Uggh, Snow and Crud!

January 23, 2008

It has been an interesting week.  We had snow on Saturday and the kids really enjoyed playing in the white stuff.  Again seeing the world through your kids eyes is wonderful.  However, as I was at work, I had to experience there joy through conversation with my husband after I got home :-(  I did get to see some pictures and the kids told me all about it on Sunday.

However, being a mom with young children with the fun comes  the crud.  Our Sunday morning started off with a febrile seizure that placed us in the urgent care clinic.  Just when I thought we were through the years of back to back illness.  I had mistakenly thought that things were going great this winter with only one mild cold each.  Well just when you think it is safe to breath,,,BAME,,,croup for both of them!  So we now are faced with horrible sounding coughs, antibiotics and the worst thing in the world for children prednisone!  At some points during the day when they are hyped up from the prednisone, it is like watching the road runner!  They just bounce and run around in circles.  My son even woke me up at 2AM to tell me his Taekwondo instructor liked him.  To which I think I responded,,,”uhh, go back to sleep”

One of the other fun things about being a mom to small children is probably becoming Dr. Mom.  I have slowly realized that I can when they need to go to the doctor by some pretty gross things.  A certain smell of the breath with a temperature means ether strep or sinus infection.  The way a cough sounds can send me strait to the nebulizer and then to the doctor (hmm, I think that was more wheeze sounding then “juicy”).  I find myself asking them,,,”let me see that kleenex” after all depending on the color of the snot we may have to go see the doc.  And no none of this has anything to do with the fact that I am a nurse.  Though the fact that I am nurse may prevent me from throwing up!

We only have a few more days on meds and then I hope we are all back to normal.  Now it is time to peel my hyped up kids off the walls and attempt to practice speech and finish make up work.