Jarrod started a new job on Monday. He is now the service manager at Greenway equipment in Weiner! So far it seems like he is going to really like it. He spent the week learning a lot of new things from another service manager at their Newport location and next week he'll be at Weiner getting settled.
Because of the new job, I have to take both kids to school now, where before Jarrod would take Arden on his way to work. Well, it's going to take more than a week to get used to the new routine-for us all! I'm not a morning person, so I feel sorry for my kids in the morning! I know I'm grumpy and have little patience! It takes me an hour and 10 minutes to get both kids to schools on each side of town and get to my office. Which mean we are leaving our house at 6:50!
This week was harder because Jarrod had to go to Newport and so he had to leave here around 6am, so I had to get both kids up and around by myself. And is twice as hard to get ready with kids around. And I know your thinking to yourself "just get ready before they get up!" But that's not easily done when my kids get up around 5:30. I'm getting up around 4:45am and trying to get as much done as I can, but I can't get up earlier than that! Hopefully, things will get easier when we get used to the new routine.
Monday we met with the ENT and he confirmed that we needed to get Stratton's tonsils out soon. We scheduled his surgery for Friday, so he could recover the week of Thanksgiving, since they are out of school all week!
Wednesday night Arden threw up in the middle of the night. She did it three times in about 30 minutes and then went back to sleep. We decided to keep her home the next day just in case she did have a virus, but she was fine. My mom came and got her after lunch so she could stay with them for a few days while Stratton had his surgery and recovered.
So, today was the surgery and he did really good. The biggest hurdle was getting him to take his shirt off and put the gown on! But after the "goofy juice" he was good. We were laughing at all the funny stuff he was saying. He asked one of the docs if he had ever thrown a turkey in the hospital! He was cranky when he came out but after about 15 minutes he settled down, and by the time we left he was sleepy and groggy but not too upset. They told us he would sleep most of the day and probably not want to eat for a couple of days, but we needed to try and make sure he drank lots of fluids.
After we got home and got settled, he had some icecream while Jarrod went to the pharmacy to get his meds. He then had a popsicle and started asking for real food! I asked him what he thought he could eat and he said Cheese-Its! Then he said scrambled eggs. He spent the restbofnthe afternoon pretty much eating all day and not sleeping! He almost threw up a couple of times from getting too worked up from running around, standing on his head and playing football. . . So much for sleeping all day!
The doc told us day 2 would be worse, but to try and keep the pain meds in him. Hopefully it won't be too bad. At least Jarrod will be here all day tomorrow to help! I figure by Thursday he will be back to 100%. Although we are going to try and keep him eating soft foods as long as possible. I don't want to end up back at the doctor.
Next week will be a short week for me, I get off at noon on Wednesday and won't have to go back till Monday. Jarrod is only off on Thursday, so that will make our traveling a little more difficult. I hope we get some time to put the fall decorations away and get out the Christmas stuff! I'm afraid if we don't do it soon, it's not going to get done!
Tis the Season to be busy!
