Longest Day Ever

Friday I was off so I could head to Houston to visit and meet Ms. Emily. I arrived in Houston mid-afternoon and as Erin promised she took me to my favorite restaurant there, Nit Noy - it was so yummy. Grandma and Grandpa watched Emily while we ate and went to the bar to have a couple of drinks. I went to sleep around midnight because I wanted to give Erin and Adrian some help while I was there and had agreed to take the morning shift with Ms. Emily. Erin woke me up around 6:30 am and I fed Emily and hung out with her. We decide to venture out to do some shopping on Saturday afternoon. Erin's Mom, Erin, Emily and I had lunch at California Pizza Kitchen and walked the mall. Emily slept most of the time but we took a later afternoon coffee break to feed Emily and have some coffee. We were all pretty tired after a couple of hours and headed back to Erin's folks. They were kind enough to make dinner for us and Erin took a short nap. Erin and I made it back to her place around 9 pm and that's when things started to go down hill.

Ms. Emily had been vomiting some over the weekend and after her last bottle Erin put her down and ought oh - she got sick. About the same time, Aaron called to tell me his Dad was on his way over to take him to the emergency room as he thought his kidney stone was back and was in severe pain. With Emily sick and running a slight temperature I couldn't decide if I should head home or stay. Erin's Dad headed over to her house to help out and I packed more less threw my stuff in my bag, made a cup of coffee and gave myself a mental pep talk that I could do this trip! I said my goodbyes, put my stuff in the car and made a quick departure.

I was waiting to hear from Aaron's Dad, Roy about what was going on with Aaron. A little after midnight he called and told me he had gall stones and they were going to get rid of them tonight. I called Granny B to let her know what was going on. Luckily for us, Conner had a weekend stay with Granny B and Papa John. Aaron called a little while later and told me it was a kidney stone not gall stones, oops - miscommunication. At that hour it's understandable. I made a couple of pit stops on the way home and arrived at the house around 4 am (22 hours and counting). I called Aaron and he was still waiting to hear something at the emergency room so I decided to head to the hospital to get Roy and bring him back to the house so he could get on home. About the same time I arrived they decided to send Aaron home with some prescriptions and he was about to start the paper work to be released.

I was so happy that sleep was right around the corner, I was just about to get ready for bed when Roy knocked at the door. His truck was dead! When it rains, it pours. We tried to jump his truck with no success so I told him to just take my car home and we'd work on it tomorrow or should I say later in the day. Aaron finally made it home around 5 am. We got some shut eye until about noon. Roy came by the house and Aaron and him worked on changing out his car battery. Moncia and Papa John brought Conner back home around 2 pm. He has another ear infection and has been on antibiotics since last week and for some reason had been running a fever all weekend.

We all took a late afternoon nap, had some dinner and decided we better call in a sick day tomorrow and work on getting everyone rested and healthy. I'm going to take Conner back to the doctor tomorrow and hopefully Aaron will get some much needed relief from his kidney stone.

I'm also happy to report that Ms. Emily is doing much better and think she may have some acid reflux. Thanks to everyone for the well wishes and being there to help. We are so blessed to have friends and family that are ready and willing to help out and be there when we need them.

Did I mention this was the longest day ever . . . .