Viruses, blisters, and medicines. Oh my!

Well we survived the doctors office with only minor hearing loss for me from all the screaming. No not screaming from my child, screaming from a 4 year old that was in the room next to us. He was awful! My son was wonderful as usual, he sat patiently while the nurse pricked his finger and squeezed enough blood out to test for bacteria. Good news, not a bacterial infection. Bad news, it is a coxsackie virus. I feel kind of dirty saying that word, it sounds like it would be something to do with his boy parts, but in fact it isn't. You can read all about it here: http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/coxsackie.html
He has the one that causes blisters in the mouth. Poor baby, no wonder he does not want to eat or drink anything. He has blisters in his mouth and the back of his throat and that is what is causing the bleeding gums. I knew it had to be something more than teething because we have 7 teeth so far and none of them have bled. Anyway the doctor said to mix 1 teaspoon of children's benadryl with 1 teaspoon of Maalox and give that to him every 4 hours for the mouth and throat pain. He also said to continue to give him Tylenol and Motrin for his fever. He said that by Monday he should be feeling better. After our visit to the doctor and the store to get the medicines for him to take, we went to Wendy's for a vanilla Frosty. He ate about half of it and he was almost asleep when I left him with my MIL. I hope he is feeling better tomorrow, I really hate for him to be sick. I have been so upset the past few days because of this illness. It hurts my heart to think that my child is in pain. So that's the story, we will spend the weekend drugged up and hopefully he will be feeling better long before Monday!

Bleeding gums and a fever

The babe is still sick. He is drooling like crazy and he will not eat much. I think his throat hurts. He has had a fever since Sunday. Now his gums are bleeding. He has not slept well since the weekend and neither have I. I am so worried about him. It makes me feel like a bad mother, what have I done wrong? I have called the doctor and we have an appointment at 11, so I will post later to let you all know the outcome of our visit. Thank you all for your well wishes this week. I hope to be back to normal soon.

I am still here

Sorry for my absence, I have been sick since Saturday and then on Sunday the babe caught it and now my MIL has it. Fever, stuffy, runny nose, itchy eyes, sore throat. We are a sick bunch. I am feeling a little better, but my babe and MIL are not. I have been at home with him all week. He has been so pitiful this week. I did come into the office for a few hours yesterday and I am here for a few hours today. I have an online class that I have to take so I had to come in. Hopefully things will be back to normal, whatever that is, tomorrow. I miss you all and I can't wait to catch up with you!

Hobby time

We just got a new Hobby Lobby in the town where I live. The babe and I went last night after work and I was so excited I nearly wet my pants. I have not been in a HL in so long I had forgotten all the wonderfulness that resides within its walls. They had so much stuff, I barely skimmed the surface. I did get a really cute fall/winter purse and a few little purse figurine things all for only 7 bucks. Yeah that was all I spent. Now don't get me wrong, it was not that I could not find anything to buy. On the contrary, I found lots of things that I wanted, but I will have to wait until I have some money. At the rate I am going that will be never, but I can always dream. The store is huge, I can't wait to go back and browse (drool) over all the merchandise.

I am trying to find my crafty side again. I have packed that side of myself away with my glue guns and fabric remnants since crafts and crawling babies really don't mix. I can't remember the last time I actually got my sewing machine out and made something. Now don't go thinking that I am all crafty like Martha or anything, but I do like a good craft project every once in a while. I have a project that my daughter and I will be working on this weekend. We are making placemats for the fall. You see my MIL (queen of the crafty and creative) made some last week after she saw them in a catalog. I am going to steal her idea and make my own for our fall table arrangement. You see you take loose silk fall colored leaves and hot glue them onto a placemat (any shape placemat that you want) until you completely cover the placemat. I know it sounds kinda not so cute, but really the end product is quite adorable. I am so excited. I dug out the hot glue guns last night and hubby has agreed to keep the babe occupied until we get the project finished. I will post pics of the finished placemats. You all are going to be so jealous! Look out Martha, I'm baaaacccckkkkkkk!

Thank you sir, may I have another?

