It’s been a long time since I’ve gone 2 days without blogging. Friday and Saturday were very very very long.
Friday I woke up and still felt like crud, with additional symptoms that showed up. I had to go get Jordan though. We drove up to get him and as soon as he saw me he told me his ear was hurting. I said do you want to leave now? I’ll take you to the doctor. No, he wanted to watch their rodeo and then go to lunch, then leave.
We were standing in line for lunch when he told me he wanted to go ahead and go to the doctor. I found a counselor and told them we were leaving.
On a positive note, 3 counselors came up and told me how wonderful Jordan was. How he was the best behaved one in his group. How they never had to tell him to do anything twice. How helpful he was.
HUH?
Oh yeah, turned out they said if the kids didn’t listen the first time they’d be helping in the barn….shoveling horse poop.
I was ROFL.
I’d do everything I was told to do in that case also. Turns out not all the kids felt the same way. Must have liked helping with the horse manure.
As we were leaving, a counselor drove up in a golf cart to tell Jordan goodbye and that he was recommending him for the Leader In Training program, meaning that he is on the fast track to becoming a counselor. He was the only kid in his group (and the youngest in his group period) who got that recommendation.
Let’s all say it, Jordan you rock!
I took him to the doctor where he was diagnosed with swimmer’s ear.
Here Jordan and I were both sicker than dogs. I felt like I had serious food poisoning, which was impossible, since I hadn’t had an appetite all day from my nasty cold. Just a virus? Christiano had the same virus….whatever it was.
I called Pato at 5 crying, begging him to come home. He’d talk to his boss. He showed up at 10. Thanks so much you jerk. Well, I had some more choice words for him, but we’ll keep it family friendly here.
Jordan woke up me up at 4 in the morning Saturday morning (from Friday night) crying like I haven’t seen him cry in a long time. Almost screaming at times, he sobbed about how his ear was killing him. It looked horrible from the outside, bright red, a little swollen, and extremely painful.
I tried everything. Tea tree oil on a cotton ball, Sunbreeze oil on the outside of his ear in front and behind, ibuprofin, nothing helped. I have not seen him in that kind of pain since he broke his wrist playing superman when he was 3. I finally broke down and gave him 1/2 a hydrocodone. It took about 20 minutes but he finally calmed down, he couldn’t sleep well, but at least he wasn’t sobbing anymore.
Yesterday morning, Pato took him back to the doctor. Jordan was out of control again with the pain. The doctor said to keep going with the drops but she also prescribed him his own hydrocodone for the pain. He gets 1/2 a pill every 6 hours. It’s enough to take the edge off and then 2 ibuprofin knock it out for a couple of hours. He got 5 hours of sleep while Pato took the other 3 to the pool and then to Wal-Mart.
I still felt like crud yesterday morning, but I was starting to return to the living. Pato had told me on Friday night that his mom would be leaving for Ohio on Sunday (from Mexico) if he promised that we’d go up too. That made me get my butt in motion making Kat’s first day of school dress. Without my mom. I should have waited. Darn 40 year high school reunion on the same weekend I want to make my dress anyway.
Oh well, she loves it.
Why the hurry? I still have to go school supply shopping, school clothes shopping, and go to Ohio for a week? I won’t have time to do the dress when I get back.
Want to see it? It turned out nothing like the picture, my own fault. I started with the same pieces the dress had, but I’ve never read a pattern before. And I didn’t understand it. So, I made it the way I wanted to. My mom told me wait for her to help me with the sleeves. I figured out why when I had the gathers at the bottom, instead of the top making a cap sleeve, now she has a bell sleeve. And it’s a cell phone pic. Personally, I think it looks much cuter in person. Tell me honestly, do you think it should be shorter?
I need my mom to help me fix the buttons in the back, the button holes suck and my buttons aren’t on straight.
Personally, I think it will be a great dress for a little Hispanic girl on Dia De Los Muertos. Of course, it’s not like we are invited to a lot of fiestas for Dia de Los Muertos, but it’s the thought. We’ll just make our own dead bread recipe and take it to school.
In case you can’t see the pattern on the dress, those are skulls with pink cross bones.
You know, fabric most 6 year olds would pick out for their first day of school dress. 
Plus it has silver ric rac and glittery pink buttons.
She loves it.
I think if I made it knee length, it might look less formal.
I’m really glad I didn’t put the white collar on it I was thinking about. It totally would have been Wednesday Addams.
Now Alyce has pink silk Betty Boop fabric to make the same dress.
I’m waiting for my mom.
No rush on Alyce’s, she doesn’t go to preschool until next fall.
Here’s to a day with no sickies today. I’m hoping when Jordan gets up he feels much much better!
Have a great day!
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