"Maple Glazed Pork Chop" Day

We had marvelous plans to go and spend Thanksgiving in Florida, visiting with Rob's family and friends.

But...usually sometimes things just don't work out like you plan for them to.

Emerald has walking pneumonia.  We found this out after 4 straight nights of a 102 fever and her coming dangerously close to dehydration because she wouldn't drink anything.  I am a very stubborn person (no way!) and refuse to go running to the doctor at the first sign of illness, so I had the whole family convinced it was probably just a virus.  But after a couple of days and no improvements, I started to wonder otherwise.  Em had a few really bad nights, and one in particular where no matter how much medicine we gave her, her fever remained 102.  And she wouldn't sleep unless one of us was holding her.  Chills, body aches, crying, the works.

We canceled our trip on Wednesday as we were heading to the pediatrician.  Guess what sucks more than going to the pediatrician the day before Thanksgiving?  Not much probably.  But after a couple of hours and lots of waiting, we had our answer.

She is on the mend now, just coughing a lot and very tired.  Fever has been gone for almost two days now. And Rob and I finally got some sleep too.

So we had a last-minute Thanksgiving at home, and were thankful to be getting our happy healthy baby back.

I cooked pumpkin/chocolate chip muffins for breakfast and for dinner we had maple-glazed pork chops, green beans, yeast rolls, sweet potato casserole, and cranberry sauce.

Also, we took a 3 hour nap yesterday and went to the park with Em and Bells.

AND.  I fell asleep on the couch at 8:30 p.m., before I had a chance to make dessert. It was a pretty good day.

Here are some pics we took to document the past few days.

After Em was feeling somewhat better, everyone finally got a good night's rest:  

Em recently learned to play by herself in her room...

 On Thanksgiving morning, we enjoyed some pumpkin & chocolate chip muffins:

After our 3 hour nap, we took a trip to Railroad Park.

First trip down the slide:

Love the static hairdo the slide gives!

Water break

Exploring and making friends:

Hope everyone had an equally relaxing Thanksgiving Day!