Burnt Pork Chops For Dinner. Nightly Recap.

The fact that my house smells like burnt pork chops is a clear indication that I've lost all motivation.

Well, burnt dinner might not actually be an indication for that, it's more of an indication that I was sucked into the Duck Dynasty episode that the girls were watching (that show is so stupid and yet I couldn't walk away...) and forgot about dinner until I smelt it...

But for real.

Today burnt me out.

Tayler has had a tooth ache for three days.  She woke up this morning with swollen cheek.  She has also developed the signs of another UTI.

Today I made it to work long enough to help my boss's wife pull of a surprise party for my boss's 50th birthday.  And by help her pull off I mean telling her when she could come and making sure everyone in the office knew about it.  My boss showed up a half hour before he was supposed to after a meeting and from there I was giving him one lame excuse over another until finally he tells me, "I don't believe anything you're saying."

From there my co-workers started making up urgent issues that needed his attention while his wife finished setting up in the back of our office and then in a grand finale a lawyer tells him one of our investigators is in a huge fight with one of the federal lawyers and they're both quitting the case and he needs to come intervene.  We rush down the hall to where everyone else is and "surprise!"  there's no fight after all.  Have some cake.

From there I left and took Tay to the dentist who was baffled at her mysterious toothache.  As far as he could tell everything looked perfectly fine and perhaps it was just the fact that her permanent molars were pressing on the baby molars and things were getting ready to fall out and grow in and something may be hitting a bit of a nerve somewhere, but that theory wouldn't lead to swelling...?  He didn't know.

So we left with some confusion and headed to the doctor where it was confirmed that she did indeed have another UTI (I had no doubt, at this point in the game we know what's going on when it comes to that) but then looked at her cheek as well.  Turns out it had nothing to do with her teeth, so the dentist was right in his theory of why they might be aching, but in addition to that Tayler has a blocked gland in her cheek.

He prescribed sucking on sour candy to get the glands working and hopefully getting rid of the blockage.

I've never even thought half the things these kids come up with were even possible.

But there it stands.

Several trips to the store later, a few hours of boutique emails, and a few rounds with the pharmacy, and you have one tired momma.  And burnt pork chops for dinner.