Sick Pictures

^ Day 0 - A trip to the 'playpark' makes a happy happy girl ^

^Day 1 - Starting to feel a bit 'yucky'- the nail picking increases^

^Day 2-8 - Miserable. Not even her beloved blue & yellow blanket ('bing') can bring comfort...^

^Day 9 - A bit perkier; out of jammies at least, and back to picking out her own interesting style combos^

^Cool^

^Cooler^

^Hot^

^Hotter^

To be continued....

Stay tuned for the next episode, in which the answer to the burning question: 'Will Drake regain his cool?' is reveiled. (and stop groaning, I've heard enough of that lately)

Sickness

Warning: This post may contain trace amounts of whine.

Reasons I Have Not Been Visiting Your Blog or I am exhausted because:

• i have been dealing with a sick 3 yo girl for 7 days.
• she has not eaten anything in seven days, and what she has drank (drinken? drunk?), has been syringed into her mouth (too painful to consume anything, gross virus). She has just started eating today. Crackers.
• i am tired of people telling me to 'be careful she doesn't get dehydrated'. We are in close contact with our GP who has seen her twice, and informed us at what point to take her to emerg for rehydrating.
• i am sleep deprived due to waking numerous times during the night to console said child when there is nothing in my power with which to console her.
• while she is now on the mend, i have been listening to temper tantrums pretty much non-stop except for 5-10 minute breaks, from the moment she woke up until now. As I speak she is screaming in my ear, and it is taking all my willpower to keep talking and not react in poor judgement.
• while I have tremendous compassion and sympathy for her plight, I am now, after 7 days, at the point of having tremendous compassion and sympathy for mine.
• i went to 8 hours of work orientation yesterday (lucy stayed home with daddy who she loves just as much as me, even when sick THANK GOODNESS), and came home so mentally exhausted due to information-overload, I thought my brain was going to buzz right out of my ears and eyes. It literally hurt.
• there has been a lot of required running around this week, as it is my 9yo daughter's 'crazy week' with Dance. The one where there's 2 days of dress rehearsals, one day of photo's, followed by 1 recital the first night, and 2 on the following day, Saturday. I haven't been able to take part in all this, but the mere coordinating of when I can, and when I can't, and who will get her here for this, and who will pick her up for that, and if they can possibly pick up my 14 yo son, who is at his friend's house across town, and oh shoot it's 3:20 and I have to put sick child in stroller and pick up 7 yo old from the bus stop as I don't have the car and.........
• although hubby helps out where he can, the reality is that he works full time, and we can all only be stretched so far and so thin.

On the brighter side....

• school is almost out, which will bring an end to the madness called June.
• my daughter is eating crackers!!
• i'm looking forward to watching the dance show on Saturday.
• my mood is stable
• the sun is shining!
• i'm excited about starting work in a few weeks

AND...

• the 39.5 fever my 7yo son Drake woke up with this morning? it's down a half degree. :)