Got up at 3am, had a headache all night and the boys were coughing. Looks like they might have finally got me! I went to the gym at 4 to try to “work out” any impending illness that’s trying to infect me, so far I feel better.
Tonight is the carnival (an annual event) at the boys school. Our eldest has volunteered to work the cotton candy booth and clean up. (maybe he thinks he gets free cotton candy! just kidding, he really wants to help) Having 2 kids nowadays means something is going on almost every single night! It’s a lot of work but if you’re going to have kids, you need to be prepared for all that comes with it. On top of that, my lovely, thoughtful wife and her help the world attitude (which is an admirable trait), had called the 90 year old lady down the street yesterday to see how she was doing. The response was not good as our neighbor was quite upset. At first my wife thought she might have fallen or had some kind of health problem but it turns out she was upset because her 15 year old poodle has diabetes. This on the surface didn’t seem so bad until my wife learned that the dog needs insulin shots twice each day, morning and night. To make matters urgent, the poor dog had not had any insulin for 3 days as her owner, (our 90 year old neighbor) can’t manage to give the dog his shots. Upon learning this my wife came home and told me to get the car keys as we had to take our neighbor and the dog to the vet right away! (still not so bad right, we can find the time to take an little old lady who has nothing left in the world but a little poodle to the vet) So we drive down to her house to find that nobody had helped her shovel her walk from all the snow over the past few weeks. While my wife proceeds to load up the neighbor and her poodle, I shovel the walk. (I don’t like the way this is going) On the way to the vet she tells us everyone wants her to put her little dog down, you know give it THE shot. She laments that the dog is all she has and he’s not ready to go, and my wife then jumps in and tells her not to let anyone tell her what to do! She should do what she wants to do. We get to the vet and realize that the only way to keep this little dog alive is for it to have its insulin shots each day, morning and night. Don’t they have some kind of pill or something? Now with the 90 year little old lady unable to give her dog his shots, who do you think is going to be doing it? You guessed it, we are! On top of all this, the little dog seems to be a biter. This means we need to muzzle Bunker (that’s his name) each time before his shots. The injections need to be 12 hours apart so now everyday right after we take the kids to school, about 8:15am and every night, about 8:15pm, we’re honorary veterinarians. They gave us a crash course at the vet clinic and we’re all back in the car headed home. As soon as we’re all in the car, Â (my wife and I, Bunker and his 90 year old owner), she tearfully tells us she’s a very spiritual person and she had been praying somehow, someone, would come to her rescue and save her little dogs life. She then said she was so amazed that it would be us, neighbors she knew in passing ( my mom and her have known each other for years) but never really had much contact with. I guess God works in mysterious ways. I never thought yesterday morning that by the end of the day we’d be giving insulin shots twice a day to a biting little 15 year old poodle!
Well time to get the kids moving and breakfast going as we have a big day. Oh by the way, the thing we were trying to remember the other day that our youngest had said was that he liked having a unibrow! You know, one big eyebrow going all the way across your forehead. This came about as he came home from school and had drawn a line from one eyebrow to the other with a magic marker, hence, his unibrow. Priceless! Thank God it wasn’t permanent marker!
It’s going to warm up to about 45 or 50 today and be in the mid 60’s tomorrow, look out, lots of mud and slush and runoff everywhere this weekend. Mom works both days so it’ll be me and the boys, we’ll keep you posted.
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