Here we are. Another Thanksgiving has come and gone. Well, actually it will come and go tomorrow. But in our household it came today. Because, while much of America gets Columbus Day off tomorrow, my hubby’s employer didn’t jump on that bandwagon. So our little family of four celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving by cooking all day and feasting on turkey at dinner time. I don’t want to make any guesses about how old the turkey we purchased may or may not be since the American grocery stores won’t be stocking up on turkeys for quite a few weeks yet.
Nonetheless, it all tasted good and I was able to find the bread cubes for the stuffing and the cranberries for the cranberry sauce. We didn’t miss any key items and we had a lovely dinner.
How is it that it looks totally underwhelming in the picture even though I cooked and baked all day yesterday AND today to make that baby happen?
We missed our family and friends dearly today, but we had each other and that was good enough for this year. On the plus side, we barely made a dent in the 14 pound turkey which means lots of leftovers!
We had one other special visitor with us at the dinner table. Can you see it?
No? Look closer…
If you were thinking that Kieran’s right eye is looking especially pink and gooey then you would be right. Looks like we’re in for an unexpected visit from the Pinkeye Fairy. Lucky us! And I have no idea what I’m going to do tomorrow if our pediatrician’s office is closed. I don’t know what I can do on weekends except go to the emergency room. Are we really expected to go to the ER just to get a prescription for eye drops? I hope not!
I just reread this post and realized how fantastically boring it is. Sorry about that. I lost my funny somewhere between mashing the potatoes and carving the turkey. It’ll be better tomorrow (I hope).
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
October 12th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
So I’ve been reading your blog for a while but I’ve never commented until now…Just wanted to say that when I had an eye infection I thought might be pinkeye…I got over the counter drops for general eye infections and they worked great. This was in Canada. But I just asked the pharmacist and he pointed them out for me. Hope this helps!
October 13th, 2008 at 1:23 am
I agree with Rah. I have luck getting rid of pink eye (not for myself, for campers!) about 50% of the time with frequent saline rinses and applying the max Polysporin eye/ear drops. (That’s 2 drops 4 times a day.) And try to keep him from rubbing his eye — yeah right!
You might also be able to get gentamicin drops OTC instead of by prescription. It’s worth a try! Good luck! And good luck trying to get drops in his eye without him squeezing them shut!