terrible mother alert!

that's me, bad bad mommy at your service. Got a phone call from MIL first thing this morning, first thing in as I had not even walked into the kitchen to make coffee yet first thing-
"C has been coughing & wheezing he sounds asthmatic and that could lead to pneumonia and you have to take him to the doctor"
now I am well aware of the cough he has had one for a week or so as well as some allergies which is why when I dropped him off yesterday I pointed out the vicks vapor rub to put on last night & the OTC allergy stuff for evenings & mornings, which is when he is at his worst. I have finally learned a thing or two in my 13 years of dealing with MIL so I said sure I will make an appointment this week. Well that was not good enough I needed to take him to one of those weekend clinics which quite frankly I do not do-look at what happened last time! I am just not the type to run him into a doctor at every sniffle and lo and behold he has made it to 8 in fairly decent health, he never did contract TB! I managed to get off of the phone without calling her a loon and called David at work so he could deal with his mother. David didn't give me details but I think we are planning on dropping off a humidifier for her house which should help. Hopefully she has been pacified but I guess we will see, I half expect her to drop him back home putting a crimp into date night.
afternoon update: dropped humidifier off & he seems fine so I have cancelled the order for the iron lung

taking to my sick bed

hahaha pretty funny stuff. No went to class, I am at work now, have lab this afternoon, pick up C, get Halloween costume, make dinner, do dishes if I remember to get soap for the dishwasher and probably laundry thrown in at some point for good measure. I miss the days when I got a cold and I could go back to bed and have people fetch me juice and ginger ale, ginger ale with the bendy straw no less 'cause that is the true testament to being sick, the bendy straw.
My voice is starting to catch a little so I am hoping that does not mean laryngitis, always some fun stuff. It reminded me of when C was a toddler and he heard that I had lost my voice the funny little quizzical look on his face "where did it go mommy? I will help you find it" ooo why is my cute little monkey growing up so fast?

spoiled much?

so the C missed winning the baby board by 20 minutes. But no no wait MIL announced he came in "second" and won $50. I'll let him keep the money in his wallet a few days longer but then I am cleaning it out and we are putting it into his bank account. I swear most days that child has more cash on hand than David & I ever do.

what do you call your MIL?

no no I mean to her face.
It never occurred to me to call MIL anything but her given name. She isn't my mom, I have a mom that I call mom why would I call MIL mom too?

fall break

not all it's cracked up to be when you are a "mature student" or non-traditional student that's the nice way of putting it isn't it? Since I am so incredibly part-time all it meant for me was no class on Tuesday & no lab on Thursday and all that really boiled down to was more time I could spend at work so no real vacating on my part.
Now C has a full week off for fall break this week. Crazy no? a full week! I do not like it one bit give them a long weekend for Columbus Day or something okay fine but I think a full week off now is disruptive. Why not give the full week at Thanksgiving? Quite a few children(including my own)usually wind up taking it anyway so people can travel or have their tonsils out or something. We have nothing on tap just paying for his care for 4 days this week and he'll get 1 day with MIL which is a vacation onto itself for him.