I’m on day 4 of a head cold. I haven’t been sick in a couple of years, so this is hitting me pretty hard.
Life doesn’t slow down though, when you’re down..
A good example of that was yesterday.
Monday is our karate night, and typically when I schedule my grocery pick up from our local pick up location. Totally awesome service btw, if you haven’t tried it yet.
Anyway, my 10 year old goes to the school nurse that morning, and tells her that she’s had a urinary tract infection since last week, but didn’t want to tell me. She’s in major pain, and needs to go to a doctor. I got that call from the nurse mid-day… I had already made arrangements for grocery pick up, so obviously I was still going to have to make it over that way to get those.
I left work early to pick up my daughter from after school care, and I went ahead and grabbed the boys too. I could have left them there until 7:30pm, but thought, no, it will save time b/c we will go pick up my oldest daughter at home, get the girls in their uniforms for karate, then grab dinner while we are out. But, as soon as we pulled into Med Express, I saw the parking lot was pretty full, so I needed someone to pick up the boys, and take them home to my oldest, so she could watch them til we finished at the doctor. Luckily, my mom was able to help with that, and all seemed to go smoothly for a few minutes….
THEN, I received a text at 4:45pm from my oldest girl, saying that there was a special, important meeting at her school that she needed to attend with me, AT 6pm… WHAT?!!!
Now, I needed someone to watch the 3 younger kids so I could attend this meeting. Hoping the doctor visit wouldn’t take super long, I frantically made calls to get someone to help watch the kids for me. My dad was busy at the airport, working on a car. My step-sister wasn’t going to be home, my step-mom wasn’t feeling well… That only left my mom.. again.. So, I called and she was very kind and willing to help me. This took a tremendous load off me.
My oldest girl and I attended the meeting, dropped off prescriptions for my 10year old girl, ran home, put everyone to bed, and run BACK out to get groceries and pick up prescriptions that were going to be ready. All went well, and seemed to be just perfectly timed.
Even though the evening didn’t go as planned AT ALL, we accomplished what we needed to, and I’m just super thankful for my “village of people.”
Without support, I would be completely stressed to the max…..
All in a Day 