December 30, 2012 - Walk in Clinic Day

Last night the Girl's tempurature spiked to over 104, so this morning I took her to the walk in clinic.  I assumed that she has an ear infection, and I was correct.  We waited a while to see the doctor because she was late for work, but she made up for it by working quickly and efficiently.

In the afternoon we visited my Mother-in-Law.  By the time we were leaving the Boy was starting to feel sick. When we got home he had a fever of 103.  So I am assuming that he too has an ear infection.  This means that I will start my new year at the walk in clinic again!

Tomorrow marks the end of my one year challenge.  For the most part I did great.  I have a blog entry for every day with a photo of the Baby.  I missed about 10 days the entire year (but that's not too shabby).  The challege was great for me, and will provide me a very nice memory that is eternally available (hopefully as long as blogger is functioning) on line for me to see.  I am contemplating how to take the entries from ON line to OFF line so that I can make up some sort of book.  So far the only way I have figured is to copy and paste the entries into word, this will end up with a really long word file that I can have printed and bound at Staples or some other place.

I am not sure what 2013 has in store by way of challenges, but I have been thinking about what I want to do.  If you have any suggestions, please let me know!  I don't think I want to tackle another daily challenge, perhaps weekly would be fine!

December 29, 2012 - Housebound

We hung out in the house again today.  The Girl still isn't feeling well, and the Husband was at work.  The kids played Skylanders and the Baby didn't nap.  My parents came by for a coffee and to drop off some of the things we left at their place on Christmas.  We had a short visit, the Boy tried to explain Skylanders to my Dad.  As you can tell from my posts, they really, really love the game.  Santa Claus picked a great toy for them this year.

The Baby got this really cute Cat in the Hat gift set, it comes with the book and a hat.  So far everyone has put the hat on except the Baby.  He hates hats, when I manage to catch him in a 'good hat' mood I'll be sure to take a picture!

December 28, 2012 - Cleaning Day

Today I enjoyed the day at home cleaning.   I took the Baby to daycare (he likes it there and I am paying for it anyway!).  I hung out at home with the big kids.  They watched movies and played.  I took care of my sick girl, and cleaned out the dump room aka my office.  I have this lovely room in the basement that is all mine, but over the years things have just been dumped there, and since the Baby has been born, I haven't been able to spend any time cleaning it out.  More stuff gets piled in, and soon the room isn't even usable!  I would love to be able to do scrapbooking, sew and wrap gifts in the room, but for now it is a mess.

Today I worked hard on cleaning it out.  I threw out old cards, bills and other junk that shouldn't have been there in the first place.  I organized the school stuff (mostly in order) and tried to put all the photos and other memorabilia together in one place.  By the end of the day I could see the floor again and the room was looking much better.