friday fun

Friday in class, as soon as I'd taken my quiz, during the substitute's (department head) talk about the rest of the day, my phone buzzes. I ignore it until he takes a breath and begins the video. I look and see that it was the kids school. I hurry out to hear a voice mail from the nurse to call her back. I do, and she informs me that the boy came in saying he knocked his head on the ground outside and is complaining of a head and stomach ache. I tell her I'll be there in 30-45 minutes to get him.

As I'm doing good in traffic (it's wasn't rush hour, I don't know why I was so surprised), I call the pediatrician to find out if I can just go to urgent care. They strongly suggested to take him down to the children's hospital because if it was serious, I would already be there.

I get to school and get the kids. The girl isn't going to miss this fun! We go downtown to the hospital and have no wait! Then we get to sit for 3 hours in a room, the kids get Lunchables and Gatorade! The prognosis is there maybe some slight head trauma, but since he didn't puke, and seems as normal as he can be, they don't want to expose him to any extra radiation. I got instructions to come back if he acts funnier than normal, or starts puking. Neither happened.

Since that kinda took our energy, we hung out at home all weekend and cleaned. Our house is almost not a pit. My goal is by the end of the week to have it neat enough to let people in and not have to apologize and cringe. The kids awesomely cleaned their rooms, got their toys out of the basement (and living room and my bedroom), did dishes, and are now (I think) folding towels. I got part of the kitchen cleaned, the laundry folded and the hang ups hung. I'd like to pay bills, but I'm still waiting on that check issue from Monday.