As I was cooking supper Sunday and my hubby was outside doing some much needed yard work, I had to hold the babe. He was a little clingy and it was okay especially since we had gone off and left him on Saturday. He was eating his Veggie Puffs while we were stirring the various things and standing waiting for them to cook. He loves to try to put the top back on the container so, he was doing that. Then he decided to shove his hand in the container. I let him, what was it gonna hurt? He pulled out his hand with a few puffs in it and put it up to my mouth. I gladly ate the puffs that he gave me. He did it a few more times, and everytime I said YUM YUM and told him thank you for sharing with me. He is so sweet. He can't even feed himself, but he can feed me. After he stopped feeding me, he would peek his face around to mine and smile the biggest smile. I love my babe, he just melts my heart and turns me into a pile of mush!

A dawg-gone good time

We had so much fun Saturday at the game. It was awesome! We won 34-0! I really don't care anything about football, but I like to people watch and let me tell you there were so many people there, it wasn't hard to do. Hubby and I had a good time just talking and holding hands on the LONG car ride there and back. It was great for us to just be us, with no one else to worry about. I think it was really a good thing for us as a couple. We need to make more more time for each other!

I did miss my little punkin' though. I almost cried a few times when we saw other little boys, but I contained myself. We called after the game and he was fine, he was napping. We stopped and got a quick bite to eat and headed home. He was so excited when he saw us. He just squealed and flailed his arms and legs around. I would say that a good time was had by all.

Excited, yet not so much

Hubby called me a few minutes ago and said that has a dilema. He has tickets to the UGA football game tomorrow, 2 tickets, that his boss game him. We don't have our daughter this weekend, so how fun that hubby and I can go to a college football game. Our daughter is cheering this season and her game is at 11am, the Georgia game is at 1 and we are at least 2 hours away from the stadium. Then there is the issue of the babe. Do we take him to a loud college football game in the blazing hot Georgia sun in the middle of the day or do we try to find someone to keep him and risk me having a nervous breakdown being so far away from him and away from him for so long. What would you do? The good mom part of me says to forgo the football game with the hubby and let him find someone else to go. The good wife part of me says to go to the football game with your hubby, you have always wanted to go to one of the games and you may not get the chance again anytime soon. My head is spinning with anxiety, really it is. I want to go to the game, I do not want to leave my baby all day and be so far away from him. I could take him and risk him getting sunburned and no place to nap, but that would not be good for him or me either. Oh the stress of it all!

I called my mom and she can come and keep the babe for us at our house. She mentioned some things that she needed to do tomorrow at her house and said it would be nice if she could keep him there, but that is out of the question. I made up my mind long before the babe was born that he would NOT stay at her house. It is nothing to do with her, it is a lot of things that I do not want to go into today, but I don't want my child there without me or my hubby. So I told her that I would feel better if she kept him at our house because he is more comfortable there, his toys, crib, movies, food, everything he has is at our house.

Unless I just completely break down before tomorrow I will be at the Georgia Bulldogs football game. GO DAWGS! SIC 'EM!

**update on this post: My mom called and said that my step-dad needed to do some work on her car if she could just meet us somewhere and get the babe and take him to her house until my step-dad was finished with her car, like for about 4 or 5 hours. I told her to let me consult the hubby and see what he said. I called the hubby crying, why was I crying? Who the hell knows, anyway I was crying. So hubby called his mom she said of course she would love to keep him, so we are still going to the game, but my MIL is keeping my little one instead of my mom. I had to call my mom and lie to her and tell her that we were just gonna take the babe to the game. Telling her the truth I think would really hurt her feelings and I am not ready for that yet. So everything worked out and no-one got their feelings hurt.

Swallowing my pride, hhhmmmm doesn't taste so bad after all!

I am such an idiot (amazing isn't it?). I normally have a "cushion" in my checkbook, my overdraft protection if you will. You see when I spend money out of my checking account I round it up to the next dollar when I write it down. (If the purchase is $8.69, I write down $9.00.) After a couple of months, there is a cushion there. Anyway I have gotten my cushion up to like more than $200.00. YAY for me.

