It’s been a busy time at the McCrea House. In fact, I feel
as though we’ve been running non-stop. Let me fill you in on a few things.
We had our first family Christmas pictures taken. It was a
lot of fun, and Aiden was very good. She finally got to wear the dress that I
bought her on Zulily (back in June, lol) and the cutest pair of black patent
shoes. It was precious. I have several photos to share, but I’m only showing
one until after Christmas.
Aiden visited the GI doctor. Her spitting-up has progressed
to full on vomiting. All the time. She does this throughout the day. We have no
clue as to what triggers it and there doesn’t seem to be a solution. She had an
Upper GI done, to make sure there were no anatomical problems with her
intestines. That sucked. SERIOUSLY sucked. She screamed the entire time. It’s
not something that hurts, but they had to hold her down and she wasn’t very
excited about that. We’ve been through three different medications, and none of
them are working. None. Hugh and I are
both at a loss as to what do, as is her Pediatrician and GI specialist. It’s so
frustrating, and it breaks my heart. Especially when I think to myself how she’s
never had a day in her ENTIRE life where she hasn’t puked.
We discovered that both of our furnaces were broken. Just
FYI: furnaces aren’t cheap. Sadly, it wasn’t anything that would have been
caught on our inspection back in April. According to our HVAC guy it wouldn’t
have been caught unless we had an actual HVAC mechanic come out and look at
them. Fortunately, we have a home warranty that came with the house when we
bought it. It covered the majority of the costs, but home warranty companies
are crooked as they come. We actually had our personal HVAC mechanic out to
diagnose the problems, and then we called the warranty company to come out
look. Of course, the warranty company technician tried to say that nothing was
wrong. Hugh actually had to go up into the attic and show him the crack. After
a few phone calls that were not-so-nice, we finally got a new furnace and the
second one repaired.
We bought a new truck! It’s pretty dang awesome, I have to
admit. Hugh and I have been discussing for months about what we wanted to do
about our vehicle situation. The Jetta is awesome for me, as it gets 38MPG and
I drive about 50 miles a day. However, the three of us can’t ride in it together.
There’s just not enough room for us to safely drive it with the car seat in the
back. The poor passenger has to sit with their knees in their chest. We were
debating on trading in the car for a large SUV, but kept holding off knowing
that the gas mileage would kill us. Then, I took the truck in for an oil change
and we discovered that we needed new brakes and tires. The truck was a 2006
F-150, so we decided to go look a new truck. We were shocked at the prices for
2012 models that were still on the lot, so we made a great deal and brought our
new truck home. It’s a really nice truck. It has every extra available option
that we could add, minus a cappuccino machine. Seriously. We got the navigation
package and it’s really cool. The truck is actually quite a bit bigger than our
previous truck and it’s taken a little time to get used to driving it. It sits
about 6 inches higher that the other truck and there’s even more room on the
inside than before. We ended up getting about $15K off the MSRP, so Hugh and I
were both very happy. Now, that’s our family vehicle. We drive it on the
weekends or when we all go somewhere together and Hugh drives it to work every
day.
AND….pretty much a million other things, but that’s it for
now.
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