Just another day....NOT!!!!

Well, its been a little while since I blogged.  I have all three kids sleeping at the same time, so I thought I would write about the day I have had....

   Regan called me this morning and told me that Karaline was so sick.  She was crying out that her ear hurt so bad and she had a fever, so she couldn't send her to school.  I needed to call first thing to get her into the Dr.  I did and we got an appointment for 10:30.  I managed to get all three kids breakfast and dressed and I even jumped into the shower and got myself ready.  I loaded up a few things in my arsenal of things to get us through this Dr.'s appt.  We get there and the fun began...the Dr.'s office has one main waiting room for all the Dr.s so it is a big massive area.  Perfect for running...and running they did...If I wasn't yelling at one to stop it, I was yelling at the other...Nick bumped his head at one point and then proceeded to melt down.  I hit my arsenal bag...a cookie made the screaming stop.  Fortunately, there weren't many people in the waiting room...but the receptionists in the other offices, just kinda gave me sympathy looks.  Nick saw a vendor guy and went over to check things out....he had been looking at the boys running around...I went to get him and he says to me, "looks like you have your hands full"  I said, " you have no idea...pray for me".  We finally get called back into the Dr.  I herd everyone along and I tell the nurse..."just close the door, how bad can this be?"  she laughed...yeah...I'm serious..  Well, what seemed like forever, the Dr. finally came in...the boys were really winding down at this point.  She looked at Karaline and listened to her chest...she didn't like what she heard and ordered a breathing treatment...OK....now what...this was painless for Karaline, but it did take about 10 minutes to do....so as a last resort, I dug out my final thing left in my arsenal...dumdum suckers...sticky yes, messy yes, but it got us through that test.  The nurse came in to check on us...She said, "I wondered why it got so quiet...now I understand"  I told her, " I'm in desperation mode right now".  The fun isn't over yet, because now I have to go to Meijers and get the prescriptions filled, so off we go.  Karaline is pretty quiet, so she is no trouble...You can tell she doesn't feel good.  I load them into one of those carts with a seat...but of course...I pick the one with a bad wheel...so it pushes so hard.  I can only imagine how pathetic I looked.  We go directly to the pharmacy...fortunately the wait wasn't too long, so we got going as fast as we could..  I noticed as were walking to the door, it looked so dark outside.  Well, by the time I made it outside, the sky just opened up.  It could not be raining any harder...Crap....now what.  I just couldn't take the kids out in the downpour, but I needed to get them home.  A nice man saw my plight and said just leave the kids here and go get your car...I'll wait with them...what a blessing, so I ran as fast as I could, but still got totally drenched.  Just par for the course today.  We made it home...got them all fed lunch.  Gave Karaline her medicine and then she wanted to lay down to take a nap.  I put Nicky down for his nap and he went right to sleep.  Then we were down to Sean...I let him watch one Dora and then I put him to bed.  He went right to sleep.  Its 2:00 and all three kids are asleep and I am feeling pretty good about myself...Not all 60 yr. old Mimi's could have pulled that off.  Let's hear it for the old girl...she's still got it!!!!