Ira's Chicken Pox Day #4

GOOOOOOD MOOOORNING.....

she was feeling better and we were so thankful for it! She slept through the whole night without crying. [sigh of relief]

I found the Toy-A-Day blog and set to making her some fun stuff.....





Later in the evening, we made some very non traditional sugar cookies.....

It all evolved very fluidly... we read a gingerbread story... then ira wanted to make gingerbread cookies, but she didnt want them spicy.... so we picked sugar cookies.... but we didnt have enough sugar.... so I improvised.

the recipe:
3 Cups Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
less than 1 Cup turbinado sugar granules
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp finely ground sea salt
1 cup butter softened
2 eggs beaten
4 tbl half and half
2 tsp vanilla

sift dry ingredients together set bowl aside, put remaining wet ingredients into mixing bowl, blend on low until well combined. Mix in dry ingredients slowly, cup by cup. mold into ball with hands and put in fridge for at least an hour.

Roll out small grapefruit sized ball of dough to 1/4 inch thickness ( i do this between two sheets of parchment)

Bake at 400 degrees for 3-4 minutes.

they are super chewy and taste like a really sweet pancake... guests would not recognize them as sugar cookies. lol

but my husband and kids and I? well, we thought they were pretty fabulous....

Ira's Chicken Pox Day #3

Not that it is reflected at all in the following photos... but this third day was the hardest on her. We did lots of cuddling and scooby doo watching.



To try and cheer her up a bit, I snuck into the kitchen and made this faerie house for her....this was all trial and error. i cut the two openings, glued in a cardboard "floor" for the upper level. I sanded the plastic a little, decoupaged construction paper to it... didnt like the look, rubbed it in glue and poured sand on it.... then appplied the acorn caps and ... Read Morethen made the roof.

it was super fast craft wise- maybe an hour total? im thinking of making a whole village. but I dont have that many plastic containers.


She loved it. It has so far been: a faerie house, a littlest pet shops house, and an ewok village home.

Ira's Chicken Pox Day #2

Ira woke up earlier than usual.... so I asked,"How are you feeling?" her response, ""GREAT!"
So then I said, "You mean the chicken pox aren't hurting you?!?" Well, that was a better question I suppose... because she said, "oh, like they are burning, and itchy and hurt really really bad."

and that sums up her personality better than any other sentence Ive ever heard. She responds to the world so fresh, so ready. She loves life and just LIVES to experience things... its almost as if it didnt occur to her to not feel great even though she is in pain. Like the pain is part of the chicken pox, but other than the chicken pox, she is GREAT!

I love her.

I found it really sad, when she accidently scratched a pox and looked at me sobbing... she said, "why is this happening??? why does it HURT so bad?"

I guess after 28 years of life, you kind of forget the first run in with PAIN. This is her first real hurt. Bumps and bruises were not common for her.

So to off set the itching, we put her hands to work- cutting and gluing.




There was stock making....soon to become soup.

Making tea for dabbing on the pox...
Netttles, Rose Hips, Chamomile, Comfrey.



Simmering oat meal bath...
full stock pot with
2cups oats
nettles
comfrey
chamomile


resulting pulp- put into a cheesecloth for use in bath.


bottled up topical solution (left) and bath concentrate (right)
I actually made about 8 bottles of bath solution and canned them. One jar per bath worked well for us. I used two once and she was pretty grossed out by the thickness.

Ira's Chicken Pox Day #1

We woke up thinking that it was never going to happen... the chicken pox, that is. We had been gravitating towards home most days to prevent passing it on to anyone who really didnt want it... but we were going a little nutzo and the park group was meeting. We were having breakfast and decided to go to park... then as we are finishing up, Ira says to me, "mama- is this a pimple? or a chicken pop?" She calls them chicken pops andI think its hilarious.

It was, a chicken pox. Behind her ear. If she wasnt so self aware, I wouldnt have discovered her pox for the entire day. They were small and all hidden.





So, park was out. We decorated a little outside for halloween instead.

Chicken Pox!

A few hours after we woke up- we found these on liv's back!


they never got very "bad"- although the site of chicken pox on any baby is really sad.

she seemed unphased completely!




We quarantined ourselves to avoid passing it on to anyone who didnt want it- we only went a little crazy!


All in all- the chicken pox erupted on saturday and were scabbed over completely by wednesday!

Now- we wait for ira's????