6:30 am - i am woken up by both kids. they both woke up at the same time and both are crying. i go to love's room first to get her up. she is crying, whining, and seems disoriented. she refuses to get out of bed. i start to leave her room and she decides that she will get up. she says she is cold, so i get her settled in the living room with a blanket. she clearly doesn't feel very well...yesterday afternoon she seemed to be coming down with jobot's cold. i go to jobot's room and get him up. he is coughing and still seems sick. love wants to watch strawberry shortcake, so i get out the laptop and put it on.
6:50 am - i change jobot's diaper and get him dressed. it's cool outside, so i put him in the one pair of pants we currently have in his size (we will have to work on that!). then i get myself dressed. i pour myself a cup of coffee and make a pot of breathe easy tea for the kids. i check in with jeremy. he said that he had a good night with no calls.
7:00 am - i sit down with my coffee, read my devotions, and check email and weather. i check the kids' temps. jobot is at 102, love is at 100. bummer.
7:20 am - i start getting breakfast ready. the kids have whole wheat cinnamon raisin english muffins from trader joes, bananas, and tea. i have quiche and pumpkin muffins (made with almond flour) leftover from tuesday's dinner. i reheat my cup of coffee. love looks at my breakfast and announces that she doesn't like quiche and makes gagging noises. we talk about how that is not polite.
7:50 am - i ask love if she wants to get dressed, but she says that she wants to stay in her pajamas for a little while. she doesn't feel good, and we're not going anywhere, so that's fine with me. she settles back in to finish her strawberry shortcake episode.
8:00 am - i clean up breakfast and tidy the kitchen. i walk into the living room to see jobot holding a package of baby wipes and pulling them out one by one. thankfully, there were only six wipes left in the container. i pick up the wipes off the floor and put them in a ziploc - at least we can still use them that way.
8:15 am - i sit down to make a grocery list. i am supposed to go to BSF this morning, but can't because the kids are sick. i text my small group leader to let her know i won't be there. i'm bummed.
8:30 am - we read books.
8:50 am - there is lots of whining going on. love gets dressed.
9:00 am - we head outside for a walk. this is our usual routine when we are home in the morning. we love our morning walks, especially now that the mornings are cooler. we stop to say hello to charlie the cat. he used to run away from us, but now he always comes right over to greet us. he often sits in our front yard during the day.
this photo was actually taken a different day, but it's the same routine every day.
9:30 am - home from our walk. the kids ride their bikes and cars in our carport. i text our generous friends who were planning on watching our kids for us tonight so we could have a date. because the kids are sick, we will reschedule. (another bummer!). our neighbor comes over to chat for a bit.
10:00 am - we go inside. love wants to do a project, so we get out the rubber stamps. i warm up some tea for myself (leftover from yesterday).
10:25 am - done with stamping. i wash the stamps (and think to myself that next time i will have love do that task. she would enjoy it.)
10:30 am - love is whiney and wants something else to do. jobot is chewing on one of love's shoes that he found (gross) and emptying the pantry. i get out more art supplies for love and she gets busy creating. she is at a stage right now where she is very into cutting, gluing, and making all kinds of creations. it is so fun to watch, but today it involves a lot of frustration and crying. when she is sick, she is very whiney and weepy.
10:50 am - jobot falls and splits his lip. i scoop him up and then realize that his lip is bleeding. thankfully it didn't bleed for long. i realize i have blood on my shirt, so i change and spray the shirt with oxiclean.
11:00 am - a glue stick fell on the floor so love is crying. jobot is crying too, though i don't know why.
11:03 am - i reheat my tea.
11:05 am - jobot seems bored, so i get the duplos out for him. we build stuff together while love works on her project in the kitchen.
11:20 am - i reheat my tea for the third time. love is melting down in the kitchen over her craft project not turning out how she wanted it. then the next minute she is excited about her project. jobot is trying to grab her stuff off the table, so that is making her mad too. whew.
11:25 am - i start lunch. annie's mac n cheese and clementines for the kids. they haven't been eating much since they don't feel well, so i want to give them something that i know that will like and eat. lunchmeat, celery with peanut butter, plain yogurt with vanilla and stevia, and canteloupe for me.
11:27 am - jobot walks into the wall. more tears.
11:35 am - i text jeremy. "the whining is going to drive my crazy! LONG day!"
11:40 am - i have a brief moment of losing my cool and bark that there has been enough whining and that i don't want to listen to it anymore. then i apologize. we sit down to eat.
12:00 pm - i clean up lunch.
12:15 pm - i recheck the kids temps. love is at 100.3 and jobot is still at 102. after i check his temperature, jobot snuggles in and i tickle his back. he sits there for about two minutes and then is ready to get down. i change jobot's diaper and put him down for a nap. it is early for him, he usually goes down between 1 and 1:30, but he is clearly tired and not feeling well. he looks relieved and closes his eyes when i lay him in bed.
