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<\/a>The lawn, mid-raking<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Two leaf composting piles, the one on the left is last year's leaves.<\/p><\/div>\n
Today we got up bright and early and headed over to the hospital for their free flu shot clinic.\u00a0 They do several of them throughout September, October, and November, but yesterday’s newspaper said that the remaining clinics (after today) may be canceled due to a shortage of the vaccine.\u00a0 Sooo…. today’s clinic was INSANE!!\u00a0 The parking lot was packed, there was a line out the door, down the driveway and into the parking lot!!\u00a0 A nice guard told us that since we have young kids we could go to the kid’s clinic inside, which was nice.\u00a0 The line there was equally long, but at least it was inside and the kids could play in the hallways.\u00a0 There’s nothing like carrying heavy winter coats and bags while trying to maintain your place in line and simultaneously keep an eye on two active, excited kids in a mobbed hallway to EXHAUST a person!\u00a0 After about an hour it was our turn.\u00a0 Alan and I got shots, Eve got her with some tears of pain, and Lex got his despite a HUGE fight with tears and screaming.\u00a0 Fun, fun.\u00a0 Then we went to the cafeteria for lunch and more overexcited energy.<\/p>\n
After the flu shot clinic we stopped at the pharmacy to pick up a “spacer” for an asthma inhaler… yes, you read that right.\u00a0 On Friday I took the kids to the doctor because Lex and I have had a deep cough that just won’t quit for about 10 days now.\u00a0 He checked us both, and Eve as well, and said that we sound fine other than the cough (no phenomena or flu or anything) and prescribed Robitussin with Codine for me (to finally sleep through the night, though it hasn’t worked yet!) and an asthma inhaler for Lex and I to use for a week.\u00a0 Apparently it’s a common thing to help ease a heavy cough and end the “cough cycle.”\u00a0 I’m now the proud owner of an Epi-Pen and asthma inhaler.\u00a0 How did this happen??\u00a0 The spacer piece we picked up today is an adapter thing to make it easier for kids to use the inhaler.\u00a0 I’ll tell ya, the whole inhaler thing looks a lot easier than it really is!\u00a0 I’m using the spacer too!\u00a0 :)\u00a0 Hopefully by the end of the week we will all be cough free and inhaler free!\u00a0 Maybe in a year or two we’ll be Epi-Pen free too!!<\/p>\n
<\/a>Lex's drawing of a tree. <\/p><\/div>\n
This picture makes me happy. After nap today the kids helped me clean the upstairs (change sheets, dust, vaccum) and then came down and drew pictures while I made dinner. Lex likes to draw abstract art, but when I asked if he could draw a picture of something, he made a tree :) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A busy, busy weekend of raking and getting flu shots. Amazing how two simple things can take up the whole weekend and leave me exhausted! Continue reading