Well, Monday brought us more snow. It's not looking like a great week weather wise, and that is super disappointing. COME ON SPRING!!!! I woke up exhausted, and the girls were pretty slow going. I decided to avoid the bad weather traffic this morning - I dropped the girls off at my in-laws, and stopped into Walmart to do our grocery shopping real quick. After getting everything put away and packing up my food for work, I was off. The day went pretty quickly. After work, I started my new workout program. I'm doing another Lindsay Brin, Moms into Fitness series, Pretty Fierce - Weight Loss. According to the schedule, the first two weeks are cardio/endurance training, and you are supposed to work out every day. If today's workout is any indication, it's going to be a rough two weeks! I'm looking forward to it though. Olivia had a pretty rough day - she claimed she burned her tongue at dinner last night, but wasn't sure if it's that, or something more. She wouldn't eat most of the day though, and seemed pretty down, so I was starting to prepare myself for another round of illness. After the rest of us ate dinner, and the girls had their baths, it was definitely time for bed.
Sick of Opening Our Garage To This...
The Girls' Easter Bunny Visits
Tuesday I spent the day working from home. Olivia was pretty miserable this morning when I tried to wake them up for school, so I thought it best to just play it safe, and keep her home. She spent most of the day resting, napping and watching videos, so I actually got a ton of work done - probably more than I would have in the office, so that was a bonus. By the end of the day, Olivia had a few bumps on her tongue, and her lips were looking a little dry. We still didn't really know what was going on though, and she was still convinced it was burned, so I pushed ice chips and cold water on her all day. Once Christian was home, I got my workout in quick, we ate dinner, and had a pretty low-key night.
A Cat, Netflix and a Banana...What More Could a Sick Girl Need??
Trying to Relax for a Bit - Not Easy With All of These Animals Around...
On Wednesday, we sent Olivia to school. She was in better spirits, and she hadn't actually had a fever the past few days, so we couldn't really justify keeping her home simply for a burnt tongue. She made it through the day just fine, but they said she definitely wasn't herself - not eating or playing, pretty somber. After school, her lip was looking pretty dry, her tongue was still blistered and she wasn't talking much. We felt horrible, but it didn't really seem like there as anything we could do. So, we had another relaxed night, just trying to rest off whatever was getting to her.
Thursday started off pretty exciting - for two days in a row, I was on time for work. At my desk and everything ON time. Awesome! And, it was my Friday. I was so swamped this week, the week flew by. Things are pretty standard for Christian right now - they are building onto his work and expanding their inventory and everything, so they are pretty busy with that right now. Should mean exciting things in the coming year or so for him! The girls are doing well in school - another week down. Because Olivia wasn't feeling so great this week, she took it pretty easy. Amelia was her usual chaotic self though. When I picked Olivia up, I noticed that she had more sores in her mouth - along her gumlines. At this point, it just didn't seem normal to me anymore - it definitely was NOT burn related. By this point, she had sores on her tongue, her lips and along her gum lines - she wasn't eating, she was barely talking and she was exhausted. She was getting worse so quickly - I decided to just run right over to Urgent Care and get her checked out. Here, the evening from hell commenced. I got to Urgent Care and the lobby was empty. I thought we'd be in and out in no time. After 40 minutes of sitting in the lobby, and another 30 sitting in the room, the doctor finally saw us. She checked Olivia over, ruled out Hand Foot Mouth disease or anything of that nature, and determined it was "just a virus" (my new most hated term), similar to cold sores. She said there wasn't anything we could do or give her to "cure" it, we just had to wait it out. She did prescribe some numbing cream to help and sent it to the pharmacy. I got the girls all bundled up and we made our way to the pharmacy - just as they were closing their gate for the night. The receptionist called in to try to get them to open back up, but it turned out they didn't even carry what was prescribed. So, they transferred it to Walgreens. By this time, it was after 7:00 - the girls hadn't eaten and were exhausted. I dropped them off to Christian and ran to Walgreens. He got Amelia fed and to bed. Walgreens gave me a wait time of 20-25 minutes, so I stopped at Wendy's and grabbed a salad - ate in my car, played on my phone for a bit...ran into Walgreens to pick up a photo order, grab some cough medicine for Amelia and some PediaSure for Olivia and successfully killed about 35 minutes. I went to check on the prescription, just for them to tell me they hadn't started it yet, and it would be another 15 minutes. I literally sunk into a waiting room chair and my eyes started to well up - I felt like such a loser, getting emotional over waiting, but I was so done with this day. I was exhausted, my heart broke for Olivia and I just wanted to get home. I was finally able to check out, made my way home, used the cream on Olivia and gave her a PediaSure. Finally got her off to bed around 9:30 and settled in for the night. Seriously...evening from hell.
