Long crazy day

Mom left today. She had been here since Christmas. She took with her...Gerald, Heather, Adam, Rayln and Zippy (bastard rodent). I am very relieved to have my house back. Also, my kids are listening again. I started cleaning the visitor funk out of my house before they pulled out of the driveway. I cleaned from 0800 to about 1130 when Gizmo needed to power down. He passed out and I decided I would take the opportunity to doze with him. Bad. Bad idea. I missed two calls from the school nurse at 1400 to pickup Smarty because he was in horrible pain crying with an ear infection. I came after him around 1420...that is a long time in 6 year old pain minutes. I felt terrible. This just happened out of nowhere. No fever. No warning. He doesn't do pain well. He missed Tuesday at school because he had a stomach virus most of the 3 day weekend. I blame company. Too much excitement. My trip to Vegas was grand, but coming home to sickness and worm down babies is rough. Gizmo has been a trooper. Not too worn out or grouchy. I'll eat those words in the morning I bet. Anyway, so Smarty has super bad fluid in his ear and needs meds. I go to Walgreens in a city with a Walmart and it is like a five day wait...so I call my tiny town pharmacy to be sure the meds exist in that county. (You never know. Weirder shit has happened here. I promise.) it does. Great. So I drive 1 hour (30 miles with several idiots leading the way) back to our BFE town and get the meds right before they close at 1800. We make it home and I am able to calm the kids down and feed them while doing 90 loads of laundry. They just started snoring as I wrote this laying in bed with them. Time to do Macroeconomics. The day continues.....