I don’t know why my children like breaking this rule!
I think I had the best sleep I’ve had in forever, last night, no really, I can’t remember the last time I fell asleep before 11 pm and stayed asleep ALL night! Most nights one of the kids yells, gets up or some how wakes me up and if they don’t I seem to wake up on my own at the time they usually get me up. Last night I was OUT, it was GREAT! Waking up this morning was like waking up the first morning that your baby slept through the night. I woke up thinking OMG is everyone ok, they didn’t wake me up in the middle of the night????
But this is how I woke up. So I’m sound asleep on the couch, I didn’t even hear Ed get up and leave to walk the dog. I hear “MOM, I’m DONE!” This is Williams call when he’s had a BM; he can’t reach the toilet paper so I have to go give him some. It took a minute to register and as I looked outside I thought OH WHAT time is it? He doesn’t usually wake up in the middle of the night to go sit on the toilet. So I tell him to try to reach himself, then I hear Natalie’s voice, “I got him some T.P. Mom, but he thinks he’s going to throw up”.
Oh GREAT! I pull myself off the couch and make my way to the bathroom. What a sweet sight I found. William is sitting on the potty with his head in the sick bowl that Natalie is holding for him. Isn’t she a sweet big sister???? I felt sooooo proud that she would do this for him. I thanked her and send her on her way as he started throwing up.
He got done and went and laid down on the love seat, stole my blanket because he was cold and got comfortable. He threw up one more time then went to sleep for an hour. So I stared making pancakes. William only likes pancakes when he is sick, plus we are out of bagels so Natalie needed a good breakfast too.
I figured out the perfect cook time for a small sized pancake. Put the batter in the pan, put a few chocolate chips in each of the 4 pancakes, run to the washing machine and empty it into the dryer and start it running. Start the water for a new load of wash, put in the soap, go get the load of laundry (that has already been separated) put it into the machine, close the lid and get back to your pancakes! Ok so I thought for sure they were burnt, but they were perfect!
So now my dilemma is getting Natalie to school. I could throw the boy in the van and drive her, but she loves riding her bike, it’s a beautiful day and her friends are riding. So I call the friends mom (who is a friend of mine) and make a plan. I’ll watch Natalie get to her house, then the friends mom can see to the crossing guard from a spot close to her house, so she would watch the kids get to the crossing guard (the crossing guard is right across the street from the school so we know they got there). So that is what we did. I’m having a hard time not knowing (seeing with my own eyes) that Natalie had been delivered to school safely! I’ve got 7 hours before I actually see her again to know she made it there safely. I know she is fine; it’s just the first time I’ve done this so it’s a weird feeling. Yes I’m resisting the very strong urge to call the school after attendance is taken to see that she actually signed in.
We made a plan for the afternoon too and I’ll await the phone call that she made it to her friend’s house and is on her way from her friend’s house to me, then I’ll go watch down the street to make sure she gets home safely.
William seems to be fine; I think it was just post nasal drip that was the problem this morning. However he hasn’t eaten anything all morning. He won’t eat a pancake, or Whales, or crackers, any of you who know William, this is VERY odd behavior. The child usually wakes up begging for all of those things, plus a few others. He is not running a fever but I called him out of school any way and banished him to the love seat for the rest of the day.
Here are two pictures of the fun pancakes I made this morning. They are a little out of focus, my camera was giving me a hard time this AM, I guess I woke it up and put it to work to early.
I thought this one looked like a lady bug so I put some extra chips in it for spots.
This looks like an evil jack-o-lantern
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