Florida {Day 3}: Part 1

We didn't have a very restful night of sleep last night!  Aliyah went to bed last night very cranky and complaining that her right ear hurt.  I gave her motrin, hoping that she'd sleep well and wake up  happy with no earache.  Wishful thinking!  She woke up around 1am and tossed and turned in bed between Daryl and I (good thing we have a king size bed!) for a couple of hours.  I gave her tylenol   sometime during all that tossing and turning and it helped her to sleep until almost 7.  I called Rambling Road (well, the answering service since it's Sunday morning) and finally got through to a phone nurse.  She was sympathetic, but doubtful that the doctor on-call would do prescribe anything over the phone for Aliyah.  She said that I might need to call back during office hours the next day and then they might be able to help me out.  Out of desperation, I asked who the doctor was on-call, hoping for Dr Dyk but knowing that the chance that it was him was slim to none.  She told me the name of another doctor that I'm pretty sure my kids have never seen.  Then she said, "Oh wait, actually it looks like Dr Dyk is on call this morning from 5-8am."  At this point it was 7:40!  I asked her if she could please at least call Dr Dyk and explain the situation to him.  I told her that Dr Dyk knows me and my kids really well and I'd feel better if she at least asked him if there was anything he could do for us.  She was very kind and told me she could do that for me.  It wasn't long before she called back and told me that Dr Dyk was calling in a prescription for Aliyah!!  Thank you, Lord!!

After heading to Family Christian Chapel this morning for worship, we made our way back to the beach house.  We had lunch and then the guys took the kids down to the ocean to play for an hour or so while the ladies stayed back at the house and got the food ready for our "Christmas dinner".  The kids had a great time at the beach even though it was pretty chilly outside - in the mid 50s.  Savannah and Samuel both got pretty wet running in and out of the waves but Hope and Aliyah preferred to stay where it was dry!!