Strep and a blind date ... interesting combo,uh?

Tuesday evening Zoey started getting weird on me.Nothing glaringly wrong that I could put my finger on.Her hands and feet had this scary,darker and deeper than usual,purple hue to them and to further my confusion, she started with this gaggy/retchy movement that only parents with kids with Nissen wraps can really relate to.She passed out at 5pm and I didn't hear from her till 6 am.

Woke with what seemed like a cold and I figured that was that.Enter Jake.Wakes for school,sore throat and tummy ache,same as the day before but me,mean mother that I am,if you aren't puking and don't have a fever, you are going to school.I decided 2 days of the same symptoms,warranted home and so it went, for the following 3 days with what appeared to be,nothing more than colds.Joe went to school each day.He seemed fine, as he had the same sore throat and tummy ache,a week and a half before and seemed to recover just dandy.

By Friday afternoon,I looked to the weekend and thought I best take Zoey and Jake in,just to be sure they were not festering something nasty.2 quick strep tests later...positive on both and I high tailed it back home to grab Joe,because something in me told me,I'd been deceived by that sneaky strep bug again and Joe,most certainly was the culprit from the get go almost 2 weeks before.And indeed, I was right.3 with Strep and me,out of the running,and it is only February,for Mother of the Year,because,seriously,I should have seen it in the King of Strep,Joe,2 weeks previous.Boy I felt bad.Seems that I have lessened my standards for doctors visits since Miss Zoey,fearing my other children,will go through life thinking I ignored anything other than oh say,leukemia.They are on the mend.Jess and I have colds but feel confident it's not Strep.We think.

And, after being housebound,between the sick darlings and the Southern California rain,momma was going a bit stir crazy.Lucky for me I had a rare date penciled in on the calendar.A blind date so to speak,with a fellow LA mommy to 2 handsome boys and one beautiful little "mermaid" Sophie.Elizabeth blogs as well,far better than I,I must say, who I have followed for awhile but had yet to meet.Elizabeth had emailed me awhile back and graciously invited me to a show at the Geffen Theater,called "In Mother Words".So I shed my usual daily attire:







Donned, rare for me, this dress and a pair of black boots:



And went and had a great time.Like a grown up.Which I sometimes forget I am.Great food,wonderful show and more than anything,the chance to get to know a person,that it a weird cyberworld way,was already a friend but now,without hopefully being too presumptuous,now can call a real,in the flesh friend.Thanks again for a great,much needed,outing Elizabeth.Oh and in another,"is that not so weird",turn of events,Elizabeth had given away a pair of tickets to the same show on her blog.A faithful reader of hers,Lisa, was the lucky recipient.So after the show we had a chance to meet her and come to find out,Lisa,doesn't have a blog BUT she does have a son,Cooper,who is 9 and has .... Down syndrome!I had an email waiting for me Sunday morning and we are already planning on keeping in touch and getting together soon .... I tell you ... I love this blogging world.Really and truly,I do.