Well, at least School Girl had an eventful birthday. On Thursday afternoon, I got a call from Evil Dad. “Where’ve you been? The school’s been trying to call you – School Girl’s sick and needs to come home.” Sure enough, I went over there and found a very pale, icy cold School Girl sitting in the office. As I was signing her out, the nurse said, “Oh, by the way, she can’t come in tomorrow.” Which I kind of suspected, as kids must be fever-free for at least 24 hours before they can come to school. She seemed chatty enough, so I figured it was just a little bug and we’d have a long weekend out of it.

Oh my. What a long, long weekend it was.

It turned out that “chatty” was, in fact, “all pumped up on birthday adrenaline”. By Friday, not only was her fever back, she was out cold on the couch for the remainder of the day. Didn’t even ask about her party, poor thing – I had called the parents the day before to break the news and see if we could have a do-over this coming weekend. I also called and rescheduled our visit with C and J, which can’t happen for another few weeks, unfortunately.

She slept for most of Friday. By Saturday, she was still not so great. She was also beside herself, because she thought she missed her annual trip to Build-a-Bear. We did that yesterday, as she was feeling way better by then. Not well enough for our Sunday thing, but well enough for getting a new teddy bear. We may go out next week for her birthday dinner, and by Saturday she will be officially all partied out, as one of her friends has her party that afternoon.