I'm so thankful this is a 2-day work week! I'm ready to have rest. Except we'll not have much rest since we'll be in a house with a total of 18 people, 11 of which are children. We'll be terribly outnumbered, and out volumed. It will be a great time though. Hannah is already looking forward to it. :)
We've spent the past two days with Dusty's parents, and it was not the weekend I had planned. I wanted to get up our Christmas tree and do a substantial amount of packing. I guess this was better in its own way, but my plans were thwarted. Also, I made a sweet potato casserole last night that was...well, not so sweet, and not so great. I added 5 times the amount of salt that the recipe originally called for.
Note to self: Double check recipes with the recipe giver before attempting recipe.
I had to scrap it and start again. The second one wound up being very good. Oh, and wound reminds me.
Last night, the first night that Hannah has played since Wednesday morning, she and Seth were pretending her baby was sick. They called the doctor and she said, "Oh, yes, doctor, she's very sick. She's hurting all over. She has a lot of wounds." Now, reread that statement, except say the word wound like I used it earlier. I cracked up! She had read that word, and knew that it should sound like wound...um...because most words like that sound like ow. lol...I'm a sad excuse for Dr. Seuss. Whatever, she read it wrong. It's like the word been, which she now reads and says in conversation like the word bean. I love that girl.
Hannah is STILL sick. This is day five now of her having an upset stomach. I think she's actually finally getting better, but she's just a sick little girl. Last night I was with her in the bathroom and her stomach was hurting badly. She said, "Mommy, you said I'd get better fast."
Another note to self (and this is one that my parents told me, but it's hard to remember sometimes): Don't promise things to my kids over which I have no control.
I thought she only would have a 24 hour thing, since that's what's going around, but apparently she's got a rougher one.
Seth's still deaf. He's on antibiotics now for an ear infection, and I'm glad because he has been complaining today of his ear hurting, and now he's got a fever.
We didn't take our kids to the nursery today. We took them with us to Sunday school and then the song service part of church. We just didn't want them to catch something else. It seems that this time of the year they get sick almost every Wednesday, which is a perfect incubation period for most illnesses that they caught on Sunday. We'll be seeing my family on Wednesday, so them getting sick that day is not highest on my list. Of course, they're both sick anyway, so they shouldn't be in there, or we'd be "those" parents that send their sick kids to the nursery that I'm sitting here bemoaning. So we'll hope they get better and don't get something else before we get to see our family.
OK, and now my mind is gone. I haven't written anything for quite a while. I will be going to sleep now. :)
Your "wound" story reminds me of many mistakes that I made when younger. I learned to read very young, but a lot of the words were not used in normal conversation so I did not know how to pronounce them properly and sounded them out phonetically. Chaos became Chaw-os, Penelope became Pen-a-lope, and so on. Sometimes I still make these errors. Be glad that Hanna is using a word like "wound" and knows what it means instead of "ouchie". That tells me that she has a good mother!
ReplyDeleteI sure hope that you and the rest of your family have a good Thanksgiving day and that Hanna and Seth are feeling well. All of you have certainly had a rough time of it lately, you deserve a break.
Miss you,
Tommy
Um, I still make those mistakes. Liz and I watched Adventureland, and the girl character said, "apartheid." I foolishly admitted that I'd always assumed the word rhymed with apathy, at which point Liz mercilessly mocked me. It didn't help that later that night I called artist's EPs "eps." Lesson for Hannah from Tricia: talk to people as much (or more!) as you read books.
ReplyDeleteSorry your kiddos are so sick so much. Hopefully having a lot more adults around for the holiday will relieve you and give you a bit of rest! And of course, I hope they feel better for their own sake's. Five days is rough. :(
Tommy-I've never allowed my kids to call scratches on their body "boo-boos." Hannah still cracks up when she hears that words because she thinks it's silly. We have them say, "I hurt myself," ever since they were teeny. I've never been big on little kid words: "Bye-bye" or "Night-night." We teach our children to speak like people. :)
ReplyDeleteTricia-I'll pass along that lesson. Fortunately, she has been talking ninety-to-nothing this morning. It's the first morning since Wednesday that she got down from the table and sat on the couch reading a book, and then got down and played. I'm pretty sure her amount of sickness is directly proportional to the amount of books she reads. :)