I was totally wrong--it wasn't the bacon bean soup at all! It was the puking and pooping flu! And since last week was end-of-semester crunch time for me, poor Eric had to stay home with poor, spewing Nolie. Luckily, it passed after a few days.
Which was just enough time for Addie to get....croup! With record-high temperatures! Which she still has, despite the fact we give her inhuman amounts of children's Motrin all day long!
Really, it hasn't been so bad, though. We got hit with the big winter storm, and cozied up with the two little snot-balls all weekend, and Eric made the best french onion soup I've ever tasted in my life, and we all hung out and drank beer and stared at our Christmas lights and watched t.v.
The kids didn't drink beer. But they had lots of Motrin.
Anyway, we had a taste of relaxation, and I liked it. I have some publications due out in the next few weeks and it's going to take every last bit of strength I have to rally and finish them, because every cell in my body wants to camp out on my couch and be laaaaazy. So I'll make a little time for that, and some time for the work, and it will all get done, and life is good. Feverish, but good.
Which was just enough time for Addie to get....croup! With record-high temperatures! Which she still has, despite the fact we give her inhuman amounts of children's Motrin all day long!
Really, it hasn't been so bad, though. We got hit with the big winter storm, and cozied up with the two little snot-balls all weekend, and Eric made the best french onion soup I've ever tasted in my life, and we all hung out and drank beer and stared at our Christmas lights and watched t.v.
The kids didn't drink beer. But they had lots of Motrin.
Anyway, we had a taste of relaxation, and I liked it. I have some publications due out in the next few weeks and it's going to take every last bit of strength I have to rally and finish them, because every cell in my body wants to camp out on my couch and be laaaaazy. So I'll make a little time for that, and some time for the work, and it will all get done, and life is good. Feverish, but good.
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