(Sung to the tune of The 12 Days of Christmas): “On the twelfth day of my cooold, my GP gave to meeee, lots of peniciiillliiiin”… Yes, my cold finally kicked it up a notch and turned into a (probable) infection yesterday, causing bone-aches on the left side of my face, bad enough to warrant aRead more
It’s Sunday night now, the kids are in bed, and we’ll be hitting the sack shortly I suspect. This has been a weekend of slow days and evening festivities. Last night one of my two sewing clubs had a full blown 16-person (8 couples) sit-down dinner and party at the home of one of us.Read more
Know what’s not a good combination? A child that has trouble hearing due to endless colds, and a mother with a raspy sore throat. Particularly when said child is home for a whole day and asks questions non-stop. The only upside: Said child is now well informed on how the postal system works.Read more
As the house gets untidier and untidier by the minute (I really should replace all flat surfaces with sloped surfaces, so they stop accumulating all that ‘stuff’) I find myself working harder and harder to ignore the untidiness. One way of doing that is by not being at home. This morning for example, I managedRead more
Life is slowly course-correcting to ‘normal’ now that Finnur’s back, although we’re still working out a few bugs (literally). I’m still only running at about 70% (if that) while Bjarki was back up to 100% energy this morning, but couldn’t go to daycare due to the ‘Fine For 24-Hours’ Rule. As a result, I offeredRead more
The Good: Finnur’s home!! Safe and sound!! 🙂 The Bad: Bjarki woke up with enough fever (38.2°C/100.8°F) to disqualify him from daycare for the next couple of days. (Seriously World?!?! Seriously?!?) 🙁Read more
As of writing this, Finnur’s in Seattle, heading back home. I’m crossing fingers that he’ll make it back in one piece. Today’s been an acceptably successful day, especially considering that I kept waking up repeatedly last night for an unknown reason. My best guess as to why are breathing problems, either due to the terriblyRead more
I hope I’m not speaking too soon, but I’m FINALLY feeling a bit better tonight, after basically being horizontal for three and a half days. Knock on wood, 7-9-13 and all that. It was positively wonderful getting to sleep in this morning sans kids (what, no 6 am question on whether it was daytime yet?),Read more
Quick recap of the day (with Finnur still gallivanting around in California – lucky bugger!) Handed the kids over to Finnur’s parents at noon-time. They are really saving my arse here, because I’m basically an incompetent parent at the moment except in very short bursts. Went and got a proper lunch. Went home, straight toRead more
My no-fun cold (flu?) keeps chugging along. Yesterday was better than the day before, in that resting for a bit resulted in enough energy to do little things like laundry, and finally putting Christmas lights up in Anna’s window. Oh, and tackling both kids (and making dinner and cleaning up) last night. After dinner lastRead more
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