The Flu
Day three of staying at home with Kacie. Monday just after lunch her teacher called and said Kacie "just wasn't right"... apparently she'd asked to stay in the classroom during recess to take a little nap on Mrs. P's big sofa she uses during story time, a short time later when it was time to go to PE, she again asked if she could take a nap. Since the only reports I get from Kacie are about recess, lunch and PE, this behavior, in face, "just wasn't right". I picked her up early and took her home were she filled the rest of the afternoon with snacking and watching cartoons. No fever no aches or pains, just a little lazy for Kacie.
The next morning when I woke her and asked her how she was feeling she said, "well, my tummy feels a little funny," which oddly as it may sound is always how strep starts with Kacie. Since we battled strep nine times last year (and had her tonsils and adenoids removed in April), I was thinking oh boy, here we go again... strep. Plus her best bud at school had strep last week. So I take her to see the good Dr. Miller who tests her for strep and you know, while we're at it... flu.
Positive for Type A flu. Not good, but I was glad it wasn't strep. Ten days of a pretty awful recovery from the tonsillectomy needs to have value. No strep is good. Flu is not good, but not as awful in our case as it has been for others.
Kacie has no fever. No aches. No pains. A little bit of a runny nose and a wet cough, that isn't that bad. She feels fine, but just seems to "run out of gas" about mid-afternoon and has to take a little siesta. The Dr. says she needs to stay out of school the rest of the week. I understand that, and realize that this flu has reached pandemic proportions because people aren't staying out of the public and they are spreading their germs everywhere.
I had a friend tell me she was visiting the local library earlier this week and there was a little girl coughing her head off. She asked her if she was home schooled... the girl's mother piped in, oh, no, she's been sick. She missed school all week... she's had mono, the flu and..... you get the picture. Yet they were at the public library... coughing and spewing germs all over the place.
I don't like the idea of Kacie missing a week of school, but I picked up her work from school and we've been keeping up. It does make me certain that homeschooling isn't for us. We will both be ready for Monday.
Electricity
I came to the conclusion this morning that I really like electricity and all that it entails. Our power went out about 3:00AM and didn't come back on until nearly 9:00AM. I am usually sipping my first cup of coffee before 6:00 AM well before the rest of my family gets up. It's the nicest thing I can do for them because well, I'm not a very nice person until that first cup is flowing through my veins. This morning was rough on all of us. Getting your sleepy 10-year-old to get dressed by candlelight isn't a fun task either. Especially with no coffee. Oh, and did I mention that we have a electric gate?? No power makes it pretty difficult to open at 7:15AM to leave for school. As Kyle and Kyle drove through the pasture to our other entrance in the dark I was just praying that the four inches of rain we got last night wouldn't cause them to get stuck. Thankfully it didn't and when the power came back on the first thing I did was flip the switch on my coffee maker. I like electricity.
Puppy Dogs
Raider, our three month old boxer pup got to go to church last night. He was a special guest in the Cubbies class (Cubbies are the 3-4 year-old kids in the Awana's program). They were studying about how every thing God made was good. Raider was joined by a fish, a bird, a hamster. I was told the kids went on about how good God made Raider... his nose, his soft fur, his ears... and Raider was a perfect gentleman, sitting in the teacher's lap and letting the kids maul him. A bonus was he didn't poo in the floor. I really worried about that... How bad is it if your dog poos in church? I'm not sure on that one.
With all this home time, I've been doing a bit of Christmas shopping online. I may just do all of it online this year. I'm pretty excited to already have a few things crossed off my list.
Weddings
This past weekend our youngest was the flower girl in a wedding. The mother of the bride graduated with my husband, so the reality that we were old enough to have kids getting married kind of hit me. Kyle and I started out family a little later than most of our friends so I sometimes don't really think about the fact that we are older parents and could actually be grandparents. Well, maybe Kyle, I'm much too young. Unless I was a 20 year old mom, with a 20 year old child, that had a child. Wrap your head around that one. Shutter.... anyway, these friends have two girls, we have two girls. We've watched their kids grow up and it's flown by. The wedding was just a slap of reality on exactly how fast it all goes.
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