Sunday, February 22, 2009

Slogging through

It's been interesting around these parts lately.

Work has been hopping lately. Standardized testing will commence shortly, so the reviewing has begun. Behaviors have popped up as a result. I cannot allow mutiny-- so it should be interesting.

Mark has been sick. He has been at home with bronchitis since Thursday. DH has been taking leave, since he has months of sick leave. (I consider it fair-- I have to take off when he's away, and he has gobs more sick leave then I do.) We now own a nebulizer. For those of you not in the know, it turns the steriod medication into an inhaled vapor to open up the clogged airways. Which leads me to my rant.

DH's mom and aunt arrived in town on Thursday night. I administered two nebulizer doses that night, and then DH was responsible on Friday as he stayed home. He didn't do any until I chewed DH out around 11 am. And this is with his mother, the nurse, and his aunt, mother of eleven kids, in the house. His mom then stuck up for him when I let my displeasure known on Friday night. Uh, excuse me, but four doses means four doses. (The excuse? Mark didn't want to do a breathing treatment. I can't tell you how many times I've heard this excuse at school, so my pissy factor kicks in pretty quickly every time I hear it. Who is the parent, after all?)

But the in-laws are gone now. Ahhh, where's the wine?

3 comments:

mebtha said...

Rant dually entitled. Mark didn't want to do a treatment?? Tough kiddo - such is life. Oh, and next time try the wine while the in laws are there. It helps :)

Always Around Kids said...

(LOL)

The reason I didn't want to crack open the wine was that I was afraid I wouldn't stop!!! ;)

Good to hear from you, girlfriend...

~e said...

Did you consider that maybe Mark didn't get the treatment because, intead, the three adults split it? Who knows what else, besides steroids, that thing will "nebulize".
Just a thought...