I felt awful yesterday. I started having a headache on Sunday, a few hours after morning church. Some Aleve helped and I was okay until Monday morning (when Christine got sick in my last post.) I thought at first that the headache I was having that day and on Tuesday was just from lack of sleep. On Tuesday night (or Wednesday morning in reality,) I woke at 2 am with a horrible stomach ache. Not sure what all was going on, since the headache and that were my only symptoms. It kept me up until 4 am. I got a little more sleep before the kids woke me at 7:30 am. Thankfully, Amie and James are quite capable of getting breakfast (cereal and milk) and lunch (sandwiches) while I watched from the couch. They played quietly in the living room, where Grandma Anna stays, during naptime and I slept the full 3 hours with the younger kids. Jeremy’s dad was kind enough to fix hot dogs for their dinner even though he had to get to church to lead Wednesday night Bible Study. I was very grateful. They used paper plates and cups, so the only dish we had to worry about was Noelle’s sippy cup. I slept ALL night last night and am feeling better. My headache is subsiding slowly today and I’ve got no more stomach pain.
Because of all this sickness, I’m so behind on doing after-Christmas stuff, so I’ve been extra busy today. I’ve done two loads of laundry, gone through two of the kids drawers to get rid of some old clothes to have room to put in the new ones, and re-organized the bathroom cabinet because everything we took for our trip had been just stuffed in or left on the sink’s counter and the cabinet door wasn’t closing completely. Very tempting for a little two year old. I still have three kids’ drawers to go through, the toy box to tackle, as well as another load or two of laundry and some hemming for Amie’s skirt and a pair of AnnaBeth’s pants. Maybe the weekend will give me the time to finish all these things.
My DH once told me that it was fine to step over a basket overflowing with dirty laundry to pick up a child that needed me. I think that applies here, even if I’m the one saying it to you. You can only accomplish so many things in one day.
My hubby lets me leave the house a little messy. So long as I agree to play on the computer with him after the kids are put to bed. Ya win some, ya lose some.