Hey, Mrs. Wilson!

Warning: this blog does not flow.  Follow along anyway.  If you’d like. I’ll even give you a picture of a cute baby to bribe you.

It was my first day back as the sole house cleaner.  It was hard!  I’d forgotten how much gets done around here.  And I decided that dishwashers are completely underrated.  I know that Noah worked hard when he was my house husband, but if I’m going to get everything done that needs to be done, I’m going to have to close the laptop.  It’s amazing what I can get accomplished once it is closed!

It seems, though, that Noah should not go to work anymore.  Since he left yesterday morning, Liliana’s naps have been very short, there started a huge leak under the sink, Kaylie broke two of her toys, and the pellet stove would not start.

I decided to take a week off from Menu Plan Monday and How-to Tuesday for fear that if I do them, I may have a nervous breakdown due to computer stress overdose.

This morning I got up early so that I could write the grocery list in peace and quiet.  I usually get up at 7:30 am, but this morning it was 7:00 am.  I figured that I’d have an hour of quiet before the kids got up.  I was wrong.  Liliana was up at 7:05 am and Kaylie was up at 7:25 am.  No quiet time for mom.  It was 8:30 am and I still hadn’t started it.  It was time to drive Kaylie to school.  Good thing I got up early.

Angella wrote today about her and her husband’s lists.  You know, the lists.  The ones you’ve seen on Friends.  The ones that mean that if you were trapped in an elevator with …. okay, no, they’re just a dose of unrealistic humour.  Things that will never happen, so why not have a little fun making a list?  Lists are fun.  Even if it’s just the grocery list. 

Here’s mine:
George Clooney (sorry Angella, but no list is a list without him)
Johnny Depp (in Pirates)
David Beckham

I’m taking a stab at Noah’s, I’ll ask him later to see if it’s really true:
Rachael Leigh Cook
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Katie Holmes (in her Dawson’s Creek days)

Noah’s response: I only get three?  I don’t like your list.  Delete it.

I got an email from Kaylie’s teacher today saying that one of the kids in her class has mononucleosis (mono).  A couple minutes after reading that email, Kaylie said she wasn’t feeling well.  (I hadn’t told her about the email.)  The email said that the symptoms of mono are constant fatigue, fever, sore throat, loss of appetite, swollen lymph nodes, headaches, sore muscles, skin rash, and/ or abdominal pain Kaylie had a fever, sore throat, loss of appetite, a headache, and abdominal pain.Wonderful.I laid her on the couch with a blanket and told her to try to get some rest.  She was asleep in minutes, and slept for the next hour or so.  That’s when I knew she was sick.  If Kaylie sleeps during daylight hours, something is wrong!

After Noah put the kids to bed tonight (I was at a meeting), he said that Liliana was up screaming quite a bit.  Goody.  This is also not normal.  Sometimes she’ll cry a little bit, but usually we don’t hear from her until, oh, 4:00 am.  Even then we just find her soother and she’s back to sleep until 7:30 am (ish).  Since I’ve been home, she’s been screaming about every 10 minutes.  The only way she’s happy is when she’s in her swing, which is odd, because she rarely goes in there anymore.

Hm.

Kaylie came down at about 10:40 tonight and said, “Okay, I’m getting up now.”  Apparently she thought it was morning.  Noah was in the shower, so Kaylie probably thought that shower = morning.  I took her (and Liliana) back upstairs and tucked them both in.

No quiet morning and no quiet evening.  I’m really going to enjoy my sleep tonight.