February 5, 2005

  • Downright Gamey


    I'm really starting to look forward to Saturdays.  I'm learning how to really take Saturday "off" and it's a good good thing.  Michael was sick again last night so he and I got very little sleep.  I broke down this afternoon and called Dr. Tom for some advice.  (I'm probably less likely to call him than I would a "regular" doctor because I'm so conscious of not wanting to take advantage of his good nature.  I know that he doesn't mind, and in fact rather expects that the family will use him for advice, but still ... okay, maybe that's a pride thing from my side.  And if it weren't my child, I'd probably let pride win, but it IS my child so I'm bothering the doctor.)


    He told me that I'm using the wrong kind of cough medicine at night.  So Eliza said she had to come out to do some errands and volunteered to bring over the kind he recommends.  Hopefully, armed with the new formula, we'll be getting better sleep. 


    After two nights with no appreciable sleep ... (isn't that a great adjective?  Appreciable?  Actually I appreciated very much the almost 45 uninterrupted minutes I got between 4:30 and 5:12.  Anyway, my inclincation to do anything other than relax was ... nonexistent.  So for the highlight of the day, we went to the library long enough to turn in the books that were due today, checked out a few replacements and some more Hank the Cow Dog on cd rom.  Just when I think we MUST be getting close to the end of the Hank Opus, I glance over and realize that we just checked out volume 27.  Hank is great entertainment for under the weather kiddos.  They lie quietly for each episode.  And that's great for Mom. 


    In addition to lying around listening to John Erickson read, the kids lay on my bed for a while and I read to them.  Then we played Connect Four (Tucker invented this rule that we get to drop two checkers at a time which made the strategy thing a while different game and that was more fun for me.  I'm pretty good at losing often enough to keep them going, but sometimes ....


    For dinner tonight, Michael asked if I'd make some "real food."  I asked him what he had in mind and it turned out that he's been hankerin' for Mom's stir-fry.  Okay, I can do that.  So in short we had a great family kind of Saturday.  And I'm only sorry that it took two sleepless nights and a pretty miserable family to slow us down to do it. 


    I hope you are all having a great weekend. 


    Hugs


    Terri


    "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." -- Niels Bohr


     

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