The Croup

After a very looong night of S coughing, I awakened about 7:30 this morning completely exhausted and feeling like I got the 3 hours of interrupted sleep. S still had a fever so I made and appointment for her at the pediatrician. At 11:15 I buckled her into her seat and began to back down our driveway when I noticed that the hatch on my NEW VAN was opened. HMMM>
So I pulled back up the driveway and got out to shut the hatch. I used the keyless remote and for some reason the hatch would not shut. I pressed the button on the back of the van and it beeped as if it wanted to close....but didn't. I then tried the handle to slam it shut and the &(%$ hatch closed but wouldn't latch. I must have pressed every button 100 times and tried to manually close the hatch as many...but it would not latch. Our appt was for 11:30 so I quickly took out the user's manual thinking I was doing something stupid and tried to find back hatch. It took me about 10 minutes just to find how to use the back hatch.
In the meantime, I called B and told him the the back hatch wasn't closing and he proceeded to tell me to to close it manually....smart man... Needless to say I had to reschedule our appt. Big B came home and he too couldn't close that *&%$ hatch. It's now 8:45 PM and you know where my NEW VAN IS? It's at the DEALERSHIP where they are trying to fix that *&^%$ latch! They didn't know why it was it wasn't latching.
Big B is now driving a pick up...courtesy of the dealership. Big B must look pretty snazzy driving up to his real estate clients in a pick up truck. Hopefully I'll get my NEW VAN, (that's already in the shop) back tomorrow with everything in perfect working order as it should be.
So, back to the pediatrician. My suspicion of S having croup were correct. Hopefully after 2 days of steroids it will clear it up. As I'm tying this, the poor little one has finally fallen asleep, hopefully for the night, although the pharmacist warned us that the steroid could make for a hyper child. Let's hope not.
Last night I spoke about the date and it being the end of April. Does anyone else agree it seems as if big projects and tests are norm for school age children? Little B had 4 tests this week and needs to continue working on the $1,000,000 project. (More discussion on this later.)
E has his wax museum to complete by this coming Monday and also had several tests this week.
My thoughts are filled with summer already. How about you?
Well, time to turn in as E is grumpy and needs to go to bed.
Until the next time,
J