Not much Fun.

Don't you just hate it when you have all kinds of fun things planned, and you think your kids are really going to enjoy themselves and then BAM! Out of nowhere those fun plans turn into a nightmare. I hate that, really, really hate that......

Friday while Britton was at school I got a phone call from my Mother in law asking us if we wanted to go with them to meet my Sister in law and her kids at the South Town Expo center to look at all the Christmas boutiques and see Santa Claus. "My kids would love that" I told her "yes we would love to go". "OK" she said, we will meet you at your house and we can drive together.

I told Shayna what we were going to do and at first she was very reluctant. I knew what she was thinking and after I told her she didn't have to sit on Santa's lap she was excited to go.

Shayna and I went to pick Britton up from school and told him what we had planned and he was very excited. Mostly to see his cousins and Grandma and Grandpa Carver. When we got home I made the kids eat a snack and when Grandma and Grandpa Carver showed up we left. It was 3:00. There was an accident on the freeway so it took us an hour to get there. "O'well" I said, "we are going to have lots of fun".

HA!

The second we walk through the door Britton tells me his throat hurts. I could tell he didn't feel good at all. He had no energy and he was pale. Tyler's Mom was so excited to go so I didn't feel like I could tell her we needed to leave. So I thought, we can stick it out, we won't be here to long....Boy was I wrong, Ty's Mom is a shopper and she was loving every bit of it. I had to carry Britton the WHOLE time. Six year olds are not light when you have to hold them for hours. We took all of the kids over to visit with Santa and neither one of my kids wanted anything to do with it, so we sat on a little train and waited for everyone else to get their pictures taken. I told Britton and Shay we could go get them a drink of sprite and something to snack on. After that Britton started to feel a little better he started to play a little with his cousins and we were able to make it the rest of the night walking from booth to booth and watching some dance company perform the Nutcracker....

We finally made it home a little after 8:00. I was exhausted! After Grandma and Grandpa Carver and the cousins left our house it was 10:00. I finally got the kids in bed and we all crashed.

The next morning.... Britton came in to our room crying, I knew it was going to be a rough day. I got up to make the kids breakfast and Britton wouldn't eat. I felt his head and he had a fever and he was complaining about his throat so I gave him some Ibuprofen and let him lay on the couch watching cartoons. After Tyler left for work Britton started complaining more and more so I looked at his throat and oh my goodness...Gasp! Shudder! Sigh! My heart sank, I felt so bad for this little boy, he was so sick. His throat was so swollen and his uvula (the little thing that hangs in the back of the throat) was SO swollen it was sticking to the side of one of his tonsils. Of course the Doctor is not in on Saturdays so we went to Kids Care.....

He has strep. He will be on antibiotics for the next ten days.

The rest of the weekend was spent in the house....doing nothing.

Poor Shayna, she was so bored. I hope she doesn't get it too.