We're sick and Costco wasn't helping

Everybody but Steve got sick this week. Cecily and Mira both had double ear infections when we went to the doctor on Tuesday. We went in because Mira kept saying her ear hurt. And then her cheek. And then her ear again. Then we went to pick up the prescription. Talk about a quest!

I told the doctor to send the prescription to a pharmacy that was between their office and our house. When we got there, they said the doctor had actually sent the prescription to the sister pharmacy that is in Springville (the town we live in). They were willing to transfer the prescriptions, but then they let me know that they wouldn't have enough for both girls anyway. Would I like to get one girl's prescription here and the other one there? Umm...no.

So, I told them to leave it at the other pharmacy. Then I bought some donuts and some ice cream to treat the girls when we got home and got back in the car. On the way to the other pharmacy, I called Steve to bring him up to date. He suggested I get the prescription at Costco instead, since we needed gas and some essentials anyway. I thought, "Hey, why not? It's almost lunch time. We can get pizza for lunch and check everything off our list at once." So I called the doctor's office and had them send the prescription to Costco instead.

It wasn't until I parked at Costco that I remembered I had ice cream with me. *whacks head with palm* Too late now, though. I'll just cross my fingers that my kids eat fast and it doesn't melt all over my car before we get back out here.

I requested the prescription and bought my essentials. The pharmacy tech said it would be about half an hour, so we got our food and ate. It took us almost exactly half an hour. "How fortuitous," I thought. Silly me. The girls were getting really cranky and Mira looked like she might fall asleep in what was left of her pizza, so we rolled over to the pharmacy to pick up our prescription. Here is where the pharmacy tech tells me: "Oh, well, it took us longer than we thought because another pharmacy ran that prescription through your insurance, so we had to call them and tell them to back it out. Then we had to run it through our system. (And apparently they couldn't start filling it during this process.) So it's going to be another 20 minutes."  Are you kidding? "Do you have any idea what kind of meltdown my kids are going to have in the next 20 minutes?" I wanted to ask her. But I didn't. I just gave her a look and said, "Okay. I guess I'll walk around for 20 minutes," with a meaningful glance at my screaming children.

I ended up taking them out to the car and filling gas while we waited, so I guess it was okay.  Mira fell asleep on the drive home and took a 3 hour nap. Wahoo! Right? It would have been a bigger Wahoo! if Cecily hadn't refused to nap ALL DAY. She screamed in her crib for over 2 hours (not consecutively) that day and then went to bed at 6pm.

That night I decided to have insomnia for 5.5 hours, so Steve was a nice hubby and stayed home from work on Wednesday to take care of us all.

Thursday I had writing group. Which is basically girls' night out with a theme. :) I love going. I feel blessed to have 6 women in my life that I relate to and can laugh with (you know, other than family).

Since I'd had a number of bad nights of sleep. I got a sore throat and a cough out of the deal. Nothing terrible, just annoying.

Friday, we went up to my mom and dad's house. We hadn't seen them since the first of September. Unfortunately, two of my three girls had fevers for at least half the day, so they spent it sitting on the couch, watching movies with Nana. I'm glad we got to see her anyway, though. Kids need their grandparents.

Saturday, I made salsa for canning with produce from my garden. I got all these tomatoes from ONE plant. I swear the compost we got from Haylee's dad was magic. Everything I grew this year was three times as large as a normal crop.  Below the tomatoes is a picture of me with one of my onions.  That sucker is like the size of Cecily's head. Craziness.

Today, everybody but Steve stayed home from church. We don't need to pass on whatever it is we've had this week. We stayed home from Grandma and Grandpa's house, too because cousins were there and didn't want it either. I ended up making T-bone steaks, creamy garlic pasta, and broccoli, with zucchini brownies for dessert, so we didn't do too bad. :)

Here's to a better week next week! (At least, less sickness.)