This weekend I got a taste of what it would be like to be a single mother with two small children and a surly teenager. The Hubby is sick, and since he gets sick even less often than I do, he's an even bigger baby than I am about it. He has a right to be; this morning he finally went in to the walk-in, and he has strep with a swollen uvula, so onto antibiotics he goes.
I will be taking Monday morning off to take Spencer to the dentist (he gets his fake tooth tomorrow) and to start washing things so the kids don't get sick (and so I don't get sick again).
In the meantime, I took the kids around on my own on all weekend - Saturday we went to the library, and to Kid's Day Out (Spencer refused the pony rides and the bounce houses, but rather enjoyed marching around "dancing" to the marching band and playing on the playground). We split lunch at Chickfila, came home for sprinklers and popcicles, played outside a lot, made chicken noodle soup for Hubby and overall played quite a bit. Henry tried to feed himself carrots for the first time. By 6pm, I was ready to go to bed myself ... I was counting down the time until the kids went to bed.
Today was more of the same. I got up with the kids and dragged them with me to the grocery store, and then later to the Model Train Expo for several hours, made three meals for us and oatmeal and minestrone soup for Hubby. Henry tried his hand at toast fingers (a BIG fan) and banana (already a fan).
It's not quite 8pm. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go collapse now.
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The good news is that Henry at least can't get Strep. For some reason little kids don't get that one. Weird. But I've been told that my multiple Drs, (or at least there is a very rare chance of that happening) and so yay! But I want to say the age limit is 3, so keep Spencer away, at least. :S
My pedi actually said it's not easy for s to get it quite yet either (when we were in right after my bout with strep in January) so at least there are pluses :) I started the great laundry cycle this morning, so hopefully we'll stay healthy. Every clearing of my throat and I get worried that I'm catching it again.
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