12:25 pm - i get love settled in her room for her rest time. she seems really tired as well, but i am doubtful that she will sleep. she watches a movie on the ipad. i put a few things away, reheat my tea (again) and head out to sit on the porch and catch up on emails and blogs. i am glad that i did budget/bill paying last night so i can just relax a bit now. i feel tired. i upload photos from the camera and edit them. it is beautiful outside and feels so good to sit on the porch.
1:45 pm - love's movie is over and she is ready to get out of bed. no sleep for her today, even though i think her body really needs it. (since pretty much the day she turned two she has rarely taken a nap, but she still has rest time in the afternoon and she very occasionally falls asleep). she says she wants to do another "pwoject", so we get out the art supplies again and she works on her art at the kitchen table. i get some new batches of kefir going (water kefir and milk kefir).
2:20 pm - love is still engulfed in her project at the table. i sort the pile of art projects she has completed over the past couple of weeks and decide which pieces to keep. the rest go in the recycling bin. we have been going through paper quite quickly these last few weeks. i rearrange some things to make room in a kitchen cabinet for some art supplies. they were stored in our room, but we've been using them everyday, so i decided to just keep them in the kitchen.
2:45 pm - i am hungry so i eat some beef jerky. love has some beef jerky with veggie sticks for a snack. she is still busy at the table. i pick up the toys in the kitchen and living room.
2:55 pm - she has used up the glue stick! time for a new one from our supply drawer.
3:05 pm - she is done creating, so we clean up the craft stuff. she decides to play with model magic, so we get that out. i start folding some laundry. jobot wakes up as soon as i start folding.
3:15 pm - since both kids are up, we head to trader joe's. (this would usually be a stop in the morning on the way home from BSF since both places are close to each other and are far away from our house). since the kids are sick, i was planning on going this evening, but getting it done now will make the evening easier. the kids and i will have time to get groceries before we pick jeremy up at 4:30. then we can run home, drop the groceries off, and head to the health food store for dinner (a thursday night tradition). we were going to be out on our date tonight, but since that can't happen, at least we can go out to eat.
3:20 pm - jeremy calls and says that he is done working. (hurray - we haven't seen him in over 31 hours!). we have just driven by his work, so we turn around to go pick him up. our house is only two miles away, so we head back home so he can change and so we can get a cooler, since we will just go to trader joe's and then the health food store to eat. while we wait in the van for jeremy to change, love writes on her magna doodle. she asks me what letters she wrote and i tell her she wrote an "n". i am amazed when she erases it, writes another "n", draws a picture of a nut, and says, "n is for nut!"
4:05 pm - we set out for trader joe's once again. i am a bit disgruntled that my afternoon has gotten switched around so much. really...i am out of sorts because the kids are sick and the day has looked completely different than it was supposed to look. i explain my frustrations to jeremy and then give myself an attitude pep talk and get over it. jeremy rubbing my neck on the way to trader joe's helped too.
5:00 pm - we leave trader joe's and head to our local health food store for dinner. thursday night is family night where kids can eat free with one adult entree (jeremy and i just share and there is plenty of food for us). it's a great deal - our entire family can eat a healthy dinner out for less than $10! it is so nice to have a night off from cooking and i find that i really look forward to this night every week when we go (it's especially nice after jeremy has been at work for so long and all of us are tired). i am really excited because we see a swing cap bottle of soda, with a bottle that we could reuse. i have been wanting a bottle like that to try making carbonated kefir water, so we get one. jeremy drinks the soda (root beer) with his dinner.
6:10 pm - we are done eating. usually there is a guy who makes balloon animals for the kids, but he is not here tonight and love is disappointed. we leave the health food store and head home. on the way home, we pass a school sign that says, "jeremy day". we laugh - who knew it was jeremy day? ha! we take a photo of jeremy with the sign.
6:30 pm - we pull into our driveway. our neighbors are outside, so we cross the street and visit with them for a bit. love runs around with their four-year-old and jobot putters around the yard. before we know it, the kids are covered with sidewalk chalk.
7:15 pm - we get the kids in the bath. our bedroom light burns out. i put away the groceries while jeremy supervises bath time. i wash the swing cap bottle and put some kefir and juice inside. we will give it 48 hours and see what happens!
7:40 pm - after medicine (hyland's cough medicine), temperature checks (jobot is at 100, love is at 99.5), and teeth brushing, jobot is in bed. he was so tired.
7:50 pm - love is in bed. she calls out to us for a while ("i'm not tired! i don't want to go to bed! i'm not going to sleep"). we pop our heads in her room a couple of times. jeremy finds the lightbulbs and fixes the light. i tidy up the kitchen and house.
8:15 pm - we are both sitting on the couch and we hear love snoring from her room. i am on the computer and jeremy is on the ipad.
9:00 pm - we watch an episode of undercover boss. jeremy rubs my back.
9:50 pm - i take a shower.
10:15 pm - after reading our devotions together, it's lights out. we are both exhausted! goodnight!
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