Friday, October 23, 2009

A week of babysitting with sick grandkids.....

It has been a week since we left our last workkamping position in Wichita. We left early Wed. morning hating to leave our friends! We met Jeff and Megan for fried chicken at the Topeka Steak House for dinner. Erin's couldn't come as our oldest grandson was sick...that was the beginning of our week..... We left bright and early by 6:30 AM Thursday am and went to their house to watch Brayden. He was running a temp and coughing.....also not keeping anything down with a headache......
Most of the day he slept but we finally got him to drink some Pedilight....he began to keep something down at least... if only crackers and some 7-UP..... an old standby for me anyway...it always works! We spent the day and early evening with him until his Mom got home. Ryan left that morning for a week's conference in Florida.

Friday morning, we were back at Erin's and had Bryson also...he was running a fever and coughing. Later in the morning,... he was feeling better and Brayden was beginning to feel better. Bill had a dr. appt. in the afternoon. Erin had a hair appt. after work so we were late getting home again.

Saturday ...we spent most of the day at home as I felt like the crud attacking me! I woke up with the gurgling cracking noise in my throat...bronchial tubes.... where is always goes when I have a cold ..... Late Sat. afternoon we went to get Brayden as we were celebrating his birthday from us by going out to dinner and letting him buy his own Birthday gift. He chose to go to Walmart and get 2 DSS games. We went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. Yummy!!!!! He didn't eat much...he still wasn't back up to his normal self yet.

Sunday.... we didn't even get out of the house at all.....I stayed in all day long and slept.... Bill was in and out and went to the store for a few things.

Monday, we were back at Erin's early in the morning as Brayden had to get the bus at 8 and someone needed to be there to make sure he got on the bus ok. Bryson spent the day with us again as he was coughing and not feeling good. Erin had a touchup appt. with her hair on Monday after work so we were late getting home again.
Brayden went to school and Lauren to the babysitter. I had a dr. appt. in the afternoon and she reassured me I had a bronchial infection and to continue taking what I was taking...
It was a pretty nice day Monday in Topeka although windy.

Tuesday, everyone headed to their correct day destinations..... we went to Erin's early in the morning to get Brayden off to school and then came back to the RV park. I had to do a blood test that morning also. We spent the day working around the coach and then mid afternoon we got a call from Erin that Bryson had a temp and we had to go get him. So off we went to pick him up and stopped to get Lauren in the meantime..... she had a runny nose when we got her.... by the time we got home she was fairly warm....we had planned spending the night at Erin's anyway...as she was going to catch a plane to meet Ryan in Florida on Wed. and come home Friday with him. Brayden had basketball practice at 6 PM so Bill took him to do that and Erin ran to Walmart to get a few last minute things after dinner.She was sick by then too.....but she went anyway.

Wednesday morning early (5 AM) we got up when Erin was getting ready to leave and Lauren woke up crying.... she was up a little bit and then went back to bed. WE got the boys up and around and Megan came by that time to take Bryson to school but he was staying home today as he wasn't feeling good and couldn't go back to school until at least 30 hours without a temp. Megan stayed with the kids after we left on Wed. morning. Lauren went to daycare and Megan took Bryson to Ryan's parents for the day. Megan left work around 10 and went back to get Bryson and picked up Lauren too as she was running a slight temp...... we hated leaving all the kids when they were sick but things worked out well..... they are all doing somewhat better as far as I know now!

We left Topeka around 10ish to head to Coffeyville....... the weather cooperated and it only misted on us a few times on the way down here...it is about 2 1/2hrs.south of Topeka.

Until next time!
BJ

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