Skipping . . . skipping . . . skipping . . . We are pronouncing Kallie's name the American way, although her Great Uncle may decide he's going to be different (he's a professor of the Classics). That's fine with us - names are not an exact science in a family where my name is Elizabeth and my immediate family calls me Hank.

So far, so good here at home. God bless Percocet and the makers thereof. It made me giggle this morning on discharge when the nurse had to stand over me to make sure I took the last pill and didn't pocket it for resale on the street, and yet they let me walk out of the hospital with a baby without a background check.

people who annoy me with their damn bad jokes.

What I really hate is when someone tells me a bad joke and I don't laugh and then they assume I didn't get it, so they explain it to me.

"Five hours in the penalty box!"

they let me walk out of the hospital with a baby without a background check.

To be fair, your baby's background check probably wouldn't turn up that much. Just lots of loitering and perhaps a GBH charge that you could drop if you wanted.

I went to the beach this morning Crane's Beach, Ipswitch)! And ate a lobster roll for lunch. I LIKE being on vacation!

Thank god I left that damn Tino is Georgia.

Today's Unshelved summarizes my life.

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100.2 fever. ugh, just barely a fever - but he won't take a nap.

hivemind - how long would you give it for the fever to come down before cancelling stuff? We are scheduled for therapy tonight at 6, karate at noon tomorrow and bus at 1:30.

For therapy, and if he's not otherwise sick (like coughing, etc.) I would give him Tylenol or whatever and go ahead and go. For karate, I would see how he is tonight and go from there. Jumping around doing karate won't be great if he's really sick, whatever it is.

The weekend away really depends.

Low grade fever is better than a high one, but a fever is always a grrr. I dunno msbelle. I'd probably cancel the therapy tonight, wait on the other two and hope the fever breaks.

Heh. I see conflicting advice already. As I expected. It's really such a play-it-by-ear thing. Amy is right that he might respond quickly to the Tylenol, whereas my kids tend to hold onto a fever into night.

I'd expect him to spike a higher fever at bedtime or after if he's really sick (because the Tylenol will just soothe the symptom for awhile, not take away the fever), but when it's low-grade and they're not otherwise barfing or coughing up a lung, I'm kind of a hardass about it.

But that's after three kids, and also thinking therapy might not be something you want to cancel this week, after last weekend.