I’m sitting here waiting for Luke’s dvd choice is finished, so I can put on Olivia’s choice. And, yes, the amount of tv the kids are watching is directly proportionate to how sick we all still are. Luke has thrown up at least once a day since Friday. (ugh…) So the tv goes on just [...]
After supper tonight Marc and the kids and I decided to go for a drive in the country to, as Marc’s dad would say, “blow the stink off”. I’ve stepped out of the house only once since last Sunday, and that was for 20 minutes for Madeline’s parent-teacher interview. I figured I could manage sitting [...]
I know this probaby isn’t anybody’s business (not like most things I write on here are anybody’s business…), but I kind of wonder if somebody needs to hear about what I’ve been learning lately. It would seem that I am making my way through a process of accepting who I am. I’ve done a couple [...]
And so it begins…
In the middle of the night Marc and I woke up to yelling. It was Luke. He said his throat hurt very badly. I figured it was just a sore throat from all the coughing he’s been doing for the past week. I don’t know how long after that we woke up [...]
So I’ve been sick since Monday. Five days. Usually by the end of a long stint of sickness I get depressed and bemoan “what a waste” the week has been and I get mad at myself and at everything because I did not accomplish anything in the week. This week was not like that. I [...]
Just like that, being sick for only two days, and everything seems on the verge of out of control. Dishes stacked up. People running out of underwear. Bedding that I just washed needing to be washed again. The deadlines of the week and the next few months come in and loom heavily over us. It’ll [...]
The forty minutes of snuggling I did with Olivia tonight while the other kids were in the tub was very nice. We were quite cozy and cuddly; we sang, played hide-and-seek and peek-a-boo. It almost made up for this afternoon when she sneezed out the entire contents of her sinuses and then rubbed her face [...]
Me to Marc after he dumped his carry-on bag and large suitcase on the bed where I was laying (and where at least we both slept in, since he decided to go in to the church a little bit late today): “I guess I won’t be sick in bed, today.”
Marc: “How are you supposed to [...]
Marc and Olivia just walked in the door. Olivia can now apparently speak in sentences. The first thing she said to me, “See Ma-line Luke”. (Which I realize is not a sentence, but afterwards she was speaking in sentences.) So I carried her up the stairs with her coat still on, and her still clutching [...]
It has been but half a fortnight since my dear husband has left with my youngest. However, it would seem as if his stay thence to the Land of Summer has been but one day too long. For you see, since the moment of his departure from our humble abode, my eldest, nay, only son, [...]