Date:	2008-04-21 16:41
Subject:	How to have a super-duper day: a recipe
Security:	Public
Mood:	AGH!

Begin with one child exhausted from performance weekend, one doing just peachy, and the third with a light case of pneumonia. Call in to work.

1) Take child #2 to school while child #1 sleeps. Try to take child #3 in for the recommended chest x-ray, find out x-ray does not open until 12, go home for a bit.

2) Around noon, take child #3 back to urgent care for chest x-ray. Spend three hours getting chest x-rayed, pulse and oxygenation checked, doctor exam, fun inhaler treatment, more doctor exam, more pulse and oxygenation checking... Leave with scripts for increased amoxicillin dosage and inhaler, and instructions to take him to the pediatric ER "if he seems to get any worse" and to his doctor on Wednesday otherwise.

3) Learn that during the time spent in urgent care and while child #1 was cleaning her room, tub overflowed and apartment flooded and was dripping on the neighbors downstairs and child#1 was panicking. Boss was thankfully on his way to apartment and had talked to landlord.

4) Spend rest of day (so far, and probably from now on) wringing towels out into the tub and assessing the damage to anything that was on the floor in the bathroom, kitchen, dining room, or art area. For added bonus, fix fresh cup of relaxing hot tea and then kick it over on the carpet whilst sorting through wet things. Let's not forget the fun of children discovering the special properties of wet linoleum re: shoes.