Seriously

Here's a rundown of this week’s events…

1)Monday-It was a snowy and crummy day again (as it has been EVERY BLESSED MONDAY for a month!). I wouldn’t care so much except Monday is story time at our local library. The kids really look forward to going so I try not to miss unless the conditions are really bad. We’re running late to begin with and the roads are bad due to the snow. I finally get everyone loaded and get two blocks from home when the “Check Engine Light” appears on my dashboard. Of course it does. I called Hubby to whine as I turned around to go home.

Hubbyy quickly reads the car manual and determines the car is still drivable. We say a quick prayer that he’s correct and that Jesus will help us arrive at the library safely. I reload the children and we head out again. By some miracle, we are ON TIME for story time.

The best news is my car needs to go to the mechanic for the second time in three months-sigh.

2)Tuesday-Hubby is in music ministry. On Tuesday, quite unexpectedly, the pastor of his church was fired. Hubby had a good relationship with the pastor and he is quite shocked and saddened by this decision.

3)Thursday and Friday-Hubby is terribly ill and can’t do a blessed thing like move out of bed or earn a living.

4)Daisy got a paper cut Monday/Tuesdayish. Somehow the paper cut got infected. Friday resulted in a fun visit to get it taken care of ($25 doctor visit co-pay) and a fun prescription antibiotic (How foolish I was to think we’d be able to get by with generic Neosporin to help it heal).

We arrived at the pharmacy drive thru to discover this fun prescription antibiotic costs $40. Yes, $40. I quickly drove away from that pharmacy and decided to call around to a few other pharmacies to seek out a better price.

I eventually called our Target pharmacy. For some reason, they can’t tell me what the cost is, after insurance has paid, because Daisy hasn’t had a prescription filled there before. Never mind that I have and it’s the same insurance.

I do some frantic math and decide that Target should be about $4 cheaper than the other drug store pharmacy. So I bundle up my babies and head out-in the evening, on a weekend. I don’t like to drive at night because I don’t have the best eyesight. And I rarely hit Target on the weekend because we live in a pretty large city and the store tends to be very crowded with people and half of them seem to have left their manners at home.

Anyway, we get rung up at the pharmacy and the total is 50 CENTS cheaper than it was at the previous pharmacy I had been at earlier that day. I did all that to save 50 CENTS. You can imagine my excitement.

So we are home. The children are watching Veggie Tales and I’m whining here in my little corner of the internet. In about ten minutes we’re all putting on our jammies and giving up for the evening.

Maybe tomorrow will be better. Maybe Hubby will actually have the strength to bathe and maybe I’ll actually get to the mountain of dishes in my kitchen.