Anyway I took $100.00 of that money last week and got started on Christmas and birthday shopping for my kids. This week a few other things have come up and I have been falsely thinking that I had plenty of money. I had to take the babe to the doctor Tuesday, which was more money. Then I had to go and pick up his pictures (one of them was in my last post), which was more money that I had not budgeted for. Anywho when I balanced my checkbook yesterday I realized that my account was a little short. So I sat here trying to think of how I could get some money in my account before anything bounced. I write that like I was calm, I in fact was not calm. I was trying not to freak out and call my hubby because then I would never hear the end of it from him. I called a co-worker and asked about something that happened at lunch and with out going into all the details here, told her that I had left my last 2 dollars as the tip. She asked me if I needed money and at first I said no, but then I swallowed my pride and told her that if I could just borrow a little money until Friday that would really help me. So she wrote me a check and I got someone to go to the bank for me and deposit it. SHE SAVED MY ASS!

I went online a few minutes ago to make sure that I had enough money to cover everything and lo and behold they have not credited that check in my account yet. SO I FREAKED OUT! My house payment has not cleared the bank yet, but the check has been posted at the mortgage company 2 days ago. Of course without the "loan" from my co-worker there is not enough money in my account to cover the mortgage payment. Now I am not short by much, just $5.00. Anyway tomorrow is payday and my boss is a wonderful person, so I called him up crying and asked him if there was anyway that I could get my check today before the bank closes because I have SCREWED UP! He asks me how much I need and I told him that I wasn't off by much, but if I did not get something in there my mortgage payment would bounce. DO YOU KNOW HOW EMBARRASSING IT IS TO ASK YOUR BOSS FOR YOUR PAYCHECK EARLY? Okay if you don't, just let me tell you, it is not fun. I am a very proud person and swallowing that pride to ask anyone for any help is so very hard for me, but I did that rather than tell the hubby that I screwed up my checkbook again. Yeah this is not the first time, but it is the first time in a long time that I have made a money mistake. I would also rather swallow my pride and ask for help than to pay the bank a freakin' $30.00 service charge for the NSF.

It is all taken care of now, my wonderful boss even took the check to the bank for me and deposited it. I tell you I love that man. I have the best boss and one of the best co-workers ever!

Fever-ish

It has been a miserable week. My sweet angel boy has had a fever since Monday, no other symptoms, just a fever. It has been hovering around 100-101.5. I actually took him to the doctor on Tuesday and they did some blood work and it is not a bacterial infection or earache, so no antibiotics, just Tylenol and plenty of fluids and it will pass. Personally I think it is the teething, but you know the doctors tell you that teething does not cause a fever. That is all fine and dandy, but when will it pass? I don't think I can take another night of him sleeping with hubby and I. He will not sleep in his bed, as soon as I lay him down he pops back up and starts screaming and crying. I CAN NOT TAKE THE SCREAMING AND CRYING! He screamed and cried for nearly 2 1/2 hours Tuesday night before I finally just put him in our bed. A few minutes later he was asleep. Although he kept waking about every hour and crying out, he would usually go right back to sleep. It made for a really good nights sleep for me and the hubby. He slept with us last night too. I woke up at one point in the night clinging to the edge of the bed. If I would have rolled over I would have fallen into the floor. I know having a fever is miserable, but I need some sleep. When he is awake he just wants to be held or if he does get down, you need to be close to him so that in 2 minutes you can pick him back up. It makes getting ready for work a real fun time.

Then there is the Mommy guilt, you know that I am leaving him when he is sick to come to work. There is nothing I can do for him that my mother-in-law can't do, except for breastfeed him and I will be there at lunch to do that. I think coming to work is saving my sanity this week. I don't know if I could endure a whole day of the whining. Is that bad? Does it make me a bad parent? Part of me wants to be right there holding him and snuggling him, but he does not really want to be snuggled and he does not want to sleep, he wants to whine and pull my hair and try to take my glasses off my face. He wants all of the things that he cannot have when he does get down and as soon as you tell him no he just starts crying because he does not feel good. It is a vicious cycle. I hope he is feeling better soon so we can all get a good night's sleep.

8 things about me

I was tagged, so here it goes, 8 Things that you may not know about me.

