Our Snow Day Wednesday

OK, I know, this is a few days late. But we had a VERY busy and crazy Wednsday this week. It started out that we were to get snow at midnight. I woke up at 3 am, and not even flurries. Went to the bathroom, got a snack together, (both things woke me up), and in that 20 minutes it started snowing. Go to bed, the alarm wakes us up. We get up, get Zoe up, we tell her she can watch noggin, wellll that backfired when I wanted to watch the school closings. So I had to look them up online. Then the 1 local station who this is the 2nd time by 7am does not have our district listed as closed, so I check another station, we are closed. I almost would have had her set to go to school the 1st time I almost solely relied on this station. But I had errands so something told me to double check. OK, so we have to convince Zoe that even though we are stopping into Wal-Mart it is OK to wear her jammies (it was a MILLION times easier to just have her slip pants and boots on!) so we drop Matt off to work on time. He needed something for pot-luck-lunch, a girl at work was bringing in Pulled Pork, and he forgot to make his cake balls. So he decided that beans would be a good idea, at first he wanted me to bring back the beans warmed for lunch in the crock-pot, but then he figured it was best to bring the crock, and have me drop off the beans (smart thinking for once). So Zoe and I head to Wal-Mart. We needed to get a #10 can of baked beans. THEY DIDN'T HAVE THEM!! So I call Matt, the cell drops the call, he calls me back. He tells me the 3.5 lbs cans are fine, grab 3. Get 3-8 Roll packs of Hot Dog Rolls. And I needed tissues for home. I got the beans, the rolls, and find that they have 24 packs of cookies for 3.33, not a bad steal, so I get 2 different kinds of cookies. We go to check out Zoe sees the bathroom, of course she has to go (she usually does right upon waking she just didn't go before leaving home). So we go do our thing, and when we were washing our hands, I remember that I forgot tissues. We go get some, and Zoe thinks I should get the pink box because it is pink, it has less tissues, and costs the same as the box with more tissues, and actually semi-matches the decour in my Living Room. (BY THE WAY DURING A SNOW STORM IS THE BEST TIME TO SHOP!! THE STORE IS EMPTY!!) Then we check out, and head over to the in-house Dounkin Dounuts, as Matt didn't have time to eat breakfast, and neither did we. I get his meal, me a coffee, and her a milk and muffin (THEY REALLY NEED TO MAKE THAT A MEAL OPTION!!) LOL!! We get out to the car, get settled, and head out. There at the stop sign on the road out, is a BIG tractor trailor who had to stop on the hill there, and I HAD to wait for his complete stop, and probably with that weather the way it was, I would not have minded if he kept on going if he signaled it to me in some fashion. As to me he didn't look like he could stop on a dime that day. He did though, and we were on our way, at the edge of the plaza the gas light turned on, and so we ran the beans to Matt, and he was happy that we got him dounuts, as opposed to bagels, I don't know why, he has never asked me for bagels, he does eat them, and we LOVE the Thomas' square ones for egg sandwiches, but he has never asked for a bagel for breakfast from Dunkin Dounuts. And he was wondering why there was so much in the bags, and found the cookies and was happy that we had brought them for him to share. So we are off to home to wait for our ENT appt. We get home and an hour later, the ENT calls, and asks if we want an ealrier appt. of course I do! And in the meantime I needed a script filled, and my doc's office calls back that they don't have my PAP on file. I KNEW I did it!! I found my datebook grabbed it, and forgot to grab my TB Test Paperwork for them to sign. We head out to Schenectady to the ENT. But I had to grab $1 form the bank (I KNOW!) for the tolls, I figured the crazys on the Interstate were going to be just as bad as the crazys on the regular roads. So on our way in the snow. It takes us and hour to get there, we were late for the appt. but I dont think that they cared much, there was only one other patient in the office. We were seen pretty quickly, and he said there was a little fluid in her ear. And they don't put tubes in the ear unless they have back to back infections. Hers are only like that 1-3 times a year so I decided agianst that option at this time. BUT I was armed with the knowledge that earlier in the AM Zoe said "My Ear Hurts" which the night before I started feeling a cold coming on, and I knew to watch for her cold. That AM she had cold signs. So I mad the executive descision of that the Pediatrition was right next door to this guy. So I head over, and they are closed for lunch, it was only 20 minutes more, so I figure what the heck, lets see if this building hooks up to the hospital. I couldn't find a way, so we went back and waited and played games, and of course Zoe said "Hi" to everyone walking by! The office staff and ped. show up, and get us in in a few minutes. I tell them, I would rather be armed with the scripts for in the AM, then to not have stopped in, and have her miss school, and be in any unnecessary pain over this, and to not waste the gas, and having to wake up early to head out here. They look, and it was more than a little fluid in the ear, it was an infection. So we get the scripts, and head out. We then go to McDonalds. I didn't have the chance to eat breakfast, only drink a coffee, so I get the $4 bigmac meal and Zoe got a small fry as she had left-over milk, and I packed her a lunch. So that is the cheapest I got out of McD's for the 2 of us! I also figured that the McD's in the Interstate would milk me for all I was worth, and not have the $4 deal. We head home, becuase I needed my TB Test Paperwork. Grab that go to my Doc, and then tell them the date I had my PAP on, and apparently I have 2 accounts, and they have to merge my 2 accounts, and then I will be all good. So the doc left ealry, and she is the one to fill out the physical portion of my Paperwork requirement. They wanted me to come back to have it filled out. I am thinking to myself, even with gas at 1.87ish a gal right now, it will cost me more in gas than its worth for them to just mail it to me for .42isg cents!! Then I go to Wal-Mart (YES!! AGIAN!!) for our meds to be filled. We walk around, and I know there is stuff I should be looking for, but I can't remember what, all I remember is the wrapping paper tub's. They were $9 each, not bad but I am not going to grab one now. We head back to the pharmacy. They could not refill 1 script it was 6 months to the day it was prescribed, so they would not cover it. But the others could all be filled. And we also didn't owe anything. Which I am extremely grateful for. We head out to get Matt from work, and then we head home. So on a day that I was only to be on the road and out not-so-much, I was only home for like an hour that day! Until the evening!! It was crazy, but also I didn't have to make a secondary trip to the Ped's office the next day!