Call from the school

The dreaded call from the school, I am sure that all of us who have children know what I was feeling when the number for the school came up on my cell phone.  My heart started to beat faster, it seems that Adam had been poked in the eye at recess and was still in pain.  Would I come and look at it.  Of course I said and ran out the door of the office.

This is the day that Ed happens to be in Calgary, so I was on my own.  When I went to get Adam he seemed pretty good, sitting in a chair with an ice pack on his eye, but not in too much pain.  Whew, I thought, maybe it isn’t anything.  To be on the safe side I decided I would take him in to the walk in clinic, they saw us pretty quickly which was nice as Adam would not open his eye with out it causing him a lot of pain.  When the doctor saw us, he put a numbing drop in his eye and it was like a miracle, Adam could open his eye and was much more comfortable.  The doctor said that he could see a scratch on his cornea, he put a patch on Adam’s eye and gave me a prescription for some antiobiotic drops.  The doctor said that the numbing drops would last 6 hours and to give him tylenol if he needed it. 

We stopped at McDonalds on the way home for a treat, by the time we got home Adam was complaining that his eye was starting to hurt again.  I gave him the tylenol and then I started to worry.  How could his eye be hurting again?  It was supposed to be numb for 6 hours?  It just kept getting worse until he started to cry, and cry and cry.  It was awful, so what do you do when you don’t know what to do?  You call your mom.  So when I talked to them and tried to decide whether I should take him back to the doctor who had seen him or take him in to emergency, my dad (they both got on the speaker phone) suggested the eye doctor.  Now why didn’t I think of that in the first place? 

Off we went, to keep Adam distracted I put on a book on tape of Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief.  Apparently it was a good book because as long as he was listening to that he wasn’t crying.  If I stopped it for any reason he started to cry again.  He kept his eyes closed the entire way down to the office and I led him everywhere. 

It took a long time to get in to see someone but finally we got in.  The first thing the optometrist did was to start to put the numbing drops in, I said oh wait the doctor put those drops in already.  He said well they only last 15 minutes so I will put some more in.  “What! they only last 15 min?  Well that explains why he is in so much pain!”  I was so relieved, I was starting to really get scared that there was something seriously wrong.  This optometrist was very comforting, put some dye in his eye to see the scratch and was amazed that it was as big as it was, I could definitely see it with the naked eye.  Wow, one little fingernail can do a lot of damage!  So instead of another patch they put a bandage contact lense on his eye.  He could sleep in it  and he gave me some antibiotic drops and sent us on our way with a follow up booked for morning.  He was so much better!

He ended sleeping for a while that afternoon and was not up for long or have any appetite that night.  I guess when you are in that much pain your body does not want to eat.

At the end of the day we were both exhausted and happy to see Ed come home.  Through out the entire day I was texting back and forth with him.  When Ed was young he had a detached retina and had to have eye surgery twice, to fix it.  So when I told him it was Adam’s eye that was hurt he went in to panic mode. 

Who knew that we could get so worked up about a finger in the eye.  Here is picture of him with my sunglasses on, his eyes were light sensitive.

The contact came out on Saturday morning and he has been doing great!  Whew!  The excitement never ends.

Kissy Girl

She insisted that Ed take our picture while she kissed me.  I could hardly kiss her for laughing so hard!  Silly little girl!

Notice her colour braid?  We got a Beaners in town a few years ago, a place for kids haircuts, ball pit, kids shows on the tv’s, and you get to sit on a cool character to get your hair cut.  It was great at the beginning but we stopped going as they kept messing up Adam’s hair. When we would go, I would ask Isla if she wanted a colour braid and always her answer was no, she is a bit shy.  This particular Saturday, Isla was determined that she was ready for a colour braid, and this time she really was.  She was so excited to show all of her friends.  It is so much fun to have a girl!

Handsome

I always call Ed my handsome husband, because, well because he is.  Except for here.

 

When we were on holidays in August he decided not to shave and he started to grow a goatee.  It was very prickly and neither the kids nor I were excited about kissing him.  That is usually when he shaves it off but we (I mean me) really wanted to see if it would get softer and easier to kiss.  It did, but about that time he decided it was too itchy and he needed to shave it off.

To be funny he did it in stages.  I wish I had gotten a before picture!  Doesn’t he look like he just stepped out of the seventies!  And not in a good way………. at all.

To be even funnier he made the top picture our wallpaper on the computer at home, a bit scary really!

Company

Ed’s mom and dad were here a couple of weekends ago.  I was sick with a sinus infection so I didn’t quite get out to the baseball game they played, but from all reports they had a fabulous time.  Adam came in and told me he was even sweating in the shade!  It feels like a long time ago that it was warm enough outside to sweat.  Welcome to fall?!?  Here are some pictures.  

Then they went to the playground for a little fooling around.

Busy!

Life is busy these days, I am not sure how the time is going so fast but thought I would post a scan of an article.  The article is about my handsome husband.  

 

It was in the Chamber of Commerce magazine that goes out quarterly, I am not sure how far the readership goes but I am really proud!

Guess who started Highland Dancing again?

Me!

I started last night and had such a wonderful time.  Isla is starting this year and they also offered an adult class, so I decided what the heck.  It will be a great way to get in to shape and have some fun.  It is funny I have not danced in 20 years, the last time I danced was at my Grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary, but it sure didn't feel that long ago.  I found my old shoes that have not been on my feet in 20 years and away I went.  It is so neat to be in a dance studio again, being able to talk that language again, to have something in common with people.  It was so much fun, I may even enter a competition in June.  The Red Deer Highland Games are at the end of June and I may just enter, kind of like my 40th birthday present to myself.  So now I just have to make sure that my body will cooperate and let me.  I have to admit that today I am a wee bit sore, but I am hoping that that will get better instead of worse!

I am really excited for Isla as well, she starts dance tomorrow!

Mommy Day

Look at that little face!  We get to spend our Thursday mornings together.  I have arranged my schedule so that I can take Monday mornings so that Isla and I can do our music class together and then have our Thursday mornings to do whatever we want.  Our first one was a grocery shopping trip and she was not excited about that but hopefully we will not have to do that every time.

I have a deal with the kids that one of them has to come with me when I go grocery shopping.  I tell them that I need the company, just so that I can  have a little time with each of them by themselves.  I learn lots of things when it is just the two of us in the van or at the grocery store. 

She is having a wonderful time at school which is wonderful.  She even made a new friend which is even better.