the best laid plans...

Caleb was admitted into the hospital this morning. His asthma went haywire for the first time ever. His body can't maintain proper oxygen levels at the moment so he is on what they're calling room oxygen (as opposed to an oxygen tent I suppose) and breathing treatments every four hours. He'll be there overnight tonight and we'll find out tomorrow whether or not his stay will extend further. Needless to say it's been an exhausting day...I've cried more than once...not because he's in dire staits necessarily because he isn't or at least they are leading us to believe that he isn't, but mainly seeing my child with a gray cast to his normally rosy skin and tubes in his nose and in him arm is heartbreaking. He's being a trooper for the most part...he and Lynn are "camping out" at the hospital tonight. When I left them there tonight he was ready to come home too. He's been ready to come home since they jammed the I.V. into his hand and drew blood this morning.

So with all that going on everything else has fallen by the wayside. I don't think there will be any Christmas cookies this year. There are definitely going to be some unfinished gifts. I've been waiting for a few more ornament swappers' packages to arrive and since I haven't received them and haven't heard from the folks in question I'm just going to work with what I've got for now and then divvy what comes later when it comes. I'm going to try to ship the packages on Thursday. Will keep you posted. Now to try to get some sleep! It's going to be a long day tomorrow.

P.S. If you've got some extra prayers laying around, we'll gladly take them :).