I am BACK...not 100%, but BACK

I am gonna do a couple of blogs. First, I wanted to let you know that I am feeling better. I have literally been sick for SEVEN long days. I am still tired and not fully recovered, but I for sure turned a corner today. Yesterday, however was a LONG miserable day. I took the kids to school, then took Blayne to school. I was feeling so rotten while I was waiting in parking lot for the school to open, that I called John, started crying and asked if he could come home after his family lunch. I just really didn't think that I could care for the kids all day. He was gracious to agree to come home and even offered to miss the lunch, but I insisted that he go. I went home and literally laid across the bottom bunk bed and played with ONE hand with my sweet Reagan. I put her down for a nap around 10:45 and got a call at 11 that Savannah was in the nurse's office with a slight fever and complaining of her throat hurting. I wanted to roll into a ball and cry right then! I told the nurse that I, or someone else would come to get her. I called a couple of friends, and found my poor friend, Beth, at home doing laundry...she will probably start watching her caller-id more closely!!! I begged a favor for her to go get Savannah and she hung up her wet jeans and went right away. Poor Savannah, she came home and just collapsed. Her symptoms were my EXACT symptoms. So, as I called her pediatrician's office, I selfishly thought "at least they will find out what is wrong with her and then I will know what I have had ALL week!" Of course, they were at lunch when I called, and then after lunch, I was told that Savannah's doc wasn't in for the afternoon....great!!! So after a night of Tylenol and Motrin and lots of moaning and Gatorade, I took her in this morning to learn that she has STREP Throat!!! BINGO....hmmm maybe my doctor's office should have listened more intently to me on MONDAY!!!!! So, we got her started on antibiotic, got me started on NEW antibiotic that should fight Strep and there we are on our merry way.....until I received another call from the school nurse telling me "I think that she is fine, but Whitney's teacher sent her to the office because she 'wasn't being Whitney', and I took her temp and it was low grade, and I looked at her throat because she said that it was hurting, but it doesn't look red" Whitney didn't want to come home...of course NOT tonight is the talent show!!!!! So after I got off the phone with the school nurse, I immediately called the pediatrician and asked for a script for Whitney. I didn't want to end up in Urgent Care tonight....with John at a Men's retreat and me with my four kids!!!!! Ahh, my fridge is full of pink medicine all THREE of my girls are taking it....Reagan is still recovering from last week's ear infection....have I ever told you that there is never a dull moment around here?????