The illness lasted longer than expected, with Baby A coming home sick from school on Friday, and Rocket Boy absolutely laid low most of the weekend. Even I had a touch of it yesterday (Monday). The boys still have dreadful coughs. We have a vaporizer going in their room at night, and I give them "honey hot water" to drink before bedtime, but it doesn't seem to help. I can't do the extra-pillow trick, because they don't stay on their pillows, they move around the bed. Often in the morning I find them in a position I remember from babyhood: up on their knees, head down.
Not exactly like this, but couldn't resist.
November is flying by, since one week was lost to illness. At the end of this week, if I can JUST STAY HEALTHY, I will be off to the Bay Area for a family wedding. BY MYSELF. No husband, no kids. I think it's only the second time I've been away from the kids overnight since they were born. I'm looking forward to it, but also worrying. Last night, after I'd slept all afternoon, slept through dinner, slept through everything (obviously not feeling well, right?), Rocket Boy begged me to get up to help put the kids to bed. "How are you going to manage next weekend?" I asked him, and he said, "I know, I know." I guess the answer is that it'll be the weekend, so if they never go to bed, it won't really matter.
I get home Sunday night and then it'll be Thanksgiving Week, all of which the kids unfortunately have off. Already wondering how we'll entertain them AND get ready for Turkey Day. Clearly, they will have to be involved in the "getting ready" part. We have invited 6 people to dinner, which means that a great deal of cleaning, stashing, and general uproar will have to take place. For instance, we haven't been able to sit at our dining room table since the flood. Here we are celebrating Rocket Boy's birthday, about 2-3 hours before our house flooded:
Yep, that was the last time we ate at that table. Ever since then, it's been covered with flood-related debris (note same tablecloth!),
and we've had our meals at the kitchen counter. The kitchen counter is very useful, but it's not a great place for four people to eat dinner. Here are the kids doing homework at it last Friday:
No, they don't usually have homework from kindergarten (!!!), but this was make-up work due to having missed most of a week of school. They attacked it with great joy and vigor.
It's been a pretty mild November so far, which has been nice, but a change is in the air.
We're expecting up to 3 inches of snow tomorrow night, which means that on Thursday morning, maybe we'll get to wear THESE!
I bought these with the boys the weekend before last, and since then I've been worrying that they'll grow out of them before they have a chance to wear them. Oh, the joys of raising kids in a cold climate!
I'd better stop writing and get some work done.
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