Somebody told me

Yesterday I was asked if I was writing this all down. "Are you keeping a journal?" So I'm writing it. Here. I hope you know me well enough to know that I am laughing my way through this. Okay, so I do have my moments of tears. But for the most part, I'm finding this sad enough to just...laugh. I am not writing to complain. I don't even feel sorry for myself. Really. I mostly just think it's kind of funny.

Maybe I'll start with a little story to illustrate my point.

When Stewart was in Iraq, Hadley kept getting really sick and ended up needing tubes put in her ears. Looking back, it isn't that big of a deal. But at the time, it seemed like a mammoth trial. Like an elephant I had to eat all by myself.

One night I went to the movies with some friends. We saw Bruce Almighty and I recall one specific moment that made me laugh out loud. Bruce was walking in an alleyway and stepped into what looked like a puddle but ended up being a pothole. He was wet to his knee and looked up at the sky and said something like, "Come on! Are you serious? What next?"

I remember thinking it was so funny because I'd had moments like that. Those moments when it seems like everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong.

Which brings us to what somebody told me I needed to write down.

Here's the chronology:
1. Stewart has severe back pain. The MRI reveals that he has herniated discs in his back.
2. I fall and break, sprain and tear a ligament in my foot.
3. I spend 3 weeks recovering from break and finally get back on my feet. Yay!
4. I have a little scare and get put on full bed rest.
5. Hadley is stung by a wasp and we find out she has a severe allergy and ends up in InstaCare unable to breathe.
6. Lincoln has a 102.5 fever and lays around like a lethargic bump on a log.
7. Maddox and Lincoln go to grandma's and Maddox starts vomiting and running a high fever.

So...what next? I shouldn't even ask that, should I? But really it's just a series of small things. Nothing too serious. I mean, considering that I haven't had this baby early, everyone has returned to health, and besides Stewart's back problem that has to be taken care of, we're all just fine.

I really feel like there's only one thing to worry about now. Can our health insurance drop us for being too high maintainence?