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No, not the baby fever! Even though everyone around me seems to be having babies, I'm not that crazy! Haha We've got the FEVER fever. It started w/Elijah Wednesday night. Not too bad, about 102.5 or so. Which for my kids is pretty good. Thursday he laid around most of the day watching movie after movie, and gradually over the past couple of days it's gotten better 'til today and it's finally gone. But now Titus has a fever! Blah! And I know it's just a matter of time before Simon has it, too. Actually, he had a low one last night and I was thinking, okay, this is it. We're all gonna get it and hopefully be done by Christmas. But now he doesn't have a fever, so who knows.....we may still be nursing fevers 'til Christmas comes. I hope not, but....? And to make things even more promising--I had debated on whether or not to even let Simon go to preschool on Friday b/c of all the sickness going around. Lots of people we know are ill, lots of people in our family are ill, and one school not far from here actually shut down for the day on Friday due to illness. But I went ahead and sent him yesterday b/c I thought it was the day of his Christmas party. We'd put great effort into making some activity bags for his classmates, working on some apple magnets, (left over from Elijah's geography fair, but cute nonetheless), and making candy for his teacher. Plus, Simon really wanted to go, so I went ahead and sent him. But guess what? The party's not 'til Monday. I'm a total space cadet! I've been cooped up in this house for far too long! So I sent him. And here's the promising part.....someone puked in his class! Great, huh? So if he doesn't come down w/this head cold and fever thing that Elijah and Titus have, then he'll have the stomach flu! Isn't winter grand?! So not only do we have the FEVER fever, but mom has cabin fever! I so need to get out of the house and breathe some fresh air. I haven't even started my Christmas shopping yet! Between taking care of sick children, waking up w/nightmares the last couple of nights b/c I'm sleep-deprived, and still stressing over this job thing, I'm a train wreck. And to top it all off, Elijah's really testing my wits with a battle of the wills here lately. I guess b/c we're all stuck inside w/not much else to do, he's decided to challenge me. He'd like to see who can outsmart the other. Today he started out arguing w/me over which movie I put in (or something crazy), and I'd had about all I could take. B/c just minutes before the argument over the movie he was arguing w/me over which pair of sweat pants he was going to put on! So I sent him to my room for some time to cool off. He gets mad, slams the door, and in the process, knocks one of my signs off the wall. So of course, he earned an extra 20 minutes of alone time for being disrespectful. Without going into all the boring, yet exhausting details, Elijah ended up staying in my room for a grand total of 41 minutes....all by himself! Which, trust me, for Elijah, 41 minutes is an eternity to go w/out speaking to someone or without having somoeone there at his disposal to listen to him. So needless to say, I'm exhausted. I think Simon and I are going to take off around 6:30 or so and head over to a church in Mitchell to see a Christmas play they're putting on. It should be fun, and hopefully a much-needed break for mom. Agh...... |
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