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Mar 10 2009

Laughable Moment #3

For those of you who read my week in a nutshell blog, you'll understand this. For those who haven't, let me sum it up for you.

Exactly one week ago the Smart One was seriously ill. So ill, in fact, that I was ordered by his doctor to bring his fever down by placing him in tepid water for 20 minutes and repeating every hour until we could get his extremely high fever down. This was not only torturous for my son, but also for his mother. He would scream that he was freezing, was going to die, and more. When he was finally let out, he was shaking and shivering and not allowed under a blanket to warm himself. It was pure torture for us both.

Fast forward to today:

I now have his plague. I have the fever and the chills, although not nearly as high as his. To be honest, I feel lousy with a mere 101 temperature, I can only imagine how he felt at 104.6! At any rate, as I was shaking and shivering in misery, he decided to become my nurse. He's good that way. He was checking on me and wanted to know if my fever had come down. No, it hadn't. His reply?

"A freezing bath will bring it down for you!"

I seriously love that boy!

Mar 10 2009

But seriously, what else?

Is it not bad enough that I have a house full of sick people? The two teens are sick now, too, and to top if off, so am I! My chest feels like it's on fire and as my loving son pointed out early this morning, "Mom, you sound like you're going to die! Are you OK?"

Thanks, son.

Apparently I did sound bad, because it was enough to wake up dear hubby who offered to take him to school this morning so I would not have to go out so early.

I managed to make the teens some hot tea and load them up on goldenseal, echinacea and orange juice before they headed out for the day. I felt bad for them, at least I can crawl back into my bed and write this blog; they have a whole day of school ahead of them. I have the Drama Queen next to me working on her school (their are definitely advantages to homeschooling this morning!) and the Smart One is still sound asleep downstairs. I'm starting to wonder if he'll make it up before 10 am anytime this week!

But seriously, I'm didn't start this blog to write about the plague that is making it's way through our house right now. I wanted to write about appliances. Yeah, really.

In the past few months, I've managed to break my son's straightener (ok, please don't go there, we are the Vivas' after all!), break my blow dryer, break same son's blow dryer and then I found my straightener broken on Sunday. We are now down to a little, itty bitty blow dryer thing that doesn't really work that well, but hey, finances are tight, so hair appliances are just going to have to wait.

But then…this morning while taking B-Boo to school, I really thought I was going to hurl before I got back. I think it's the coughing, but it took all I could do to make it home safely. I almost rear-ended the truck in front of me as I was dropping her off due to my coughing episode. I could just imagine trying to explain to the officer,

"Sorry, officer, I really didn't mean to hit the truck, it's just that I couldn't see in front of me because I was coughing so hard." I mean, I think it would have worked given the fact that I look awful and was in my flannel pj's and robe, right?

I did manage to stop right before we collided, so the conversation with the officer was only imagined, not real. That alone should tell you my state of mind this morning.

All this coughing is not doing my bladder issues any good either. I have a bladder that has survived five children and a hysterectomy. I've become an expert at the *cross your legs and squeeze real tight* dance whenever something is funny or if I'm coughing or sneezing. I managed to make it home safely and ran up the stairs, calling out to the Drama Queen to please put some toast in the toaster and I'd be out in a minute.

A few minutes later, I made it back downstairs to find her sitting on the counter by the toaster, proudly making mommy breakfast in hopes that the hurling feeling would go away. The toast popped up; but it was only toasted on one side.

Apparently the toaster is broken. I know this because my Drama Queen patiently explained to me that you have to flip it over and toast the other side because only one side works.

OK then. I'm going back to bed!

Mar 08 2009

Laughable Moment #2

Not a whole lot of laughing this week with sick kids, but the Drama Queen came up with a funny one today. We were sitting around the table at lunch talking about how Bible study went this morning. I had stayed home with the two sick ones while the older children went to church with dad. I didn't get to teach the class this morning that I was REALLY looking forward to teaching. It was such a great study! Anyway, after discussing Mother Theresa, using your home as a homeless shelter and more, the drama queen pipes up.

"Mom, it's kinda nice that you get to be with them (meaning the two teenagers) at church and at home. This means that you can correct them at home and at church!"

Guess it was kind of a "you had to be there moment," but for those of us sitting around the table we got quite the laugh out of it!

On a side; I'm so blessed with teenagers who actually want me to be a part of their youth and enjoy my teaching rather than trying to run away from me!

Mar 04 2009

Laughable moment #1

We have a bunny named Oreo. We like to let her loose in our backyard cause she so loves it.

We have a puppy named Roxy. We like to let her loose in our backyard cause she so loves it.

We do not let Oreo and Roxy loose together.

This is Oreo when she was just a baby. She's all grown up now.

This is Roxy. She's still a puppy. She's mostly B-Boo's dog.

Today, Oreo was loose in the backyard. B-Boo came home and went outside. She screamed. We came a runnin'!

Oreo was running. Roxy was chasing Oreo. B-Boo was chasing Roxy. Wish I had a camera for that one!

Incidentally, Oreo won!

Mar 04 2009

Laundry Can Be Fun, Too!

Laundry is not my favorite chore to do. I'd rather paint a house, or a room, or a door…but I do laundry willingly, because, well, because I need clean clothes! Laundry is my house has always been a lot. With seven people in one house, you can imagine how much laundry we have! My oldest started doing his own laundry when he was about 13 because he found out he'd get what he wanted quicker if he did it!

I've grown since then. I have a system now that helps. It's those basket sorters that hang on a rack! I love those things! I have two of them. I have one in my bathroom because there is so much traffic in there. We only have two full bathrooms, so hubby and I share ours. We have this one:

I then have another one downstairs by the washer and dryer. It's like this:

Now my kids can sort clothes ahead of time! We have a white basket, a light basket and a dark basket. When the baskets are about halfway (or a little more full) we combine them and wash. When I had my hysterectomy last year, it was a huge help for the kids to automatically know how to sort laundry. I taught them how to use the washing machine before the surgery and whalla! Kids can do laundry.

I do the majority of the washing, but when it comes to folding, I like them to help. There's nothing like having a pile of laundry and pitching it in the middle of the floor for a family folding session. Why? Because that is when the fun starts. The other day we played the "Remember Game"….remember when *** ran into the glass door? Remember when *** beat up *** because *** wouldn't stop picking on her? Remember when mom fell down the driveway? Remember when? We just laughed and laughed and before we knew it we were done folding clothes…but lingered anyway because we just wanted to remember.

And that is why Laundry can be fun, too!

PS. B-Boo just remembered when she put the phone in the wash. It doesn't work anymore. 🙂