Friday Sept. 2 Happy Birthday Patience

So during the night Patience woke me up coughing,( she had decided to sleep in her bed, since she would be turning six during the night.) but came into my room when she needed me, telling me she felt like she was going to get sick.  She no more than said this then she did, Misti and I went with her into the bathroom to get her clean and to see if we could find something to help with the coughing.  After I had her lay in my bed, we put a cool cloth on her throat and I started talking to her about a bunch of nothing just to help her relax.   So I started cleaning off my desk to distract her, and her breathing seemed to get slower.  I remember having attacks and feeling like it was out of my control. It can be very scary.  My desk looked pretty good after a bit and I noticed she was not coughing any more, she had fallen asleep. I felt like I had slept most of the night already as I had fallen asleep before 11pm and that does not happen often.  I looked at the clock and was suprised to see it was  a few minutes after 1am.  So I went back to sleep and got up this morning feeling well rested. 

I went to Mom and Daddy's for coffee and Mom would be riding with me this morning as Daddy needed the car.  We left to head to work and then got some of my stuff done before it was time for Mom to head to her class. I had been working on a statement and could not get it to balance, I had her read off the numbers to me so I could double check them and was able to locate the one I had transposed.  I had looked that same list over twice yesterday and could not find the error.  I am so lucky to have her there to help with things like that as well as just to be working with her. 

Misti brought Payton in to have breakfast with Patience today as it was her birthday and they both got a kick out of this.  After it was time for Patience to go to her Dr. appt then she was brought back after lunch for cupcakes with her class, Misti came by the office to find me so I could join them for a few minutes before I had to return to my office.  Then about 1:30 I left to go have my lab work done and to also pick up my new meds that I start today.  I happened to run into Ray when I was leaving the Drs office, and he gave me the good news that he was released to return to work.  I am so happy that he is doing better.

From the Dr's office I ran by Wal-Mart to get my meds and to get some hot dogs, they were on sale at another store 3 packs for a dollar so I wanted to stock up my freeze with them.  When I got my meds I asked to pay for the hot dogs there instead of standing in another line and was told this girl did not know how to comp prices so if I wanted the cheaper price I needed to go stand in a different line.  I guess it was a good thing I was trying to use up some comp time that I had gotten last week.  So I went to the front and got in one of the lines and was lucky that it moved fast, got my dogs paid for and headed back to work.  I took them in and put them in the ice box in the kitchen till it was time to go home.

After School Misti ran to the store and I went home to get my stuff ready for our trip.  About the time I got my stuff in the trunk of my car Misti pulled in with the kids.  She said she needed to wrap some stuff so I told the kids we needed to go to my room and talk.  We went in there and played around like we were camping, the blanket was our tent and I have a fake candle that we use as our fire.  So when Misti was done and had the things loaded she wanted to take I told them I heard of a new store I wanted to go to then we could come back and finish playing.  We all got in the car and drove for and hour and fourty five minutes the we got to Pryor, Patience who did not know about the plans to bring her to her Daddy for her birthday said this town looks like Pryor, I told her "no dear a lot of these older towns look the same it is like they used the same pattern to do the layout."Well she bought that till she saw the hotel we were going to stay at so they could swim and she said " I know this is Pryor"  then she started screaming and thanking her Mommy for bringing her there for her birthday.  Kris met us at the Chinese restaurant we were going to have dinner at then after we went back to the hotel and opened gifts then swam.  I think it was a very successful birthday.  Misti and Kris could not have planned anything better for her if they had tried.  I just wish I had taken a picture to share with everyone.