Weekend recap

Saturday morning bright and early, before 7:00 a.m. there was the pitter patter of Jeremiah and some guys from work tearing off the shingles of our house to prepare for the new roof. They got about 1/4 of the back side of the house done before it started raining. Well, it actually rained off and on on them while they were doing it - but it was only sprinkling, so they trudged ahead. There came a point, though, he decided he needed to cover everything up and call it a day before we had more problems - like our whole ceiling getting wet and falling in on us. (So maybe that's an exaggeration, but it could happen if it got wet enough, you know).

As for me - I was up bright and early, too, because you can't sleep when people are stomping on your roof and scraping off shingles. It's amazing how much you can get done if you get up and get busy at 6:30 on a Saturday instead of sleeping in. I got up and busied myself with laundry, swept, a little cleaning, cleaned out the fridge (scary, scary stuff in there), etc. The first time I looked at the clock it was only 8:00! I couldn't believe it. What was I going to do with myself for the rest of the day? Oh, that's right - more laundry and miscellaneous work I found to keep myself busy. But by midafternoon, I'd run out of things to do, so I did whatever I wanted - which was nothing!

When Dakota came in from helping her Bamma at her nursery she brought in the mail and there was a package - FOR ME! I was so excited because it was my Pay It Forward package from Nikke over at Mom is in the Fishbowl. I couldn't wait to open it. I have to admit I was giddy even before I opened it. I'm just used to getting bills and junkmail - but I had something fun to open! Ready to know what was in it: Close your eyes and count to 3...........

Isn't that stinkin' cute? I thought so, too. It was perfect. A cute little cow box and some cute little cow tissues (which I think will have to be for showin' not blowin' because how could I wipe my snot on such a cute tissue?) and the cutest little pig notepad with a pen and a sweet little note from Nikke. What was in the box you ask? These:

They're magnets that Nikke and her kids made. The pictures don't do them justice. They are really, really cute. They have little pictures in them of M&Ms (at least that's what they look like to me). And we all know M&Ms are on the good list!

So, thank you, thank you, thank you Nikke. I love it all! It all fits me so well! And it brought a smile to my face!

SUNDAY:

More pitter patter of feet on my roof bright and early. No worries, though - I got up and walked on the treadmill for 15 minutes and then got Dakota up to get ready to go help her Bamma again. When Drake finally got up around 8:30 (I don't know how he slept through all that noise) he went out and watched the guys work for a while. He came in complaining about his eye itching. I just thought his allergies were acting up and we put some drops in them and I sent him on his way. Meanwhile, I was getting a list from Jeremiah of supplies I needed to go get and was getting ready to do that when Drake came back in complaining that his eye hurt. I looked again and couldn't see anything in it but it was really red and the corner of it was swollen. We made the call I should take him to the walk-in clinic, so off he and I went. We were in and out in 20 minutes and here's what I left with:

A pirate! The above picture is the "Pouty face, please feel sorry for me and let me have anything I want because I have a patch on my eye" picture.

The picture below is the: "I have a pirate patch on my eye and that's cool" picture.

Bottomline: He's fine. No pink eye, no foreign objects in the eye, or scratches on the eye - just something that irritated it. Put antibiotic drops in his eyes 4 times a day for 5 days (yeah, make that easy for me, will ya) and he should be fine. He only had to wear the patch for 2 hours because the doctor had put some numbing drops in his eye and then a solution to use with a special light to check for scratches, cuts, or foreign matter that's not visible with the naked eye. So, for $115 we got a doctor who could have been better at dealing with kids, some gauze, some tape and some eye drops! That's what you would spend $115, isn't it?

Maybe I should have waited until Mon. to take him to our pediatrician - but where Drake is concerned, we don't like to mess around when it comes to "medical issues." You just never know where it will lead if you ignore it - even for a day. Besides that, he would have missed his first day of WILD Adventures Day Camp, and we can't have that, can we?

Hope you had a great weekend!