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Our day was packed to the gills with things to do.  Mondays are usually very busy for us–at least the mornings are.  We start the day with daily mass so that Mama can keep from being too grumpy at 9.  Then we have therapy appointments until noon.  Here are the highlights from our day.

• Honey started speech therapy for her articulation problems.  It’s not too bad, but I wanted to get her in before the habits became too ingrained.
• We have passes to get onto the military installation just like the EZ Tag for toll roads.  Unbeknownst to me, mine had expired.  I was absolutely mortified when they had me pull over the median while they wrote down information and confiscated the pass.  I need to learn to read things better.  July 07 does not mean July 2007 especially since the 2007 was underneath the date.  That’s what I get for wondering what we were going to do for about 15 minutes since we were so early for Brother’s doctor’s appointment.
• Brother’s appointment was a bit frustrating because the doctor couldn’t figure out what could be wrong.  They had already ruled out mononucleosis.  I knew and kept insisting that something was wrong because he was not himself.  His PT even commented on it.  He had x-rays, urine tests, and blood work. 
• Today’s dinner menu was spaghetti.  I started the sauce the minute we arrived home.  It’s a good thing to because…
• …the doctor called at 4 to tell me that Brother had pneumonia (I almost broke down in tears–not sure if it was relief that it wasn’t anything really bad or feeling awful that my son was so sick).  Then she proceeded to tell me he needs to be on antibiotics and that we need to get them before the pharmacy closed which was in less than an hour. 
• I grabbed Pumpkin from her nap, got the kids to the bathroom, shoes on and out the door in five minutes.  We made it with time to spare (it’s really empty and you get your meds very quickly at this hour!). 
• With the sauce made, dinner was ready in a snap.  We eat at 6, preferably 6 sharp for Brother’s sake and we made it.  Our only snafu was when Pumpkin put a piece of spaghetti noodle in her nose.  Before I could get the tweezers to it, she pushed it in too far.  I had to go borrow a nose suction thingie, but she had snorted it and swallowed it by the time I returned (yuck).

As you can imagine, it was a relief to put the kids to bed.  Hope y’all’s day went simpler.