Thank you for a day with my little girl

Thank you so much for helping Home Depot to understand why I needed time with Deidra today. I have been so worried about her since she started getting sick last week. I'm still not sure that I totally buy the hospital's diagnosis of a bladder/kidney infection as I never thought it would make someone dehydrated and give someone such a situation with vomiting and diarrhea. Everything she managed to get into her would come out one end or the other a short while later. Anyway, we'll see how she does on the antibiotics. I didn't know how I felt about putting her in school today, especially since she was having such a hard time this morning. I was so thankful when I talked to my manager, Aaron, and he told me I could bring her in for part of my shift if I felt the need to. The only thing that I didn't like was that he told me she'd have to sit down at the service desk as he didn't want her in the "line" with us. i called on my break to check on her and she would act normal one minute and be crying that her belly hurt the next and that she wanted me, so I told my supervisor, Corey, that I was going to go get her on my lunch.

At first, he told me I could just go and that he understood if my shift was short today given what has been going on with her. I told him that I really didn't want to lose any more hours and I thought that she'd do fine if she could be near me. He finally agreed to let me try it out, so I left at 11:30am to go get her. We ran to Burger King to grab some lunch for Mommy and some lemonade for Deidra and we shared some french fries since she had already eaten mac and cheese at school. I took her up front and she was so excited to see my friend, Amy, up there. I got her sat up behind my register and on the bench up front. She wanted to go help Amy for awhile and Amy was ok with that, so she was Amy's little shadow for awhile. Then, she came over to help me give my customers their receipts. She just wanted to help. Then, she found our cashier paperwork and wanted some of her own, so Amy sat her down on a bucket and she drew all over the papers on a little table shelf type thing and she started pretending that she was at work too. Her customer was her stuffed kitty. We were all cracking up at some of the things that she was saying, but she sure was cute. My other head cashier, Susan, even got her all set up with a kid's apron (we use them for the kid workshops that we do) and I wrote her name on there for her. Amy gave her her own little stapler and calculator and an orange marker too and I gave her an extra pen and a measuring tape. She had so much fun with that stuff. She asked to go to lunch with my friend Amy and I told her it was ok. Amy needed to go run to her apartment to go grab something and asked if I minded if she took her. So, they went out together. Deidra crashed in the car I guess. I knew she'd be tired. They came back a half an hour before my shift was over. When it was time to go, Deidra cried as she didn't want to leave. I picked her up to comfort her and she laid her head down on my shoulder and within 2 minutes was sound asleep.

It was nice to keep an eye on her and have her close to me today. She did have a bout with diarrhea while she was working with me, but she seems to be doing a little better today. Now if only getting her to take her medicine would be easier....

It was nice to have people helping me to look out for her today too and I think everyone thoroughly enjoyed having her there. My co-workers adore her anyway and even the customers thought she was just precious. Little did I know that it was actually "bring your kid to work day." So, that's why the customers thought she was there. I told D that she was a very good girl today and got to do something very special, but we only got to do this on rare occasions. She of course, wants to come back and do it tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. I told her that when she gets older working won't be so much fun to her, but it was nice to share part of the day with her and Mommy enjoyed having her there too. Thanks for letting me be able to keep an eye on her today. :-)