Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Oh what a day!!
It started off by taking Catherine to the Dr's. she slept well last night and had no trouble eating so I figured she was fine and the coin would pass shortly. But, just to be safe (and since the Dr wanted) we kept our appointment. He of course sent us to radiology to get a chest/abdomen x-ray...sure enough, shining quite brightly on the film was the coin. It had already made its way to her stomach. We couldn't tell what coin it was since it was slanted. Now we wait and...search!
After her appointment I had enough time to get her to Mother's Day Out and get to my hair appointment. (The color of the highlights still isn't exactly what I want but, it is ok!) I then met Calixto for lunch at Roly Poly's I got the same basil cashew chicken wrap and for the 2nd time my finger tips went numb after eating it...ok...is that weird or what? Has anyone ever heard of that? Would a food allergy make your fingers go numb? It was annoying but went away w/i the hour. I ran home to find that I had missed the AT&T man that came to install a new jack in our office. Ugh!! I forgot about it with Catherine's foreign object dr's appointment and all. I had time to make some rescheduling calls when Cat's school called...she went to the "bathroom" and I had to go search for the coin!!! I found no coin...maybe next time! We ran home changed for dance and off we went-class went well and she seems to enjoy it more this year. Afterward we ran to pick-up Christopher from a friend's house, they keep him until dance class is over. Then it was home to change for soccer practice. Christopher went to practice with our neighbor and I took Catherine to her practice.
While there I locked my keys in the car!!! Calixto was in Hallsville planting trees and could not leave so, a friend drove me to my house where I had to find an unlocked, unpainted shut window. (I don't usually lock the side door but the neighborhood dogs were barking so much earlier when I was home I locked it just in case! ) I was able to climb in the bathroom window and retrieve the spare key...back to the soccer fields we went. As we pulled up to my car we noticed the back window was open!!!!! Ahhhh!!! I felt so stupid! How could I not have seen the open window?! We finally got home...no dinner made, no gas in the car for carpool tomorrow. I ran to get gas and we ate a nutritious meal of hotdogs! The kids are in bed and now, it's time to rest and hope tomorrow is a better day!

4 comments:

Stephanie said...

That's great!!! :) Horrible days make such great stories. If we could only see the humor in the moment! :)

I love the "coin searching!" lol

All I have to say is see the humor in it and the more you laugh the tighter your stomach muscles will be. :)

The Peacock Pearl said...

a friend of mine said her son had a cough (this was a few years ago now) and she thought nothing of it. i think after about a month of the cough not going away, she realized how long it had been so she took him to the doctor. he had swallowed a penny and it had been stuck just enough to make him cough all that time. it's a really good thing that catherine was willing to tell you she had swallowed something and didn't try to hide it. if anybody does something like this it will be annabelle... she's all about putting things in her mouth and nose! :)

Connie said...

What a day!!! I'm so glad she's ok, and we'll pray that everything "comes out alright.." pun intended. Thanks for blogging, I like reading about your life.

uncle lew said...

what is it with you and locked car doors??? all I can say about the window is DUH!!!!!!are you kin to MiMi???
good luck on your "potty search" I hope everything comes out ok..because that is an expensive
"quarter" I think you should frame it for her wall..do you still have the stone she put in her nose?? It would be a neat collections for her. HAHA
I hope you are keeping a journel on all this so your kids can read about it later. Because they won't believe you. ( Mine didn't)
Love
Mom