"Voice sounds a little squeaky."

I don't feel like posting tonight. I'm just exhausted. However, posting every day reminds me (from the title of my blog alone) what I'm doing this for. So..I'm posting.

Took the kids to the doctor today. Middle daughter has an ear infection. Youngest daughter has a sinus infection and gunky ears. Antibiotics for both, and nebulizers for the youngest, because "she's not moving air well". She hasn't been coughing like her sister. She's mostly just been clearing her throat. She's not in distress. That's good. She was smiling all day, and I fully expect her to be back in school in a day or two.

I went in, too. I've got a sinus infection and laryngitis. The nurse actually wrote in my chart that my "voice sounds a little squeaky." I thought that was funny. I brought my script for antibiotics home with me without filling it. I figured I'd give it a couple of days, and if I'm not any better, I'll fill the prescription.

Sorta bummed I didn't finish the insurance stuff today, but we were gone most of the day, and when we got home there was dinner, and nebulizer treatments, and going to the store for groceries. So, I'll be finishing up tomorrow.

In the meantime, I'm going to be visiting my good friend, Pillow, very shortly!

I've earned some alone time with her, I think.

Boopada ba ba ba ba boo. Boopada ba ba ba ba boo.

I'm punch drunk tonight. Too much caffeine today. Too little rest. Too much coughing. Too little sounding like myself and a little too much resemblance to the great Louis Armstrong. And for whatever reason, with my gravely, raw voice, I find that I cannot stop singing scat. At one point on the phone with my daughter tonight, she asked me to please stop, or she would have to hang up. :::sigh::: I get no respect.

But you know...it's not often that I have a voice that sounds like Mr. Armstrong. And not often that I'm punch drunk enough to not be able to stop. Oh well. I may as well go with the flow and enjoy myself.

I was not able to finish the insurance paperwork today. With the hubby being at work, the middle daughter hounded me. She believed I spent enough time taking my test and I should be done. I did make plenty of progress today. I just didn't finish.

I have to make a couple of phone calls tomorrow for last minute price checks. I only have to figure out the claims for 6 things. Well, sort of. One of those 6 things are adorable things that the kids made in school and brought home. Their masterpieces. And how am I possibly going to assess a value to them? They're irreplaceable.

I did take pictures of each individual one, so I have the memory. Unfortunately, the memory now includes the mildew, mold and water damage on these priceless works of art. I'm hoping I can use some photo editing software and cover the mildew somehow. Eventually, I'd love to put all the pictures in an electronic picture frame, so we can enjoy them whenever we want. Still. It won't be the same, and I have no idea how to calculate what they're worth.

One of my favorite things that was destroyed I had every intention of hanging on the wall for eternity. I just hadn't gotten around to it. When our oldest was about 9, she had to make a family tree with her parents. We spent hours on it, and it turned out beautifully. It was a huge tree, because I come from a very large family, and by the time both mine and hubby's families were combined on the board, it was hard to fit everyone on there.

After cutting out several individual leaves and making the background for the tree, she cut out roughly 60 hearts. They each hung from a small piece of yarn like apples waiting to be plucked. Each heart had a different name on it. From her grandparents on down. All of her aunts and uncles and cousins and sisters were on this big, beautiful family tree. She was so proud of it. We were so proud of her. She worked so hard on it!

I loved the fact that she chose to put hearts on it instead of apples. That she wanted everyone to know that family symbolized love to her.

How do I possibly put a price tag on something that beautiful?

Did you check the perimeter for spiders?

Worked 13 hours straight on the insurance claims today. I'm done for the night. Thankfully, I'm down to just a few things that I should hopefully be able to find online fairly quickly. This is just so time consuming!

Still. I should be able to finish up tomorrow and without having to spend another 8 or 13 hour day on it!

Watched All About Steve last night with hubby. We both thought it was very funny. It was good to laugh. Sandra Bullock is one of my favorite actresses, though, and she's so good at comedy. It was fun to sit back and laugh with my husband! :)

Oh. That cold sore I felt coming on last night? I feel another one on the other corner of my mouth trying to make it's way to the surface, too! Very thankful for the meds for sure!

Ok. I'm going to go sit with my hubby and my heating pad for awhile before going to bed.

Wishing everyone sweet dreams!