Lola had 11 puppies tonight!

Boy, where we ALL surprised too! The vet thought a week ago that she would only have 5 or 6 so you can imagine the shock we are in. Our sweet girl did great! She has always been such a loving dog and now she is loving on all her pups tonight (with our help of course). Life just got a little more interesting here at the Reed house!

Here is my sweet girl in labor. The 3L's were soooo excited!

11 puppies

One little sad note, we lost one tonight. She just never did breathe right from the time we brought her home. Sweet baby girl pup! We have 5 girls now and 5 boys.

Well, I hear lots of noises so I am sure it is time to eat!

Gotta help Lola out. Ha!

Closing the door on one chapter and on to the next!

I have been pretty luck when it comes to my nursing career. I have met some wonderful nurses who I look up to and they have become lifetime friends. On Tuesday, I closed the chapter in my nursing career as a surgery nurse. For sometime now the Lord has laid it upon my heart to get back into the field of nursing with kids. I started off as a NICU nurse, then a Pediatric ER nurse, and even a pediatric nurse for 12 doctors in Iowa. Children are my specialty and I feel like it is what I know best when it comes to nursing.

When we moved back to Texas a good friend gave me the opportunity to work as a surgery nurse a couple days a week and the rest stay at home with my youngest. It was the best of both worlds. Being a nurse which I LOVE and being a mommy which will always TOP every job I have ever had. With Landry almost in kindergarten my heart has been heavy to get back into peds. I just started praying about it. It amazes me how quickly God can act sometimes! The next week I got an offer to be a school nurse one day a week for a private school here in town. (the 3L's all have gone to preK here and loved it!) I took the job with pure excitement because I knew it was a gift from God. I love getting to take Landry to school and seeing him in the halls!

Then the Lord opened up more doors and put me into the Midway schools as a nurse. I am truly grateful for where He is taking me in my nursing career.

With all of that being said, I can't help but feel a little sad leaving these sweet nurses. They have been so much fun to work with and excellent nurses by my side. I am going to miss the skills.....starting IVs, scrubbing in on a surgery, sedating patients, and even the doctors goofy jokes.

3L's since this blog is for you, I hope you always follow your dreams and listen to your heart.
God can take you to some amazing places in your life and let you meet some wonderful people who will forever be in your heart.



Love~Mom

Spreading the love....or more like germs!

Landry was doing better until this evening. His temp is back. Lauren came home from school yesterday with it. She is on Tamiflu....and now I guess it is my turn. I am under the weather now. This too shall pass! Right? Anyhoo, Casey and Luke are hanging in there. I really don't feel as bad as them so maybe mine is mild:)

Ready for the weekend!
~Rob

It's Positive...

for Flu. Sweet Lanny Love just got back from the doctor with the news he tested positive for the Flu. As bad as this news is it kind of was good news in a way. It wasn't strep! If it was strep then we would have to be going through so much right now trying a new antibiotic from our Ped. Immunologist. I HATE to see my little guy this way. This is breaking my heart to see him so down. There is SO MUCH of it going around here.

Stay well my friends~

Robin

I knew this day was coming.....

I knew this day was coming, with 2 boys in the house they have been asking what is all this Star Wars stuff about? They see it in the stores and in their McDonald toys so I asked a friend if I could borrow her DVD (because she has two older boys and I knew they were into this) So what did they watch??

STAR WARS!

The 3L's curled up on the bed and watched in awwww......

What have I done??? I have opened up a new can of worms at the Reed house.

They loved it!

Until it got to the part with Darth Vader. I found that they had built a pillow fort to watch from. ha!
I remember when I was a kid my mom took my two older brothers and me to the movies to see this. I wasn't happy going cause it was a boy movie but I loved it! I wanted to be Princess Leia. Now my sweet Lauren wants to be her.
This makes me feel old.
Luke really like it too.
I think partly because of he and Luke Skywalker sharing the same name.

Such a fun movie!