In the interest of not losing steam on my “I want to blog more often” goal, I decided I’d better just do a quick post while I have 3 sleeping children.
1. We’ve been sick. For over a week. The Sunday of Megan’s birthday party, I got sick. Apparently, I very generously handed it out that day, too. By the middle of last week, Alex was sub-par. Megan was close behind.
Neither one slept well all week (ergo…neither did I). Megan was up 2-4 times a night. We’d find Alex just standing somewhere in the middle of the night, looking sad and pathetic. Finally at 4 am Saturday morning, he said his ear hurt. Ohhhh…that finally explained it! So off we went to the pediatrician on Saturday morning (definitely infected). Of course, Megan then tanked on Sunday night, and we were back at the doctor’s office on Monday morning for her infected ears. So now, both are on medication, both are obviously better, and one of these days, I am really, really hoping to sleep through the entire night again.
2. Erin, by the way, is feeling very left out of this “sick” thing. She keeps asking for meds and telling me her ears hurt. Um…nice try.
3. Alex took his medicine happily on day 1. After that, not so much. I have been putting it into chocolate milk to get him to drink it. Probably not the best, I know, but I can’t hold him down by myself to pour it down his throat, and even if I did that, I can’t make him swallow it anymore. He just spits it back at me. SO not worth it. So that’s what I’ve come up with. So question of the day…how do you get your kids to take medicine willingly?
4. I made apple butter today. LOTS of apple butter. Eric found a great recipe…like the stuff you get at Amish restaurants. Yummy! No crockpots are involved, which is actually good because every crockpot recipe I’ve ever tried turned out gummy apple butter, more like grape jelly than anything else, and I’ve never liked them. This stuff…I LIKE!
5. At one point, the apple butter splattered on me while I was stirring it and slightly burned my arm. It hurt.
6. I am seriously saddened by the current state of my house, but between sick kids, no sleep, not feeling great myself, and the apples pressuring me to do something with them, my chores just aren’t getting done. I’m trying to take 10-15 minutes and address one problem area every day or so, which at least tidies 1/1000 of the disaster zone that is my house. Like the dump-all counter by my fridge in the kitchen. I cleaned that off the other day. It felt good. And Megan’s dresser. I worked on it one day last week. But still, I do hope to have some semblance of order in my house again soon. I don’t work (or live) well in disarray.
7. I’ve been reading the book, Spiritual Parenting, while I walk on my treadmill in the morning. SUPER good. I really want to get a group of moms to read it with me because it’s seriously motivating and practical, and I wish I had someone to talk about it with. Who knows…maybe I’ll try a read-along or something.
8. I have two laundry baskets waiting to be folded and I MUST get to them before the kiddos wake up. So I guess this will end my “catch-all” blog for today.
Happy Tuesday!
