Day two of Exile

Marshfield, MA - Friday July 25th - 2am
Alexis Vallier wakes her slumbering mother crying and saying that she thinks she needs a thermometer. Her mother takes her temp and realizes that she has a fever of 102 degrees.
Not a big deal on a normal day but, this, of course, was the day before her mother's "big" night out for the launch of the "Lace Reader".

Saturday - 8am
Mother and Father discuss pros and cons of dragging Alexis to Quincy to have the fever checked out even though it has not come back. The child is prone to ear infections so they decide to make the trip even though the mother still holds out hope of going to her party. It's decided (stupidly in forethought) that the older child will go as well to have a small mole checked at the same time.

Saturday - 11am, 11:30, noon
Doctor's office enjoys torturing mother's who wait until Saturday morning to bring their kids in. They make them wait for an hour in the germ filled waiting room with all the other bitchy Mom's and snot nosed kids.
Result: No ear infection, mole is a wart and will go away.

Saturday -12:30
Stuck in Cape traffic coming back from Quincy, mother bursts into tears, recovers after speaking with father who is in a particularly good mood (probably because he didn't just have to sit at Doctor's for an hour and a half!)

Saturday - 2:00
Father valiantly tells mother to go to party & have a good time. Loads kids into car and heads off to Woburn for Vallier/MacEachern family party.

Saturday - evening
Lace Reader launch partyin Salem with Yia Yia. Great weather, fun people, lots of wine and appetizers. Overall a great time. Mother sleeps in Salem.

Sunday - 7:30am
Mother wakes are realizes if she leaves right now she still won't be in Marshfield until almost 9am which is pretty late so she gets going but first has some food with Yia Yia.

Sunday - 9am
Mother pulls in driveway, father tells mother Vallier family is coming for lunch and Brooke has been coughing alot. Mother starts cooking pasta salad and cutting green beans, etc. Brooke coughs and coughs.

Sunday - noon
Vallier family arrives, Brooke takes herself up to her room for a nap (completely unheard of). Alexis is perfect angel during the party. Brooke wakes fairly quickly and coughs all day. Eventually throws up from coughing and party, strangely, breaks up.

Sunday - night
Brooke up all night. Decision made that she'll have to miss school field trip next day to Children's museum which she is NOT happy about. Alexis will be going on field trip which doesn't help.

Monday - 9:30
Mother & Brooke at doctor's office again, Marshfield this time, Brooke has bronchitis. Bron-freakin'-chitis in July? Mother may have said just that to doctor who perused records and reported that she has had bronchitis last two Julys in a row. Ridiculous.

Tuesday (today)
Brooke slept all night but still not 100% so mother kept BOTH kids home and switched daycare days so kids go to school tomorrow.

So that about breaks it down. The upside is that both kids realize they are getting a treat staying at home so they are fairly low key.

Pray for me people, will you?

Quote of the week

Brooke was lying in the playroom and asked Lexi to get her another cheese stick. This must have been one too many favors because Lexi's reply was:

"Brooke! I am not just your cheese stick getting girl! I am a regular person."

And she walked away without getting the cheese stick, singing of course.

You know you are old when...

...you forget how to take a shower. OK, not kidding. You know how sometimes you forget to do really basic things. I got in the shower this morning and put the shampoo in my hand before my hair was wet at all. Then, I was all screwed up because I was also facing the wrong way and didn't have two hands to wet my hair (God forbid I lose a teaspoon of shampoo, but let's remember that this is 4:45am). So I sort of scooted back and tried to get my hair wet but my hair rejected most of the water so I had to soap up a half dry head of hair, backwards because when I turned around it just sprayed in my face and aggravated me because, again, I have shampoo in my hand. Now that I write it down it sounds stupid because why didn't I just wash the shampoo off my hand and start from scratch? I was tired, OK? Anyway, it wasn't a great shower.
In other news, Lexi Loo's ear infection has cleared up just before vacation, thankfully. We are going today to check and see if her right tube fell out which enabled the ear infection. Brooke, refuses to go to the doctor and act like a human so Anne is watching her for an hour, I love having them in Marshfield!! I'm actually glad Brooke isn't coming to the Dr. because she also get burned this weekend and I'd rather not get the sunscreen lecture though I would be surprised if I don't get it from Anne anyway.
We are heading to Maine on Friday for a week of fun and frolic with Yia Yia, Papa J, Kate & Barb and Dad & Karen (not all at once). The big attraction will be Storyland which Lexi can not stop talking about. Stay tuned for pictures when we get back.