Spring Break - Friday

Another beautiful spring day today.  Tim worked from home, so we got to see him a little bit more than other days, which is always nice.  The "FUN" plan for today was to have a campfire cookout, but that isn't until dinner time... so here is what we did the rest of the day.

Aaron went over to his friend Alexa's house to hang out for the afternoon.  I took Katrina to get her hair trimmed.

I  tackled some more laundry, included the dreaded sock pile!  - I'm finally getting close to the bottom of the dirty clothes MOUNTAIN, and hopefully our closet clean out projects will help future laundry mountains be a little smaller and  more manageable.  I also helped Tim review our taxes so we can  finalize those and get them submitted -blech!  The kids cleaned their rooms, then played outside and on the computer the rest of the day.

another unplanned adventure -  taking Caleb to the doctor.   (back story- last Thursday, Caleb woke up with a fever and complaining of a sore throat - also a croupy sounding cough.  I wasn't worried, as a few of the other kids  had just gotten  over having a similar sounding cough,  just figured it was Caleb's turn and I kept him home from school both Thursday and Friday.  Since last week,  he hasn't had a fever at all, and hasn't complained about his throat or anything else, but he kind of lost his  voice and the  cough hasn't seemed to get any better at all.   They were sleeping outside  again last  night and I woke up several times last night to hear him hacking away.  It concerned me enough that I thought I'd  better take him in today to make  sure  it really was the "nothing" that  I was treating it as.)  We got in to see one of the pediatricians, and she listened for a while (much longer than  normal) to his chest/ breathing/ coughing, but she said  it was all still up high and not to worry about the cough.  His  ears  were clear...   THEN  she looked in his  mouth.

 "HIS TONSILS ARE HUGE!!!!"  

She let  me look, and she was  right,  they were pretty BIG!  She did a strep test - and  sure enough, this 'mother of the year' let her  kid go all spring  break with STREP!  A stop at the store/pharmacy for an antibiotic and Popsicles,  and we were back home in time to get ready for the fire.

Fred and Christie had been invited to join us, and Katrina's  friend Elisa was here too.  The kids were their usual show-off selves, but it was fun.  Hamburgers and hotdogs, all flame broiled over the fire, chips,  veggies, fruit, and of course MARSHMALLOWS.  a yummy ending to a  good day.