go in for sore throat + still have neck pain from accident
find out I have sinus infection AND strep
go home, dh doesn't want to go in that day, bc he has to cut firewood
@ his dad's, with broken hand
failed attempt at cleaning house while hubby is away (I have Lily +
I'm sick + I get distracted to easy) I do get some work done
fail attempt to do more cleaning after hubby gets home
go to sleep at the unreasonably early hour of 10:30PM or so, shortly
after going to Meijer at almost 9PM bc hubby forgot to fill script
Thurs
Wake up at 3:30 AM, don't really start falling back to sleep until
6AM, when I really can't let myself fall asleep bc I need to get ready
Actually get up and get ready at 7AM, Tristan bus, drop Lola @ school,
dh at dad's, lily at daycare for free emergency day
Get to work a half hour late, still feel like crap, boss sends me home
around lunchtime (I guess I looked as bad as I felt)
get dh from dad's get some kid free nap time until I gotta get kid off
bus and other kids from school/daycare
Lily did wonderfully at daycare, kept up with the 2+ year olds (she's
almost 2 so they put her with 2 yr olds), went to nap on her own, was
dry after nap, and used the toilet, did play with the sink a lot (she
takes a bit after older brother) so they had to change her shirt
Everyone goes to bed early, cos no one's had enough sleep
Fri
Get up get kids to school - tristan misses bus so I drive him in come
Get Dad/Lily to appt to confirm strep - Lily is absolutely adorable at
drs office, makes me feel a little better
Still feel like crap, so I call in
take a short nap, get woken up by FIL bringing truck load of firewood,
pretend to still be asleep until Lily wakes up
Get older kids' dr to call in preemptive antibiotics (cause lola
claims to feel well, but she'd go to school unless she couldn't get
out of bed, and I can't tell with Tristan - and since the rest of us
have strep - they either already have it or will have it - and because
I'm in no shape to drive to mason and wrestle w/ Tristan @ Dr office)
Go off to get family full of amoxicillin scripts & Dad to broken hand appt
Get Lola from Girlscouts
pretty much be a veggiebal for the rest of the evening, besides making
mac & cheese for dinner, decided to go to bed before 11, since the
whole point of calling in is because I wouldn't be able to make it
through the weekend if I worked until 10...
Sat
Work feel like crap when I leave
decide to try to go to sleep at 8:30 since I have to be to work at 6AM Sunday
don't actually get in bed until 11, 11:30
Lola wakes me up insisting on sleeping in my room an hour or so later
- I'm too tired to argue
Sun (okay, so I'm including a little of the drama)
Lola jumps in her sleep about 2:40 AM, wakes me up,
subsequently am kept up by dh playing loud music...
he wants to talk to me at about 3:30 AM, and since I need to be up for
work soon anyway.... (grrr)
veggiebal on couch w/ hubby at puter until I have to leave for work
work 6-2; coworker comments that I actually have some color in my face
(gee, apparently I did look as bad as I felt)
since he's had no sleep, dh is not up to watching little ones while I
take Lola to girlscout thing
scramble to get them all ready & out the door; Tristan & Lily manage
to cover themselves w/ yogurt in the process
Road condition = crap; visibility = crap; manage to only be 20 mins
late and they really haven't started anyway (wonders if they told
everybody 3:45 so they'd all be there by 4)
Gymnastics place is too far away to go home, plus I'm not about to
drive in the crappy road conditions.
Run to Wendy's
Realize I dropped my cc outside the car when I dropped Lola off
go back to parking place, find cc
back to wendy's
kids cover themselves with frosty's
back to gymnastics place
after a while, redress tristan (he managed to take his pants and shoes
off without unbuckling - remembering the number of times I've
redressed in the car, I told him he was his mother's son while smiling
at him - he looks totally perplexed by the fact that I wasn't
exasperated by him
with, what I think is about half an hour to 45 minutes left of Lola's
thing, unload kids and bring them in
For a while tristan is happy with the stroller
Then he's not
Get my exercise for the next two weeks chasing him around, with Lily
trying to keep up
after about half an hour or so, Lily decides she doesn't want to just
follow us around
while the thing is actually wrapping up, try chasing both Tristan &
Lily, enlist Lola's help (plus a few of the other mom's help where
they can)
End up strapping Lily in the stroller, as she's fighting and I've
discovered Tristan's quite happy helping me push stroller (have
tristan clamped btw my legs on the floor so he doesn't take off while
strapping lily in)
One of the moms comments on how my job must never end. I agree, and
comment that I've got all three bc I was working 6-2 earlier and the
dh needs a break.
I have to admit, that while I was exhausted, and totally wiped out,
and just wanted to go to sleep after that, everything else but my
lungs, throat and sinuses feels great from the exercise
way back is now dark, icy/wet, and low visibility, so I take Lansing
rd - waverly - 496, where nobody seems to have a problem with me going
45mph - get home quicker than taking 96 at 60, 65 mph, and no one
tailgates me until I'm off the highway - Lily - surprise, surprise,
falls asleep on the way (unfortunately she's not a kid who stays
asleep once you get her out of the car)
Neal wanted a "big Burrito" so I screw any thought of trying to cook
dinner and get everybody something at Qdoba's. Since me + kids already
had some Wendy's, figure 2 kid quesadillas + 4 tacos should be enough
for us, and dad gets his burrito.
Everybody actually manages to get to bed by 9:30 (I wanted to go to
bed at 7:30, actually).
Mon -
This morning - honestly the first time in a month I didn't wake up
with a horribly sore throat. My nose is still running like crazy and
the cold hurts my lungs though, and now that I've been up for a while
my throat hurts a teeny bit. But I feel a lot better.
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