Tuesday night I had to call the hospital to find out what time Scrappy's surgery was. Beau was going to stay at my sister's for the night since we usually have a 6am report time and Beau still had school. (She's already missed enough. I kept her home all of Thanksgiving week because it was a short week and we were trying to prepare the kids for what to expect at the funeral.) We tentatively planned for her to stay there Wednesday night too since we didn't know if the surgery would be inpatient or outpatient (it was initially scheduled for outpatient). Very glad we, too!!
He was scheduled to report at 12:30 pm. Most adults would have trouble fasting that long, let alone a 3 1/2 year old! He couldn't have anything after 4:30 am, and I wasn't sure how we were going to handle it at first. After discussing it with my hubby, we decided to keep Scrappy up as late as possible. Then he would be able to eat later and would hopefully sleep until we had to leave. And it worked! He crashed about 2 am and slept until we woke him up to get him ready. Long story short, because of an emergency being squeezed in ahead of him, Scrappy didn't end up getting taken back for surgery until 4:30pm. We felt so bad for the little guy, not being able to eat or drink anything. Since he got out of surgery so late, he ended up being inpatient.
Of course, he didn't want to sleep in the big hospital bed by himself - he wanted Mommy to snuggle with him. That was one of the worst night's sleep I've had in a long time - only being able to sleep on one side, being woken several times a night either by nurses checking on him, giving him nebby treatments, or him kicking me. I looked forward to sleeping in my own bed Thursday night. He ended up sleeping between us so he wouldn't bump his nose on anything and so we could keep him elevated. Here's Scraps with his Buppy (puppy-bear), who went into surgery with him
This is the view out our back door.
I was hoping things would turn around yesterday and I'd get a much-needed break in luck. I had no plans to leave the house since Beau was home because of Staff Development Day.
Yeah right. I should know better.
It seemed most things I tried to do yesterday backfired on me. I went out to try to snow blow the patio, driveways, and sidewalks since hubby had been at work all day. I tried several times but just couldn't get it started, so I gave up and shoveled some by hand. When hubby got home, he got it started right away (apparently the circuit to the outlet wasn't turned on. I didn't know it wasn't on). When I came in from shoveling, I thought coffee sounded great - and then the filter capsized and got grounds in my coffee :/ Grrrr.
Comfort food for supper - potato soup and baking powder biscuits.... Made them so many times, didn't think I could ever mess those two up.
Hahaha - again, yeah right!
I was distracted talking to my buddy while I was making the biscuits - and totally screwed them up by not adding enough flour. Of course, I didn't realize it until after I added the liquids. So instead of light and fluffy biscuits, they were kinda flat. At least they still tasted good!!
The conversation I'd been having all day with my kids continued after my buddy left and I was finishing up the soup.
Beau: MOOOOM!! Scrappy is doing it again (annoying her or getting into something of hers)
Me: Scrappy stop it!
Scrappy: Mommy! My want UP!
Me: I'm trying to ______ (make supper). Go play with your (monster trucks/cars/puzzles/trains)
Scrappy: My not like you. My want Daddy.
Beau: MOM! He's doing it again!!
and on and on and on.
As a result of Mama being distracted, thickening up the soup didn't go as planned. I thought it looked kind of odd as I added the corn starch to the soup - why was it foaming up so much? And it's not thickening up - how much more do I need to add.
Then I looked in my hand - and realized I had grabbed the baking powder instead of the corn starch! Really?? UGH! At least the soup still came out tasting good.
Today Scrappy had a bit of a fever and hubby worked all day, so we just had a quiet day at home. I didn't get much done today, but that's ok. I got my workout in - I only missed Wednesday and Thursday doing them this week, but have done more than an hour most other days :) Looking forward to TOPS weigh in next week!!
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