1. I hate my hair. I always have, no matter how much I love it when I first get a new 'do, I always end up hating it. It isn't the style, it is just my hair.
2. I never graduated from college. I know this one is hard to believe, especially if you read me regularly. I know you all thought I was an English teacher or something, but I am not. I did go to college for a long time, but I never made up my mind about what I wanted to be when I grew up, so I never finished.
3. I opted for the c-section when it was offered to me rather than inducing labor. I had a really big fear of labor and delivery. At least with a c-section I knew what to expect.
4. I once dated a cop. Well he was on the drug task force. He turned out to be a big old lying jerk. That is a post for another day.
5. I helped the repo man find my sister's car when she was behind making payments. I made $100.00 on that deal!
6. I have a huge fear of turning into traffic. I am always afraid that I am going to get hit or that my car is going to stall. So I sit and wait until nothing is coming or the oncoming traffic is like a mile from me. In my head I am telling myself to go, but my body just will not cooperate.
7. I like visiting big cities, but I do not want to live in one.
8. My pantry looks like a grocery store and so does my deep freezer. I stockpile the things that we use regularly. We will never run out of paper towels, toilet paper, pasta, babyfood or diapers, along with a few other things.

Okay there they are, things that you may not know about me. If anyone wants to play along, just leave me a comment so I can check out your list.

A moment of silence

Today I am taking a moment of silence to remember all of the people and their families that were lost 5 short years ago. As a nation we lost so much that day. May we never forget those that we lost. I will be back tomorrow with a new post.

To all of my friends...

Well, here is a series of promises that actually speak of true friendship.

1. When you are sad -- I will help you get drunk and plot revenge against the sorry bastard who made you sad.

2. When you are blue -- I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.

3. When you smile -- I will know you finally got laid.

4. When you are scared -- I will rag on you about it every chance I get.

5. When you are worried -- I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse it could be until you quit whining.

6. When you are confused -- I will use little words.

7. When you are sick -- Stay the hell away from me until you are well again. I don't want to catch whatever you have.

8. When you fall -- I will point and laugh at your clumsy ass.

This is my oath..... I pledge it to the end. "Why?" you may ask; because you are my "friend".

Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth.

Remember....when life hands you Lemons, ask for tequila and salt and call me over !!!!!

**Someone emailed this to me today and I thought it was funny so I thought I would share!

Weekend success

I had a really good weekend. Although I did not get much rest, I got a lot accomplished, maybe I can rest next weekend!

I cleaned my house from top to bottom. I worked on it a good bit Saturday and amazingly got most of the things accomplished before my hubby's birthday party. The party was fun, the kids enjoyed it, that is what really counts. The cake was yummy and so was the food that I cooked for supper!

I went to yard sales with my daughter EARLY Saturday morning. It started raining before we got to the first one, but we went on anyway and I am so glad that we did. We had some good girl bonding time and I got a few really good things. The thing that I am most proud of is this chair:

It is a little rocking chair for my little one. This isn't the fabric on the one that I got, but it is close. It matches his nursery and I only paid $10.00 for it. It is in perfect condition, no tears or stains. He sat in it a few minutes on Saturday and watched T.V. It is so cute. I will post some pics of him in it as soon as I take them.

Having an extra day this weekend was awesome. I had an extra day to spend with my hubby and babe. I took the babe on a walk yesterday and when he took his first nap, hubby and I took that opportunity to have some "ALONE" time. It was much needed and we both enjoyed it. Then when he took his second nap we were able to put our washing machine in the house and take out the one that keeps ruining my laundry. The one that we took out works great, but every so often it will put grease on something in the load. Like for instance my favorite khaki skirt that it ruined last week. After it ruined my skirt I went on laundry strike until we could get the other washer in. So I am officially off of laundry strike. I have done about 4 loads of laundry so far and I have at least that much left to do. I hope to have it caught up by the weekend.

Anyway, it was a good weekend. Hope yours was!

**Side note: I am extremely upset about the death of the Crocodile Hunter. RIP!

Stress Full

Finally Friday! WHOO HOO! Can I get an AMEN? I woke up with a positive attitude today, determined that today would in fact be a good day. Why is it when I make that declaration that everyone tries their best to prove me wrong. Is it Murphy's Law? Well who is this Murphy and why do I have to abide by his laws? Will I get arrested if I decide that his laws are not for me?

So I got up on time this morning, left my house in enough time to drop off the babe and get to work without having to speed. I had doughnut holes and coffee for the drive and I got to the office in plenty of time. When I got in my office a co-worker came in with a plant and a card and sat them on my desk and told me to read the card and then get rid of it. Strange, but okay. So I sat my plant on my desk and opened my card, it was very funny, but if another co-worker saw it, it would cause a big stink and I just ain't into all that, so I promptly put the card in my purse.

