March 17, 2009

• Much Accomplished

  Yesterday was a busy one.  I got a few things cleaned up (didn’t get the decorator items from the counter tops back on top of the cabinets – oh well) and then left for Rissy’s physical therapy appointment (about 30 minutes from our house).  The gal who helps her is so good with children.  She said they would ask an orthotics person to be at Rissy’s next appointment to see if she can be fitted for a shoe lift, brace while she sleeps, or whatever, to help with her leg and back pain.

    
  (Sushi feel asleep with her face under the corner of carpet!)

  We left the physical therapist’s office and I decided it would be a great day to take the girls to lunch.  It’s been months since we’ve gone to lunch together.  Our Friday McDonald lunches, eaten in the car, while we drive to the therapy appointments, don’t count as *lunch* – not in my book, anyway!  We ended up at Chili’s – our usual favorite, “expensive” lunch place.  Rissy and I had burgers and Annamarie & Luci had macaroni & cheese with a side of baked cinnamon apples.  We ordered one dessert and split it four ways.

    
  (Chirper, wrapped in a sweat shirt, being kissed and loved.  Yes!  He’s smiling!)

  We left Chili’s and went to Wal-Mart to get dog food.  With the addition of Sushi to our family’s menagerie, the dog food doesn’t last nearly as long as when we just had Sampson!  I bought two 20lb sacks of food and I’m hoping that gets us through the week.  No!  No!  Just teasing!  But . . . it *does* seem to disappear mysteriously fast!

  After lunch, Annamarie declared she felt like she was going to throw up.  I can’t imagine why.  She ate all of her macaroni and cheese and the small cup of baked apples.  She asked for half of my French fries with ketchup, and then she proceeded to stuff every bite of her dessert into her.  Oh yes!  There was also two glasses (each) of chocolate milk she and Luci ordered.  So, we quickly ran through Wal-Mart to get the dog food and some chicken for last night’s dinner (I’d forgotten to take meat from the freezer).  Rissy needed some hair conditioner and in the Wal-Mart parking lot area is a beauty supply shop; so, I zipped in, bought what I needed, and got back into the car full of children.  We headed home.
  
  Annamarie laid in bed for a while and Luci & Rissy went outside to play.  Something is missing from our day – can you figure out what it is?  SCHOOL!  We didn’t have school.  Public school children are on spring break – but we don’t follow public school schedules.  The day simply got away from us.
  

    
  (More hugs and kisses and *LOTS* of loud purring)

  I came home and paid all of the bills through the end of this month.  The ones that had arrived in the mail, anyway.  I don’t want anything looming over my head after tomorrow.  I had intentions of wrapping Annamarie’s gifts, but I began to feel achy and “not so great.” 

  When it was 6:30p (30 minutes before Jesse gets off work), I called Jesse and declared I didn’t think I felt very good.  Couldn’t explain it, but I felt like doing nothing at all and kind of achy.  He said I shouldn’t worry, he’d pick up some burgers on the way home.  I took my temperature and found I had a 2 degree elevated fever.  NO WONDER I FELT BAD!!!  It’s rare for me to get a fever of any kind and 2 degrees is enough to make me feel really horrible.

  I only ate half of my burger and went to bed and was soon asleep.  I was awakened when Jesse took off my glasses and, again, when he removed the remote control from my sleeping hand!

                                          

  I’m doing my laundry today and any of the girls’ baskets full of dirty clothes.  I WILL wrap Annamarie’s gifts.  Then I can “recover” in peace after tomorrow’s procedure.

  I also wrote a letter, yesterday, asking for an increase in Rissy’s subsidy from the state.  I have a letter from her neurologist that states she has cerebral palsy, scoliosis, and is being seen by physical therapists.  A call was made to me this morning from someone in the subsidy office giving me advice about how to write my letter to ensure my subsidy increase would be approved.  Sometimes those people in the state office are REALLY nice!!!  Hopefully, the increase will be approved and I can take her to a chiropractor for adjustments.  Her insurance does not cover chiropractors under any circumstances. 

                                   

  Today’s To Do List:
  *  Finish and mail letter to the state for Rissy’s medical subsidy
  *  Finish my laundry and whoever else gets theirs to me
  *  Chicken breast somethin’ or other for dinner
  *  Wrap Annamarie’s b-day gifts
  *  Clean off desk
  *  Teach as much as I can, in between doing all the other things of my list
  *  Shower and wash my hair (I’m not sure how long it will be before I can raise my arms to wash my hair, again!!!)

  Be Blessed  ~

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