September 26, 2012

Outside Temp: 47 F (another beautiful day... I'm loving this weather.)

What I cooked today:
Nothing... wasn't home enough to cook, but I did get some dishes done, so that helps.

Update:
I got to sleep in this morning.  Okay, I still got up at 6:45, got the kids up and ready for school.  But at 7:30, I was back in bed, snoring away.

Sometime around 10:30, I woke back up, with enough time to get back to the school and get Ryan at 11.  Our school had an 'early out' at 1, for teacher training, so I had to run back to the school at noon for my class.  At 1pm, I grabbed all 3 kids and raced back home.  I loaded up my entire family, and we headed into town.

Allen, Connor and Katie all needed some immunizations (they were all missing one or two), and of course, we needed to get the flu shots.  Oh, and let's get Ryan's labs while we're there. 

When we got to the pediatric floor, to get Ryan's labs drawn, the floor had about 8 nursing students.  We got to have them come into our 'treatment room', to watch Ryan get his labs drawn off his line, and talk about his condition and history.  It's always fun for us to be able to explain his situation, and especially discuss problems we've had, or prepare nursing students for things that might go wrong.  The students were great, and they had some really good questions.  I hope they learned something today!

After that, we ran the other 3 kids over to clinic.  We set up their 'primary' doctor a few months ago, but we hadn't had a reason to bring them into get a baseline visit.  We used the excuse of the immunizations to bring them in, have them meet their doctor, and get that baseline info. 

The clinic was great, and we really like our doctor.  She had us scheduled back to back, in fact, she just scheduled an hour for our family, rather than the 'suggested' 30 minutes per patient.  This worked out great for us, since we could all go into the room together, we all got weighed at the same time, we all got blood pressures at the same time, the nurse pulled up all our immunizations at the same time and we could just run through it quickly and easily.  This worked out fabulous for us!  And she even threw in a flu shot for Ryan, even though he wasn't officially scheduled.

After clinic, we brought the kids over to Macaroni Grill for an early dinner.  Then, we did some shopping, and ended our trek into town with a trip to Baskin Robbins (it was buy one sundae, and get 2nd free... we ended up with 4 sundaes out of the deal!).  Allen managed to get his all his homework done in the car, and Katie and Connor only had a little bit to complete once we got home. 

The only bad side was that Ryan picked up a new movie, but didn't have the time to watch it, since it was bedtime once we got home.  Oh well, he can watch it tomorrow!