Kashann and Clan

This weekend our house was shown for the first time to a potential buyer. Meanwhile we were participating in our own showing. Brent and I were in Pennsylvania again. Not interviewing for a job like last time we were there, but exploring the option of purchasing a practice. We both loved the retiring dentist and his office manager wife. They would both work for the practice for a couple years so we needed to hit it off. I also loved the whole set up of the town. The high school, junior high, and grade school all together and only 5 minutes from the church. Brent's office is only 10 minutes away. It is a beautiful place and has the green rolling hills we've been looking for. I imagined the green part actually. It snowed the whole time we were there.

The dentist is so busy and has more patients than he can handle. Now this is exactly what we have been looking for. We even had someone at the church there tell us, "A dentist is a hard thing to come by around here." Now that's what we want to hear.

So we found a awesome practice in a beautiful area with a need for a good dentist. But who knows what will happen? I have driven through and pictured myself now in so many towns. One of these times it will be it. But it is hard to stop shopping and settle. We are planning on checking one out in Georgia in the next couple weeks too. So as you can see we are pretty open as far as location. We just want to find the best opportunity. I do wish that we could find a good opportunity close to our old home in Washington but so far we haven't had any luck.

We had a lot of sickness in our house last week and finally seemed to be getting over it on the weekend. But then Marcus threw up all over himself in the car, right before we dropped them all off at the hotel to meet with the Dr. Before going in, Brent said, "Let's not say anything about having sick kids. We don't want them worrying about getting sick from us."

We had been there about an hour standing up talking when suddenly I started to feel very thirsty. I felt like I was dying for a drink. This feeling lasted about 2 minutes, and I was considering interrupting and asking for a glass of water. Before I made up my mind about this, I suddenly started feeling extremely light headed. My vision was starting to blur and I knew that I couldn't stand there much longer. I have passed out 3 times in my life. I could feel it coming on. But what was I suppossed to say? I had been fine for an hour and suddenly I am going to faint? What kind of first impression is fainting while touring the office? A bad one I am pretty sure. Finally, with no choice left, I started walking heading to a bathroom I saw around the corner, mumbling as I passed that I wasn't feeling well. By the time I sat down I couldn't see at all, my face was completely white, and I was as sick as could be. But I hadn't fainted. I sat in that bathroom for about 5 minutes trying to figure out what had happened to me. She brought me a drink and I finally felt well enough to move to a more comfortable seat, a reclining patient chair.

I finally mentioned that my kids had been sick earlier and maybe I was coming down with something. But it didn't seem like the flu. It was just so weird. I felt so weak. . .like I had really low blood SUGAR. . . and suddenly Brent suggested that was it. I was trying to kick a sugar addiction and had quit sugar cold turkey about 36 hours before. The first day was torture and I felt nervous all day to have some chocolate. But by the next day I had no cravings. . . but maybe it was way too drastic for my body. She brought me an energy bar and within minutes I was feeling so much better.
I am happy to report that although I ate the energy bar our of necessity I kept to my no sugar goals the rest of the weekend. I haven't had any cravings, though I am currently quite sick. This time no fainting scares but pretty sure that I do have the flu that the rest of the family had last week. Too bad an energy bar won't do the trick this time. I started shivering like mad just before bed last night and spent one miserable night waking up every half hour either freezing or smoking hot.
I don't know what I am doing sitting up typing right now. I really need to go to bed. Marcus can watch PBS all day.