a short blog

I am awake again tonight, listening to Sarah cough. I don't like it. Being awake, and hearing her cough. Poor girl. Took the kids to the walk-in clinic this afternoon but Doc says they'll be fine without medication. And since she's so young she can't have cough medication or anything. So I have some natural "Vicks" for her, and that's about it. I sure hope the Doc is right because I do not want to have to go back to that walk-in again. An hour wait with 2 tired kids, in a room with no toys or TV or anything. I had taken a couple books to amuse Charly with but Sarah was a big handful. At the end of the wait I had a guy volunteer to give up his spot in line so that we could go sooner - so nice - but we were next anyways. Soon after we got to the walk-in, Sarah needed a diaper change. then I was reading with Charly and Sarah decided to climb onto the chair, entertaining everyone with her delight, when she fell backwards, twisting on the way down and smashed her face into the tile floor. Big bruise on her forehead and cheek. Missed her nose and teeth thankfully. She started to cry so hard that she vomited all over me. Just lovely. Covered with vomit and a screaming girl with a bored boy. The other patients scrambled to help me get cleaned up a bit and 5 minutes later Sarah was tryng to climb back onto the chairs. The nurses had given me an icepack for her but she refused that - not a surprise. Poor tired girl. And tomorrow the lucky girl gets to go for her 18 month immunization needles. Charly is jealous because he remembers that he gets a lollipop after his needles, LOL! Time to go snuggle with my pixie for a while.