what.a.week.

boy this past week and a half has been busy. and tiring.

but we got through it!

 

I bought 32 pounds of strawberries! for 8 bucks... ohhh yeah.

even thought I ended up having to throw away almost a whole flat due to mold, this was an amazing deal and I was running out of ideas of what to do with all of these strawberries.

 

I tried a new jam recipe.. fieldberry.. with strawberries, some blackberries we picked from down the road and some raspberries from Costco.

I ended up doing two batches of strawberries in the dehydrator, making a bunch of jam, freezing a bunch more for smoothies later and throwing away some others.

 

rowan was sick for a week and a half... still recovering.

we ended up in the urgent care twice in 5 days.

she had a fever for 8 days. a high one.

first visit included an hour and a half wait ( way less than the 8 hours at the ER on post) and a diagnosis of a cold, cough, and the start of an ear infection in one ear.

thankfully she didn't complain of any ear pain.

 

the second visit was after she had been on antibiotics for 3-4 days and her fever wasn't going away and she wasn't feeling any better.

our total wait was about an hour, on a Saturday late afternoon, and the diagnosis was that the antibiotics weren't working and full blown ear infections in both ears.

poor rowan.

she had lost weight from her visit just 5 days before because her appetite had vanished.

new antibiotics prescribed!

 

she was in pretty good spirits even though she was very tired much of the time.

 

doctor ordered: milkshakes!

pretty much anything that we could get her to eat.

she is doing much better now.

saw the doctor today, ear infections are still there, but are getting much better!

and her fever is gone and she is back to eating!

 

 

side note: I got my first red tomatoes!!! yippeeeee!

hoping to have a few to bring down to my mom's!

 

today I had to take rowan into the doc's to get a sports physical.

she said "I was worried I might get cold"

she's a smart cookie I tell ya.

she wore that fuzzy warm hat the whole time.

in 80 degree weather.

 

my man. got a mohawk.

 

block leave!!! 26 days off to spend with us!!

 

so do you think he's getting ready for civilian life??

where no one tells him how he has to cut his hair?? ..

short timers, i'd say.