Spring

Spring is officially here!
I could use more like 60's weather, but I've found that mid-upper 50's with some sunshine isn't so bad! Mollie's bff Lindsay had her birthday party on Saturday and it was outside and just gorgeous. OH, a funny note from the princess themed party: a game where you had to "pin"/tape the lips on the frog prince. Well, of course Mollie was a little confused about where the Prince was. I mean at least 12 kids put lips on the guy and he didn't turn into a Prince. It was cute.

Sydney's all better, she stayed home with Daddy yesterday morning from preschool to just get a little extra rest, but played outside all afternoon and was just fine. She slept 12 hours last night though which never happens so I think it will take some time to get back to normal.
Today we're back to our usual Tuesday routine of Mollie's Kinderdance class and Sydney's gymnastics class!

And here is my plead to Laura's baby: Come out! Make your mommy happy! It's time!

spoke too soon

Fever comes back then will go away then come back. Low, about 99-100.5. But still, you can tell she's not herself. She def. is not as sick as she was Friday so I think she's getting better. So no school for her tomorrow AGAIN! I am going to work though. Phil is staying with her in the morning. I hope this is the end of it. Now I'm convinced that she really did have the flu. Nastiness, nastiness. I am going to let her play outside today though! It's so beautiful and we all need the sunshine!

update

Sydney's fever went away, yeah!
Nothing interesting in the mail...

TGIS

Day 4 of Sydney having a fever. She's getting more of a cough, more congestion. But strangely enough she seems to be feeling a little better as far as getting up and playing and stuff is concerned. Or maybe she's just bored!
I took her back to the dr. yesterday and Dr. Bowman said her lungs/ears/throat, etc. all still look good and it's probably just a virus. I asked about the flu b/c I started hearing of a lot of people whose kids had influenza type B which seems to be a mild strain of flu. The symptoms sound exactly like what she has. He didn't even test her for it though b/c he said it won't change the outcome or treatment. That is was more of a matter of randomly doing flu tests and kids who "didn't seem that sick" really had the flu. But rest, fluids, etc., regular viral stuff you do is the same treatment. So if she's still running a fever on Monday we take her back and they'll prick her finger to see if it's in fact bacterial and not viral. She wasn't quite up for that yesterday;) I missed work all week so thankfully Phil said if she's still sick Monday he'll stay home for the morning.

On another note, the Wake Co. school letters for magnet or year-round application were mailed out yesterday. That means I could get it today. I'm not feeling too hopeful, but am still really stressed about it and I don't know why. Like really anxious. I really like the year-round calendar. People think I'm crazy. Ugh, the stress of having choices!

things

• I'm feeling better! So glad. Diet Coke still doesn't taste right though and burns my throat. That's sort of sad.
• Sydney woke up with a fever. No work for me again. See why I've realized work is inconvenient? half-kidding. I took her to the dr. in my panic of oh crap did I give her strep...and she doesn't have it. Just a cold probably, little virus. We'll see how she feels in the morning.
• My brother in law Cameron had something pretty exciting happen today. Very exciting for Courtney as well. He graduates from Pharmacy school at UNC in May. I don't really understand all the details, but he is doing a one year residency program thing and had to be selected to interview at certain schools and state his preferences for a "match". And the schools had to rank their preference of "matches". And he got his first choice, UNC for his match! He found out this morning. I think his other options would have been Moses-Cone in Greensboro and Wake Forest. So now no one has to move or commute or have a long distance relationship! And Cameron is one of the smartest people I know so it's no surprise that his first choice also picked him:)
• My cousin Laura's baby is due on Friday and she's way done so I'm really hoping she can pop her out soon. Go Laura! I selfishly just want to know her name, haha, kidding! I was a secret name keeper too!
• I should find out at the end of the week/early next week if Sydney got into year-round school or not. I'm pretty convinced she didn't b/c that would just be too perfect and I think there are a bajillion people trying to get in there for next school year...but I would sure love it b/c that would mean Mollie could go too!
• I'm happy that my friend Dawn's life is getting easier with the twins. Keep up the good work!
• I have another friend Tracy having twins in April and I'm super excited for her as well. Love some babies:)
• Mollie has a great time playing golf outside these days. We have 2 little golf sets and she likes to yell score! when she gets it into the pretend hole. Which is not difficult when the ball is on the edge of the hole, but whatever, she's 3.

great friends

Great friends are really one of the most valuable things in life.

For some reason I thought I would be feeling lots better this morning, but I wasn't. I wasn't running any fever at all so that helped the body aches and chills, but not the horrible neck pain and swelling. You can look at the outside of my neck and tell it's swollen. Yikes. Actually, as of tonight around dinner time I started feeling a little better so hopefully tomorrow I can go to work.
Anyway, I became really thankful that I scheduled Mollie's dance and Sydney's gymnastics classes with some of my friends' kids! I called my friend Kim this morning whose daughter Sarah is in Mollie's dance class. I was going to see if she could take Mollie to dance at 11:30 and bring her back. She offered to take both of them to get them out of the house and Sydney could play with her son who is her age. She called back minutes later and said they had my day worked out. She would take the girls to Wendy's for lunch after dance and meet my friend Chris and her 2 girls. Side note: Chris and Kim both always have 2 extra car seats in their vans b/c they transport each other's kids a lot. Chris would bring Mollie home and Kim would take Sydney to gymnastics at 2! Her son takes it a different day so she knows where it is. My friend Tracy's daughter Ella is in Sydney's gymnastics class so she would bring Sydney home. I gave Kim her extra booster seat so she could do that.
I am really thankful that that all worked out and they were so happy to help me and I barely even had to ask for help! It was just handed to me. I got several naps in and got to rest and the girls still got to do their activities. They could have skipped them, but they would not have wanted to be cooped up all day here with me anyway!
I am counting my blessings:)

sick

I have strep throat. Ugh. It's amazing how something can hit you so hard and knock you flat on your bum. It started late Sat. night with a scratchy throat. I was feeling worse yesterday, but it was a busy day. We had lunch for Courtney's birthday over at Mom's then met my friend Lauren and her husband Josh in Cary for dinner. I got home, took my temp, had a low grade fever and white spots creeping up on my tonsils. I hardly slept at all last night, emailed into work, haha, and then went to the dr. I have super strep. My throat is completely covered with the nastiness now. I got this for the first time my first year teaching and it was like death. The sickest I've ever been. I guess it's the fever that gets you. Even with 3 Advil it's still 99 or 100. Luckily the girls had preschool this morning and Sydney's class had a daddy lunch thing. So he was there to get them at the end of the day. He brought Mollie home for her nap and took Sydney to my friend Jennifer's house. She had volunteered to take them for the afternoon. But I could handle Mollie napping. We went to get her about 4 then I stayed on the couch and we watched Snow White until Phil got home at 5:45.
He thankfully decided to just take them to get dinner at Chili's then to the new HHGregg store that opened up down the road and Dick's Sporting Goods. Dick's is Sydney's favorite store and she has been begging to go for days:) She likes to pretend she's using the exercise equipment or run around the track by the shoes, LOL.
And they're still gone. I wonder if he remembers it's bath night...
I think I'll feel better tomorrow by lunch after I've had 3 doses of antibiotics in me.