So yesterday I said that we were all healthy. We were. Yesterday. This morning I slept in because the kids are on break and we didn't have to be anywhere until 10a. Around 9a I heard Sarah coming up the stairs and greeted her to find out she was tired and not feeling well. She felt a little warm so I took her temperature. 103. Not just a little warm. So I gave her some ibuprofen and changed all our plans for the day. Instead of taking Sarah to therapy, trying out a new hot yoga class and then taking Sarah to get her hair cut as we had planned, I scheduled a doctor appointment and we spent most of the day doing nothing.
Normally a day with nothing to do sounds great, except when you have three little people in the house. Luckily they were pretty low key and at one point both girls took a nap. At the same time. I was actually able to get a little bit organized. Don't worry, I didn't go too crazy, but I did get storage totes out of the dining room and butler's pantry for the first time in months and put away clothes that I had saved for Amanda from Sarah that had been sitting out for several weeks. Baby steps. Now I just need to throw everything else away in the house and maybe I'll be happy. Except then I will think we don't have enough and need to go buy more. It's a vicious cycle.
I took Sarah to the pediatrician and left Andy at home to babysit Amanda. He did a great job and I only had to pay him in promises that I would not bug him about his computer time tomorrow. I still will. They made us wait 30 minutes before I got a little feisty with the front desk staff. There were a million people in there getting flu vaccines and they were cycling in and out super fast while we just sat there. Plus I was still mad at them because last week I took the kids in for their flu vaccines and they made Sarah get a shot instead of the Flu Mist for "cardiac" reasons which were total bull because I called her cardiologist today and he said there was no reason she couldn't get the Flu Mist. Of course I should have called before we went but never thought it would be an issue since this same office gave Sarah the Flu Mist last year and she had it for a couple years in Texas as well. Needless to say she now thinks I'm a liar because I told her she would not have to get a shot, and she did, and she had a huge traumatic meltdown before they gave her the shot and I'm pretty sure every kid in the office could hear her screaming and crying which probably put the fear of Jesus in them. I digress.
So it turns out that she just had a bladder infection, well we are pretty sure but it will take a few days to culture to be totally positive, and they gave her an antibiotic to take care of it. Twice a day for ten days of something that tastes like crap. I am so looking forward to that battle each morning and evening. Because vitamins and Miralax aren't enough. However, she was feeling much better this evening before bed and will probably be back to her normal crazy-when-with-Amanda self tomorrow. Both girls have well-visits tomorrow also so it should be an interesting day. Yes I know Sarah should have had hers months ago but with the way insurance companies work and the move and finding a new doctor she is way off schedule. I was hoping Charlie's company would switch insurance companies this year so I could get back on schedule but no dice. There's always next year.
On top of everything else, it snowed today. It wasn't really much of anything, just tiny little flurries that didn't accumulate, but it's not really the fact that it snowed but that it is getting cold enough that snow is a possibility. For the next several months. I think I can handle it, I think I'm ready, but we just won't know until we're in the thick of it. Hopefully we can just survive the rest of fall break and see how it goes from there.
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