Strep, Stitches, and Snow Days

I interrupt my regularly scheduled content, to bring you a weekend update. And ohh, what a weekend it was! I know, I know. I’m about 5 or 6 days late, but we’ve been dealing with some things around these parts. And technically, the girls haven’t gone back to school yet, so we’re still kind of on that weekend feeling.

I woke up last Friday with a mildly sore throat and achey body. I figured the throat was just me getting sick, and the aches were due to sleeping between Juli and John. As the day progressed, my throat didn’t feel any better (the pain usually lessens throughout the day) and the aches got worse. I’ve had strep throat a number of times and figured this is what I was dealing.

Friday night, our neighbor needed to have her kids sleep over. Knowing I was coming down with something, I made sure to keep my distance. Somehow, in the handful of times I’ve had strep, no one else in the family has caught it! Hallelujah! We haven’t broken that streak! 

Overnight, I woke up every. single. hour. That morning, I knew we were dealing with strep. Saturday was supposed to be date night, so we already had the kids booked for a local parents’ night out. Instead of heading to the Thai restaurant I had been eyeing, we went to the ER. The swab confirmed we were dealign with strep. Because my prescription wouldn’t be ready until Sunday morning, I went back home to bed to suffer. 

Sunday rolled around, and John went to go grab my prescription. I spent the day in bed watching Netflix and reading. What a disaster #FyreFest was! Does anyone else remember watching it all go down on Twitter?! 

I finished The Woman in the Window. Not gonna lie, some parts were a bit slow, so I Googled the ending. I also saw that they’ll be making it into a movie this year! I can’t wait for that one! The book legit had me shook. I had to stop one night, because it was bedtime and it was starting to creep me out too much.

Come Monday, I was feeling much better! The weather wasn’t terrible, but it was COLD! Like 5º feels like -16º cold. My neighbor and I had some fun tossing pots of boiling water out and watching them instantly vaporize. Hopefully you caught the video on my Instagram stories! 

Later on in the day, we had some neighbors over to play. The girls were upstairs, when we heard screaming. Veronica ran down covered in blood, as did one of the other little girls. Apparently, they walked into each other, causing some major gashes on their faces. Thankfully, V didn’t need stitches, but the other girl did! Ouch! Poor thing. 

Somewhere throughout the day on Monday, we lost heat. Since I had been sick, I was still moping around in sweaters and blankets. Lucky for us, maintenance came pretty quickly to relight the heat for us and several other neighbors who it had gone out for. 

Unfortunately, other families around Newport weren’t as lucky. The gas went out throughout the city, which meant many families were dealing with no heat and no hot water. Even restaurants around town had to close. The same goes for the schools.

Both the elementary school and preschool for my girls closed down for the week due to no heat. It almost feels like the school closings we experienced in Kentucky last year due to snow. A second winter break due to snow/cold days. 

It’s looking like the older two will be able to return to school on Monday, but still no word on the littlest fern. Although I haven’t checked the school calendar, I’m guessing that these days off from school will push the end of the school year back a week. 

Still no word on where we’re moving to next (I was hoping to know by last week!), but a longer school year here will make it interesting. School is running through late June. I’m assuming the next school will start in August, making this summer the shortest summer ever. Give and take, since last year was the longest summer ever.