March 4th, Ear Tube Check

This is the latest post in the series of William, grace and Juliet's journey with hypophosphatasia. And now adding Emily to the list.

The high today was 46F, but it was cold and windy and even had some snow in the morning!

I had a reminder pop up in my phone last week, that I needed to take William to his PCP to see if his ear tubes had moved at all. The ENT gave him and extra six months, but sent me with the name and number of the surgery scheduler to remove the tubes if needed.

So, we started the day by dropping off Alice, Emily and Juliet, while I took William and Grace to the doctor. We were so lucky that the doctor had a 9am opening (we got there at 8:55) right before William's 9:30 appointment!

Grace complained of headache, tummy ache and sore throat, and since she finished off her medicine Sunday, there was a new chance of strep. = ( Thankfully she tested negative, but the culture was going out tonight just in case.

William's tubes are still in place. I tried calling the scheduler three different times over the course of the day, and ended up at her voicemail each time. So, I still don't have a time or date. = (

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After dropping them back at school, I had a bit of down time before heading back to help with round two of the talent show auditions! When I came home from that I made up the sign announcing the participants, then went back up to get them approved for posting. Hopefully they will be up tomorrow. = )

When I left there I headed to the car wash to wait in the longest line I've ever waited in for a wash! There were probably 10 cars in front of me. The line moved fast though. From there it was a quick trip to the thrift store to drop off a couple of boxes, then do a little shopping ; )

I picked up my crew at normal time since it was a long Wednesday, and Willow came over for a while too.

For dinner we had spaghetti and meatballs.

It was a busy day, so I'm ready for our two half days the rest of the week!

later days

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January 9th

Today was cold and brutally windy. Supposedly we hit a high of 45F, but the wind was so biting I'm inclined to disbelief. The sun came out a few times, and there was also a few drops of precipitation.

Before heading to MOPS this morning, I went through the carwash (even though Wednesdays are their $5 day, and today was $7) because my car was very dirty from the salt and snow on Wednesday. = (

MOPS was lovely.  Our table brought food, so I made a crock-pot taco soup, that I cooked overnight. My kitchen smelled so when I woke up!

We were invited to dress up and we watched videos, heard inspirational New Year ideas.  I broke out my "2020 dress" that I bought for this summer.

One of our mentor moms brought bags and bags of clothes for us to peruse.  I grabbed several pair of pants for Emily, a Unicorn nightgown, a skirt for me, and one pair of pants for William.

Our activity was to write cards that would challenge us to "have more fun!"  This is the one I wrote up.

The one that I received said "pretend our house is a restaurant and be the waitress and serve my kids."  I feel like I do this on a regular basis, but I think I can still make it fun.  My idea right now is to have a cereal and ice cream theme, but I'm still working on it.

We toasted the new year with sparkling grape juice in very fancy cups.  = )  Also, I managed to get a trivia question correct and then won the raffle for an amazon gift card!  I felt so special.  <3

We were also on clean-up, so I rushed to help as much as I could.  But I had to dash out the door at 11:30, because I was subbing for Emily's class.  Between absent students and some students being assigned to "help" other teachers, I was only responsible for about 15 students!

When we came home I was carrying the twins' backpacks, as usual, but I also had all my things from the morning, since I didn't have a chance to run home.  Billy's game had a sound byte that made me laugh when I hear it, so I have since adopted it: "My hands are full, your items are on the ground!"  I said this to my children in jest.  Then, when I went to dig out my keys, I dropped my cup on the ground.  Apparently I had hurt Juliet's feelings, because her response was: "now your item is on the ground."  I laughed so hard, then messaged Billy.

During William's piano practice, I was sitting on the sofa, while Grace was playing with one of my German dictionaries.  She opened it to the very back paged, and asked me what it said.  When I was looking at the weights & measurements, I was surprised to see that an American pint and a British pint are different volumes?!  I confirmed with google, then sent it to Billy, and apparently this was also news to him.  hmmmm.*

For dinner we had tortellini alfredo (well, my family did, I couldn't' help but have another portion of my taco soup.)

later days

*my first ever meme creation.