That was a good way to start off the day at work! Today is pay-day, another good way to start off a day, getting paid. I ran to the bank on my morning break. It normally only takes me about 10 minutes to get to the bank and back, so I thought that I could probably make it to the Krystal's around the corner from the bank and then eat my food while in the drive-thru at the bank. Sounds like a good plan doesn't it? I thought so too. So I whipped into the Krystal and there were a few cars in the drive-thru so I figured it would be faster to go inside. BIG MISTAKE! There were a few people standing around waiting to get their food, which is never a good sign. The girl takes my order and I move down the counter to join all the other waiting people. About 10 minutes later I leave with my food. HOW RIDICULOUS IS THAT? It was not busy, it wasn't even lunchtime yet, it was 11am for pete's sake! They have the WORST customer service and they are the slowest place on earth. I think they should be declassified as a fast food restaurant. On top of all of that their prices have gone WAY up. I spent nearly 5 bucks for 2 little chili dogs and a frozen coke. That will be my last time doing that.

I leave there and head on over to the bank. PEOPLE ARE WAITING IN THE DRIVE-THRU. This bank hardly ever has people waiting in the drive-thru, so I pick a lane and wait. Of course the other lane clears out faster, so I back up and move over there. It took them 5 minutes to process my deposit. Now granted I make SO MUCH MONEY that it should take them a long time to process my deposit, but 5 minutes, I don't think so. My bank has the computer screen thing now instead of the big window so you can't really see the employees goofing off anymore and they are not forced to look at your irritated face while you tap your finger on your watch. Anyway I was so frazzled by the time I got back to the office I just wanted to scream. In all it took me nearly 30 minutes to do something that should have only taken 15. I only get a 15 minute break, I am glad that my boss didn't notice.

Then as I am leaving to go see my baby for lunch and I am waiting at the red light the car next to me just takes off and runs it. WHERE ARE COPS WHEN YOU NEED THEM? Oh yeah they are sitting in the neighborhoods to catch lawbreakers like me that run a stop sign when NO OTHER CAR IS WITHIN 5 MILES OF ME! That is where they are.

My day is only halfway over. I really hope that the second half is as good as the first.

On to better, yet equally stressful things, like the 3 day weekend. YAY for Monday holidays. I have so much to do this weekend. We are having a party for my hubby's birthday tomorrow evening. I use the word party very loosely. I am cooking dinner and we will have cake and ice cream for us and his mom and sister. Doesn't sound like much of a party does it? He never wants any big celebration for his birthday, so we just keep it simple. We will have balloons and candles though and a carrot cake. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM! It will be fun. Only problem is that I don't have him one thing yet for his birthday, which means that I have to shop tonight. Oh what fun. So I am meeting him and my daughter for chinese food and then we will go shopping. I am really hoping that hubby will take the babe home so I don't have to try to entertain him while looking for gifts.

My daughter asked me last weekend if we could go to yard sales tomorrow, and of course I told her that would be fun. We rarely ever do anything anymore just the two of us. The babe takes so much of my time and energy. Before he was born she got all of our undivided attention, we played Barbies and Polly Pockets and games for hours on end, but now I have to chase the babe and keep him from putting things into the air conditioner vents and the VCR and from eating the dog's food and turning over the water bowl, well you get the idea, not much time for playing these days. Anyway I am excited, not about getting up at the crack of dawn, but about spending quality time with my other child. The child that I only get to see every other day and have to spend the night with us every other weekend. So I got online this morning and looked up addresses for yard sales in our area and plotted out a plan of attack. If you are going to yard sales you have to have a plan of action. Maybe between the yard sales and the party I can get a nap. It probably won't happen though because before my in-laws come to my house I need to clean, it is such a mess. I may give everyone chores and make it a fun thing, you know like a game. Isn't there a game called "HELP MOM CLEAN THE HOUSE OR HEAR ME BITCH ABOUT IT THE REST OF THE DAY", no, well there should be. It would be much more fun than 'Don't Wake Daddy". Why does Daddy need to sleep anyway, it isn't like he was up all night with the baby and still managed to get the house cleaned, laundry done, and groceries bought. No Daddy was tucked snuggly into bed while Mommy did all of that. I digress.

Hope everyone has a stress-free, restful 3 day weekend, I know I will (in my dreams anyway)!