not my favorite day as far as days go.

it started out with a small j boy's horribly persistent cough (the one that lasted all weekend and made him miserable enough to ASK if he could go to the doctor.) the cough was still there. just a solid little dry cough...cough...cough...no hacking, no fever, no runny nose. just two miserable little eyes and a cough...cough...cough that made ME hurt.

i looked at my insanely huge work pile, sighed and called the doctor at 8:12. we made an appointment for 11. the doctor looked and listened, put him on a nebulizer and sent us to the HOSPITAL for chest x-rays. which took us up until 2. then back to the doctor's clinic for evaluation and dispension of an inhaler and two different kinds of meds and an appointment tomorrow with a pulmonologist. i still am not sure why, exactly. the x-rays came out clean, but i guess she's just being cautious. i'm sending the husband tomorrow since i have a scary meeting with a Marketing Task Force full of professional adults who wear suits. a meeting i really am not all that prepared for. why can't we all just agree to wear sweat pants? really. it would make everything so much more cozy.

anyway. back to the cough story. the worst part of the cough story. apparently one of the meds tastes really bad. little j cried and refused and pleaded and whined and screamed and yelled and turned red and things got really hot around here for about two hours while we waited for him to choke down two teaspoons. he is a stubborn one. after two hours, he probably downed a quarter of it. we finally gave up, all of us exhausted and crabby.

so.

i sit here at 9:39 pm, looking at that big pile of undone work. i realize the day that has not been my favorite is now going to become a late night that will not be my favorite.

good thing God invented tomorrow.