A Mother's Vacation.....

Where have I been?  What have I been doing??

Well, let's see..........

Worked Monday.  Worked Tuesday.  Worked Wednesday, went on my lunch break to pay a bill....  did that, and on my way back to work, "Braden's school" called. 

{sinking feeling in my gut} 

This means he's sick.... or should I say "sick".

"hello, mrs. earle, braden's teacher sent him down to the office, she thinks he has pink eye.  could someone pick him up?"

........pink eye, huh?  immediately i think allergies.  i mean, if you've been outside at all in the last, ohhh... month, it's been pretty horrible out there.

I get him from school, one eye has pretty much a fat green {booger} creepin' out of it and is all bloodshot looking.

FAN.TAS.TIC!!

The good thing is that i had drops from the last time he had it, so we went home, plopped a drop in, and hauled his buttocks to grandma's house, so that i could go back to work.

before bed, he tells me that his ear is "hurting".  Not on the inside, but on the earlobe.  hmmm....  {i disregard his "ploy" to stay up later, and send him to bed}

Thursday morning, he wakes up, and his ears are warm and "bumpy".  GA-REAT!  since it hasn't been 24 hrs with the pink eye deal, we were keeping him home in the morning anyways.  by 9am, i get a call from brian sayin the rash is moving down his neck. 

RING, RING.... called the nurse, she said I should bring him in.

brian takes him to the dr, and we find out its STREP.  No sore throat, so yay!  now he's got drops from the dr (again) and Amox!  YIPPEE SKIPPY!

So, he doesn't go to school Thursday afternoon like we planned... but stays home. 

Friday was supposed to be his "birthday treat" day, and his play in the afternoon that he's been workin on lines for at least 3 weeks.  He's bummed cuz the dr said he can't go to school....  (ha! we blew that off, and went to get treats, and took him for his play in the afternoon)  it had been "almost" 24 hrs of amox.... and we gave him a 1/2 dose early so he had a lil "kick" in his system. 

As we're there...kellyn is getting whiny and clingy... and said she was cold.  {gulp}

So, as I'm sitting in the library taping the play for ms. w....  she passes out in a bean bag, covered up by my coat.  {double gulp}

The play finishes, we gather up things, she's crying and whiny....  oh, and feverish...  and we go home.

I get her on the potty.... 

at approximately 3pm.......  we have barfdown.  {and some splashdown on her shirt, too}

SUPERRRRRRRRRRR! 

so, the day commenced with a clothing change, a shirt change, multiple towel changes to protect the couch, the viewing of 2 different strawberry shortcake dvds ATLEAST 3x each, Tangled atleast 3x and a little bit of the "annoying orange" on youtube.  {you apple!}

meanwhile, brian read an old ass book....  {insert frustration here}

in other news, he stayed downstairs to sleep with her, while i got to hog the bed to myself...

there was no more barfing after about 9pm {bummer?} and she woke up the next day bright eyed and bushy tailed.

too bad daddy didn't! 

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!

the rest of the weekend was filled with me staying home with kellyn while all 3 boys went to tball, then me leaving them all home for a while as i took a much needed shopping trip to the mall, sonic, and then we came back and "krogered" as a family....  (let me tell you, if someone would have offered me 2 cents, heck a PAPERCLIP for my boys in kroger....  i swear we would have taken it!)

What is it about kids and wanting to hop, skip, play tag, etc in grocery stores?  {please tell me its NOT just my kids}

Got the garden weeded, planted {sonic again for me} and the grass mowed at home.  It was a very eventful weekend.... 

almost like a vacation......

almost.......

yeah...... {no}

I can't believe I turned down the bar, daiquiris and a bonfire this weekend... 

beer me!

~d