Day 4791
Yesterday was a complete bust.
There was a ton of things to do when I got to work. Not leftovers or anything, just a busy day. Just as I was getting caught up, I had to leave because Mom called and told me Emily was running a fever. She'd been complaining of a sore throat and headache before so the fever was doctor time. (Two days in a row... pity it couldn't have hit her a day earlier.)
Well, she's sick enough... scarlet fever again. In desperation, I finally gave her an Aleve to get her temperature down enough that she could keep something on her stomach. Poor little kidlet... she felt pretty rotten until I did that. The Motrin and Tylenol just weren't working for her. I swear these new medicines don't work as well as the old ones... St Josephs aspirin was always the standard when I was growing up. Two would knock out fever or minor pain but you could eat half a bottle and it wouldn't hurt you. (I know, I did that once.) Without the fever, she slept pretty well last night.
I also got a couple of the charms I found in the mail... and they weren't right after all. Not sure what I'm going to do about that.
And Emily has decided that she wants her own charm bracelet. She wanted one that I had ordered because it had one charm I needed on it until I explained that a charm bracelet is something unique to you. So now we're looking for charms for her... ballet slippers, a panda bear (for our visit to the Memphis Zoo) and a pair of cowboy boots. She'll add more as she grows.
The odd thing is that while I was at work, Emily decorated the Christmas tree so Christmas is all finished except the waiting. All things considered, this is a good thing!
There was a ton of things to do when I got to work. Not leftovers or anything, just a busy day. Just as I was getting caught up, I had to leave because Mom called and told me Emily was running a fever. She'd been complaining of a sore throat and headache before so the fever was doctor time. (Two days in a row... pity it couldn't have hit her a day earlier.)
Well, she's sick enough... scarlet fever again. In desperation, I finally gave her an Aleve to get her temperature down enough that she could keep something on her stomach. Poor little kidlet... she felt pretty rotten until I did that. The Motrin and Tylenol just weren't working for her. I swear these new medicines don't work as well as the old ones... St Josephs aspirin was always the standard when I was growing up. Two would knock out fever or minor pain but you could eat half a bottle and it wouldn't hurt you. (I know, I did that once.) Without the fever, she slept pretty well last night.
I also got a couple of the charms I found in the mail... and they weren't right after all. Not sure what I'm going to do about that.
And Emily has decided that she wants her own charm bracelet. She wanted one that I had ordered because it had one charm I needed on it until I explained that a charm bracelet is something unique to you. So now we're looking for charms for her... ballet slippers, a panda bear (for our visit to the Memphis Zoo) and a pair of cowboy boots. She'll add more as she grows.
The odd thing is that while I was at work, Emily decorated the Christmas tree so Christmas is all finished except the waiting. All things considered, this is a good thing!