Godmother Extraordinaire

It was all organised. I was to be at the Church for my goddaughter's Christening at 11am. Sounds simple enough, right? Wrong! Mackenzie wakes up with a fever for the 4th day in a row. I've already taken both girls to the doctor on Saturday - Mackenzie for the fever that wouldn't go away and Jordan with (what looked like, and was) conjunctivitis. Lovely, just when she was supposed to start kindy this Tuesday after waiting like 6 months! Anyway, that was fine. Eyedrops for Jordan, antibiotics for Mackenzie. Off to the chemist...$35 later we're all set. So back to Sunday, Mackenzie is all hot and bothered again, then I look at her face and think it looks a little blotchy. Take off her pyjamas, she is covered in a rash all over her torso. So it's off to the emergency room at the Children's Hospital at Randwick. So right about the time that Hayley is being christened I am there holding down my 1 year old (along with two nurses and a doctor) so that they can take a blood sample. Talk about traumatic! I hope I never have to do that again. It was afwul. The poor little thing fought and fought. So they weren't able to get any blood from one arm, they try the other and because she is wrestling so much they end up deciding to extract the blood from her finger. About 10 minutes later they got the amount they needed. It was so distressing. Well, it turns out that it is nothing serious, just some sort of viral infection, so I guess it was worth it in the end. Needless to say I turn up to the Christening party some 4 hours after the event. Better late than never!