The weather was a little warm but so nice for the leaves this week.
I found myself stopping all over the place to take pictures of leaves.
I will therefore intersperse my favorites from the week into this weeks blog post.
Megan started the week as a very sick girl.
That means that this week no one got much sleep. She got up every night with an earache or her throat hurting or too stuffy to lay her head back.
We eventually went to the Urgent Care place and got her antibiotics for her inner and outer ear infection, plus ear drops.
I hate eardrops.
She perked up almost immediately.
She is digging the leaves too. This is the view from her window. You can see that her hair has suffered considerably from her restless nights.
Oh that hair!
By the end of the week she was A-Okay!
Thank goodness.
I was really afraid that she would not be recovered in time for our upcoming llloooonnngggg car trip but all is well.
We got some cool projects done this week. David fixed a broken outlet and then improved it by putting in some direct USB charges for phones and tablets and what not.
We got a nice decorative thing to hang on the wall from Amazon.
I quite like it.
More (maybe all) of the rest of my addictive double sided sequin pillows came.
The house is way less beige than it was a few weeks ago.
I might be over doing the bright and colorful.
I am inspired by the nature and my hair and the semi-frivolity of the best of all costume holidays.
I enjoyed many a Snapchat filter for Halloween.
This is Megan at 630am Halloween morning.
She was maybe as excited as I.
Here we are just before 9 AM.
Here we are just before 7 PM
Mount Airy dose Halloween so well. The neighbors sit around fires and do up their houses and hand out serious candy. Some of them get Hollywood like special effects.
We even got to bring mom with us this year.
I think she has never loved Mount Airy so much.
October ended on high note.
November began with a stache.
I am the site champion at my work for Movember.
I am raising funds to support men's health initiatives here is the link to my site.
At the end of the week I finally stopped in front of my favorite of all fall trees. This one I like so much I wanted to get a picture with it. Hey, some people like celebrities, I like trees.
It turned out to be a day much in need of beauty.
There were layoffs announced at my work.
I am fine but some friends are not.
I messed things up again and again with work projects.
We got a call that my maternal grandmother (Grandma Dix) is failing and that we need to get ready to go out to Kansas for her funeral.
Mom decided to leave as soon as possible and we all decided we had better vote early just in case we found ourselves out of town on Tuesday.
So after a very long and sad and frustrating day I went early voting.
For the record I think that Donald trump would be a very bad choice for the country and think that Clinton as a tried and true politician would be a good move. We have had enough ideologues and partisan heroes and could really use a politician in a politics job. I would like to see the government actually working and feel like she is the best option by far for that to take place.
The lines were quite long. this is because I went after work. Mom and Megan went earlier and breezed right through.
When I finally got home David wasn't in yet because he had a late meeting and mom had to run out to get ready for her trip. I was so tired and worried that I wasn't going to be good with the kids.
I really don't want to take out my sad and frustrated and tired on them but I kept imagining that Megan would be fussy and needy from being sick and that Kiernan (suffering from almost 2 weeks of semi neglect due to Megan birthday and illness) would be a little bear.
They were angles.
They asked me to come play chess and tell them stories.
I ate with one hand and played chess with the other. Megan sat on my lap and gave me sweet snuggles.
I am so grateful for my life.
On Saturday we did step one of Scouting for food. I think Scouting for food is one of the most valuable things that Kiernan dose with his Pack.
I love that the boys are helping the community and that the difference they make, in the food bank particularly, is huge and inspiring.
We got a map and a stack of bags and an instructive speech and headed out to tie donation bags to doors.
Kiernan and Alex decided to work together so I drove them to a neighborhood (the same one we did trick or treating in) and walked along with them as they abused each other violently and laughed at fart jokes and tried to shock each other by jumping out from behind cars.
It was a much bigger area than last years but we finished everything withing about an hour and a half.
I doubt we will be here for the part 2 session to pick up the bags full of food and the delivery to Mount Airy Net. That is too bad. I am still glad we took part.
On Sunday Kiernan was very grumpy and whiny. We went to the gym and he forgot his swim suit then cried and cried when we tried to drop him off in the play room with his sister.
She cant go into a pool this close to an ear infection and the play area is good.
I drove back home for his suit cursing myself for caving into tears and wondering if he was becoming too coddled.
He was so happy in the water and worked so hard at his swimming and I felt generally better.
By that evening his throat was sore and he had a fever.
Ahh
I see.
He was sick not bratty. Now I am a bit guilty and a bit relieved.
On Monday morning we went off to the imaging lab to have the last of his tests done.
Throughout the course of the week we have been collecting stool samples and delivering them to a lab near by. On Monday it was another story.
I enjoyed hanging out with him and both of us found the imaging and machinery very interesting.
Day light savings switching and not being allowed to eat or drink throw him for a bit of a loop though. By the end of the test he was super acidy.
He drank some barium and we watched it work its way through his upper GI.
He had about 20 min of turn to the left turn to the right and some up and don on a table that took him from prone to vertical on demand.
I hope all these tests give up reassuring and useful information.
I am glad we are done with them for now.
He got a warming blanket at the end and was also glad it was over.
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