Stolen Energy Drink

The girls were ready to get back to school today, and were cozy in their little sweatshirts on this chilly morning.

I however, had another day of rest at home, since yesterday wasn’t actually so restful, running around all afternoon and taking care of the kids all day. Plus, my cough was better kept to myself for another day or so. I just binge-watched Netflix all day, and finished this cute “Little Women” puzzle.

But unfortunately, I missed out on a free drink from 7Brew at the office today! I had signed up to have samples delivered to the office for free, from the new location opening up next week down on Pensacola Street. I requested 35 drinks and they showed up today, so I had my people send me a picture so I would at least see what I had missed out on.

But today was the Veteran’s Day parade at school, so PopPop went up to Gilchrist to join both girls for the event, and they had a nice little time together!

And to add to the craziness that is life… when I got to school to pick up the girls, Addie’s counselor walked them to the car to tell me that while they were dealing with a scuffle between a few other kids, Addie picked up / stole the counselor’s Alani energy drink and drained the entire thing! So I first Googled, “What to do when your 5yo drinks an entire Alani,” and Google said we needed to call Urgent Care and Poison Control. I did both of those things, and Urgent Care said go to the ER or call Poison Control. So then Poison Control took her weight and height and age, and basically said we would be fine just to monitor her for the night.

We were already at Culver’s by this time for our usual pre-gymnastics dinner, so we decided to stay and eat and see how she was doing. She was actually really upset when I was on the phone with Poison Control, saying she was scared and worried for what they would do. I loved her and reassured her nothing was going to be done to her, and she just needed extra cuddles. She was certainly more sensitive than usual…

But between Addie’s stolen energy drink, and Emmie’s overly-tired, barking cough, we decided to just skip gymnastics and head on home. Clearly, we didn’t need anything else on our plates, and we all needed to chill out… Like I said, Addie was a bit more irritable tonight, kind of how kids are when they come out of anesthesia after surgery or something, but she was fine for the most part. She was restless at bedtime and took a little longer to fall asleep, but she was eventually sleeping soundly. Emmie on the other hand was coughing too much to fall asleep, so I sent her out to the couch for some hot tea and to let her just hang out a little longer. So now I’ll try to get her down, hopefully we can quell her cough for some sleep.