new niece!

I think I've fallen out of the habit of updating.
My sister just had a baby!!!! Welcome baby Delaney!
K's mom is home from a big trip to Europe, and she sounds like she's doing well after some difficulties on the way home. Time to heal.
The seasons have definitely changed... we have to wear socks and jackets every day now. I'm really tired of the wind, haha. In the car I crank up the heat until LittleK whines "MAMA I'M HOT!"
BabyR is cutting four teeth on the top and one on the bottom, all at once. Ouch, huh? I love his funny toothless grin but won't see it again unless he takes up hockey.
K is done with bow-hunting and now rifle season has started. Hooray. He has a race tomorrow morning (Silent Trails Memorial) during the girls' final soccer games. Then more hunting on Sunday.
I've got a clutter problem and I've been preoccupied with it lately, but not enough to do anything about it. It's just another way of heaping on the guilt, on top of all the mommy-guilt etc.
T has glasses (bifocals!) for reading and schoolwork. She lost them today and didn't tell me until nearly 5 o'clock, but the principal was still at the school and we made it there before she left. The glasses were in the coat closet. I can deal with T's problems so much better than LittleK's because K's whining just pushes the big anger button inside of me and I lose patience. She seems to be really horrible only around late afternoon, when she's fighting a nap.
I'm pretty much done with all the nasty steroid side-effects. I'm only on 2mg a day! I feel normal except for my hip and shoulder pain. My hair falls out in big fistfuls, hopefully that will stop soon.
What's funny is that it's been about 4 months of having oxygen all the time, and only three strangers have blurted out big nosy questions. One Safeway cashier practically yelled at me "What's wrong with you??". I told him I have heart & lung diseases, and I herded the kids out the door. Another (elderly) oxygen user at WalMart looked at me with a big sad face and said, "This? At your age? Awwww". I just laughed and said I was used to it. That same day, some teenager at Burger King yelled across the room "HEY why are you on OXYGEN??". I just told him I got sick. So I just have to remember how weird it must be to see some young-ish mom doing mom-stuff out in public wearing a nasal cannula and herding two chatty girls and a baby around.
Anyway, the only news on that front is that my appointment with the PH specialists in Denver will be December 12th. It seems so far away.
Time to go cuddle up in a blanket and knit.