Teacher Appreciation, Day 2 -- sort-of

Well, CAM woke up happy and peachy at her usual way-too-early-for-Mommy time today, but Mick sent her right back to her room and the next thing we all knew, it was 7:30.  By then Mick had fallen back asleep, so CAM and I went downstairs and snuggled on the couch.  And then <<BAM>> it was 9:30, and Mick came downstairs and said, "No school today?"

No school today.

WHM never has school on Tuesdays but CAM was by that point running a fever again, so we punted on the day.

Or more correctly, we moseyed our way upstairs to showers and baths, and took ourselves to lunch at On the Border (of course), followed by a family matinee of Pirates: Band of Misfits.  When we got to OTB Jim and Marie were there, which was a nice surprise.  They convinced Mick to sit on the patio.  So mark this day with a rock somewhere, because even if that was all we did, if Mick sat on the patio, it was special and noteworthy!

But that wasn't all we did, kids, not at all.  CAM was all Tylenol'd up, and WHM had the Zyrtec still in him from last night's bedtime, and we made a quick stop at Publix for me to grab a bag of Raisinets and a bag of M&Ms, and we settled in for the movie! 

We were the only ones in the entire thee-ate-ur, as CAM called it.  Repeatedly.  To Mick's dismay, our little Alabama girl has taken to some Alabamian pronunciations.  Lord help us if she needs INsurance for her car or celebrates THANKSgiving when she gets older. 

Anyway.  Back to the story at hand.

I don't know if it was that he was feeling better or that he's now a seasoned old pro, or maybe just the movie held his interest better, but WHM was a CHAMP today!  Phew!  I was worried that he'd be fidgety or not like the movie and Mick's patience isn't as good as mine for that stuff.  About 3/4 of the way through, CAM sat on my lap and was clearly not feeling too hot, but everyone watched -- and loved -- Pirates.

We came home and relaxed and I tutored, and here it is bedtime.

Seriously, despite CAM's fever, we had a great day.

After tutoring I finished the teacher appreciation gifts for WHM's class tomorrow.  The other ones were my idea (the teas) but this is totally pilfered from Pinterest.  I'm not super pleased, but not super disappointed.  Of course, I bought the flowers yesterday and have managed to almost kill them already -- definitely time to hand them over before they get worse and I have to re-buy them.

Pinterest version.   Here is the link to the original blogger.

My version.  They say "Thank you for helping us grow" around the top, and in chalk I wrote the kids' names.

Tomorrow I'll head out and buy the gift cards to sick in them beside the birdhouses, and we'll call it done!  What do you think? Decent? 

--Jen

Back to Teacher Appreciation Day ... (and other stuff from today's adventures)

... um, yeah.  I was so focused on the room mom duties, I didn't remember that CAM's class was supposed to send in two flowers per kid today.  Of course, we didn't get a reminder email, either, but shame on me for just dropping the ball on that one.  Tomorrow we're supposed to send in fruit. At least I can do that without messing up.

Also, for the first time EVER, I got a phone call today to come pick up CAM at school.  She was running a fever.  We went to a birthday party Saturday and when we got home she said she was "party sick," and put herself to bed around 7.  All day yesterday she said she was freezing and couldn't get warm, and she took a nap.  But this morning she bounded into our room bright and early as usual, happy as can be, so I didn't think anything of it.  She didn't have a fever, and although she did complain of being frozen at breakfast, our downstairs was actually pretty chilly so I just thought she was being dramatic.

Whoops.

So now WHM has his Target-brand Zyrtec so he can breathe (and let me tell you, that stuff worked miracles last night, WOW), and CAM's taking Tylenol.

Poor kiddo. I'm supposed to be her "mystery reader" tomorrow for one of the last days of school, and she's only been begging me to be the mystery reader since the last time I did it, and now we're looking like she may not go to school at all. Oh, and tomorrow's her last ballet class before her recital on Friday.

Timing's sure everything, huh?

Oh well.  Better today and tomorrow than Friday.

In the meantime, CAM and I brought a Teacher Appreciation gift to Miss Dana, our Kindermusik teacher, although we didn't stay for musik class.  And then she and I went to The Container Store, Barnes and Noble, and picked up an awesome little Craigslist score for WHM.  She napped in the car, which I had really kind-of planned on by taking her with me.  But when she was awake, it was clear that the Tylenol was working.  She was her typical, happy-go-lucky self, and when we got home we played in the yard with a kickball for a good while.

Life is good.

--Jen