Friday, October 18, 2013

What day is it again?

The day started off a little better today than the first day of Fall Break. The boy still got up way too early, but this time he crawled in bed with me and fell back to sleep. Oh blessed sleep. We then got dressed, ate breakfast and ran some errands. Nothing too terribly exciting although who knew that three children would find Bath and Body Works so terribly exciting. Sniffing different fragrances was great until my 1st grade reader sounded out a fragrance called "Intimate Amber" or something like that. It got really awkward fast. Questions happened, the sales associate was way too forthcoming in defining words with a six year old and then, mercifully, one of the girls distracted him with a bottle of hand sanitizer called "Jelly Donut" or something like that. Saved by pastry scented alcohol.

After we finally escaped the mall and embarrassments galore, we got home in time for a little light straightening up and lunch before dashing out to an appointment with the allergist. After S's significant health event, we needed to let her body recover from all the stuff that attacked it and was pumped in to fix it. The allergist needed to do some testing and figure out exactly what she is allergic to and what made her poor little body look so bad. Unfortunately, the records were not read prior to the appointment, so I overwhelmed the poor NP with enough medial history for five children. What did we get after THREE hours in the office? A flu shot that may blow her leg up, an appointment for a month from now to test her for a vitamin K injectible allergy and orders to go have yet another 30th blood panel drawn at the hospital. So day 2 of Fall Break's meat was spent in a windowless room for 3+ hours until we started doubting what day it was and whether we were on our own version of LOST.

The evening ended nicely enough. The weather was perfect, just lovely for a sweatshirt and jeans. Our dear friends came over and the kids played and ran and jumped in leaves and threw balls around until they were in need of baths. S went to her friend's for the night and the youngers, the hub and I snuggled on the couch. Everyone was happy. Go out and look at the moon, everybody. It is beautiful and a perfect way to end your evening.


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