{"id":1145,"date":"2008-10-22T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.wordpress.com\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2008-10-22T01:00:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T09:00:52","slug":"not-so-wordless-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"Not So Wordless Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have only taken two photos this week due to the illness that has taken over the house. I forgot how pretty much the whole world just stops when one of your kids gets really, really sick.<\/p>\n

We have been having some wee morning struggles with Addie since Nena left. Before Nena and Bill came to visit we converted Addie’s toddler bed to the full-size bed so that we could use it for company. So she slept wonderfully on the trundle in Em’s room while they were here, but now that she is back in her room? Not so much. Every night about 2:20am she sneaks into my room and tries to get me to “just sleep with me, Mama.”<\/p>\n

So Monday morning when she was still sleeping at 7:48am, I was rejoicing. Trying to figure out how to get Em to school (J. had to leave early) – should I just run over there and let Ad sleep – but I was rejoicing nonetheless. Addie was sleeping!<\/p>\n

She got up about 2 minutes before Em had to be to school, so I threw a dress on her and she walked over with us. And then I got the bright idea to do my workout. So I packed her up into the stroller with cereal, milk, pollys, blanket, bear and a big blanket to snuggle her all in – and went for a run. She seemed completely fine, chattering away about everything like always. It was a pretty uneventful run.<\/p>\n

When we got home she curled up on the sofa while I did my strength DVD. I had opened a window because I was so hot, and I peeked up at Addie and she was sitting on the sofa, literally shivering.<\/p>\n

I scooped her up and realized that she was really warm, took her temperature and proceeded to feel like the crummiest Mom ever. She had a serious fever. In my defense, I don’t think she had it when i was tucking her into the stroller, but I can’t help but feel crappy if she had it while I was out trying to squeeze a run in.<\/p>\n

So I went into caregiver mode and tried to “baby” her all day long. It didn’t help that she refused to take any sort of medicine for the crazy fever. Every little bit I did manage to get into her, she promptly puked back up.<\/p>\n

Mostly she just slept. Off and on, all day long. So I cleaned around her and took photos of her. Because even sick and demanding, she is so very sweet.<\/p>\n

\"Sick<\/a><\/p>\n

And another…<\/p>\n

\"Still<\/a><\/p>\n

Yep. She is on a totally different sofa (the other one was being fumigated!) with totally different jammies (the others were being burned).<\/p>\n

Tuesday when she woke up she was a little warm – her fever was gone but I wanted to make sure, so I kept her home from school another day. She was really not happy with the decision. And by 10am when she was running around like a little banshee, clearly feeling fine, I was cursing the decision as well. But, thankfully, she is feeling better.<\/p>\n

Now please pray it doesn’t go through the whole household.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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