I think this is the happiest Hump Day EVER for me. "Pour quoi?" you ask.....it's really quite simple...it's because of the silence. As I sit here at my computer the only sounds I hear are the clacks and clicks of the keyboard as I pound away and the gurgling of the lizard's water bowl. (Yes, we have a lizard. His (or her...can't quite tell) name is Spike and he/she lives in a terrarium that sits beside the computer. Interesting creature....but not that cuddly!) No shrieks of 'Mom!', no nose blowing, no coughing, no high pitched squeals of morning cartoons. Nothing. Spike and I are sitting here in silence enjoying each others company.
For the past two weeks my house has been turned into an infirmary. I have been administering medicines, rubbing chests and backs with Vics, boiling soup, wiping noses and taking temperatures. Every year, as soon as school starts, I can always count on my kiddies to bring home some sort of flu or cold virus. This year though thoughts of H1N1 seem to trump worries of head lice and packing a peanut-free lunch. We washed our hands, we sanitized, we coughed into our sleeves.....but the flu virus still came for a 'sleep over' at our house. Plenty of rest, medicine every 4 hours, mom's famous 'homemade chicken noodle soup right out of the can' and tonnes of snuggling on the couch...and voila.... a week and a half later we are almost, sort of, not quite back to our normal disease free selves! This is the fist day in 11 days that I am not at home nursing someone back to health. Having said that......I am off to take a glorious 4 hour nap! Taking care of my three chitlans and my hubby-licious (who, when sick, is a bigger baby than a 3 year old toddler!) has wiped me out! I am going to take advantage of this silent, empty house and curl up on the couch, sleep, and hopefully dream of being served nachos by a handsome cabana boy in some tropical far-away place!
For the past two weeks my house has been turned into an infirmary. I have been administering medicines, rubbing chests and backs with Vics, boiling soup, wiping noses and taking temperatures. Every year, as soon as school starts, I can always count on my kiddies to bring home some sort of flu or cold virus. This year though thoughts of H1N1 seem to trump worries of head lice and packing a peanut-free lunch. We washed our hands, we sanitized, we coughed into our sleeves.....but the flu virus still came for a 'sleep over' at our house. Plenty of rest, medicine every 4 hours, mom's famous 'homemade chicken noodle soup right out of the can' and tonnes of snuggling on the couch...and voila.... a week and a half later we are almost, sort of, not quite back to our normal disease free selves! This is the fist day in 11 days that I am not at home nursing someone back to health. Having said that......I am off to take a glorious 4 hour nap! Taking care of my three chitlans and my hubby-licious (who, when sick, is a bigger baby than a 3 year old toddler!) has wiped me out! I am going to take advantage of this silent, empty house and curl up on the couch, sleep, and hopefully dream of being served nachos by a handsome cabana boy in some tropical far-away place!
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