The past couple days have been rough. I just started feeling somewhat better (although I sound horrible) on Monday.
We kept the kids home on Monday, which meant that I get to start my semester off completely unprepared, which is a lousy way to start off a new year. I'm backlogged on email, student recommendations, journal reviews, manuscript revisions, a book proposal, and having some lectures for tomorrow would be nice.
Henry rather enjoyed staying home yesterday b/c it meant hours and hours of Sponge Bob. Miss R was happy to snuggle with me. The kids acted fine yesterday, but their cough and fevers merited a sick day. Miss R threw up a couple times (drainage). Her fever went up to something like 103.9, but came down with motrin. Henry's didn't quite touch 102.
The kids are home again today. Ensures that I'll be up all night working, which will probably send me into a relapse, but I don't see that I have a choice. I'm currently working on more adoption paperwork (finally sent information that I should have been spent last week...grrrr).
Henry enjoyed watching The Sponge Bob Movie today. If he could be a couch potato, he would. He also got to watch Mickey Mouse's A Christmas Carol.
In the morning, I called the pediatrician's office. One of the ped's nurses called back. She said that we could bring them in but it didn't sound like their lungs were bad enough yet but it was my call. It's so hard. I really want to catch these things before they become "bad enough." But as our medical system doesn't really offer preventative care, I didn't see the point in bringing them in after talking to her. Per her recommendation, I'm giving the kids lots of liquids and juice (would have done that anyway). And fruit. Miss R isn't interested in eating anything...except mandarin oranges. The nurse also said to prevent them from running around. Keep them quiet with books and TV.
Henry will probably start faking illnesses if he thinks that he gets to watch TV b/c of it. Nevertheless, I'm letting the kids indulge. Henry has been doing his best to break the "No sitting right in front of the TV rule." We have his chair set up five feet back. He was trying to inch his chair forward when I was distracted. Always pushing the limits.
The kids are currently taking a nap. When I told them it was nap time, they shouted "No! No! No!" in unison.
As they have fevers today, that means they'll be staying home. I'm teaching tomorrow, so Jeff is going to have to take tomorrow off.
OK. Off to do paperwork. My favorite.
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