My Mother's Day is not what I had planned. You see, my daughter called and offered me several options for celebrating today. She offered brunch, dinner, coming to her farm and basically whatever I wanted. I chose the farm and instead of dinner I wanted her amazing hors d'oeuvres. Then she sweetened the pot and said we could have a free style painting day with the kids. She had the paints and canvases and my grands love to paint as do I. It sounded like a glorious day. Go back to Friday. My granddaughter Allison wanted her friend Aubrey to come spend the night and I agreed. The girls had a great night playing and making videos. Saturday morning I was out in my garden weeding and Josh came to get me saying the Aubrey couldn't move her legs. I came in and with my 44 years of ED nursing guessed that most of her symptoms were drama related. No pain, no nausea just couldn't move. She was on the top bunk and she is at least a foot taller than my granddaughter and there was no way I could lift her off the bunk. I mustered my best ER voice, told her to roll over NOW. Josh was able to get her down and I pointed out to her that she was moving her legs so she could walk. I got her the couch, took her temperature and it was 98.6. I questioned her and got mumbled replies. I don't do well with ANYONE who won't speak up and won't answer questions. It literally makes me nuts. So enter the bitch nurse. She finally spoke up and had no real symptoms but stated it had happened before(which was news to her mom). We called her mom at work and she felt it might be her coming of age "time". Great. Anyway less than an hour later she looked like crap and I retook her temperature and it had soared to 104.6. CRAP. I dosed her with Advil and Tylenol and then got into a war of wills about getting the blankets off and her into light weight clothing. I won for the most part. After dealing with all the 9 year old attitude I could deal with told my son he had sick duty and I took off for Lowes to get garden stuff. More on that later. On the way there I was crying so hard I could hardly see. I had to call Becky. I needed to let her know that I was exposed to, what appeared to this old nurse, flu. She assured me that Mother's Day could be next weekend. You all have no idea how excited I was for today. I can't even describe my disappointment but Becky is right and we can do it next weekend. I keep reminding myself that it is just a day and that I have so many blessings. Today I will work in my garden. Yay.
My garden is growing as is the grass and weeds. I was looking at my little growing plants and noted that some of the leaves had been nibbled on. I had planned on doing all things natural including getting rid of the pests. Then the Aubrey plague happened. I was not in the mood for natural pest ridding techniques. I wanted to annihilate the bastards. I bought Sevin Spray and dust. Today they are history.
Last night I made meatloaf again. According the Josh and the kids it was good. I apparently have conquered my history of meatloaf disasters, bless God.
I went to bed last night thinking about my mom. She would have laughed about my day yesterday and also sympathized with me about the whole situation. She was such a good humored, kind person. I miss her every single day. She went to meet her Lord on Mother's Day 2002. She was in the hospital and she told the nurse, after having a great day, that Jesus came to her and told her she would be coming home. She did go and I know that she is in a glorious place. I still miss her with every fiber in my being. She loved me unconditionally and I miss that total acceptance. As an added plus she thought I was really funny. Her greatest wish was that her girls would be close and we are.
Mother's Day is an American holiday but I will post this with the final wish to all the mothers over the world have a wonderful Mother's Day:
Happy Mothers day
Glad Mors Dag
Schonen Muttertag
Haha no hi omedeto
Muqin jie kuaile
Z Dnem Materi
furaha kwa siku ya kina mama
Bonne fete des meres
Eid am saeid
Feliz Dia das Maes
Feliz dia de la madre
Buona festa della mamma
Charoumeni giorti tis mitera
Hau'oli la makuahine
Ama Beehaniihigii binahji
Yom em sam'ach
Latha nam Mathraichean sona
La'na Maithreacha sonna duit
Chuc mung ngay cua me
..... and all the rest. 💓💓💓
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