Tired

So first the time change has gotten me.  Feels like bedtime way too early.  Then today we worked on the Nebraska pallets.  I spent almost two hours just putting out books.  The first hour was spent taking care of deliveries and putting out flyers for our upcoming sale.
When I got home I was tired.  Checked in with fitbit and I was 150 steps away from my 10000 goal.  Most of those were done in my three hour shift.  No wonder I was tired and my feel hurt.
It's good though.  Got my steps in.
Audrie took another sick day.  I think she is well enough to go back to school tomorrow.

Off Sunday

The only thing we did was check on Mom.  She was okay.  Naturally wishing she hadn't fell.  First broken bone in 73 years.
The rest of the day was spent on the couch just resting.  The little woman is sick.  I watched all those sick people in the ER and hoped none of us got sick.  And of course, I don't know what they had or the incubation period.  But this is how we spent our day.
The little woman perked up for about an hour in the middle of the afternoon when she ate.  I kept offering her food and she kept turning it down.  She got warmer as the day progressed.  She had a nice bath, but she said it just made her cold.  Yeah.  A fever I think.
Guess we will see what tomorrow is like.

Fun at the ER

We thought we would go to Skipper's and have some fish and chips.  Well some of us would have fish and chips and some would have chips and one was hoping they had chicken strips.  We stopped to check in with Grammy first to see how she is doing.  Right off the bat the little woman tells her what we are doing and invites her along. I'm sure Mom has ate dinner since it was after 6:30 p,m, but she said she could ride along anyway.
Three of us made it into the actual Skipper's building.  The littles just because they are fast and me to find a big guy.  Mom fell on the sidewalk.  And I can't get her up.  And she couldn't help me.  She banged her head and thought perhaps she had broken her arm.  So with a little help from a wonderful customer we managed to get in the car and go to the ER.
They wheeled her in while we parked.  They took her into triage and then back for an x-ray.  They were going to bring her back out front when they were done.  I don't think they ever made it to the X-ray room.  After waiting in the waiting room for quite awhile we decided to check.  Yup she was in a room and they let us go back.  And then she wasn't there.  She was getting an x-ray.
We went back out front as it was a better place for the littles to wait.  And that part was the best part.  They played with other kids and had snacks.  Afterall, we did not have dinner.
A little after ten they brought her out.  She had broken her arm so had a splint and a sling and her head was just banged up a bit. We got the car and then we needed to go get her prescription filled.  Joy.  The only 24 hours pharmacy is up on 164th.  So off we go checking Kaiser as we passed but they were closed.  Got Burgerville and her pills.  The littles ate, She took a pill.
Then she tried to take another one, but she didn't.  Until about five minutes later when she was sneakier about it.
By the time we dropped her off and got her settled it was 11:30.  I left the nurse to do the checking in of the narcotic and I hope she took them away.  Mom was insisting she was going to manage her own pain meds but she couldn't remember taking a pill five minutes before.  She hid them in her purse.  Before I left I took them out.  And then we headed home.
Home just before midnight and we are all tired.  The littles really behaved pretty well for the ordeal.  And now we get to wait while Mom heals from her fall and rethink how we do things in the future.  But this falling is becoming more often.

First Friday Again

Oh it was a busy afternoon and evening.  Picked the little woman up from school, running the parent pick up gauntlet.  Then we headed to WIC to pick up our very last set of WIC checks.  The little man ages out this month.  We will miss them.  Have been going there for over seven years.  And we greatly appreciate all the help they gave us with formula first and then milk and veggies.
Both kids had dentist appts.  Oy.  We need to do better.  The little woman goes back next week to get a filling.  We are watching one of the little man's teeth to see what happens.
When we were done with those two things we hit the drive thru at McDonalds and they ate on the way to the Portland Children's Museum for First Friday.  They did some of the normal things that they always like to do.  The water room, the cafe/store, the dig pit.  There was an Eric Carle exhibit and it was pretty cool.  Then both found the stage and played there for quite awhile.  They never had before.
They had a great two hours of play and brain work.  The whole ride home was very quiet.  A great start to our weekend.

Rough Morning

I stopped to see Mom on the way to work.  She was having a rough morning.  It always surprises me when she has those.  Usually she has rough evenings and the morning are all right.  Hence why I visit in the mornings.  She was fine on Tuesday when I saw her so I'm not sure what set it  off.
Scratch that.  I still think her visit to the house over the weekend is what did it.  It just took longer to manifest than normal.  My Uncle Jerry had suggested back in June to not bring Mom to the house anymore.  He could tell then it was just too difficult.  So I was apprehensive how it would go for the little woman's birthday.  But it seemed to go fine.
In fact I was thinking it would be fine for Thanksgiving.  But maybe not.  So Rose at the facility suggested we all come have Thanksgiving dinner with them there.  I think we are going to think about that.

Care House Days

The little woman is feeling pretty grown up.  She has no care house days this week.  Usually I am off work by three which puts me home before she gets home.  It is just those occasional days where I work late or she gets off early that she goes to Little Tigers.  She also once in awhile has to go to school from Little Tigers.
Every day I am thankful for Little Tigers and all their staff.  It has been the littles' second home since Feb. 2013.  The only other constant in their lives.  They work with my schedule.  We are truly blessed.
The little woman hasn't quite figured it out that as long as I work, she will have day care days until she is about twelve.  :P

Customer Service

After our Halloween, I went back online to check on that Harley Quinn make-up kit. Then I went back onto Amazon and left a message for the seller.  Not nasty, not asking for anything, just making them aware that something went wrong.
The first email I got was from Amazon.  My money was refunded.  That was a pleasant surprise.  Then I got an email from the seller, who uses Amazon.  They could see better than I could.  It looked like the post office rerouted my package.  They, of course, did not know why.  But they told me that my money was being refunded and that when the kit arrives, we can just keep it for our patience.
I love Amazon and their sellers who are respectful.  This more than took care of any issue I had.  I knew it probably wasn't the seller's or Amazon's fault.  And I did not expect my refund, but naturally I am going to take it.
One day soon Audrie can just pretend she is a bad girl named Harley Quinn.