Three of my boys are down for the count with the flu. Elijah, Zeke, and Dave have got all the classic symptoms: fever, chills, a terrrible cough, bloodshot and runny eyes. I’m thankful that Noah had the flu shot, and I, mysteriously, have not caught anything all winter.
So, blogging will go on the back-burner for today…and maybe tomorrow. I’ll be busy nursing three sick boys. Have you ever heard that stay-at-home-moms work the equivalent of two and a half full time jobs? I think it’s true. Not only that…we never get to call in sick!
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Aunt Debie
January 31, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I can certainly identify with the whole never calling in sick thing…maybe that’s why I seem to be the healthiest one in our house. God is on my side…he knows that moms can’t go down very often.
And, no wonder that exhaustion sets in…but I digress.
Janet
February 1, 2007 at 11:54 am
Hi Debie,
Have Aidan and Maclean been sick a lot this winter? Elijah, who is usually the healthy one, has been the one catching all the viruses this time around. I guess the chicken pox virus weakens one’s immune system for a time. So says our doctor, anyway. I must say, though, that it’s much easier to take care of a sick seven-year-old than a baby! (Isn’t it great when a child can tell you what is wrong? And even the fact that they can wipe their own noses with a tissue is so helpful! Ah, yes…mothering does get easier!) So, I’m so thankful that Noah, especially, is staying healthy this year. Take care…
Bethany
February 1, 2007 at 4:25 pm
So sorry to hear you guys are sick. We have strep in this house. First Duncan, then Grace, and now Duncan again. I too am thankful though that Ruthie hasn’t caught it. I can’t even imagine what that would be like. Babies and sickness don’t mix.
Debie
February 2, 2007 at 8:15 am
Hey , Janet,
Maclean is constantly sick with a cold, so his lungs get filled up, so we have to treat him a few times a day with puffers, and now we’ve been instructed to do this all winter, even if he becomes healthy, just as a preventitive measure. He will be getting tubes in his ears in a couple of weeks, which should help with the amount of ear infections that he has been getting over this past year.
We’ve had pnemonia in the house since November–Aidan and Scott (he’s still trying to get over it), and me, too, I guess, except mine went undiagnosed until last week (I’m fine now).
Aidan has had ear infections, too, and a cold right now. But, it is much easier to deal with Aidan when he is sick. Only when he is very sick does he stop and lay down. Other than that, he wants to keep going through it.
Both boys had the chicken pox last January. Fun, fun, fun those poxs are. The flu (with the vomiting) has not come to our house this year yet. So, we are due.
I do wish health on you and yours. Have a great day! I really miss you guys.
How’s that pregnancy going? And when are you due?
Janet
February 2, 2007 at 9:42 am
Awww…this is nice. A little Horsman chat room. Now all we need is Renee…
If we all lived close to each other, we could get together and let all our sick kids play! I think that’s the worst part – the isolation and sheer boredom that sets in when cooped up at home!
As of today I’m 22 and a half weeks pregnant, and June seems so far away! (Official due date: June 6th. But you can go ahead and add a week to that, since I’m always overdue!) We had an ultrasound on Monday, and the baby looked so cute. We got some really good looks at his/her face, and I thought he/she looked like Dave! No major complications with the pregnancy…the constant nausea from the first trimester is gone, but now I have to be really careful with what I eat. If something doesn’t agree with me, or if I overeat, it just comes right back up! I’m comforting myself with the fact that this is definately our last pregnancy, and I’ll never have to feel like this again!
todd potter
February 2, 2007 at 7:49 pm
hello
Bethany
February 3, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Hey Janet,
We are on the mend here, PTL.
Say, in one of the ultrasounds we had of Ruthie (I had like 4 or 5), she looked like Duncan and low and behold, she does. It’s neat that ultrasounds can be that clear. Too cool.