye, extremely high fevers, ear infections, vomiting, a run of strep throat and constant runny noses. levi had it really bad two weeks ago, alivia last week and now nataley.

i spent this afternoon playing board games with levi (alivia was napping but joined us later) and let me just say... i thought i might go insane by the end of it. i had to keep explaining everything over and over, telling them although game pieces look like cherries... they are not, and they do not go in our mouths. i think the words "do you want to keep playing? then come sit back down or we will have to put it away" came out of my mouth about 10 times! although by the time i was finished i could definitely see progress with their attention, and their understanding of the point and strategy of the games (not that hi oh cherry oh and hungry hungry hippos have a real strategy) i was still rather frazzled and stressed out with the situation as a whole. in that very minute as i put the last box away in the "only when an adult says its OK closet" i decided that teaching was better left to teachers, and against what seems as my better judgement.... i will in fact be packing my van up with two kids and their lunch boxes tomorrow morning!