Oh what a week!
So I think we last left off on Monday when I was starting to feel better and Jocelyn was sick and Jesse was getting sick. Well they did indeed take turns getting up all night and I think I counted up my sleep at 2.5 hours - NOT in a row! I still went back to work on Tuesday as I had things I had to tend to.
By Tuesday afternoon Jocelyn was starting to feel somewhat better but Jesse was worse and stayed up most of the night and again I think I clocked in maybe 3 hours of sleep.
Wednesday I was still feeling sort of better except my throat so I went and got some antibiotics from the walk in clinic (where I was in and out in less than 30 minutes and the doctor didn't make actual physical contact with me or tell me what I have - just looked in my throat and gave me a z-pac - yay) and was feeling SO much better Wednesday night.
Jesse slept a little here and there Wednesday night and Thursday night but during the days were a mess and lots of crying was involved. We called the doctor that was filling in for our doctor on Thursday, but they wouldn't see him because Josh couldn’t find a thermometer to take his temperature and they didn't believe that he had one(??). The nurse told Josh to go buy one and then take his temp and call back. Josh says "listen lady, I have 4 kids and 3 are sick, there's no way I'm going to take them all out to the store to buy a thermometer when I know he has a fever already". She suggested he go borrow one from a neighbor. click.
So now Josh is ripping mad AND he's got a pretty upset Jesse. So we sucked it up one more night but on Friday afternoon Josh called me and said Jesse wouldn't stop crying. So I headed home in the snow, grabbed Jesse, and we went over to the walk-in clinic. The doctor said he wasn't a pediatrician. I apologized and said as long as I was there could he just look in his ears real quick ... so the doctor was kind enough to look him over. Said he didn't see any ear infection but his ears were very congested and his nose was pretty nasty so he gave us some amox (I asked the pharmacist to check the dose - just in case!). Jesse's been feeling better since then, though he's still pretty grumpy) and his fever is no more (I did eventually show Josh where the thermometer is).
Besides being sick - not much time to do anything else this week! Jesse's learned to say "go car?" and bring you his shoes. Hahaha. Jocelyn's latest thing is saying OHMIGAWD - oops! Morgan ended up with a slight cold and is a little squeaky but otherwise seems ok. Timothy and Morgan go back to school tomorrow - yay!
We did well with the grocery game this week - easily got twice as much food as usual while spending the same amount, plus a bunch of baby aspirin for free and Colgate toothpaste for cheap. However, we ran out of freezer space, which makes stockpiling difficult! Luckily I got my annual bonus on Friday, which was enough to payoff all the credit cards and have enough left for a new fridge and upright freezer. So Josh went out today and bought those - the freezer is 20cu ft! It'll be here tomorrow. The fridge won't be here until Thursday (and then we'll move the current fridge out to the garage as a spare).
So Monday night we can start this week's grocery's shopping - which is great because frozen veggies are on special at Shaw's - yay!
Oh here's a funny story. Josh came downstairs this morning wearing, well, an interestingly styled shirt. Not exactly what I would pick for him. Anyway when Jocelyn saw him, she laughed! I said what's so funny?! She says "Daddy's being Uncle Joey". hahahahaha
I think that's it from here - please send the kids healthy vibes!
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