I have been making soap and bath products everyday in preparation for my Christmas shows. My house smells like a soap factory and I find myself airing it out a few times every day (it stinks!). The neighbors all compliment me on how nice my house smells but I just can’t wait to wrap up whatever I am making, stick it in a Rubbermaid box and air out my smelly house. I have hundreds of bars of soap curing downstairs in the basement and boxes and boxes of other stuff labeled, organized into boxes and stacked (somewhat) neatly in my entryway. My first show this year (the pie show yum!) is November 7th & 8th and I can’t wait to get some of this stuff sold and out of my entryway!
We have also been running through the swine flu over here. After 16 days, we are all pretty much feeling better except for Ella. She is just getting sicker and sicker. She now has post-influenza bronchitis and the doctor prescribed an inhaler for her. Have you ever tried to give a 4 year old an inhaler? Well, let’s just say it’s not pretty. After two days of meltdowns though, she is starting to figure it out. I think she might even be getting some the medicine into her lungs. I can see pneumonia in the future if we don’t get this under control so I am really hoping the inhaler does the trick. The swine flu is really scary for little people because of its longevity. She is doing the same thing many little kids are doing with it, which is to get partially better and then to get much worse. I have a prescription for antibiotics waiting to get filled if she gets a fever again, so now we are just waiting to see what happens.
