Life as I know it...

Here's a series of events from my last 48 hours:

• 8:20 a.m. Wed.: Drop Cesar at airport for his 4 nights away male bonding trip to Arizona w/ his dad and brother.
• 8:50-5:00 Wed: Work blah, blah, blah
• 5:20 Wed: Pick up Leila dear at daycare
• 5:30-8:30 Wed.: Nice and normal evening routine w/ Leila
• 8:45 Wed.: Rejoice in the fact that I can have a glass of wine and Brie cheese for dinner since Cesar's away
• 9:05 Wed.: Call mom to catch up
• 9:30 Wed.: Enter kitchen to top off glass of wine while still conversing with mom and see big ass cockroach making its way around periphery of kitchen floor -- enter bag protecting Cesar's golf shoes and grab one to aim at cockroach -- lob said shoe and hit, but only enough so to amputate a leg -- cockroach stunned enough so that I can reach Raid under sink and spray half a bottle on it -- cockroach crawls under dishwasher to hopefully perish.
• 10:30 Wed.: Lay head to pillow
• 12:50a.m. Wed/Thurs: Leila cries out & continues crying/calling for mom -- go to comfort her and realize by touch that she has a fever -- bring her to bed with mom.
• 5:00a.m. Thurs.: Mommy! Change my diaper (we're working on pottie training & she's finally telling me when a wet diap. bothers her) -- Ok, sweetie, but it's still dark and ni-ni time so we're going back to sleep when we're done
• 5:01 Thurs.: Put a band aid on the boo boo on my foot
• 5:03 Thurs: Take the band aid OFF
• 5:05-6:40 Thurs: Sleep
• 6:40 Thurs: Sneak out of bed and leave Leila asleep
• 6:55 Thurs: Peak back in on Leila and she awakes -- window of opportunity to shower gone -- take temperature & it's still just under 101 -- no day care/work today --doctor??
• 7:00 - 8:30 Thurs.: give Leila Tylenol/milk -- watch Wiggles, Higgleytown Heroes & Curious George
• 8:30 Thurs.: Make Dr.'s appt. for 10
• 10:00 Thurs.: She's very wheezy - the infection/fever is coming from the lungs...So, like, Bronchitis? Actually, more likely a little Pneumonia. Pneu-whatinthehecknow? What 2yr old gets Pneumonia in early September???
• 11:00-6:20 Thurs.: Fill prescriptions - go to coffee shop for cupcake (i.e.: frosting) and a bit of play - go home to nebulize - nap - nebulize - watch PBS Kids - Play with Play Dough - Papa drops in on way home from work to check on patient.
• 6:30 Thurs.: Vaguely stated to Papa and no one in particular "yeah, there's kind of this dead roachie smell in the kitchen - I think its carcass is under the dishwasher still..." and Papa says "a dead roach shouldn't smell" and I say "huh?, how bout you pull out that drawer under my stove to check for any dead mice?" and BINGO! Mouse trapped mouse # 9!! We went through a couple weeks there with nothing... Here we go again....
• Meanwhile in Sedona Arizona...Hey babe - I'm on the 17th hole - I'll call you back in about an hour.........AAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!