Hello Everyone~

Finally, I am starting to see the end of the tunnel.  The boys are finally about done with their medications and are really starting to be less fussy, more active, and get this....they are actually eating now!!!  Yay! 

My mom flew into O'hare on Tuesday so that she could go to Grandparents day on Wednesday at school....guess what....school was cancelled on Wednesday!  It sucked so bad!  It was a surprise for the kids so at least that was nice.  We went to the bouncy place, we went out to eat, we played so much.  My mom and I got a pedicure while the two older ones were at school on Thursday....we towed Boppy with and he was so good.  Then Thursday night she had to fly home :-(

That is when all the trouble started we left with 3 hours until her flight well, I kept checking her flight and checking her flight status via texting with google (it is a wonder how you can do these things!!).  At first it kept saying on time and we were freaking out as we were stuck in the snow storm of the year!!!  Going a whole 1 mph...possibly 3 mph when we were lucky.  Her flight was at 6:00, when we were 5 miles from the airport...finally going 5 mph.....her flight said delayed until 7:00, thank heavens since it was 5:15.  And going 5 mph, going 5 miles would, as you guess, take an hour!!  So long story short, I thought my mom was going to die.  She was so stressed, we finally just looked at eachother and laughed.  At one point I told her to get out and smoke a cigarette in the middle of the freeway.  I told her "just walk next to the car".  About 15 minutes later, I kept calling the United Airlines number because the texting was not working since they were changing the flight status too quickly.....The flight was on "decision".  When we got to O'hare we found that her flight was pushed to 8:00.  I told her I'm out of here!!  It took over 3 hours to get to the airport the kids were starving so I bought them dinner at a little snack stand in the airport which cost $40, yes, $40!!!!!!!  And all we got was three milks, one sandwich, two yogurts, and a fruit cup!!!!!!! 

I had enough!!  We left, I told my mom to hang out at the airport until she figured out what was going on and to have the Airline put her up in a hotel if needed.....Well her flight got cancelled but she went out on a 9:20 flight.  Thank the Lord!!! 

So then it took me 3 and a half hours to get home.  The kids did not like sitting in the car for basically 6.5 hours!!!!!!!!!  Neither did I!!!!! 

So, all else is going good.  Skyler did well on her science fair project....testing diapers.  I got some valuable info from it too!  Pampers came in number one--our brand---but the cheapest walmart brand came in a VERY close second!!!!!  So close I thing I will start buying some of those.

Hope everyone is doing great!!!  We miss you all and love you all....

Love, Derek & Nikki--And the Chitlins