Strep

I thought yesterday was one of the worst days in a LONG time preceded by another horrible gloomy weekend inside. Grace was giving me a hard time from the start. Screaming in the shower and while we got dressed- during breakfast. Breakfast ended with her throwing her yogurt bowl at me!!!!!!! That has never happened before!!! I had blueberry yogurt on every piece of clothing I had on! 

Her councilor Rachelle pointed out to me after school that there was a huge buildup in her ears and suggested I take her to the doctor. I couldn't get her in yesterday so Chris cleaned them out as best as he could. 

It turns out the doctor said her ears were good!!! But her throat was bad so he took a culture and it came back STREP!!!

Chris always refers to strep as feeling like you swallowed a spikey golf ball and I have found that to be extremely accurate.

So I imagine that if I had a spikey golf ball in my throat and I couldn't tell anyone what was wrong- I'd throw my yogurt bowl too!!!!!

I feel so bad for her sometimes. We have coached her to say my tummy hurts or head hurts but not " my throat hurts". Just imagine. Try not talking but still having to communicate your needs for just 2 hours and see how you feel. I bet you'd end up throwing your yogurt bowl too. Sometimes I have to step back and look at her behavior and think why she doing this instead of getting upset. You DO learn something new everyday.

P.S. (before the Walking Dead comes on!)

Chris gave a talk at our church today about his "faith journey". Our pastor has asked members of the congregation to share their faith stories with us on Sundays.
It was a very heartfelt speech that he chose to share. He began with his mother and their relationship with their first church and then threw me a curve by starting to talk about the other thing that let him to church: his ex-girlfriend!!!!! At first I thought Hey Where is this going!!!!!! He's talking about someone other than me! BUT he brought up one of his old favorite songs- Unanswered Prayers by Garth Brooks and told and said how he used to pray that he would have a long life with that person but his prayers went  unanswered and she broke up with him! (Gasp!) But this was the path that let him to me and to our family eventually.
He also said how we both prayed for children and when our prayers seemed to be unanswered they were later answered with Joy and Gracie.
I guess what I want to say is that I know marriage isn't an easy journey and I am not an easy person to live with sometimes but I wouldn't want to be on this journey with anyone else.

TIME CHANGE

 As IF this winter hasn't been bad enough....
NOW we have to deal with the time change.
Most people welcome the time change, but when you have a special needs child it's a different story.
And NOW after 3 days in a row off the school schedule, 8 inches of snow piled on top of all the rest
WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE TIME CHANGE!!

Gracie's actually been doing very well but TODAY.....
We actually went out shopping to Kohl's ( evidently every other person had the same idea) she was a little off because she found a toy she wanted and we wouldn't let her have it.
Anyway, we got home and i started to make dinner and I thought Grace was in her room. Joy was with her friend Shelby and Chris was I don't know where.
Somehow, Grace has an uncanny knack of knowing when our bedroom door is unlocked ( and it is normal NOT unlocked for this particular reason) and she went in. After a few minutes too long, I told Joy to check on her, thinking she was in HER room. Joy found her in our SHOWER!!! The thing is she was in the shower because she had gotten PURPLE NAIL POLISH on her hands AND her special Minnie Mouse dress that daddy had bought her for christmas AND my nightstand AND our bedspread AND our CARPET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well Chris blew up and I think it would have been worse if I hadn't stepped in and gotten the polish off the nightstand AND had white toothpaste (I've done this before) use to get off the carpet. I ALWAYS have white toothpaste on hand. I swear by it.
Anyway, after that I had to be away from her for a while.
Doesn't she come down and sit sweetly on my lap and play on her iPad. Doesn't she curl herself up in my arms and give me her sweet face, while pulling my face toward her to make sure I see how sweet she is.!!!!!!!!!!!
Heaven HELP Me!!!!!! What am I going to do with her????