One of the reasons....

Two of the three weekdays so far we have had Lynnlee with us.

This morning we stayed with Landon and Tessa while Hilary took Owen to meet the pre-school bus at Rossville.  They were both sick, so we stayed with them while she took Owen, then brought Lynnlee home with us.

On Monday Megan had the flu, so we drove to their house to pick her up for the day.  Owen had an appointment at Riley and we thought it would just be easier to keep her with us than for her to go along and their having to get her in and out of the truck and fuss with her during the appointment time.

After Hilary returned home from the school. she took Landon and Tessa to Urgent Care since there were no available appointments with their doctor until 3:45 this afternoon.  She wanted diagnoses and to start medications for them this morning rather than wait until the end of the day to do that.  I don't blame her.

Somewhere in the busyness of this morning, she apologized for asking us to help out.  Silly girl.

Her plan was to wake up Landon just before she left with Owen, get him and Tessa in the van along with Owen and Lynnlee and take Owen to school, then get the three back in the house once they returned home.  Why do that when we were available to watch the three, then bring Little Miss home with us?

But she apologized.  She apologized for Monday also, saying they COULD have taken Lynnlee along and it would have been fine.

Yes it would have been fine.  And it would have worked for her to take the other three along to drop off Owen and she could have taken Lynnlee along to  Urgent Care.

But neither of us are sick (at least not right now other than my getting over a head cold) and she would have been more exposed to bronchitis and a sinus infection if she had gone with them.  No sick kids want to be put in a van to ride to a school when they have to miss a day and then ride back home and then get in again to go to Urgent Care---in 11* weather no less.

So when she apologized, then thanked us, our response was 'That is why we moved, why we are here.  Remember?"  Gary added, "If we can't, we will tell you."  And that seemed to be ok.  

Yes the alarm was set for 6 this morning and we walked out at 7:15 to go to her house to help.  But if we had lived in Pulaski, we would have been up at 5 and out of the house by 6 and I would need a nap for sure!

But now we can help, we can fill in when needed, we are close enough to be there in five minutes if necessary.

And the plus side of today is this ---another day with Little Miss Lynnlee and she is SO much fun at this age!