Another day.

Megan’s had Eczema for most of her life, yet she hardly ever complains about it. She’ll scratch, and ask for lotion but has never really complained that it was unbearable. We can usually manage it with creams, lotions or cortisone cream. Her Dermatologist prescribed an ointment for her to use when its breaking out more than usual, but according to our Pharmacy one tube of the stuff cost over three hundred dollars! Our new fabulous insurance is demanding a pre-authorization to fill it. So the past few weeks while we’ve been trying to get her prescription, the creams, lotions, and cortisone cream is not cutting it, and my poor little girl told me she was miserable. I made my own concoction of Vaseline and cortisone cream and rubbed it all over her arms and legs last night.. That seemed to at least help for now. I hope this isn’t a precursor to how it’s going to be this summer, because that seems to be the season she breaks out the most. I guess we’ll see.

So in other news, Ali’s teacher had her first baby yesterday. They were supposed to throw her a little party this Thursday but she went out early. Ali was so excited but is really disappointed that her teacher will be not be there. I made her Teacher a darling pink and brown wood plaque as a baby gift. I used cute brown and pink scrap paper and pink paint then used rub ons to put "SShh, Baby sleeping" on one side. On the opposite side I put brown circle dots and a border through the middle that said "sweet tiny one" in pink. If you can't tell she had a girl.. I covered it with modge podge and used a fun pink and brown ribbon to hang it. It was my first attempt using modge podge and so I hope it wasn't too tacky. I forgot to take a picture of it before we gave it to her. We also picked out a darling mint green baby dress for her. Ali was very excited to give them to her. We’ve really been fortunate to have had great Teachers every year thus far. Ali is doing great, and Megan is too. Megan was reading the note that I was writing last night. I was so impressed. Smart little cookie she is.

When I was tucking the girls in last night and rubbing the goo on Megan’s legs, I told them a few short stories.. Just random things that came to mind.. The girls LOVE when I do that, and Ali kept saying “encore, encore!” I thought that was so cute. Megan begged for “just one more”. They’re so funny, they don’t even mind if I repeat stories from my childhood 20 times, they still giggle, and ask for more.
I told them about the time my friend and I ate ice cream cones in the back of my mom's comfortable. I was very animated in describing to them how in the back of a comfortable your hair flies forward covering your face. I then gestured and grimaced my face as I re-enacted how we looked covered in ice cream and hair by the time we'd gotten to our destination. The girls thought that was hilarious. Megan wanted me to retell that one three times!
I really hope that I can remember stories like that of the girls lives. Then maybe in twenty years they'll be tucking there kids in telling there own stories.