So I've got three kids home sick today... my 10 year old, my 7 year old and my 45 year old. The two youngest are watching TV, eating cinnamon toast and drinking tea with lots of lemon and honey. The older one is still sleeping. Something tells me he'll be sleeping most of the day.
It's pouring out and I still need to go out and pick up my 5 year old. Yuk! All I really want to do is build a fire, cover myself with a snuggie and read a good book. Mom never gets a break.
Chicken soup is on the stove simmering and the 7 year old has only asked me about 25 times when the soup is going to be ready. Give me a break... homemade chicken soup takes time... lots of time... mixed with lots of love. It'll be ready when it's ready. Besides, I need to make matzah balls too.
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Friday, February 5, 2010
Monday, August 3, 2009
Not What We Had Planned
It was going to be a great weekend... just me and David in Las Vegas. Staying in a nice hotel, enjoying great restaurants, spending time lazing around the pool. It all came to a halting end. Child sick! Parents come home!
Amanda had a fever... a really high fever, so we packed up our stuff just 8 hours after we arrived and drove 4 hours back home in the middle of the night. Amanda is fine now, but she did spend the day yesterday with her fever rising and falling and it was a good thing we came home. Grandma may be the second best person to have around when you are sick, but nobody beats Mommy (and Daddy). So, much Gatorade, chicken soup and jello later, she is resting comfortably and will make a complete recovery.
My favorite saying is, "Life is what happens when you're making other plans." How true. Things usually turn out for the best somehow. We got to spend an entire day with Amanda alone (her sisters were with their grandfather). And... we were able to get a refund for the night we didn't stay at the hotel, not to mention all the money we saved not gambling and eating our way through Vegas.
So... no adult-only trip for us this summer. We still got Boston in October (if the grandparents will ever agree to watch our kids again).
Amanda had a fever... a really high fever, so we packed up our stuff just 8 hours after we arrived and drove 4 hours back home in the middle of the night. Amanda is fine now, but she did spend the day yesterday with her fever rising and falling and it was a good thing we came home. Grandma may be the second best person to have around when you are sick, but nobody beats Mommy (and Daddy). So, much Gatorade, chicken soup and jello later, she is resting comfortably and will make a complete recovery.
My favorite saying is, "Life is what happens when you're making other plans." How true. Things usually turn out for the best somehow. We got to spend an entire day with Amanda alone (her sisters were with their grandfather). And... we were able to get a refund for the night we didn't stay at the hotel, not to mention all the money we saved not gambling and eating our way through Vegas.
So... no adult-only trip for us this summer. We still got Boston in October (if the grandparents will ever agree to watch our kids again).
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