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May 31, 2007
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
This has been some kind of week for WonderGirl.
I didn't mention it here, but all four of my children were sick this week with The Mystery Fever. High temps that went up and down, and Czarina actually threw up a few times. Thankfully, we're on the tail end of it.
Which is good, because I. Am. Done.
Fried.
Whacked out.
I almost turned to the bottle, my friends. Yup. You heard it. I was going down fast, thinking how nice an amarretto sour would be by 8 a.m. But then the temps broke and the whining started to diminish, and there was an itsy bitsy light at the end of the tunnel. So I sucked it up, and pushed on, and finally everyone is nearly well and Friday is almost here. I narrowly escaped a lifetime of alcoholism, again! Go me!
But now it's confession time.
I will admit to the following, so that you may feel good about yourself.
1. I seriously wanted to tell some of my precious loves to "shut it". I didn't do it, mind you, but I stared dark temptation in the face.
2. I thanked God on more than one occasion this week for not blessing me with twins. (He has a divine perception of my coping abilities.)
3. My house may never be clean again.
4. And I kinda don't care.
5. I didn't run AT ALL this week, and
6. I ate chocolate for every other meal.
7. Many days, I wore my pajamas until lunchtime.
8. And we watched cartoons until my eyeballs bulged.
9. I used my disconnected headphones as earplugs at one point.
10. I didn't mind so much that they had no appetites because I didn't feel like cooking jack.
So there you have it.
Whew. I feel better.
Now, back to being a nice, sane mommy who doesn't drink whiskey for breakfast*.
**Mom, I joke.
The Daily | By WonderGirl | 10:54 PM
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"Joke" -- you mean you DO drink whiskey for breakfast?!? :-)
Posted by: Debby at May 31, 2007 11:46 PM
I'm gonna plead the 5th on that one.
Posted by: WG at June 1, 2007 9:02 AM
Wow! your week sounds just like mine. We are having the same thing here except we started puking last night. not fun.
Hmm "disconnected headphones as earplugs" I'll have to try that.
Posted by: jeniliz at June 1, 2007 10:46 AM
I find if the headphones are actually playing something they work much more effectively at drowning out the whining. . .
Posted by: lynnp at June 1, 2007 11:50 AM
you have just painted a very similar picture of my life...everyday....
Posted by: katie at June 1, 2007 1:31 PM
oh, and i was also gonna say, that virus must be going around like crazy. my son has had it this week. he puked all over my car, all over me and all over my house. then the next day he ran a 104 degree temp. it was oh, so fun. and i only have one kid, so i can only imagine what you went thru with 4.
Posted by: katie at June 1, 2007 7:59 PM
I didn't realize they were all sick- I am glad everyone is doing better!
Posted by: ash at June 1, 2007 11:57 PM
