Not Everyone's Mama

If you’ve been following my blog this week you know that Christiano and Alyce have been sick.  Here’s what’s been going on.

Tuesday – started throwing up w/diarrhea

Thursday – stopped throwing up, still had diarrhea, rash above upper lip.  Called the doctor about him, mentioned that Alyce had been coughing that day really bad and a rash on her cheek.  Just watch both of them.

Friday – both the same

Saturday – seemed like they were improving, that evening everything came back full force and then some. Christiano was coughing just like Alyce on top of the other stuff.  Called the nurse line.  They told me to watch them overnight, keep them hyrdated, take them in to the doctor first thing in the morning.

Sunday – Same. Went to the walk in.  Our Dr was on.  Alyce had an ear infection.  Nothing for Christiano except for stool samples.

Monday – Got Christiano’s stool samples. That was a blast.  Diarrhea seems to be easing.

Tuesday – Christiano doesn’t have diarrhea anymore, loose stool and not as frequent.  Alyce now has the diarrhea and is throwing up, not eating.  I’m pretty sure that’s because of her amoxicillan, but call the nurse to double check.  Yep.  Just watch her for dehydration.

Tuesday night – Christiano is up screaming ALL NIGHT LONG. Won’t nurse.  Isn’t happy with us even standing up walking the floor with him.  Finally decide that Pato is taking him to the ER.

Pato just got back with Christiano and he has a raging ear infection.

And the doctor just called with results of 2 of his stool samples. Waiting on the third.  He’s got some bacteria in his colon.  I don’t remember which. She said he could have picked it up anywhere.  I just told Pato we need to buy antibacterial wipes to wipe down shopping cart handles, high chairs in restaurants, etc.  Piece of advice if you don’t do it.  Do it.  None of my kids have ever gotten sick from that before, but now we know there is always a first time.

The nurse didn’t think the medication for that bacteria in the colon would help the ear infection so I’m waiting to see what the doctor wants for that one.

*sigh*

I’m going to go back to bed. I think I got 1 and 1/2 hours total and that wasn’t straight.  Christiano is sleeping now.  I’ll take advantage of it.

ETA – I could cry.  Christiano has C.Diff which is actually caused by antibiotics.  That means he needs to get off his meds for his ear because it could make it worse.  And severe cases of C.Diff can be really dangerous.  Meaning, we can’t let the antibiotic cause the bacteria in his colon to grow out of control.  It’s already bad enough he has to have medicine to get it under control.  Ok, he’s up and throwing himself all over me.  Going to snuggle in bed with him. Keep him in your prayers.

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What a treat we got in our house today.  Let me tell you!  Well, let me show you actually.  This came the other day.

Can you see all that?  The fine folks at Wilton sent me a box full of all this chocolate melting goodness.

Up there you’ll see the

Chocolate Pro™ Electric Chocolate Melter

Candy Decorating Bags

Sports Cookie Candy Mold

Hearts Cookie Candy Mold

and a whole bunch of Candy Melts (Dark Cocoa, Pink and White)

I know what your thinking.  How about that whole get in shape thing you have going on Heather?  Yeah, I ate a few too many goodies after we made them, but like every other Valentine’s Day (and holiday that we make candy) we send a lot off to school, some to family, Pato eats a lot of it, etc.

Every valentine’s day I attempt to make something chocolate coated.  I don’t have a double broiler, I didn’t have a chocolate melter.  I would put a big pan of water on the stove, put another pan in it, melt the chocolate and end up with clumpy, sometimes burned, always took a few tries to get it right strawberries, or marshmallows, or bananas.  We’ve covered it all in chocolate and it never looked pretty.  Not that we minded, it tasted good, once you threw out the burnt chocolate and got it right.  After using the Chocolate Pro™ Electric Chocolate Melter, I am totally disappointed that we can’t bring homemade treats to school like we could at Jordan’s first school many moons ago. I am envisioning the marshmallows stuck on lollipop sticks, half-dipped in chocolate, covered in sprinkles, and wrapped up with saran-wrap and a pretty ribbon all over again.  Last time we did that it looked so much better in my head than what we ended up with.

Let’s get to what I made today.

You can see where I’m going with this can’t you? (I know some people leave the stems and leaves on it.  I have 4 children people.  They can’t be trusted not to eat the leaves.)

Put the candy melts in the Chocolate Pro after warming it up and moving the switch to melt.

Melting all that chocolaty goodness

I only had one hand, there was no taking pictures while I was dipping.  Let me tell you how easy this was.  Like I said, I had one hand.  Christiano was feeling cranky all day again and I had him one arm while making the strawberries in the other.  It was so smooth, not lumps, no bumps, no burnt chocolate!

You want to reach right through that screen and steal my strawberry don’t you?  I used the candy decorating bags to drizzle the pink candy melts over the top. (Those just went in the bag, then in the microwave. 30 seconds, kneed, 30 seconds, kneed, start decorating.)  I’ll tell you now, it tasted as good as it looks!

Pato got home a little bit ago with the Oreos I requested for the cookie candy molds. Just in time! I had started writing my review and here he is.  I stopped and went to make some white chocolate covered Oreos for the kids’ teachers.

I drizzled the pink candy melts again and threw on some sprinkles.  Those haven’t hardened yet.

Again, still soft, but look at that!

Just wait. Are you ready?  Look at this one!

I realize that if I had been patient and let my pink harden a tad, the colors wouldn’t have run, but do I care?  No!  I think it’s so cute!  I said these were for the kids’ teachers right?  Yeah, Pato and Alyce and Nano have been sneaking in the fridge.  I need to get them in baggies before they are gone.

Is that not all fabulous.  I’m envisioning finding sugar free chocolate to make the kids treats with every once in awhile.  I had so much fun!  I could see myself doing this more than twice a year because of how easy it was.  With the stove method, I barely want to do it on Valentine’s Day let alone any other day.

All of that good stuff gets a HUGE -

for the easiest tools I have ever used to make these kind of treats and for making them prettier than I ever have in my life!  There was honestly not one thing I didn’t like about it.  Fabulous candy making tools! Thank you Wilton!

Your not going to believe this.  Ok, you might if you know Wilton and how awesome they are.  See all that stuff in the picture above?  One of you is getting ALL of it.  The same package that I received so you can dip, mold, drizzle, and decorate candy to your little heart’s content!  Want to win? Here’s how -

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