When I was a teenager and shopping with my mom, I would always be so embarrassed if my mom questioned the price of things and challenged the cashier as we were checking out. There would inevitably be a long line of people waiting impatiently behind us and my mom would be arguing the proper use of a coupon. Granted, she wasn't one of those intense couponers that run around now a days with books holding all of their coupons so I guess it could have been worse, but I was always so self-conscious and would try to encourage my mom that it didn't matter and "let's just go" as i'd try to avoid eye-contact with the rest of the line as the cashier would call for a price check etc. A typical response from a socially awkward and easily embarrassed teenager. I guess that's how I know I've grown up a bit....or at least gained a little confidence. I'll question the cashier if something doesn't seem to be ringing-up right. Granted, if they give me an explanation I don't push further but at least I spoke up. It's funny cause as we're brought up we're constantly discouraged to complain but instead, to be agreeable and go with the flow. I guess I've figured out that complaining isn't necessarily a negative thing as long as it's constructive/for a specific purpose.
For example, I took advantage of a deal on facebook for this cute bubble necklace for only 10$. I guess a lot of other people did too cause it was taking forever, and of course this site didn't offer tracking so there was no way to know if it was on its way or if they had forgotten about you. So I sent an email asking about the status of my order. They promptly informed me that due to the bulk of orders they had received they were trying their best to keep up etc and that they were planning to ship it the next week. Well once they charged my credit card, the next week passed, and I still wasn't seeing it in the mail I felt I had a little more room to speak up. So I emailed the site again pointing out that they really needed a better way to show their customers the status/location of their orders and that I'd like my necklace now that they had taken my money etc. (I wasn't quite so brazen with it but you get the idea). So they promptly reply again (gotta give them kuddos), and apologized for the delay and said that they had mailed it the day before and to encourage me to use their site again in the future they had included a mini bubble necklace free of charge....complaining is AWESOME! Oh all right you can throw free stuff at me and buy my affections-I'm not above being bribed :)
So here's the original one I ordered and LOVE (I figured I needed more pop in my accessories- bright happy colors)
and here's the mini free necklace:
In other news we survived the night. Around 9:30 we could tell that jake was just not his usual happy chipper self-so lethargic like he had been hit by a truck and super crabby. We took his temp and he had a temp of 100 so we decided to go ahead and get him some tylenol hoping it would make it easier for him to sleep. (approved by our pediatrician btw-I know some people tell you you can't give babies tylenol under 6 months) 15 min later he was on his way back to his old self and much happier. He slept 5 to 6 hours straight last night so he's feeling much better today :)
speaking of tylenol I found a really helpful article/chart on the subject-I googled about it as I was looking over the different OTC choices at walmart cause I was concerned with so many people saying you shouldn't give kids tylenol, but knowing my dr said it was ok, was curious why it was discouraged etc. apparently it's not b/c it's bad but b/c it's really easy to give the wrong dosage:
I think I'm going to print out the chart in this link and tape it in our medicine cabinet, it's good info.
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