I have a feeling there will be a delay or cancellation of school tomorrow. Wet roads and snowfall will almost certainly make for conditions that are too icy. This alternation of frenzied days with everyone home followed by too-quiet days like today is messing with me. I cleaned a lot yesterday, so my house is really quite clean with some clutter here and there, and now I'm bored. THIS is why I wanted to take a class, but the school & winter weather issue is why I can't. Also I have a lot of stuff to figure out for I-M and a lot of appointments to take him to that would surely interfere with taking a class. But on days like today, I'm bored. M-girl wants my attention only when I'm engaged in something else, so even reading a book is difficult.
My friend Peggy from church was so helpful yesterday in taking A-man during I-M's appointment! He played trains and then fell asleep on her couch. I also talked to the mom of one of A-man's classmates about doing some childcare swapping. I could take her child when there's a delay or cancellation, and she could take A-man if I-M has an appointment. She couldn't take him yesterday because she was working from home with her boys, but she's interested in playdates and coffee. : ) I met her in the early fall, and she seems really nice.
The allergist's has a very busy office, and things were chaotic enough with M-girl not having a nap and sprinking Cheerios everywhere we went and yelling at the top of her lungs for a "LOLLY!!!". The tests showed that I-M is allergic to dust mites, cats, many local weeds, many trees, and a few things spelled out only in initials that I can't decipher. He's on Xyzal, which is similar to Zyrtec and is ridiculously expensive, even with insurance. He woke up without shadows under his eyes, so maybe I need some! He really was quite brave, and I was impressed with how the testing procedure has improved since I did it as a kid. All the scratching gets done at once, so it's much easier to keep the child calm. Hooray for calm!
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