At the Doctor - Who's the Patient?
Friday was a pretty long day home with the girls. It started off pretty amazing with a 3.2lb weight loss. YES!!!!!!!!!! All of the hard work this week paid off, and I'm excited to see where I get now that I'm finally back on the wagon. Other than the sniffles and a cough, Amelia was in a pretty good mood today. Olivia was still really quiet - not talking much and just taking it east. Between the two of them, I spent the day handing out medication and spreading cream on tongues. Gross. We made it through the morning though - Olivia still refuses to eat and is currently living off of PediaSure. While they napped, I did some picking up and got my workout in. They were immediately off to my in-laws house for the night once they were up from their naps (and re-medicated). Tonight, we were off for Christian's early birthday celebration with our friends. We spent the night at Chatterbox, eating some great (bad) food, chatting, catching up - I haven't laughed so hard or so much in a long, LONG time. It was such a great night. We played a couple rounds of "Apples to Apples", which I'd never played before, and it was incredibly entertaining. We definitely needed this night out - it was so relaxing and fun. Hopefully it won't be so long between visits with our friends next time! We arrived home just before midnight (super late for me, LOL) and settled in for the night. In a quiet, childless home. Crazy!
Ready to Go Out!
A Night Out With the Old Gang!
It was pretty awesome to "sleep in" on Saturday, that's for sure! I laid in bed watching some shows in the iPad for a while. It was so quiet and peaceful. I definitely missed my monsters though. They are loud, destructive, messy, dirty and always fighting - but life isn't complete without them around. Christian picked them up around noon, and they pretty much just went down for their naps. I got my workout in, we ate some lunch and watched some TV together while they napped. Once they were up, Christian was off getting ready for birthday party celebration #2, out with his friend from work, Lorenzo. Olivia was a little happier today, but still looked pretty rough - I picked off the massive scabs from her lips after her nap, hoping that would help them actually heal, and let the medication get to her sores better. It must have helped a little, because her lips almost looked healed by the time she went to bed. Amelia was pretty crabby today, and warm - but no fever and no sores (yet anyway). Still holding out hope she miraculously doesn't come down with the same thing. When I finally got them in bed for the night, I got in my jammies, popped some popcorn, grabbed an extra diet dew and settled in with some Dexter for the night. Finally starting Season 6, and super excited about it!
Being Able to Make Your Sick Kids Smile, Laugh and Momentarily Forget their Pain and Sickness is a Great Feeling!
Sunday morning Olivia woke up looking almost completely normal again. She was in good spirits all day, pretty feisty and raring to go. She BEGGED us all day to go to the zoo...sorry dear, your sissy is sick, and there's snow everywhere - we aren't wasting our time going to the zoo in the "winter"! She still wouldn't eat much, other than a ton of her favorite pasta at dinner and and snacks before bed. Amelia woke up burning up again. After some medicine and time to wake up, she perked up. But, she claimed it hurt to eat and she was sick. She's still not showing any of the blisters or sores like Olivia, so I'm not quite sure what's going on there. I spent the day doing some chores - workout, cleaned the kitchen, laundry, dishes and did some picking up around the house. Otherwise, just cuddled and spent time with the girls. I was very sad to see the day come to an end - it doesn't even feel like our weekend got started!
When this Energizer Bunny Falls Asleep In Your Arms - You KNOW It's Not Good...
So ends another week of illness and exhaustion. It has to end soon....right?!?
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