It's a Wonderful World: Thanksgiving 2009

Some of you might know this and some might not. Meredith was sent home from daycare on the Monday before Thanksgiving with what they thought was Chicken Pox. Meredith has had the vaccine so chances of getting it are pretty low, but I brought her to the doctor and the doctor said that she couldn't give me a note saying they weren't Chicken Pox because that is what it appeared to be. They cut one open and sent it off for testing. She also had an ear infection and they are starting to suggest we might want to think about getting her tubes but that's a story for a later time. Other than a few bumps and a low fever, she wasn't really sick at all. Meanwhile, we had to miss a whole week of daycare. I was hoping that the results would be back before Thanksgiving, but no such luck.

Greg graciously volunteered to stay home with Meredith while I spent Thanksgiving with my mom's family (my aunts, uncles, cousins) as I had cousins from out of town visiting and there was a big Turkey Day celebration planned.

I had a fabulous time, but I was sad to leave Meredith at home. I know a lot of people wanted to see her. But I wouldn't want to infect anyone with Chicken Pox if that is what she had.

I spent Friday morning shopping with a friend of mine. I'm not the type of shopper that has to get up at 4:00 a.m. to find deals. I don't want to fight people over things. I prefer to hit the stores nice and early (more like 8:00 a.m.). I did manage to find a few Black Friday deals though which I am happy with. I also got most of my Christmas shopping done now! YAY!!! Because I hate going into stores in the month of December...I just hate it. I don't do well bumping elbows with people, fighting for parking spaces, being caught up in traffic...I end up running to CVS a lot because I can get in and out quite easily.

We heard back about the Chicken Pox test results on Friday. It was negative. So, we missed out on a whole week of daycare and Thanksgiving for nothing. At that point I was just kind of hoping it was Chicken Pox so she could be done and over with it. Oh well. You win some, you lose some.

Here are a few pictures from Thanksgiving.