I spent this morning delivering flyers for our church Easter egg hunt. While I was out I stopped to talk with a neighbor who makes her own soap and earns a little bit on the side by teaching. She had just got a big shipment in and was trying to get it all filled. Her daughters birthday is tomorrow and she sounded really stressed so I offered to help for a bit. I ended up breaking up the big buckets of coconut oil into smaller pieces so they could be divided into smaller separate containers. I think I'm going to have a blister on my hand from doing it though. There were a couple of other ladies there helping. Ones that actually make the soap. I have seen Laurie make the soap but have never really had the desire to do it myself. My passion is scrapbooks. Speaking of which I really need to get working so I can get George up to date.
George and McKenna are doing much better and I am hoping that they will be okay to go to the egg hunt tomorrow. Last night I went and got the rest of Easter off of layaway. I can't tell you how much I love layaway. It really helps out. I hope that Wal-Mart and KMart will keep their layaway programs. If it goes away I don't know what I will do.
Miserable. That one word pretty much sums up the last couple of days at our house. George has them all over in his hair and poor Kenna has them in her mouth and throat. McKenna is trying to be brave and not itch but she is struggling and there is just no reasoning with George. The nights have been the worst. I have spent the last two nights out on the couch with both George and McKenna. Last night I thought I could just get her back to sleep and sneak back into my bed but that wasn't going to happen. Every time I moved she would wake up. Around 12 a.m. she got up and started wailing because her throat hurt. I gave her some Tylenol and then did a quick spray of chloroseptic into her mouth. She was not happy about that but it did help with the pain. George didn't come downstairs until about 1 a.m. but he still came down. I am very tired and I am trying not to be ornery with them. I feel so bad for the poor kids. Hopefully they will be done with this soon.
Jona's appointment up in Salt Lake went well. We saw a Forecia Redmond who is a grad student at the U. of U. When we took Jona in two years ago to be evaluated we saw a grad student from B.Y.U. When she heard this she hastened to let us know that she would just be handling our intake and would refer us to a psychologist who would take over. We are waiting to hear from him so we can set up an appointment. She did mention that we might want to take Jona to a speech area that they have at the U. of U. and I am thinking that would be a good idea. His vocabulary is great but his communication skills are very low.
Jona gets to give a talk in Primary on Sunday. He will be giving a talk about Easter and Temples. We practiced it a bit on Monday and we will go over it again a couple of times before Sunday. I hope that McKenna will be over the pox so that she can see him give it.
--------------------What do you know?
McKenna came in this morning and said that she had more chicken pox. Sure enough she has a bunch under her left arm pit and a few more scattered about her body. So I decide to check George and, you guessed it, he has them too. McKenna is a little trouper and hasn't complained one little bit. George on the other hand has been extremely ornery and he is itchy. I just gave him his second dose of benedryl for the day. I am hoping that they will be finished and done with them so that their Easter isn't spoiled.
Today was supposed to be Jona's dr. appointment up in Salt Lake but the office called and said the dr. is sick so they rescheduled us for tomorrow. I am anxious to get up there and talk with this dr. I want to know what we as parents can do to help Jona. We spent about an hour last night filling out the paper work and answering the questions in the packet that they gave us. It is really good for us to do it together because we get to talk about how we view Jona and his progress. I got to thinking that maybe we should come up with a questionnaire on our own. One that we could use with all three kids. That way we could sit down together and focus on all three of kids one at a time and not just Jona.
Okay here is my obligatory Oscar bit. I didn't get to see the first part because we were filling out paper work but I will go with what I did see. I thought that Whoopi did a wonderful job. She had some very funny cracks. I enjoyed the tribute to Sydney Poitier. And of course I thought what everyone watching thought " What in the world was Gwyneth Paltrow thinking when she picked that dress?"
