What??? Do we get pedicures & manicures at the pediatricians office while we wait there for hours with a sick baby??? The answer is no. I meant to say my weekend started with getting a nice pedicure & manicure and ended with a visit to the ped.
Sometimes we get indications when things are about to get rough. Booboo’s babysitter was down with cold and fever last week and so were most of his classmates at the day care. I was kind of waiting for it to happen to booboo any day. Somehow he stayed put till Friday evening and I decided to take him to the doctors on Saturday to be on the safer side. So Friday evening I leave office @ 6:00pm and reach the bus stop on Times square to find a long Q. Well I had an option to either stand in the line and wait for the bus to come or else take the subway, go to the 33rd street and take a path from there to jersey and then take another bus to reach home. I decided to stand in the line and wait for the bus and y’all can guess the reason why I did so, changing two trains and one bus is so not me. Unfortunately it was raining and there is no shelter in the stop and it was windy too to make it more annoying. So I waited there for like 45 minutes before the bus arrived. This was the first indication that things are going to get rough.
Some how I reach home, half drenched and cold. M picked up boo boo from his babysitter so it was one less thing to do. I headed straight to the kitchen put some lentils in a cooker and rice on another pot and meanwhile I managed to change, peek at into my yahoo mailbox and send a confirmation mail for a Sunday brunch with my girl friends. Came down, loaded the washing machine with first load of laundry and then it was almost dinner time. So here started the real trouble, booboo refused to eat anything and I totally lost it and had a major meltdown when M suggested that I he might not be hungry or he is sick. When I get mad I get really mad, you do not wanna see me in such state of mind. The recipients of my anger were booboo and M. It took me almost one hour to settle down. Later when I thought of it, there was no reason for the meltdown, I know if booboo is not eating he is sick, why did I loose it? Reason is PMS, the bloody PMS, I hate being a woman during such days. Anyways booboo went to sleep and M put food in my plate as I refused to leave the couch. So it was dinner and some sweet talk from hubby which put me at little ease and we called it a day.
Saturday morning was the same regular, breakfast, cleaning and cooking lunch. Surprisingly I was done with all the chores by 1:00 in the afternoon and decided to get my nails done and also try a facial and hair cut if time permits. Left booboo with M and drove to the parlor. So the nails place (run by a Chinese guy) and the parlor (run by an Indian woman) and next door. This is very helpful as I need not search for parking twice. So I went into this nail place to be told that there is a 15-20 mins wait as there is one person ahead of me waiting, I decided to come back later and went to this parlor to see if I could get a facial meanwhile. All this exercise was to cut on the waiting time, but we can never be sure of the outcome as the lady at the parlor informed me that there is a 30 minutes wait there also. I know you will say I should have taken appointment, they do not have such system, its FIFO. Juggling between both the option I managed to get a very good pedicure / manicure and a hair cut plus an amazing facial.
Back home again the same routine, cooking, feeding, cleaning and then a late night movie.
Sunday morning boo boo woke up with a slight temperature. So this is it, the virus made its way into his body and he is now showing the symptoms. Managed to fix a quick breakfast and bathed him. Made appointment with his doctor and we three drove there @ 11:00am and the wait was long, very long. It was a full two hours before the doctor saw booboo and declared that he has a throat infection and we need not worry, he will keep getting fever and Tylenol will help. It will take 3-4 days for him to get better. I was not satisfied with her answer but I am no authority on the subject hence kept quiet and went back home. Sunday night was a night mare, first time since he is born I was awake whole night meeting his demand to be carried, to go upstairs, to go downstairs, eat cheerios / mango which followed by a vomit. Phew!!!!! He went to sleep only around 5:00am. I took a day off on Monday and made another visit to the doctors office, followed by lunch. So around 4:30 in the afternoon boo boo showed some willingness to take a nap, and I barely slept for 15mins, there was a call from my husband, he was just checking how boo boo is and what we were up to. So there goes my sleep and I go down to watch some TV, clean the kitchen, fix dinner and the same old routine. A hectic weekend it was.
Thanks god booboo is better now. Looking forward to my next weekend trip to Lake George.
