my day

today did not go as planned. i had planned to spend the morning in my pj's. i had planned to have a friend over for lunch and a playdate. i had planned to not leave my house today. why, as a mother of 3 kids 5 years and under, do i think i can PLAN anything? you'd think i'd learn. last night Austin, the baby, was fussy. he's usually a very good baby, so this concerned me. i thought it was because his daddy fed him mashed potatoes with chives, it wasn't. after getting up with him 5 times, i realized at 6am that he had a fever. at that moment my first thought was, ear infection. and then the doubt crept in. i'm not sure why, but i'm not very good at trusting my own instincts, even though i'm usually right. it's just that the thought of taking one of my family members to the doctor for the 6th time in a month kind of got to me. i started worrying that they are going to think i'm some kind of crazy mom that needs her kids to be sick to get attention or something. seriously, in one month 4 out of 5 of us has had antibiotics! and none of us had the same thing! so there i was this morning, trying to figure out if i dared call the doctor. i mean, what were his symptoms? he kept crying, which was unusual for him, but babies cry. he had a low grade fever, but that in itself isn't usually enough to call. he wasn't pulling on his ears, he wasn't throwing up. but i had to. i called. and at 11:30am he was diagnosed with an acute ear infection. oh, and his fever was up to 102. so, what have i learned from this? trust your instincts! i suppose that's why God gave them to us. he's feeling better now, thanks to tylenol, motrin, and zithromax. and i did get to have lunch with that friend. just at her house instead of mine, and a bit late. so the day ended up being pretty good after all, even though it definately did not go as planned!