Monday, Monday

Wow, last weekend zipped right on by, didn't it?

After a tension filled weekend of getting the kiddo to First Communion rehearsal, house cleaned, cooking class, getting food ready (Thank you, Sam's Club and Panera!), early Sunday mass with the First Communicants, group pictures, individual pics and the local family gathering (15 adults & 3 kids) we relaxed by going to see Wolverine (naked Hugh Jackman is yummy!)and eating pizza. We all got in our jammies early and took it easy the rest of the night.

So, of course, when we got up this morning the kiddo was sick: fever, headache, body aches, coughing, etc. Called school. Called doctor's office. And lo! and Behold! got an appointment for 9:15. Of course there's nothing they can do if she has a flu except verify the fact. So instead of doing the saline blow the snot out test, they did a PNP. Poor Kiddo! If you don't know what a PNP is here's the gist: they ram a small swab with a flexible wire up the patient's nose into their sinuses. This is a pretty tough kiddo, but it brought even her to tears. Poor baby. We barely got home when the school called wondering about her--uh, the school has NEVER called to ask about her welfare. Guess everyone is a tad gun shy about the Swine Flu. Anyway, I hope to hear about the preliminary flu testing by the end of the day.

Other than this I'm thinking about my picture books. With the help of my buddy, Silver James, she managed to get my mind functioning again with some wonderful ideas that I can use. I think the key for her was when I say Piper was like the Amelia Bedelia of Faerie World (uh, no not the one that Timmy Turner goes to. . . uh, The Fairy Oddparents for those of you without kiddos). Anyhoo, I've got some ideas which is better than where I was a couple of days ago! YAY!

Doubt if I'll get any writing done today, other than my mandatory 100 word challenge that I issued to Ash. I can't back out of my own Challenge, can I?? As I have laundry, more laundry . . . wait for it,. . . and IRONING.

Ah, the life of a stay at home mom. I've got the kiddo working on her thank you notes, then she can watch TV for a while until time each lunch. I'll have her read a couple of books this afternoon--besides she needs to read my faerie picture book anyway since it was her idea to write it in the first place!