So this post is going to include not only Easter but the 2 weeks leading up to Easter. We've had ALOT going on, and I have lots of pictures to prove it!
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| A couple of weeks ago on a Thursday morning - Mack woke up looking like this. Yes, an allergic reaction to his antibiotic. Scary, but other than the rash, he was perfectly fine. No more Sulfa drugs for him. The antibiotic was for ear infection #6, he has since gotten ear infection #7, which convinced the pediatrician that he could finally see the ENT. We have an appointment this week. |
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| So the Monday morning following Mack's episode, Emma woke up like this. What can I say, my kids love to surprise me first thing in the morning. No, she hadn't been crying. She had pink eye, which until now had passed over our home. This poor kid is finally getting over her 4-5 bouts she had with strep throat all winter. Poor thing can't catch a break! |
At the end of that week. Emma had her school Easter party and egg hunt. She was very mad at me because I showed up late. The reason that I was late, was that the school nurse called me from Ellie's school and told me that Ellie was doubled over, laying on the floor, and pale with abdominal pain. The nurse said there was no fever and Ellie was not tender to palpation, but she thought she might be more comfortable at home. So, I had to rush to the school to pick up Ellie before I could make it to Emma's Easter party. Which I showed up to late and with Mack in tow. Ellie opted to lay in the car and watch a movie while we were inside the preschool at the Easter party. She really did not feel good! And, honestly, I wasn't convinced at this point that she didn't have a stomach bug. Ellie ended up being fine, Mirilax solved her abdominal pain problems. And, Emma got over me missing 3 minutes of her Easter egg hunt.
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| Sweet girl posing for the camera. They had to have their egg hunt inside due to rainy weather outside. |
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| If you look to the left of the picture, you will notice Emma's class posing for a group shot. If you look to the right of the picture, you will notice my daughter pouting, refusing to get in the picture. Ahhh! gotta love age 3! |
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| With a little coaxing from her teacher (who she is pretty much latched on to in this picture) she finally got in her class picture. |
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Finally out of pouting mode and into her Easter snack.
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So, what I haven't mentioned on any posts yet, is that we are having our master bathroom remodeled. We started at the end of February and we were planning on finishing up the week of spring break. Well, we cruised into spring break with ease and no children sick, until that Tuesday. Not due to anyone's fault, but timing, our septic tank decided to back up Tuesday morning. We have no toilet in the back master bath because we are remodeling and the toilet, sinks, fixtures, etc. were set to go in later that week. Well, when a septic tank backs up and you don't have a toilet to catch the sewage, it spews out of the hole that is in the floor on to our freshly painted walls and baseboards, covers the brand new tiled floor and then seeps through the drywall into the carpeted hallway where it just soaks into the carpet, walls and anything else in its path. And, by the way, it stinks BAD! Not that you couldn't have guessed that. To make a long story short, serv pro had to be called, drywall, carpet, baseboards were ripped out, the water and sewage was cleaned up, and dehumidifiers were placed for 3 days to suck out any remaining moisture. Due to all of the damage, we were officially down from a 4 bedroom, 4 and 1/2 bath house, to a 2 bedroom, 2 and 1/2 bath house. Call me spoiled, but 5 people in 2 bedrooms was not fun! We finally got our master bedroom cleaned out enough that Worth and I could return there to sleep. The good news is that in addition to remodeling a bathroom, we now get new flooring in our entire downstairs of our house. Yay?!
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| What I found when I got home from work around lunchtime that Tuesday |
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| Before Serv pro arrived. I have stooped to a new level of womanhood, mopping and wiping up raw sewage frantically to remove it from my newly tiled bathroom floor. |
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| After Serv Pro arrived. Hallway carpet and baseboards completely ripped out |
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Drywall and carpet removed. Serv pro dehumidifier doing its thing.
We ended up surviving the week and made it to Easter weekend. Saturday we headed up to Tifton for an egg hunt with the Berrymans, and dinner with my parents and Amos and Anna who were in town for Easter as well. We hopped up Sunday morning with a little time to peruse what the Easter bunny brought then headed to church here in Valdosta. After church we jumped in the car and headed to Albany to eat lunch with all the Bowers. It was a very eventful weekend, but it was great to get to see so many family members in one weekend. |
