How my day started...

It is not unusual to hear the ker plunk ker plunk (he is not a pitter patter kind of kid) of Youngest coming into our room at any given time in the middle of the night. We still routinely put him back to bed at least once a night (this explains all the napping I need) but he is getting better the older he gets. This morning was a different story...

I heard him come tumbling down the hall, looked at the clock: 6am. Ok, this is ok (I get up at 6:40). But as he is getting closer to our bed, I can feel the HEAT radiating off him. Oh crap, he's sick. He was back at school for ONE freaking day and the kid is like a comet, heading right towards me! He falls on me and asks if he can get into bed, I say sure and promptly get the ear thermometer. At 6am this is a really fun chore. I find it, take his temp: 103. When he gets a high fever like that, he tremors a lot, which is really scary. He whimpers, too.

Have I mentioned this is my FIRST day back to work in over two weeks?

I wake husband up and ask if he can stay home/come home to be with Youngest while I go to work (I am part of a Union and I think if you call in sick after a long holiday you lose pay or some crap). He assures me it is not an issue, he will stay home with Sicky. I question Sicky as to if he thinks he is going to puke in my bed and he says no, he is just really hot. I give him some Ibuprofen and he goes back to bed in my bed.

I make all the required calls to school and bus and to his dentist because he has an appt Friday morning and I don't think she wants a sick kid there.

I am soo thankful that I have a Husband that can stay home when need be. I need to do my share, too, and call in when needed, but it sure is nice to share that burden. Sooo thankful.

This was the scene as I left this morning:

Sick boy on the right, lazy ass dog on the left! Do you see that they BOTH have pillows? What the heck is going on in our house?? I blame my mother.

On a brighter note, yesterday I had a great breakfast with one of my favorite women and we went shopping (ok, my dislike of shopping is so well known that my friend's husbands know how much I loathe it!!). And I found this little beauty:

It is a Tiffany Blue colander!! Why did I need it? Uhh....well.....I rationalized this purchase by telling myself that our current fruit bowl is too small and the kids would eat more fruit if I had a bigger bowl . "But it's NOT a bowl, it is a spaghetti strainer" the nay sayers tell me. I tell them in normal houses it is a colander but in our house, it is a fruit bowl. Like it or get out of my kitchen!

Honestly, is the closest I will ever get to owning anything Tiffany Blue. And I am proud to say my kids are eating a lot more fruit since I have been keeping the bowls filled. I have also been making a HUGE effort to put out cut up carrots, celery, and green peppers for the kids when they get home from school. Cutting down on how many crunchy salty snacks I buy has been driving them to the crunchy things that are good for them.

Small victories. I'm winning!!

Have a great weekend friends!!

Cat